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Becoming in the Ruins: Myth, Theosis, and Symbolic Collapse in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’

Becoming in the Ruins: Myth, Theosis, and Symbolic Collapse in ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’

To understand ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ as a mythological text, one must first ask: What is myth, and what does mythmaking mean from the mind of one firmly rooted in the modern and postmodern paradigm? In pre-modern cultures, myths structured reality. They encoded cosmologies, social roles, and archetypal patterns. But the modern project of rationality....

‘Resident Evil 4’: Parasitic Body, Pharaoh, Plagues

‘Resident Evil 4’: Parasitic Body, Pharaoh, Plagues

‘Resident Evil 4’ (2005) changed video games forever. The game took the horror genre that the franchise was known for, kept that tension and built it into an action game, with a camera system that influenced virtually all third-person shooters to follow. Part of the success of the game was undoubtedly its story, particularly the game’s narrative use of inverted religious themes....

Ontological Combat Mode: The Beauty of ‘Demon Slayer’

Ontological Combat Mode: The Beauty of ‘Demon Slayer’

‘Demon Slayer’ is one of the best known, and best received, animes/mangas of all time.... This essay attempts to articulate the symbolism of the story poetically and ekphrastically, as a dialogical rumination on the beauty of the tale and its characters. In its style and construction, it attempts to evoke and induce the spirit of the story, the vividness of its color, the flame and water of its profundity....

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