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El Cazador de la Bad Dialogue Writing

I don’t know how the cringeworthy writing of El Cazador de la Bruja happened. Maybe the writers were female feminists. Maybe they were male feminists. However, their bad writing is an indictment of heavy-handed feminist fantasy politicizing. Typically I would … Continue reading

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Bee Train made a lot of shows that resemble El Cazador de la Bruja and most of them have been mostly bad

Yes, I finished watching El Cazador de la Bruja. Was it worth those few hours of my life? I stopped watching in 2014, and finished at the very end of 2018 or the beginning of 2019. So it is not … Continue reading

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El Cazador de la Small Plothole

Episode 14 has a small, not unfixable plot hole. We have a girl who is being kept prisoner, and has been a prisoner since she was a baby. She gets one day in which she goes to the outside world … Continue reading

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El Cazador de la slow-moving plot

The stereotypical gas-mask-wearing mooks are a little bit ridiculous.

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Space Dandy Episode 5: moe fans sentimentalize fatherhood, because they know they never will be fathers

Space Dandy Episode 5 is there to tell us that Dandy is a lousy warrior, a lousy adventurer, but a decent guy who would make a good father.

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Sniper Cat is watching you cogitate

The ending credits of El Cazador de la Bruja have a cat with a sniper rifle. Maybe he might wink.

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Likable and unlikable supporting characters

I have a limited amount of engagement with Michiko to Hatchin. For the most part it strikes me as an exercise in Sledgehammer Wangst.

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El Cazador de la Bad Writing: don’t bother giving side characters goals if they don’t really want them

One of Kurt Vonnegut’s rules of writing is that every character should want something, even if it’s only something as simple as a glass of water. Ellis, the blonde girl in El Cazador de la Bruja, has a profoundly bland … Continue reading

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Oh, submachine-gun, you fill me with girlish glee

I’m getting chased, and I don’t really like getting chased. Those guys behind me have guns…

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Over-used tropes: bounty hunters and episodic odysseys, as seen in El Cazador de la Bruja

When most people think “bounty hunter,” they might think of Faye Valentine: But in fact, it’s surprisingly easy to over-use the “bounty hunter” trope, because it imposes very few restrictions on the writers.

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