Rachael Verret, Author at The Mary Sue

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That Dragon, Survival: The Healing Power of a Video Game About Cancer

Ten complicated, long years pass. I’ve moved out to college, and one day, I happen to hear about this game called That Dragon, Cancer, a game about two parents just trying to make a baby happy in a situation that would make anyone convulse in despair and frustration. Yeah, sure, I was intrigued, but I hadn’t truly expected it to speak to my personal experience on a core-shaking, visceral level.

Why Asa Nonami’s Body Will Leave a Slight Chill in Your Bones

From neglected housewives to depressed boxers to creepy businessmen, these are the threads that bind five distinct people whose stories are anthologized in this collection of horror fables about the human body,

Four Awesome Anime for Your Next Girls’ Night In

Cartoons are awesome! Animation as a medium is so diverse that you can engage virtually any audience with a huge litany of aesthetics with incredible narrative control. So, I up and made a short little list of shows that appeal to ladies who may just wanna explore the whole anime thing for themselves, and maybe while inviting a few friends while they’re at it.

Cracking Classics: Paranoia Agent Episode 9, “ETC”

Among our cavalcade of deliciously delirious mass hysteria victims, we once again got ourselves an episode that’s plot divergent but none the less intriguing. We have an anthology episode, with a bunch of stories framed by the whisperings of four bored gossiping housewives as a new neighbor (wife to a screenwriter), eager to join the flock, learns about the strange going on's with Lil’ Slugger.

Review: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

Miyazaki's earliest vision that sets a fun and lighthearted prescience for his career that holds a distinctive place in film history and many a heart alike.

Why You Should Be Watching: Snow White With the Red Hair

Shirayuki was never one to let others tell her how to run things. A beautiful young girl who happens to be lauded near and far for her adorning striking red hair, she prefers to utilize her talents and knowledge with medicinal plants to help ailing townspeople.

Cracking Classics: A Newbie’s Guide to Paranoia Agent, Episode 7- “MHz”

Our detectives have found themselves in the belly of this mystery’s beast, and both are lead to quite the impasse. So, like most great duos they split up, taking different paths that have been set in place in some ways since the fifth episode that are respective to their skills, setting a precedence on not only how they crack the case but where.

Cracking Classics: A Newbie’s Guide to Paranoia Agent: Episode 6, “Fear of a Direct Hit”

A sudden but brutal storm cell is raging through our enigmatic enclave, and while most are tucked away from the rains, our detectives are facing the harsh winds full force while investigating an old but suspect women that was at the scene on the fateful first attack.

Cracking Classics: A Newbie’s Guide to Paranoia Agent: Epsiode 5, “The Holy Warrior”

Ok y’all. This is where things in our story start to get groovy.

Cracking Classics: A Newbie’s Guide To Paranoia Agent, Episode Three – “Double Lips”

Springing off of the last episode, where we dealt with dichotomy in what a child might look for in gaining value and self-worth (in Ichi’s case, it was validation through worship while Shogo sought to relate to him on a more human level) we take this episode to examine a middle aged women literally split in two with what she wants in life.