@dandock
Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, GamesRadar, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
Book #2 has been formally announced! I'm beyond thrilled to be working with @stievenvdp.bsky.social on HOW TO SURVIVE DEEP TIME, an illustrated bestiary of bizarre prehistoric critters!
I feel like this is laser-targeted towards SEVERAL of my close personal friends
I hate Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS (1991). I love Oliver Stone’s THE DOORS (1991). These are both the same thing. www.vulture.com/article/is-o...
Also, one of her aspirations is to "to work hard so I can perform live in New York someday." I fully support this. If I heard any music from DAN DA DAN being played live, I might sob.
I got to ask some questions to AiNA THE END about her favorite anime, her approach to music, and what it was like to create an opening theme for DAN DA DAN: www.crunchyroll.com/news/intervi...
Thank you, Ben! I appreciate that.
Reading a lot more books this year. Last week, I started a nonfiction venture, Monster Kids by @dandock.bsky.social. He has an incredible way of capturing these vivid snapshots of well-researched pop culture moments I could only dream of describing in the way he does. So far, a great read!
Every character on that show is an amazing weirdo. That's the hook for me as well
I wrote about One Piece: Into the Grand Line and what it means to adapt a story that has only gotten more detailed since it was originally told: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
Rewatching Dorohedoro before the second season comes out and it's hard to think of a more "this show was made for me, specifically" anime
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"PARTIALLY DEVOURED: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life & Changed the World" is OUT NOW!
The wildest movie deep dive you've ever read
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a memoir of how the film changed my life (and how *any* art can change yours).
45 years in the making!
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www.danielkraus.com/books/partia...
It's real!
I was asked to be on The Current with Matt Galloway to talk about Pokémon's 30th anniversary! Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
I'm interested to see what everyone thinks!
The hints get a lot more explicit in the second season. There's a real sense of "We do not have 30 years and unlimited flashbacks to work with. We need to figure out a way to get this into your brains now."
I will say that Emily Rudd's Nami is the series' swiss army knife. She is constantly called on to do narrative heavy lifting, whether it's big emotional beats or just trying to make rampant exposition sound palatable.
I think, like the first season, live action OP is best when it gets the chance to breathe a little bit. There are some extended action sequences that really pop, and I love watching the various members of the crew continue to get know one another.
It doesn't always work - there are a few scenes in Into the Grand Line that essentially feel like two characters being forced to recite lore to one another, as if they've desperately scrolled the OP wiki for each other beforehand.
I wrote about One Piece: Into the Grand Line and what it means to adapt a story that has only gotten more detailed since it was originally told: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
bookstores are getting increasingly conservative in their actual book buying numbers, so 1000% preorder that book you're excited about please. Every single copy helps.
Thank you, Grant!
Thank you, Scott!
I appreciate it!
Shinichrio Watanabe (director of Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo) is on Criterion Closet.
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I have pre-ordered this, which means I will likely forget about it by the time it actually comes in, which means I'm basically buying a surprise present for future me.
Would you like a terrible Batman?
Remember, everybody: when you preorder your copy of I Am the Night: The Ultimate Unauthorized History of Batman: The Animated Series, you have to post at @dandock.bsky.social that you did so along with a picture confirming that you did so, and then he is honor bound to draw Batman ["badly"] for you!
It's real!
The finest pop culture book store there is!
Daniel knows so much about Pokemon that it is now a matter of public record in my country