Video Essays
Below is a few selections of my personal favorites from the over 50 video essays produced for Crunchyroll.
Along with overseeing the productions, I also ran the YouTube programming and strategy across the channels. Developed a strategy to revive a 10 year old channel into the healthiest its ever been.
Tentpole’d around the series finale of Supernatural (while we were still owned by Warner) covering the bizarre short lived passion project that was the Supernatural Anime.
An academic look into the history and connections between Anime and Hentai.
It has always been joked by fans that there is a rule that most stop watching shows after the 3rd episode. We worked with our internal data and comms team to tell a story only Crunchyroll could.
Watch a team of people not realize they’re about to make one of the biggest shows.
Working with the original writer and singer, we tell the full story of the “Gotta Catch Em’ All” song that haunts the brains of all millennials
Analyzing Ghost in the Shell’s take and prediction of meme culture