Hanamonogatari Announcement and Promo – Kaze Art by koflif Hanamonogatari was announced to air as a 5 episode series after Nisekoi finishes. At 5 episodes, at least it won’t be getting the Neko Kuro treatment. This will bring a close to the adaptation of the 2nd season of the Monogatari series. The 3rd season of books is… Read More Take Four – March 2014
With the anime season coming to an end, it’s the usual time for wrap-up posts on the series we’ve been watching the last three months. Most of our links this week are to reviews of full series or of recent episodes: Jonathan provides his usual insightful commentary as he reviews Noragami, including some notes on… Read More Something More: The Trinity in Lagrange and Season End Reviews
Digging deep (but not too deep!) into my past, I remember wanting to be like someone else constantly. Because to me, I was dorky, not pretty, and not interesting at all. It was not that I wanted to be like a particular someone, but more like “popular like this person”, “friendly like that person”, or… Read More Inari Konkon Koi Iroha and Accepting Who You Are
Although I was less than thrilled by the the unoriginality of Nisekoi near the season’s beginning, that was mostly because I’ve so enjoyed the show that I want it to be more than it is. And as it progresses, I’m liking it all the more. In episode 11, the main characters finally get to know… Read More Nisekoi, Episode 11: Of Maybachs and Love Languages
Confession time. Until just recently, I had never been to an anime convention. That being said, I can now say I have. On March 22nd, I attended Anime-Japan 2014 in Odaiba, Tokyo. It was crazy. Having never been to a convention before, I was invited to go with a friend who has been to conventions… Read More Anime Japan 2014
I didn’t post a column last week, and what a week to skip – there were a number of provocative articles regarding anime and spirituality. But that just means that this column, I’m including twice as much goodness! Frank tells how Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha paints a picture of the Christian relationship with God, despite… Read More Something More: Cain and Abel in Shiki, Anime in the Christian Life, and 7 Unholy Priests
Japes, our Anime Today columnist, has written a number of articles about the intersection of Christianity and anime for his other blog, Japesland. He is editing and resposting a number of these entries, including the one below, to Beneath the Tangles. As I watched through the Ef series (particularly A Tale of Melodies, the sequel to A Tale of… Read More EF: A Tale of Theology
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