After the plethora of posts last week, we only have two for this week’s column. But fret not, they’re both wonderful articles by terrific writers. Frank draws some significant lessons involving the journey of faith from the first four episodes of season two of Encouragement of Climb. [A Series of Miracles] Annalyn looks back toward… Read More Something More: Skip Beat Dependance and Christian Encouragement of Climb
Because the series almost doubled it’s main cast this season, it’s easy to forget that Free! Eternal Summer has two primary leads – Haruka and Rin. And while Haruka’s angst has been on full display this season, Rin has mostly tended to be in the background, influencing the rest of the cast in significant ways,… Read More Free Eternal Summer, Episode 12: Rin’s Serving Heart
With one episode remaining, Free Eternal Summer has surprised me in how good it’s become. The first season had it’s moments, but it was mostly mediocre, and the same could be said for much of season two. It sometimes felt like a conglomeration of tropes and ideas that, though well put-together, were very artificial. But… Read More Free Eternal Summer, Episode 12: Taking the Plunge
As the summer 2014 season winds down, I’ve recently been reflecting on my thoughts over the last few months of anime. Although this season has been one of the more enjoyable of the past year or so, it seems to have also been one of the most disappointing. But how can that be? The answer… Read More Anime Today: When Narrative Breaks Down
Episode eleven of Blue Spring Ride (Ao Haru Ride) begins with a very heavy hand, as in the opening few minutes we finally see why Kou has become the way he has. Not only do we now see the pain he went through with his mother’s illness (from lung cancer, it turns out) and death,… Read More Blue Spring Ride, Episode 11: What We Do With Our Time
My mom moved around from church to church quite often as I was growing up. I of course, hated that, because as soon as I would establish myself among a group of friends, it seemed, I would be uprooted. Once, when I was in fourth grade, my church friends and I were working hard for… Read More Blue Spring Ride, Episode 11: Guilt and Despair
Psycho Pass follows Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Division in a futuristic Japan. The most notable thing about this futuristic world is how most things in a person’s life are determined by the program SIBYL and the person’s psycho pass, meaning basically their mental state. A bad psycho pass with a “crime coefficient” that is too… Read More The Wheat and the Weeds in Psycho Pass
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