What does it mean to go the extra mile? Is it service with a smile and working late hours? Is it striving toward excellence and ensuring quality? Is it always being the last one to leave, making sure that all is as it should be? These are generally the kinds of things we mean nowadays… Read More My Happy Marriage & Going the Extra Mile for Your Enemy
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…” From the very first moments of Naoko Yamada’s latest film, it is clear that Kimi no Iro/The Colors Within is something special—particularly for our community here at BtT. If The Heike Story was her exploration of Buddhism, The Colors Within is Yamada’s Christian… Read More Film Review: The Colors Within
If you’ve been keeping up with BtT lately, you’ll have noticed that we’re pretty big fans of Mappa’s original series, Zenshu, starring the animation director Hirose Natsuko as the self-sufficient loner genius who loses an encounter with an out-of-date clamshell bento and winds up incarnated in her favorite anime movie, the tragic A Tale of… Read More Zenshu Ep. 9: QJ’s Sacrifice and A Hero That Can’t Be Copied
Virtuoso animator Natsuko Minose faces her problems head-on, at least when they are literal monsters bent on destroying the world and wiping her and her comrades off the face of the isekai. She whips out her magical pegbar, sharpens her Hi-uni pencil, and gets to drawing the biggest, baddest, most OP defender she can imagine… Read More Zenshu’s Ultimate Exister and Falling (Back) in Love with Life
Mori Ranmaru lives and works at a bathhouse, and has done so for ten years now, ever since he fell in love at first sight with the five-year-old son of the house. Uh huh. He’s waiting until the boy is 18 though, so it’s ok. Thirteen years isn’t that long to wait either, in the… Read More First Impression: Babanbabanban Vampire
A troll is farming with some strange creatures around him when suddenly the sky darkens and a flaming phoenix shape brings about the apocalypse. Fade to black. And then we’re back immediately the next day? There’s something strange in the sky. Fade to black. A cheerful rock anthem reminiscent of 90s teen dramas plays over… Read More First Impression: Farmagia
When she was a child, drill-haired noble Grace Auvergne hit her head and remembered certain things, the most pertinent being how she used to be a 52-year-old balding bureaucrat named Kenzaburou Tendabayashi who had a wife, two kids, and hard otaku leanings toward classic anime. The problem is, Grace is the 15-year-old villainess of an… Read More First Impression: From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!
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