Leading up through Easter Sunday, Beneath the Tangles will be running a series of posts based on a theme with the hopes that it will lead our readers to consider the meaning of this week and especially of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our theme this year is loneliness. While so much… Read More Fruits Basket Episode 2: Nobody Wants to Be Lonely
After episode one of Mix: Meisei Story, a worry crept in. Despite all I knew of Mitsuru Adachi, and how much I treasure Cross Game, would this newer series rely too much on nostalgia and skirt over the more important aspects that make his manga incredibly special? As if answering my concern, episode two came… Read More Mix: Meisei Story, Episode 2: Becoming Family
Leading up through Easter Sunday, Beneath the Tangles will be running a series of posts based on a theme with the hopes that it will lead our readers to consider the meaning of this week and especially of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our theme this year is loneliness. I’m fascinated by… Read More A Silent Voice and the End of the World
Starting today and leading up through Easter Sunday, Beneath the Tangles will be running a series of posts based on a theme with the hopes that it will lead our readers to consider the meaning of this week and especially of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our theme this year is loneliness,… Read More Easter Week, Spike Spiegel, and the Loneliness of Running from the Past
Spring means Easter, flowers, cherry blossoms, allergies, and anime. LOTS of anime. It’s an exciting time for otaku with so many new series flooding our airwaves, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there are a lot of good series. So far this season, the reception has been mixed, but @stardf29, @mdmrn, and myself have found… Read More Staff First Impressions for Spring 2019 Anime
MDRMN’s first impression of Sarazanmai just went up and saved me the difficulty of trying to explain episode one of the series, but in a sentence, three boys lose their Amazon boxes, which are full of desires, before being transformed into kappa by losing said desire which had been stored in the butts and then,… Read More First Impression: Sarazanmai (TWWK)
On the surface, Carole and Tuesday are as different as can be. Rich and naive, Tuesday runs away from a sheltered existence to a city she’s never been to do something she’s never done. Carole has no family from which to escape, but lives more carefree and open, a very part of Alba City where… Read More First Impression: Carole & Tuesday
In a world of fantasy, a young boy, recovered from a carriage incident involving a demon, learns the way of magic from the wise man, Merlin, who once saved the land during a time of evil and war. Born into this world after apparently dying in a car accident on earth, Shin is anything but… Read More First Impression: Wise Man’s Grandchild
Nakano is in a rut. A young, single man, he works long hours dutifully at the computer, and then goes home to an empty apartment, empty even of food. He doesn’t have time to call his mom or visit home, even on days commemorating his beloved, deceased grandmother. But into this frustration arrives relief in… Read More First Impression: The Helpful Fox Senko-san
The situation on the planet is getting bleaker—stronger villains are appearing and more of them, with the Boros incident revealing the strength of some of these enemies, as well as of the superheroes that fight them, and especially Saitama, the bald, unmotivated, forever poor Class B Hero who can seemingly defeat any one with one… Read More First Impression: One Punch Man 2