My voice on this blog is different from those of my colleagues here at Beneath The Tangles, though then again we are all of us very different from one another. I discovered anime as an adult well into my 30s, only because my students kept talking about this anime thing and I wondered what it… Read More Hakase ni kikimashou! (Let’s ask the professor!)
My first impression of the new anime about a boys’ diving team came before even one second of the actual anime had elapsed, when I saw the noitaminA credits sequence roll by. My thoughts immediately turned to the same company’s ill-fated baseball anime Battery, which last year I found to be a directionless hodgepodge of potentially… Read More First Impression: Dive!!
As I noted previously, high schooler Saiki Kusuo has it rough. Not only do his psychic abilities make it nearly impossible to enjoy most ordinary activities, but he daily finds himself in situations involving his family and “friends” that require his intervention. How can Kusuo get a moment’s peace and rest, which is what he… Read More 12 Days of Otaku Christmas, Day 6: Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan
To compare anything at all to Jesus Christ might be an exercise in futility at best, but under the circumstances I will try my best to meet the challenge. In the second chapter of Philippians, Paul writes that Jesus “did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.” In other words, as the… Read More Holy Week: Utsugi Lenka As A Christ Figure
There is a traditional Chinese story dating to the Ming dynasty about the “journey to the West” of four characters that has made its way into Japanese folklore as well, where the tale is known as 西遊記 Saiyuuki. And so the Saiyuuki story has had multiple retellings in anime over the past 40+ years. One of the more popular… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Saiyuuki Reload
When I peeked into the box that Santa had left for me this year, I expected a run-of-the-mill imouto anime. Instead I saw a moral dilemma. No, it wasn’t that Santa’s gift had put me into a moral dilemma: it was that the gift was a moral dilemma. Well, I’m definitely openminded to things like that. I won’t pretend… Read More Secret Santa: Koi Kaze
For many of us, Christmas is a day on which wishes can be granted. Perhaps even wishes we thought were impossible to grant. That surely must have been the case for Kawagoe Haruma, futsuu na koukousei and protagonist, whom Santa Claus herself (!) awakens on Christmas morning to deliver a package for him through his bedroom window. The package… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5: Chocotto Sister
Write a little story. See it come to life! Our November writing contest’s winning entry will feature Myu’s artwork and Amanda Gish’s voice acting. No drawing skills needed!
Join our Discord and visit #november-writing-contest for details. Deadline: November 30.