Oh wow, this episode… Welcome back to this week’s breakdown for The Promised Neverland! Season 2, episode 3 covers chapters 50 to 52, and the last part of Chapters 53-55. Let’s just say…certain scenes and characters have been adapted very differently, so I’m gonna do my best to go through everything while maintaining separation of… Read More The Promised Neverland Season 2, Episode 3: Lost Panels, New Scenes
Welcome back to this week’s breakdown for The Promised Neverland, and also a Happy Birthday to Ray on our this side of the world! We’ve got a lighter load than we had last week, with four chapters to go over. Before we began, some new things need to be established: unlike the first season where… Read More The Promised Neverland Season 2, Episode 2: Eating with Demons
In line with our approach to the entirety of season one, Beneath the Tangles will be offering dual first impression posts for The Promised Neverland, one for viewers who are new to the series and one for those who have read the manga. This post is for manga readers and may include spoilers for the… Read More First Impression: The Promised Neverland Season 2 for Manga Readers
Originally, this should have been done by the end of the first season back in 2019, but the combination of a lack of writing motivation and the manga providing even more supplementary material for this article than expected (and many more potential ones in the future, really) has led to this being finished in time… Read More Grace for the Lying Traitor
TWWK: With the possibly exception of DECA-DENCE and its story with a story structure, the most surprising series this anime season may be Japan Sinks: 2020. I tuned in because I’ve become a fan of the director, Masaaki Yuasa, with his other work from this year, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, locked in as one… Read More Rising and Falling with Japan Sinks: 2020
Fourteen years ago, the Imperial Combat Revue was established in Tokyo to defend Japan from demonic attacks. Covering as a performance theater group to the masses, a chosen group of young women would also pilot giant mechas to defeat these demons. Now, in 1941, new members comprise the whole team, under the command of original… Read More First Impression: Sakura Wars the Animation
At the age of eleven, Kotoko Iwanaga was kidnapped by youkai so that they could ask her to become their Goddess of Wisdom. She happily accepts the request, at the cost of her right eye and left leg, and acts as the mediator between the human and spirit worlds. Now at seventeen, in the midst… Read More First Impression: In/Spectre
Chiyuki Fujito is a teenage model who dreams of walking down the runway of Paris Fashion Week one day. However, her short stature prevents her from even getting hired by her own father’s modeling agency. Ikuto Tsumura is a boy who yearns to become a fashion designer, but his family’s financial situation has made him… Read More First Impression: Smile Down the Runway
In the year 2043, the first ever full-dive VRMMO, Infinite Dendrogram, has been released, providing gamers infinite ways to interact and play around within its world. Reiji Mukudori, having just recently bought it, enters into the game under the name Ray Starling and, joining alongside his older brother Shu and his partner Embryo Nemesis, marks… Read More First Impression: Infinite Dendrogram (for Newbies)
In a world populated by civilized, anthropomorphized animals, a great divide exists between the carnivores and the herbivores. After the recent predation killing of an alpaca student named Tem on campus grounds, tensions and distrust arise further among the student body of Cherryton Academy, especially within the Drama Club that Tem was part of. In… Read More First Impressions: BEASTARS