Spring 2022 has been full of terrific anime, but also terrific anime openings! Here are five of the best this season: Anime OPs from the video: “Mixed Nuts” by Official HIGE DANdism (SPY X FAMILY) “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” by QUEENDOM (Ya Boy Kongming!) “Double Shuffle” by Nana Mizuki (Tomodachi Game) “Sumire” by Maaya Sakamoto… Read More Spring 2022 Anime’s Best Openings (OPs)
She went into her most secret room—no one else was allowed inside—and she made a poisoned, poisoned apple. From the outside it was beautiful, white with red cheeks, and anyone who saw it would want it. But anyone who might eat a little piece of it would die. […] Now the apple had been so… Read More How Can the Church Do Better? Lessons from Snow White with the Red Hair
Although Made in Abyss is among my favorite series, I delayed watching the sequel film, Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul, for quite some time. You can probably guess the reason: I wasn’t ready to have my heart battered again. And indeed, the movie, which shifts focus toward new character Prushka—the “daughter” of… Read More Nanashi’s Smile in Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
If crows don’t struggle, they will never know the freedom they have. This is what Kana tells Rakka in episode four of Haibane Renmei when the latter suggests laying out a smorgasbord of sorts for the birds, picking out the things they might like from amid the rubbish rather than burning it all away. But… Read More It’s a Crow’s Life: Freedom & Struggle
Gene Fini loves movies. He’s loved them for a long time. But more than movies, Gene loves movie-making. Whether it’s someone crossing the sidewalk against the bustle of a crowded city street, bathed in the light of a summer sunrise, or the continual flow of humanity in and out of an office building, hope or… Read More Review: Pompo the Cinéphile