My anime watching experience is fairly wide, having been watching the medium for a fair of number of years now. But it’s also more shallow than I’d like to admit. Reverse Thieves’ Secret Santa project helps bring depth to my anime list, as I’m always given series that I feel I should have watched and… Read More Secret Santa: Mouryou no Hako
Christmas is just under a week away? In terms of aniblogging, that means lots and lots of reflective posts – and a good number of them involving religion. This is likely the last post in this column until next year, so enjoy your quota of terrific articles about anime and spirituality! Trigun’s traveling preacher, Nicholas… Read More Something More: Crucifixion in Anime, Wolfwood’s Tithing, and Religion in Pokemon
While shows like Your Lie in April and Wolf Girl and Black Prince continue to give great material for spiritual discussion, it’s interesting that some series with big moves on the horizon – Naruto with a final movie upcoming and Digimon with a return of it’s season one characters – also provide opportunities to discuss… Read More Something More: Magi Love, Christian Lessons from Naruto, and Kill La Kill Buddhism
Baby, it’s coooold outside! A perfect opportunity, I think, to watch anime and read about it! Edward Elric knows he’s missing something in human transmutation equations – he just doesn’t know it’s the soul. [Old Line Elephant] There’s plenty of comparison to be made to both the Christian and Buddhist religions with relationship to deities… Read More Something More: Your Pursuit in April, SAO’s New Earth, and Eureka Seven’s Messiah
Happy Halloween, all! This is probably a good place to mention that the writers here at Beneath the Tangles are NOT the type to tell you avoid Halloween festivities because of pagan stuff blah blah blah. Enjoy your night – but be safe!! Unfortunately, no spooky posts below…though maybe the first one, regarding a… Read More Something More: Blue Exorcist Pluralism, Jesus in Planetarian, and More Godoka
Note: This article covers episode twelve of Mushishi. It approaches the episode vaguely in such a way so as to avoid spoilers, but be warned if that is something that concerns you. Perhaps the most basic difference in Western versus Eastern thought is the view of the significance or destination of life. I’m sure you’ve… Read More Anime Today: Life is a Cycle
The fall season is in full swing! But the articles below are largely for series from seasons past (not that it’s a bad thing to reflect on shows we’ve already finished). Frank has been commenting on Hanamayata all season long, and concludes with a post covering Christian themes in the final episodes and the season… Read More Something More: Serve Like a Librarian, Arrogant Aldnoah, and Doraemon Temple
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