This post was originally released yesterday with additional material as one of our “anime devotionals.” You would have been among the first to read it if you subscribed to our weekly Substack. Sign up now to receive an original anime devo in your inbox each week, along with a wrap-up of the week’s posts! It’s… Read More Cowboy Bebop and the Courage to Face Our Fears
Things are getting a little spooky in this week’s Reader’s Corner—or should we say Reader’s Corner of Horrors? Just in time for Halloween, we’re diving into three delightfully creepy Japanese horror picture books, including the latest illustrated work from horror master Junji Ito! We’ve also got My Hero Academia creator Kohei Horikoshi trying his hand… Read More Reader’s Corner of Horrors: Halloween Frights, Kaiju Fights, and Undead Love in the Witching Hour!
He is risen! On Beneath the Tangles, we love to talk about the power of storytelling. And on Easter we remember the greatest story—a true one about one who was both man and God, who two thousand years ago was executed in humiliation and agony. From the outside, it looked like the end of that… Read More He Is Risen! Happy Easter to the Doubters, the Failures, and the Thieves
The final episode of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End season 2, which aired last Friday, closed with small stories of the travels that Frieren, Stark, and Fern are on. And like many of the others, it conveyed stories that hold real meaning—and so were an appropriate way to end the season of such a meaningful show!… Read More The Bridge That Saves: Frieren, Gehen, and the Hope of Good Friday
Have you ever struggled to find the right gift for someone? Or realized that the gift you picked out was really more about you than them? (Or maybe you’ve been on the receiving end of a present like that!) This is exactly what Hiromi, the eponymous Ice Guy, is up against in the Christmas episode… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: The Ice Guy’s Most Perfect Gift
Episode 101 of My Hero Academia, “Have a Merry Christmas!,” is quite the busy one. Entire cities (spoilers!) are engulfed by dust, the hero society crumbles under siege, the search for the enemy within ensues, the young superheroes receive media exposure training, and the casualties from the last war loom large as the new, accelerated internships are… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 11: My Hero Academia and the Joy of the Feast
There are a lot of sweet Christmas anime episodes out there, but the one from pseudo-gothic mystery series Gosick is not one of them. Instead, it’s a bit of a travesty, really, mixing together Christmas and Hallowe’en, with a dash of secular Easter and a pinch of birthday, topped off with a thicker layer of… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 10: Gosick’s Weird Christmas
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.