Fanart Friday: Ancient Frieren
Statue? Carving? Frieren herself? I love the questions, melancholy, and magic of this illustration. It’s fitting for the fantasy and sometimes ancient feel of Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. ★ 【小刀】 「 雕刻 芙莉莲 」 ☆
First Impression: Terminator Zero
In 2022, an assault team with the resistance is wiped out—all but a resilient fighter who must fight her fear to outwit and defeat a seemingly invincible machine. She holds a vital tool for the efforts of the resistance and must survive and return to them with it, or else humanity’s days might be numbered.… Read More First Impression: Terminator Zero
Reader’s Corner: I Wanna Do Bad Things with You (Vol. 1), Bocchi the Rock! (Vol. 4), and The Hachioji Specialty: Tengu’s Love (Vol. 1)
The saying goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” We prove it every week here on Reader’s Corner, but rarely more so than in this edition, when we show beauty in tengu love; explain how a beautiful and admirable lead does not a good spin-off make; and explain how a provocative title and cover… Read More Reader’s Corner: I Wanna Do Bad Things with You (Vol. 1), Bocchi the Rock! (Vol. 4), and The Hachioji Specialty: Tengu’s Love (Vol. 1)
Nadeko’s Benevolent Author: Monogatari, Episode 6
Nadeko Sengoku is a 15-year-old girl whose personality has been everything except stable since the start of the Monogatari series in 2009. If we know anything about her, it would be that she’s the silly girl who had a dangerously foolish crush on Araragi. She’s often found at the bottom of best girl tier lists,… Read More Nadeko’s Benevolent Author: Monogatari, Episode 6
Fanart Friday, Too: Rei Ayanami & Unit-01
I love the sense of scale in this photo, the wonder and longing in Rei looking upward and at Unit-01 knowing that she unsuccessfully piloted it and that Shinji uses it now, and the bareness of a landscape that might not be Japan. What a lovely piece of Evangelion fanart! ★ 【shiej007】 「 EVA 01… Read More Fanart Friday, Too: Rei Ayanami & Unit-01
Fanart Friday: Dungeon Meshi x The Bear
The Bear is known for its notorious depiction of food service—grimy, discordant, and unorganized. This is interlaced with the few who dream of dishes that serve people beyond their nutritional value and provide an experience that pushes the boundaries of what’s “acceptable.” Delicious in Dungeon’s characters so perfectly fit in The Bear’s casting, matched in accordance with their… Read More Fanart Friday: Dungeon Meshi x The Bear
The Power of God and Anime Podcast, Episode 6: Konosuba, Beast Tamer, and Temptation
We all struggle with temptation. But the rub isn’t simply in being tempted, but in how we react to temptation. Mike looks to Konosuba and Beast Tamer for very different reactions to sexual temptation, and then to the Bible to see how we should respond in any tempting situation. Plus, he gives his real anime… Read More The Power of God and Anime Podcast, Episode 6: Konosuba, Beast Tamer, and Temptation
