12 Days Christmas Anime, Day 7: My Senpai is Annoying, But Christmas at Work Can Be Meaningful

I love Christmas. But Christmas in the workplace? That’s a little different. Each year, my division holds some sort of holiday event. It typically involves food, with other activities that vary year by year. Sometimes we gather for games. Other times, we shop together. We booked a cinema screening a couple of times. And during… Read More 12 Days Christmas Anime, Day 7: My Senpai is Annoying, But Christmas at Work Can Be Meaningful

12.20.202212.28.2022 Twwk2 Comments

12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 4: How to Celebrate Advent With Kanna Kobayashi

At first glance, the Christmas episode of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid has all the characteristics of your average anime Christmas. Outrageous decorations? Check. Christmas pageant that almost goes horribly wrong but ends up working out in a heartwarming way? Check. After-party and romantic (well, somewhat romantic) gift exchange? Check. In reality, though, this episode isn’t… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 4: How to Celebrate Advent With Kanna Kobayashi

12.17.202212.28.2022 sleepminusminus3 Comments

12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Sing Christmas For Me

Sing “Yesterday” for Me is one of the moodier anime of recent years, but it is also a thoughtful one, particularly when it examines the hold that longing can have on our lives. The Christmas episodes (9 and 10) advance this theme further. It’s Christmas, after all, a time when feelings are heightened, including those… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Sing Christmas For Me

12.16.202212.28.2022 Twwk5 Comments

12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Deaimon’s Small Christmas

Most often, Christmas anime episodes are either a light-hearted, slice-of-life-style celebration of established friendships and romantic relationships, or they’re the culmination of some kind of dramatic arc, with everything working up to a snowy love confession or its heart-breaking prevention. In the land of anime, Christmas is a time of showcasing relationships and romance. This… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Deaimon’s Small Christmas

12.15.202212.28.2022 claire7 Comments

The Text x Context of Haruhi Suzumiya, Part I

Welcome to Text x Context, a new Beneath the Tangles feature that explores light novels on a multi-volume scale! With the old Light Novel Club, each post dealt with only one volume at a time and there were often long gaps between posts on the same series, meaning it could take a very long time… Read More The Text x Context of Haruhi Suzumiya, Part I

10.06.202210.19.2022 JeskaiAngel6 Comments

Call of the Night: Sick, Lonely Humans (and Vampires)

Arisa is the second most popular waitress at Maid Café Vamp. Yes, that’s right, second. She was first, but then was supplanted by an actual vampire, Midori, when the latter joined the establishment. But that’s still pretty good, right? Second is nothing to scoff at. To be honest with you, if I was the second… Read More Call of the Night: Sick, Lonely Humans (and Vampires)

09.21.202209.20.2022 Twwk1 Comment

El Cazador de la Bruja in Pursuit of the Cross

Iris is a good girl. She’s obedient, cheerful, hard-working, and kind. She’s also the lone resident of an abandoned mining town somewhere in the foothills of a remote Mexican mountain that was once full of silver and is now full of dirt. El Cazador de la Bruja is not actually about Iris, who appears only… Read More El Cazador de la Bruja in Pursuit of the Cross

09.19.202209.18.2022 claire3 Comments

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