Donate Your Anime, Manga, and Fan Items to Beneath the Tangles

“How can I support Beneath the Tangles?” We’re sometimes asked this question, and while prayer is the main avenue, followed by financial support and service, there’s an additional way as well. We often give away items through contests or by other means. However, to be able to give items away, we need to have them… Read More Donate Your Anime, Manga, and Fan Items to Beneath the Tangles

Five Best Openings (OPs) of the Spring 2023 Anime Season

The spring 2023 anime season is chock full of interesting series and great openings! It’s always challenging to pick our top five OPs of the season, but particularly so for this spring as we left off some great ones including “innocent arrogance” by BiSH (Heavenly Delusion) and the self-titled “Magical Destroyers” by Aimi. But we… Read More Five Best Openings (OPs) of the Spring 2023 Anime Season

Reader’s Corner: Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 6), Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 1), and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World (Vol. 2)

Flowers aren’t all that’s blossoming this season. Love is in the air as well! But to bloom, challenges must be overcome, like all those involved with imitating your twin sister at school or with getting through your familiar’s thick skull that you like him or just a simple lack of confidence. Some difficulties, though, may… Read More Reader’s Corner: Kaiju No. 8 (Vol. 6), Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 1), and I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World (Vol. 2)

Profanity, Euphemisms, and an Archdemon’s Undesirable Friend

My upbringing was, in certain respects, relatively sheltered. Of relevance for this post, I hardly ever heard anyone use profanity in real life. It might occasionally show up in a TV show or movie, but we mostly avoided works with such language, and in any case, those were fictional. Indeed, the fact that I practically… Read More Profanity, Euphemisms, and an Archdemon’s Undesirable Friend