In Fruits Basket, Tohru cares deeply and sacrificially for Kyo, but it takes him a lot of time to work through self-loathing caused by all the hurt he’s suffered and to accept that love. On today’s episode, Mike dives into that relationship and how the parable of the Prodigal Son similarly shows the love of… Read More The Power of God and Anime Podcast, Episode 34: The Prodigal Kyo
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
This May, a week after the election of Leo XIV, I visited Japan for the first time. I have many wonderful memories of that one-week trip with my wife and her family, but my favorite was a boat tour on the Sumida River. As the sun set over the riverside and lights turned on in the streets,… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 7: Astro Boy and the Consolation of the World
Every sports anime comes down to a climactic play. But in the last episode of Turkey, the final throw by bowling club captain Mai is not just about proving herself, winning a championship, or bringing the story to a satisfying conclusion. No. Instead (spoilers), Mai’s throw will determine which of her friends will live and… Read More Miracles from the Gutter, Turkey ep. 12
Anime is full of catchphrases, from Kamehameha and tuturuu to “I am the bone of my sword” and “In the name of the moon, I will punish you!” But there’s something special about the catchphrase that underpins Turkey! Time to Strike. It’s not made up of nonsense syllables or random foreign words strung together, nor… Read More The Grace of Turkey: A Bowling Girls’ Gospel
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