Last year was an exciting year to be a Rascal Does Not Dream fan, with the announcement of a new anime project adapting the eighth and ninth volumes in the series, as well as the Japanese release of the latest volume—two years after the previous one! Not to mention the English release of the eighth… Read More Review: Rascal Does Not Dream of a Knapsack Kid
One day after school, Aoto Endo and Shihono Kobayashi become gods. One minute they’re playing Kobayashi’s beloved otome game Love Me Magically! (Magikoi), fangirl-and-boying over the tsundere villainess Lieselotte, and the next, they are being hailed as gods by the in-game male lead, Crown Prince Sieg, who can suddenly hear their voices. Fun premise for… Read More Endo & Kobayashi Live! Part I: God Speaks Like an Otaku!
When you all voted for casual Yor Forger during our special pick the cosplay post last year, it ended up performing really well! I figured that if you liked casual Yor, you would alsoappreciate Thorn Princess Yor as well… so here she is! I found this costume for $20 on Black Friday (see, I told… Read More Cosplay Beats! Thorn Princess Yor
Welcome to episode number ten of the Tangle x Cast! Mike is back and we have a special guest, too—in fact, our very first one! Ithileryn joins Paris, Tyler, and Mike to talk about her journey as a professional cosplayer and how faith impacts her work. The team chats about their experiences with cosplay as… Read More Tangle x Cast 10: Cosplay Meets Faith with Guest Host Ithileryn
The theme this week for Reader’s Corner is adventure, headlined by two new Demon Slayer works, anticipating the upcoming season (and theatrical screening of its first episode next month). But that shonen giant is also joined by an OP uncle, a spy family, and disillusioned adventurers. Dancing high schoolers and a new GL release round… Read More Reader’s Corner: The Art of Demon Slayer, Wandance (Vol. 4), and Apparently, Disillusioned Adventurers Will Save the World (Vol. 2)
Welcome back to Text x Context, where we’re not in Kansas anymore! There’s a running joke among the staff of Beneath the Tangles that C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia is an isekai story. Of course, it isn’t what otaku typically mean when referring to a tale as isekai, but what makes the joke funny… Read More Text x Context: Not in Kansas Anymore
Until now, there’s been one lingering concern about Euphie’s engagement. Why did everyone turn so suddenly on Euphie? How did Euphie go from one of the most dignified members of the nobility, soon to be promoted to a queen, to an insignificant pawn quickly dispatched by a few flimsy rumors? Since when did everyone begin… Read More MagiRevo, Episodes 6-7: The Reconciliation of the Villainess and the Heroine
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