Fanart Friday: Miku Snapshot
Hey, Miku! Strike a pose! Or…12 of them? ★ 【balabling】「 snapshot 」 ☆
Doki Doki News: Bleach to Hulu, One Piece to Theaters and Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King to Netflix
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of October 2nd through 8th! Check out the latest episode in our player below, or subscribe to us on SoundCloud, where you can also find breaking news episodes! Have you bought your tickets to see… Read More Doki Doki News: Bleach to Hulu, One Piece to Theaters and Black Clover: Sword of the Wizard King to Netflix
First Impression: Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit
Back in 2013, a charming little short-episode anime series with the awkward English title of Encouragement of Climb debuted. In it, we were introduced to Aoi, a girl who had once made a promise to climb a mountain with her friend Hinata, but has since acquired a fear of heights after a playground accident. Now… Read More First Impression: Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit
First Impression: Akiba Maid War
The story begins in the kind of back alley that makes it feel like nighttime when the noonday sun is still riding high. The crashes of thunder and sheets of falling rain work like a silencer when a gunshot rings out and one more woman falls victim to the gritty mob crime of 1980s Akihabara.… Read More First Impression: Akiba Maid War
First Impression: Bibliophile Princess
In something like an early modern European-ish kingdom, Elianna thinks she’s a fake fiancée, a placeholder for some future “real” one. For reasons she seriously doesn’t comprehend, the shiny Prince Christopher proposed to her several years ago, and she accepted because…it meant she could read more books. But from the outset, Elianna expected to be… Read More First Impression: Bibliophile Princess
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
First Impression: Vazzrock the Animation
Ookay, bear with me on this one, my friends, because this is gonna be BAD. Vazzrock The Animation is based on a video game called Tsukino Talent Production (TsukiPro), which features two boy band groups—Vazzy and Rock Down. As I understand it, the members of this group represent the twelve months out of the year,… Read More First Impression: Vazzrock the Animation
