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
I’m going to just imagine that this AU illustration of Himmel and Frieren dressed up in Christmas gear and ever so cutely clinging onto and kissing one another really happened. Yep. I like this universe better. ;_; ★ 【_】 「 葬送まとめ11 」
There’s something satisfying about an old-fashioned revenge story—seeing justice served and the bad guys getting their just deserts. But what is the price of vengeance? And what sort of culture does it breed? These are some of the questions Mamoru Hosoda explores in his latest film, Scarlet, a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Scarlet retains the… Read More Film Review: Scarlet
This illustration just makes me wonder…does Santa enjoy camping? I bet he does. Oh, and look at Chikuwa with the reindeer antlers. ADORBS! ★ 【yas】 「 Merry Christmas⛺️✨ 」 ☆
Christmas is just around the corner, and Mike has a lot of gifts for you today on this special Christmas episode of The Power of God and Anime Podcast! He joins in the 12 Days of Christmas Anime series here at Beneath the Tangles by looking at a Christmas party in DENKI-GAI and comparing how… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5 x The Power of God and Anime Podcast: DENKI-GAI and Our Christmas Party
An ideal Christmas for many of us would be full of family, feasts, and, of course, gift-giving, as carols play, snow falls, and, I suppose, chestnuts roast on an open fire. Reality tends to be quite different, however, as busyness, indifference, and stress push their way into our holiday season and put a pall over… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 4: A Grateful, Cosmos Christmas
There’s always a catch. Occasionally a folly. And sometimes you might just hide your feelings…in Russian. What if you’re a kaiju? What if you shrink and have to fight your way through a real-life board game? Or if you’ve been reincarnated into a mafia dating sim? When you put it like that…these characters in the… Read More Reader’s Corner: Oshi no Ko (Vol. 12), Dandadan (Vol. 16), and Maid to Skate
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