Thirty years ago, Meisei High School won the high baseball championship at Koshien, but since then, it hasn’t returned, and both the high school and middle school teams have become used to losing. Enter a pair of brothers, Toma and Soichiro, 8th graders who along with their sister could help Meisei once again reach championship… Read More First Impression: MIX
For most kids, the first day of middle school is something to look forward to. For Hitori Bocchi (yes, that’s her name), it’s the day she’s been dreading the most. Suffering from a clinical level of social anxiety disorder, she only had one friend growing up, and that friend not only goes to a different… Read More First Impression: Hitori Bocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu
Nanako is happy, friendly, and unwilling to utter a single word—instead, she communicates through senryuu, a form of haiku that’s often more humorous and focus on the human condition, which she writes to express herself. Though the Literature Club, she finds the most unexpected kindred spirit in Eiji, a feared delinquent-type whose true self is… Read More First Impression: Senryuu Shoujo
Anime movies are not as rare as one might think nowadays! The only ones that I remember releasing when I was younger were the Pokemon movies and Digimon. There wasn’t really much else to chose from, but thanks to the company Fathom Events, I find there’s at least one a month now. Sometimes they aren’t really “movies” as… Read More Made in Abyss: Journey’s Dawn (Review)
Thirty-two anime. Five weeks. Thousands of votes. And two last competitors. We’re on the last day of voting for this year’s Anime March Madness competition, as Violet Evergarden tries to take down three-time defending champ, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Polls will be closing over the next 24 hours, so if you haven’t voted, get out there… Read More Last Chance to Vote on the Anime March Madness Finals!
Takuya has just been informed that his dad, who had been missing, has passed away. He’s taking it well and acting fairly normally—flirting with his teacher, making fun of other girls, and acting otherwise acting outlandishly. But there’s more to his dad’s story than a mere disappearing act, with a connection both to a strange… Read More First Impression: YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World.
Welcome back JeskaiAngel, one of our regular guest contributors here on Beneath the Tangles. Today, he takes a deep dive into a light novel series we recommend—Invaders of the Rokujouma!? I didn’t expect to encounter deep, encouraging thoughts about the nature and origin of true strength in a light novel, but… I recently started reading… Read More Guest Post: Invaders of the Rokujouma and Strength in Weakness
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