Dr. Stone, a manga currently running in Weekly Shonen Jump, really rocks! It takes place thousands of years in the future, when a worldwide (and mysterious) tragedy in our own day has kicked humanity back into the stone age. (A truly petrifying thought.) There are a handful of survivors from our time (this is a manga,… Read More Dr. Stone’s Philosophy of Science
Ten years ago last month, Toradora premiered on TV Tokyo and changed expectations for what a high school romantic anime could be, featuring characters with unusual depth, snippets of action that would have fit right into an episode of Naruto, and beautiful animation from opening to closing. To celebrate the anime, our club has gone… Read More BtT Light Novel Club Chapter 6: Toradora Vol. 1
There’s practically an entire anime genre featuring cute anime girls carrying big guns and going to battle. Off the top of my head, Girls und Panzer, Sora no Woto, The Third Aerial Girls Squad (the series the SHIROBAKO crew creates during the second cour of that series), and Violet Evergarden come to mind. Add to… Read More When Cute Anime Girls Go to War
This summer, I watched Laputa: Castle in the Sky, a Ghibli movie that came out in 1986, making it one of the oldest anime I’ve ever seen (Nausicaa beats it by two years.) It felt a little old, too, not just in the animation style, but in some of the tropes that were used and… Read More Lynna’s Journey (Entry #7) The Old and The New
The last of our new set of teams brings your their first recording of our rebooted TangleCast! David, Peter, and Marcelo of Team FtK (For the King) take a look at the most popular anime of the last several years, My Hero Academia, and discuss why it works so well. What makes it like the… Read More TangleCast 38: Examining My Hero Academia and its Place in Shounen
Voice actor, script writer, and ADR director Mike McFarland is probably a bigger part of your anime experience than you realize, even if you rarely listen to American dubs. He’s voiced major roles in classic series like Fullmetal Alchemist (and Brotherhood), Fruits Basket, Ouran High School Host Club, and One Punch Man, though his voice… Read More Mike McFarland and the Artistry of Voice Acting, Writing, and Directing
Dragon Quest XI is probably one of the best games to come out this generation that I’ve played, which is no mean feat; the past two or three years have been pretty good to me, gaming-wise, with a lot of stuff I like just falling off the shelves. I say probably because DQXI is a… Read More A Lot of Words About Dragon Quest XI
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