Beneath the Tangles has undergone many changes since it first began in 2010, not least of which is in what media we explore with our site. While this blog will always center on writing, media has become more and more a part of what we also develop and post. To meet these needs, I’m putting… Read More Call for New Staff: Artists, Designers, and Bloggers
My children watched Spirited Away for the first time last week. No surprise, they loved it. They knew a little about the movie already, having looked through an art book I received as a Christmas gift one year, which among other things described Chihiro as spoiled. “She’s not spoiled, not really,” I pleaded to my… Read More Chihiro’s Road to Confidence in Spirited Away
In volume 8 of the Tonari no Seki-kun manga, Seki continues to distract Rumi with his games at his desk. This time, we see Seki create a small little playground for Lego-style mini-brick figurines. He also creates a clay figure which looks exactly like the other figurines. Rumi watches him play, mesmerized as she always… Read More Newman’s Nook: Friendship and Differences
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves – La Rouchefoucauld “Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims” The opening card from episode four of Classroom of the Elite is an intriguing one because the first half of it seems to point obviously at… Read More Loving Kikyō Kushida (and Other Really Bad People)
I’ve brought it up more than once here that I’m not a big fan of New Game. I like it alright, but I couldn’t make it consistently through the first season as my wife was watching it, and the same can be said right now for season two. In series like this, I have to… Read More How I Hate Thee, Yagami Kou, Let Me Count the Ways…and I’ll Start with Your Birthday!
My family and I have been tearing through anime films this summer, and by serendipity we watched one last night whose action takes place that night, July 31st, and concludes today, August 1st. Summer Wars, one of my favorite films, brings together the Jinnouchis in celebrating the matriarch’s 90th birthday. And that day is today.… Read More A Summer Wars Birthday and the Greatest Love
Welcome back to my corner, folks! First, let me apologize for just disappearing. I even stopped replying to comments, something I feel a bit bad about. But I needed a break more than I realized. In addition to aniblogging, I kind of abandoned anime itself—not completely, but mostly. Including the sports anime DAYS and All Out!!. They’d… Read More Annalyn’s Corner: Not Just a Freak! Aoyama-kun and Assumptions
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