Welcome to StarStruck, my new personal column where I talk about all sorts of things related to anime, manga, and other Japanese media. This time, I will be taking a look at monster girls, which have become quite popular recently. While I could not watch more than one episode of Monster Musume due to the high sexual… Read More StarStruck: Monster Girls and Those Who Are Different
In episode 14 of the short-form series Nyanbo!, Mike becomes quickly stressed. Why? Because he has no stress. Early on in the episode, Tora, the leader of this small group of Nyanbo, tells Mike that he has no stress. Mike then spends the entire episode proving that others are stress free too. What does he discover?… Read More Newman’s Nook: Life is Stressful
We live in a complicated world where truth is often uncomfortable and so everyone is always trying to hide it. But such efforts are often only temporary, and sooner or later the truth is going to come to light. I am so glad that we’ve finally come to the point in ACCA where the truth… Read More ACCA: Truth Never Hides Forever
Welcome readers to Beneath the Tangles’ Second Annual March Madness! Over the next few weeks we will be voting to see what you, our readers, feel is the best anime series of all time. This year’s competitors include the Sweet Sixteen from last year as well as 16 new series the editors selected to add… Read More Anime March Madness 2017
“No matter how I try to wipe it away, your love continues to cling to me.” —Eight Generation Yakumo, Descending Stories: Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu episode 8 Yakumo, formerly known as Kikuhiko, formerly known as Bon, has never been the most cheerful of men. He has a lifelong habit of pushing people away, only letting them… Read More Annalyn’s Corner: Rakugo Shinjuu and Life-Giving Love
I’ve lately been playing The Last Guardian, Fumito Ueda’s long (very long) awaited followup to his arthouse PS2 classics, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. The game, true to Ueda’s style, is a rather oblique fantasy scenario where very little is explained to the player. You play as a boy who awakens to find himself… Read More Weakness in The Last Guardian
It’s difficult to tell a good story with a slow pace. It’s even harder when life itself feels like an overly busy slow-paced story where the major events are few and far between, and the only upside is that there’s plenty of delicious bread. But sometimes those moments that seem anticlimactic are the catalysts for… Read More ACCA: The Slow Revelation
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