Here it is, my last post for my Secret Stars of Anime column. Don’t worry, I’m not quitting the blog; I just have a new column that I will be starting next time. Before that new column starts, though, I figured I would give this column a nice, big sendoff by covering my absolute favorite… Read More The Secret Stars of Anime Final: ARIA
I never really liked Tom and Jerry. I know that’s a weird thing to say in an article about anime and faith entitled, getting away with it, but hear me out. Something always bugged me about Tom and Jerry. As a kid, I was unable to pinpoint what exactly I had against the show. As an… Read More Newman’s Nook: Getting Away with It
This time, a passage on the culinary excesses of clerics in Spice and Wolf struck me. It was not remarkable for bringing out how much priests love fine dining. The joke runs that one thing modern bishops and the apostles have in common is never turning down a meal. Instead, I was surprised by the following… Read More Examining Light Novels: The Rotund Angel Physician
Happy Valentine’s Day! Okay, let’s be honest. I don’t actually care much about this holiday. I’d love to use it as an excuse to make and eat chocolatey treats, but I think by the time I get off work, all I’ll have time and energy to make will be dinner. So I’ll just eat my… Read More Annalyn’s Corner: Toxic Chocolate, Singleness, and Other Anime Valentines
One of the strongest feelings I get while watching ACCA is that none of this can last. The characters are living relatively peacefully for now, but eventually the sinister plots will come to light and everything will turn sideways. None of that has happened yet, though, and even though we don’t know the true extent… Read More ACCA: A Person Caught Up In Things
So you have a dating sim/visual novel with six main girls, and you’ve been greenlit for an anime adaptation. You have 24 episodes to showcase your game’s girls and stories, appealing to game fans as well as attracting new fans. How do you make that transition from the branching story paths of dating sims to the… Read More The Secret Stars of Anime: Amagami SS Kaoru’s Arc
In spite of expressing some skepticism about the game in a recent podcast here, Final Fantasy XV quickly won me over once I started playing it. It was much better than I felt it had a right to be, and for the first time in at least a decade, I found myself getting attached to… Read More Final Fantasy XV and the Cross
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