… Where do I begin? Actually, I’ll start with this. I watched the first episode of the final Oreimo OVA and was, well, neither surprised nor satisfied. However, I intended to finish, especially bolstered by the opinions of a couple of friends, both Christians, who insisted the end was actually pretty good. Well, the end… Read More Oreimo Finale: I Can’t Believe My Series End Like This (Wait…Yes I Can)
We invite readers of the blog to submit comments, questions, and suggestions to us through the “Ask the Staff” button on our menu. We love to read your feedback! Projectedrealities recently sent us this comment: I wasn’t sure if you’d ever seen the Studio Ghibli film “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” to which I gave an extremely… Read More Untangled: Kiki for Christians
An atheist and two Christians walk into a podcast… And they talk about Attack on Titan. Sorry, no joke here, just the short of Ashita no Anime’s most recent podcast, featuring Alexander, Japes, and myself. Though it’s about an older episode of Shingeki no Kyojin, I hope you’ll still check it out. I’m not much… Read More Attack on Titan Podcast at Ashita no Anime
One year ago, I was back in Ishinomki doing humanitarian work with some very good friends. Since coming back to the US, I have really struggled with fitting in. The best way I can explain it, is I am the Natsume of my own little world, and monsters are chasing me but no one sees.… Read More Natsume Yujin-cho and a Search for a Home
“I have no interest in teams.” Not quite the words one expects to hear from a non-antagonistic anime character, are they? I didn’t particularly expect to hear them on Chihayafuru, where a focus on teams takes up a good portion of the show, and certainly not from Wataya Arata, who practically set the story into… Read More Teamwork, Chihayafuru, and Bible Camp
One thing I think all of us anime fans can agree on is that this medium stimulates our imagination like few others we have encountered. The idea that we see what we want to see in the anime that we watch, for better or worse, has a lot to do with the particular “lens” we… Read More Out Of My (Head)Canon
A Shigofumi is a letter from the dead. The final thoughts and feeling of someone imprinted in a letter and sent to a person of their choosing. Sometimes the letter is angry, sometimes the letter is joyful, sometimes the letter is sent to a cat. In most episodes of Shigofumi, the main character is sent… Read More Loving your Enemy in Shigofumi
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