What is up, otaku?! For this episode of the TangleCast, the team goes back a few seasons to look at a critically acclaimed sports anime just in time for our March Madness tournament. No actual sports going on? It’s okay, we got you covered as Peter, Holly, and David look at Run with the Wind,… Read More TangleCast 73: Run with the Wind
I have some history on this blog when it comes to reviewing baseball anime, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. In truth, it’s probably at least in part because I never participated in sports when I was in school, other than the minimum required in gym class. What it might be like to be… Read More Not Making the Cut: Disappointment on the Baseball Diamond
The most popular professional sport in Japan is baseball, so it’s little wonder that anime about baseball has produced some of the classics of the medium, and that of all sports anime, baseball is king. We’ve touched on past classics like Cross Game, Oofuri, and, well, Touch—but this anime season features well-regarded baseball anime, too,… Read More Can’t Get Enough Baseball Anime? Here Are Six Ways to Feed Your Addiction
In lieu of working through my current backlog of anime, I’ve instead been streaming through Ace of Diamond with my family. I’m a fan of sports anime, and enjoy baseball in real life (blame Ken Burns’ Baseball and a man crush on Bob Costas), so it’s a wonder I never watched this series until now.… Read More Pitching and Working Out of a Dead End
It’s that time of year everyone dreads — final exams. Everyone? Yes, including teachers. Not just because we have to write and grade exams, which would seem to be a just punishment for giving exams in the first place. But also because we don’t know what’s going to happen. Every class is different, every semester is different,… Read More Ask Sensei: End Of Term Edition
The start of a new season simultaneously marks the end of an old one. As the new shows begin to air, see what we thought of some of the past season’s anime in our regular seasonal review. Hai to Gensou no Grmigar Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash Annalyn – 7/10 I didn’t expect to have any… Read More Winter Anime 2016 Review (Part 1/3)
The second season of Daiya no Ace (aka Ace of the Diamond) ended today. And this time, it’s really ending, at least for now, not just switching air dates like it did between the first and second seasons. It’s catching up with its source material, the manga, and it needs to take a break to let the manga get ahead… Read More Annalyn’s Corner: The Cloud of Witnesses in Daiya no Ace