Happy International Women’s Day, everyone! In honor of the day, we here at BtT are excited to celebrate some of our favorite women working in anime, manga, and light novels. We’re also joined by our friend Atelier Gokujou, who shares a few faves with us from the perspective of a professional anime artist. From the… Read More An Ode to the Women of Anime, Manga, & Light Novels
Following our Instagram live with Elizabeth Maxwell last week, we’ll be doing another one this Friday with Xanthe Huynh (Twitter / Instagram), who has voiced many characters from anime and video games, including Haru Okumura (Persona 5), Menma (Anohana), Marianne von Edmund (Fire Emblem: Three Houses), and most recently, Fina (Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear). Join… Read More Instagram Live Stream with Persona 5 and FE3H VA, Xanthe Huynh
During this fall anime season, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with directors and voice actors involved in the English-language version of P.A. Works’ stirring and beautifully crafted anime series, Appare-Ranman, and today, we post our third and final video interview! Join Brandon McInnis (Al), Suzie Yeung (Xialian), Xanthe Huynh (Sofia), and Twwk they dig… Read More Interview with Xanthe Huynh, Suzie Yeung, and Brandon McInnis of Appare-Ranman!
As we celebrate our tenth anniversary on Beneath the Tangles, we want to take some time each month to look into the past, not only to commemorate our ten years, but also to see where we were and how far we’ve come as a site and collectively as anime fans. For most months this year,… Read More 10 Year Retrospective, Month #2: Throwback to February 2011
This Christmas, why not give the gift of anime? At least that’s what we thought while putting together our own Secret Santa exchange! Tune in to see what Holly, Peter, David, and our editor, Marcelo, “gifted” each other as our members watched through recommended anime they hadn’t seen before. Twwk hosts this wintry episode of… Read More TangleCast 67: Secret Santa
One of my favorite video game-centric YouTube channels, Extra Credits, recently put out a video about “The Three Pillars of Game Writing – Plot, Character, Lore“. I definitely recommend watching this video, especially if you love video games. It explains how “video game writing” is actually split into three “pillars”: plot, character, and lore or… Read More Plot Twists, Character Designs, and Worldbuilding: Writing in Anime (and Other Media)
The last few weeks have been rough for America. The country has taken hit after hit after hit, with these tragic events and high profile incidents only inflaming division in the country. As a historian, I’m especially aware that there were times in this country’s history that were more chaotic, times that were much worse.… Read More Be a Peacemaker. Be a Menma.