Have you ever struggled to find the right gift for someone? Or realized that the gift you picked out was really more about you than them? (Or maybe you’ve been on the receiving end of a present like that!) This is exactly what Hiromi, the eponymous Ice Guy, is up against in the Christmas episode… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: The Ice Guy’s Most Perfect Gift
Episode 101 of My Hero Academia, “Have a Merry Christmas!,” is quite the busy one. Entire cities (spoilers!) are engulfed by dust, the hero society crumbles under siege, the search for the enemy within ensues, the young superheroes receive media exposure training, and the casualties from the last war loom large as the new, accelerated internships are… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 11: My Hero Academia and the Joy of the Feast
There are a lot of sweet Christmas anime episodes out there, but the one from pseudo-gothic mystery series Gosick is not one of them. Instead, it’s a bit of a travesty, really, mixing together Christmas and Hallowe’en, with a dash of secular Easter and a pinch of birthday, topped off with a thicker layer of… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 10: Gosick’s Weird Christmas
The tree is ready to be trimmed, the Santa hats are waiting to be donned, and the icing for the strawberry shortcake is setting in the fridge until cake assembly time. Our fearless shachou, Twwk, still needs to put in the KFC chicken order, but otherwise, it is time for…drum roll please… BtT’s first-ever Staff… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 8: BtT Staff (& Friends) Christmas Party!
This May, a week after the election of Leo XIV, I visited Japan for the first time. I have many wonderful memories of that one-week trip with my wife and her family, but my favorite was a boat tour on the Sumida River. As the sun set over the riverside and lights turned on in the streets,… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 7: Astro Boy and the Consolation of the World
I’m going to just imagine that this AU illustration of Himmel and Frieren dressed up in Christmas gear and ever so cutely clinging onto and kissing one another really happened. Yep. I like this universe better. ;_; ★ 【_】 「 葬送まとめ11 」
An ideal Christmas for many of us would be full of family, feasts, and, of course, gift-giving, as carols play, snow falls, and, I suppose, chestnuts roast on an open fire. Reality tends to be quite different, however, as busyness, indifference, and stress push their way into our holiday season and put a pall over… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 4: A Grateful, Cosmos Christmas
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