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
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
This illustration just makes me wonder…does Santa enjoy camping? I bet he does. Oh, and look at Chikuwa with the reindeer antlers. ADORBS! ★ 【yas】 「 Merry Christmas⛺️✨ 」 ☆
Christmas is just around the corner, and Mike has a lot of gifts for you today on this special Christmas episode of The Power of God and Anime Podcast! He joins in the 12 Days of Christmas Anime series here at Beneath the Tangles by looking at a Christmas party in DENKI-GAI and comparing how… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5 x The Power of God and Anime Podcast: DENKI-GAI and Our Christmas Party
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
Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas Anime! Starting today and marching right through the 25th, we post about Christmas anime each and every day in hopes that these little connections will point you to the joy, love, and redemptive meaning of the holiday. We might post a piece of fanart, chat about a classic… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: SANDA, Santa, and the Fatherly God-Man
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