Here at Beneath the Tangles, we talk a lot about how God speaks to us through anime, manga, light novels, and other aspects of otaku culture. In fact, we write about it every week: how these stories challenge us, refine us, encourage us, and push us to go deeper in our relationship with God and… Read More SPY x FAMILY & Hearing from God
Nothing short of world peace is hanging in the balance as Anya Forger sets off for her first day of school. As if the typical pressures of a first day—making a good first impression, finding her way around a new place, and figuring out where to sit in the cafeteria—weren’t enough, Anya knows (thanks to… Read More SPY x FAMILY & the Glorious Tension at the Heart of the Gospel
Wakana was introduced to the beauty and wonder of traditional Japanese hina dolls by his grandfather when he was but a slip of a boy. Gramps runs the Gojo Dolls company, and lives in a home that looks like it is straight out of the 1890s—probably about when the backbone of his company, the treadle… Read More First Impression: My Dress-Up Darling
Rice paddies and those that call them home: a songbird, a couple of farmers and a girl who runs for the pure joy of it. She pauses to gather herself, thinking of her favorite idol and her goal of making friends at her new school, before throwing herself into a cartwheel that turns into a… Read More First Impression: Akebi’s Sailor Uniform
An elementary school is going up in flames. Some teenaged boys come to blows about whether or not to go in search of a friend who has run in to save a kid. The kid is saved, but not the friend, and meanwhile the friendship between the boys is destroyed. Flash forward a year, and… Read More First Impression: Tokyo 24th Ward