Now watch closely, everyone. I’m going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him. – Lady Eboshi, “Princess Mononoke” A common and compelling trope in anime is of characters challenging God. In Princess Mononoke, for instance, Lady Eboshi attempts to literally kill… Read More How to Kill a God
I grew up singing “Crown Him With Many Crowns,” but never a version like this! The multi-talented Emily of Altair and Vega sings Draggle’s reworked lyrics to the hymn, conveying events in Guilty Crown episode 19 that paint Shuu as a Jesus figure. [Draggle’s Anime Blog] Abilene Christian University professor, Richard Beck, discusses what might… Read More Spirituality in the Anime Blogosphere: Crown Shuu with Crowns and Song, Fan Service in Church, and Rick Santorum Talks Boku no Pico
There are only a couple of links this week, but they’re good ones: Last week, I mentioned that Zeroe4 was beginning a series musing on death from a Christian perspective and in association with anime. His post in the series sets up context, giving his feelings about life and death. His next post in the… Read More Spirituality in the Anime Blogosphere: Gundam and Questions of Life and Death
It appears to be Catholic week here at Beneath the Tangles, emphasized by a couple of blog posts relating Catholicism with anime: I am not arguing that the Church is a lot like the Pokemon world. (Alright, I am.) But more than that: The natural cry of the human heart — as best shown in… Read More Spirituality in the Anime Blogosphere: Pokemon and Priests, Dreams of Crusading Anime, and Superflat Artist Tackles Buddha in Qatar
It’s time for us to entrust things to others, not to be the ones to whom things are entrusted. It’s troublesome, but we can’t just keep complaining. Eventually you’ll be the one treating others to ramen. And you’ll be called ‘Naruto-sensei’ or something. We can’t just be rugrats (gaki) forever. Not if we want to… Read More A Word Fitly Spoken: Shikamaru in Naruto Shippuuden 153
Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist. – Epicurus Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai has brought me more enjoyment than any show so far… Read More AnoHana: The Sadness and Joy of it All
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