Last Thursday, I had the opportunity to watch the Dragon Ball Super: Broly movie. I tried getting tickets the day it was released, but screenings were sold out over a week in advance! As a Dragon Ball fan since I was little, I felt Avengers-level hype for this film. It’s the movie that fans have… Read More Review: Dragon Ball Super – Broly
The last of our new set of teams brings your their first recording of our rebooted TangleCast! David, Peter, and Marcelo of Team FtK (For the King) take a look at the most popular anime of the last several years, My Hero Academia, and discuss why it works so well. What makes it like the… Read More TangleCast 38: Examining My Hero Academia and its Place in Shounen
Who would believe that 33 years after the Dragon Ball manga first started, the most recent incarnation, Dragon Ball Super (DBS), is still one of the hottest anime out there. I would dare say that if you speak to anyone who is a Dragon Ball fan, they are watching this show (which means all those many people… Read More Dragon Ball Super: The Fear of God
Over at Mania.com, Niko Silvester presents a concise and well-written essay on the use of mythology, often associated with religion, and folklore in anime. The brunt of it focuses on context, including the definitions of these terms, which I find very interesting. I want to add that the connotation of folklore is often old and ancient… Read More Spirituality in the Anime Blogosphere: Folklore and Mythology