Personally, I loved the CGI movie, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children and felt it was one of the best video game movies ever made (we don’t have much to work with). This is not a review of the movie itself, though I might write one; this is about a scene that I noticed while watching… Read More Gaming With God: Cloud Strife Finds Forgiveness
After several years, the Earth has become survivable again, and Kotarou and Kagari have grown into an enormous tree in the short time, very reminiscent of Sakuya’s end. The five heroines come together again, this time as people who are no longer carrying the emotional baggage that resulted from the war 10 years prior to… Read More Rewrite Part 4: The Meaning of Salvation
One of my most popular posts on this site was for a personal piece I wrote regarding Clannad After Story and fatherhood. I revisited the post recently, and it struck me both how much time has passed, as the article marked a time – now seemingly long ago – when my kids were practically babies,… Read More Revisiting Clannad and Fathers
Thank for checking out my column here on Beneath The Tangles. Every week I will do my best to highlight different games of Japanese origin or deal with common gamer issues. Please let me know in the comments what you would like me to write about, as I am very attentive to every word my… Read More Gaming With God – Discrimination And Video Games
I’m always ecstatic when writers around the web write guest pieces for Beneath the Tangles. Today, the amazing Hailey (who I’ve long hoped would work something up for us) guests for our blog, explaining what a popular atheist character has to do with Christians and forgiveness. I spent one glorious Saturday last semester sitting in… Read More Guest Post: Forgiving Hohenheim
In this Christmas episode, Harima’s quest for Tenma’s heart, the central theme of the majority of the School Rumble series, continues on. He starts off the holidays with his own personal style, dressed as Santa in a jail cell lying among a pile of manga pages he just finished. The manga he just wrote, like everything else, revolves… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: School Rumble
I have the same routine each week. I watch an episode of Celestial Method (Sora no Method), and for 90% of the episode, I tell myself that I should drop the show. I’m not particularly attached to any of the characters. I find some of them annoying. And there’s nothing particularly unique about the series. … Read More Celestial Method Episode 5: Hardened Hearts
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