The charming 2018 camping anime, Laid Back Camp (Yuru Camp), ended its twelve-episode run with a few notable events on the horizon: New Year’s celebrations for the crew, the first true introduction to Rin’s grandfather, and Nadeshiko searching for a job. Volume five of the manga answers a couple of these questions (the grandfather storyline… Read More Review: Laid-Back Camp Vol. 5
What’s your Christmas Day like? The thing about Christmas is that unlike Thanksgiving, which is specific to America and features so many of the same rituals in households across the country, Christmas crosses borders, languages, cultures, and customs. There are certainly foods and rituals we associate with it, but differences abound—your neighbor might celebrate the… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Yuru Camp
Christa no longer, she’s Queen Historia, Hot pots when camping, now that’s an idea! Battles and letters and tears Violet brings, These are a few of my favorite things. After the Rain was both icky and pretty, Poop jokes a’plenty to go with the gritty, A nice ReLIFE ending all tied up with strings, These… Read More My Favorite (Anime) Things, 2018
I don’t do Black Friday—at least not in the way I used to. Several years back, I was in the crowds, getting in line early for all the deals, but I don’t do that anymore. Nowadays, I usually go later in the day and evening and pick up just a few items, and rarely any… Read More My Black Friday Anime Pickups
With the close of the Winter 2018 season, the staff at Beneath the Tangles have decided to look back at the previous season and ask the following questions: What was the biggest surprise of the Winter 2018 season? What was your favorite series? With all that in mind, we have an amazing and varied staff… Read More Winter 2018 Anime Thoughts
I want to begin this month with a note of congratulations to Tommy Phillips, who just celebrated his tenth year in aniblogging! He has his blog have undergone heavy transition over the past couple of years and, to be be honest, I think I would have left blogging altogether had I gone what he went… Read More Something More: Ten Years of Aniblogging Feels Like Only Yesterday
On a cold autumn day, Rin takes a trip to a lakeside campground in Motosuko to look at Mt. Fuji. That night, she meets up with a girl, Nadeshiko, who just moved to the area and took a bike trip to see the same mountain, but fell asleep and did not wake up until after… Read More First Impressions: Laid-Back Camp (Yuru Camp)