Are you experiencing joy in your life? Could it be possible than anime could tell us something about the nature of joy and from where it comes? Join Paris, Tyler, Mike, and Eryn in this encouraging episode as they dig into the Bible and some of their favorite anime to explore this Fruit of the… Read More Tangle x Cast 20: Joy in Anime
Disappointment is a part of everyday life. We know this, but that doesn’t make it any easier when a person we trust lets us down, the job we were counting on falls through, or the movie we’ve been looking forward to all year stinks. Still, can we do better than just sulk or rage when… Read More Tangle x Cast 13: Dealing with Disappointment
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of February 5th through February 11th! Check out the latest episode in our player below, or subscribe to us on SoundCloud, where you can also find breaking news episodes! Are you excited to own figures… Read More Doki Doki News: Shikimori Ends, New Nendos, and More Demon Slayer!
2b or not 2b9s? Definitely 2b9s. It only took me one episode of Nier:Automata Ver1.1a to pair these two (their ship, in Japan at least and maybe over here, is referred to both as 2B9S and 9S2B). I love how they immediately brought the best out of one another. I can imagine how much stronger… Read More Fanart Friday: 9s2b
Things kick off with a bang, and the bangs—and booms, and crashes, and explosions, and laser beams—just keep coming the whole episode long and it is glorious. A blindfolded woman piloting a flying mecha through the sky to an industrial wasteland of an island shows incredible skill as she dips and dives and brute forces… Read More First Impression: NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
Does anyone remember how disappointed viewers were with the summer 2022 anime season? It’s a dim memory now in light of the acclaimed fall season that just finished up. What an amazing slate of shows these past few months, including new ones that lived up to expectations and a few unexpectedly great series as well.… Read More Winter 2023 Anime First Impressions
It’s been a little while since I’ve talked about JRPGs, so with the new year upon us, it seems fitting to take a glance at the JRPGs of 2017 that I played. For all that it was a less than pleasant year in other respects, it also proved to be a pretty stellar year in… Read More 2017 JRPG Roundup
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