A great thing about being an anime fan is that four times a year, we can get excited about a slate of new series! While we wait on most of these to begin, a number of bloggers reflect on the final episodes of summer 2014 anime and on series older than those. Draggle digs into… Read More Something More: Faustus Metal Alchemist, Hopeful Anime Heroes, and Anime as Bible Study
The end of the summer season is here! While some may not have enjoyed it much, it’s been one of my favorites in recent memory. At least, judging by some of the posts below, it’s provided plenty of fuel for discussion! Milesvibritannia looks at the issue of morality in anime, delving deeply into a number… Read More Something More: Christian Anime Idols, Sailor Moon Gossip, and Integrity in SAO
School is back in session for most students, which means that summer is coming to a close. That means the fall season of anime is just around the corner. Can you believe it? But writers continue to blog wonderful articles for the shows coming to a close for the summer season, including those below. Medieval… Read More Something More: Jesusmonogatari, GGO’s False Prophet, and Christian Writers on Ghibli
The summer season has passed it’s mid-point, and bloggers continue to find great spiritual connections in current series, joining a number of other excellent articles about some more classic ones that posted this week. Frank finds perhaps an intentional connection to Christianity and Japan’s Hidden Christians in Barakamon. [A Series of Miracles] Annalyn looks into… Read More Something More: Forgiving Kirito’s Sin, Real Barakamon Church, and Hamatora’s Anti-Christ
Periodically, I like point back to some of the more than 900 posts we’ve written here on Beneath the Tangles. “Mileposts” is about blogging milestones – those little breakthroughs when posts hit certain numbers of significance in terms of hits. Three articles recently hit such mileposts. Sword Art Online, Episode 10: You Complete Me Milepost:… Read More Mileposts: Kirito x Asuna, Karuta God, and I Can’t Believe This Got a Thousand Hits
If that bullet could also kill a player in the real world, and if you didn’t shoot them, you or someone you loved would be killed, could you still pull the trigger? I won’t lie. Sword Art Online 2 has kept me entertained all season long. The Alfheim Online arc burned me so bad that… Read More Sword Art Online 2, Episode 6: Problematic Pain
This summer season has provided a lot of fun, entertaining series, and surprisingly some thought-provoking ones as well! One that surprises me in the lessons it gives, as evidenced by Japes’ article earlier this week, is Hanayamata, which has also provided some great material for Frank. See his article below, along with some other other… Read More Something More: Encouraging Hanayamata, Lying Kirito, and Blue Exorcist Theology
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