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Our BtT-Chan Art Challenge Concludes This Friday!
Our first-ever art challenge has almost come to a close! Friends from Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, and Discord have all submitted their version of BtT-chan for our…
Fanart Friday, Too: Dog-Walker Frieren
Sign me up for a modern-day AU featuring Frieren and the gang, but only if Frieren has a cute little pup that she walks around. ★ 【Shiren】 「…
Doki Doki News: Hana-Kimi, Splatfest, and Tokyopop’s Move
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of May 12th! Check out the latest episode…
Fanart Friday: Voice That Connects the Past
It’s the one-year anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s release! The beloved sequel’s one-year mark has resulted in some lovely fan works, including this…
Reader’s Corner: I Want to End This Love Game (Vol. 2), Drifting Dragons (Vol. 9), and Sakura, Saku (Vol. 3)
This week on Reader’s Corner, we feature the first volume of the Elaina the Wandering Witch spin-off, volume nine of both Helck and Drifting Dragons, an expectedly disappointing…
Twwk Joins Love Thy Nerd to Talk BtT
One of the coolest ministries in the otaku/nerd/gaming sphere is Love Thy Nerd, a non-profit that focuses on reaching out to geeks with all sorts of interests. The…
First Impression: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
As Tanjirou, Mitsuri, Muichiro, and others recover from the events at the Swordsmith Village, the Snake Hashira, Obanai, and Wind Hashira, Sanemi, approach a massive, abandoned temple on…
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc
Fanart Friday, Too: School Days with Frieren
If there ever was an anime that needed a chibi school days AU, it’s Frieren. Imagine the characters currently and in the past brought together in a non-canonical…
Fanart Friday: Mother’s Day to Hilling and All the Moms!
Happy (early) Mother’s Day to Hiling and all the wonderful real moms out there! You are loved! ★ 【Tombiiwa】 「 ヒリング王妃 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission
Help Us Send Our First Mission Team to Join Jesus Otaku at Anime Expo!
Last month, we put out a call for those interested in being part of our first Beneath the Tangles mission team! A few responded, and we’re officially sending…
Reader’s Corner: Issak (Vol. 7), The Mandalorian (Vol. 2), and SHY (Vol. 6)
May the 4th (give or take a few days) be with you! We’ve got the latest manga volume of The Mandalorian this week! Oh, not a Star Wars…
Review: Star Wars: Visions: The Manga Anthology
For all the missteps in Disney’s approach to Star Wars since purchasing the IP from George Lucas, there’s one aspect to the business they’ve gotten right: the manga…
First Impression: My Hero Academia Season 7
Izuku Midoriya is recovering from the last months, hanging his clothes to dry and reflecting as his country becomes a failed state. The comforting presence of his classmates…
Fanart Friday, Too: Loid, Draw Me Like One of Your French Patients
I…I can’t even… There are so many hilarious things going on here: the Jack (Loid) and Rose (Yor) allusion, of course; Yor’s face; and that hilarious drawing that…
Fanart Friday: A Walk with Aya Shameimaru
It’s amazing that Touhou Project is still going strong after all these many years! Are any of you all Touhou fans? ★ 【fjsmu】 「 aya shameimaru 」 ☆…
Reader’s Corner: You and I Are Polar Opposites (Vol. 1), Touge Oni (Vol. 3), and The Villainess’s Guide to (Not) Falling in Love (Vol. 1)
OP isekai’d heroes, young men who can’t help but be attracted to the heroine (er, villainess), and…a cat? This week’s reviews are for a diverse group of light…
Enter the BtT-chan Art Challenge!
It’s time for our very first Beneath the Tangles art contest! We are so excited to ask you to enter and share your creations with us and the…
Fanart Friday, Too: Fly with Star Rail’s Firefly
Firefly returns! I don’t play Honkai: Star Rail, but I did do some peeping around at why Firefly art is popping up. It seems like all the fans…
Doki Doki News: Sanrio + Runway Channel, a Tensura RPG, and Remembering Takaaki Seki
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of April 22nd! Today we welcome our newest…
Fanart Friday: Please Hold My Hand, Miss Nagatoro
Have you watched Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro? If you haven’t, I encourage you to check it out! And if you started it and dropped it, I…
Final Hours of the Spring Drive!
Hi, Fam! About 40 hours remain in our spring 2024 drive, and we are a long way from reaching our goals. Would you please consider helping us reach…
The Power of God and Anime Podcast, Episode 1: Neon Genesis Mikevangelion
Statedogg is back! We’re happy to post the very first episode of a new podcast featuring Mike of Mike’s Geek World and formerly of the Tangle x Cast.…
Reader’s Corner: The Ice Guy and the Cool Girl (Vol. 4), No Longer Heroine (Vol. 6), and Itaewon Class (Vol. 1)
Happy Release Tuesday, everyone! This week, we’re serving up reviews of fantasy series and modern-day high school romance, which have become par for the course in today’s manga…
A Tale of Two Alchemists, II: The Brotherhood of Everything
“I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. We put all our trust in alchemy, but in the end…what is it?” In the episode “Rain of Sorrows”…
Fanart Friday, Too…Catch a Fish
Can we get more joyful scenes featuring Falin in Dungeon Meshi? PLEASE? ★ 【ハンテン】 「 学生時代 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission
Fanart Friday: Frieren’s Journeys, Old and News
Frieren is about how friends can change the course of your life, and through you, other as well. This lovely piece by artist yue captures that sentiment so…
Beneath the Tangles Spring Drive: Would You Consider Giving to BtT?
For fourteen years, we’ve been talking faith and anime to the otaku community and it has been an absolute blessing! It’s so much fun for us to serve…
Reader’s Corner: Akane-banashi (Vol. 5), A Condition Called Love (Vol. 7), and Snowball Earth (Vol. 1)
We are now caught up with Akane-banashi! Check out our review of volume five below, along with reviews of a selection of new and recent releases, including the…
First Impression: YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master
A kid runs through the forest, taking his sick younger sibling on a piggyback ride as he flees from strange lights. Suddenly, he loses his footing and falls.…
The Redemption of Homura’s Wish
Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a cornerstone series for us here at Beneath the Tangles. It came out just a few months after Twwk kicked off this ministry,…
First Impression: THE NEW GATE
Shin is strong player who saved thousands of players who were locked in a realistic VR MMORPG called The New Gate. But after he thought he finished the…
First Impression: Whisper Me a Love Song
First-year student Himari Kino is bursting with energy, excited about what life in high school will bring. Luckily for her, it doesn’t take more than a few hours…
Kaiju No. 8: First Impression
Kafka once had a dream to join the Japan Defense Force and fight kaiju alongside his best friend, Mina. Now though, he cleans up the kaiju that she…
First Impression: The iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors
At 283 (pronounced “tsubasa”) Productions, several idols prepare to challenge W.I.N.G., a major competition for new idols. While many of the idols are in established units already, two…
Fanart Friday, Too: Remember Madoka
The final episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica aired 13 years ago in about a week’s time—on April 21, 2011. It remains every bit a classic today as…
Fanart Friday: Still Thinking of Frieren
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End may have come to an end, but I don’t my journey with this beautiful series will ever come to an end. Check out these…
First Impression: Mysterious Disappearances
An off-kilter lullaby and grainy image make for an ominous opening scene as a young girl prepares for the day in what seems to be the dormitory of…
Manga Review: Bocchi the Rock Vols 1-2, Team Edition
The average anime cour adapts 4-6 volumes of manga; Bocchi the Rock adapts 1.5. Yes, you read that right, one and a half volumes ONLY! Clearly, something unusual…
First Impression: The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio
Sato Yumiko is two girls in one wrapper. To the public, she’s Utatane Yasumi: a wholesome, innocent idol voice actress. But deep down inside, when she’s at school,…
First Impression: Viral Hit
Welcome to hell—I mean, NewTubu! Here, streamers with demonic faces and low morals reign supreme, caught in a neverending loop of easy cash, cheap popularity, and bulldozing the…
First Impression: KONOSUBA -God’s blessing on this wonderful world! Season 3
Kazuma, the isekai’d antihero at the center of the Konosuba story, is going through a midlife crisis (as a teenager, no less). He reflects on how close he’s…
First Impression: Oblivion Battery
Haruka Kiyomine and Kei Kaname are the strongest battery in middle school baseball. With Kiyomine’s prodigious pitches and Kaname’s precision catches, this duo once had ambitions of shutting…
First Impression: Unnamed Memory
Stoic prince Oscar wanders the desert with his servant Lazar, who is endlessly critical of his every decision and would annoy a statue, but not his ever-patient liege.…
First Impression: Tadaima, Okaeri
To say that Masaki and Hiromu Fujiyoshi have an unusual relationship would be an insult to the word “unusual”…and it’s not because they’re both males. In this world,…
First Impression: Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
Banaza is the nicest merchant in Paluma, but his videogame-like stats are nothing to write home about. Nevertheless, he is kind and amiable even toward demihumans (who are…
First Impression: Mission: Yozakura Family
Life has been prodigiously hard for Taiyo Asano. Having lost his entire family to a tragic car accident, he lives his life of self-imposed isolation, refusing to connect…
First Impression: Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again
Shouzou and Ine Saitou are an elderly couple that have been married for over 60 years. Many older people have thought about what they’d do if they were…
First Impression: Vampire Dormitory
Mito Yamamoto has had a really hard-knock life. Orphaned at a young age and then abandoned on the streets after middle school, he now finds himself a victim…
First Impression: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
Rudeus returns! And unlike the introduction to part one of season two, he has a smile on his face… Oh, right—the first cours of season two ended with…
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 Part 2
First Impression: Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
We join the story thirteen years in, after a giant floating fortress appeared in the sky and a horde of formidable monsters…challenged humanity to a stadium battle? Earth’s…