It’s the crossover of all crossovers! Yep, that’s right, the Tangle x Cast and the 12 Days of Christmas Anime join together today as our trio of Santas analyzes three Christmas episodes…
Dec 21, 2022 • Subscribe
Heavy, How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
More like this
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: Toradora
My most memorable Christmas was the one midway through my 5th grade year. My dad has been absent the year previous as a soldier at war in the…
Tangle x Cast 26 x 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 7: You’re Under Arrest, Sakamoto, and Kodocha
Our 12 Days of Christmas Anime series rolls along today with a new episode of the Tangle x Cast! Mike, Tyler, and Paris look to some series we…
Tangle x Cast 9: Valentine’s Day and Agape Anime
We’re less than a week out from Valentine’s Day which might not be everyone’s favorite holiday, but anime certainly loves it with vigor. Paris, Tyler, and Twwk (sitting…
Clannad, DARLING in the FRANXX, Naruto, Sword Art Online, A Silent Voice
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 8: Usagi Drop
Season’s Greetings everybody! Your Cajun Samurai Josh here bringing the Christmas cheer once again with another contribution to the 12 Days of Christmas festivities. This time around, I’ll…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 8: Throwback Thursday and Favorite Christmas Posts
Welcome to a spirited edition of Throwback Thursday! Yes, we’re joining the “Spirit of Christmas Past” today as we cross TBT over with our 12 Days of Christmas…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5: K-On!
I remember when I was younger, I would always wake up on Christmas Day and the first thing I would do was open the curtains to see if…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5: Anne’s Perfect Christmas Gift
Christmas is all about gifts, but not just in a superficial way. No, as the Christmas episode of Akage no An reminds us, the joy of giving and…
Tangle x Cast 8: A Little Humility
In a culture that’s increasingly self-glorifying, humility is a characteristic that these days, few seem eager to adopt. Yet, it’s a vital part of the Christian life. Humility…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5: The Duke Of Christmas & Friendship
How would you like to spend Christmas in a massive mansion with a butler and a maid at your service? You don’t have to cook since the maid…
Fanart Friday x 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Classics Club Christmas
Welcome to day two of this year’s 12 Days of Christmas Anime! Instead of a regular article today, we’re crossing over into our Fanart Friday series and this…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5: Sword Art Online
Because I’m a hopeless SAO fanboy, I’m writing about Sword Art Online’s Christmas episode…again. I did so last year, and others have done the same three and five…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 8 – Chained by Fashion
The characters in Hunter x Hunter make killing a form of art. We got our first glimpses of this back when Hisoka started pulling out his magic tricks, but…
Tangle x Cast 17: Good Samaritans of Anime
One of Jesus’ most beloved parables is “The Good Samaritan,” the tale of the most unexpected person showing the greatest care for a victim on the side of…
Two Tangle x Cast Updates!
Hi, Tangle x Cast listeners! It’s been about a month since our last episode, so you might be wondering where we’ve been! Here are a couple of updates…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Deaimon’s Small Christmas
Most often, Christmas anime episodes are either a light-hearted, slice-of-life-style celebration of established friendships and romantic relationships, or they’re the culmination of some kind of dr…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Nichijou
“…the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Kodocha
Greetings everyone! Your Prodigious Cajun Samurai Josh here with my first contribution to the 12 Days of Christmas festivities! This is my first time participating in one of…
Tangle x Cast 4: Ghibli and Gratefulness
The warmth, gentleness, and sincerity of Studio Ghibli films seem to fit right into the theme of gratitude for the week as we enter the Thanksgiving holiday. Tyler,…
Fanart Friday x 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Miku Claus!
It wouldn’t be a terribly unpleasant change for that jolly old fat man to be replaced by a happy, cute Vocaloid sliding down the chimney and delivering presents.…
Tangle x Cast 20: Joy in Anime
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…
Tangle x Cast 2: Halloween, Horror Anime, and Holiness
Happy Wednesday, boys and ghouls! With Halloween just around the corner, the Tangle x Cast team haunts the world of horror anime, walking us through some of their…
Attack on Titan, Black Butler, Elfen Lied, Future Diary, Hells
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Toradora, Clannad, and My Love Story on the Anilujah Podcast!
For today’s post, we’ll actually be throwing it to another blog (and podcast…and videocast). I joined our friends, Josh and Rebecca of Anilujah, recently to talk Christmas anime!…
Fanart Friday, Too x 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Spirited Away to Christmas
We continue the 12 Days of Christmas Anime with our second Fanart Friday piece of the day! Haku and Chihiro all grown up and decorating their Christmas tree…
![Featured image for [12 Days of Anime] Day 8: Mergers and Acquisitions for Days](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20221221/1671646211.49578.81440.png)
[12 Days of Anime] Day 8: Mergers and Acquisitions for Days
2022 was a pretty huge year for anime communities, starting with Sony-owned Crunchyroll and Funimation merge in March and the follow-up purchase of Right Stuf in August. While…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: The Promise of Christmas in Rainbow Days
If you’re looking to anime for the “true meaning” of Christmas, you might want to look elsewhere. But if you’re looking for a story that overflows with the…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Sing Christmas For Me
Sing “Yesterday” for Me is one of the moodier anime of recent years, but it is also a thoughtful one, particularly when it examines the hold that longing…
Fanart Friday, Too x 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Taiga + Santa
This scene! Toradora takes you from the absolute aww-ness of Taiga accepting Santa as a giant teddy bear to just a few minutes later, crushing you as she…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 4: The Idolmaster
“You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. (…) He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 7: Space Brothers
Greetings everyone! Your Prodigious Cajun Samurai Josh here with my second contribution to the 12 Days of Christmas festivities! Originally, I had volunteered to do the mini-episode from…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: Ore Monogatari!!
I…don’t want a lot for Christmas… There’s just one thing I need. I don’t care about the presents… Underneath the Christmas Tree… I just want you for my…
12 Days of Christmas – Day 5 – Worthy of a Greek Goddess
It wasn’t until fairly recently that I managed to read all of Hayate the Combat Butler, though I’ve actually been trying to catch up for quite a while…
Tangle x Cast 7: Fresh Starts
For so many of us, the new year is a time to put away the old, start anew, and lead into resolutions with vigor. With 2023 only a…
Tangle x Cast 3: Diving Into Anime Devotionals
There are Christian devotionals—works that contain daily readings related to and providing teaching about scripture—for virtually every idea and theme you can think of. But are there devotionals…
![Featured image for [12 Days of Anime] Day 11: Akiba Maid War](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20221224/1671891010.49749.81638.jpg)
[12 Days of Anime] Day 11: Akiba Maid War
What is old can be new again, a lesson I’ve learned repeatedly over the years and is once again proven this recent fall season with Akiba Maid War,…
Tangle x Cast 21: Of Zombies, Burnout, and Bucket Lists
What could an anime zombie comedy possibly have to tell us about work, burnout, and joy? Plenty, as it turns out! Paris, Tyler, Mike, and Eryn watched the…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 6: Communicating Christmas to Komi and the King
Like many of you, I spend the week between Thanksgiving and Christmas each year struggling to find just the right gifts for my loved ones. Sure, I could…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: R.O.D the TV’s Slow, Strange Christmas Miracle
The Christmas episode of R.O.D the TV centers on a classic Christmas miracle, where a little orphan girl on the verge of freezing and starving is adopted into…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 10: Nagatoro, Senpai, and Seasonal Distractions
It’s December 24th, a day of romance for high schoolers in Japan. Even Senpai, who never likes to get his expectations too high, can’t help but dream of…
12 Days of Christmas Anime (2021)
Last Christmas, we posted 12 timesChristmas anime right up to the DayThis year to save you from tearsWe’ll keep doing this Christmas special (to the tune of Last…
The 12 Days of Christmas Anime
What do you think of when you think “Christmas?” Santa Claus? Snow? Presents under the tree? Romantic dates, Christmas cake, and KFC? Wait…KFC? If the Colonel came to…
12 Days of Christmas Anime (2019)
Christmastime is a season of anticipation and celebration, of looking forward to an event that already happened, one which brought hope to the world, and rejoicing in the…
12 Days of Christmas Anime: Patlabor
Day 11: Victory May all of our dear readers be enjoying a happy and penitential Advent in preparation for the feast which—to quote the carol “God Rest Ye…
12 Days of Christmas Anime (2022)
Christmas is just a few weeks out, and as we anticipate its coming, our staff at Beneath the Tangles wants to encourage you to consider how meaningful the…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Rent-a-Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a trainwreck of an anime—but not in a bad way. In fact, it’s a lot of fun, even if it’s often full of cringe, most of…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 1: Asteroid in Love
[The LORD] determines the number of the stars; He gives to all of them their names. – Psalm 147:4, ESV When the psalmist wrote this verse a couple…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Tsuki Ga Kirei
Hey guys, your Blue Socked Samurai Josh here, with day nine of the Twelve Days of Christmas Anime! You know, when I was going through the large list…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Horimiya and Relationships of the Season
In episode 12 of Horimiya, the manifold relationships are bouncing in all different directions. Some are growing toward romance, some are in a weird in-between state, and some,…
![Featured image for [12 Days of Anime] Day 9: SPY x FAMILY](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20221222/1671725411.49634.81504.jpg)
[12 Days of Anime] Day 9: SPY x FAMILY
It is with shock looking over the 2022 season that I realized SPY x FAMILY only began airing this year, with its two seasons spanning across multiple seasons…
Tangle x Cast 19: Our Social Anxiety Anime Characters
Do you become anxious in social situations? It may surprise you to learn that even our very gregarious podcasters have experienced the same (and still do sometimes). This…
Tangle x Cast 27: Goodbye for Now
Over the last year+, the Tangle x Cast team has shared their thoughts on life and faith while elegantly intertwining Christianity with anime in relatable and mindful ways.…