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Why Are Anime and Manga So Obsessed With “Blue Spring”?
It’s partially a language thing, partially something else… After starting to watch Blue Thermal (Buru- Sa-maru), since I narrowly missed […]
Why Are Anime and Manga So Obsessed With “Blue Spring”?
It’s partially a language thing, partially something else…
Doki Doki News: Kaiju No. 8 on X, A-Kon Postponed, and New Io Sakisaka
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of February 11th! Check out the latest episode…
Skip and Loafer (anime season 1 review)
Review of Skip and Loafer anime
NEW ANIME LEAK...
Blue Box manga might be getting a romance anime adaptation following the story of a basketball player Chinatsu Kano and a badminton player, Taiki Inomata and his childhood…
Undead Unluck, Blue Spring Ride, Horimiya, Nisekoi, Ragna Crimson
Duality: Romance Tropes
Hi there friends, I hope you’re all doing well! Today I wanted to introduce a new segment to the blog called Duality, where I talk about the things…
Blue Spring Ride, Clannad, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club
Anime Like Skip and Loafer
In order to pursue a career in politics to make a positive change for Japan, Mitsumi leaves her rural town to go to high school in Tokyo. While…
Honey and Clover, Horimiya, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, O Maidens in Your Savage Season, Skip and Loafer
Anime Like My Lv999 Love for Yamada-kun
After her boyfriend cheats on her, Akane Kinoshita flees to her favorite MMO and vents her frustrations on some in-game mobs. While doing that, she happens
Blue Spring Ride, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Horimiya, Koikimo, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
Daytime Shooting Star volume 11 (Manga Review)
A review of Daytime Shooting Star volume 11 published by Viz, story and art by Mika Yamamori.
Love Triangles in Manga: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Love triangles have been a staple in romance for ages, yet people have grown sick and tired of them. Is there any reason we still need love triangles…
I'm in a manga and anime dry-spell. Help me!!!!
help me find Manga/Anime that I should read/watch
Liz and the Blue Bird, Maria Watches Over Us, Someday's Dreamers, Wandering Son, After the Rain
Daytime Shooting Star volume 10 (manga review)
Review of the manga, Daytime Shooting Star, volume 10 by Mika Yamamori, published by Shojo Beat/Viz Media
What’s Your Favourite Anime Genre?
There are so many genre within anime! I know that there seems to be a consensus that people who don’t watch anime assume it’s just all the same…
Can We Find a Shojo Manga for Every Letter of the Alphabet?!
Get excited shojo lovers, Beneath the Tangles is kicking off a new video series and it’s called the ABCs of Shojo Manga! That’s right, I’m going to see…
Daytime Shooting Star volumes 7 and 8 (manga review)
A blog about manga, anime, books, yuri, music, and cute things with reviews and an LGBTQ perspective.
AniMarch Madness 2022: Round 1, Day 4
It’s the final day of round one! Help us decide on these last eight matches as we cut the field of 64 down the 32 headed into week…
Fullmetal Alchemist, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Ranking of Kings, Tokyo Ghoul, ERASED
Wolf Girl and Black Prince (re-watched the anime - Review)
Review of the anime series "Wolf Girl and Black Prince"
Blue Spring Ride, We Were There, Chihayafuru, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Peach Girl: Super Pop Love Hurricane
Final volume of Love Me, Love Me Not (volume 12) more or less satisfies
Review of Io Sakisaka's Love Me, Love Me Not volume 12
Anime Series Like Blue Spring Ride
Futaba Yoshioka was an attractive middle schooler, popular with boys, but not with girls. It left her feeling lonely, but none of that mattered as long as her…
Tsukigakirei, We Were There, A Town Where You Live, Blue Spring Ride, Horimiya
20 Romance Anime Series Featuring Complicated Love Triangles
Love triangles are a staple in anime. You will find them in many shows even if the romance is but a drop in the bucket of the overall…
Your Lie in April, Blue Spring Ride, Domestic Girlfriend, Golden Time, White Album 2
20 Romance Anime Series Told From the Female Perspective
In romance anime, it takes two to make a couple, but there will almost always be a main character that takes the reigns of the story. Most commonly…
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Ouran High School Host Club, Vampire Knight, Engaged to the Unidentified, Kamisama Kiss
Shoujo and the Bride of Christ (I)
I was fourteen years old, Shinji Ikari´s age, when A Bridge to Terabithia made its movie debut. Like his fated stay in Misato’s house, only in time have…
Ao Haru Ride Pt. 2 (with Shojo Beat Senior Editor Nancy Thistlethwaite)
Covers volumes 8–13 of Ao Haru Ride by Io Sakisaka.One year after recording about the first half of Ao Haru Ride, we’re back on the bandwagon to talk…
Maison Ikkoku, My Love Story!!, Vampire Knight, We Were There, Blue Spring Ride
Blue Spring Ride
Spring is the time for love! Ao Haru Ride, literally meaning “Blue Spring Ride,” is a sweet little anime about the reblooming love between two young people who…
Socrates in Love (with Asher Sofman)
A discussion about the manga adaptation of Socrates in Love by Kyoichi Katayama and Kazumi KazuiGet ready to cry at this one-volume melodrama about a teenage couple torn…
Post #149|Ao Haru Ride
“… tenderness that doesn’t go anywhere and that doesn’t lead to anything.”
All My Darling Daughters (with Asher Sofman)
Covers All My Darling Daughters by Fumi YoshinagaThis one-volume manga about three generations of women in a family is masterfully told and extremely relatable. Shojo & Tell host…
Ao Haru Ride
Basketball is coming back, and I cannot wait to be disappointed by yet another team I have picked up. I didn’t choose the Bears or White Sox, but…
Ao Haru Ride
Basketball is coming back, and I cannot wait to be disappointed by yet another team I have...
Love Me, Love Me Not Vols 4 and 5
Love Me, Love Me Not Volumes 4 and 5 by Io Sakisaka With the conclusion of Ao Haru Ride, I’m glad that the Shojo Beat imprint has another…
Ao Haru Ride, Vol. 13
Ao Haru Ride Volume 13 by Io Sakisaka I have this issue sometimes when I really like a series and the final volume comes out, I tend to…
Otaku Reader’s Corner: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, TPN Side Story, and the Final Ao Haru Ride
Ao Haru Ride, Vol. 13 After thirteen volumes, Ao Haru Ride has come to an end, but instead of celebratory feelings, I couldn’t shake an irksome question: Why…
Pick of the Week: Beginnings and Endings
MICHELLE: I’m excited by all the final volumes out next week. I’m definitely interested to read the conclusions of Ao Haru Ride and The Demon Prince of Momochi…
Review: Ao Haru Ride Vol. 11
It’s a tricky thing to engage in a new romantic relationships when you’re still entangled in a past one, or at least in one that you desired would…
Ao Haru Ride, Vol 11
Ao Haru Ride Volume 11 by Io Sakisaka Throughout this series, nostalgia and feelings of being haunted by the past have come up in a variety of ways,…
10 Year Retrospective, Month #5: Throwback to May 2014
As we celebrate our tenth anniversary on Beneath the Tangles, we want to take some time each month to look into the past, not only to commemorate our…
Love Me, Love Me Not volume 2 mines teens' raging emotions (Manga Review)
This review of Love Me, Love Me Not volume 2 by Io Sakisaka discusses her talent for writing about teens and the development of the relationships in this…
Ao Haru Ride Pt. 1 (with Shojo Beat Senior Editor Nancy Thistlethwaite)
Covers volumes 1–7 of Ao Haru Ride (aka Blue Spring Ride) by Io Sakisaka.Ao Haru Ride is the story of sweethearts Futaba and Kou after they were separated…
The Decade in Review: The Japanese Industry
I said I wouldn’t be updating this blog for a while, but I remembered that I was working on a two-post "decade in review" which I had star...
In This Corner of the World, Macross, Sailor Moon Crystal, Space Adventure Cobra, Blood Blockade Battlefront
Preview Guide 3: Ao Haru Ride and Kira-kun Today
Discusses the first volumes of Ao Haru Ride by Io Sakisaka and Kira-kun Today by Rin Mikimoto After September brought no new shojo manga series debuts in the US,…
Strobe Edge (with Alyssa from Anime Intensity)
Covers all ten volumes of Strobe Edge by Io Sakisaka First: Strobe Edge is an amazing title, and we take many opportunities to remind you of this throughout the…
OtakuGeneration (Show #544) Blockade Battlefront
Shownotes :: (show 543) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Blockade Battlefront, recorded live November 8th, 2015. This week we talked…
Buddy Complex, DRAMAtical Murder, Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac, Z/X Ignition, Blue Spring Ride
OtakuGeneration (Show #543) Boy and the Beast
Shownotes :: (show 543) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Boy and the Beast, recorded live November 1st, 2015. This week…
Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Hidamari Sketch, Ladies Versus Butlers, Blessing of the Campanella, Blue Spring Ride
Summer 2014 Anime: Halfway Impressions
Summer’s really been flying by for me, and before I knew it, the halfway point for the summer anime season came by. I guess maybe it’s not my…
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Sword Art Online II, Terror in Resonance, Fate/Kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei!, Glasslip
OtakuGeneration (Show #477) Summer Impressions
Shownotes :: (show 477) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Summer Impressions, recorded live July 27th, 2014. This week we finished…
Barakamon, DRAMAtical Murder, High School Girls, Mars, Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club!
OtakuGeneration (Show #476) Summer Impressions
Shownotes :: (show 476) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Summer Impressions, recorded live July 20th, 2014. This week we the…
Appleseed, Appleseed Alpha, Monster Rancher, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, ARGEVOLLEN
OtakuGeneration (Show #475) Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun
Shownotes :: (show 475) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun, recorded live July 13th, 2014. This week…
The Severing Crime Edge, To Love Ru Darkness, Vampire Knight, Appleseed Alpha, Dear Brother
Anime Power Rankings: Summer 2014 Week 2
Rank Anime (First Place Votes) Studio Episode Change 1 Zankyou no Terror (7) MAPPA 1 — 2 Aldnoah Zero (4) A-l Pictures 2 1 3 Barakamon (2) Kinema…
Glasslip, Hanayamata, Terror in Resonance, Blue Spring Ride, Barakamon