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Pandora Hearts Volume 3 Review
The volume where everyone’s got issues.
Script 2 Script: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
We want to break things up with an adaptation from comics with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. We’d both seen the movie in the theaters and found it enjoyable.…
Script 2 Script 32: Jaws
Do we need to introduce this movie? The grand pappy of the summer tent pole film. The movie that made Spielberg a household name and helped launch a…


Sabikui Bisco (Season One)
The world is plagued by a rust that affects all things living and innate. The populace blame mushrooms and the mysterious Mushroom Keepers for spreading the rust, but…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 12) – Bow and Arrow Duo
The battle to stop Kurakawa and the Tetsujin he appears to have bonded with rages outside Imihama. Can they stop him before he’s able to turn everything to…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 11) – I’m Bisco!
The Tetsujin stomps toward Imihama destroying everything that would stand in its way. Tirol is transporting Pawoo to meet up with her troops. However, Milo has already caught…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 10) – Tetsujin Revived
Milo, Pawoo, and Jabi watch as Kurokawa’s facility explodes. Rescue teams try to get the blaze under control, but then a giant flaming hand reaches out of the…


Belle Automata: Chronicle I – Indie Otome Review
Belle Automata is a sci-fi fantasy romance visual novel developed by Jellyfish Parade. Inspired by lore from the likes of Cupid and Psyche, The Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 9) – I Love You
With Milo pretty banged up, Bisco gives him the Rust Eater serum and then heads off to find Kurokawa. However, he’s busy showing Jabi how he intends to…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 8) – Fiendish Trap
Milo meets with Kurokawa who wants him to tell him how to activate the Rust Eater. Not because he wants to cure everyone, but because he wants to…


Text x Context: Not in Kansas Anymore
Welcome back to Text x Context, where we’re not in Kansas anymore! There’s a running joke among the staff of Beneath the Tangles that C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles…
Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 7) – The Stolen Rust Eater
They’ve found the Pipe Snake where the legendary Rust Eater mushroom grows, but it’s massive. Pawoo has just arrived to save Milo from Bisco too, so it’s not…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 6) – Companions and Prey
Bisco and Milo have to cross a frozen wasteland and surprisingly find Tirol, saving her yet again. She negotiates some stuff to keep them warm from a nearby…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 5) – Children’s Fortress
Bisco and Milo are captured and taken to a town populated exclusively by children. They agree to feed them since they can hand Bisco over to the authorities…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 4) – Ride the Crab
Bisco and Milo begin their adventure together, but they are running against the clock and walking is too slow. Luckily, Bisco has someone waiting to help with that,…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 3) – Tag Team
Bisco manages to defeat Pawoo. Aware that she has a connection to Milo, he brings her with him and discovers Jabi has recovered. However, Jabi cannot continue on…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 2) – Soar on King Trumpets
Bisco Akaboshi is on a mission to save his mentor, Jabi and to do that he needs to find the Rust-eater mushroom. He tears up the town while…


Sabikui Bisco (Episode 1) – The Man Worth 800,000
Tokyo was destroyed by the sudden appearance of a strange giant figure. Many years later, society has rebuilt, but the people are plagued by a strange illness known…


Fanart Friday: Witchy Rukia
Anyone else getting major Wizard of Oz vibes from this? Ichigo would be the Scarecrow, Orihime would be Dorothy, and Uryu the Tin Man. But who would Chad…


The early days of Kaname Pro
Studio Kaname Production is most famous for its OVA works, such as Birth and Genmu Senki Leda, which seem to embody the early years of the so-called “OVA…
The Cyclone
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,


Summer Wars (2009) by Mamoru Hosoda
OZ is a virtual online world where friends can gather and companies do business; connecting the global population in a vast virtual playground. As well as this it…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 9 – Does Anyone Have a Cure For Heart Break?
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Okay, so Sabikui Bisco doesn't do cliff-hangers half-way and it does actually commit to a plotline even if the end result…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 8 – They Aren’t Going To Leave It There (Oh they did)
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco gets dramatic this week as the hostage exchange goes about as well as can be expected. However, it is…


Sabikui Bisco Review: Mush-Room to Grow
Studio: OZ Director: Atsushi Ikariya Streaming on: Crunchyroll Future generations of weebs will look back on our not-so illustrious history and mark two eras on the calendar: before…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 7 – Everybody Vs Everybody Else
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco has Bisco vs Pawoo. Milo and Akutagawa vs the Rust Eater. Milo and Bisco vs the Rust Eater. Squabbling…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 6 – Little Bisco is Just This Side of Adorable
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco reunites Bisco and Milo with the pink haired girl again only this time she's a bit more helpful as…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 5 – Hard To Know If The Rust Is Destroying The World Or Whether People Are
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco splits its focus this week between Akiboshi and Milo being taken prisoners by some kids and Pawoo's pursuit of…


Sabikui Bisco Is A Very Different Anime
Sabikui Bisco is amazing. One man with a large weapon, a blue haired doctor and crab monsters searching for the mushroom that can save…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 4 – A Crab Rider Is Born
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco spends an episode really working on the dynamics of Milo and Bisco's new partnership. But there's a third member…


What Anime cast would make the best Wizard of Oz?
This old story needs some anime improvements! This post was inspired by an awesome blog post I read over the holiday break. The post Recasting Gremlins with Anime…
380 – Recommendation Round-up 1 – Short Series
Seamus was available this week so we’re switching up our schedule and doing a new show called Recommendation Round-up! We present short series that we think you should…
380 – Recommendation Round-up 1 – Short Series
Seamus was available this week so we’re switching up our schedule and doing a new show called Recommendation Round-up! We present short series that we think you should…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 3 – A New Partnership Is Born
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco brings its first act to a close with Bisco leaving the city at the end of the episode with…


Concluding Thoughts on Visual Prison
Given how much pre-airing coverage I’ve given it on my blog, this is overdue. That first episode was certainly something, but I didn’t keep up with this weekly.…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 2 – An Epic Journey With Giant Crabs and Mushrooms
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco continues to be a little surreal to watch even as the plot this week is pretty straight forward completing…


Vampires, idols, and pretty-boys: Thoughts on Visual Prison
It’s a New Year! Welcome, welcome 2022–soon to be the year of the tiger. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday time and enjoyed our 12 Days…


Sabikui Bisco Episode 1 – Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
Post sponsored by Crow's World of Anime. Sabikui Bisco brings us a post-apocalyptic Japan where the wind is a carrying a plague that pretty much turns everything into…
377 – One Shot 47 – Robo Sapiens: Tales of Tomorrow
This week Morgana checks out the webtoons of Morgana and Oz and Boyfriends while dakazu reads Yuichi Yokoyama’s Outdoors and the 1600′s historical travel log Dampier no Oishii…
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Visual Prison – Episode 12 [Final Impressions]
And here comes the end of the visual kei vampires competing for the scarlet tears of the moon, and I'm honestly going to miss it a lot. Though,…
Popcorn Pulse 164: Crocs Undees
Oi, Skippy. Slip on your daks and check your breath. You don’t want to fail the blow in the bag or end up clipping someone elses grass. Else…


Why Tokyo Godfathers is my favourite Christmas movie
We all know the “is Die Hard a Christmas movie?” meme, but I find it more fun to ask for recommendations of other “alternative” festive films. While The…


Visual Prison – Episode 11
There are a whole lot of emotions floating around right now, but after this episode, I really do feel for Saga. But at the same time, I really…


Visual Prison – Episode 10
Twists are not uncommon in this anime; they seem to be around every nook and cranny. There's always something to keep you on your toes. I… was not…


Visual Prison – Episode 9
Ah ha ha ha! Each episode of Visual Prison is a surprise! I never know what we're going to get and it's fun to not know what kind…


The Patchwork Girl of Oz: The Best—I mean—Least Bad Installment Yet
Oz has had ups and downs. In fact, the previous two books, The Road to Oz and The Emerald City of Oz, were absolutely awful in my opinion.…


Anime Conventions I’d Like to Go to One Day (USA Edition)
I’ve only ever gotten to go to the 2017 and 2019 Oz Comic-Con that’s held in my city. And unfortunately due to COVID-19, anime conventions where I live…


Visual Prison Pre-Season Thoughts
I said I’d do my best to keep my nose out of Visual Prison’s business after my initial thoughts back in May. I really meant that. I had…


A Long Time Coming: King Fang
About four years ago, a gentle Swede who goes by the handle Go no Ken found a rare VHS tape of the 1978 TV special Daisetsuzan no Yuusha…
Botchan, King Fang, Perrine Monogatari, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tokimeki Tonight


The Emerald City of Oz: Somehow, a Volume with a Literal War in it Has Next to NO Action
L. Frank Baum’s Oz books had been steadily getting better, up until the fifth book, The Road to Oz. I really hope that it was just a fluke.…