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Fanart Friday, Too: Poisonous Maomao
The Apothecary Diaries is back! Honestly, it was really tough to wait even a short amount of time for season two. Maomao withdrawals to go along with Maoamo…
Fanart Friday: Here Comes Herta
Did you draw Herta this week? The excitement for the new Honkai: Star Rail character introduction has been overwhelming: social media has been overtaken by it and so…
The Power of God and Anime, Episode 15: All Might, Sir Nighteye, and Dealing With Disagreements
Disagreements going public, Mike going back to the beginning, Keitaro’s fated Todai love, and Christian ASMR? Mike covers all that and more in this episode of The Power…
Reader’s Corner: Mono (Vol. 1), Destroy All Human (Vol. 2), and Firefly Wedding (Vol. 1)
On this week’s Reader’s Corner, we review two highly-anticipated premieres—the first volumes of Mono, the newest work from the mangaka behind Laid-back Camp, and bloody historical roman…
First Impression: The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World
Tougo Asagaki, better known as Red Ranger, is a hero who died an honorable death fighting for love and friendship. But death isn’t the end for him, because…
First Impression: Yu-Gi-Oh! Go Rush!!
Twins Yuhi and Yuamu Ohdo are elementary school kids who spend their time searching for aliens. They have started their own organization called UTS: Ultraterrestrial Tracker Squad, in…
First Impression: Sakamoto Days
Silver-haired Sakamoto was the coolest of all hitmen. He could take on twenty men at once, John Wick style, and leave a mountain of bodies behind. Every hitman,…
First Impression: Babanbabanban Vampire
Mori Ranmaru lives and works at a bathhouse, and has done so for ten years now, ever since he fell in love at first sight with the five-year-old…
First Impression: Übel Blatt
In the year 3972 A.D., fourteen heroes are sent to prevent an invasion. But deep in the Forest of Death, seven of them betray and kill the others…
First Impression: Aquarion: Myth of Emotions
“Perched above the yet oceanless ocean, there was once a dreamer. The dreamer dreamed about all the things in the world.” A beautifully illustrated creation myth of sorts…
First Impression: Farmagia
A troll is farming with some strange creatures around him when suddenly the sky darkens and a flaming phoenix shape brings about the apocalypse. Fade to black. And…
First Impression: The Apothecary Diaries, Season 2
Spring has come to pseudo-medieval China. We check in briefly with a bunch of established characters, and get some goofy interactions between our favorite eccentric apothecary, Maomao, and…
First Impression: Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
Have you ever wanted to get isekai’d without truck-kun separating you from this life forever? Well, Kazuhiro is living the dream, literally. Every time he goes to sleep,…
Fanart Friday, Too: Dandadan x MP100
Yeah…this is perfect. Could we get an official crossover between Dandadan and Mob Psycho 100? PLEASE? ★ 【かわ尻】 「 8番出口で異変探ししてほしい 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission…
Fanart Friday: Power in the Heavens
The trailer for the upcoming Chainsaw Man movie (Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc) recently dropped. It heavily features Makima and the new character, Reze, but if…
First Impression: Dr. Stone: Science Future
The Kingdom of Science is back and two of its leaders are at loggerheads! If you’ll recall, the intrepid crew of the Perseus is on its way to…
First Impression: Anyway I’m Falling in Love with You
Mangaka Mizuho’s manga series gets canceled—on her birthday in 2030, no less. She then reminisces about her youth. Now it’s ten years ago, and she’s a second-year in…
First Impression: Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest
We gaze into a dark, bottomless abyss placed in a cavernous underworld. A desperate man is looking down alongside us. The path is here. “This…This is my fault,…
Even Given the Worthless “Appraiser” Class, I’m Actually the Strongest
First Impression: From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad’s Been Reincarnated!
When she was a child, drill-haired noble Grace Auvergne hit her head and remembered certain things, the most pertinent being how she used to be a 52-year-old balding…
First Impression: The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World
Kenichi is a 40-year-old single man who suddenly gets teleported to another world. Immediately upon his arrival, he attempts to use magic abilities he remembers from the isekai…
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World
First Impression: Honey Lemon Soda
If you’re going to change the things you don’t like about yourself, that which led to relentless bullying during your middle school years and kept you from making…
First Impression: Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World
Have you ever wondered how being a close relative of an isekai’d person would feel? Imagine a little brother of yours asking about things nobody has taught him,…
First Impression: Flower and Asura
When Hana was young, she saw something that changed her life: a dramatic poetry recitation by a girl her own age. From that moment on, she pursued the…
First Impression: My Happy Marriage
Miyo’s Dream Sight may have awakened now, but she’s only just beginning to learn how to make sense of what she sees. To help her, the new head…
Reader’s Corner: RuriDragon (Vol. 1), Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki’s Conjecture (Vol. 5), and Before the Tutorial Starts (Vol. 1)
Today’s collection of reviews is all about beginnings and climaxes, as Twwk reviews the opening volumes of four series (including the excellent initial volumes of RuriDragon and Luciole…
First Impression: Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious To My Charms
Mona Kawai has always been the cutest girl around and the center of attention. Boys want her and girls want to be her. She stole the show as…
First Impression: Promise of Wizard
Akira is a good girl. We know this because she provides each of the local cats with a dinner suited to its individual tastes. After noting the strange…
First Impression: Zenshu
Natsuko Hirose is a young hotshot animation director who skyrocketed to fame with her first production that was so relevant it became a cultural phenomenon. Her next series…
First Impression: I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons
Leticia is a young girl who spends her days laughing with her pet dog, John, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors with all the carelessness a young child should…
First Impression: Medalist
One day, former ice dancer Tsukasa sees an 11-year-old girl, Inori, try to sneak her way into an ice rink without paying. After chasing her around and scolding…
First Impression: Sorairo Utility (TV)
Disaster strikes for Minami when the mobile game she was so invested in gets hit by the dreaded end-of-service notice. Encouraged by her friend to find a club…
First Impression: Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow
Perhaps the biggest action series of last year returns with…a parent-teacher conference? Season two of Solo Leveling begins with Jinwoo attending his sister Jinah’s conference in place …
First Impression: Ave Mujica – The Die is Cast –
A human-like doll named Doloris is surrounded by dolls, each speaking in whispers, wondering if she, too, will come alive on this “Night of Awakening” as they take…
First Impression: I’m Living With an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!?
As everyday salaryman Tsukasa Atsumi walks home from work one night, he looks up, startled by a loud noise, and sees steel beams falling from atop a construction…
First Impression: Tasokare Hotel
Tasokare (twilight) is a fitting name for this hotel because it’s for guests who are unsure whether they’re dead or alive. Tsukahara suddenly arrives in this place without…
First Impression: I’m Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class
Two high school students are married, and they don’t like it. Rewind. Akane (girl) gets on Saito’s (guy) case for sloppy work on the daily class record. They…
Fanart Friday, Too: Year of the Bocchi
Welcome to the Year of the Bocchi…er, Snake! We hope y’all have an electric year full of hope and joy! ★ 【きしんⅡ世】 「 謹賀新年ぼっちちゃん 」 ☆ reprinted w/permission…
Fanart Friday: Flower Time Rendering
Have you watched Summer Time Rendering? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. Since it dropped on Hulu, a lot of people missed the series the first time around.…
First Impression: Momentary Lily
In a world where almost all humans have been wiped out by robotic invaders, a small group of girls have managed to survive. They live day by day…
First Impression: Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four!
Uchimura Dennosuke was living the life of a lowly salaryman, constantly passed up for promotions, his work being ignored by the higher-ups, and even getting transferred overseas multiple…
The Power of God and Anime, Episode 14: Trust God Like the Bebop Crew Trusts Spike
Happy New Year! Join Mike this week as he recounts his own holidays, shares his latest old anime recommendation, and looks at reasons why we may struggle to…
First Impression: Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective
Whether it’s a young child suffering from a Vitamin A overdose or an old fisherman in pain after a fishing expedition, the patients of Teniki General Hospital can…
First Impression: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time
Takumi Iruma is the unfortunate victim of a summoning mistake by a goddess from another world. Goddess Norn intended to summon a group of heroes, in which Takumi…
First Impression: Fate strange Fake
Snowfield, Nevada. A young blond woman, Ayaka Sajyou, walks into a convenience store asking for a recommendation for a cheap motel in the neighborhood. She’s looking pretty shell-shocked,…
Thank You, Patrons!
Another year overAnd what have we done? Well, if you’re a Beneath the Tangles patron, you’ve done plenty. So much, in fact, that you’ve been a critical part…
Reader’s Corner: Dandadan (Vol. 10), Zom 100 (Vol. 16), and Fool Night (Vol. 3)
Happy New Year’s Eve, friends! As the clock counts down toward midnight, what will you be doing? Dancing the night away at some posh event? Watching staid music…
Winter 2025 Anime First Impressions
New Year’s Day is a bit of a sad holiday for many of us—Christmas is over and the promise of a new year isn’t always that hopeful. Well,…
Fanart Friday, Too: Can I Get Some LCL Sauce on That McChicken?
In “News That Would Only Happen in Japan,” the Evangelion franchise is currently partnering with McDonalds in Japan. Get yourself a transforming Evangelion toy that turns from an…
Fanart Friday: Happy Birthday, Kagamine Twins!
It’s the Kagamine Twins’ birthday! Yep, that’s right—Rin and Len were born this day, originally released on December 27th, 2007. Happy 17th birthday! 【luomo-八云正月】 「 happy birthday…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: Buddy Daddies & Why We Need Many Christmases
A Christmas encounter with an orphaned pre-schooler forever changes the lives of two hitmen in P.A. Works’ comedy Buddy Daddies. Not your usual Christmas anime episode! (Especially considering…