As we close out 2020, and complete our 10th year anniversary celebration, we’ve been posting a final series of Throwback Thursday posts from writers, past and present, revisiting their former…
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Throwback Thursday: The Interviews
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Throwback Thursday: BtT Valentine
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Throwback Thursday: Valentines Past
Throughout 2020 we’ll be looking back at blog posts from the past we celebrate our 10th year. Ten years…that means ten Christmases, ten Pocky Days, ten birthdays for…
Throwback Thursday: Revisiting Former Columns
All year long, I’ve been posting Throwback Thursday columns as we celebrate ten years in existence. It’s been a lot of fun digging through old posts and memories…
Throwback Thursday: Ready Post One
Here it is. My very first post. My So-Called Virtual Life “My So-Called Virtual Life,” discussing men bringing the digital girlfriends they’ve developed through the Love Plus dating…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 3 ( 雨夜の月)
2022 has been an absolute celebration of amazing Yuri manga licenses and releases. Almost everything I wanted to have been licensed has been. Of the two remaining that…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 2 ( 雨夜の月)
In Volume 1, we met Saki, a high school student who plays piano, and her classmate (and piano teacher’s daughter), Kanon, who is hard of hearing. Kanon is…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 4 ( 雨夜の月)
Well, wow. A whole lot of story happened in this volume. First, Saki finds Kanon’s former best friend – the one Kanon feel betrayed her – and learns…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 5 (雨夜の月)
In my fevered anticipation for The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 1 coming from Kodansha next week, I was thrilled to have the newest volume of the…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 6 (雨夜の月)
Do you remember Morinaga Milk’s series Girl Friends? It was an incredibly popular and influential Yuri manga in the early 2010s, so more than a decade ago. The…
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月)
Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 7 (雨夜の月) is absolute perfection. It was so good, that the moment I finished it, I started from the beginning and read it again.…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 48/49/50 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to the grand finale of Kemono no Souja Erin! This is it, this is what 50 episodes have been building up towards. Was it good? Does…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 45/46/47 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to the penultimate week of Kemono no Souja Erin! This is a short one, only 3 episodes. I do that so that next week can have…
Kemono no Souja Erin Review – 71/100 – Throwback Thursday
Kemono no Souja Erin, the story of a young woman coming of age in a hostile world. Will she keep to her code? Or break under its weight?
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Princess Tutu – 21/22 – Throwback Thursday
Ladies and Gentleman, this is the time when Princess Tutu starts to get weird. As this week we upend almost the entire story. Who is the main antagonist…
Princess Tutu – 13/14 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all to the end of the first season of Princess Tutu and the start of the second! A lot happened this week. Fakir confronted his fears, Kraehe…
Princess Tutu – 5/6 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all to week 3 of Princess Tutu! A bit early this week, but that ain’t so bad. There’s a bit of a global emergency going on right…
Princess Tutu – 7/8 – Throwback Thursday
Every week I go in to Princess Tutu expecting it to fall off, to finally disappoint me. And every week Princess Tutu manages to shut me up with…
Throwback Thursday: Madoka Then and Now
As we make our way through our tenth anniversary year, I’ll be doing throwback posts each month to some of noteworthy posts. For our first month, we go…
Princess Tutu – 7/8 – Throwback Thursday
Every week I go in to Princess Tutu expecting it to fall off, to finally disappoint me. And every week Princess Tutu manages to shut me up with…
Princess Tutu – 9/10 – Throwback Thursday
Hello once again to week 5 of Throwback Thursday with Princess Tutu! I hope everyone is doing well, what with all this Corona Virus business floating around. I’d…
Princess Tutu – 3/4 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome to week 2 of Princess Tutu! This week continues Ahiru’s quest to save the prince in distress. Meanwhile we learn more about our possible villains, the world,…
Princess Tutu – 11/12 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome to the halfway point of Princess Tutu! It’s hard to believe, considering how this has all the makings of a finale. But considering Kraehe’s arc, Drosselmeyer’s position…
Throwback Thursday: BtT’s Top 10 Anime
As we look back to ten years of Beneath the Tangles, it only makes sense to inspect the anime we’ve been analyzing all these years. I was interested…
Princess Tutu – 15/16 – Throwback Thursday
Another week, another double feature of Princess Tutu! This week see’s the Raven start to make some moves, Fakir get ostracized and Mytho struggle internally. Does any of…
Princess Tutu – 23/24 – Throwback Thursday
The penultimate week of our Princess Tutu watch! Will Fakir save Ahiru? Will Rue free the Raven or Drosselmeyer stop acting like a creepy old man? Find out!
Gunslinger Girl – 1 [Fratello] – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all to the new season of Throwback Thursday, this time featuring Gunslinger Girl! Anime is well known for it’s loli’s, and well known for gratuitous violence, but…
Throwback Otaku Thursday: anyone remember Abridged?
Hello and welcome back to Otaku Thursday. So, this Otaku Thursday is special–not only is it gonna be a special throwback edition (aka, get ready to remember an…
Princess Tutu – 19/20 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome one and all to another week of Princess Tutu! This time we cover episodes 19 and 20, where we tackle “Love” in all it’s forms, across the…
Princess Tutu – 17/18 – Throwback Thursday
A shounen fan continues his journey through one of the most critically acclaimed magical girl shows ever. This week, episodes 17 and 18 of Princess Tutu!
Princess Tutu – 25/26 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome one and all to the finale of our Princess Tutu watch! It’s been a long and surprising road for me. I thought this was going to be…
The Last Throwback Thursday Post? #TBT
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Kemono no Souja Erin – 1/2/3/4 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another season of Throwback Thursday! As I said before, this time we are covering Kemono no Souja Erin, also known simply as Erin, a 2009…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 17/18/19/20- Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to week 5 of Erin! Apologies for the lateness of this, it’s been a really rough week for me and I just didn’t have the drive…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 9/10/11/12 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to week 3 of Kemono no Souja Erin! This week continues our time with Jone, teaches us a bit more about honey bees, and drops some…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 29/30/31/32 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another week of Kemono no Souja Erin! We are safely in the 2nd half now, and speeding towards the end. Only… 4 more weeks left…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 21/22/23/24 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to the halfway point for Kemono no Souja Erin! We have a lot to talk about, this was an eventful week. So let’s just jump right…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 41/42/43/44 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another week of Kemono no Souja Erin! We’re getting close to the end here, with only 2 more posts left. That means we’ll be picking…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 13/14/15/16 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to week 4 of Kemono no Souja Erin! This week sees our next paradigm shift for the series as Erin grows up and we shift to…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 5/6/7/8 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to week 2 of Kemono no Souja Erin! This week is the conclusion to what I view as our “prologue”. We’ve got mystery, tragedy, and mediocre…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 37/38/39/40 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another week of Kemono no Souja Erin! This is a good week for me, I quite enjoyed it, it feels like things are finally coming…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 33/34/35/36 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another week of Kemono no Souja Erin! Apologies for the lateness on this. Like I said in the Zom 100 post, I actually caught Covid…
Kemono no Souja Erin – 25/26/27/28 – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another week of Kemono no Souja Erin. This is a bit of a down week for the show, without much going for it. There are…
Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月)
Saki loves piano. Or does she? She loves taking lessons with her teacher, she’s sure of that. But her teacher is leaving… In Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月),…
Twelve Kingdoms – 7/8/9 – Throwback Thursday
Another week, another three episodes of Twelve Kingdoms. I want to say we are starting to get into a groove, but this week marks Twelve Kingdom’s first stumble…
Twelve Kingdoms – 25/26/27 – Throwback Thursday
Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and welcome to another post about Twelve Kingdoms! I know it’s a bit late-ish, but blame the holiday. This was a pretty eventful week for…
Twelve Kingdoms – 34/35/36 – Throwback Thursday
This is the home stretch for Twelve Kingdoms people! The final 12 episodes, the final cour, and we begin with open rebellion. All of our leads have found…
Twelve Kingdoms – 31/32/33 – Throwback Thursday
I must admit, I was almost late getting this Twelve Kingdom’s post out. Something about this new game, I’m sure you’ve never heard of it, Cyberpunk was just robbing…
Neon Genesis Evangelion – 13&14 – Throwback Thursday
Another week, another double feature of Neon Genesis Evangelion. This was an odd pair, as our lead 3 actually take backseat for the most part. Being largely irrelevant…
Twelve Kingdoms – 13/14/15 – Throwback Thursday
This is a big week for Twelve Kingdoms. We end an arc, get a recap and start a new arc all in 3 episodes. Sadly for all that…