Another anime season is upon us, and that means it’s time once again for our first impressions series here at Beneath the Tangles. Over the next several weeks, our writers will be sampling a wide range of new and returning shows and sharing their early thoughts—what excites us, what surprises us, and what might be… Read More Spring 2026 Anime First Impressions
Maehara Maki hates spring. High school, for him, is nothing but loneliness. Newly transferred from a neighboring prefecture, living with a mother who works too much, he hasn’t had a friend in his life. The only thing he has to look forward to is his video game/movie evenings, with cola and pizza. Even worse, he… Read More First Impression: I Made Friends with the Second Prettiest Girl in My Class
Coco loves magic. Magic is vibrant and helpful. When she was a child, she bought a picture book and “magic wand” (from a street vendor who is the definition of “sketchy”) and dreamed of becoming a witch. Unfortunately, only those born with magic can become witches—everyone knows that. However, a chance encounter with a witch… Read More First Impression: Witch Hat Atelier
This week’s Reader’s Corner is a lesson in how vast the world of manga and manhwa is! With series crossing over a wide variety of genres and subgenres, from fantasy to romance, music to adventure, and isekai to detective stories, we’ve got you covered with our reviews. Scroll down and see what we think of… Read More Reader’s Corner: Fool Night (Vol. 8), Secrets of the Silent Witch (Vol. 5), and The Makeup Remover (Vol. 1)
18-year-old Nao Kanzaki is the kind of girl who goes to the police and returns a coin she found on the street. Honest to a fault, she is accustomed to hearing she’s dumb, but she does not care much. Instead, her priority is honoring the teachings of her father, a cancer patient now living his… Read More First Impression: Liar Game
Togo Sakuradaimon is a hyper-serious class monitor who sincerely strives to enforce school rules. Poem Kohinata is a girl who pushes the rules to their limit when it comes to things like hair color and skirt length. They don’t get along…until they both end up in supplemental math lessons. Poem is good at math and… Read More First Impression: The Klutzy Class Monitor and the Girl with the Short Skirt
It’s 2045, and technology has made life very comfortable and, seemingly, better. But with all the advances, there’s one restriction that’s quite unusual: People are outlawed from singing, playing, or even composing music. That’s why Seria finds it so unusual to hear someone in an alley singing a tune. Chasing down the voice, she instead… Read More First Impression: GHOST CONCERT : missing Songs
What if the future becomes the past? Imagine that riots, plagues, and international war bring about the collapse of civilization. Imagine the “Japan Era” becomes a memory, and samurai like those of old battle it out among decaying skyscrapers. Aoteru Misumi, an agricultural planner, lives in such a world, the world of the Sangoku period.… Read More First Impression: NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun
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