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TangleCast 72: My Hero Academia Heroes Rising

What is up, otaku?! Is is the eve of Heroes Rising, and we’re gonna get you ready for the big event. Tomorrow, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising hits the big screen in North America, and the team is ready to let you know whether it’s worth a watch, and for those that have already seen it, the most thought-provoking parts of a surprisingly deep film. We’ve carefully marked spoilers in the podcast and in the time stamps below, so listen only to what you want. And remember, PLUS ULTRA!

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0:00 Introduction and Anime March Madness 3:57 Last episode’s Cast Question 6:09 New Cast Question 13:17 My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Quiz! [minor spoilers] 21:55 My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Discussion—Introduction 23:49 Discussion—General impressions 29:10 Discussion—Movie choices [spoilers begin] 33:53 Discussion—Deku’s heart and Bakugou’s heart 42:07 Discussion—Ratings [spoilers end] 44:00 Closing

We want your feedback as well! Each week we ask a question on the podcast and feature your answers on the next episode. Here’s this week’s CQ (Cast Question): Which of the known quirks from My Hero Academia would you want and why?

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Wonder who that was in the opening bite? It was Bakugou of course! Well at least his seiyuu, who is the nicest guy ever.

Check out Twwk’s review of the My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising.

The movie comes out tomorrow! Go get your tickets!

We’ve written lots about MHA in the past, including about the idea of glory and of course, what heroism means. We’ve even reviewed My Hero Academia Monopoly.

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If you ever have any questions or need prayer or just want to chat, feel free to reach out to any of us: David / Peter / Holly.

Featured image courtesy of Funimation.

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Featuring music by Celotron and mixed by David (all rights reserved).

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Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so what better time to talk about love? Our podcast team takes a look at one of the most popular romcom anime of recent years, Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun, and especially at the communications problem at the center of the series. Join David and Holly as they share their experiences and chat about how communication figures so prominently in relationships, both in romance and in faith.

0:00 - Introduction 0:53 - Last episode’s Cast Question 4:06 - New Cast Question 4:38 - Holly’s Anime Jokes 8:47 - Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun Discussion—Introduction 12:05 - Discussion—Genre, parody, and favorite moments 18:55 - Discussion—Relationships: Complications and communication 35:43 - Discussion—Relationships: True selves, authentic love 46:00 - Discussion—Relationships: Unrequited love 50:08 - Discussion—God and Valentine’s Day blues 54:09 Closing

We want your feedback as well! Each week we ask a question on the podcast and feature your answers on the next episode. Here’s this week’s CQ (Cast Question): Tell us one of your favorite anime jokes!

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Recognize the name of the artist giving our opening bite? Rie Fu has written and sung many anime opening and closing songs, including the first Bleach ED, “Life is Like a Boat.” Twwk spoke with her about that song and other topics in an interview a year or two ago.

We also interviewed J. Michael Tatum, the voice of Iida, referenced in our Cast Question, and received some interesting and insightful thoughts from him about faith.

Holly wasn’t quite right about the etymology of crush—it’s a little more complicated than she explained.

This week, David referenced John 3:16 and Romans 5:8.

Come follow our prayer account on Twitter!

Featured illustration by TEARなみだ (reprinted w/permission)

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I’m starting to drift off in my office after a late night of partying. By late night I mean 11:45 pm. And by partying I mean recording a podcast episode. #geeklife

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Please give my congratulations to David Lee for graduating Charles. He seems like a compassionate guy and deserves it :)

I will, thanks! And yeah he’s super nice—besides the podcast with Holly, you can find him on Twitter, though he’s most active on Instagram, always posting about his workout routines.

Oh and I’ll share this—his university posted a couple photos of him on their account:

Edit: David message me back: Wahoo! So many people have helped me on my journey to finish school and I am grateful to them. Thank you so much for your support and encouragement. It really does mean a lot. I’ll keep on working hard! 💪🏼💪🏼

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TangleCast 64: Fall 2019 Anime Preview

The new season of fall anime has arrived, and our girl Holly has you covered! Along with her castmates, David and Peter, she’ll take you through the slate of popular returning series this season, as well as a number of the new ones that piqued their interest. Come take a listen to our TangleCast podcast as you figure out what to try (and what to avoid) this autumn! We also have a fun game where the team “drafts” anime characters for a basketball team, and we’d love for you to tell us who’d you pick in an anime v. Space Jam game!

Among the shows we cover are My Hero Academia, Food Wars, Sword Art Online, Psycho-Pass, Seven Deadly Sins, Chihayafuru, Kono Oto Tomare, We Never Learn, Ascendance of a Bookworm, Didn’t I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?!, Assassin’s Pride, Beastars, Kabukichou Sherlock, and Special 7: Special Crime Investigation Unit.

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Web | iTunes | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS

And we want your feedback as well! Each week we ask a question on the podcast and feature your answers on the next episode. Here’s this week’s CQ (Cast Question): If you could choose any one anime character for your basketball team, who would you pick? Better yet, give us your entire starting lineup!

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Featuring music and mixed by Celotron (all rights reserved).

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The TangleCast returns with an episode about Kimetsu no Yaiba, hosted by our own Holly! Please subscribe to us on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, or Stitcher, or head over to Beneath the Tangles to listen to the episode on your browser.

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TangleCast 65: One Piece Stampede

One Piece: Stampede, the latest movie in the series, hits North American theaters beginning this Thursday (October 24th), and in this episode of the TangleCast, Holly and her cohorts give you their spoiler-free thoughts on the film! Join the One Piece fanatics (well, two super fans and one…not so much) as they discuss the franchise’s enduring popularity, Stampede‘s similarity to the Avengers films, and their ratings for the movie.

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And we want your feedback as well! Each week we ask a question on the podcast and feature your answers on the next episode. Here’s this week’s CQ (Cast Question): If you could could have one devil fruit power, which would you choose?

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One Piece: Stampede receives a limited North American theatrical release, opening in the U.S. and Canada this week. Check theatrical locations by visiting the official website.

Crunchyroll recently gave their list of the ten most powerful devil fruits; Ranker has devil fruits listed as well.

Holly mentions “East Blue” as a starting point—this post details that, while this one discusses it and gives other tips as well. You could also take a look at Crunchyroll’s video timeline for the series.

Speaking of Crunchyroll, here’s an article from the site about One Piece’s significance.

The team discusses Stampede’s use of CGI—here’s a short history of anime’s evolution toward CGI. Will looks at the growing importance of CGI as well.

SHIROBAKO delves into CGI as well—and we absolutely love that series here at Beneath the Tangles.

Here are some screen captures from One Piece: Stampede, courtesy of Funimation:

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Featuring music and mixed by Celotron (all rights reserved).

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Want to keep up with the articles, podcasts, light novel club, and other events for Beneath the Tangles, but don’t visit our website too often (or follow our Tumblr account)? We got you covered. We know have a cool weekly newsletter I call TanglesWeek that sends a digest-style email to your inbox each week with summaries of and links to all the cool stuff we’re doing. Subscribe today and try it out!

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Peter, Holly, and David of Team FtK go down the rabbit hole of the Promised Neverland. Way, way down. Conspiracy theories and strange predictions abound, and they even discuss another rabbit hole franchise—The Matrix. Come follow along and see where they go. But please, don’t tell us if we’re right!

TangleCast 51: Forecasting the Promised Neverland

And we want your feedback as well! Each week we’ll ask a question on the podcast and feature your answers the next time that team rolls around. This week’s CQ (Cast Question) is based on the news about Pokemon Sword and Shield. What do you think the titles of the 9th generation Pokemon games will be?

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We are doing a TON of coverage for The Promised Neverland. If you’re a reader of the manga, check out Michelle’s episode-by-episode manga comparison for the series.

If you’re new to the show, like Team FtK, check out TWWK’s episodic, spoiler-free posts on the show.

Speaking of TWWK’s posts, he makes a comparison to Christianity in episode eight, and David makes a different one having to do with accepting reality and seeking freedom at the 42:25 mark.

We can all stop cosplaying. Kitaro wins for her super incredible Emma cosplay.

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Charles do you or holly have any famous Koreans or Korean-Americans you'd like to meet? :)

Well, I’ve tried to arrange an interview with John Cho through is publicist, particularly since he’s playing Spike in the Netflix Cowboy Bebop series. No luck so far, but maybe it’ll work out when they finish filming and get neared to the premiere. That would be very cool!

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A week or two back, Holly and the rest of the TangleCast gang developed their own anime pitches, and now it’s up to you to vote for the one you’d most want to watch if it actually became a series! You can see the summaries for the anime and vote on our blog and on Twitter!

Thank you to the amazing Whitney (Instagram / Twitter) for doing these illustrations for us. She’s awesome!!

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Shirobako, oh Shirobako why does your donut look perfectly round? 🤣 Took a picture with my favorite strawberry donut 🍩.

The Tanglecast reviewed Shirobako and we talk about our long term goals—guess what mine was? 😜...it was, “getting in shape and living a healthy lifestyle!” (Holly says, as she eats 3 donuts). Sigh...anyways, the characters in Shirobako are respectable because they all have their goals in life and what they want to do and work hard towards it. This anime made me think about other goals that I want to accomplish during/after quarantine. 🤔

What’s your favorite 🍩??? (I also really love french crullers from dunkin donuts)

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Have you thought of opening a kofi for the writing and stuff you do on yourblog? What are your thoughts about it?

Oh, thank you for asking Anon, for we do have places where folks can contribute hehe. For Anime Pop Heart (so what we do here on Tumblr and also on Instagram), we have a Ko-Fi account. We’ve used that in the past to fund Holly’s cosplay and so forth. We would love it if you could buy us a ko-fi! :D

Anime Pop Heart Ko-Fi

For our writing, as you mentioned, we have a Patreon account. While we appreciate the funds for Ko-Fi, our Patreon account really helps keep us going. We use those resources to fund a ton of our content development and to expand our audience so that we can continue to develop community among otaku.

If you like what we write on Beneath the Tangles, or are otherwise a fan of the TangleCast podcast, Doki Doki News, or the Light Novel Club, please consider giving! Even a dollar a month really helps!

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I don’t take requests...

Oh, but I have posted some awesome One Piece fanart over the years! Just check my tags.

Holly is a big One Piece fan, though, and her podcast team did an episode about One Piece: Stampede, also, if you’re interested:

TangleCast 65: One Piece Stampede (Spotify | iTunes | SoundCloud)

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Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You finally hits theaters last week, and Holly and the rest of our podcast team was super excited to see it. Did it meet their expectations? Was it as good as Your Name? Did they notice the cameos? And what does the theme of the Weathering with You have to do with our everyday lives? Listen to the episode and find out as Holly, David, and Peter discuss the highly anticipated film!

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Interview with One Piece and Dr. Stone VA, Macy Anne Johnson

Do you remember what you were doing during the autumn of your 20th year? Were you attending classes in college? Maybe taking your niece trick-or-treating? Going to the opening of two movies that you’re in? Okay, it’s probably a big “no” to that last one—that is unless you’re voice actress Macy Anne Johnson. Currently attending university as a theater arts major, Macy Anne has already started to establish a voice acting career with roles in series like That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Pirino) and Dr. Stone (Ruby), and in two movies that started screening last week in North America—One Piece Stampede (check out the TangleCast review of the film!) and Human Lost, both released by FUNimation. I sat down with Macy Anne recently to chat about all the exciting developments in her career.

Q: I was browsing your Instagram and noticed that you went to a local theater to watch Human Lost.

Macy Anne: I did! I loved it. I was so exciting! I hadn’t seen the film yet and I went with my mom and dad and some friends, so it was a super sweet experience. I’ve never heard myself in a theater before: It was surreal and so loud!

And you such a big role. In fact, Yoshiko, your character from Human Lost, is your first lead role! I saw that you prepared for it by reading No Longer Human.

Yes, oh my goodness, have you read No Longer Human?

I haven’t! I know it’s a classic.

And it’s probably the saddest thing I’ve read. I read another book that Dazai wrote, The Setting Sun—equally depressing.

Did it help you prepare?

There were so many differences between the book and the movie with this whole futuristic environment they created, but the film took the characters and their traumas and personalities from the book and implanted them into this crazy world, so by reading, I felt going in that I had a good notion of who Yoshiko was. There’s this quote in the book and I’ll probably get it wrong, but it’s, “She was a genius at trusting people.” In the movie that became, “She’s a genius at believing in ‘this idea.’” That was kind of how we centered the acting around her.

I think that quote describes her really well.

I know! It’s sad, because it should be a good thing…

Besides Human Lost, you had One Piece: Stampede come out last week.

I went from zero to 100! I’m very excited about it.

One Piece is a big deal! Were you excited to get the role of Ann?

Oh yes. I was an anime fan before I was a voice actor and would never have believed you if you told me I’d be a One Piece character. Crazy!

What were some of the anime you enjoyed growing up?

My first was Sword Art Online, which I realize now that some people have such a problem with! It’s divisive, but I love it! Oh and Fairy Tail. I got to do additional voices for Fairy Tail and that was so exciting!

How did you make the transition into in voice acting?

A lot of voice actors teach acting classes and I took Chris Rager’s—that was my first kind of technical training for voice acting, and it help me meet people and get on lists for different studios.

And you bring a theater background into voice acting, which is pretty common for voice actors—how does that help you voice act?

Voice acting isn’t very different from being on stage except for the complete isolation of the voice, which I think has made me a better theater actor because I have to concentrate fully on that. And I don’t know if other people do this but I feel very physical when I’m in the booth. I play a robot in the video game Paladins and the whole time I did the full body acting [does robot moves]. It felt like I had to do that to make the voice sound right! I’ve always been a very loud person, too, so that’s worked in my favor. I came out of the womb screaming!

So right now, you’re balancing all that—theater and voice acting and school. But where do you see yourself five years from now?

I want to be voice acting. I would love to see what other parts of anime I could involve myself in: Writing and directing are roles I’m very interested in. Doing a lot more of the same would be the ultimate goal!

What’s airing currently that viewers can you watch you in?

I’m working on Dr. Stone right now. It’s exciting being on Toonami! That show is so much fun! And they can watch One Piece!

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Human Lost has completed it’s U.S. run (though it premieres in Canada in November), but you can still catch Macy in One Piece: Stampede and voicing characters in many other anime series. And be sure to follow her on Instagram and Twitter!