Strawberry Loft

Picking up skills as a kid can be done in many ways. You could learn from a parent, an older sibling, or a teacher. There are even more ways now, thanks to the aid of technology. Older kids can learn from YouTube videos, while younger kids can turn to children’s programming. Shows like Between the Lions or anything on PBS Kids taught spelling and math in a fun and engaging way. Everyone else seems to have all the answers when you’re a child, and you’re rapidly learning information to be successful as you grow up. No grown-up will let you in on the truth, though, until much later. The truth is that childhood goes by too fast, and you’ll slowly lose your sense of wonder as adulthood attempts to crush you. Good thing big brother Uramichi Oniisan is around to tell you exactly how bleak it is. Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan is about what happens between takes of a children’s educational broadcast show. It’s actually a spoof of a real television show, Okaasan to Issho. I’m sure most of...

There are two approaches to making a remake: recreating the same story or retelling it with a twist. Sometimes, writers borrow the name of a previous work to attract an audience and then create something entirely different. The Brothers Grimm fairy tales have been famously adapted by Disney, which smooths out the dark, gritty edges of the original stories while retaining recognizable features to create a new, family-friendly narrative. Other notable retellings include the 2011 TV show Once Upon a Time , the 2005 film The Brothers Grimm , and the latest addition to the legacy, the 2024 anime The Grimm Variations . The Grimm Variations is an anthology series written by Clamp, an all-female Japanese manga group. It consists of six stories inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, each running between 30 and 40 minutes. The stories, penned by Michiko Yokote, use the famous titles more as prompts than direct adaptations. Each story features recognizable elements of the fairy tales, suc...