Genre: Horror, action, comedy, drama Episodes: 10 Studio: Satelight (1–4); Madhouse (5–7); Graphinica & Kelmadick (8–10) The Hellsing organisation is back… or rehere…rebooted. You know it’s Hellsing again. Yadda yadda vampires, yadda yadda freak microchips yadda yadda OMG that is soooo much blood. Only this time there’s Nazis. And also a coherent narrative with a complete arc that includes a…
Author: Irina
Friday Hunt – Hunter X Hunter challenge week 11
What!? Now I have to choose a single scene!!?? How in the..just kidding, I had this one pegged from the beginning. I know exactly which scene to go for and I’m right about it. You’ll see – it’s the best scene!
Scorching Ping Pong Girls – Authentic Review
Genre: Sports!, Slice of life, psychological, comedy, horror Episodes: 12 Studio: Kinema Citrus Fuchsia haired Haruka just moved to the big city from a small town in Hokkaido and is eager to put her awkward social outcast days behind her. She quickly learns that high stakes ping-pong is the hottest thing around and an absolute…
How Otomes Taught Me What Diplomacy Is – OWLS Blog Tour
I’m back! Last month I made my first attempt at taking part in an OWLS blog tour and you, yes you, were your usual super supportive and wonderful self, so now I’m back. This’ll learn ya.
Playing Sexeh Tag!
I always get a real thrill out of being included in any blog community event. So you can imagine how ecstatic I was about finally being recognized as a hottie! It cheered me up to no ends… What do you mean that’s not what this is? Tagged Michel over at Raistlin0903 (or Raist as I…
Soul Eatin Mondays – week 10
Remember when we started talking about witches last week and I failed? Well let’s get ready to do it again.
Tergiversating Pan de Peace
Genre: Slice of life, comedy, foodservice Episodes: 13 Studio: Asahi Production Basking in the glories of her energetic teenage metabolism, Minami has resolved to eat all the bread and nothing but all the bread forever. Apparently this is what all the cool kids are doing because she soons finds herself surrounded by a posse of…
How?…But…I…
I remember when I hit 100 followers on WordPress. I got really really excited. Not just hyperbole you guys, I honestly felt like I had just won something. I’m fairly confident and don’t feel a great need for external validation but the idea of 100 people actually thinking to themselves that they might want to…
Friday Hunt – Hunter X Hunter challenge week 10
Well this one is just impossible. How can anyone even answer this. The show is meant to be enjoyed as a whole and it’s absolutely wonderful, who can pick just one episode? No one….
Black Butler proved me wrong
Genre: Supernatural, fantasy, dark comedy Episodes: 24 Studio: A-1 Pictures A precocious young psychopath enlists the help of a deceptively charming demon to realize his revenge against his family’s murders by making said demon his butler and developing an antagonistically sexy relationship with him. Naturally, his quest for vengeance will consist of loosely related investigations…
Uta no Prince-sama fills my heart with song!
Genre: Romance, comedy, drama, reverse harem, pure bliss Episodes: 13 Studio: A-1 Pictures A pretty little meth addict figures she should break into the music industry since her heavy drug problem will probably be less of an issue there. Making her once in a lifetime rational decision, she attends X Factor University in hopes of…
Even Urban Legends are Scarier in Japan
Because I am nothing if not original, I bring you a scary story post for Halloween! Some of you may know that I am an avowed and abject coward who will not hesitate to push my own mother in front of me to get away from a Zombie, if my mother wasn’t considerably more frightening…
Soul Eatin Mondays – Halloween week 9
I’m really starting to look forward to week 19. I Don’t exactly understand what the “question” means but the word favorite is not in there. Ok let’s talk about witches. That’s Halloweeney!
Mononoke – Countdown to Halloween
Genre : Folklore, Mystery, Supernatural, Episodes: 12 Studio: Toei Animation On a dark and rainy night, a pregnant woman desperately begs for a room to spend the night at an inn. Will she be able to escape the murderous threat at her heels? An unfortunate ship drifts into the Dragon’s Triangle. As the passengers pray for an escape from…
The Flowers of Evil – Countdown to Halloween
Genre: Psychological horror, drama Episodes: 13 Studio: Zexcs Takao Kasuga is a special precious flower. Completely unique, brilliant and misunderstood. He is smarter, better, purer than all those pedestrians he is surrounded by. He is truer, he feels more honestly. He is a teenage boy whose favorite book is Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal. Have you…