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…
Remember when we started talking about witches last week and I failed? Well let’s get ready to do it again.
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…
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….
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…
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…
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!
As I mentioned last week, even though there is a Tolkien level amount of detail surrounding Nen in the universe of Hunter x Hunter, I was often a bit disappointed by the abilities themselves. They are often not particularly well defined and some have changed quite a bit throughout the series. Seriously, how did Hisoka…
Genre: Horror, gore, action, supernatural Episodes: 13 Studio: Gonzo How much do you know about vampires? Can you list their powers? Do you know how they’re made? Can you describe legendary vampire hunter Hellsing? Wrong, wrong and wrong! Vampires, don’t turn into bats, they turn into flowing masses of nightmare fuel. They don’t care about…
It’s a great credit to this show that I find most of the “least favorite” questions very difficult to answer. This week was no different.
I have always been a little ambivalent towards Hunter x Hunter’s Nen system. On the one hand, it’s really nothing more that classifying superpowers and I love classifications but for all the detail and structure available, the actual dividing of powers is rather imprecise with a lot of the categories being very similar. The execution…
Genre: Sports!, Comedy, Slice of Life Episodes: 12 Studio: Studio Hibari Everybody loves Aoyama-kun. Throngs of cheering fans follow him wherever he goes. Men want to be him and women want to be with him and also the other way around sometimes. Teachers wish every student was like him. His soccer rivals want…
This week let’s all take a look at me favorite redheaded deathscythe dad. I be he’s your favorite redheaded deathscythe dad as well!
Genre : Slice of Life, Romance, Comedy Episodes: 26 Studio: Seven Kaoru has had some bumps in the road. Like most of us she’s had some growing pains. She didn’t know where she fit in, she rebelled without cause. She lashed out and acted out and pushed everyone away. She ended up lonely and convinced herself…
By now you may have realized that I have some pretty defined views on what constitutes a villain and because of that this week was a bit more challenging than I first expected.