Genre: Beautifully undefinable Episodes: 24 Studio: Brain’s Base I don’t know what a Penguindrum is. Not exactly. We’re never told in clear terms. That’s the type of story this is. A lot of it is up to you. It’s not the type of story that lends itself well to a summary. It’s not that clear…
Tag: urban fantasy
Shinozaki-kun no Mente Jijou – Manga First Impression
Shinozaki-kun no Mente Jijou or The Everyday Maintenance of Shinozaki-kun is my latest random manga discovery and I am really digging it. There is a genre called High Fantasy and I’ll be completely honest with you, I never looked up the actual definition. It gets associated with Tolkien a lot, so I always just assumed…
Yozakura Quartet – Discovering Anime!
Titles: Yozakura Shijuusou, Quartet of Cherry Blossoms in the Night Genre: Action, supernatural, urban fantasy, yokai Episodes: 12 Studio: Nomad There will come a time when we put aside our differences and humans will co-exist peacefully with demons. Or a least, that’s the dream. And to make that dream come true, Hime, an ancient dragon…
Fairy Ranmaru – Reputation
Titles: Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu Genre: Comedy, urban fantasy, magical boy Episodes: 12 Studio: Studio Comet The fairy world is in danger of tearing apart at the seams. And that would be very bad news for everyone, including lowly humans. Thankfully, the fairy queen has a plan. The one thing that can…
Den-noh Coil – What if Ghibli had made SEL
Titles: Dennou Coil, Cyber Coil, Coil – A Circle of Children, Denno Coil Genre: Science Fiction, drama, urban fantasy, school, makes Irina sad Episodes: 26 Studio: MADHOUSE Yuuko Okonogi is a nice girl. She’s caring and kind and always takes care of her little sister Kyoko. She has a Denopet dog named Densuke who she…
Giant Spider and Me – Manga Review
I first heard of Giant Spider and Me through my comments section. The title really grabbed my attention, and I knew I wanted to read it at some point. Unfortunately, as it tends to happen to older manga that aren’t super well known, it was actually very difficult to find. But I finally got my…
The World Ends With You : The Animation – In Which I Talk About Adapting Video Games
Titles: TWEWY, It’s a Wonderful World, Subaseka Genre: Action, supernatural, drama, urban fantasy Episodes: 12 Studio: Shin-Ei Animation, Domerica You know those days when you just don’t want to talk to anyone? So you hide behind some earphones and pretend not to notice the world around you. Days when you kind of wish you could…
Platinum End ep 24- A Fitting End
Ladies and Gentlemen, we made it to the end… the Platinum End. I have to be honest with you guys, I’m not even sure if that was sopposed to be a joke. But we did it. The season is over and if nothing else, I have to give it to Platinum End, it sure has…
Platinum End ep 23- What’s Left?
The official title for this penultimate episode of Platinum End is “At The End of Thought”, and that seems impressively self-aware for this show. If it was in a different series, I would have been impressed by the witty self-depreciation there. Also, I think this title pretty accurately reflects my personal experience throughout the entire…
Platinum End ep 22- Almost There
I’m not going to lie to you guys, I’ve sort of checked out from Platinum End. Mirai had this big love speech or something in the latter half of the episode and 30 seconds after it was finished, I couldn’t have told you a single thing he said. And that was supposed to be the…
Seraph of the End – Appreciating Character Design
Titles: Owari no Seraph , OwaSera, Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign – Owaranai Seraph Genre: Urban fantasy, supernatural, war, drama Episodes: 12 + 12 Studio: Wit Studio The world has changed, and as the world tends to do, it has gotten much worse. The once prosperous human race has been reduced in huddling together…
Platinum End ep 21- It’s Good We Didn’t Die
There are only a few episodes left to go in PLatinum End and I’m not going to lie, it’s a bit of a drag. I stand by the fact that I think the second cour was a bit better than the first but it’s still not great and the last few episodes have been pretty…
Platinum End ep 20- Spiritless
I have to be honest with you guys, this episode bored me to tears. It might just be my state of mind but I could be bothered to care about anything that happened in Platinum End this week. I don’t even have anything to complain about really. This is going to be a short post.
Platinum End ep 19- False Prophet
Is it just me or was this episode of Platinum End kind of ugly? It wasn’t dramatically different from the rest of the show but the character models seemed to have lost a lot of integrity and they looked really odd to me in some scenes. On top of that, there was very little visual…
Platinum End ep 18- Playing God
Some of you already know this. I create the gifs that I use as headers for my episode reviews. I particularly like using animated gifs as header images with this blog template. I think it works well and creates some interest on the page. But of course, when reviewing an episode that has just aired,…