While old stories would have you believe that witches are withered old women with warts stirring a pot of newt’s eyes, but anime has rewritten the narrative a bit. Witch anime runs the gamut having witches fighting for the forces of good or doing the devil’s work all the way to them doing nothing but […]
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While it is fully possible to create horror and mystery in a big city, there is a particular reason that those two genres are drawn to the country. A rural town may give some a sense of safety in that you know all of your neighbors seemingly pretty well. However, the countryside brings with it
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Ever since 1972, class 3-3 in Yomiyama North Middle School has had a strange tradition of pretending that one of their students did not exist. When Kouichi Sakakubara transfers into the class, he finds himself drawn to a girl that no one seems to notice. Not paying heed to the warnings of his classmates, all
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The Shadows are a family of nobles who live in their massive mansion. They are pitch black in appearance and emit soot that will linger on everything they touch. In order to effectively display their emotions, each Shadow is given a Living Doll to be their attendant and their face. This is the tale of
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On the night after the school’s cultural festival, eight students and their teacher gather to say goodbye to a friend that is moving to another school. While it was a fun time of telling scary stories, they decide to perform a ritual that will assure that they are together forever. However, what they don’t realize
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No matter what holidays you celebrate, November and December are the months for family. You go home, you eat food, you argue about your obsession with Japanese “cartoons”, and then retreat to different corners of the house to get separately drunk. Good times, right? Well, if you think your family is pretty representative of dysfunction
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It’s Halloween, and the official end to the month in which I bombarded Recommend Me Anime with horror-themed articles. However, while we have covered some pretty good horror series, which one is the scariest? What is the scariest anime ever? Is there one out there that will make you pee your pants in terror? The
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As the sun sets, a mysterious man comes to town. The children all gather round to hear his sinister tales based on Japanese urban legends. Along with his demented narration, he uses a kamishibai, a traditional paper-scrolling device, to add in visuals. While the simple “paper dolls” animation takes some getting used to, right from
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