In the small town of Kurouzu-cho, Kirie Goshima lives a fairly normal life with her family. However, one day while walking to the station with her boyfriend Shuuichi Saito, they witness Shuuichi’s father gazing at a snail. Shuuichi casually remarks that his father has been acting weird lately and has become strangely enamored with spirals. […]
The Grimm Variations tell new re-imaginings of six classic Grimms Brothers fairy tales including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Town Musicians of Bremen, and Pied Piper of Hamelin. What better source material to re-imagine than these already-dark old fairy tales? If you are looking for more
Junji Ito Maniac brings to life 20 stories from the collected library of legendary horror manga artist Junji Ito. Adapted stories include works from Tomie, Souichi, The Hanging Balloons, The Strange Hikizuri Siblings: The Séance, Unendurable Labyrinth, The Long Hair in the Attic, Bullied, Where the Sandman Lives, Ice Cream Truck, Tomb Town, Library Vision,
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While Pikotaro can take a pineapple and a pen, smash them together, and make a pineapple pen, some things don’t smush that easily. Two of those things are the genres of horror and comedy. Horror comedy anime is so particularly rare because for something to be scary, it usually can’t be funny. Horror is all
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Most anime features some kind of linear single plot or several individual stories chopped into arcs that feed into an overall plot. Midoriya wants to become a hero so you follow his training to become strong, which includes school festivals, training camps, and shadowing professional heroes. Ed wants to get his brother’s body back which
I feel like horror in any medium is one of these genre’s that you either love or your have no interest in. Some people like to be scared, other people, not so much. Although, to call any anime in the horror genre “scary” is usually kind of a stretch. However, if you want to get
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Sit down and gather round. You’ve read the legendary horror manga from Junji Ito, now watch a collection of his short stories come to life before your very eyes. The Junji ito Collection adapts stories from 11-volume Ito Junji Kessaku-shuu series and Fragments of Horror There are less horror short story anime series than there
When someone says that an anime series is “underrated,” it is a term that has two very distinctly different meanings. It can be something that not enough people have watched, or it can be something that people don’t appreciate for how amazing it actually is. Despite the difference in meaning, no one side is wrong
Satsuki and Keiichirou Miyanoshita move back to their mother’s hometown after her tragic death, it is there that the siblings find out that their mother banished a number of ghosts from the old school building, but suddenly they are all starting to reappear again. It is up to Satsuki and her new friends along with
To many, short-form anime, or when the episodes are less than 15 minutes, seem like a waste of time. After all, what sort of story can a series tell in five minutes or less? Typically, short-form anime is the realm of fast-paced comedy, but you can find a little bit of every genre if you
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