Rumiko Takahashi is probably best known for her more famous, long-running manga series. For my fandom generation, that would be Ranma 1/2, and for many others they probably have more fond memories …
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 22: Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales – Bakeneko
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 28: Shiki
There’s almost nothing as satisfying to me as revisiting something I enjoyed in the past and realizing just how correct I was about it. Case in point: Shiki.…
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 23: Dorohedoro
So far this month we’ve tackled psychological horror, comedic horror, and horror-adjacent titles and episodes. However, as far as I can see, we haven’t yet looked at the…
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 17: Aoi Bungaku Episodes 11-12
When one hears the phrase “blue literature,” one might first believe that the phrase describes literature with a lot of inappropriate humor. However, the adjective blue or “aoi…
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 15: The Lost Village
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 6: Night World
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 26: Blood-C
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 16: School-Live!
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 8: Hakaba Kitaro
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 13: Mars Red
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 21: Shadows House
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 29: Otherside Picnic
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 24: Raven of the Inner Palace
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 25: Den-noh Coil Episode 9 “Miss Michiko From The Other Side”
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 27: Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 20: Shinsekai Yori (From the New World)
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 14: Lupin the Third (Part 4, Episode 8)
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 18: Level-E Episode 4 “From the Darkness”
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 9: Help! I’ve Turned Into A Gengar
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 3: Spriggan Episode 3 “The Forest of No Return”
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 19: Golden Kamuy Episode 11 “Everybody, Get Together! It’s a Murder Hotel!”
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It’s Pokemon Day!
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It’s a small world in Windy Tales
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YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR – Ep. 12
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Games to Play During Spooky Season
The spooky season is here and I have a short list of games that I find great to play during this time. As someone who was forbidden from…
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When the fire came
When the fire cameover the hilldid it pausethe flames hard as amber — still so hot silent as ash –It stood thereJust for a momentas it crested the…
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Genjitsu no Yohane: Sunshine in the Mirror Episode #12
The town of Numazu is still being affected by stagnation as Dia and You told everyone to get into the train as they’re gonna escape to safety. Of…
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Top 10 Spooky Season Anime to Watch
Hey everyone! It’s my favorite season, spooky season!!! With Halloween just around the corner, you’re probably like me and watching all the creepy, psychological, gory anime you can…
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Samurai play soccer and other fairy tales: Japan and the world cup
In the early naughts an older co-worker sidled up to me one afternoon in the company corridor and told me with a mix of swagger and sincerity that…
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Convention Tales #27: Another Day At Comicon
To be honest, at the start of the year I had no plans to go to Comicon. I thought I’d had just about seen everything I needed last…
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Convention Tales #19: One Day At Comicon
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In my blog post on the third set of episodes, I piously hoped that there wouldn't be a year gap again, as there had been between the…
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4 Spooky Anime to prepare you for the Halloween season
In this post, I recommend 4 vaguely horror themed anime that I think are perfect to watch during the Halloween season.
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He Came With the Rain
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