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Hell’s Paradise: Episodes 7 Through 9 Reviews

Immortality is a concept that has enchanted humans for as long as we have been capable of conceptualizing it. Across time and cultures, there are many myths of…

Anime Rants

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How Hells Paradise is dividing its fans...

Hells Paradise Jigokuraku has a problem...an animation problem. Studio Mappa, responsible for the dark shonen trio gave Jujutsu Kaisen and Chainsaw Man a well-deserved treatment. But how about…

Anime Blues

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The 7 New Anime of Spring 2023 You Should Be Watching

Looking for some Spring 2023 anime to watch? Check out our recommendations for the best of the season!

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Top List Review: Anime Trending Week 7

Well I guess this list had more place movement at least.

Standing On My Neck

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Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 8

No Sagiri or Gabimaru today! Instead, we focus on the Emeshi girl, Nurugai, and the Executioners around her: Her assigned executioner, Tenza, and his blind mentor Shion. We…

Harper Anime Reviews

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Top List Review: Anime Trending Week 5

So apparently last week’s Trending list was actually Week 4, which I could have seen if I looked at the top right of the chart. My eagle eyes…

Standing On My Neck

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 7

The treeman tells it like it is this week. So, this episode is, aside from the omnipresent character scenes (which are good, and a good thing to have…

Harper Anime Reviews

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Hell’s Paradise: Episodes 4 to 6 Reviews

Although Hell’s Paradise includes numerous fantasy elements, it’s also a semi-historical anime. The setting for the series is Japan around the middle of the Tokugawa Era. This era,…

Anime Rants

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 6

Attack on That Big Guy. So, Mr. Hungry Giant turns out to be a more formidable foe than the tree-topping giants of the island. Gabimaru, who intercedes quickly…

Harper Anime Reviews

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Top List Review: Anime Trending Week 5

Let’s see how our Gundam-loving niche like anime this week.

Standing On My Neck

Sanada 10 Special

Once upon a time, in the ancient days of the mid-oughts, there was a TV series with the rather long title of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densets...

Collectr's Blog

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Hell’s Paradise: Episodes 1 to 3 Reviews

At times, we all have emotions we don’t want to feel or process. Apathy, or some sense of forced resignation, can be easier than actually being in the…

Anime Rants

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What I’m Watching For Spring 2023

Konnichiwa, my readers! I’m finally done covering episode reviews from Winter 2023, so it’s time to move on to the current season of Spring 2023. There are many…

Anime Rants

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Hell’s Paradise Review: Two Tickets to Paradise

Produced by MAPPA Directed by Kaori Makita Streaming on Crunchyroll If I had a nickel for every dark fantasy manga adaptation produced by MAPPA in the last couple…

The Otaku Exhibition

445 – Triple Dip 71 – Dandadan, Choujin X, Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku

This week’s episode was recorded live! We were joined by friend of the podcast, Wyatt from Columbus, Ohio! We talked about Fire Punch, Do a Powerbomb, Heavenly Delusion,…

Manga Machinations

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 5

No, we’re not done with vignettes. That’s because a big chunk of the middle of this episode is meeting, learning the background of, and dealing with an event…

Harper Anime Reviews

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 4

Flirty ninja girl, Bandit Kamina, and well more than your RDA of blood, as per expectation. So, this episode starts with catching us back up to the end…

Harper Anime Reviews

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Spring 2023 Anime Premiere Rankings

Too busy playing Zelda games right now, so have a quick thoughts post on the current Spring season.

Standing On My Neck

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 3

You do remember that the part about there being no danger is clear and total BS, right? In this episode, the stick up Sagiri’s rear kind of bites…

Harper Anime Reviews

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Gabimaru is NOT the protagonist of HELLS PARADISE... | Jigokuraku #shorts #anime

Watching this dark Mappa shonen Hells Paradise (or Jigokuraku), I feel like Sagiri and not Gabimaru is the protagonist of the story. Of course, there are many characters…

Anime Blues

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 2

“No danger at all. By the way, the only person who came back alive is now half shrubbery, have fun!” So, the condemned criminals are gathered together and…

Harper Anime Reviews

Seasonal Selection – Hell’s Paradise Episode 1

In a sharp divergence from last season’s chipper harmlessness, Spring 2023 we’ll be following Hell’s Paradise, which is anything but either of those if the first episode is…

Harper Anime Reviews

Disaster Report: TRY KNIGHTS

You know, I've largely dedicated this column to document anime failures of the past but there are plenty of modern shows that are equally br...

Renaissance Josei

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This DARK MAPPA anime is TERRIFYING! | Hells Paradise #shorts

Hells Paradise: Jigokuraku is a dark and thrilling anime with a complex plot and multi-dimensional characters. The animation is top-notch, with MAPPA delivering some amazing fight scenes that…

Anime Blues

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30 Anime Tomboys With a Lovable Boyish Personality

Tomboys were always enjoyed in anime, but seeing such a blatant one like Tomo as a main character is finally giving anime tomboys the spotlight that they

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Tezuka Osamu's Tales from the Old Testament Ep25-26

With the return of the Jews (as they were now known) to Jerusalem, the historical narrative in the Old Testament basically peters out. The b...

Collectr's Blog

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Anime 2022 In Review

Another year, another list of “Top 5 Anime”. While I had wanted to make this list a sort of tradition like other blogs, the last list I made…

Dragonas Talk

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TOP 10 Games of 2022

And with this list, 2022 has come to a close. I just covered the top 10 WORST games of the year earlier this week and now it is…

cublikefoot

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Top 25 Iconic Anime Trios With A Mutual Respect For Each Other

While the anime duo is a powerful dynamic, the anime trio is a powerhouse of its own.

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14 Dark Fantasy Anime Like Castlevania

After his wife was burned at the stake for witchcraft, the powerful vampire Vlad Dracula Tepes declares that all of Wallachia will die. He summons an army of

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Top 20 Graphic Gore Anime Filled With Cruel and Unusual Deaths

Anime is filled with a lot of death. However, while a death scene in anime can be a useful storytelling tool, not all death in anime is graphic.…

Recommend Me Anime

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Anime Series Like Chainsaw Man

After his father's death left him with a pile of debt, Denji and his pet devil Pochita struggle to pay it off. However, after the yakuza kills him,

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5 More SPOOKY Games to Play for Halloween

That time of the year again where anything that isn’t spooky is not allowed! I’ve been playing some neat horror games this month and have compiled a list…

cublikefoot

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Tangle x Cast 2: Halloween, Horror Anime, and Holiness

Happy Wednesday, boys and ghouls! With Halloween just around the corner, the Tangle x Cast team haunts the world of horror anime, walking us through some of their…

Beneath the Tangles

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Pokémon Colosseum Could Have Been the Franchise's Future | Game Studio Spotlight

Canipa looks back at his favourite Pokémon game and dreams of a world where new artists and developers continued to create Pokémon RPGs. (Spoilers for Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon…

The Canipa Effect

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20 Most Edgy Anime Series of All Time

What does it take to be considered “edgy” these days? There is such a delicately fine line between edge and cringe that one could argue that they are

Recommend Me Anime

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Fashion Youtuber Judges Anime Drip (Ft. @Ashley Kristina )

Are anime characters as fashionable as weebs think? 00:00 Our Guest for the video! 01:06 Sebastian (Black Butler) 02:36 Spike (Cowboy Bebop) 04:04 Alucard (Hellsing) 05:50 Ryuko (Kill La Kill) 08:12 Ragyo (Kill…

On The Rise A&V

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The Best Anime Of The Decade (2010-2019)

You think you’ve watched all the best anime the last decade had to offer? I beat you haven’t seen these yet!

Beyond The Mountain Lies A World Of Frills

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40 Powerful and Iconic Anime Weapons

Anime is awash with weapons, but not all of them are particularly remarkable or memorable. No one fondly recalls the many times the lowly kunai saved the

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Master List of Bible Verses in Anime

Anime has a fascination with Christianity. For decades, priests and nuns have filled out anime casts, the church has often been presented as a corrupt source of evil,…

Beneath the Tangles

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20 Anime Series With Master-Servant Relationships

I'd like to say that anime has an inordinate fascination with the master-servant relationship, but watch enough period pieces and you will know that it

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Anime Series Like Bastard!!

The kingdom of Metallicana is just the latest kingdom to be imperiled by the Four Lords of Havoc. They seemingly desire only destruction and no power can

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Anime Series Like Spriggan

The secret organization ARCAM operates independent of national loyalties and uses skilled special operatives known as Spriggan. It is these powerful super

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Ep. 65: Dai Dark Volume 1, by Q Hayashida

This week the team reads the surprisingly dark, gritty, and hilarious manga DAI DARK by Q Hayashida, creator of Dorohedoro! A surprising episode!

| Mangasplaining: Read Great Manga

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Hellsing Ultimate OVAs: Dead and Loving It

This is a show I’ve been meaning to get to for a long time, and I’ve finally finished it. Another entry in what can be considered one of…

Shallow Dives in Anime

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Don’t @ Me: Six of my Anime Opinions: Can’t read a Calendar Edition

It’s Monday which means it is time for this! Welcome to Don’t @ Me! The place where, like my inability to read calendar, I go into work when…

Shallow Dives in Anime

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Vampire Hunter D, Hellsing, and Dracula – The Western Vampire, Reimagined by Japan

There is no creature in our dark, collective imagination more reinterpreted than the vampire. Considering how many national borders the vampire has

Anime Herald

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Meditation on aesthetics in Witch Hunter Robin

I watched the anime Witch Hunter Robin with the intention of serving myself a nice helping of 2000’s mall goth grunge, and was reassured of my decision once…

Artificial Night Sky