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Day 8 of Otakutober: Back in Black- 2000s Gothic Anime
A lot of people would say that the 2000s of anime was the true Renaissance of anime. It was during this time that classic hits were releasing left…
11 Horror Romance Anime That Lets Love Be Terrifying
Horror romance anime is something that is hard to put together into a cohesive series. When romance is done well, it typically isn't horrific. Alternatively,
Vampire Knight, Kemonozume, Lunar Legend Tsukihime, Sankarea, School Days
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[Analysis] The Precious Sister of The Villainous Grand Duke: The Not Incest, Incest Romance
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[Analysis] The Precious Sister of The Villainous Grand Duke: The Not Incest, Incest Romance
Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Many, many years ago someone asked me if I shipped Kaname and Yuuki from Vampire Knight and I answered with a…
Weekly Round-Up, 14-20 December 2022: Millennium Actress, Racial Profiling Investigation, and Ooku Live-Action Adaptation
AniFem Round-Up Revisiting the Popularity and Cultural Context of Vampire Knight Kennedy looks back at a gothic shoujo love triangle that borrowed from everything popular at the time,…
Revisiting the Popularity and Cultural Context of Vampire Knight
For better or for worse, there’s nothing quite like Vampire Knight out there. Revisiting the series today—about 15 years after its release—reveals not only a lot of its…
15 Romance Anime Series Where They Go From Friends to Lovers
While there is certainly something charming about two people falling in love at first sight, typically the best romances start with the characters
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Tamako Market, Adachi and Shimamura, Anonymous Noise, Lovely Complex
Episode 223 - Vampire Knight
This week, we are getting closer and closer to spoopy season! And what better way to get in the mood than by watching 5 episodes of 2008's totally-not-Twilight…
Shoujo Releases Week Of 7/5/22
Shoujo Releases Week Of 7/5/22 Shoujo Henshin shoujo, shojo, anime, manga, manga blog, anime blog
Super Lover’s
Super Lovers is a 2016 Boys Love Romantic Comedy anime series from the longtime Japanese animation studio, studio DEEN. While some newcomers may not recognize this studio by…
Super Lover’s
Super Lovers is a 2016 Boys Love Romantic Comedy anime series from the longtime Japanese animation studio, studio DEEN. While some newcomers may not recognize this studio by…
Top 5 Anime Valentine Episodes
With so many anime featuring a Valentine Episode it was hard to narrow down the list so pretty much I jut went with those episodes that left an…
Fruits Basket, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vampire Knight, Place to Place
Day 6 Doki Doki Days – Reverse Harems, an introduction
Welcome to yet another day of Doki Doki Days! It’s finally my, Star, turn to post, haha. This year, we decided to focus on reverse harems as a…
Top 5 Anime Vampires – Because Having Fangs Just Isn’t Enough
The list for my favourite anime vampires is kind of always under construction. Largely because I love vampires and also because every year we seem to get a…
Black Blood Brothers, Blood Lad, Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign, Shiki, Vampire Knight
15 Worst Romance Series of All Time
Any media, not just anime, tends to go a bit wonky when it comes to romance. While there are some grounded ones, the most interesting romances in anime…
Charlotte, Domestic Girlfriend, The Day I Became a God, Diabolik Lovers, Eromanga Sensei
Anime vampires: The cute, the steamy, the scary.
Look at those champers! There isn’t a dearth of vampires in anime. If anything, vampires have found a new lair for their un-dead hearts in the pages of…
Vanitas no Carte – 11 – Jean d’Ate
Armed with the notion that Vanitas will despise someone who professes their love for him, our favorite easily-flustered vampire knight decides to ask her blood buddy out on…
15 Anime Series Where a Girl is Protected By Handsome Guardians
In the reverse harem genre, there are not so many choices that you can establish a number of sub-genres, but there is this one common occurrence. You have…
The Twelve Kingdoms, Angelique, Brave 10, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom (2010)
20 Romance Anime Series Featuring Complicated Love Triangles
Love triangles are a staple in anime. You will find them in many shows even if the romance is but a drop in the bucket of the overall…
Your Lie in April, Blue Spring Ride, Domestic Girlfriend, Golden Time, White Album 2
20 Romance Anime Series Told From the Female Perspective
In romance anime, it takes two to make a couple, but there will almost always be a main character that takes the reigns of the story. Most commonly…
Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Ouran High School Host Club, Vampire Knight, Engaged to the Unidentified, Kamisama Kiss
Ao Haru Ride Pt. 2 (with Shojo Beat Senior Editor Nancy Thistlethwaite)
Covers volumes 8–13 of Ao Haru Ride by Io Sakisaka.One year after recording about the first half of Ao Haru Ride, we’re back on the bandwagon to talk…
Maison Ikkoku, My Love Story!!, Vampire Knight, We Were There, Blue Spring Ride
14 Blood-Pumping Vampire Romance Anime Series
Even if you are well out of your Anne Rice/Twilight phase, sometimes there is just something to be enjoyed about vampire romances. The vampire, as a creature, is…
Rosario + Vampire, Vampire Knight, Bakemonogatari, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Diabolik Lovers
Day 10 of Otakutober: It’s a Monster Mash!: Shoujo “monster” tropes
I bet you’ve looked at this title and wondered one thing: why is monster in quotations? Well my friends of the spook season, I’m about to tell you…
Twin Sins We’re Done With in Anime and Manga – As Decided by a Fraternal Twin
A million years ago, I wrote a post about my favorite fraternal twins in anime and manga because I could. Well, because I’m a fraternal twin myself and…
Naruto, Ouran High School Host Club, Trigun, Tsurune, Vampire Knight
Backlog Busting – Kamisama Kiss
I’m not entirely sure why on a blog called “The Backloggers” it’s taken us a good five years or so to get a post series going about chipping…
18 Dark Romance Anime Series That Shatter The Fairy Tale
There is nothing wrong with a good gushy romance, but few relationships ever go like that. Sometimes you just want something that hits a little harder. Perhaps you…
Mysterious Girlfriend X, Domestic Girlfriend, Elfen Lied, Flowers of Evil, Kemonozume
Anime Series Like Vampire Knight
Cross Academy is separated into two classes, the day class and the night class. The day class is filled with normal students while the night class is made…
Vampire Knight, Zombie-Loan, Blood+, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Diabolik Lovers
Review: A Whisker Away
What begins as a whimsical way to become nearer her crush turns into a deeper examination of hurt and character in A Whisker Away, the latest film from…
Ao Haru Ride Pt. 1 (with Shojo Beat Senior Editor Nancy Thistlethwaite)
Covers volumes 1–7 of Ao Haru Ride (aka Blue Spring Ride) by Io Sakisaka.Ao Haru Ride is the story of sweethearts Futaba and Kou after they were separated…
We Were There Part 2 (with Nancy from Shojo Beat)
Covers volumes 9-16 of We Were There by Yuki Obata Ultra super special guest Nancy Thistlethwaite, a senior editor for Viz Media’s Shojo Beat line, returns to do an…
Black Rose Alice (GN 1-3)
There are a lot of vampires in shoujo manga. This is just a simple fact. Poke around your local Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million and yo...
MeruPuri (with Loyola Rankin)
All four volumes of MERUPURI are discussed. Ashley and Loyola discuss a short manga from Matsuri Hino, the creator of Vampire Knight. It’s the first manga covered on the…
OtakuGeneration (Show #477) Summer Impressions
Shownotes :: (show 477) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Summer Impressions, recorded live July 27th, 2014. This week we finished…
Barakamon, DRAMAtical Murder, High School Girls, Mars, Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club!
OtakuGeneration (Show #476) Summer Impressions
Shownotes :: (show 476) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Summer Impressions, recorded live July 20th, 2014. This week we the…
Appleseed, Appleseed Alpha, Monster Rancher, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, ARGEVOLLEN
OtakuGeneration (Show #475) Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun
Shownotes :: (show 475) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Koroshiya-san: The Hired Gun, recorded live July 13th, 2014. This week…
The Severing Crime Edge, To Love Ru Darkness, Vampire Knight, Appleseed Alpha, Dear Brother
OtakuGeneration (Show #474) Hare+Guu
Shownotes :: (show 474) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Hare+Guu, recorded live July 6th, 2014. This week went back in…
Bleach, Dear Brother, Monster Rancher, The Severing Crime Edge, Vampire Knight
OtakuGeneration (Show #473) Ouran Host Club
Shownotes :: (show 473) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Ouran Host Club, recorded live June 29th, 2014. This week we…
Kill la Kill, Majestic Prince, Appleseed Alpha, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
2008: A Briton's Guide to Anime
@ IanWolf writes manga reviews and features for MyM Magazine , anime and manga reviews for Anime UK News , and a "Beginner's Guide to Ani...
Strike Witches, Black Butler, Bleach, Junjo Romantica, Rose of Versailles
OtakuGeneration :: (Show #328) Hayate the Combat Bulter
Shownotes :: (show 328) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Hayate the Combat Bulter, recorded live September 18th, 2011. This week we watched than discussed Hayate…
Katanagatari, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, Trigun, Vampire Knight
OtakuGeneration (Show #327) Thundercats
Shownotes :: (show 327) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Thundercats, recorded live September 11th, 2011. This week we chatted a little bit about the new…
OtakuGeneration (Show #326) Dr.Who
Shownotes :: (show 326) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Dr. Who, recorded live September 1st, 2011. This week we officially discussed Dr. Who! Yes, you…
Dragon Ball, Emma: A Victorian Romance, Black Blood Brothers, Burst Angel, Vampire Knight: Guilty
OtakuGeneration (Show #294) Winter Preview (part 2)
Shownotes :: (show 294) :: () :: () :: () :: () With the Winter Preview, recorded live January 24th, 2011. This week we watched more anime from…
Naruto: Shippuden, Pandora Hearts, Vampire Knight, Durarara!!, Gantz
OtakuGeneration (Show #293) Winter Preview (part 1)
Shownotes :: (show 293) :: () :: () :: () :: () With the Winter Preview, recorded live January 16th, 2011. This week we watched a bunch of…
Durarara!!, Gantz, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden
OtakuGeneration (Show #292) MAGFest
Shownotes :: (show 292) :: () :: () :: () :: () With MAGFest, recorded live January 12th, 2011. This week we talked with Nick from MAGFest, to…
Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Gravitation TV, Naruto, Naruto: Shippuden, Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom
Vampire Knight Guilty 2: King Kaname does what he likes
No time to watch silly cartoons means time to I be a little impatient. If at 2 episodes into a new series, I get bored to the point…
Vampire Knight G1: Vellcome Bakku
Vampire Knight Guilty First Night Sinners of fate There’s something about vampire knight that I can’t help but admire because despite the crappy animation, stale comedy, mellow drama…
Vampire Knight 13: A girly version of The Highlander?
A Sweet dream has not ended yet. Vampire Knight: The 13th NightA Deep red chain. Well as endings go that wasn’t quite the dropping of little boy on…
New titles - April 2007: NARUTO, BLEACH, Inuyasya
Next month lots of new volumes of popular manga will go on sale next month! For example, NARUTO #37, BLEACH #27, Eyeshield 21 #24, Ouran Hi...
Ouran High School Host Club, Rurouni Kenshin, Vampire Knight, Get Backers, Hanamaru Kindergarten