While it may be the case that, for some of us, our anticipation of Halloween never really wanes, once the calendar flips to the month of October it finally feels reasonable to get hyped up over pum…
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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.…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 23: Dorohedoro
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 11: Backflip!! Episode 5
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 7: The Girl From the Other Side
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 16: School-Live!
As a long time anime fan, something I rarely experience is feeling “fooled” by something that I watch. There are certainly many anime with plot twists and turns,…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 13: Mars Red
I felt like it was about time for some more vampires, so I wanted to revisit an interesting series from a couple of years ago that I really…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 26: Blood-C
Hey look, it’s time for vampires again. Or is it? Over the years there have been a few different entries in the Blood franchise, which began in 2000 with Blood: The…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 21: Shadows House
When I started this month-long project, part of the reason I’d had the idea in the first place was because I wanted to call attention to some lesser-known,…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 6: Night World
I’ve heard it said that the dreams we have during the night are part of our brain’s way of processing the events of the day. It’s one of…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 29: Otherside Picnic
There are relatively few anime series that star adult characters, so when I find one I definitely take notice, even if the end product is somewhat uneven. Take…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 8: Hakaba Kitaro
We’ve gotten more than a week into this Halloween list without talking much about Yokai, so I figure it’s about time to remedy that. Yokai are a category…
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 15: The Lost Village
In most cases, I’m perfectly happy to chalk up a difference in opinion as such and not get too hot-headed about it. As an anime fan, I’ve seen…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 27: Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek
Mou ii kai? Mou ii yo. Thus begins a game of kakurenbo. When you’re part of a group for a long time, you get to see the culture of…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 5: Vampire in the Garden
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 24: Raven of the Inner Palace
I may have mentioned this, but over the last year my ability to keep up with new anime was severely disrupted due to health issues, so when it…
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 12: Came the Mirror & Other Tales
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 22: Ayakashi Samurai Horror Tales – Bakeneko
Because I’m standing on the cusp of returning to work after an extended leave-of-absence, I thought I’d take today to write about one of my favorite pieces of…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 31: Some You Already Probably Know
Well, somehow I managed to make it to the end of October having put up a post each day about some of my favorite obscure, and less-obscure spooky,…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 30: Some Shorts and One-Shots
Have you ever had a memory that you weren’t exactly sure was real? Recently, when I was coming up with the list of episodes and series to cover…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 18: Level-E Episode 4 “From the Darkness”
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 14: Lupin the Third (Part 4, Episode 8)
The fun of long-running entertainment franchises is that they occasionally enter a stage where they become more like anthologies – playgrounds where many different stories are told using…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 9: Help! I’ve Turned Into A Gengar
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 20: Shinsekai Yori (From the New World)
There are some anime each season that I watch, enjoy, and then mostly forget about after a few months. There are many fewer anime that I watch and…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 19: Golden Kamuy Episode 11 “Everybody, Get Together! It’s a Murder Hotel!”
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 3: Spriggan Episode 3 “The Forest of No Return”
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Interesting time for the backstory on this girl but no complaints.
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 25: Den-noh Coil Episode 9 “Miss Michiko From The Other Side”
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