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, older, and potentially out-of-print…
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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…
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.…
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 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 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…
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 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 10: Hyouka Episode 7
For many years I was kind of the de-facto anime provider for the anime club I attend. Mostly this was because I had been maintaining a version of…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 11: Backflip!! Episode 5
I always tell people that I’m a fan of sports anime, but that comes with the caveat that I’m extremely picky about the sports anime that I actually…
Shadows House Season 2
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It’s Spooky Season! – Day 1: Healer Girl Episode 10
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…
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 2 – Wasurenagumo (Li’l Spider Girl)
A few days ago I was doing some chores, and as I was unloading some laundry from the dryer I happened to notice a bit of movement out…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 5: Vampire in the Garden
I feel like I’m starting to get into the groove with parenting my baby (now that I’ve said that, he’s going to start crawling and none of this…
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…
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 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 12: Came the Mirror & Other Tales
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…
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…
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…
Shadows House 2nd Season (Anime Review)
Welcome to Anime Rants! Today, we have a short review of the second season of Shadows House, which aired in 2022. I truly enjoyed the first season so…
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Hello and welcome back to Otaku Thursday! You know, this season had a surprising amount of second seasons for shows. There were some seconds seasons from new stuff,…
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 7: The Girl From the Other Side
We human beings consider ourselves to be intellectually and culturally advanced. We’ve conquered the world and wield technology and innovation the likes of which would be unimaginable to…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 9: Help! I’ve Turned Into A Gengar
I’ve never been much of a Pokémon fan. I played the first-gen game when it was released in the US (as well as about three weeks worth of…
Shadows House Review
“I am a Shadow, the true se-“. Wait, this isn’t Persona? But they look exactly like each other, just like a darker reflection of themselves. How is this…
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 4: Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation
When I think of Halloween, I don’t always immediately think of music. While Christmas has its share of iconic carols, Halloween’s contributions to the musical canon are somewhat…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 18: Level-E Episode 4 “From the Darkness”
While Halloween is typically thought of as a holiday revolving around spooky and scary things, I find that I have a lot more fun when there’s some spooky…
Weekly Digest 4/25/21 – Shadows House, Shakunetsu Kabaddi
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 9: SHADOWS HOUSE
Of the myriad of shows I watched this past year, only a few stand out as particularly unique–one of them is SHADOWS HOUSE. Everything from Emilico’s narrative to…
Weekly Digest 8/13/21 – Soredemo Ayumu wa Yosetekuru, Shadows House 2nd Season
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Shadows House Episode 11: Shadows League
When we last left our main pair Emilico wasn’t her usual self. What could have happened?
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 19: Golden Kamuy Episode 11 “Everybody, Get Together! It’s a Murder Hotel!”
I’m sure this goes for most fans of any type of media, but it’s a fact that there are certain anime series that I really enjoy that I…
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 3: Spriggan Episode 3 “The Forest of No Return”
So apparently there was a new “Indiana Jones” film released this Summer. My life’s been a bit hectic the last couple of months, so though I had some…
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“Shadows House” has had an incredibly engaging introduction.
SHADOWS HOUSE – Episode 1
Here we have a series that hits pretty much every one of my buttons: an anime steeped in gothic aesthetics, themes about identity and perception, visual design that…
First Impressions – Shadows House
If I was looking to have the mystery around this series resolved after one ep, that certainly didn't happen. Read more
Shadows House GN 1
Anime viewers may get a lot more out of this introductory volume of the manga that inspired it, because if you're armed with a bit more knowledge, the…
First Look: Shadows House
High atop a cliff sits the mansion known as Shadows House, home to a faceless clan that pretends to live like nobles. They express their emotions through living…
Second Impressions – Shadows House
Most seasons have at least one series that I find myself wanting to like more than actually liking. Read more
Shadows House – Episode 1
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Shadows House is a gothic, fantasy anime about a mansion filled with "living dolls" serving masters made of shadow and soot.
Shadows House 2.3: Scorchbusters!
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In a giant mansion up in the mountains, a girl and four other children meet up with the residents of the building. These enigmatic, shadow-like nobles offer them…
Shadows House Episode 10: Shadows Garden Finale
At last we reached the conclusion of the Debut Arc. Did it end with a bang? Let’s find out.
Shadows House 2.2: Past and Present Shadows
Looks like Emilico wouldn’t be in the background all season. That’s good.
Shadows House Episode 8: Shadows Labyrinth Part 3
The Dolls’ quest to rescue their Shadow Masters and pass the debut continued still.