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Animating Halloween | Hellsing Review
Rating: 7/10 Plot: Hellsing is an organization meant to protect the citizens of England and her queen from the vampiric threats that plague the land. While the soldiers…
Animating Halloween | Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! Review
Plot: The Scooby gang enjoys Halloween while doing what they do best – solving mysteries. However, things get a little complicated when a local pumpkin patch turns into…
Animating Halloween: The Addams Family (2019) Review
Rating: 7.5/10 Plot: They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky – The Addams Family! *snap snap* Breakdown: The Addams’ Family has always been a…
Animating Halloween: The Proud Family – A Hero for Halloween Review
Plot: Penny begrudgingly partakes in Halloween as Snack Girl when her parents (taking the roles of Snack Man and Snack Woman) force her into it. She believes Halloween…
Animating Halloween: Hey Arnold! Arnold’s Halloween
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Animating Halloween 2020 Update
Hey persons of the blog reading variety! October is coming up very soon, which means another round of Animating Halloween is just around the corner. I’m very excited…
Animating Halloween | Kim Possible: October 31st Review
Plot: Kim wants to go to Monique’s Halloween party, especially considering her crush, Josh Mankey, will be there, but she ends up creating a web of lies while…
Animating Halloween | Corpse Party: Tortured Souls Review
Rating: 5.5/10 Plot: Nine people from Kisaragi Academy High School perform a friendship ritual on a dark and stormy night since one of their friends, Mayu, is moving…
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Animating Halloween | Mickey Mouse: Lonesome Ghosts (1937) Review
Plot: Mickey, Donald and Goofy have created a ghost-hunting business and their newest ‘clients’ happen to be a group of bored ghosts looking for some fun scares. Breakdown:…
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Animating Halloween: Fancy Nancy – Nancy’s Costume Clash/Nancy’s Ghostly Halloween
Plot: Fancy Nancy celebrates Halloween! Breakdown: *thunderclap* On the darkest of nights, as Halloween approaches, the spirits of the underworld start seeping into our realm. Screams in the…
Spiraken Mini Movie Review: Hubie Halloween
In this Halloween themed mini movie review, Xan and Gretta review the new Happy Madison film. So grab your thermos and enjoy as they review Hubie Halloween directed…
Animating Halloween | Episode One-Derland: Jujutsu Kaisen
Plot: The world is riddled in curses – demon-like creatures that consume humans and other curses in order to become stronger. They’re usually invisible to the human eye,…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 7 – Liar Review
Plot: The new kid in town, Atsushi, seems like a great guy. He’s good at sports, the girls love him and he’s even spending his free time taking…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 8 – Neighbor Review
Plot: Mioi adores her dog, Momo, but her neighbor, Shintani, isn’t nearly as fond of him. Breakdown: Aurghghghghghghghghghg….. The next episode preview for this one started with “So…
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Animating Halloween: Hell Girl – Three Vessels Episode 3: Rotten Fruit Review
Plot: Yuzuki and Akie save pop idol and actress Jun Moriyama from a creepy pervert. As a reward, Jun invites them to dinner. Along the way, they meet…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 11 – Blotted Page Review
Plot: Kamisaka has recently found a surge of popularity in his novel, Skyscraper’s Shadow, but not for good reasons. People are connecting the story in his book to…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 9 – Stray Inari Review
Plot: Kaede Inao was a girl everyone overlooked until she took up the art of fortune-telling, claiming she was guided by a mystical fox called Gon-san. One day,…
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Animating Halloween: Hell Girl – Three Vessels Episode 4: Elder Brother Review
Plot: Yuzuki’s classmate, Yukawa, is constantly beaten and bullied by a group of three terrible boys. He resigns himself to this fate, however, because it’s been like this…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 6 – My Teacher Review
Plot: The hell team is shocked when someone puts in a request to have Ren sent to hell! Who’s doing this, and why? Breakdown: Hey, do you guys…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 10 – The Goldfish in the Mirror Review
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Animating Halloween (Finale) | Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 12 – Midsummer Graph Review
Plot: Nobuo Nomura is an aspiring mangaka who spends his days getting irritated by pretty much everyone around him. It’s gotten so bad that he’s created a graph…
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Animating Halloween 2020 Close-Out + 1000 Posts! + Other Updates
With the rise of the sun in November’s first dawn, we close out this year’s Animating Halloween. I hope you all had some ~spooky~ fun with it. I…
Halloween movie special: Summer Of Demon (1981) review
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Halloween Watchlist (Countdown to Halloween)
Ok so it’s October 31st and you’ve been meaning to put together that ultimate Halloween anime watchlist in order to impress all your friends, family and attractive acquaintances…
Bippity Boppity Boo! Anime Witches that are Just Too Cute!
There certainly isn’t any lack of witches in anime that are brooding, dark, intimidating, or just plain scary. Much like their Western counterparts, anime witches like Robin from…
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Rewatching an Obscure Winnie the Pooh Movie for the First Time in TWENTY YEARS
How long did they have Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin on Disney+?! I remember obsessively renting it from Blockbuster, which is a now-defunct shop where…
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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Animating Halloween: Hell Girl – Three Vessels Episode 2: Caged Bird
Plot: Yuzuki’s friend, Akira, struggles with using Hell Girl to get rid of a man who is abusing his wife – a woman Akira has developed feelings for.…
Animating Halloween – Hell Girl: Three Vessels Episode 1 – The Girl Who Was Taken
Plot: Yuzuki Mikage is dragged into Hell Girl’s world when Ai suddenly reappears and establishes a link with the girl. Why is Ai back in the land of…
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Animating Halloween | Hell Girl – Three Vessels Episode 5: This Mundane World
Plot: After a very kind teacher at Yuzuki’s school, Niiyama, has a harmless run-in with her student, Ririka, she finds herself in hot water as Ririka’s bull-headed grandmother…
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Countdown to Halloween
This is my fourth year writing a Countdown to Halloween post. Does it officially count as a tradition now? I say yay! And we got to celebrate and…
Finding You, a Filipino Movie Review
Other than watching the typical foreign shows & animes, I decided to check out Filipino content on Netflix. One of the movie that caught my eye was Finding You.
Burn the Witch – Countdown to Halloween
Another Halloween themed anime to get you in the mood for pumpkins and ghouls and witches! Today, we're taking a look at Burn the Witch.
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Countdown to Halloween 2021!
It back again! Time for this year's Countdown to Halloween! Come one and all, there's plenty of treats and just a few tricks to go around! %
Countdown to Halloween 2022!
It back again! Time for this year's Countdown to Halloween! Come one and all, there's plenty of treats and just a few tricks to go around! %
Review: Too Cool to Kill (2022)
Too Cool to Kill 这个杀手不太冷静 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 109 mins. Director: Xing Wenxiong 邢文雄. Rating: 5/10. Loose adaptation of Japanese comedy The Magic Hour is Ma Hua…
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Episode 280, "Boo Box"
On this terror-filled episode of the One Piece Podcast, Ed and Steve try and cope with the horror of having no new anime episode recap by bringing on…
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Episode 280, "Boo Box"
On this terror-filled episode of the One Piece Podcast, Ed and Steve try and cope with the horror of having no new anime episode recap by bringing on…
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The Movie That Will Break You
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The Best Anime to Watch on Halloween
A list of some of my favorite anime to watch on Halloween Vampire Hunter D, Call Me Tonight, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Paranoia Agent, Curse of Kazuo Umezu, Pet Shop…
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Halloween 2021 Review (Yamishibai)
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Weathering With You Anime Movie Review – Guest Post
Is Weathering With You another Makoto Shinkai masterpiece? After the great success of Your Name, can this film meet such high expectations?
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Movie Review: You Name (君の名は)
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This is a review of Fragtime from its premiere at Anime NYC on Saturday, November 16th 2019.