Category Archives: Anime and Cartoons
Anime Review: Parallel World Pharmacy
Wait, a pharmacy isekai anime that has some actual plot?! The first anime like that I encountered completely failed to pass my one-episode rule. The second had a contrived plot in which the pharmacy was ultimately irrelevant. This is the third one … Continue reading
Anime Review: Bucchigire!
The English translation of the title is, “Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys.” Somehow, I have difficulty taking that title seriously, so I still think of it as Bucchigire. It’s an alternate history that puts a rather fantastic twist on the famed … Continue reading
The Charming Little Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
With a title like this, one might expect an overwhelming comedy, maybe something like the anime version of Three Men and a Baby, where hilarious hijinks ensue as the big, tough men have to learn to adapt to the task of … Continue reading
Why Killing Bites Infuriates Me
With a great deal of money, influence, and access to highly advanced science, a quartet of corporations have mastered the ability to splice human DNA with that of animals. With this amazing technology, they turn people into therianthropes, as they … Continue reading
Black Butler: The Book of Eternal Tragedies
In Victorian England, a young boy named Ciel Phantomhive seeks to avenge himself and his murdered parents, even selling his soul to a demon in order to achieve that end. This demon must do everything Ciel orders him to do, … Continue reading
The Incomplete Mieruko-chan
Of all the anime to not yet have some sort of upcoming second season! Especially after that ending! Mieruko-chan is a horror and a comedy as it follows the ordeals of a young Japanese girl named Miko. Which, if I … Continue reading
Wasted Potential: The Vampire Dies in No Time
The Vampire Dies in No Time is a satire and a comedy. With only a dozen episodes, it’s only one season long, and it starts out strong and fairly witty in its hilarity, but fails to keep that up even to … Continue reading
Anime Review: Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
Translation is a tricky business. The same Japanese phrase could mean “don’t tease me,” or “don’t mess with me,” but they went with “don’t toy with me.” Maybe because Takagi’s show already had a girl “teasing” her guy, and there’s … Continue reading
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