Do you ever feel that your life is spiraling out of control? Like things are just swirling downwards into an endless pit of despair towards a void of horror? Well, spare a thought for the citizens of the small town of Kurouzu. It appears that quite a few of the townsfolk are falling victim to… Read More First Impression: Uzumaki
Welcome to hell—I mean, NewTubu! Here, streamers with demonic faces and low morals reign supreme, caught in a neverending loop of easy cash, cheap popularity, and bulldozing the lives of others. After a compilation-style video anticipates the key moments of the episode you’re about to watch, a bloodstained opening theme shows us the face of… Read More First Impression: Viral Hit
Is Makima a friend or foe? Readers of the manga know, but the anime has done a great job adapting the original in making her seem a little (a lot?) off, showing how dangerous she is, giving plenty of hints of her being unhinged, showing the awful violence of her power, and overall helping us… Read More Fanart Friday: Menacing Makima
There are some PRODIGIOUSLY strange goings on around the old housing complex in the seaside village of Kurosaki. The old folks in the run-down apartment building seem to live out their lives complaining about the heat and doting on nine-year-old Kimi, a young girl whose bubbly personality has charmed the old residents. During a journey… Read More First Impression: Housing Complex C
What does it mean to truly arise from the tomb, from everything the tomb implies? That is, death not only (only!) of the body, but of certainties, of hopes, big and small, of innocence, virtue and long-sustained efforts, of wisdom, of connections, of memories, of meaning, of the past and the future, of the entire… Read More Holy Week 2021 [Arise]: Arising from Angel’s Egg Deluge
Hello dear readers, and welcome to a special edition of Otaku Reader’s Corner as we delve into works that are atypical for us—those involving horror or at the least, some ghoulish elements. So even if you’re stuck at home this Halloween, even if a certain Peanuts holiday special has joined the others off broadcast TV,… Read More Otaku Reader’s Corner: Great Pumpkin Edition
Where did it all go wrong? As the events of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (When They Cry) reset again and again to square one, like an inadvertent Goundhog Day, protagonist Keiichi Mabara repeatedly asks himself this question. Caught in a murder spree of some sort or another, with a different friend of his group involved… Read More Higurashi, Lent and the Martyrs
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