High School of the Dead recently began air­ing and has brought the irre­press­ible zom­bie to a media which has pecu­li­arly ignored their arche­types in favour of more cul­tur­ally rel­ev­ant afflic­tions such as demonic pos­ses­sion and the like. Based on the manga of the same name, in only two epis­odes the series has shown a remarkably […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• battle,
• battle royale,
• commentary,
• dawn of the dead,
• death,
• friends,
• george a romero,
• george romero,
• gore,
• hell,
• high school,
• high school of the dead,
• highschool of the dead,
• message,
• meta,
• murder,
• royale,
• vampire,
• zombie,
• zombies

Some­thing hap­pens at epis­ode seven of Sora no Woto: what seemed like a pla­cid mon­grel dog sud­denly bared its teeth. Brief and unex­pec­ted, it gives the animal a pres­ence it hid so well pre­vi­ously. Rarely does it show them again and in the series’ brief run of twelve epis­odes the dog remains […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• battle,
• cosmopolitan,
• felicia,
• german,
• kanata,
• kureha,
• multipedal,
• noel,
• review,
• rio,
• sora no woto,
• sound of the skies,
• tank,
• town,
• war

Leav­ing little to the ima­gin­a­tion, Baka to Test to Shokanju fea­tures pre­cisely what the title spe­cifies. The first three epis­odes are a grab bag of dif­fer­ent influ­ences that run the gamut from the quick fire rowdi­ness of Excel Saga to the fantasy-high school blend of Maburaho, suc­cess­fully mix­ing them all into a […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• akihisa,
• Anime,
• baka,
• baka to test to shokanju,
• battle,
• contest,
• idiot,
• minami,
• mizuki,
• review,
• school,
• summoned beasts,
• tests,
• yuji