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High School Royale

12Jul20102120

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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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Durarara!!

26Jun20102015

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One cri­ti­cism that could never be lev­elled at Bac­cano! was that it was unori­ginal. So too can this be applied to Dur­arara!! which defies its lacklustre pre­de­cessor by going full bore for a mod­ern thriller with super­nat­ural over­tones, eking out some social com­ment­ary along the way. Fea­tur­ing an expans­ive cast and set […]

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Bygones: Boogiepop Phantom

02Jun20102300

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First released: Janu­ary 2000
Boo­giepop Phantom is a series which imme­di­ately makes one won­der whether their tele­vi­sion is func­tion­ing cor­rectly. Shortly after the mel­an­choly open­ing it adds the speak­ers to that list. By the end of the first epis­ode it adds the viewer’s brain. It is a rev­erie of mad­ness, murder, altered states and […]

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Bygones: Shigurui (Death Frenzy)

08Apr20102300

First released: July 2007
The open­ing moments of Shig­uri are divis­ive: after a mont­age of linger­ing, abstract motions, a retainer pros­trates him­self before his lord and, in slick, gory detail, fatally offers his intest­ines up to enforce the sever­ity of his request. What fol­lows in the suc­ceed­ing epis­odes is often har­row­ing, fre­quently disgusting, […]

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Aoi Bungaku (Blue Literature)

07Jan20102300

The first story of Aoi Bungaku, No Longer Human, is covered in a soft, often wintry mist that per­meates through to the character’s unsur­pris­ing end. The remain­ing five stor­ies how­ever are vividly real­ised, vary­ing between sharp real­ity and kal­eido­scopic dream­s­capes; each con­veys the vagar­ies of human­ity with poignancy and skill. So too […]

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