Take Inuyasha and cross it with a horny 13 year old’s dreams and you get Omamori Himari. I will go ahead with the disclaimer: this anime is full of anime nudity and sexual comedy mainly at the protagonist’s expense. It can be classified as harem or nearly echii. Wikipedia has the series labeled as shonen…
The World Only God Knows
Online Keima Katsuragi is known as the God of Conquest. No girl can refuse him. In reality he is an intelligent gamer geek who cannot function in meatspace and spends his time playing dating sims. Game and reality collide when he replies to an email challenging the God of Conquest to conqueror the unconquerable girls….
Vampire Hunter D
Vampire Hunter D is what Twilight could have been. It wasn’t the best anime, but not terrible either. The future is a Wild West wasteland a la Cowboy Bebop but with a Victorian Goth twist to the decor. Humans have almost made vampires extinct or flee the planet on rockets. A few half-human, half-vampire hunters…
Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman
When I first came across Carved: The Slit Mouthed Woman I genuinely thought it would be scary. Just before watching it I felt that it’s either going to be really scary or really stupid. It turned out I was wrong on all counts. But let me back up a moment. Carved is about a mysterious…
Grotesque
Grotesque. Well, I can say at least two good things about this movie. Three things actually. The title is not misleading at all. You are told you will see something grotesque and it certainly delivers. On more than one level actually but more on that later. The second thing I can say is that it…
Okami
Okami is currently my favorite video game. I don’t mean to sound fickle, I’m not. Okami has been at the top of my list for almost two years, for a few reasons. #1. I am a graphic oriented person. I like pretty pictures and Okami happens to have stunning graphics. The world is artistically rendered…