Tag Archives: Anime

To some, Pacific Rim may be a long, silly, robots vs monsters movie, meant to be disposable popcorn fun. Even if you only came to watch the movie for that, there’s more to it than meets the eye. Director Guillermo del Toro (read our recent retrospective on another film of …

Gyo by Junji Ito is a truly terrifying display into the mind of the horror manga storyteller. Seeing the horrific images of the story in front of your eyes adds an extra layer of intensity for the reader, such as myself. I have been a fan of him a long …

In a time when everybody in America at least knows someone with Disney+, it’s becoming quite rare to find an individual unfamiliar with the story of the Beauty And The Beast. Many critics look at the original animated version to be the be-all, end-all telling of the story. Regardless, famed …

FUNIMATION and CRUNCHYROLL invite you to tune in to DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA – ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT ARC! The latest chapter in the popular anime series is streaming now on both platforms. Check out the trailer, then read on for the details! DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA – ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT …

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train heads to Blu-ray for the first time in December. It’s just one of several hot new Funimation releases slated for home video in December, 2021! Blu-ray and digital! Read on for the details! From The Funimation Press Release Culver City, California …

Did you spend your childhood’s Friday evenings watching Godzilla or Studio Ghibli VHS tapes, only to wake and watch Power Rangers the next morning during the cartoon block? Then Eric McEver’s (read our interview with him here) directorial debut, Iké Boys, would be a slam-dunk of a recommendation for you! Synopsis …

Funimation is partnering with Polygon Pictures for the film release of Knights of Sidonia: Love Woven in the Stars. The two companies are bringing the film to theaters in September! The film is based on the anime series and set a thousand years in the future. An alien race threatens …

We’ve been on the path of bringing you all a variety of all things horror. Through film festivals, screenings, conventions and other event coverage, our readers have all the action at their fingertips. Extending our coverage past what some might find as the norm for a horror site is both …

This whole month, I’ve been trying to watch horror anime that demonstrates the range of the medium. We’ve had emotional stories, thrillers and impossibly weird non-linear storytelling, and all of it fits into one subgenre of horror or another. One thing we’ve been missing, though, is a mind-peeling, hair-whitening, balls-through-the-wall …

In our last AniMay review, we focused on Naoki Urasawa‘s Monster (you can read the article here) and anime’s potential to step outside of itself and tell a straightforward horror/thriller story. This week, we’re stepping back into anime’s wheelhouse with a story about one of the most persistent tropes in …