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CHAOS;HEAD is gradually becoming stranger by the week. Madhouse seem to really love making shows this season with mixed realities. The animation quality was much the same as the first episode, personally I’m still not a huge fan of the character designs but I am intrigued enough by the whole premise of this show to [...]

Shikabane Hime is really turning into a ‘monster of the week series’ but at least gradually more information is being revealed as to the bigger picture and the direction this series may be taking. The animation production is starting to waver at times but the action sequences are still well done and I personally like [...]

Mouryou no Hako appears to be even more of a Pandora’s box of strange questions than I initially anticipated, with at the moment very few answers being revealed. The animation production is still very good but at times the medium shots can suffer from not flowing properly but the creepy ambiance continued within this second [...]

The plot of Kurozuka from Madhouse studios delves even deeper into the dark side with the second episode. This historical vampire romance is fast becoming a highlight of my week, the animation is superb it’s easily the best action series and although it is extremely confusing, we tend to jump around time lines a lot, [...]

Kurozuka is another offering from Madhouse studios this fall season based on the manga by Baku Yumemakura and directed by Tetsuro Araki who also brought us Death Note. The OP is very reminiscent of the directors previous work with stunning visuals in a kaleidoscope of colours and a thrashing Death metal track in the background [...]

Mouryou no Hako is a supernatural horror mystery series by Madhouse Studios, with character designs by CLAMP and adapted from the novels by Natsuhiko Kyougoku. Set in 1950′s Japan the series revolves around a string of particularly gruesome murders, where school girls are being dismembered and put in boxes. The OP “Lost in Blue” and [...]

Shikabane Hime Aka started with a bit of a bang this week or at least with an OP sequence that was actually surprisingly good, I really loved the song “Beautiful fighter” by Angela it went extremely well with the OP animation, with some nice GAINAX action going on as well. The ED which I didn’t [...]

CHAOS;HEAD based on the psychological horror game by Nitroplus from Madhouse Studios. The main protagonist is Takumi Nishijou a very withdrawn and pretty delusional high school student. Within his town there appears to be a sadistic serial killer on the loose with the victims being mutilated in a progressively more gruesome fashion. While chatting online [...]

Shikabane Hime Aka is an action, horror title from Gainax based on the manga by Yoshiichi Akahito, about a corpse princess Makina Hosimura who battles the undead with the help of her pair of trusty sub machine guns. Makina must kill 108 shikabane (corpses) to be allowed to finally go to heaven. She currently has [...]

Mnemosyne is a 6 episode supernatural Horror/Thriller series from Xebec. I will first say it is pretty graphic, with scenes of torture, experimentation, nudity and sexual content. You have been warned this isn’t a series for the faint of heart, if you are in any way squeamish don’t watch it. Mnemosyne is named after the [...]

The Eye is a remake of the Hong Kong Psychological Horror Jian Gui but of course with the added Hollywood gloss of Jessica Alba. This time around the story is directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud. Sydney Wells was blinded in an accident at 5 years of age, after having one failed cornea transplant [...]

The Orphanage (El Orfanato) is a Mexican psychological Horror/ Thriller Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Let me begin by saying I personally adore Spanish/Mexican Horror, I believe they do the whole psychological aspect as well as the best Asian cinema, but with a little fairy tale flare added to the mix. So when I heard [...]