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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 The main protagonist is Takumi Nishijou a very withdrawn and pretty delusional high school student.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 [...]

Chi an adorable little kitten is the star of Chi’s Sweet Home, an anime by Madhouse Studios which consists of eight very short episodes, each is only 5 minutes long.
Chi has been separated from his mother and is trying to find his way home, along the way a small boy finds him and a series [...]