I was down with the flu and I was curled up in my room, looking for something cozy to watch. Flipping through my collection, I suddenly remembered the My Neighbor Totoro DVD I had received as a gift a while back. Needless to say, I popped it into my player, sat back and had [...]
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Review: Pet Shop of Horrors
January 25th, 2011 
mouseycou Title: Pet Shop of Horrors, Japanese Title: ??????? ?? ????, Category: TV, Total Episodes: 4 (4 x 25mins), Release Date: 1999-03-01 Description:This anime adaptation based on the classic works of Akino Matsuri provides the viewer with 4 short stories based around the customers of Count D’s Petshop. From the outside one might assume that this petshop in china town is nothing [...]
Posted in Drama, Horror, Magic, Mystery, Pet Shop of Horrors, Psychological, Supernatural 
Tags: China Town, Exotic Animals, Matsuri, Pet Shop, Rare Animals, Strange Creatures 
No Comments »Rental Magica Anime Review
December 30th, 2010 Miki Rental Magica (???????, Rentaru Magika Itsuki Iba, the newly appointed president of Astral. Astral is a company that dispatches magicians to perform jobs involving supernatural phenomena. We see Itsuki’s interactions with his employees and Astral’s competitors throughout the series. We meet these characters who are performing jobs while trying to keep from being disbanded. The [...]
Posted in Anime Reviews, Fantasy, Magic, Rental Magica, Supernatural Tags: Childhood Experience, Inexperience, Itsuki, Magic Users, Magicians, Rival Company No Comments »Natsume Yuujinchou
December 23rd, 2010 trzr23 “So, you can see youkai huh?” Natsume Yuujinchou follows Natsume, a high school student and his encounters with youkai. Youkai are basically ghosts, but not the kind you see in kids’ cartoons or horror movies – they are just funky looking monsters that are invisible to most humans. Once a [...]
Posted in Action, Adventure, Anime, Anime Reviews, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Genre, Magic, Mystery, Psychological, School, Seinen, Shounen, Slice of Life, Supernatural Tags: Charming Fashion, Demon Cat, Episodic Format, Kids Cartoons, Kinos Journey, Slapstick Comedy No Comments »Review: Mai HiME
December 20th, 2010 mouseycou Title: Mai HiME, Japanese Title: ?-HiME, Category: TV, Total Episodes: 26 (26 x 24 mins), Release Date: 2004-09-30 Description:In the land of Fuuka there is a private school, many students attend this school not knowing what terrible secrets the school holds. The land of Fuuka is the ancient grounds of an old ritual which repeats once every century, 10 [...]
Posted in Action, Comedy, Drama, Magic, Mai HiME, Military, Psychological, Romance, School, Super Power Tags: equipment, Highly-Advanced, Mai Hime, Materializing, Shiho No Comments »Shounen Onmyoji
December 11th, 2010 Miki Sh?nen Onmy?ji (????? ) The series, set in the Heian era, Abe no Masahiro is the grandson of the great onmy?ji, Abe no Seimei. Masahiro who has lost his sixth sense and the ability to see spirits constantly feels resentful for being in his grandfather’s shadow. He should have the [...]
Posted in Action, Adventure, Historical, Magic, Shounen Onmyouji, Super Power, Supernatural Tags: Abe No Seimei, Heian Era, Masahiro, Princess Akiko, Shikigami, True Successor No Comments »Kaze no Stigma
December 11th, 2010 Miki Kaze no Stigma (???????) (Stigma of the Wind) or Kaze no Seikon (????) Kazuma Kannagi was considered useless within his family because he could not use Enjutsu (??, Blaze Technique), the power to control flames. He was banished from the family by his father after being defeated by Ayano during the successor ceremony for Enraiha, [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Kaze no Stigma, Magic, Mystery, Romance, Super Power Tags: Elemental Power, King Thanks, Skilled Master, Spirit King, Wind Spirit, Wind Spirits No Comments »Full Moon o Sagashite
November 22nd, 2010 Miki Full Moon o Sagashite (??????? Furu M?n o Sagashite?, literally “Searching for the Full Moon”) April 06, 2002 – March 29, 2003 Episodes 52 and 7 volumes of manga Was produced by Viz Media. 12-year-old Mitsuki Koyama is a talented singer who dreams of becoming a pop idol, but she is afflicted withsarcoma, which is [...]
Posted in Comedy, Drama, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Kids, Magic, Romance Tags: April March, Full Moon O Sagashite, Furu, Great Adventures, Shinigami, Vocal Cords 1 Comment »Origin: Spirits of the Past
November 19th, 2010 Pandorajean 90 Minutes, Director: Keiichi Sugiyama, Producer: Koji Kajita, Music Composer: Taka Iwasaki It’s your classic post apocalyptic love story. Boy wakes girl from cryosleep, girl realizes she has the power to destroy the world as he knows it and runs away, boy fights off all the bad guys to save the damsel in distress who [...]
Posted in Action, Adventure, Anime, Drama, Fantasy, Genre, Magic, Origin, Super Power Tags: Alterior Motive, Apocalyptic World, Damsel In Distress, Forest Scenes, Girl Down, Magic Type No Comments »Review: Shugo Chara
November 16th, 2010 mouseycou Title: Shugo Chara!, Japanese Title: ??????!, Official Site: http://shugo-chara.com/ , Category: TV, Total Episodes: 51 (51 X 24mins), Release Date: 2007-10-06 Description: Sequals: Shugo Chara!! Doki, Shugo Chara! Party! Amu is a “Cool and Spicy” middle school student, or at least that’s what her classmates believe. On transferring to the school in her nervousness Amu didn’t know what to say as [...]
Posted in Action, Anime, Anime Reviews, Comedy, Kids, Magic, Romance, School, Shugo Chara, Super Power Tags: Classmates, Cute Series, Cute Things, Ghost Stories, Guardian Spirit, Sporty Girl No Comments »
