The Dark Herald gives us the background of Rumiko Takahashi and discusses her Urusei Yatsura series, and the anime remake from 2022. A few years ago, Emilia Clarke was making a backdoor pitch for a superheroine movie by means of a comic book that she claimed she had written. She hadn’t and the project was […]
Anime Reviews
The Dark Herald Recommends Spy X Family: Code White
The Dark Herald Recommends: Spy X Family – Code White I have made no secret of my fondness for the anime series Spy X Family. A TV show that is at its heart about some lonely and broken if hypercompetent people forming a makeshift family works for me on just about every level. If you […]
The Dark Herald Recommends: Zom 100
The first book in Zom 100 is technically a zombie story, and I’m not typically a zombie fan, but in this case, it managed to work. I don’t like victim horror, and zombie fiction leans heavily into that. There also tends to be a very strong nihilistic bent to it. I might perk up my ears […]
RE:Animation – My Happy Marriage
The story of the My Happy Marriage anime started life on the Japanese version of Wattpad and then got published as a light novel. A light novel is an illustrated novella meant for the young adult market. It got turned into a very successful manga and then anime. There’s even a live-action version of it […]
The Dark Herald Recommends – Spy X Family Manga
The Spy x Family anime on Crunchyroll has been met with high praise from fans, and the manga, as usual, is even better as it demonstrates one of the Greek tenants of family love, Storge, which refers to familial love. I used to be a believer in writers setting up estates to protect their life’s […]
‘Goblin Slayer’ Anime Returns To Crunchyroll in Slower-Paced Second Season With Less Goblin Slaying
Controversial Japanese anime series Goblin Slayer has returned for its second season, bringing the eponymous sullen hero and his ragtag band of companions back to the small screen. Goblin Slayer, also known as Orcbolg and “Beardcutter,” remains comically single-minded in his quest to rid of the world of the little green monsters. However, he faces […]
