Author: Owen Park

He dies screaming, wakes up smiling, and does it again so his friends never have to. That is the Subaru anime in one brutal sentence, and once it sinks its teeth in, it does...

The Horimiya anime does the one thing almost every high school romance is too scared to try: it lets the couple actually get together, and then keeps going. No 50 episodes of stolen glances...

Imagine murdering a girl, chopping her into pieces, and then watching her walk into class the next morning like absolutely nothing happened. That is the nightmare the Tomie manga hands you in its very...

Picture an anime so gorgeous and so stubbornly hand-drawn that finishing it almost destroyed the studio behind it. That is the redline anime in a nutshell, a 2009 racing movie from Madhouse that burned...

She started as the girl who cried in the road while the boy she loved walked away, and she ended as a shinobi who punches craters into the earth and keeps an entire army...

A grinning tavern kid who runs a bar on a giant pig turns out to be a thousands-year-old demon prince who can flatten a battlefield. That is the exact moment most of us fell...

Picture a doomed robot city collapsing in slow motion while Ray Charles croons a love song over the wreckage. That single scene is why the Metropolis anime has quietly wrecked fans for over twenty...

A man bites down on a katana, holds one blade in each hand, and calmly tells the strongest swordsman alive that he will never lose again while blood pours down his chest. That single...

A blank-eyed 13-year-old girl begs a bandaged serial killer to murder her, and he says yes, but only on one condition. That is the opening handshake of the angel of death anime, and trust...

Something falls from the sky, crawls into a sleeping person’s ear, and eats their brain from the inside. That is the first thing the Parasyte anime shows you, and it never lets your guard...