In Fear

Acid Star

                                              WHAT THE FUXORS!?!?

 So to start things off for this month of horror and weird let's start with Bakemonogatari. An anime that has come out over the summer of 2009 and has won a place my top 5 due to it's surrealism and originality. The story is very complex so it's kinda hard to describe it because there is so much behind the story making it as complex Death Note but I would consider that comparison a personal opinion.

 Bakemonogatari centers around Koyomi Araragi who was a Vampire but has been changed back to human due to his friends help Oshino a super badass who lives in a abandon school building who specializes in these things called Oddities and helps Araragi throughout the story. Even though changed back into a human he still has the power of a vampire to regenerate making you wonder how the author of the story is to put the story into good use in this somewhat normal school setting. In the first episode you meet the second antagonist Hitagi Senjōgahara falling down like 5 stories and Araragi manages to catch her and when he does he realizes her weight is close to nothing. Senjōgahara afterwards threatens him with a stapler and a knife which she sticks inside of his mouth to not tell anyone about her weightlessness. Even though threatened he decides to help her. Senjōgahara later becomes one of his close friends and is most of the time verbally abusing him with Wordplay's and Meta humor making her one of my favorite characters ever.

 The humor in it is great if you love to see people get verbally abused in a smart way. Some of the jokes are complicated and make a lot of references to the Japanese culture which is hard to understand at first but once you catch on and understand it is great.

 These so called Oddities are different after a series of 3-4 episodes 12 in all episodes right now. In each series they introduce a new heroine to add to the series each with very obscure problems of their own. All of these Oddities twist the story in so many ways you'll never lose interest.

  The animation is lushes I loved every little bit of it. The camera angles are just as strange as the anime as well as some of the animation. One of the angles that was always the strangest to me was the zooming in to one of the eyes which happens very often to express the look of the characters one eye. There are a lot of strange angles but it kept the anime more interesting and original.


 If your looking for a surreal anime this is one you just have to look into I loved every bit of it the series isn't complete yet there is supposedly 15 episodes coming out so far there are 12. Bakemonogatari has episode 13 premiering on the 28th of October and I simply cannot wait I saw the preview and it looks like its gonna be the most action packed episode yet. If you haven't watched it your really missing out.

 I love this amv the eerie tune just goes with the whole series this is a  must watch for a GITS fans!

Yeah sorry for not posting anything in the past 5days. I've been real busy watching a whole ton of anime xD and my eyes are about to MELT O.O. I will post our writers on Wednesday also a couple of reviews. Also I need from fresh air lol