A new semester beings at Yokai Academy! Rosario + Vampire Season 2 starts over from the beginning with Tsukune meeting a new vampire (The driver of many of the season’s conflicts) the same way he met Moko in the first season. The story for season 2 is almost a completely fresh start. There are a …
Category: Understanding Anime
It is All About the Hair: The Color of Purity
White is the purest of colors. White haired characters have an aura of strangeness and other-worldliness. Their purity isn’t associated with cuteness or moe. Cute is the color of Yellow, Pink, and Orange. White is the color of the the spiritual who lack any connect to the physical world. These colors reject everything because white…
The Historical Origin of Panty Fan Service
Up-skirt shots dominate good portions of anime. This fan service is used for comedic effect and, of course, titillation. Have you ever wondered where this odd fixation originated? Well, it turns out that the West is primarily the reason why Japan has a panty obsession. It is also fairly new. It started in the Meiji…
It is All About the Hair: The Color of Royalty
It all started with clams. At the dawn of civilization, they were harvested for their purple dye. Supposedly one clam only had a single drop of dye. Anime has certainly killed many clams! Purple hair characters are a mix of red head and blue personalities. They are noble and have a deeper understanding of purpose…
It is All About the Hair: Water and Sky
Blue is a complicated character color. There are 2 main shades of blue: ultramarine and “true blue” cyan. Both shades are associated with wisdom and knowledge. Blue heads have different piles: ultramarine is the color of water while cyan is the color of the sky. The personalities also reflect the poles. Ultramarine Characters of this…
El Cazador de la Bruja
I stumbled across El Cazador de la Bruja late one night while perusing Netflix. The description sounded interesting despite only rating 2.5 stars. I was nicely surprised! El Cazador de la Bruja is said to be the spiritual successor of Noir and Madlax. Since I haven’t watched either anime yet, I have to take the…