Review of Is This A Zombie?

Is this a Zombie? Funimation.

Is this a Zombie is an anime with a comedic take on the zombie genre. The anime has romantic subplots, harem comedy, mystery, dark humor and some truly terrifying moment along with some truly moving drama. It also has a main male protagonist that's a zombie and is forced to wear a pink frilly dress. Two seasons have been dubbed by Funimation and today we take a look at season 1.

The world of Is this a zombie take place in a world exactly like our own, except there is an unseen element the viewer get's to explore. Ayumu is a normal high school boy when he runs into a necromancer and soon after is killed by a mysterious serial killer plaguing his town. The Necromancer known as Eucliwood Hellscythe, incredible name by the way, revives him as a zombie. Ayumu spends his nights in an attempt to hunt down his killer and that bring him into the dark side the world. He starts to encounter, magical garment girls, vampire ninjas, evil animal beings dressed in school uniforms and a few other supernatural forces.

Review for Agents of SHIELD

Agents of SHIELD. ABC. Marvel.

The long awaited premiere of the spin off series from the Marvel movie premiered last night. The show promised thrills and a new look at the world the Marvel movies have created. Let's have a look if they managed to bring it.

The basic premise of the show is a team of hand picked individuals form a team to investigate and deal with strange incidents in the world post attack on New York shown the Avenger's movie. The team is lead by Phil Coulson from the marvel movies who is played once again played by Clark Gregg. Phil Coulson serves as the link to the movies to let the fans of the movies know the show is in the same universe. 

Review for the Premiere Of How I met Your Mother Season 9

How I met Your Mother. CBS

The premiere of the final season of 'How I Met Your Mother' aired September 23. With that premiere the final season gets underway at Barney and Robin's wedding. This last season was promised to take place at the wedding and finally introduce the mother. 

In the two half hour episodes that aired most of the main characters have made it to the venue of the wedding and things are setting up for it. In any television wedding there are always a few expected tropes and one such is cold feet which was actually subverted. Barney the shows resident casanova has often been held as the least likely to get married in this episode was show how much he's developed in the series run. The premiere showed how much he thought about his brother's own marriage as being the sign that he too could have a functional marriage. Everyone expected his brother's divorce to bring that all that confidence down. Barney took it rather well as he was more concerned about his brother and was confident in his soon-to-be marriage. There are still some hints and foreshadowing that it won't be clear sailing all the way to the wedding.  Still it showed how he he's grown and is ready for marriage.

Review For the Pilot of Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow. 20th Century Fox

This Fall Season Fox has premiered a new series by the name of "Sleepy Hollow" based on the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving. Today we're going to review the pilot of the series.

The story takes place in the modern day with protagonist Ichabod Crane, whose played by Tom Mison, waking up after two hundred years. Having slept through the end of the American Revolution he's a fish out of water and ends up teaming up with Abbie Mill, played by Nicole Beharie, to solve the mysterious behind everything in that town. The small town of Sleepy Hollow is set to be the backdrop off a battle for the very soul of humanity as during the American Revolution the founding fathers discovered that the war marked the start of the biblical of end of days. Crane was charged with the duty of stopping the first horse man of the apocalypse, and with their first fight their fates were tied together. Chopping off it's head Crane was mortally wounded and sealed their fates together so waking up the horsemen in the modern world woke up Crane too. The small town tied up with the supernatural forced and gives plenty of hints that there are people aware of that fact and are moving behind the scenes.

Anime Review Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends

Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends. AIC Build. Funimation

High school can be very hard on people, especially those who aren't social butterflies and today's review deal with an anime called Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends that is just about that. For clarification this review will deal with the first season that was recently dubbed and released by Funimation. 

Haganai: I Don`t Have Many Friends is about a group of outcast that join together in hopes that together they can figure out how to make friends. The animes is a odd ball slice of life comedy with some romantic harem comedy mixed in. Each episode is another misadventure for the club while there is an underlying arc involving the childhood of two characters. The plots are easy to follow so each episode can be watch in a nice leisurely pace.

Review For Futurama Series Finale "Meanwhile"

Futurama. Comedy Central and 20th Century Fox.

Today we review the final episode of the long running on and off series Futurama. The series has had seven seasons and number of movies that spans 13 years.

This episode deal with a classic trope of the guy learning he wants to spend his life with the girl he loves, still this is Futurama and they have a habit of turning tropes on their sides. Thanks to a new invention from the Professor a love struck Fry proposes to Leela. Things go awry and Fry ends up in a tragic time loop.

Let's get to the good and the bad of the episode. For the most part the story progress in a nice steady pace and the idea of time loop doesn't become the boring and frustrating repeating the same scene over and over again that tends to happen. Most shows just repeat the dialogue and actions over and over again so it was refreshing to see an episode where the time loop pushes the plot along and just give new jokes and new material. The time loop is handled in a very unique way as the device only allows someone to go back ten seconds and it takes ten second for the device to recharge, these limits are the driving force of the episodes plot.

Review For Welcome to Night vale

Welcome To Night Vale Podcast Cover Art from Common Place Books

As of late the podcast Welcome to Nightvale has been making waves and getting attention. The fans have run run wild with the series and I decided to check it out and review it. 

There is a lot to say about the series so let's start with a run down. As of the start of September there have been 30 audio podcast released all taking place in the world of Nightvale. Nightvale is a town in the middle of dessert that has been described in many way ranging from the most scientifically interesting town in the United States to a terrifying place. The show is a radio show hosted by the main character Cecil as he announces news from the small town. The news one hears aren't things you'd expect, in fact the range from airplanes materializing in the middle of high school basketball games, to a floating cat in the middle of the radio stations men's room to hooded figures that run around that everyone avoids making contact with. The town seems smack dapped in the middle of the most bizarre and strange things imaginable and everyone in town just shrugs it off as normal everyday events. The only evidence we have that this is not the normal for this whole world is the new comer scientist Carlos trying to warn and explain everyone that these things aren't normal as he studies the town and the various strange happenstance.