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Chapter 14 of Blood and Bone is up on the rewards page! This is the final chapter of this comic and I’m happy to finish my first comic!

Chapter 12 of Blood and Bone uncensored is now available to Pateron and Ko-fi supporters!

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Remember that plan to put all my content on Patreon…well that was a stupid plan.  Turns out Patreon has a big problem with people pledging and ditching before the payment is processed. Sooooo, looks like Patreon will only house previews[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry...

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All uncensored content is going up on Patreon only to reduce my workload.   Hopefully, when everything dies down I can focus on exclusive content instead.

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Working on uploading chapter 3 of Blood and Bone. I will hopefully have Julien’s Road up soon!

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Tokyo is haunted by mysterious ghouls who are devouring humans. People are gripped by the fear of these ghouls whose identities are masked in mystery. An ordinary college student named Kaneki encounters Rize, a girl who is an avid reader like he is, at the café he frequents. Little does Kaneki realize that his fate will change overnight.

Oh freaking boy, what can I say about Tokyo Ghoul. This story captured me right out of the gate. One, it’s starring a College student and not another high school boy. Two, the main character is likable. Three, The important side characters are likeable. Four, It’s just freaking good.

The story starts with Kaneki, a quiet book reader with only one friend. I wouldn’t call him shy. But more like reserved. He meets a girl named Rize who bonds with him over his love of books. Little does he know, she’s a ghoul who feeds on human flesh to live and she just so happens to want to feed on his.

However, things don’t turn out the way Rize thinks. Kaneki panics and runs and a scaffolding falls on them injuring Kaneki and killing Rize. Kaneki gets an unscrupulous organ transplant. at the hospital he notices that he can’t eat the food. He soon gets better and returns home, only to find that he can’t eat anything. Now apparently ghouls are known in this world so he discovers, based on a TV show that ghouls cannot eat animals, cooked food, and most drinks. They get sick and throw up. Kaneki panics, devouring everything, only to find it pointless.

This introduces Kaneki to craving human flesh and opens him up to the not so hidden world of being a ghoul. He finds a place to relax and be himself. At the Coffee House called Anteiku ran by Ysohimura with a main side character named Touka working as a waitress.

Now, no action anime is complete without antagonists, and these guys come in the form of hunters called Ghoul Investigators. Whose main job seems to be to hunt down and kill ghouls. Seriously, I have no idea what they are investigating. They pretty much just find ghouls and kill them, then steal their Kagune, an organ which functions as the Ghoul’s weapons.

The anime never explains how humans found out about ghouls, where this organization came from, how they discovered they can use their weapons, et al and usually this would bother me, but it actually doesn’t. The anime seems to maintain a great level of pace because the characters don’t fall into the anime action trope of falling into massive amounts of exposition every single time they face down an enemy. Everyone has their reasons for doing what they are doing, and we find out organically what motivates the characters which in my opinion is much better.

Back to Kaneki. Naturally he’s weak, indecisive, and would preferred it if he had gotten an organ transplant from a regular human. To be honest. I hate it when characters dwell so long on their problems and never make a decision about what they’re going to do and usually when they have that character developing moment that is supposed to push them forward, their choice never really feels like they’ve made a choice at all. I was totally prepared to deal with this with Kaneki but the writers decided to do something differently. They decided to break Kaneki completely and call him how on his neutrality. We discover why the main character is the way he is. Not because he is shy or something simple like that, but because his mother passed her own weakness onto him. A mirror is held up to his own inner feelings which allows him to face the truth of how he feels, instead of mirroring his mother’s. Kaneki learns that sometimes neutrality is not an answer, it is, in a sense, not viewing either side as important enough to choose.

Moving on to season 2. Kaneki has joined the Aogiri Tree, a group of ghouls who believe they are superior, in hopes of becoming stronger. He has left the coffee shop and is now a bit on the insane side from his ordeal at the end of the first season. I’m trying not to spoil anything here. This season seemed to focus a bit more on the hunters which I wasn’t too fond of but I understand. Truth be told, I didn’t care much for the hunters even while I understood why they existed. But I found them primarily one dimensional and there just didn’t seem enough questioning from any of them, including Amon to make me change my mind. They seem almost as bad as the Aogiri Tree. They murder ghouls, even when they pose no threat, they harvest their weapons and use them against other ghouls, even their children, they allowed a mentally deranged boy to roam free, and they’ve shown to have a near disregard for the lives of regular people. As far as I’m concerned, the Aogiri Tree and the Ghoul investigators can kill each other and I wouldn’t care.

Anyway, the season wraps up with a very sad battle for my favorite ghouls, lots of angst, and tears, and loss. I can’t wait for the third season!

And no, I didn’t cry….not for long.

Rating: 9/10

It would have been a 10/10 but I wasn’t fond of the focus on the ghoul investigators during the second season.

Watched until episode eleven then wanted to shoot myself

From Wit Studio, the creative force behind Attack on Titan, comes a brand-new action series—Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign! After a mysterious virus wipes out ninety percent of humanity, vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth to enslave mankind, treating them like livestock. After growing tired of donating blood in exchange for protection, 12-year-old Yuichiro Hyakuya and his best friend Mikaela Hyakuya plot an escape along with the other orphans. After being the only successful runaway, Yuichiro joins the Moon Demon Company, an extermination unit of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army dedicated to killing off vampires.

The first episode didn’t make much sense but did grab my attention enough to watch the next episode. I really liked the opening scenes of this anime with everyone dying, planes crashing, car accidents and so on. It was chaos as adults seemed to be dying from a terrible outbreak which occurred in a manner of seconds. We then see the Vampires emerging, from where? I don’t know but they are obviously unaffected. We then see the children being harvested for blood and ushered to live in this underground city. Watching their harsh lives play out while living below was very interesting. The power dynamic was excellent and well shown. Everything was good….up until the main character escapes and the entire anime seems to take a massive nose dive into poo.

A military group called the Moon demon company somehow knew of the of main character’s escape and simply shows up at the right place and time to fetch him. We then learn, from the leader of this company, that a prophecy is what lead him there. Sounds more like a cheap half assed excuse to rush the story along. So now as the story progresses we learn that 90% of the human population is gone, the world looks like crap, there are monsters roaming the streets, and Vampires lurking underground but I’m supposed to believe that in four years or so they got a full scale working Military with clean uniforms, plenty of food; including packaged food and working vending machines, oh yeah, and a large school in perfect condition…cause what would anime be like if it didn’t have a school setting?

So now we have this Main character named Youchiro who is the typical shonen main character. Full of false bravado and is generally an annoying little asshat. He’s now in school, surprise, surprise, and the purpose for him being in school is to make friends. Like that couldn’t have been done anywhere else. But Youchiro is a little angsty bitch who doesn’t want any friends due to losing the last group of friends he was an angsty little bitch to. But for some reason, everyone is a masochist so he ends up making friends anyway.

So now he gets to join the Moon Demon Company and get himself cursed demon weapons that can kill the vampires that came out of nowhere. So far I have no idea where the demons come from, how the military realized this power existed much less how to use it, but it looks cool…so I guess that’s it.

So he gets his weapon, makes his new friends, and they all are on the same team. Their job is to go out…in formation….and kill Vampires. Problem, when were they ever taught this formation? This little annoying blonde haired girl keeps yelling about this formation they are supposed to keep, yet never really go over what the formation is. It just seems like all she wants is for them to stick together. Someone ought to inform her that’s not a formation. So the main character acts like an equally annoying asshat and leaves the team to rescue a little girl, do whatever he wants blah blah, fight vampires blah blah and no matter how crappy their situation gets he’s told in the end that he did the right thing.

Anyhow, he is eventually reunited with Mika, his best friend and family who he thought died during the escape. If you wanna get mad over that spoiler, don’t. The anime’s opening credits pretty much spoils Mika’s fate so his death isn’t as heart wrenching as it should have been. Mika, is now a Vampire who wishes to save his friend from the people who are just using him. But instead of just freaking telling him this and explaining the situation he tries to whisk him away…ya know, for tension reasons. So combined with Youchiro watching his friends get ‘playfully’ bitten by the Vampires…who for some odd reason don’t just kill them outright when they had the chance; and his friend being turned into a Vampire. He loses his shit and turns into a fugly half ghoul angel demon thing who of course wants to kill sinners….oh yeah I forgot that this has something to do with the Bible….I think.

And don’t worry folks, he can be brought back to his human self through the power of hugs.

So far this story has Vampires, biblical apocalypse monsters, a prophecy, a random plague, a full underground vampire city, a human army with demon weapons, and some sort of possible scientific experimentation, and a main character half demon ghoul thing who can be cured by hugs. It’s like the creators just decided to toss anything into this anime that sounded cool and/or moved the “plot” along.

I’m on episode eleven so far and I have no questions than answers.

When did this experimentation take place? How did the Moon Demon Company know the kid existed? Where he was? And when and where to search for him? What is this prophecy? Where did the Vampires come from, the demon weapons, the apocalypse monsters, a school, vending machines, and prepackaged foods.

I don’t know if I want to continue to find out…

Honestly, I think I watched this because I was bored. I haven’t watched Naruto since around the start of Shippuden when Naruto was running all over the place in his obsession with Sauske. So I haven’t followed the story at all but I did check out the OVA with Sauske and Sakura’s daughter, and the last Naruto Movie because I was interested in seeing them as adults. It’s about Naruto’s son, Boruto (stupid name btw) who is pretty much different than his father growing up. He’s a capable Ninja, though not the best, and he very resentful of his father for not spending much time with him. Truth be told, this could have been a really good slice of life story. Boruto is the typical modern day kid. Spoiled and never has to work for anything and blames his father for everything.

It’s even remarked about how well kept his clothes are, suggesting that he’s never known the hardships of battle. This prompts some shady salesman to tempt him with a way to cheat on his exams with some sort of Chakra pill. Boruto uses it during his Chunin exams. However, he’s obviously not proud of himself.

He’s both proud and ashamed when his father does come over to see him in person to congratulate him.

I would have been happy if the anime had stayed low key like this and the creators had found some other way for Boruto to realize that hard work and hardships are necessary to become a great Shinobi and make peace with his father. Instead, they bring out these ass pull villains who for some reason want to kidnap Naruto to steal his Chakra to make some sort of chakra berries they can eat for immortality.

Ugh! This is when the story takes a downward turn. How on earth do they make the berries? How do they give them immortality? IDK, it’s never even explained. They are essentially there to teach Boruto that cheaters never prosper. They get beaten, Naruto and Boruto patch up their broken relationship, and all is well. I doubt this movie would be enough for me to go back to watching the show or watch the Boruto show coming up. But I’m sure that Naruto fans will like this anime and find it a treat.

I watched this anime in Korean dub with English Subtitles. I have to say, I really liked Naruto’s Korean voice. I think the actors did a good job. If it bothers you, then you may want to wait for the Japanese Dub or English Dub.

Oh yeah and apparently Orochimaru has a kid, who just so happens to live in the leaf village….wtf??

Rating 6.4/10