Spotlight #1

 This blog is intended to put some attention to lesser know manga and anime that I feel should have more attention for better or for worse, enjoy.

Alice In Murderland Manga

Alice in murderland is a twisted take on the most well known work of literature Alice in wonderland. Alice, a high school girl actually named is Stella, her family throws a tea party a family tradition. Her family lives in a mansion in a forest, the whole family dressed up as cult fairytale like her younger sister is little red riding hood and her mother is the Queen from Alice in wonderland and her father is The Mad Hatter. In this "Tea Party" all the children have to fight to the death for heir to the Kuonji estate. To stop them from refusing to not to take part in the Tea Party battle royale the Queen puts something in the tea that of you don't drink at least once a month you'll die. I love this concept as it take Alice in wonderland and makes it yandere truly amazing.

After that the parents set off a trap door pulling everyone into a different world, there's a constant metaphor of Alice falling down a very deep well from all the hardships she has to go through which to me is a great psychological build up, when Stella snaps she transforms into a blond hair and blue eyed Alice a ruthless killing machine the psychological aspect is very good for this, like using her mental state to have a split personality then goes sicko mode is truly badass and I just love the theme of gothic style and yandere goes well together. It's has aspects of understanding the importance of family ties between the Zeno and Stella. The manga is highly reminiscent of shoujo art styles.

The manga is highly interesting with all the story that you would want to find out but like what is the secret behind the Kuonji Family? why does Stella turn into a killing machine, is it because of the tea or the family? And is was really intrigued of how they would adapt Alice in wonderland in this gothic horror manga. Stella goes further down the rabbit hole in this manga all the metaphors from the fairytale and how there are conveyed in this manga is really cool.

I would recommend this manga as it's play on the classic fairy tale of Alice in wonderland but anime which is amazing but also a very great psychological mind bend drama that will give you a wide arrange of emotions while reading 9/10

Kokkuku

The story is simple yet executed really well, it revolves around Juri Yuwaka, when one day a mysterious cult organisation kidnaps her brothers when her grandfather reveals a mysterious artefact when offered a large ransom for her brothers, by offering blood to the stone she enter the world of stasis which basically where the world has been stopped in time, when they go to save them another group appears that can weirdly move in this world with these grotesque monster called herald which oversee the stasis world. If you like seinen and science fiction supernaturals this anime is for you with a simple supernatural mysterious element in it hopefully it gets a sequel. Juri can expel people from the world with slamming her palm to there chest to remove the stasis out of them which is the most epic thing in this show.

The opening I love it’s catchy and gets you hype each time you which never gets old every episode I lived for the opening. Probably one of the best opening of that season maybe even the year even to this day the opening chorus sticks in my head and I must go back for another listen. The song is called Flashback by Miyavi the vocal range is very diverse the upper range in the song gives it more quality as it goes to the breakdown it, the funky ass guitar is just so memorable and quirky which I love how it there is this guitar freestyle in the middle which makes it way better.

In conclusion this anime is very underrated just because time stop premise has been done before but I believe this has potential if it was expanded on in Sequels, highly recommend. I would recommend this anime as the opening at the start is amazing done by Miyavi who is a legendary musician and if you like supernatural time stopping anime with a overarching mystery then this is definitely for you as it's a massively underrated show which needs more love.

Ippatsu Kiki Musume

Kunyan finds herself in a huge amount of unfortunate situations where she is in a tough pinch and has to figure a way out of it from getting eaten alive by snake in your own house for some bizarre reason to getting trapped in your own bathroom. Majority of the short episodes is completely stupid and done over the top because it consists of the protagonist trying to overcome the challenge but not in a normal way, she has to get out of critical situation in the most dumbest way and in end most of the time it turns all she had to do was the obvious choice but of some reason it being this bad it's so bad it's good in an ironic way like one episode she getting eaten by a snake like wtf?

The comedy consists of crude and lewd humour most of the time, which can be funny the first couple times but after a while using the same type of jokes makes it very stale for me and this suppose to be a short anime as well so don't expect much. The comedy is super weird which made me facepalm half the time but ironically enjoyed it and bizarre some episodes don't make sense, for example; the outcomes on some episodes made me feel as if it just wasted my time because virtually all episode was Kunyan trying to get out the situation but ends being back in that crisis or worse and then it ends for comedic effect also the anime always tries to add Kunyan getting her underwear or birthday suit as much as possible even if it's pointless to do so.

The anime is a very mature rating so it does have a lot of nudity and a lot of adult jokes in. Kunyan is sometimes accompanied with her friend Linda, Linda seems like the most aggronant and useless character which she annoys because provides as much help to the situation as Chicken Nugget would, actually stratch at least you eat a chicken Nugget for nutritions; Linda is more useless than a fly. In all the circumstances she only thinks about herself that's why i didnt like her and doesn't give a heck about Kunyan, her character is basically the epitome of a basic blonde chick but over exaggerated. I find her character very annoying as she is generic in terms of troupes for a character and she has every troupe for a basic blond chick, stupid, promiscuous and generally obnoxious.

Ippatsu Kiki Musume is about a character with the worse luck imaginable and on consistent basis Kunyan finds her self in pickle ans for narrative sake the anime has a narrator who joins us on her mini journeys as the narrator has to explain the critical states in the most scientific way possible with sometime some live action shots thrown in to make it sound smart, which saved the anime for me because I just love how serious it is and hyperbolic. My view is that the narration is sometimes meaningless as he over explains the simplest things that we could of known if he would of just said she will have heatstroke instead of using up a chunk of the episode explaining what heatstroke and instead could of had more of the anime but if it was a full length anime then it would of worked. Anyway it's an anime that is so bad it's good so watch with caution. Now it's ironic I wrote the most about the worse one on this list but I would recommend you see this as it's very short form show so it doesn't take much time to watch and it's so bizarrely absurd that it's so bad it's amazing to watch plus the fact that hardly anyone has seen this makes me want to get more people to see it.

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