Top 5 Horror Heroines + New Poll

Hiii! I almost didn't post today because I'm incredibly exhausted and things aren't going good at all right now. I'm stuck in a ridiculous situation causing all of this so I am unsure of when my next post will be up. But I thought since I haven't posted in days, I should today. Also NEW POLL! Help me choose my next anime topic!

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines day and weekend. My Valentines day was good! I got some nice messages and valentines cards. I never got any sort of attention on Valentines day before unless it was a joke or someone felt sorry for me. My past valentines days have consisted of guys sending me flowers as a joke pretending to be secret admirers. (I didn't fall for it and I indeed did catch them laughing about it. Haha joke's on them, I found it hilarious that they spent money on me just for a prank), people asking me out as a joke and friends feeling sorry for me. So it was nice that some people truly cared this year. And you know who you are <3. ^_^

What did you all do for Valentines day? I spent the day being kind to myself. I had a horror marathon, I baked myself a cake. I bought myself a few things and made my favorite dinner. Then watched Sailor Moon and Toonami. It was a good year in my book!

So since I haven't posted anything horror in a while, here is my top list of horror heroines. Nothing makes me happier than an intelligent and badass female in a horror movie kicking ass and taking names. I'm sure I forgot someone in this list (watch me think of someone else after this is posted) but here are my picks:

1. Heather Langenkamp as Nancy in Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy is an awesome character. She is intelligent, not just a stupid piece of eye candy. She tries hard to find a solution to her problems herself. She takes charge when it comes to taking down Freddy and she succeeds. She also doesn't plead or beg for mercy like most girls her character's age would. She spends the movie frighting instead of succumbing to the fear.

2. Neve Cambell as Sidney Prescott in Scream

I love the scream franchise and Sidney is no exception. She's also intelligent and thinks things through. She's not there just for a sex scene. Throughout the Scream movies we see her become tougher in a way. She starts to defend herself more and fight against whoever is trying to kill her. Even though she has been through the  terrible scenario many times, she doesn't let it get her down or really control her life. She keeps living and uses her experiences to help others.

3. Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween

I'm sure I've discussed Laurie here before. Laurie is intelligent as well, she is pretty conservative and thinks things through more than her friends. She is very logical. When Michael comes after her, she doesn't just trip and plead for her life. Instead she takes control, doing what she can to keep Tommy and Lindsey safe. She does what she can to defend herself and fiercely fights to live. Although it makes me sad that she let the entire experience control her life (though I don't blame her) as seen in H20, she is still a badass and does everything in her power to protect her son and fight against Michael Myers.

4. Katharine Isabel as Mary Mason in American Mary

Katharine Isabel is one of my favorite horror actresses. She does such a great job in the genre without being annoying or a stupid character. I personally have seen her in Ginger Snaps, Freddy Vs Jason and American Mary.

My favorite character of hers is Mary Mason. Mary is an aspiring med student who is drugged and raped by her professor. Instead of letting the fear and sadness consume her, she gets her beautifully violent revenge on him. She lets the incident shape her life in a positive way, as a result she finds a passion for underground body modification surgeries. Though her ending wasn't so happy. I love that she's an extremely intelligent character and didn't let the piece of shit that raped her get away with it.

5. Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in Alien

Ripley is badass! I have only seen the first Alien but I have been assured that she's just as awesome in the others. She was the only survivor when an Alien came  aboard of the space shuttle she was on and killed all of her fellow astronauts. Instead of wallowing in fear she hunted the alien to kill it before it killed her. She didn't let it get the better of her and she dominated the fucker! She is tough and aggressive, which I love that about her.

This list was tough to decide, let's face it most female characters in horror movies annoy me and I root for the villain to chop them into pieces. But each of these women are fantastic and make me actually root for them. Who are your favorite horror heroines? Comment and let me know!

Hope everyone has a spooktacular day!

Xoxo

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My top 6 (I'm being indecisive again) anime men!!!

Hello my lovelies! As requested by a lovely reader, I am posting my top 6 anime men...aka the fangirl post!! It was supposed to do the top 5, The top 4 were really easy to decide but the last one was really difficult to decide from the pool of anime men I admire. So I decided to add an extra one. I apologize in advanced for my obnoxiousness, when I get in fangirl mode I get extremely spazzy. I suggest listening to Sexy Back while reading this...that's what I did while piecing this post together xD. Hahahaha!! 

1. Kakashi Hatake, Naruto

                                     

       

First off, let me get this out of the way: *ahem* KAKASHI IS MY BABY!!!!! <3 <3 <3. He is my #1 husbando, I love him so so much. I have always been a huge Kakashi fangirl, ever since I discovered Naruto on Toonami when I was in middle school. I was just instantly drawn to him. But who could blame me? He is gorgeous even with his mask that he always wears (come on, Kishimoto-sama draw his face for me!). Not to mention he is extremely powerful and strong. Nothing is sexier than when he gets into battle mode, whips out the sharingan and his voice gets all husky. If I ever get rid of this thing called being single, my future suitor absolutely has to cosplay as him for me. That is definitely one way to gain some brownie points with me. Can you tell I love fanart? Hehe

2. Sebastian Michaelis, Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji

                                             

Sebastian is just walking sex. Can I please have him as my personal butler? He's just so beautiful *^*. I love his demonic side and how he can destroy things when wanted yet Ciel can make him do the smallest embarrassing things. I love his sarcasm and smart ass-ness. It's hilarious! His love for cats always makes me laugh and I can relate to. I am always jealous of the nun in season 1 of the anime as well as Doll....I think you can imagine why. I feel like if we met in real life we would get along with my love of dark things and my ability to tear people apart when needed. Also: J. Michael Tatum does his voice in English, Daisuke Ono in Japanese. Both make him sound REALLY sexy. Some of his little phrases make me weak. 

3. Tuxedo Mask/Mamoru Chiba, Sailor Moon

Tuxedo Mask was my first ever fangirl crush...and I didn't even know it for the longest time! Sailor Moon was my first anime and Tuxedo Mask was the first character I ever became infatuated with. Although he is an asshole in the beginning and treats Usagi like crap for a while, he is a gentleman at heart and will do anything to protect his girls (Usagi, Chibiusa) and his friends. I love that he's the weak little damsel in distress and I always feel bad for him. Poor baby! Always being captured and having to be saved by the girls. Hehe.

4. Alucard, Hellsing/Hellsing Ultimate

                                           

Alucard....oh my is he the sexy one. Crispin Freeman's voice as him alone is enough to make me weak. I love how badass he is and how he just tears things apart. Definitely feeds my love of gore. He has a fiery temper like me. Plus he's a vampire. How can you go wrong with that? He kind of makes me die a little whenever I hear him say "Are you a virgin, my dead?" To Seras in the first Hellsing Ultimate episode. His Dracula form is also very sexy. 

5. Yukio Okumura, Blue Exorcist/Ao No Exorcist

My cute little megane baby! I have a thing for men in glasses...especially anime men. I love Blue Exorcist, as soon as I saw it I immediately loved Yukio. He's so cute!!! Plus he's a badass exorcist. Yukio, let me love you!! Hehe. I think him and Shiemi are the cutest thing, I relate to Shiemi a lot so I'm totally supportive of that pairing. 

6. Lelouch Lamperouge/Vi Brittania, Code Geass

                                                   

It was really hard to choose this one, but I finally settled on Lelouch. As much as I love my honorable mentions, I had to stop and think out of these mentions which characters do I read the most fanfiction about? The answer of course is Lelouch. I read so much yaoi fanfiction about him. It's probably quite sad. Lelouch is gorgeous and pretty flamboyant. Although he's totally psychotic, I admire his ambition. I think his devotion to Nunally is SO adorable.

Since it was SO difficult for me to choose number 5...and then I had to add number 6... here are my honorable mentions:

Roy Mustang, Fullmetal Alchemist
Kirito/Kazuto Kirigaya, Sword Art Online (I would have included him in here...but I felt odd doing so. He's too young for me hahaha)
Levi Heichou, Attack On Titan
Death The Kid, Soul Eater
Sesshomaru, Inuyasha

Thank you for reading this, I know it wasn't the easiest to read. Just me making a fool of myself and rambling. But, that's just how I am, I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not for the sake of this blog. Now that I talked about my husbandos, should I discuss my favorite women of anime? 

Comment and let me know! I am pretty excited for the next few posts I am working on. They include a new recipe I made up (perfect for Valentines day) and the results of my last poll (which you can take below, I gladly welcome more votes!). 

I also should hopefully have another post up today, but time may not be on my side so it may not be posted until tomorrow. 

Xoxo
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My top 5 horror movies!!!

Hello my dears! I hope you all made it through the blizzard safe and sound. The storm was kind of a joke where I live. It veered more east than predicted and we only got 6 inches of snow plus wind. But I am very happy that it wasn't worse and I got to keep my power (and my beloved, wifi.  *In Gollum voice* My precious.). 

Today I'm going to talk about one of my most favorite subjects: my favorite horror movies!! Warning, this is a long one! But that can't really be helped, I am a fangirl at heart and gushing about the things I love is just what I do. Ready for a peak inside of my twisted, horror obsessed mind? 

1. A Nightmare on Elm Street 

This movie is about a young girl named Nancy who starts seeing Freddy Krueger, a man with a green and red striped sweater, a fedora and knife fingers who is out for blood. He seems like just a nightmare, but soon Nancy begins to realize he isn't just in her mind. He begins killing her friends in their dreams and they actually die (in beautifully gruesome manners). Nancy must find a way to defeat him before Freddy gets her too.

For those that think Freddy is obsessed with Christmas, he's not. Wes Craven (one of my favorite horror directors/creators. Also creator of Nightmare on Elm Street) has said that his sweater is red and green because those are the two colors hardest for the human eye to see. I could probably do an entire post just on tidbits about this movie. For those curious, check out the fantastic documentary (4 beautiful hours long) Never Sleep Again. It should still be on Netflix, I am overdue for a re-watch.

Nightmare on Elm Street is my favorite horror movie of all time. I love Freddy Krueger with a passion, he's my all time favorite horror villain. He is such an iconic, badass character. He's sharp witted and a smartass. He comes out with the best lines! My favorite comes from Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors where he says "Welcome to primetime, bitch!" when about to kill Jennifer.

[For those of you reading from the mobile site, the video above may not show. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgR9krQRHeA ]

 Robert Englund is a wonderful human being. What's so unique about this movie is it isn't a typical slasher. It took some imagination. I love that you can't escape Freddy even in your dreams. It has some really cool scenes, one of my all time favorite horror scenes is in it. It's the scene when Freddy kills Glen (Johnny Depp's character) and a gigantic gush of blood flows/pours up from the bed to the ceiling. It's so beautiful! I also love the scene where Tina was killed.

[For mobile readers, you can see the above video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-frM2Lf8KE]

2. Trick R Treat  

 

If you're a horror fan and love the holiday Halloween, check out this movie. It is an anthology film: featuring five different stories that all connect in one way or another. I will say what I can without giving away too many spoilers. The stories include a married couple that blows out a jack o'lantern before midnight, a young woman looking for the right date to bring to a Halloween party, a high school principal who isn't as good natured as he seems, some young (asshole) teens that play a mean joke on an innocent girl...only to have it go wrong and an old man that lives alone.

The entire movie takes place on Halloween night. A little burlap sack rag doll creature is seen throughout the film with his trademark bitten lollipop. His name is Sam, he is the spirit of Halloween and he sort of takes revenge on those that don't respect the spirit of Halloween. This movie has pretty much everything: ghosts/zombies, werewolves, a little bit of vampire action and serial killers. There are some awesome kills. SPOILER ALER for those who haven't seen the movie: my favorite scene is when Laurie turns into a werewolf and Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams" plays. I love the look of the scene and the music fits it perfectly. It also cracks me up when Anna Paquin (Actress that plays Laurie) says "It's my first time". This is the perfect Halloween horror movie, I always have to watch this movie on Halloween.

There is a Trick R Treat 2 in the works, but there hasn't been any confirmed new news on the project since 2012 (as far as I know). Trick R Treat came out in 2007.

3. House of 1000 corpses

This movie is brutal, definitely not for the easily grossed out. It's a horror lover's dream. It is one of those movies for hardcore horror fans, if you're a casual fan you will probably be terrified.

This movie is about a group of friends; two young couples taking a road trip to write about obscure roadside attractions. They meet a foul mouthed clown named Captain Spaulding, who runs "Captain Spaulding's Museum of Monsters and Madmen" which includes a strange combination of a gas station, fried chicken and a serial killer ride. Captain Spaulding tells them the legend of Dr. Satan and they go off in search of the tree he was hanged from. This quest is short lived, as their car breaks down and a hitchhiker they pick up named Baby brings them to her house. There they meet the Firefly family: an eccentric family of murderers. The family attacks them and all must try to survive and find a way out of the house. The house is filled with dead bodies, so it truly is the house of 1000 corpses.

[For those of you reading from the mobile site, the video above may not show. You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiVcuRmU5e0]

This is a Rob Zombie movie, I am a huge fan of his horror films. It's an homage to 70s horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. It is actually set in the 70s. I love how gruesome and violent this movie is. At one point, one of the guys is killed and then his body is sewn into a mermaid taxidermy. I love Captain Spaulding, he's hilarious and of course a murderous clown. His character is pure gold. I love Sheri Moon Zombie, she is Rob's wife who plays Baby. She's in all of his movies and she's actually from my state of Connecticut. My dad actually met both Sheri and Rob once, I was SO pissed that he didn't get me an autograph.

I'm (for the record) not called Heather Zombie because of my love for Rob Zombie, it's a nickname I got in high school for being really into horror movies and always doing creepy makeup...also because I was (and still can be) a pretty spooky chick. I was known at one point for being the creepy chick with the crazy makeup that always wore a vampire fang necklace and a necklace that looked like zombie hands.

I sadly need to get a new copy of this movie, my old copy is scratched all to shit.

4. Halloween

Next to Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers is my baby <3.

I consider both the original John Carpenter's Halloween as well as Rob Zombie's remake here. But I can agree that the original is way, way better.

The original, 1978 Halloween is about Michael Myers, an indestructible man escaping from a mental hospital to go on a killing spree in his hometown of Haddonfield. He was put in a mental hospital after he murdered his older sister as a child on Halloween night. Though we don't learn until the 2nd Halloween movie what his true motive is (SPOILER ALERT: he wants to kill his little sister who was just a baby when he murdered his older sister. The baby was placed for adoption after the suicide of his grief stricken mother. His baby sister is actually Laurie Strode.)

Amidst his rampage, Myers begins to stalk a girl named Laurie Strode and her friends Annie and Lynda. Later that night while Laurie is babysitting Tommy (as well as Lindsey because Annie wanted to spend some alone time with her boyfriend). She later discovers her friends dead (Annie is killed, about to see her boyfriend for some alone time. Lynda is killed along with her boyfriend after having sex.) - and their killer Michael Myers. Haven't you kids learned yet? In horror movies sex = DEAD!

Laurie must fight to survive and keep the children safe. It's a race against time to see if Dr. Loomis, who was in charge of Michael and spends the entire film trying to track him down - can get to Michael before Michael can kill Laurie.

What I love about this movie is first of all, it is a classic! One of the first definitive slashers. It is beautifully done without the cheap scares we see today and the suspense is slowly built. I very much appreciate that Laurie was made to be an intelligent and level headed girl. Jamie Lee Curtis does a fantastic job portraying Laurie. She is one of the most notable scream queens and is just plain badass in this role! I love how indestructible Michael is and how mysterious he is. When I started seriously getting into horror in my early teens, this was the first older classic that I watched.

Rob Zombie's version of the movie is a little different. We see more about Michael Myers' past, rather than most of the film focusing on Laurie. We see what caused him to snap. It is a lot gorier (yay!!). We see the legendary night where Michael kills his sister...then her boyfriend....and his step dad both of the latter not in the original. We also see Mrs. Myers commit suicide. It's made pretty apparent that Laurie and Michael are related. I love this movie and I think it was a fantastic remake (which we don't see much of!) Though it isn't perfect.

The actress that plays Laurie, Scout Taylor Compton (though I like her in other films) is fucking annoying. Oh my god. Hearing her scream made me want to stab myself in the ears with a sharp pointy object. Even worse when she won't shut the fuck up screaming and whining. She is nowhere near as badass as Jamie Lee Curtis was. Sadly she gets even more whiny and annoying in the sequel. At the end, I found myself rooting for Michael to kill her. Though...I do tend to root for the villain in horror films.

5. The Conjuring

I normally don't consider horror movies so recent as favorites. Most of them these days are shit. I tend to favor the classics. But THIS movie was an exception. 

The Conjuring is about  the Perron family in the 1970s who have just moved into a new home, an old farm house. They begin to realize that they aren't alone and something fairly nasty begins to terrorize them. They request the help of famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. They discover something more sinister is haunting the family and they have to try to stop it.

This movie is based on a true story, though of course embellished for Hollywood as all of these "based on a true story" movies are. None of the more drastic hauntings such as the levitation happened.

Being the lover of paranormal research as well as having numerous experiences (go ahead skeptics, call my crazy) I am a big fan of the Warrens. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson did a fantastic job portraying them. I like how they showed what their lives are also like outside of their jobs. I loved the little cameo by Lorraine Warren herself, she can be seen sitting in the audience in the scene where Ed and Lorraine are giving a lecture. Unfortunately, for some reason youtube or blogger will not let me embed the video of her cameo here (fuckers), so to view it you will have to go to this link: http://youtu.be/HO3WkiTU_D0

This was an exciting movie and not your typical haunted house movie. It has some great scares and the acting was really good. The soundtrack is fantastic and really adds to the atmosphere. And how could I forget the beloved doll Annabelle? Who actually happens to be a Raggedy Anne doll in real life.

Because who would be scared of little old Raggedy? There is a prequel to The Conjuring called Annabelle featuring the infamous doll. There is also a sequel to The Conjuring in the works.


Honorable mentions:

The Scream Franchise 

I pretty much grew up on the Scream movies. I can remember being a little kid watching them with my aunt. The first one is a classic and they really went outside of the box,  not really taking its self too seriously in a way exposing all of the horror cliches and shaking things up. Though ghost face never scared me (movies don't scare me at all), the boys in my neighborhood chasing me down the  street with the ghost face mask sure as hell did! There is a scream TV series being developed for MTV....I'm afraid to see how this turns out.

The Chucky/Child's Play Franchise 

I love Chucky!! Not only does he have some great kills but he's hilarious! I especially love Bride of Chucky when Tiffany comes into the picture. Seed of Chucky...well I don't know what to even say about that. It was a weird ass movie that's for sure. I love the balance that the Child's Play and Chucky films have between comedy and horror. I actually do love the most recent in the franchise, Curse of Chucky. It really brought the franchise back to its horror roots which it desperately needed after Seed.

Evil Dead (Remake) 

I wouldn't call it my favorite horror film, but I do really like it.  It deserves an honorable mention for the gore alone. I'm a big gore lover (only reason I like the Saw movies). I LOVE the gore in it. I mean it's badass! A girl saws off her own arm, spurting blood everywhere and at the end blood pours from the sky. I do like this better than the original to be honest.

Every single time I watch this scene, I just laugh and cheer.

[Here's the link for my mobile readers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfwty7rM_3I]

Thanks for reading and bearing with my fangirl comments! What are your favorite horror movies? I will of course be doing some more horror related posts in the future. What would you all like to see? I have a few horror related ideas already, but if anyone has suggestions I'm open to them!

Please comment (you don't need an account), tweet me (@lipstickxzombie) or shoot me an email (kawaiizombieblog@gmail.com) letting me know! I love seeing all of your comments and suggestions. I am glad to (within reason) give you dear readers some of the content you want to read. Hope you all have a lovely day!

Xoxo
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My top 6 favorite animes...because I'm SO indecisive!

Hi everyone! Yes, I'm back so soon! Did you miss me? It's been a whole few hours! Hehe. I decided to put this up quickly so that you will have a legit first post (my other two don't really count much) to read! Today I will be discussing my top 6 favorite animes (because I can't choose just 5). This is in no particular order.

                                                 1. Sailor Moon

This was the first anime I ever watched, I have watched it since I was a little kid further back than I can recall. I am a huge fan of it, it is very dear to my heart. I remember running home from the bus stop that I would get dropped off at after school every day to catch it at 4:00 on Toonami. I'm pretty sure I ended up falling and rolling down the hill I live on quite a few times but Sailor Moon was worth it! 

I literally cried when I heard that it was making a comeback, I had waited SO many years to have my beloved show back. I'm so happy to have it back as well as to have Sailor Moon Crystal ( I can write about that show too if anyone is interested).

Sailor Moon is an anime based on the manga by Naoko Takeuchi. It's about a young girl named Usagi (Serena if you watched the 90s DIC dub) who comes across a talking cat named Luna. Luna reveals to Usagi that she is Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon along with her friends of the Sailor Senshi (or scouts) uses her powers of love, justice and the moon to defeat their evil enemies, protect the moon, and the earth. It is the essential magical girl show and truly started the craze.

There are 5 different seasons or series to Sailor Moon, they are:

• Sailor Moon

• Sailor Moon R

• Sailor Moon S

• Sailor Moon Super S

• Sailor Moon Sailor Stars

Each season has its own villains and storylines. What I love so much about this show is it isn't a typical "damsel in distress" show. In this show, the women are the strong ones! Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Moon's boyfriend and "super hero" friend to the senshi usually is the one that has to be saved. He is kidnapped or captured at least a few times and the girls have to save him. Tuxedo Mask also doesn't always interfere; he many times has stood on the sidelines giving Sailor Moon the encouragement to realize that she does have the strength to get out of a bind on her own.

Sailor Moon pushes girl power, that friendship is worth more than gold, that it's ok to be different, to stand against discrimination and to fight for what you believe in.

                                              2. Black Butler

 

I fell in love with this show at the very first episode, the very first time I watched it. It is based in Victorian London (which I have a major obsession/love for). Black Butler or Kuroshitsuji is based on the manga by Yana Toboso. It is about a young orphaned earl named Ciel Phantomhive. He is the queen's guard dog. He has the job of solving macabre mysteries that the queen would rather have cleaned under the rug. His butler who also happens to be a demon that he made a contract with named Sebastian Michaelist assists him.
This show has so much that I love. It has the Victorian setting, which is a time period I have always been fascinated with. It has a beautiful gothic design. It also has a horror element. A lot of the storyline is dark and deals with the occult, such as demons, cult sacrifices, ghosts and Jack the Ripper. There is also a good deal of comedy to balance everything out.

Black Butler has 3 Seasons: Black Butler, Black Butler 2 and Black Butler: Book of Circus. The second season unless you truly enjoy the show isn't really worth watching. It has nothing to do with the over all plot and wasn't even in the manga. Many fans despise it. Season 3 also ignores everything from season two, leaving the poor anime only fans very confused. I do have to point out there are subtle yaoi undertones here (and I love it!). Yana was originally going to publish the manga as a yaoi, but her publishers would not let her thinking it wouldn't sell. She actually does make her own yaoi doujinshi (fan made manga) and from what I've heard sells them at conventions. Way to stick it to the man, Toboso-sama! 

I do read and keep up with the manga, it is my favorite manga. I really hope they develop more story arcs into anime. Book of Circus stayed very true to the manga.

                                               3. Sword Art Online

The show that everyone loves to hate! As a heads up, please don't comment about how much you hate this show. I really don't care.

Sword Art Online is based on the light novel series by Reki Kawahara. It is about a boy named Kazuto Kirigaya who is known by his username Kirito. He is a beta tester for the virtual reality game called Sword Art Online. He enters the game on the first day it is online to the public and realizes something startling: he can't log out! The gamemaker has trapped every single player in Sword Art Online. They can not log out and if they die in the game, they die in real life. Although Kirito is a die hard solo player, him along with his friends Asuna (Also his eventual girlfriend), Klein, Liz, Agil and the many people they meet along the way must beat the game to free everyone before it's too late.

I love this show so much, it has a lot of action but also some romance and a little comedy. The characters do have layers to them. It also has a beautiful and kickass soundtrack. I love the whole Sword Art Online world - the whole sort of medeival setting where you fight monsters with swords. I'm a sucker for a good sword fight.

I also love that SAO has strong female characters. Asuna is one of my favorite anime characters of all time. She fights for herself and is a badass at it! She isn't always hiding or waiting for a man to save her. She's even had to save Kirito before. I do however dislike what they did to her in the 2nd half of season 1, about Alfeim Online. They turned her into the damsel in distress. I really wish they had done the opposite and made Kirito the damsel.

There are 2 (technically 3) seasons of SAO - Sword Art Online and Alfeim Online (AKA the fairy arc) are both in season 1, but feel like two seperate seasons. Then there is Sword Art Online II, which features the Gun Gale Online arc, the Calibur arc and Mother's Rosario.

I do in fact read the light novels! I am currently on volume 9, Alicization Beginning. These books are amazing and even better than the anime. If a lot of the haters (especially the ones bitching about Kirito and Asuna's relationship being rushed) read the books, they wouldn't whine so much!

                                 4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Pretty much every big anime fan has seen some form of Fullmetal Alchemist. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the re-do of the original anime, Fullmetal Alchemist. The original FMA anime veered drastically from the plot of the manga, so Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood was born! It's based on the manga by Hiromu Arakawa, the whole point of the show was to do what FMA didn't...follow the plot of the manga! I haven't read the manga but I've heard it follows it to a T. 

FMA: Brotherhood is about two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric. Their beloved mother died when they were young boys, so Ed decided to use Alchemy to try to bring her back. In this show, Alchemy is the art of magic combined with science to manipulate and alter matter using energy. However, Ed failed drastically. Alchemy law calls for equal exchange and it is taboo to try to bring the dead back to life. Ed looses an arm and a leg in the process and Al losses his body. Ed happens to bind Al's soul to a suit of armor just in time.

As a result of the tragedy, Ed becomes a state alchemist to use his talent to help his and Al's quest to find the philosopher's stone to get their original bodies back.

This show is a masterpiece. The artwork is beautiful and so much better than the original FMA. When watching this show, it feels like you are watching a movie. It has such a rich plot as well as a fantastic score.

                                               5. Hellsing Ultimate 

 

 

     "The bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."

Hellsing Ultimate is like FMA: Brotherhood, another show doing what the original failed to do. Hellsing Ultimate follows the manga plot, by Kouta Hirano. It is a 10 episode (all episodes being about an hour long) OVA series.

Hellsing Ultimate is about the Hellsing Organization, which keeps England safe from supernatural threats. The Hellsing Organization is headed by Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing (who is a woman, despite being called sir) and she has a deadly tool - Alucard the rogue bloodthirsty vampire. She also has the badass police girl - turned vampire (by Alucard), Seras Victoria. In Hellsing Ultimate they fight their threat of the Millennium Organization  - a group of Nazis that transforms humans into vampires and their leader is obsessed with war, wanting war just for no other reason than to have a war.

This show is another masterpiece. Each episode is like a movie. It has so much horror in it. Very gory, which I love! Though is has very disturbing moments involving rape (I luckily was warned and able to look away from such scenes). This is the perfect show to any idiot that believes anime is just for kids. Alucard is a very badass character that is not to be messed with. He is also a sexy beast voiced by (the swoon-worthy vocal talent of) Crispin Freeman. I had always liked the original Hellsing, as soon as I saw this on Toonami I was in love. Right after Christmas I got myself volumes 1-8 (just need 2 more!!).

                                               6. Code Geass

 

 

Code Geass (or rather Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) is about a teen named Lelouch Lamperouge. He is a Brittanian prince in hiding in a place called Area 11 (formerly Japan), after his mother was assassinated. His real name is Lelouch Vi Brittania. Brittania invaded Japan and surpessed the Japanese people forcing them to live in poverty while they live a grand lifestyle (Hunger Games anyone?).

Lelouch had become very bored of his life and not only wants to do something meaningful but he is tired of what the Brittanian Empire has done. He wants to make the world a better place for his blind and disabled sister, Nunnally. As well as find out who killed their mother and take revenge on them.

On one of his gambling trips he stumbles upon C.C. (or C 2), who gives him the power of Geass. With this new power, Lelouch can command anyone to do whatever he wants. He uses this power to become Zero and starts a rebellion against Brittania. He has to juggle school, his secret identity as Zero and keep his best friend Suzaku, a member of the Brittanian military from discovering who he truly is.

This show is another masterpiece. It is very grand and has a rich plot which is extremely well written. It has a lot of suspense and action. It has a season two called Code Geass R2, but the first season is highly superior. In my fangirl mind I like to imply slight yaoi undertones between Lelouch and Suzaku, I love that  pairing.

Wow that was a long post! I hope you enjoyed it though ^_^! Would anyone else like to see 4-5 more of my favorite animes? Seriously, there are a lot I love.

Anyone watching this season's winter anime? I'm watching Sailor Moon Crystal, Tokyo Ghoul, Durarara 2 and Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! (AKA the magical boys anime). I also really want to check out Death Parade, but I haven't gotten to it yet. It's kind of nice not to be watching a ton...I watched so many (for me anyway) over the summer O___O. 

If you liked that post, want me to review anything else mentioned in this post or simple just want to talk to me, please leave a comment below! ^_^ <3 

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