#kagewani

you get to see him underwater. grieving. full of rage. getting choked. covered in blood. in love. blue hour, golden hour.

(bonus I swear the sick x-ray also inspired Junpei's shikigami)

episodes are only 7 minutes long and I cannot even count the ways it inspired jujutsu kaisen. please. please hear me out. please.

Hell's Paradise

the animation is beautiful and similar to jjk (thanks mappa), set in the Edo period (16-1800s)

Sleepy Princess in the demon castle

The mc's hair and eyes are so cool. I love this one for when my brain is not working bc it's so simple and adorable. The princess is funny and resourceful and there's all sorts of demons.

Vampire Dormitory

English dub is so funny! (sub does not hit the same) the main love interest is so beautiful? Look at his hair. It's so sweet and queer, probably my favorite romance thing ever (and favorite vampire media if I'm honest). I'm rewatching it currently. It's so so good but I never hear about it and this was the only gif in the search chqhxhajdksnx pls if this doesn't get a second season I'll have to kill god :(

The misfit of demon king academy

I fuck with the misfit demon king. Someone suggested this and I'm so glad I wrote it down akchajxkak it's cute and funny and has some good asmr fights. He's so unhinged and strong and crazy and sweet (this white haired girl is my favorite character tho).

Another

Rewatching this again. The use of color is so abcjamxjams.... It's pretty morbid, there is a lot of character deaths, but also a fun mystery bc someone is secretly dead this whole time! (here's my favorite character)

Kagewani

(again. Ik, I'm sorry, I might be down bad for Banba Sensei. Truly an X-Files au for Suguru Geto... And maybe Ino and Ijichi... ) it has that yamishibai style animation. Cryptids, monster hunting,...

Demon Slayer

Finally just started over from the beginning and caught up. It's nice to get to know the other characters better and I'm So excited for the infinity castle movie. It just keeps getting better

Apothecary Diaries

Yes I got into this bc Kaiji Tang (Gojo's English VA). The first few episodes are kinda slow but I just finished it again and it's so good?? Season 2 comes out this month, I love the main character so much. It's a bit of everything, foraging, gardening, science, brothels, romance, etc...

Flying Witch

This is SO chill. No romance, no drama, no violence. Just community, foraging, witchcraft etc...

Jujutsu kaisen

Spooky shows to watch this spooky season~

(2022) and honestly next year, cause this is alot,

so idk, pick 4

Edit: i forgot the new amc interview with the vampire series

HELLO INTERNET.

This is your yearly spooky month reminder that KAGEWANI is a thing!

Kagewani (and it’s sequel, Kagewani: Shō) is a uniquely animated short-form horror anime of 13 roughly 8 minute long episodes (and 13 more for Shō, season 2). Each follows a cryptid story, like tiny bite-sized monster horror movies. Are there connections between the events? Maybe... and it’s up to our hero Sōsuke Banba to find out what!

If I had infinite money I would make double-sided keychains of all the Kagewani “main” characters, but I don’t have that kind of disposable income, and the kagewani fandom is three people and a paper bag, so it would be a futile effort to recoup costs.