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Psycho-Pass Anime Review

Prepare to enter a world where brains in mason jars make the laws and the law is maintained by potential criminals.  Add in some sci-fi action, neat characters, and a depressing world and prepare yourself.  The time has come to explore the near-masterpiece anime, Psycho-pass. Psycho-Pass follows a boyish-looking but still cute, unassuming young female detective called Akane Tsunemori and her team of latent criminals as they work to enforce the law.  While they are doing this, they must also undercover those who make the laws and why they make them.  Along the way, they will uncover and confront villains, including the ultimate villain, a man called Makishima. How do they dispense justice?  They simply whip out their all-purpose guns, called dominators.  Let me say, the dominators are cool.  They can act as stun guns and knock people out.  They can also make people explode, sending blood and guts everywhere.  The dominators measure a target's crime coefficient.  This is somethin

Tokyo Ghoul Review

It's a one of the biggest hits in manga today.  Legions of fans swear by it.  It's got violence, blood, and guts...and I couldn't care less.  That's right.  I don't like Tokyo Ghoul.  Well, let's dive into this overrated turd. The first thing I don't like is that this is a manga where people called ghouls eat normal people.  Normally, this won't be so bad.  I've seen multiple things where people get eaten.  The difference between this series and something like Resident Evil or The Walking Dead is that the enemies aren't mindless zombies trying to satisfy a phantom hunger that can't possibly exist.  No, these guys actually know they are eating humans.  Yep.  It's a tale of good old-fashioned cannibalism. This isn't done without a reason, however.  The BS explanation to why they have to eat people is because the body of ghouls can't digest anything but humans.  The taste of anything else causes them to have a violent gag reactio