![My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 22 "So We're Gonna Do It All Right Now?!": Comedic Creepiness [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Dress-Up-Review-1-660x330.webp "Dress Up Review (1)")
My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 22 "So We're Gonna Do It All Right Now?!" is an episode of contrasts. On one hand, it's absolute hilarity as Marin Kitagawa and Wakana Gojo engage in the misunderstandings of misunderstandings, the biggest of the anime so far. On the other hand, the show takes a dip into
Alchemised by SenLinYu is am interesting dark fantasy novel. Not least of which because it started life as a fanfic. Specifically: Manacled by the same author, a dark fantasy story that garnered over 10 million views on AO3 and received over 100,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads. Not to mention
![DAN DA DAN Ep. 20-22: Classical Music, Beatdowns, And Kaiju [Review]](https://thathollywoodshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Dan-Da-Dan-Review-660x330.webp "Dan Da Dan Review")
DAN DA DAN Ep. 20-22 is a trio of episodes that span the genres, yet all involve beatdowns. We've got a beatdown from classical musicians, a beatdown from an evil spirit who turns out to be not so evil after all, and a beatdown from something that turns out to be a kaiju. All in all, while we get
A brand new trailer for Spy x Family has just dropped from Crunchyroll. This time, that trailer features the upcoming season 3, which will start streaming on Crunchyroll on October 4, 2025. The announcement is something we've already covered on THS, and you can watch the trailer for yourself on
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My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 18-21 shows us more of the cosplay world of the story, complete with both returning friends and new ones. Alas, not all is well with some members of the group. Which will probably be a bit of a pickle for them, since they plan to have a group cosplay session together. My
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DAN DA DAN Ep. 19 "Feeling Kinda Gloomy" has one of the most casually apt titles in anime history. It is indeed quite gloomy in tone. However, behind the gloom lies some intense preparation going on for the main characters as they prepare for what looks more and more like an upcoming showdown with
Jujutsu Kaisen is quite possibly one of the most famous horror anime in history right now, and for some very good reasons as well. The manga of the same name by Gege Akutami it was adapted from is one of the most famous of Shonen Jump's titles. So much so that both manga and anime alike have gone
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My Dress-Up Darling Ep. 17 "800 Million" is basically one big lesson for all women wanting to cosplay as male characters. All because Marin really wants to dress up as her favorite male character...who is himself actually a her in-universe. The level of recursive gender play here is why this anime
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm slows down the plot just a bit to plan things out in Ep. 21 "Zashiki-Warashi and Higashi Village". First to let Danji and Kiri the Zashiki-Warashi daemons give Yuru and Asa some important backstory to explain the past of Higashi Village. Then to let the twin siblings to
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
