Dobes Zone

 Content warning: discussions of rape and CSA. Also spoilers about the series and how it ends. If you don't care about spoilers, give it a read.        Where to begin, really? I finally finished my watch through of Banana Fish, a series I'd started on some years prior but hadn't watched in its entirety until recently. I'd also read through a good portion of the manga and it's interesting to note that the anime is fairly faithful in its adaptation- just updating the setting to the contemporary and swapping the Vietnam war for the gulf war in the backstory.     At its heart, Banana Fish is a tragic romance between two teen boys from vastly different worlds- Ash Lynx, a former child prostitute turned gang leader who'd been groomed by a mafia don to be a successor, and Eiji Okumura, a gentle Japanese boy accompanying a journalist as an assistant. They meet on a story focused on Ash's gang and their lives get turned upside down as Ash is caught up in a...

 I finished up the second season of Castlevania. I'm still quite enjoying it. Very dynamic and satisfying action and fight sequences, fun humor, and it's not without some emotional touches. Dracula breaking down in Alucard's childhood room is a real doozy of a scene during the final battle.  I feel a bit rude having no screencaps here of Trevor and Sypha who are lovable, cool and very much main characters but I am what I am (obsessed with cool monsters and inclined towards certain character designs). Here's all my screencaps from season 2.