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...

 More screencaps of Castlevania. I'm still enjoying the series, though it's going darker as the story is expanding beyond the now deceased Dracula and into the worlds of other powerful vampires like Carmilla and as we follow the lives of the forgemasters Isaac and Hector. Sypha and Trevor also run into trouble with an insane Orthodox church that's turned to devil worship. I like how every form of the church in this series is shown in a terrible light.  We also get lots of sex and sexy betrayals in this season. It's a real shame that Alucard doesn't get to have a sexy polycule but oh well, it's nice to be thrown a bone once in a while. I do kind of wonder if this was a last minute writing decision because they just had no idea how to handle this dynamic, or they wanted a cheap bit of tragedy. It really didn't feel cohesive. On the plus side, we do get a lesbian vampire couple.  There's of course, also tons of monsters. My screencaps also decided to upload...