Anime Takeover

Anime Takeover is the Anime Review Series hosted by The Shades. He began his series in feburary of 2009. He Strives to show people how anime is awesome and gives reccomendations on the best anime out there today.

Anime Reviewed

 * 1) Death Note: Feburary 17, 2009 (Redux on August 5, 2009)
 * 2) Top 6 Best Hentai: March 3, 3009
 * 3) The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: March 8, 2009
 * 4) WTF Happened to Yu-Gi-Oh!: March 13, 2009
 * 5) Top 11 Saddest Deaths in Anime: March 20, 2009
 * 6) Gravitation: March 29, 2009
 * 7) Tenchi Muyo: April 10, 2009
 * 8) Fushigi Yuugi: June 9, 2009
 * 9) Digimon: July 4, 2009
 * 10) Ouran High School Host Club: November 16, 2009
 * 11) Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: December 9, 2009
 * 12) Lucky Star on March 8, 2010
 * 13) Sailor Moon on March 22, 2010,With a Commentary track on March 30, 2010

The Classified Files
The Shades also likes to take a closer look at the Anime culture, and inspect some of it's more fascinating elemnets. On June 22, 2009, The Shades debuted the first episode of this sub-series of Anime Takeover. In it, he compared Japanese Anime openings to those in American Television shows.

As his first Anime Takeover of the new year, The Shades launched his second file on Janurary 10, 2010. This time, he looked at how Japanese Seiyu were treated more like celebrities than American Voice Actors. He then turned around and listed his Favorite 5 Female and 5 Male VA's

He has mentioned that he plans on doing a third file about Japanese Tokustatsu.