Summary
Heading into the Halloween season,anime streaming giant Crunchyrollis planning on curating a special collection for the spookiest time of year. Beginning on October 1st through the month of October, various supernatural and horror-themed anime are going to be featured in a free to stream collection open to any member with a free account on Crunchyroll’s service. While Crunchyroll has been known for its free ad-supported offerings for a while, the Halloween collection is set to feature twenty different anime series that are specially curated to fit with the season.
The series selected for the Halloween lineup represent a wide range of monsters, ghosts, ghouls and more from recent years.The roster of monsters and creaturesrepresented in this lineup is no less creatively diverse than the number of anime studios creating these shows across multiple eras of fandom. There’s more than a few different monsters going bump in the night.
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Is This a Zombie?: Chainsaw-Wielding Magical Girls vs Zombies
Animated by Studio Deen,Is This a Zombie?is a 2011 parody comedy fusing using an over-the-top fusion ofmagical girlsand monster-hunting. When a young high schooler realizes he’s been reincarnated as an undead zombie, he takes on the powers of a local magical girl and becomes entangled in a series of comedic adventures battling everything from fellow zombies, to ninjas, to vampires and more.
TheHellsingUniverse: Vampire Hunting Across Time and Space
Hellsingis a staple of both action-horror anime and of vampire horror media in general. Named as a pun off the character Helsing in Bram Stoker’s 1897 epic vampire novelDracula, the story is a Gothic-infused action horror about a vampire hunter working through several ages and finding several layers of vampire conspiracy. With a big-budget live-action adaptation currently in development fromJohn Wickcreator Derek Kolstad, now wouldn’t be a bad time to revisit this classic action-horror anime.
Junji Ito Collection: Anime Adaptations of the Greatest Horror Mangaka of All-Time
Junji Ito, the most legendary horror mangaka of all-time, hardly needs any introduction. One of his earliest major anime adaptations,The Junji Ito Collection, serves as an introduction tosome of his most major shorts. AlthoughThe Junji Ito Collectionis regarded by many fans as not being the ideal way to experience Ito’s stories, its companionship to the manga is worthwhile while also getting things ready for [adult swim]’s upcoming standalone adaptation of one of Ito’s biggest classics,Uzumaki.
Hell’s Paradise: A Hit 2023 Shonen of Monsters and Immortality
Focusing on a white-haired anime boy who seems incapable of dying in medieval Japan,Hell’s Paradisewas a major hit in the Spring 2023 anime season. Originally published as a web manga in 2018,Hell’s Paradiseincludes a feudal party setting out to uncover an elixir of immortality off the coast of southern Japan. Shaping up as a contender for one of the 2020s’ biggest action-horror anime,Hell’s Paradiseis one of the Halloween lineup’s biggest and most contemporary hits.
The full list of titles made for free this Halloween season is as follows:
With this many series, any Halloween cosplayer should find more than enough inspiration over the next few weeks.
