Some view the world in black and white, but never the many shades of grey… HIDIVE announced that they acquired the streaming rights to Monochrome Factor for the United States, Canada, New Zealand, [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE “Monochrome Factor” Comes to HIDIVE  HOUSTON, TX, October 11, 2018 – HIDIVE announced today that it acquired the streaming rights to Monochrome Factor for the United States, [...]
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The main male protagonist frolicking with his willing and submissive boyfriend as the foreplay for… The next random anime I picked from my backlog is Monochrome Factor. This is a 2008 anime, so I suppose that it will compete with Wolf and Spice for the ‘Anime of the Year 2008’ title. Whether this anime really [...] Related posts:Review: Starship Operators (スターシップ・オペレーターズ) Review: Koukaku no Regios (鋼殻のレギオス) Review: Needless (ニードレス) Review: Kaze no Stigma (風のスティグマ) Review: Shangri-La (シャングリ・ラ) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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TOKYOPOP claims Monochrome Factor 3 will be released September 9th.  Needless to say, my trip to the bookstore today resulted in me buying one extra, unexpected book. Akira finally gets a few answers to his questions after Ayu beats up the surrounding kokuchi with a steel pipe - he’s a king, apparently.  Shirogane and Homurabi are [...]
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Monochrome Factor has been rather boring after the first 4-5 episodes, truly >.< Sighh…I had really high hopes for it when I first downloaded the first 11 eps of it from Mininova; seeing how it’s a new anime and all…WELL, besides the more-than-occasional displays of bishounens and softcore yaoi here and there [between Akira and [...]
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I give up. The rest of the world is right - Monochrome Factor is crap, and unfortunately it’s no longer crap enough for me to enjoy for fun. It’s not even really worth talking about what happens in this episode, it’s by-the-numbers filler crap that’s not particularly funny and is shoddily executed. [...]
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My faith was rewarded - Monochrome Factor is back to being entertainingly naff again! Kengo gets all huffy because Akira doesn’t want him in on the kokuchi fights. This apparently means there is hidden darkness in him, which Nanaya (the evil guy who’s been unleashing the kokuchi) takes advantage of by seeding him three of [...]
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My heart sank when I discovered that apparently this show is going to run for a full 26 episodes - Anime News Network has titles up to episode 14. I was SO SURE it was only going to be 13 episodes of mind-numbing badness. Well, not quite mind-numbing, otherwise I couldn’t watch it. Monochrome [...]
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Kengo (remember him?) has a sister. She mostly exists to drill into our heads that the word ikemen is popular in Japan at the moment (as it appears to be about the only thing in her vocabulary). she gets possessed by an evil centipede monster from the shadows and all that, and it [...]
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What would you do in this situation? Waking up, Akira wonders if everything that happened the day before was just a dream. He turns around to find none other than Shirogane sharing his bed. Shirogane explains that he has become Akira's shadow, which is what allows Akira to temporarily remain human. All in [...]
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Preface - this show is bad. Really, really bad. I know. You don’t have to tell me, I know. With that aside, Akira wakes up with Shirogane, who tells him that Akira can’t re-materialise in the mortal world without Shirogane hanging on to him and becoming his shadow. Hijinks of the most [...]
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There are no females depicted in this image. The protagonist, Nakaido Akira, is a bit of a delinquent. He is on the roof playing instruments with other students when his classmate, Suzuna Aya, comes to fetch him. She's pretty short tempered, so Akira escapes to skip school and go home. On the way [...]
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OP - Metamorphose (Asriel) - the strings in this make the song sound SO much like Tsubasa wa Pleasure line from Chrno Crusade it’s uncanny. Anyway, I like the song for no apparent reason - the OP gives absolutely NOTHING away about the show, you just see the main characters and a bit of [...]
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Quick Summary: Nikaidou Akira is a delinquent who doesn’t like school, and is always pestered by his friend, Suzuno Aya, to shape up. One day, as he was walking home, he encounters a person named Shirogane who explains that he is a shadow. Shirogane also tries to go somewhere with Akira more private to discuss other [...]
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Ohhhhhhhh… Flavor: Sour Initial reaction: Is this yaoi? Huh? Either they went overboard with the BL jokes or this is really yaoi, orz. I mean, I actually watched the first episode of that other show with ninjas, and that one also had a few of these kind of jokes, but in this one they were [...]
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Finally some proper boy loving to watch, as Monochrome Factor (モノクローム・ファクター) enters the tableaus of TV Tokyo, Mondays at 26:00 JST.
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The manga Monochrome Factor– by Kairi Sorano and recently licensed by TOKYOPOP –is getting an anime, quoth SaiAni. Apparently it was announced in the October issue of Comic Blade Avarus (no confirmation from the cover, but Monochrome Factor is featured there). The new anime (which I’m confident will not be black and white, lest you took [...]
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