After a strange dream of a mysterious ancestor, high school student Yuuko Yoshida wakes to see that she has grown demonic horns and a tail. Dazed and confused, her mother reveals to her a dark family secret: her family is descended from a Dark Clan that was banished to live powerless and destitute by their mortal enemies, the magical girls of the Light Clan. The only way to lift their ancestry's curse is for Yuuko to find a magical girl, murder her, and splatter her blood all over her ance...

America has been importing Those Weird Asian Cartoons for longer than most of us have been alive, and the journey from animation cel to your television or computer has been longer and more storied than you might think. Join Vitamin H as we explore the history of anime as seen from this side of the Pacific, from black-and-white television shows of the 1960s through the rise of Toonami and the fall of Geneon and ADV.

You know who were really awesome? Ninja, that’s who. They may not’ve really had the amazing superhuman powers we see in film and anime, but their ingenious use of chemistry, physics and the martial arts were just as amazing. From walking on water to breathing fire, invisibility to reading minds, we’ll be examining the myths of the ninja’s great powers and explaining the fascinating reality behind these legends.