ANIME HELL returns to AWA in DECEMBER 2025

Just what it says on the tin, Anime Hell is back at Anime Weekend Atlanta in Atlanta GA December 18-21 at the Georgia World Congress Center downtown!  YES, Anime Hell is BACK on Friday night, preceded by Totally Lame Anime, followed by Midnight Madness. Or so I'm told at this time. See you in Atlanta! 

Anime Hell Spring 2025

Get ready 2025 because ANIME HELL is BACK at both ANIME CENTRAL and ANIME NORTH! No matter which side of the border you're on, you can grab some HELL, in case you don't have enough going on in your life already!

 

 

 

thursday night is hell night

THURSDAY NIGHT is HELL NIGHT at ANIME WEEKEND ATLANTA 2024!!  Be advised. 

The Anime Hell Spring 2024 Collection

DON'T MISS OUT ON THESE TWO ANIME HELL LIVE SHOWS COMING SOON TO AN ANIME CONVENTION NEAR YOU IF YOU HAPPEN TO LIVE NEAR CHICAGO OR TORONTO. END OF COMMUNICATION

Anime North Anime Hell Hell Anime North Anime 2023

 ANIME NORTH is back again, amped up and ready for a weekend of Toronto Ontario Canada anime fan fun! And Anime Hell is part of this action with satisfaction that will put you in traction. Guaranteed. See you Friday night at 10pm in the main ballroom of the TCC North building! 

happy New Year's Hell

 

Why not spend your New Year's Eve with Anime Hell? Lots of reasons. But if you want several hours of confusing short-form video nonsense to help ring in 2023, then Anime Hell has you covered! It all starts at 10pm ET at twitch.tv/terebifunhouse!

 

 

Anime Hell at Anime North 2022

 

it's a double slam of upcoming Anime Hell excitement!! We return for part of Anime North's May streaming event, and then in July a full two hour Anime Hell will be part of the actual, for-real, in-person, Anime North convention! Reserve your seats now! (note: reserved seating is not available)

for more information please visit www.animenorth.com!!!

Streaming Into The Future

If you were around last year you might have seen me do a long New Years Eve Anime Hell thing streaming on AWA's Twitch channel. Well, I'm doing a similar thing again this New Years Eve on my own Twitch channel, mostly because it's looking like once again staying the hell away from other people might turn out to be the healthiest thing to do. 

It's going to be a mix of old favorites and new stuff, mostly classic clips, some of which I haven't screened in a while. If you're sticking around the house this Dec. 31, why not turn on your computer device and point it at twitch.tv/terebifunhouse and help us ring in what will hopefully be a less infectious 2022? 

-Dave M

Hey, it's been a while. How are you?

 

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 Happy Pride Month, y'all.

Anime North Stay At Home Edition

 As predicted, COVID-19 isn't finished with us yet. This means beloved Toronto anime convention Anime North has to take yet another break and appear virtually instead of live and in person. This ALSO means that Anime Hell is going to be streaming freely once again!  Be sure and tune out the world by tuning into all the events happening May 28-30 as part of the Anime North Stay At Home Edition! 

ohayocon online hell(s)

 like it says, it's all happening at Ohayocon's Discord server Friday and Saturday night! 

streaming virtual hell questions

After a year without anime cons but with four online streaming Anime Hell events, I've been getting questions asking if these virtual Anime Hell shows will be available to watch online or download.

Short answer: no. 

Anime Hell is, or should be, a live event that happens at anime cons. If Anime Hell is available for everyone to watch any time, the live event that happens at anime cons won't be unique, it won't be a surprise, it won't be unexpected, and it won't be as much fun for you, or for me. 

I did four streaming events last year, all of which were in conjunction with online anime conventions. These streaming events were still available to watch for days after their scheduled broadcast. All told, I wound up doing about twice as much Anime Hell as I usually do, potentially to a vastly wider audience. 

If you happened to miss any of these events, please rest assured there will be opportunities to see Anime Hell in the near future, both streaming and hopefully, once we get this COVID thing finished, live and in person.

-Dave Merrill

Hell's Half Hour

A special half-hour presentation of Anime Hell is set to occur next Friday July 24 at 11pm Eastern on Anime North's Twitch channel as part of their virtual Anime North program "Momiji's Online Experience"! 

Also part of the event is my presentation on Japanese animation of 1980, and a look back at 23 years of Anime North! 

See you at https://www.twitch.tv/animenorthcompass next week!

-Dave Merrill

streaming afterword

hey gang, this is Dave, I just wanted to drop in and again say a big THANK YOU to everybody who dropped in to have a spankin' good time watching Anime Hell last Friday here at the facebooks! I was using OBS to stream the videos to Facebook, it's my first time doing this kind of thing and I appreciate everybody putting up with my ineptitude. I am probably going to re-run the set over at Twitch or some similar platform in a few weeks, so if you didn't get to catch it on Friday, don't fret. I'm hoping sooner rather than later we'll have this COVID-19 licked enough so that we can once again congregate in large groups and watch goofy videos together.

In the mean time, here are some links to some of the things I mentioned during last Friday's show -

You can enjoy 13 years worth of me digging through classic Japanese animation over at my blog Let's Anime!

http://letsanime.blogspot.com/

every week Shaindle Minuk and myself make fun of Stupid Comics over at Mister Kitty dot Org! It's also the home of lots of our original comics and various bits of this and that. Also there are links to the WWII comic I mentioned!

https://misterkitty.org/

coming up in July is Anime North's MOMIJI ONLINE EXPERIENCE and you can find out more about it at Anime North's website! Also remember, Anime North is May 28-30, 2021!

https://www.animenorth.com/event/

as always, you can message me here, you can email me directly at terebifunhouse@gmail.com, and you can bother me on Twitter where I am @terebifunhouse!

streaming

we can't have Anime Hell at Anime North, because they've locked the doors at the TCC and will arrest us for trespassing, so we're having it online instead

cancel con culture

Right now we're in the midst of COVID-19 smacking civilization around and generally having its way with us, and that means economic disaster, stressed healthcare services, and the grim reality of daily rising casualty lists. On a smaller scale this means that Japanese animation conventions are getting canceled right and left.

Anime Central in Chicago was supposed to be happening May 15-17; it's been pushed to 2021. Anime North in Toronto was originally scheduled May 22-24, and has also been moved to May of next year.  These two shows are longtime Anime Hell hosts, and obviously if the convention's not happening, then sadly, those Anime Hells aren't happening either.  Project A-Kon, the host of Otaku Hell, has also been postponed until 2021.

We're all hoping that we get through this sooner rather than later, and once the dust settles we'll get back to amusing audiences the way we've always done. In the meantime we are investigating the possibility of doing some sort of streaming Hell show over the internets, so please stay tuned to this blog or the Anime Hell event page on Facebook for updates!

Stay safe out there everybody. Wash your hands, wear a mask, stay home.

-Dave M

Demons out! Luck in!

Happy Setsubun!

Anime Hell Presents That 70s Show

Mark your calendars for February's BIG HELL EVENT, it's an all 1970s anime extravaganza starring plucky schoolgirls, devil-men, super robots, and the slipperiest thief in the whole world! All with in Japanese with English subtitles! All happening Feb. 22 at Eyesore Cinema! Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8, only $5!

ohayo ohayocon 2020 anime hell

hey Ohio Ohayocon peeps, peep your peepers to Anime Hell at Ohayocon brought to you by Jeff Tatarek and Ryan Gavigan, happening Saturday Jan. 11 at 11pm, Panel 3 in the Hyatt Regency!

https://ohayocon.org/schedule-2/

RIP: Gahan Wilson (1930-2019)

Some classic moments of a cartoonist!