There are plenty of anime about cute young children and the adults that fall under their spell. However, that does not necessarily become a series about parenting. Sometimes you have a Barakamon situation where he is just mercilessly pestered and occasionally mentored by children. Or perhaps a Kotaro Lives Alone situation where he is just […]
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Unsuccessful manga artist Shin Karino has his daily routine interrupted one day with the introduction to his new neighbor – a four-year-old boy who moved in next door, lives by himself, and talks like a samurai. While this boy is more put together than most of his neighbors, living alone has its difficulties at any
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Anime has a complicated relationship with families. Certainly you can presume that most characters have whole and happy families located safely off-screen, but anytime someone needs even a minor tragic backstory to explain present dysfunction – then BAM – dead parent. While dead parents are as lazy a storytelling device as they are effective, it
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With humanity all but extinct after severe prosecution, the world is ruled over by spirits and all manner of strange creatures. One day, a golem that serves as guardian of the forest meets a young human girl. She has no memory of her parents, but the golem decides to at least seek out other humans
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Despite his age, Dale is a skillful adventurer with quite the reputation for competence. However, one day while he was on a job, he finds a young devil girl, weak and malnourished, with a dead parent nearby. He decides to take her home and ultimately ends up adopting her. However, the question remains, why was
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After the death of his parents, teenage Ryuuchi becomes the caretaker of his younger brother Kotarou. After meeting a chairman of an elite academy at his parent’s funeral, they are given room and board in exchange for him becoming the school’s babysitter – a role established to support the female teachers. Ah, cute children being
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Ah, the innocence of youth. Whether you are looking to capture some of that bright young exuberance or you have recently become a parent yourself, anime about childcare can make you feel young again. To see things through both the eyes of the caretaker and the children can leave you with that nice warm, fuzzy
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Subaru is a novelist, and not very good with people. He’s been alone since his parent’s death, but one day while praying at their grave, a cat comes and eats his offering. Deciding to take it home, he now is shouldered with a cat, and this stray is shouldered with caring for a human who
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Kokonotsu Shikada has aspirations of becoming a manga artist, but his father wants him to take over their prestigious rural sweets shop that has been in the family for nine generations. Kokonotsu continually refuses until one day the eccentric Hotaru Shidare breezes into town and wants to make his father work for her family’s sweets
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There’s just something about food when it is animated that just make it look delicious, even more so than if it were in front of you. And that’s great, because anime actually has a bit of a love affair with food! Maybe its because animators only have a spare moment for a hot meal and
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