Every night, Ganta Nakami is overtaken by insomnia that leaves him grumpy during the day. However, he happens across the easygoing Isaki Magari from his class sleeping in the Astronomy Club’s abandoned, supposedly haunted observatory. It turns out that she, too, suffers from insomnia and uses this room to sneak away for naps. While the […]
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Kyudo is a modern martial art with a focus on archery. Minato used to be into the sport in middle school, enchanted by the “tsurune” sound made by a releasing bowstring, but gave it up after a certain incident left him with target panic. This phenomenon resulted in Minato missing every shot he took and
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While there are certainly a number of anime characters who manifest the mysterious anime cough of imminent death, anime series featuring sickly characters as main or major characters are a little more sparse. Even rarer still are anime series that give the characters a real illness rather than just have them cloaked under the cover-all
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There are tons of romance anime filled with what will ultimately end as happy relationships, but not all love works out. Feelings develop for any number of reasons, and even if they are fueled by flaming passion, that doesn’t mean that they will be returned by the person those feelings are aimed at. Anime enjoys
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After moving around his entire life, classical pianist Kaoru Nishimi has abandoned all hope of fitting in as he arrives in Kyushu for his final year of high school. However, that all changes when he meets the thuggish drummer, Sentaro Kawabuchi, a man with an immeasurable love for jazz. Over the music, they bond together
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It has occurred to me that I’ve never written this article. The recommendations on this site are indeed for any level of anime fandom, but for many of them, you need to at least have some knowledge of anime. You need to have watched at least one series that you can remember the name of
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Not everything ends up happily. Not even in anime where technically, if they wanted to, they could make everything end happily. This is because sometimes it is more interesting if things do not have a happy ending. If you are a romance anime fan that just wants a little of that delicious emotional pain, then
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After watching his grandfather perform the shamisen at a young age, Setsu became entranced. However, after his grandfather’s death, he runs away from his small village and quits playing after his grandfather said he should never play if he was just going to imitate others. Fleeing to the city, Setsu slowly begins to become inspired
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Sometimes… Sometimes you just want to be hurt. It’s a seemingly weird response, but one that a lot of people have. Maybe you have a lot going on and need to see that it can be worse. Maybe you just want to have a nice cathartic cry. Regardless, you need to be sad and you
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Love triangles are a staple in anime. You will find them in many shows even if the romance is but a drop in the bucket of the overall plot. As such, you will find that it stands towering over the actual romance genre, so much so that the formation of a love triangle is often
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