After being stood up on a Christmas Eve date, Junichi has a hard time opening himself up to romance again, even two years later. However, upon a chance meeting with several girls he becomes romantically interested in, he has hope that this year he can spend Christmas Eve with someone he truly loves. Amagami SS […]
It’s easy to write a one dimensional villain. They are evil for evil reasons for the sole purpose of being evil. However, the best villains are the ones with more than one dimension and motivations beyond just being evil. Often, a way to add dimensions is to explain their back story and why their motivations
Tatara is rescued one day by a professional dancer and teacher named Sengoku. Ending up back at his dance studio, he meets a school mate that he had secretly come to idolize. From this moment, Tatara is thrust into the world of dance, aiming to improve as a dancer in order to be acknowledged by
Aya Asagiri lives a miserable life. At school she is bullied. At home she is beaten. Her only bright light is a cat, but one day even that is taken away from her. However, while browsing the internet, she finds a person that takes pity on her and gives her the powers of a magical
Unlike many other anime hair colors, pink hair has become more prevalent and had a slight change of meaning. Back in the earlier days of anime, pink hair was much rarer. It was used for childlike characters as a way to personify their innocence. …But then came the moe. The advent of the shift towards
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After discovering they work at the same company, a gaming otaku and a fujoshi rekindle for the first time since middle school. After some good old fashioned after work drinks, they decide to start dating, but dating an otaku as an otaku is more difficult that one would think. Want a romance story between adults
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One night, an object falls through space and time into the living room of dignified yakuza member Nitta. The object turns out to be a strange girl with psychic powers, but Nitta is reluctant to both take her in and to accept her offer to make use of those powers. Respecting his decision to not
It’s that time again. The spring 2018 anime season has progressed far enough that I feel safe given recommendations on what is good enough to continue watch. So if you don’t have the time to sample all of the new anime season, you have a good reference point on where to start. As always, this
After surviving the brutal Russo-Japanese war, Sugimoto gained the nickname “the immortal”. However, he now seeks the promise of gold to the north in Hokkaido in order to provide for the blind wife and infant son of his comrade who died in the war. Yet, during his hunt, he hears the tale of a hidden
You know what they say, everyone loves an underdog. Do you know why? Well, because we’ve all been that underdog at some point. We’ve all seen people just wildly better at something that occasionally seems to come quite natural to them. However, sometimes all it takes is hard work and determination to help dreams come
