Academy City in Japan is at least 30 years more advanced than the rest of the world, technologically. However, they also have a number of students that are honing their psychic abilities. Unfortunately for Touma Kamijou, he has a psychic rank of zero, but he has an ability that the city’s scientists can’t quite understand […]
Continuing on our monthly journey through hair color in anime, this edition isn’t actually a color, it’s a hair style (or lifestyle!) – the pompadour. It’s slick, stylish, and, at times, unwieldy. However, it is a symbol of both manly values and a rebellious thuggish nature. If you spot a pompadour in anime, you know
Vash the Stampede is a heinous criminal with a huge bounty on his head after destroying an entire city. Known as the “Human Typhoon,” he brings destruction wherever he goes. However, when two insurance agents finally meet him, they find out that Vash is not quite the villain that the bounty paints him as. Instead,
Comedy is subjective. A joke that has you laughing so hard your stomach hurts might be a complete miss for someone else. However, even in comedy, there are two types of people – People who like dead baby jokes, and people who do not. Black comedy certainly isn’t for everyone. However, for some, the juxtaposition
Popuko is small and quick to anger. Pipiumi is tall and serene. Together these two high school girls swear like sailors and get up to all sorts of insane and meta activities. Pop Team Epic has a bit of a polarizing effect on the anime community right now, but if you are into absurdist comedy
One of the most popular ways to start an imaginative anime is to have the main character living a boring normal life. It starts the series in a very grounded and relatable way. After all, we are all probably living boring lives ourselves. However, in order to break the monotony and bust into a large
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After moving, Nadeshiko decides to go see Mount Fuji. She manages to bike pretty far, but has to turn back because of the weather and ends up fainting. When she wakes up, she finds herself somewhere she has never been and no way to find her way back. It is in this wilderness where she
The anime genre is home to some massive worlds that become increasingly popular due to its main plot. Inevitably, to cash in on this, there will come a spin-off. Like The Cleveland Show birthed from Family Guy, these spin-offs rarely become more popular than their source material, but that doesn’t make them bad. While some
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Akira Tachibana used to love running, but after an injury, she can’t run like she used to. Now, she passes time by working in a family restaurant where she finds herself slowly falling in love with the divorced manager. The age-gap romance might be off-putting to some, but After the Rain handles it in a
Spring has sprung, the flowers are in bloom, and the grass is no longer dead and under a foot of snow! It is the springtime that reminds us that it’s not horrible to be outside and feel the sun warm our newly exposed skin. However, while being outside is nice, you can’t be out there
