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 […]
A story without an ending is a tragedy, and nowhere is that more apparent than with anime. You see, the truth of our favorite hobby is that it really is a business. An anime, in many cases, is created to sell more source material, figures, merchandise, or even just to build the fan base. If
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When two warring ninja clans each find themselves supporting a different son of Hidetada Tokugawa as the next shogun, they each send 10 representatives to fight to the death. The winner of this fight not only gets Tokugawa support, but they earn the right to wipe out the other clan. Everyone loves a battle royale,
Not every Valentine’s Day need to be a stereotype. Certainly you could do the whole dinner, date, chocolate romance thing. Alternatively, you could do the opposite and you could treat it as any other day. However, if you have a special someone who also happens to share your interests, even if that special someone is
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While Japan was once the pit of sexual depravity, new morality laws and the Peace-Making System used to monitor the populace have seen Japan rise to the peaks of public morality. With all lewdness censored to the point that children do not know how babies are made, an infamous erotic terrorist named Blue Snow has
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While seeing silver hair to many viewers in other non-anime shows may mean a character is old, typically if you spot a silver fox in anime, they are anything but. However, silver hair is often used to suggest that a character has a wizened demeanor. Silver hair is often a mix of a moral black
The universe is a vast and strange place, full of even stranger beings. For a man named Dandy, his job is to travel around and register new species for a reward. What should be an easy job is made less so by a series of odd coincidences that happen along the way. He’s a dandy
Everyone loves to root for a hero, right? Wrong! Heroes are a dime a dozen, but in most media you so rarely get to see things from a villain’s point of view. It is easy to make a villain that is two dimensional and whose only motivation is to be evil. However, when an anime
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Kazama thinks he has what it takes to take over his high school with his gang, even if it is just his two friends in it. However, when his gang has a run in with the four unique girls of the Game Development Club, he is shanghaied in as a member himself. At a glance,
The heart wants what the heart wants – and we all know that when the heart wants something, it won’t shut up about it. Love can transcend not just cultural and social barriers, but in the wonderful fantasy worlds of anime, it can also transcend species. Romance anime about interspecies relationships take us on a
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