We all have those random questions about certain tropes that happen in anime more so than in other types of media. Really there is no way to get those questions answered other than picking up your internet connected device and Googling it, but that seems like so much work. Instead, maybe we can help you […]
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In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu was a legendary professional player. However, when he gets into an altercation with a team mate, he is kicked from the team and forced out of the pro circuit. Ye Xiu manages to find work as manager in an internet café and resigns to his fate. One
No time to sit down and watch a new episode of anime each week? No problem, just save it all up for when you have a lonely weekend of anime binging ahead of you. However, the real problem with original series in a new anime season is that you don’t really know what is worth
It has been five hundred years since humanity went extinct at the hands of the mysterious beasts that roam the land. Now the surviving races have retreated to floating islands in the sky out of reach of most of the beasts. However, there are ones nimble enough to put these people in danger. A small
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We have all had those moments where we are watching an anime, but then having crushing reality set in. “You can’t possibly wield that weapon effectively! It’s too damn big,” you might say to yourself, and you would be right. Yes, anime is the realm of fiction and often times the plots themselves throw the
When their parents married, Masamune Izumi was thrilled to have a new adorable little sister. However, after their parents died, his little sister Sagiri became a shut-in. Now her only caretaker, Masamune supports them as a light novel author. However, one day he finds out that the mysterious illustrator Eromanga-sensei that draws the lewd covers
There are a lot of tropes that go into romance anime, and because they are often so successful in creating the atmosphere and drama that most romance anime viewers demand, those tropes are abused to hell and back. One such well-beat trope is having the male and female lead live together. Maybe it is a
In the war between the Naturals (OMNI) and the Coordinators (ZAFT), a unit of ZAFT is dispatched to hijack some newly developed mobile suits from a Natural colony on Earth. It is there that young Kira Yamato attends technical college and during the chaos of the attack, happens across the last mobile suit, Strike, that
Survival games, death games, killing games – they fall under many different titles, but they all refer to the same thing. Survival games depict high-staked, often organized events where a group of characters are tossed into space and told to murder each other if they want to win – or live! Japan and anime has
In Edo era Japan, Shichika Yasuri practices one of the most unique sword styles among a culture of unique sword styles, a technique that uses his own body as a blade. As the seventh head of the style’s school, he lives in exile with his sister Nanami until the ambitious Togame barges into his life.
