Former yakuza member Yotarou is fresh out of prison and looking to keep his nose clean. In order to stay out of trouble, he aspires to the stage of Rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling. Inspired by a man he saw perform while incarcerated, he seeks out the man to mentor him, forcing […]
While girl-on-girl action might be one of the most popular searches on the standard adult-time fun site, for most people who watch yuri anime, they watch it for the complex emotional relationships between women. Same-sex relationships are still somewhat taboo in Japan, but it is not just the taboo nature alone used for drama in
Makunouchi Ippo has been bullied his entire life, but dreams of changing himself. One day, he is saved by Takamura Mamoru, who happens to be a boxer. After Ippo faints from his injuries, Mamoru takes him to his gym where Ippo asks to be trained in the sport of boxing. Only anime can transform a
While the term “fantasy” is a nice comfortable cloak that we often use to drape over much of anime, Fantasy, the genre, is a broad one. It is chopped up into a number of sub-genres in order to help organize media so fans can better find the stories that really call to them. When most
After aliens invade Japan, they put a prohibition on swords. However, Gintoki Sakata still possesses the heart of a samurai. Taking on odd jobs alongside of his friends, Gintama follows Gintoki during his chaotic life as an errand boy. How does one describe a show that can do anything and everything it wants at any
The great thing about anime is that it is so vast yet so self-contained as a genre of media. Many of the same creators that worked on one project will move onto another, and sometimes that love for a previous project can spill over into the new one. This results in cameos and, even better,
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On the night after the school’s cultural festival, eight students and their teacher gather to say goodbye to a friend that is moving to another school. While it was a fun time of telling scary stories, they decide to perform a ritual that will assure that they are together forever. However, what they don’t realize
DARKNESS! Who doesn’t love a little darkness every once in awhile? The world is a cruel and terrible place after all, and when you have the creative license to bend reality like in anime, you can make it even darker. So which shows get horribly dark by the end where there is even barely an
After spotting what they believe to be a UFO, two brothers, Mutta and Hibito, vow to become astronauts. Fast forward to their adult years and Mutta’s life isn’t going as expected as he toils in an automotive company while the younger Hibito is well on his way to be the very first Japanese man on
When someone says that an anime series is “underrated,” it is a term that has two very distinctly different meanings. It can be something that not enough people have watched, or it can be something that people don’t appreciate for how amazing it actually is. Despite the difference in meaning, no one side is wrong
