In the backwater town of Bellforest, Renton Thurston has deep desires to leave and join the mercenary group Gekkostate, looking to find adventure like his father before him. However, his grandfather stoutly insists he become a mechanic. With his dreams somewhat deferred, Renton almost gives in until a mysterious girl and her mech crash into […]
Baseball, Basketball, soccer, boxing – heck – even volleyball. They are all pretty popular throughout the world, so it is only natural that Japan might make an anime series featuring it. However, sometimes you see those really obscure sports get an entry into the sports genre of anime that makes you question the sanity. And
After their high school’s recent transfer from all-boys school to co-ed, it wasn’t easy for Misaki Ayuzawa to become the school’s first female class president. While she inspires terror at school, she also works part-time at a maid café to help her struggling family. However, when one of the most popular boys at school, Takumi
Goku is living a peaceful life with his wife and son, however when a mysterious alien crashes to Earth and claims to be Goku’s brother, his peaceful life will come to an end. Learning he is one of the last members of the Saiyan race, alien thugs that conquer planets for another alien overlord, Goku
To many, short-form anime, or when the episodes are less than 15 minutes, seem like a waste of time. After all, what sort of story can a series tell in five minutes or less? Typically, short-form anime is the realm of fast-paced comedy, but you can find a little bit of every genre if you
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Immortal humans known as Ajin first appeared in Africa 17 years ago. While they were labeled a threat to mankind, to many they were just an infrequent news item. However, for Kei Nagai, a high schooler studying hard to be a doctor, he discovers he is an Ajin after being fatally hit by a car.
We all know that one person, you know the one, the person that says something totally inappropriate that settles a wave of awkwardness over any group. Of course, if you don’t know someone like that, it is probably you. From adorkable to straight up anti-social, anime is filled with characters with social problems and even
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After the moon is mysteriously turned into a permanent crescent by an unknown calamity, the students of class 3-E at Kunogigaoka Middle School are presented with a daunting task – Assassinate the creature that blew up half the moon before the year’s end or die when the world is destroyed. The creature in question, dubbed
Light novels – for a medium that has actually spawned quite a few beloved anime series, it seems that a large portion, if not the majority of the anime community knows very little about them. Light novels are, like their name in part suggests, novels. In the west, they would be most akin to Young
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On his way back from buying a new game, Kazuma Satou died a pathetic death. However, he awakens before the Goddess Aqua who gives him two choices: go to heaven or reincarnate into an actual fantasy world. Naturally, the gamer picks the fantasy world. Now, Kazuma must deal with defeating an evil demon king, useless
