Ichigo Kurosaki is an average high school student except for his ability to see ghosts. One night, his family is attacked by a Hollow, a corrupted spirit that devours souls. He and a Soul Reaper who appears named Rukia manage to fight it off. However, in the process, Rukia is injured, forcing her to share […]
Love triangles are the bread and butter of the romance genre. I mean, what better way to cause friction and drama between a couple than to bring some other poor sucker into the mix? But triangles are so… Pythagorean, you know? Where’s the love rhombus? The sweaty mass of pheromones that is the love hexagon?
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Recently, the detached, struggling manga artist Satoru Fujinuma finds himself going back in time to just minutes before tragedy strikes around him. He has saved many lives with this power of “Revival,” but when he is wrongly accused of murdering someone close to him, Fujinuma finds himself sent back to his childhood. As he discovers,
You know how you think you know a person then you follow them to a shady night club, and realize you actually know nothing about them at all? Anime can be like that too. Far too often an anime series starts off light-hearted and super cute, and then someone gets hit by a car or
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In Ouran High School, the typical student is a member of the wealthy elite, but not Haruhi Fujioka. Accepted on a scholarship, Haruhi wants to avoid all the glitz and glamour in order to study hard and become a lawyer. While looking for a rare quiet place to do so, Haruhi stumbles upon a host
Plot armor, for those who have been on a break with the internet, is the invisible protection granted to a character in anime or any other media in which prevents them from dying because the plot demands it. As the character is so interwoven into the story, or sometimes because they are so popular with
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During their summer vacation, 15 children are enjoying summer camp together. One day, they decide to go explore a cave by the sea, inside they meet a mysterious man named Kokopelli who is surrounded by high-tech equipment. Kokopelli claims to be a game developer and asks if the children would help him test it. Each
I know, I know. You came here looking for a fight. Expecting this to be one of those rants about how pirates are literally killing the anime industry. Well, I’ve got some news for you. This isn’t one of those rants. Unless you are some kind of modern saint in the Church of Thicc Thighs
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With the aid of NerveGear technology, video game players can now experience their playable worlds like never before – in virtual reality. For Kazuto Kirigaya, his game of choice is Sword Art Online. After beta testing the game, he logs into the launch and finds himself, as well as ten thousand other players, trapped in
Between chronically dead mothers and father’s who are either absent for no given reason or “work overseas,” I’m beginning to think that a lot of anime creators might have parental issues. That’s (probably?) not true, though. An absent father or a dead mother is just easy back story for a character, or at best, a
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