As Japan is one of those countries that sit in the perfect sweet spot just the right distance away from the equator, it has afforded them the ability to experience the four seasons in distinction. None of that “three days of autumn” before winter or a winter of rain that some other countries get. Each […]
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After dying from overwork, an office lady is allowed to reincarnate into another world and God offers to grant her a special ability. Instead of magnificent powers, all she wants to do is what she didn’t have time for in her previous life – pet fluffy things! As such, she is reincarnated as Nefertima Osfe,
There’s a weird and wonderful world full of anime out there, and age has tempered none of the innate oddness that creators have injected into various series over the years. In fact, I daresay that the “weirdness” of it all is a not small part of anime’s global charm. Animation can be anything. It can
Second-year high school student Shun Tokinoya lives with his mother and disabled sister. After an accident killed his father and injured his sister, he took up the roll of not only studying hard to get a good future job to support them, but working part-time at an e-sports cafe to help pay the bills. While
Like any shounen action anime, Blue Exorcist is slowly amassing multiple seasons that detail the life of Satan’s son who doesn’t want to take over daddy’s business of trying to murder humanity, and doesn’t want him taking over his body to do it either. However, unlike most shounen anime, Blue Exorcist had a long while
Encouraged to become a firefighter to impress his crush Yuki Nakamura, Shun Onoda is shocked when he discovers that Yuki didn’t just like firefighters, she wanted to be one after being saved from a deadly fire as a child. Among these two hopefuls in their firefighter training is Toake Daigo, a man with remarkable talent
If you watch enough anime – supernatural anime, in particular – you learn that there are seemingly many names for spirits and demons. All of them seem pretty interchangeable, but Japan has historically appreciated the small differences in things, enough so that they would define what seems so similar with unique words to label it.
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Goro Ono is an apathetic teenager who spends his days goofing off with his best friend, Akitsu. One day, he receives a notification on his smartphone that declared that he had been chosen and asked him to make a wish. Thinking it was just pointless spam, he thoughtlessly wishes to do naughty things with his
While there are a number of historical, or at least historically-inspired anime, historical anime does tend to have a love affair for specific time periods. When it comes to historical anime set outside of Japan, creators have a specific fondness of Victorian era England. Defined by the lengthy 63-year reign of Queen Victoria, the Victorian
Existing since ancient times, ninjas have always worked in the shadows for Japan. After World War II, the allied command in Japan, recognizing the skill of ninjas, created an agency that tasked them to handle various domestic affairs. Given time, their responsibilities soon branched out to international issues as well. Now, there are estimated to
