After the Golden Kingdom was sunk a thousand years ago by a magician, the king emerged from the depths and said that anyone who can defeat the mage will get his treasure. The king crumbled to dust and adventurers raced into an expansive underground labyrinth to prob its dangerous depths. Laios is the leader of […]
Isekai is an expansive genre these days. Being big enough to even be called a “genre” rather than languishing as another fantasy sub-genre is an achievement in and of itself. However, this is because isekai can be a lot of things. Isekai is escapism for the main character AND the audience. This means the main
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Hiiragi Utena has always been a fan of magical girls and the Tres Magia magical girl trio that defends her city. With such admiration, it is only natural that she perked up with excitement when a magical being approached her one night, claiming she has dormant magical powers within her. However, after receiving the magical
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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