There are quite a few strange male characters in anime, but there isn’t quite as much gender equality when it comes to oddness. Anime often lives and dies by how marketable its female characters are, after all. As such, you don’t actually see too many weird female characters in anime. However, when you see a […]
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In order to protect the country’s culture, the Japanese governmental agency known as the SSC started hunting down people that identify as otaku and confiscating all otaku memorabilia. From the ashes of repression rose one passionate otaku who took up the name of Otaku Hero. He created a resistance army of displaced otaku and firmly
Hey, not everyone can be six-foot kings, and anyone who has a height restriction isn’t really worth spending any time with. While anime lives in the realms of fantasy, there are times when it, despite the fictional story, can show you a positive dose of real human connection. Sometimes girls like short guys for who
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Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowel grew up on the streets together and both turned to crime in order to get by. However, when their activities are noticed by the eyes of the expansive Millennion mafia syndicate, the pair find themselves brought under their wings and rising through the ranks. Things go well until one fateful
While many business deals are settled through contracts and meetings in the boardroom, since ancient times, many merchants in Japan have had another way to settle business disputes – Kengan matches. In the underground merchant world of Kengan Ashura, businesses ranging from smaller shops to mega-corporations settle disputes and make business deals through gladiatorial bare-handed
As his father is the leader of a cult religion, Yukito Urabe is often at the mercy of his whims. One whim sees him tossed into the ocean with the belief that their god, Mitama, will save him. As he drowns, Yukito wishes to be reborn in a world without gods and religion. His wish
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You can have a harem anime, yes, but the characters are always so limited when you just have it set in a school. In public spaces, you can engage in a few fun shenanigans in a believable way, but you can’t get into the full degenerate harem stuff for the sake of “public decency,” you
When Tetsuo Tosu went to visit his daughter at her apartment near her university, he discovered that her thuggish new boyfriend Nobuto is beating her. Upon following him, he also overhears that he is only using her for money and that her has done it to other women in the past before. When discovered by
After an alien invasion, Earth was overrun by the machine lifeforms they created as weapons of war. With humanity making their last stand, they retreated to the moon and dispatched a series of combat androids from a space station to eventually reclaim the Earth for humanity. Brutal conflict and harsh realities play out before the
A good number of romance anime use fairy tale motifs to quickly establish characters – a dashing prince, a beautiful princess, an evil queen. Sometimes they even use these character archetypes for interesting subversions. However, a much smaller sub-set of romance anime enjoy using actually fairy tale stories in their plots. From cheeky character names
