One day, Ayumu quits the kendo club and decides to join the Shogi Club which only has one member. Urushi is happy to have a playing partner and as the older student, she seeks to mentor Ayumu. However, his straightforward and honest demeanor often has her blushing with embarrassment. While she waits for a confession […]
I’d like to say that anime has an inordinate fascination with the master-servant relationship, but watch enough period pieces and you will know that it isn’t an extraordinary obsession at all. Still, in any media, a good master-servant relationship is hard to pull off. Worst case, it ends up cringe-worthy and weird with one part
While the young mage Alto excels at most other magics, he is on the verge of failing his first year at Royal Ortigia Magic Academy because he cannot summon a familiar. Giving his exam one last shot, he stumbles upon a grimoire that finally lets him summon a familiar. However, this bodacious, beautiful woman isn’t
While it is fully possible to create horror and mystery in a big city, there is a particular reason that those two genres are drawn to the country. A rural town may give some a sense of safety in that you know all of your neighbors seemingly pretty well. However, the countryside brings with it
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Tooru Kirishima is known as the Demon of the Sakuragi crime family due to his overly violent tendencies. Because of his skill and loyalty, he has been selected by the boss of the family for an important job – the job of babysitting the boss’ daughter. Cute childcare anime series are always welcome, but the
There is no shortage of princesses in anime, but many of them serve the singular purpose of being royal and not doing too much else outside of that. However, not all princesses are sedentary captives in their castle, there are a few anime series out there that bring them low from royal privilege and set
The kingdom of Metallicana is just the latest kingdom to be imperiled by the Four Lords of Havoc. They seemingly desire only destruction and no power can stand against them. Desperate to save the kingdom, High Priest Geo reveals that he sealed their once-leader of destruction, the lord Dark Schneider into a boy, who can
There isn’t anything more quintessentially anime than the kemonomimi. The term kemonomimi is actually a pretty broad one used to define mostly human characters that have certain animal-like physical characteristics. A very common example is the cat girl, or nekomimi, but kemonomimi covers all the animal characteristics. While there is a certain subset of people
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The secret organization ARCAM operates independent of national loyalties and uses skilled special operatives known as Spriggan. It is these powerful super soldiers that allow ARCAM to defend powerful artifacts from a defunct civilization and prevent them from falling into the hands of people who wish to harness the power for their countries. Yu Ominae
Appleseed has always been one of those series that flies well under the radar for most anime fans. It’s like a less popular Ghost in the Shell, with which it shares a creator, in that it paints a technologically advanced and technologically divided dystopian world, but doesn’t exactly have the same sort of hooks to
