Gyaru, or “Gal,” is a label for a fashionable girl in Japanese culture. It’s a style that describes Japanese women who tan themselves, wear flashy clothes, heavy makeup, long nails, and bleached hair. While certainly having its roots in Western influences in fashion and style, the gyaru started as a rebellious style that goes against […]
On an artificial island in Tokyo Bay labeled as the Tokyo 24th Ward, a fire at a middle school changed the lives many, including three childhood friends, Ran, Kouki, and Shuuta. Having drifted apart after the incident, they are brought together on the first anniversary of the fire when their phones ring simultaneously and they
There is plenty of war in anime. It is a pretty easy setting and/or plot motivator. However, not all war anime is created equal. There is anime about war and there is anime that just happens to take place in a war. Anime that takes place in a war tends to be more drama-oriented or
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After an accident put her on life support, Keina took up playing the VRMMO game, World of Leadale. After a power outage at the hospital, she wakes up fully inside the game as her avatar, Cayna. Furthermore, it seems that 200 years have passed since she last played and no other player characters can be
While not everyone counts it as a member of the isekai genre, you can’t deny that when a character gets stuck in their virtual MMO game and that becomes their new reality, it certainly feels like they are living in another world. As a fantasy plot, the virtual reality MMO has gotten quite popular because
When they are born, mages are each given a random and unchangeable crest that will effect their powers and potential. Gaius, a man widely known as the strongest sage, reached the limit of his potential, but decided to reincarnate far into the future to attain a different crest. He is reborn as Mathias Hildesheimer thousands
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Teasing – it is the new big thing in a genre that has done love up, down, and sideways. Except it isn’t so new, is it? Everyone has been told that when you get teased as a kid, it is because that person probably likes you, but doesn’t know how else to get your attention.
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In the Middle Ages, the English Crown has been hotly contested in a civil war, dubbed the War of the Roses. The Duke of York seeks to unseat King Henry VI in order to take the crown for himself. Among this, the Duke of York’s third son, Richard, has become reviled by his mother and
When you have two big dynamo series airing in one season, it kind of ends up a throwaway season for any new stuff. That being said, not everything got drowned out by Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer. In fact, a few even gave them a solid run in the week-by-week. So if you have
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A red wind has swept over Japan and withered everything in its wake. Wherever the wind blows, rust grows and consumes all in its path. With humanity succumbing to this rust, and the world a barren wasteland, mushroom spores bore the blame for it. This has made archer Bisco Akaboshi, who grows mushrooms wherever his
