Sometimes, without you even realizing, you find the next best anime you are about to love thanks to a mildly interesting anime list. Maybe you liked a certain type of character dynamic or a particular type of plot line, a list can probably round up anime series with similar aspects. These anime lists are actually just anime recommendations in a more fun wrapper.
When you create a character in a visual media, typically you want a way to differentiate that character from the other characters you may be introducing. When you have the tools of sound and storytelling as well as sight in anime, that’s not so hard to do. You make them look unique, make sure their […]
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With all the much anticipated subsequent seasons of anime this season, it should have been an easy banger. However, many of those ongoing series were underwhelming. When it came to the new anime premieres of the season, honestly it just seems like they were meeting the bare minimum in terms of what can be called
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The paranormal is everything beyond the scope of human scientific understanding. Espers, aliens, ghosts, everything that supernatural and sometimes sci-fi anime uses to be creepy. However, just because the paranormal can be creepy doesn’t need it always needs to be. Sometimes, these things beyond normal scientific understanding can be great devices for comedy, too. If
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You could say that a “big reveal” is pretty crucial to a successful anime. Not every successful series has one, but you will find that a lot of successful shows have at least one moment that you didn’t see coming. Whether it was that sudden but inevitable betrayal or showing that what’s been going on
One kill is a murder, but more than one is a pattern. While a number of anime series have serial killers play very small roles, typically a quick and easy villain of some kind, there are only a small handful that put them in a larger spotlight. Whether it is about catching them or exploring
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Well, if you worked hard enough, technically you can watch most anime series in a day. However, just because you can wedge 48 episodes into a day doesn’t mean you should. Besides, that leaves profoundly little time for crucial snack and bathroom breaks. No, when most people crave short anime, they crave a nice 12-episode
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It could be a cheeky little screw to the audience in the first episode, it could be a shocking death mid-way through the series. Regardless of which avenue they pursue, there are a few anime series where the main characters you think you will get is not actually the main character at all. In a
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Anime is awash with weapons, but not all of them are particularly remarkable or memorable. No one fondly recalls the many times the lowly kunai saved the day in Naruto. No, no. They remember Zabuza’s big sword even if it was just in one rather short arc. Now being a big weapon doesn’t necessarily mean
Isekai – It is big enough to be a genre of its own now, and it literally gets bigger with every new season of anime that premieres. However, unlike broad genres like “Action” or “Fantasy,” isekai has a rather strict definition, and that strictness limits how creative it can be while still being within this
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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
