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.
There are a lot of different ways that anime tries to hook and reel in potential fans. Some go for big, exciting action with dynamic and well-choreographed fights like shounen action anime. Others go for capturing those tender feelings of love in many different forms like the entirety of the romance anime genre. A few […]
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Like the fiery, sugar-and-violence tsundere or the beloved, always-losing childhood friend, the oujo is just one more type of anime waifu archetype. The oujo is a woman, often of wealth, but even if they aren’t ridiculously rich, they carry themselves like a refined woman of culture. They enjoy everything high class and everyone looks up
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While old stories would have you believe that witches are withered old women with warts stirring a pot of newt’s eyes, but anime has rewritten the narrative a bit. Witch anime runs the gamut having witches fighting for the forces of good or doing the devil’s work all the way to them doing nothing but
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If there is one piece of love advice that you should probably follow, it is that you shouldn’t fall in love with a ghost. It can never work out. Of course, romance anime loves to play out the various relationships of every kind of being, and ghosts are not immune. While romance anime between a
For as much as elderly people like myself may have tried to tell people throughout the years, anime has traditionally being a medium aimed more at children. However, unlike Western cartoons that were happy with just entertaining children, the animation industry of Japan dared to make anime something that could both entertain and even emotionally
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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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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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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
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
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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