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.
While the term “fantasy” is a nice comfortable cloak that we often use to drape over much of anime, Fantasy, the genre, is a broad one. It is chopped up into a number of sub-genres in order to help organize media so fans can better find the stories that really call to them. When most […]
The great thing about anime is that it is so vast yet so self-contained as a genre of media. Many of the same creators that worked on one project will move onto another, and sometimes that love for a previous project can spill over into the new one. This results in cameos and, even better,
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DARKNESS! Who doesn’t love a little darkness every once in awhile? The world is a cruel and terrible place after all, and when you have the creative license to bend reality like in anime, you can make it even darker. So which shows get horribly dark by the end where there is even barely an
When someone says that an anime series is “underrated,” it is a term that has two very distinctly different meanings. It can be something that not enough people have watched, or it can be something that people don’t appreciate for how amazing it actually is. Despite the difference in meaning, no one side is wrong
While we might not discuss the delight we have for movies like the Day After Tomorrow or 2012, I believe many people have a secret passion for natural disaster movies and media. We probably don’t want it to happen anywhere, or even happen to us, it is easy to love the heroism and sacrifice that
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While there are many anime series out there based on western superhero culture, it can be difficult to differentiate between western-inspired superheroes and Japanese superheroes. After all, isn’t Naruto technically a superhero? But he generally isn’t put in the same classification as people like Saitama. However, while there is some distinction between what technically classifies
As a writer, one of the key pieces of advice you get is to “write what you know.” Using places you have been to and things you have seen, you can paint a clearer picture of it with your words. I imagine it is the same with manga artists and anime creators. For this reason,
After the lackluster Netflix Death Note live action and other live action series on the horizon that have the potential to be insulting to the source material (looking at you specifically Fullmetal Alchemist), things are keeping the status quo of “all live action anime adaptations are terrible.” However, it is simply not true. The real
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In the romance anime genre, you have a lot of normal romances. Brilliant love stories that bloom between men and women, men and men, and women and women that can just sweep you off your feet in a whirlwind of fluffy feelings. However, sometimes you find romances that…Get a little strange. It could be relationships
There are anime series in which the plot is the world, and then there are anime series in which the plot is in the world. Even if you aren’t familiar with the term “worldbuilding,” you know it when you see it. There are just those series that go above and beyond the plot where the
