One summer, Hairi Takahara goes to help his family sort through the estate of his recently deceased grandmother on the rural island of Torishirojima. While using the estate as an excuse to get away from the city after an incident, Hairi ends up meeting a series of girls on the island, all who are caught […]
Forever in twilight in a space between life and death, the Tasogare Hotel welcomes customers who are unaware of who they are or even if they are living or dead. Given rooms filled with items that may help them remember who they are and what happened to them that caused them to be stuck in
What is a quick and easy way to make an anime character relatable to the audience? Amnesia. No, it’s not that we have all had our bouts amnesia in daily life. In fact, actual amnesia is rather rare in reality. Instead, making an anime character have amnesia is essentially making them a blank slate. As
While there are certainly a number of anime characters who manifest the mysterious anime cough of imminent death, anime series featuring sickly characters as main or major characters are a little more sparse. Even rarer still are anime series that give the characters a real illness rather than just have them cloaked under the cover-all
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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
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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There are a lot of ways to end an anime. You could cleanly cut off at the end of an arc or leave things particularly vague in hopes there is a budget for another season. You could, as so many shounen shows do at the very end, rush things up an insane amount so a
Sometimes… Sometimes you just want to be hurt. It’s a seemingly weird response, but one that a lot of people have. Maybe you have a lot going on and need to see that it can be worse. Maybe you just want to have a nice cathartic cry. Regardless, you need to be sad and you
It is a tale as old as time. There will be great heroes that are draped in their accolades, and then there will be these jerks and jerkettes. The odds and ends that don’t really fit in so well with society for one reason or another, but they fit together pretty good. Sometimes, they can
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You can toss a rock at an anime list of even a modest length and hit an anime about the members of a school club doing something. It is a quick and easy excuse to bring characters together for a variety of club shenanigans. However, while a lot of school club anime series keep things
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