Homeless and unable to keep a job because women clog up the businesses to gawk at his beauty, Mito Yamamoto is on the brink of despair. With luck dwindling further, Mito visits a strange cafe where a waiter named Ruka Saotome licks the blood from Mito’s wound and retches with disgust. Hoping to just end […]
As the conversation around gender issues has grown complicated if not outright contentious, it seems the wiser course to perhaps stay away and just focus on talking anime, but the thing is, anime has always had – at least some – representation for those of different gender and sexual identifications. While representation has grown in
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The anime tomboy has always been an underrated, but beloved niche type of anime character. However, anyone serious about tomboys in anime know that the best of them come in different flavors. Perhaps you like the outspoken and athletic type of tomboy that excels on the field and whose blunt personality makes them a bro
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As childhood friends and neighbors, Tomo and Jun are best friends and hang out constantly. There is just one problem. Tomo is a girl, and Jun often forgets that. She wants Jun to see her as a girl so she can move their friendship into something more. When she is a tomboy and Jun is
Izumi is a normal guy, albeit with a predilection for attracting misfortune. However, the one piece of shining fortune in his life is his girlfriend, Shikimori. She is beautiful, popular, and absolutely in love with him. However, everyone around them is often surprised by how cool and dashing Shikimori is rather than cute and girly.
It must be a strange time to be a gender bending anime. It is a topic often portrayed with some levity in anime fiction, but has become a rather contentious issue in reality. Perhaps that is why creators simply don’t make so many gender-bender anime anymore. However, even with many mixed opinions of it, some
In my admittedly limited experience with sports anime, the vast majority of the plots can be split into two general themes. The first is that someone that was once good at a sport or sports in general has quit and the series is about the main character getting back into some sport. The second follows
Sports anime series like to cling to a highly concentrated series of tropes, and people seem continue to love that same heady amalgamation that comes out of it. One of the most popular tropes in sports anime is where a rookie player, someone with very little experience but perhaps experience in others things that help
For those not in the know, a trap refers to a person of either gender that convincingly dresses as the opposite gender. Traps traditionally refer to boys dressed as girls while reverse traps are girls that dress as boys. As it comes from such a conservative society, it is often surprising that anime is such
Baseball, Basketball, soccer, boxing – heck – even volleyball. They are all pretty popular throughout the world, so it is only natural that Japan might make an anime series featuring it. However, sometimes you see those really obscure sports get an entry into the sports genre of anime that makes you question the sanity. And
