Midori Nagumo is a constant daydreamer that has entered City college, but still wants to have fun while ignoring her responsibilities. Niikura is her complete opposite and keeps getting pulled into her schemes, which led to them meeting Wako Izumi, their air-headed classmate. Together, the three girls end up living in the same apartment and […]
For Konohoshi Umika, her social anxiety makes her feel like an alien trapped on Earth. Due to feeling so much like an outcast, she dreams of building a rocket to take her into space so she can meet aliens who might finally understand her. One day, she meets the energetic and friendly Akeuchi Yuu, a
There are quite a few strange male characters in anime, but there isn’t quite as much gender equality when it comes to oddness. Anime often lives and dies by how marketable its female characters are, after all. As such, you don’t actually see too many weird female characters in anime. However, when you see a
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Liza Luna is part of a destructive race of aliens, and when seeing Earth, she determines it should be destroyed. However, upon further inspection, Liza discovers a number of pleasures on Earth – primary among them, our pets! After visiting a Cat Cafe and adopting a stray cat of her own, Liza spars Earth from
Vampire hunter Ronald has received a job to rescue the son of a woman from the castle of what is said to be a legendarily powerful vampire. However, upon arriving, he finds that this “powerful” vampire named Draluc immediately turned to ash when he kicked in the door. In fact, most things scatter him into
After rejecting a confession from a girl at school because he doesn’t understand love, Kou stops going to school and starts wandering the night with insomnia. One night he encounters a mysterious girl who believes people that stay awake at night are dissatisfied with the way they spent their days. Following her into the night,
On the set of children’s show “Together with Mama,” 31-year-old Omota Uramichi is upbeat and cheerful to the children, but they are all ultimately put off as they get a taste of his adult angst and darkness that comes out in his cheerful voice. Yet, failed gymnastic coach Uramichi isn’t the only one who is
Kou Ichinomiya, as the son of a wealthy businessman, has vowed never to become indebted to anyone. However,when he falls in the river under Arakawa Bridge, someone dives in to save him, thus he owes his life to this person. She is a homeless girl named Nino who wants only one thing – to fall
Nozomu Itoshiki is a high school teacher that is so pessimistic that even small misfortunes can send him spiraling into a pit of despair. Surrounded by increasingly insane students, Nozomu’s unique brand of despair has its own way of affecting them, often in a positive manner. An eccentric dark comedy that can take you an
Anime has a complicated relationship with families. Certainly you can presume that most characters have whole and happy families located safely off-screen, but anytime someone needs even a minor tragic backstory to explain present dysfunction – then BAM – dead parent. While dead parents are as lazy a storytelling device as they are effective, it
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