Certainly it is believed that the 12-episode format or even the longer 24-episode format is good for telling a good self-contained story. However, for some, anime isn’t about how many series you can watch – it is about the quality of the ones you do. Now, that isn’t saying that a longer anime series equates […]
It’s always the quiet ones. Okay, not always. Sometimes the loud talkers are obnoxious and murderous. However, it is sometimes the quiet ones. They are people of few words, but many knives. They don’t know how to monologue before a fight, but they know how to fight pretty well. If you are looking for deadly
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You might be familiar with the cool kuudere or perhaps the ever-beloved yet difficult to love tsundere, but the practice of stuffing characters into a box and slapping a “-dere” label on their personality is a vast one. No well-written character is just one archetype, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of anime fans from
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On a day just like any other in Tokyo, a devastating earthquake rocks Japan. Separated by the activities of their daily lives, the Mutoh family struggles to find each other in the chaos. However, as they are brought together, they soon find that the news is so much worse. With Mount Fuji threatening to erupt
Anime series occasionally make the mindless slaughter of background characters unrelated to the main characters look easy. However, it is a heavy burden to end a life, but so many series make that weight look easy to bear. Inconsequential, even. However, one way to add weight to a death is to make a character kill
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Certainly you can craft some memorable villains out of humans, but when it comes to the most deadly enemies of an anime series – it can only be monsters. Large and with infinitely more options to be deadly, monsters raise the stakes in action anime. If you are looking for anime series about monster hunting,
Been away from anime for awhile? We understand. You go out and have your life, anime will always be waiting for you when you come back. They always come back. If you are finally coming back and stopped watching sometime in or before 2013, here are all the best anime series that you missed and
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The time skip is one of my low-key favorite tropes in anime series. An important rule in storytelling is to always tell the story of the most interesting time in a character’s life, but who says a life can’t have multiple interesting moments? Furthermore, do you really want to watch a character doing mundane choring
Your typical anime lady is, well, if not moe, at least cute in a very conventionally attractive way. It is typically anime girls that sell more than a few anime series, after all. She is likely thin and, even if athletic, not exactly bulging with muscles. Not everyone tends to think muscles are particularly “cute,”
Fan Service – while the definition for it does not innately limit a service to fans as sexual in nature, fan service is the term in anime most used to describe certain lewd moments in a series. You know the ones. A cheeky jiggle of the bosom, a character tripping and falling face first into
