An assassin simply known as Fable has earned a legendary reputation in the underworld for ruthlessly, efficiently, and successfully carrying out hits for organized crime. However, after six years of efficient murder, his boss fears too much heat from authorities and tells Fable to take a year off. Forced to move to Osaka and live […]
There’s a weird and wonderful world full of anime out there, and age has tempered none of the innate oddness that creators have injected into various series over the years. In fact, I daresay that the “weirdness” of it all is a not small part of anime’s global charm. Animation can be anything. It can
Like sumo wrestling, the katana, and geisha, the yakuza are just one of those iconic things about Japan. Certainly every country has its underground criminal element that is both respected and feared by those withing their territory, but few are known for their strict code of conduct and ritualized practices like the yakuza are. That
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Nagomi Wahira has always admired the cute girls who work in maid cafes, and as such, she has decided to move to Akihabara to become a maid! While she gets a job at the Ton Tokoton maid cafe, she discovers that after one normal day with her more mature and also newly employed co-worker Ranko
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
If you watch enough anime, as I have been doing over two decades at this point, your are bound to run into some weird ones. Admittedly, anime has gotten less strange over the years. These days you get the odd experimental piece of art every now and then, but not as many quintessentially Japanese strange
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
The Immortal Tatsu is an legendary yakuza name, but after taking down a rival gang single-handedly, he disappears. Now he has reappeared as an apron-wearing, laundry-doing, bento-lunch-making househusband for his office-working wife. While the animation makes it barely count as an anime series, it at least gives this amazing comedy manga a little hype. If
After disobeying their boss and messing up a job, three yakuza men are given a choice – commit suicide or go to Thailand and have a sex change to become female idols. They make the choice to go to Thailand, and after grueling idol training, make their debut. Unfortunately for them, they are a hit!
Iori Kitahara is excited to travel to the seaside town of Izu for his first year of college. He moves into his uncle’s scuba shop, Grand Blue, but things don’t go according to plan. Inside the shop is a bunch of naked and drunk upperclassman who get him drunk. After his cousin walks in, his
