Academy Island is a city of schools where students battle in games against each other to win Stars. Each student shares the same goal, to win and collect enough stars to snatch the prestigious title of Seven Star. Hiroto Shinohara, a new transfer student, shakes things up by unseating Sarasa, the previous years’ Seven Star, […]
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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Koudo Ikusei High School seems like a paradise with state-of-the-art facilities and where almost 100 percent of students go to university or find employment. However, while the students appear to have a good amount of freedom, only superior students get favorable treatments. After being careless on his entrance exams for a particular reason, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka
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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All society is built on a certain level of competition since there can indeed only be one number one. This competition can start early in those school years, and as with many things, anime can take it to the extreme! Whether it is classes competing with each other or individual classmates battling for that top
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Kanade Amakusa’s high school life should have been normal. Instead, he is cursed with Absolute Choice. This curse means that every so often, he will be forced to make a choice that will force one of two things to happen. Unfortunately, both choices are often completely terrible and completely public. While the lengthy title can
In some anime series, the main character is so perfect and ridiculously overpowered that he attracts companions (usually a harem) with zero effort. However, that is not the case in every series. Sometimes it is more interesting to see a main character that is practically useless (or at least hiding his power) surrounded by companions
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Why do your fighting when you can summon a creature – or person – to do your fighting for you? Most popular in shows like Pokemon or Digimon, this is not a foreign concept in anime, but it comes in many forms. What they all have in common is that the characters have ability to
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It doesn’t matter who you are, you like to laugh. However, comedy is highly subjective. What is funny to some may not be funny to others. This can make comedy anime somewhat hit or miss. Furthermore, those that haven’t enjoyed comedy anime in the past likely want something more than just random jokes. They want
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Louise is a self-absorbed mage at the prestigious Tristain Academy. Unfortunately, she can’t cast magic right and her classmates call her Louise the Zero. One day during a summoning ritual, Louise messes it up again and summons a boy named Saito. At first she treats him as a slave until she discovers a powerful brand
