Shinichi Chiaki is a first-rate musician that has dreams of playing among Europe’s elite. However, due to his fear of flying, he has remained firmly grounded in Japan. In his fourth year at Japan’s top music university, he meets Megumi Noda, or Nodame, as she prefers to be called. At first she seems unkempt and […]
Asahigaoka is rural village in the middle of nowhere, and for the five students who go to school there, their days are all about keeping the boredom at bay. All of different ages, their ways to entertain themselves never border on normal. Chill and with a great atmosphere, cute girls doing cute things need not
Anime has gotten so popular over the years that more people are getting into it each day. However, just like you don’t want to watch a vigorous Game of Thrones sex scene with your mother, you probably don’t want to watch an ecchi anime with her either. The key to spreading anime to others is
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Anime doesn’t need to be all action and drama in every series. Sure, that is what makes it interesting for some, but sometimes you just want to watch something and set your brain to autopilot. The Japanese even have a special term for these sort of anime series, they call them Iyashikei, or healing shows.
For many fans, anime is a way to escape the normal and be immersed in something extraordinary, which is what makes the slice of life genre such an odd bird. It isn’t extraordinary. In fact, it can be about as normal as your everyday life. Many can even be as plotless as your life, meandering
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Sexuality drives anime characters as it does many people in real life. You watch a romance show to watch characters fall in love. You watch a show like Naruto or My Hero Academia to ship different characters and hope those ships set sail. However, not everything is about those feelings of attraction. Sometimes, people can
One night, an object falls through space and time into the living room of dignified yakuza member Nitta. The object turns out to be a strange girl with psychic powers, but Nitta is reluctant to both take her in and to accept her offer to make use of those powers. Respecting his decision to not
Spring has sprung, the flowers are in bloom, and the grass is no longer dead and under a foot of snow! It is the springtime that reminds us that it’s not horrible to be outside and feel the sun warm our newly exposed skin. However, while being outside is nice, you can’t be out there
Kokonotsu Shikada has aspirations of becoming a manga artist, but his father wants him to take over their prestigious rural sweets shop that has been in the family for nine generations. Kokonotsu continually refuses until one day the eccentric Hotaru Shidare breezes into town and wants to make his father work for her family’s sweets
Okay, so the general idea of anime is to definitely not put their viewers to sleep, but sometimes you just want to watch something to unwind for the day and fall asleep to nice dreams afterwards. When it comes to anime to fall asleep to, we’re not talking boring, but rather relaxing. Whether it is
