For as much as anime and video games go together, these hand-holding kissing cousins don’t cross over too much. There are video games done in anime art style and there are a sparse few anime series that include video games or adaptations of video games, but they don’t overlap as much as you would think. […]
Unemployed and living with his mother, Ryouta Sakamoto’s only real achievement is being the top player in Japan of a video game called Btooom! However, one day he wakes up on an island with nothing but a small green crystal embedded in his hand. He soon finds out that someone wants him and others players
Listen guys, I love My Hero Academia as much as anyone else, but sometimes you want something that feels a little more real in your anime. Naruto or Dragonball Z has some great fights, but let’s face it, real humans would be straight-up dead. If you want a more grounded action anime experience showcasing more
In the real world, siblings Shiro and Sora are NEET shut-ins. However, in the virtual world, they are a legendary gaming duo. One day, after a strange email, they find their reality taken away as they are transported to the realm of Tet, God of Games. Here, Shiro and Sora must play games to defeat
Rachel awakens to find herself trapped in the basement of an abandoned building. After wandering around – lost, dizzy, and without her memories – she happens across a man in full bandages named Zack. While at first he tries to kill her, eventually they come to an agreement. Together, they try to find a way
In a world where warfare is constant – and great for business – there are twelve individuals that thrive on the battlefield. These individuals each bear traits that coincide to one animal from the Chinese Zodiac. Those who are born into the right zodiac families or chosen to be the successor to that line are
When Ganta Igarashi got on a bus with his classmates for their class trip, it was gearing up to be an amazing day. They were going to Deadman Wonderland, after all, an amusement park where convicts perform death-defying stunts for their amusement. However, when Ganta’s class gets brutally murdered before his very eyes by a
In the multiplayer online game Glory, Ye Xiu was a legendary professional player. However, when he gets into an altercation with a team mate, he is kicked from the team and forced out of the pro circuit. Ye Xiu manages to find work as manager in an internet café and resigns to his fate. One
Survival games, death games, killing games – they fall under many different titles, but they all refer to the same thing. Survival games depict high-staked, often organized events where a group of characters are tossed into space and told to murder each other if they want to win – or live! Japan and anime has
Hope’s Peak Academy is an elite high school where those accepted are given special titles that showcase their skills. This year, only fifteen were accepted, and one of them was the completely normal Makoto Naegi who got in on sheer luck. The students are thrilled to be in such a prestigious school. That is, until
