Growing up as an orphan, Nio Chirinu spends his days working at the restaurant of an old woman who took him in with his sister Iroha. However, Nio and his sister don’t realize that they are being watched by two men. When they are targeted by child abductors, Nio learns that they were being used […]
Amanda Waller, head of A.R.G.U.S., has harnessed mysterious magical energies to open a portal to another world. There, the organization intends to strip the world of its resources for profit, but needs to protect their investments and create stability first. In order to do this, she assembles an expendable team of super villains to send
Arajin Tomoshibi has returned to the town where he lived as a child with the sole hope of getting himself a cute girlfriend. However, his new school is full of delinquents with few girls in sight. Just when Arajin has his heart stolen by the one cutie he could find, his old boyhood friend Matakara
In the simplest terms, the Shinsengumi were a paramilitary force charged with keeping the peace in Kyoto during the turbulent Bakumatsu period of the 1860’s. However, the Shinsengumi were only active for just about six years, and are technically on the losing side of history, so why are they so highly celebrated in anime and
After being tricked into killing his future father-in-law, samurai Raizou Kurima is riddled with guilt. He swears vengeance on the lord that tricked him, and his path crosses with a merchant named Yuuen Usui who runs an underground group known as the Revengers. This group is actually a series of assassins who carry out the
After their descent 150 years ago, the demons demanded reverence from humanity as gods. Standing up against these new overlords were the Bushi, who still battle to this day, but the demons preach that they are enemies. Hinamoto, freed from Bushi rule many years ago, lives peacefully and reveres demons. The residents mine rocks for
When you create a character in a visual media, typically you want a way to differentiate that character from the other characters you may be introducing. When you have the tools of sound and storytelling as well as sight in anime, that’s not so hard to do. You make them look unique, make sure their
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After the rise of a group called the Masked Demons delivering powerful evil swords that corrupted weak individuals, the Shinsengumi stood up to fight them. However, all but one were slain in the battle. To keep the peace in Kyoto and continue the fight against this organization, seven powerful criminals slated for execution were chosen
