The manga is always better. It’s like an anime/manga fandom rule. Sometimes it seems like the number one rule, but it is not always true. Manga can often be better, it is true. However, sometimes animation is a better form of media to tell a particular story. Don’t believe us when we say that anime […]
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Black hair – it is something you will see a lot of in anime because you will see a lot of it in Japan. Previously, we highlighted brown hair color as “the everyone” hair color, but while that is true in many anime series and throughout the world, black hair is traditional to Japan and
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Plenty of characters can die in anime. There is dying and then there is dying in a heroic sacrifice. What makes it so heroic, you may ask? It is the fact that they gave their lives directly so that another character could live. There are quite a few heroic sacrifices in anime, and as you’d
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Not every anime has a happy ending, and sometimes it is the ones with the sad ending that have the most fulfilling effect. One of the most concrete ways to end a story to kill off the protagonist. After all, there is no more final ending than death. Quite a few series utilize this, and
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First Impressions are important. I have a personal rule that I don’t drop a show until after the six episode when most series will fully start to take shape, but then again I run an anime blog. For most people, if they aren’t even remotely intrigued, enchanted, or otherwise charmed by the first episode, they
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There are a lot of well-written characters out there that can be celebrated. …Then there are these characters. Every now and then, you find a character that rubs you the wrong way. We are not talking about characters that are loathsome because they are evil or go against your core values, we’re talking characters that
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You can have a villain that is twisted and warped beyond belief, but the best way to establish a character as villainous and pit them against a hero is to make them a murderer. In our society there are few more heinous crimes than to take a life. However, one kill does not always make
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Everyone loves to root for a hero, right? Wrong! Heroes are a dime a dozen, but in most media you so rarely get to see things from a villain’s point of view. It is easy to make a villain that is two dimensional and whose only motivation is to be evil. However, when an anime
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Toua Tokuchi is an athlete and a gambler. He makes his money with a serious fastball and a simplified game of baseball called One Outs. However, one day he is approached by a veteran slugger and asked to join his long unsuccessful team, but the owner of the team doesn’t want him to threaten the
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At only 58 years old, years of overwork and stress has Inuyashiki Ichirou looking like he is well into his 80’s. Ignored and disrespected by his family as well as diagnosed with cancer, all seems hopeless. However, a light descends from the sky and strikes Ichirou where he stands. When he awakens, he finds he
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