Sumireko Ogawa is a bookstore clerk who, despite celebrating some literary success in high school, has been unable to produce any more quality writing in her 20s. However, after she gets caught up in a string of mysterious events happening in the city, she gained the ability to transform into a child, which has finally […]
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In a fantasy world, a legendary hero has set himself to finally slaying the Corpse God, an evil necromancer. When the dust settles from their battle, the hero is victorious, but even he senses something unusual about his victory. Meanwhile, the Corpse God wakes up in an alley in modern Tokyo, possessing the body of
An anime with non-linear storytelling is pretty self-explanatory. It is an anime where the story is given to you with the events out of order – not in a straight chronological line. However, a lot of anime can be non-linear. A solid example of the most common non-linear storytelling used in anime these days is
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There is magic in a good chunk of anime these days. While there is certainly some charm to enjoying fantasy anime set in a fantasy land filled with magic, sometimes you wonder what magic might be like if it were present in our world. Contemporary fantasy anime, or urban fantasy anime as it is sometimes
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What is a quick and easy way to make an anime character relatable to the audience? Amnesia. No, it’s not that we have all had our bouts amnesia in daily life. In fact, actual amnesia is rather rare in reality. Instead, making an anime character have amnesia is essentially making them a blank slate. As
It could be a cheeky little screw to the audience in the first episode, it could be a shocking death mid-way through the series. Regardless of which avenue they pursue, there are a few anime series where the main characters you think you will get is not actually the main character at all. In a
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Blunt walrus Hiroshi Odokawa drives a taxi for a living which has caused him to get to know his various eccentric customers. One day, his simple life is turned upside down when a missing person case is tracked by the police back to him. Now a person of interest to both cops and yakuza, he
There are a lot of ways to end an anime. You could cleanly cut off at the end of an arc or leave things particularly vague in hopes there is a budget for another season. You could, as so many shounen shows do at the very end, rush things up an insane amount so a
Not quite human, not quite kemonomimi, not quite animal – Anime characters with human bodies and full animal heads are a rarity in the realms of bit beastly anime. Typically, they are the victim of a curse wherein the animal head is meant to make them an outcast. Though you’ll find that in most cases,
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We all expect our main characters to be a certain level of talented and clever, but them playing coy is a common character defense. Maybe they want to be left alone. Maybe they are just waiting for their moment. Maybe they don’t want their peers to be intimidated. Regardless, it is a common set up
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