When you watch a series, you watch it for the main characters, of course. Writers are supposed to tell their most interesting story about these main characters and you are suppose to watch them develop. However, stories in anime need not be completely about the relatively small world of the main cast. In fact, some […]
The orphanage that Atsushi Nakajima has been living at has been recently plagued by a tiger that only he can see. Blaming him for the incident, they kick him out. Now homeless, he wanders the streets until he meets the eccentric Osamu Dazai and saves him from drowning. As it turns out, Dazai is a
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
The beauty of all fiction, not just anime, is that your imagination can flourish. However, it is notable that anime has some very strange aspects, sometimes primary among them, the weaponry. In anime, under the right circumstances, anything can be used as a weapon. No matter how unlikely or impractical, they can make it work.
I remember a time where glasses had a different stigma of being nerdy, but these days, that is not quite the same. Anime in particular has helped shaped a different sort of point of view with the meganekko archetype, as they are often called. These meganekko girls are often shy with big glasses, only for
In the early 1930s, the transcontinental train, Flying Pussyfoot, starts a legendary journey across the country that will leave behind a trail of blood. During this same period, the ambitious scientist Szilarf and his unwilling assistant Ennis investigate missing bottles of immortality elixir in New York. This can be traced back to 1711 where the
After an incident in his hometown Ren Amamiya is expelled from his school and sent to live and attend school in Tokyo while on probation. However, on the way to school, he discovers a strange app on his phone that, when the correct keywords are entered, sends him to a shadow world. There within, he
Academy City in Japan is at least 30 years more advanced than the rest of the world, technologically. However, they also have a number of students that are honing their psychic abilities. Unfortunately for Touma Kamijou, he has a psychic rank of zero, but he has an ability that the city’s scientists can’t quite understand
Ah, immortality. To have the immunity from death and aging to explore the world, amass knowledge, and watch as humanity evolved. Or…You could just be like most immortal anime characters and walk around picking fights and generally being a dick. Immortality is the ultimate unachievable fantasy and while anime tends to squander the true potential
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In the romance anime genre, you have a lot of normal romances. Brilliant love stories that bloom between men and women, men and men, and women and women that can just sweep you off your feet in a whirlwind of fluffy feelings. However, sometimes you find romances that…Get a little strange. It could be relationships
