People in Japan have been growing up with Super Sentai series since the 70’s. I even grew up with Power Rangers as a child as Super Sentai made its way to the West. It is as ingrained into Tokusatsu as Godzilla or Kamen Rider, and as such, you can find more than a few references […]
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If you lead a sufficient amount of people, eventually your only goal will become to lead all people. Played straight and played for laughs, world domination is a pretty obvious goal for anime series about leaders, organizations, or – in some cases – the wildly overambitious. Whether you are looking for something more serious in
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With the vast majority of anime, what they establish as the genre in the first few episodes will be the genre throughout the series. If you are watching Non Non Biyori, you can expect a “cute girls doing cute things” show about shenanigans all the way to the end. If you are watching Mother of
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If you watch enough anime, as I have been doing over two decades at this point, your are bound to run into some weird ones. Admittedly, anime has gotten less strange over the years. These days you get the odd experimental piece of art every now and then, but not as many quintessentially Japanese strange
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Not every bulb can be the brightest bulb in the box. Sometimes you have those defective bulbs that flicker, light on fire, and burn out in five seconds. Anime has characters like that when it comes to intelligence. There is something comforting about a character that is a bit of a moron. They may be
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On Earth, the villainous Kisaragi Corporation has finally conquered everything, but they have their eye on the entire universe. Having finally created a transporter, they send agent Roku-gou to the kingdom of Grace where he is to infiltrate and eventually conquer the kingdom for the corporation. Of course, to ensure the success of one of
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While on a cruise ship headed to Cenancle Island, full-body cyborg Nene meets an inventor Uzal and Uzal’s cyborg Clarion. Soon after leaving, Uzal and Nene find themselves in a terrorist attack in which Uzal gives Nene ownership of Clarion before dying. Together the pair find themselves burdened with a sentient laser in the form
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There are plenty of good anime adaptations out there, even if every single one comes with a fan of the manga who has a problem with it. The issue is that manga can spend time on small details while anime needs to maintain an appropriate pace to fit in the entire story or simply to
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Comedy is subjective. A joke that has you laughing so hard your stomach hurts might be a complete miss for someone else. However, even in comedy, there are two types of people – People who like dead baby jokes, and people who do not. Black comedy certainly isn’t for everyone. However, for some, the juxtaposition
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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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