After seeing Izumi Sano high jump while visiting her grandmother in Japan, Mizuki Ashiya falls in love at first sight. She becomes so enamored with him that she even uproots her whole life, moving from America to Japan so she can attend the same high school as him. There is just one problem with the […]
Being sent from her orphanage, Anne Shirley arrives on Prince Edward Island to live with the aging, childless Cuthbert siblings, Matthew and Marilla, on a quiet farm. However, everyone gets a shock when they learn that Anne was supposed to be a boy child meant to help Matthew around the farm. Despite their original hesitation
In a world where people receive blessings from various animal gods at the age of sixteen, Sophia Riller, a timid count’s daughter, gets an animal blessing that she did not expect. Sophia is blessed by the gorilla god, one said to be indomitable when it comes to combat. While she had hoped for a peaceful
Mizuho Nishino is having the worst birthday of her life in 2020 when she turned seventeen. Her parents forgot her birthday, she missed her chance to grow closer with a senpai she admires, and a mysterious disease has seen all her club activities and school events canceled. However, at least she got to spend it
Homeless and unable to keep a job because women clog up the businesses to gawk at his beauty, Mito Yamamoto is on the brink of despair. With luck dwindling further, Mito visits a strange cafe where a waiter named Ruka Saotome licks the blood from Mito’s wound and retches with disgust. Hoping to just end
After being raised as an orphan, Himari Momochi is thrilled when she learns that she inherited the Momochi House, a secluded mansion in the woods, on her 16th birthday. Hoping to learn more about her dead parents, she ignores the rumors that the Momochi House is haunted and hopes to live there. Inside, she is
A good number of romance anime use fairy tale motifs to quickly establish characters – a dashing prince, a beautiful princess, an evil queen. Sometimes they even use these character archetypes for interesting subversions. However, a much smaller sub-set of romance anime enjoy using actually fairy tale stories in their plots. From cheeky character names
It is an age-old question – what is the number one anime? What is the best anime out there? The highest echelon of the art form and the singular anime that everyone – theoretically – should enjoy unless their enjoyment comes from being a contrarian. I’m of a mind that all anime is pretty good.
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While there is certainly something charming about two people falling in love at first sight, typically the best romances start with the characters actually coming to appreciate each other as friends before they consider becoming lovers. It is just the right natural progression to things. However, a lot of romance anime tends to make it
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All high schooler Anzu Hoshino loves is video games, chocolate, and her cat, Momohiko. She has shunned everything else, especially a romantic life. However, one day a magical creature alters her reality where she can’t have any of those three things that she adores and is told that in order to return to her normal
