Tarou Sakamoto was a legendary assassin with unmatched prowess. However, five years ago, Tarou Sakamoto disappeared from the criminal underworld. It turns out that he decided to retire after he fell in love and got married. Now with a wife and young daughter, Sakamoto put on a little weight, works with his wife at a […]
No matter how you look at it, we have an interesting world on our hands. Humanity may only be a blip in the planet’s own history, but we have created a rich history of our own rife with monumental – and complicated – events. Sometimes it is an interesting thought process to think about where
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When a person is born, they bear a distinctive mark on their face that denotes that they have magical abilities. To maintain the magical integrity of the world, those without the mark are swiftly exterminated. Mash Burnedead was born without a mark or magical ability, but he was taken in by one weak mage and
I know that having “ADHD-level focus” is kind of a joke that people make, but it is probably less funny for people that actually have it. It can take twice as long to get things done, you start a dozen different things, half of the things you plan out don’t get done, and then you
In the simplest terms, the Shinsengumi were a paramilitary force charged with keeping the peace in Kyoto during the turbulent Bakumatsu period of the 1860’s. However, the Shinsengumi were only active for just about six years, and are technically on the losing side of history, so why are they so highly celebrated in anime and
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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Vampire hunter Ronald has received a job to rescue the son of a woman from the castle of what is said to be a legendarily powerful vampire. However, upon arriving, he finds that this “powerful” vampire named Draluc immediately turned to ash when he kicked in the door. In fact, most things scatter him into
While the anime duo is a powerful dynamic, the anime trio is a powerhouse of its own. When creating an iconic trio dynamic, usually what you get in anime is two male characters of differing ideals, temperaments, upbringings, or all of the above and one female character to mediate things with a 90 percent chance
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The paranormal is everything beyond the scope of human scientific understanding. Espers, aliens, ghosts, everything that supernatural and sometimes sci-fi anime uses to be creepy. However, just because the paranormal can be creepy doesn’t need it always needs to be. Sometimes, these things beyond normal scientific understanding can be great devices for comedy, too. If
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There is a lot of comedy to be found in anime, but much of the time that comedy serves as a brief respite from a more serious plot. Yet, if you are in the mood to laugh, not so much to think or follow a plot, there are quite a few anime series that dedicate
