Iori Kitahara is excited to travel to the seaside town of Izu for his first year of college. He moves into his uncle’s scuba shop, Grand Blue, but things don’t go according to plan. Inside the shop is a bunch of naked and drunk upperclassman who get him drunk. After his cousin walks in, his […]
With his dying breath, legendary Pirate King Gol D. Roger let the world know about his treasure, setting in motion the Grand Age of Pirates. Among the many crews that set out to look for the legendary One Piece treasure is Monkey D. Luffy, a young man that has assembled a rag-tag crew to sail
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
Popuko is small and quick to anger. Pipiumi is tall and serene. Together these two high school girls swear like sailors and get up to all sorts of insane and meta activities. Pop Team Epic has a bit of a polarizing effect on the anime community right now, but if you are into absurdist comedy
While seeing silver hair to many viewers in other non-anime shows may mean a character is old, typically if you spot a silver fox in anime, they are anything but. However, silver hair is often used to suggest that a character has a wizened demeanor. Silver hair is often a mix of a moral black
The universe is a vast and strange place, full of even stranger beings. For a man named Dandy, his job is to travel around and register new species for a reward. What should be an easy job is made less so by a series of odd coincidences that happen along the way. He’s a dandy
After aliens invade Japan, they put a prohibition on swords. However, Gintoki Sakata still possesses the heart of a samurai. Taking on odd jobs alongside of his friends, Gintama follows Gintoki during his chaotic life as an errand boy. How does one describe a show that can do anything and everything it wants at any
The great thing about anime is that it is so vast yet so self-contained as a genre of media. Many of the same creators that worked on one project will move onto another, and sometimes that love for a previous project can spill over into the new one. This results in cameos and, even better,
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If there is one tried and true recipe for making a likable main character, it is to make them as lazy as many of the fans watching the series, but also make them a secret badass. Sure, they can’t be assed to go save the world when their favorite show is on, but during the
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It is no secret that if you are really into anime, you are also probably pretty intrigued by the homeland – Japan. From the food to the history, there are a lot unique things to explore about Japan as a country. That uniqueness is primarily cultivated through a long period of isolationism before assimilating a
