Yuuri awakens on an interstellar cruiser with no memories only to be told that Earth was destroyed by an alien race and humanity has fled to space. Unfortunately, it seems that one of the Gnosia, the aliens bent on eradicating humanity, have snuck onboard disguised as one of the passengers. After Yuuri and the remaining […]
Six months ago, Yoshiki Tsujinaka’s best friend Hikaru Indou went missing in the mountains only to return a week later with no memory of what happened. However, Yoshiki already knows that it was not Hikaru who came back, but something wearing his skin and pretending to be him. When Yoshiki reveals this to Hikaru, the
A squid-like alien creature comes to Earth from Planet Happy with a mission to spread happiness across the universe. The first person he meets is Shizuka Kuze, a neglected, bullied child who feeds the creature and names him Takopii. Feeling indebted to her, Takopii makes it his mission to make her smile. When faced with
In the small town of Kurouzu-cho, Kirie Goshima lives a fairly normal life with her family. However, one day while walking to the station with her boyfriend Shuuichi Saito, they witness Shuuichi’s father gazing at a snail. Shuuichi casually remarks that his father has been acting weird lately and has become strangely enamored with spirals.
An anime with non-linear storytelling is pretty self-explanatory. It is an anime where the story is given to you with the events out of order – not in a straight chronological line. However, a lot of anime can be non-linear. A solid example of the most common non-linear storytelling used in anime these days is
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In the seaside town of Kurosaki, there stands a rundown old apartment block known as Housing Complex C. Young Kimi and many of the residents are excited for the new people from abroad that move in while they observe technical research in the area. However, soon after these new residents move in, a number of
Anime is filled with a lot of death. However, while a death scene in anime can be a useful storytelling tool, not all death in anime is graphic. Some of it happens off-screen. Some of it happens in such bulk and ambiguity that you barely even feel anything for the nameless fictional characters. However, if
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You could say that a “big reveal” is pretty crucial to a successful anime. Not every successful series has one, but you will find that a lot of successful shows have at least one moment that you didn’t see coming. Whether it was that sudden but inevitable betrayal or showing that what’s been going on
It could be a cheeky little screw to the audience in the first episode, it could be a shocking death mid-way through the series. Regardless of which avenue they pursue, there are a few anime series where the main characters you think you will get is not actually the main character at all. In a
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While it is fully possible to create horror and mystery in a big city, there is a particular reason that those two genres are drawn to the country. A rural town may give some a sense of safety in that you know all of your neighbors seemingly pretty well. However, the countryside brings with it
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