Ah, youth. You don’t really appreciate it until it is gone, but there are ways to reminisce – especially in anime. Coming-of-age stories are all about that delicate time of insecurity and growth. About kids who are just getting to that age where the future is wide open and full of endless possibilities, but the […]
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Shinichi Chiaki is a first-rate musician that has dreams of playing among Europe’s elite. However, due to his fear of flying, he has remained firmly grounded in Japan. In his fourth year at Japan’s top music university, he meets Megumi Noda, or Nodame, as she prefers to be called. At first she seems unkempt and
There are some epic first kisses in anime. The kind you wait for. The kind the series built up the entire time. And then, well, there are some bad ones. From accidental and awkward to “oops, I accidentally ate your face,” anime has some pretty amazingly bad first kiss scenes. Worst Anime Kisses Naruto and
If you believe most romance anime, your love life dies after high school. If you aren’t engaged by graduation, you are doomed to die alone, right? However, adult relationships can be just as touching, dramatic, and even more interesting since it allows for a wider array in terms of setting and romantic activities. It is
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On many occasions, anime has a very strange time with age. Maybe a character becomes so iconic, they just don’t want to age them. Sometimes, creators are trying to convey something by making a character deceptively young. Does it make them cuter or seem more mature? That’s up to us to decide, but here are
Banri Tada has finally been accepted into a private law academy in Tokyo, but due to an accident, he is without all his memories. During his freshmen orientation, he meets Mitsuo Yanagisawa who is consummately stalked by Kouko Kaga, a girl from his old school. Banri begins to hit it off with both of them.
You know what they say, one is never enough. When it comes to romance anime, there has never been more true of a statement. If done well, one romantic couple in a romance anime can be enough, but romance anime junkies always want more. They want more delightfully awkward hand-holding. More tender first kisses. More
Tsurezure Children depicts the many different scenarios of young love. From the relationship between the student council president and a rebel girl to a boy so crippled by his own lack of self-confidence that he can’t accept that a girl confessed to him. You follow their triumphs and failures throughout the relationships of half a
Unable to resist taking in abandoned kittens, and amassing quite a collection of them, Sorata Kanda is forced to move to Suimei High School’s infamous Sakura Hall. This dorm is used to house all the misfit students that don’t quite fit in the regular housing. There, Sorata meets an array of different oddballs that inspire
Rei Kiriyama recently started to live alone in his last year of high school. He is able to financial support himself as a professional Shogi player, but while he officially became a pro in middle school, he is collapsing under the pressure to succeed. Burdened with his own problems, Rei has found solace among a
