Having social anxiety but still wishing to make friends, Hitori Gotou started learning the guitar to help lure people into talking to her. Years later, she has amassed great guitar skills, but is in high school with still no friends. One day, she happens to meet an outgoing girl who just so happens to need […]
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She is beauty and she is grace, she is sometimes laughing right in your face. The ojou-sama, or proper young lady archetype, is one widely utilized in anime. In some cases, she is everything a well-bred young lady should be. She is the epitome of kindness to others and would never stoop to anything uncouth
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As long as its entertaining, there really isn’t anything wrong with any anime. Certainly the animation can be faulted, and the content can be dubious, but if someone is enjoying it – then it is a success to a varying degree. However, sometimes you can be enjoying a show, and in your more lucid moments,
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Living in a rural area and previously going to a small one-room school with no other girls her age, Akebi holds the dream of going to the prestigious Roubai Academy for girls like her mother and wearing that illustrious sailor uniform. With her uniform on, she endeavors to make as many friends as possible. With
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While many people are interested in anime for intense action, vivid animation, or cerebral plot, there is a particular group of people that just want to watch something to relax and feel a little better about the world. For this, there is iyashikei anime. Iyashikei essentially translates to “healing,” and it is a term used
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Not every bulb can be the brightest bulb in the box. Sometimes you have those defective bulbs that flicker, light on fire, and burn out in five seconds. Anime has characters like that when it comes to intelligence. There is something comforting about a character that is a bit of a moron. They may be
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The arrow of time will always march forward. In that momentum, you see progress happen in both small and wide spheres. One such small sphere is anime, where a singular series can come along and leave a lasting effect on the industry as a whole, be it for better or worse. I think of it
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You might be familiar with the cool kuudere or perhaps the ever-beloved yet difficult to love tsundere, but the practice of stuffing characters into a box and slapping a “-dere” label on their personality is a vast one. No well-written character is just one archetype, but that hasn’t stopped a lot of anime fans from
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It’s the positive attitude and energy that Kokoa Hoto exudes which allows her to become friends with anyone in just a few seconds. This is her story as she moves away from home to attend school and ends up working in a café for room and board. Of course, by very nature, she befriends everyone
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Music anime series are more than just a good soundtrack. Any anime can have a good soundtrack, so of course an anime series about making music has an amazing soundtrack. Music anime series are about more than just the insert songs. They document the struggle, drama, and camaraderie that comes from this creative pursuit. Many
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