There are many different strategies that a series can employ if it wants to be artistically unique. There was a time when moe was the hook and not standard for anime. There was also a time where a main character needed wild hair or else you didn’t know they were a main character. However, when […]
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Tucked away in the back alley of Kamifucho is an apartment above a theater. Inside, a lazy genius known as Akuma-kun researches a way to make a paradise for everyone as his sacred calling. However, in order to make rent, he is often hired to solve mysterious supernatural cases for people. With the help of
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Allow me to be extremely pretentious for a moment and say that it was Kierkegaard who said, “the most common form of despair is not being who you are.” And it is deep thoughts like that which you expect from Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, though it does perfectly encapsulate the basic philosophy of it.
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Mindfuckery – You’re supposed to avoid swearing in articles you are writing. It’s not professional. However, there is no better way describe some anime that is so bent on violating your mind with its penetrating plot points. While there are anime series that explore a linear plot with rather obvious themes, there are other series
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It is easy to forget sometimes that anime in and of itself is an art form, and art is an explosion! I mean, art is expression, and experimentation, exploration and, well, yes, an explosion sometimes! Yet, much of anime was made to appeal to a pretty big audience. Your shounen battlers. Your isekai harems shows.
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One normal day during summer vacation, the school and the 36 students inside began to drift into another dimension. Once there, many of the students begin to develop supernatural powers. At first, the school is surrounded by blackness, but their world soon changes, and as they drift, they find their new realities bound by certain
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If you watch enough anime, as I have been doing over two decades at this point, your are bound to run into some weird ones. Admittedly, anime has gotten less strange over the years. These days you get the odd experimental piece of art every now and then, but not as many quintessentially Japanese strange
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When someone says that an anime series is “underrated,” it is a term that has two very distinctly different meanings. It can be something that not enough people have watched, or it can be something that people don’t appreciate for how amazing it actually is. Despite the difference in meaning, no one side is wrong
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After Earth was destroyed by an alien race known as the Gauna, humanity fled across the galaxy in giant seed ships looking for a new home. In the year 3394, a mysterious man named Nagate Tanikaze surfaced from the bowels of the ship Sidonia and breaks his lifelong seclusion in search of food. After being
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