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 […]
While romance can bloom from literally anywhere, romance anime only has a select number of set ups to make a compelling romantic story. One such set up is where the popular person goes against all odds and begins to take an interest in their local outcast. While it may seem a bit insulting that an
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Izumi is a normal guy, albeit with a predilection for attracting misfortune. However, the one piece of shining fortune in his life is his girlfriend, Shikimori. She is beautiful, popular, and absolutely in love with him. However, everyone around them is often surprised by how cool and dashing Shikimori is rather than cute and girly.
You know what they say, all it takes is the attentions of one popular person to shine even the biggest turd into a diamond. It certainly isn’t a particularly relatable situation, but it is one of the finer forms of wish fulfillment that anime can indulge. While it isn’t always at the intervention of another,
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Romance and comedy – It is a simple recipe, but an effective one. The intoxicating mix of genres that is “rom-com” just go together like a warm mug of tea on a cold, rainy day. However, because the two genres go together so well, the genre has become quite stuffed to the bursting point with
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Futaba Yoshioka was an attractive middle schooler, popular with boys, but not with girls. It left her feeling lonely, but none of that mattered as long as her crush, Kou Tanaka, liked her. However, when Kou moved away, Futaba decided to change herself, purposely adopting unattractive traits to be popular with the girls, but one
In romance anime, it takes two to make a couple, but there will almost always be a main character that drives of the story. As romance anime is still widely considered a genre aimed at women, most commonly you will find that the main character of a large chunk of romance anime is the female
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Although lauded for being likable and intelligent, Kyouko Hori hides the fact that she has to take care of her brother and the housework because her parents are always working. Izumi Miyamura, on the other hand, is seen as a brooding, bespectacled otaku. Outside of school, he sports tattoos and nine piercings. By happenstance, the
The world is filled with people who are fundamentally different from each other. For many, their lives will never intersect. However, sometimes there are moments where two very different people meet and fill what was once a void in each other. They show each other a different side of the world that they may have
I won’t generalize the community by saying “everyone does it,” but chances are if you enjoy a lot of anime, you’ve had a thought that maybe you should learn Japanese. Alternatively, maybe you just enjoy the country or the language, but want to augment your knowledge through enjoying a few anime series. Anime can be
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