After reaching a tipping point, the world endured a technological collapse from riots and global conflict, with Japan reverting to a state resembling the Meiji Era. From the ashes in Japan rose three separate nations that have reached a tenuous stalemate over territory. For Aoteru Misumi in a small town in the nation of Yamato, […]
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In 1914 after the assassination of his father the Archduke of the Austro-Hungary Empire, young prince Alek is forced to flee his home. Across the sea in Britain, Deryn Sharp, a girl disguised as a boy, attempts to join the British Air Service. A twist of fate has these two meet and forced together on
For as much as elderly people like myself may have tried to tell people throughout the years, anime has traditionally being a medium aimed more at children. However, unlike Western cartoons that were happy with just entertaining children, the animation industry of Japan dared to make anime something that could both entertain and even emotionally
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There are many who appreciate mecha anime, but it is very obvious that the popularity of mecha has waned significantly in modern anime. Unfortunately, in many instances, those who enjoy space anime often had to look to the mecha genre in order to get that space setting that they wanted. Even though the stars have
Dialogue-dense anime certainly isn’t for everyone, and it certainly isn’t for those who watch with subtitles and have slower reading comprehension. Sometimes you want to watch two brutes slug it out rather than listen to two dudes have an increasingly tense conversation about the ongoing events of the world. However, for those that enjoy anime
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If you lead a sufficient amount of people, eventually your only goal will become to lead all people. Played straight and played for laughs, world domination is a pretty obvious goal for anime series about leaders, organizations, or – in some cases – the wildly overambitious. Whether you are looking for something more serious in
There is plenty of war in anime. It is a pretty easy setting and/or plot motivator. However, not all war anime is created equal. There is anime about war and there is anime that just happens to take place in a war. Anime that takes place in a war tends to be more drama-oriented or
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It is easy to forget sometimes that anime is an art form, and art is an explosion! I mean, art is expression, 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. Your romantic comedies with basically the
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There are a lot of feelings about modern anime, but it is a medium that has never been larger and more widely available. We are also entirely spoiled by the animation techniques and technology that can be put to work in some series. However, because it has grown so grand and beautiful, it is easy
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Crafting a strong character is easy. Slap some muscle on that bad boy and put your budget in to visual affects – Bam! However, crafting an intelligent anime character takes a little more finesse and, well, thought. While every anime main character can be said to posses moderate intelligence to get by, these anime main
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