There isn’t anything more quintessentially anime than the kemonomimi. The term kemonomimi is actually a pretty broad one used to define mostly human characters that have certain animal-like physical characteristics. A very common example is the cat girl, or nekomimi, but kemonomimi covers all the animal characteristics. While there is a certain subset of people […]
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Relationships with a large age gap are still one of those things that have a bit of a stigma to them, and you know how much anime in the romance genre occasionally likes stigma. As age gap romance isn’t actually that uncommon in real life, you can see them quite a bit in anime. However,
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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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When Tooru Honda finds herself homeless, she decides to live in a tent in the wilderness. However, one day she is discovered by a classmate, Yuki Souma, and invited to come live in his house. From there she gets to know many members of the Souma family, not realizing that they all are inflicted by
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Ah, boy love anime – so dramatic, so emotional, and so – on occasion – very forceful with physical love. For many years, yaoi and shounen ai anime was seen as something for a certain selection of female anime fans. There is much debate as to why the homosexual relationships between men in boy’s love
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No matter what holidays you celebrate, November and December are the months for family. You go home, you eat food, you argue about your obsession with Japanese “cartoons”, and then retreat to different corners of the house to get separately drunk. Good times, right? Well, if you think your family is pretty representative of dysfunction
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If you use anime in order to set the standard for your real life relationships, you are going to be disappointed at the best of times and horribly abused at worst. Unlike many television shows that occasionally show relationships that are at least somewhat normal, anime tends to take romance to the extremes. Either it
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