After being saved from thugs trying to rob him in high school, passionate computer nerd Manabu “Gaku” Taira becomes friends with the confident, ambitious Haru Tennouji. Sticking together through college and now on the hunt for jobs, Haru convinces Gaku to apply to Dragon Bank, one of Japan’s largest companies. While the high-powered Kirika Kokuryuu […]
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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Everyone loves a bit of a rogue. Or perhaps more specifically, people love the type of rogue you often see used in anime. What you see in anime are typically rogues that represent the people we wish we could be. The people that play by their own rules and kowtow to absolutely no one. They
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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While not unwieldy like Detective Conan in size, the many entries of Lupin III can be off-putting to those who are potentially interested in the series. However, of the different generation-spanning anime series out there, Lupin is actually pretty accessible. Lupin III Watch Order How to Watch Lupin the III in Order The major thing
After life turned him down the path of crime, Makoto Edamura cockily thinks himself the best swindler in Japan. However, after trying to swindle a tourist only for the tourist to swap it back, he finds the police on his trail. Making his escape, he runs into this tourist again, a move that would take
Everyone loves to root for a hero, right? Wrong! Heroes are a dime a dozen, but in most media you so rarely get to see things from a villain’s point of view. It is easy to make a villain that is two dimensional and whose only motivation is to be evil. However, when an anime
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You know what they say, real manly men don’t have those smooth baby faces, they have a little chin hair going on. One of the finer things about anime is that you can do a lot of great and terrible things with beards. You can make them defy logic and even gravity, turning them into
