A squid-like alien creature comes to Earth from Planet Happy with a mission to spread happiness across the universe. The first person he meets is Shizuka Kuze, a neglected, bullied child who feeds the creature and names him Takopii. Feeling indebted to her, Takopii makes it his mission to make her smile. When faced with […]
After the Golden Kingdom was sunk a thousand years ago by a magician, the king emerged from the depths and said that anyone who can defeat the mage will get his treasure. The king crumbled to dust and adventurers raced into an expansive underground labyrinth to prob its dangerous depths. Laios is the leader of
There’s a weird and wonderful world full of anime out there, and age has tempered none of the innate oddness that creators have injected into various series over the years. In fact, I daresay that the “weirdness” of it all is a not small part of anime’s global charm. Animation can be anything. It can
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
After a disaster fifteen years ago caused society to collapse, the survivors struggle to eek out an existence. Alongside trying to scrounge together food, clean water, and electricity, these survivors are also plagued by the appearance of man-eating monsters. Two young survivors, Maru and Kiruko, wander the wasteland and make money off Maru’s ability to
Thrown into a foreign land with no memory of their previous life, a group of strangers must try and survive in a brutal world filled with dangerous monsters. While the strong quickly band together, the weak are left to make a patchwork group of their own. Slowly but surely this group becomes fighters, finally earning
With the world covered by a great snow sea, drinking water becoming scare, and livable land located at the feet of a few deteriorating orbital trees that extend into the sky, humanity has dwindled down to a few thousand. According to legend, there is a sage that knows the secret to producing unlimited amounts of
In most horror anime, the terror often comes from the threat of death to the characters. Terrorized by ghosts, hunted by killers, and splattered into bloody pieces – there is no threat of death to us the audience, but it reminds us that it is out there. Lovecraftian style horror, or rather cosmic horror if
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There is no more iconic adventure for a fantasy anime than a good old-fashioned dungeon crawl. Who knows what lies in its depths? Treasure? Powerful monsters? Some lady chained up there for several centuries? You can make pretty good guesses, but a dungeon’s content in a fantasy anime can occasionally surprise you. If you are
