It is, this week, our fourth anniversary! I’ve been working on this site for four long years, and it is doing great despite sometimes feeling like I’m running out of things to recommend. Anyway, as is tradition, every year I’ve written a more personal sort of recommendation article. Not one written for the search engine […]
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Out-performed by the girls’ club and facing disbandment, team captain of the soft tennis club Toma Shinjou is desperate to recruit members. He immediately targets new transfer student Maki Katsuragi for his solid reflexes. After a few rejections, Maki joins and quickly shines. This causes complicated feelings among the rest of the team who feel
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Some series have downer endings where the whole series builds up to ending tragically. However, there are also series at the opposite end. They start off super sad and depressing, but then you watch the character climb out of it, usually. These series can be good watches if you are feeling a mite melancholic because
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No one likes to be bullied, but it happens. It is in human nature to deal with our insecurities by picking on someone else we perceive as different or weaker. That doesn’t make it right, though. As with many issues, some find it easier to sort through their feelings by seeing their situation presented in
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Been away from anime for awhile? We understand. You go out and have your life, anime will always be waiting for you when you come back. They always come back. If you are finally coming back and stopped watching sometime in or before 2016, here are all the best anime series that you missed and
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Growing up in the shadow of her older sister, Chihaya Ayase is strong-willed and a tomboy with no dreams of her own. However, after learning an outcast in her class, Arata Wataya, has incredible skill at karuta and his huge passion inspires her, she is pulled into the world of the poem-based card game along
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Ah, youth. You don’t really appreciate it until it is gone, but there are ways to reminisce, especially in anime. Coming of age stories focus on youth. Kids are just getting to that age where the future is wide open and full of possibilities. They get to experience mistakes when they don’t have as serious
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After the senior members graduated, Takezou is now the sole member of his Japanese string instrument club. Facing termination, he now begins his search for new members when suddenly a wily one bursts right into his club room. Chika has a strong reputation as a violent thug, but due to his grandfather being a renowned
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For many fans, anime is a way to escape the normal and be immersed in something extraordinary, which is what makes the slice of life genre such an odd bird. It isn’t extraordinary. In fact, it can be about as normal as your everyday life. Many can even be as plotless as your life, meandering
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Everyone feels lonely sometimes. They feel like they don’t fit in, but one day they find the right person or people that finally make them discover they have a place in this world. Unsurprisingly, there are a number of anime series that explore this particular feeling of being an outcast. I’ve always believed that watching
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