Allow me to be extremely pretentious for a moment and say that it was Kierkegaard who said, “the most common form of despair is not being who you are.” And it is deep thoughts like that which you expect from Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, though it does perfectly encapsulate the basic philosophy of it. […]
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While there are certainly a number of anime characters who manifest the mysterious anime cough of imminent death, anime series featuring sickly characters as main or major characters are a little more sparse. Even rarer still are anime series that give the characters a real illness rather than just have them cloaked under the cover-all
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The city of Tom Sawyer is an augmented reality society where citizens buy and sell services and appearance augmentations with Love, a currency akin to likes on social media. The Decos implemented in their eyes from early childhood allows them to enjoy augmented reality and also allow the government to control it. One day, a
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Mindfuckery – You’re supposed to avoid swearing in articles you are writing. It’s not professional. However, there is no better way describe some anime that is so bent on violating your mind with its penetrating plot points. While there are anime series that explore a linear plot with rather obvious themes, there are other series
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One normal day during summer vacation, the school and the 36 students inside began to drift into another dimension. Once there, many of the students begin to develop supernatural powers. At first, the school is surrounded by blackness, but their world soon changes, and as they drift, they find their new realities bound by certain
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If you watch enough anime, as I have been doing over two decades at this point, your are bound to run into some weird ones. Admittedly, anime has gotten less strange over the years. These days you get the odd experimental piece of art every now and then, but not as many quintessentially Japanese strange
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After the death of her best and only friend, Ai Ohto became a shut in. One night while on a walk, she is convinced by a mysterious entity to buy an egg. In a world that only materializes in her dreams, she breaks the egg. This summons a person haunted by fears, regrets, or otherwise
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Kou Ichinomiya, as the son of a wealthy businessman, has vowed never to become indebted to anyone. However,when he falls in the river under Arakawa Bridge, someone dives in to save him, thus he owes his life to this person. She is a homeless girl named Nino who wants only one thing – to fall
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Hakaze Kusaribe is a sorceress tasked with protecting the Tree of Origins. However, when a rival member of her family seeking to revive the Tree of World’s End catches her, she is stuffed into a barrel and banished to an island. From there Hakaze sends a message out to sea, one received by Mahiro Fuwa.
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In many art forms, taking inspiration from the real world is recommended to add depth and realism to a story. A character based on a friend from your past makes for a more realistic character not because the audience also know them, but chances are they can relate to them better due to their actual
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