Sulking after breaking up with her boyfriend, Momo Ayase stumbles upon a bullied boy and sticks up for him. After her random act of kindness, the alien-obsessed boy tries to talk to her about the extraterrestrial interest that he thinks they share. However, while Momo says she doesn’t believe in aliens, she does believe in […]
There are more than a few overpowered main characters in anime. In fact, some series seem to build their story fully around how strong, cool, and all-around perfect the main character is. However, not every overpowered anime main character is fun to watch. Sometimes the best overpowered main characters aren’t the dour, serious men of
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While exorcism in anime seems to have experienced a particular revival lately, anime about exorcists has always been pretty popular. Japan has a long history with religions and spirituality that have techniques and rituals to ward off evil spirits. Their spiritual history has spirits and deities for many things, and as such they also have
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When a person is born, they bear a distinctive mark on their face that denotes that they have magical abilities. To maintain the magical integrity of the world, those without the mark are swiftly exterminated. Mash Burnedead was born without a mark or magical ability, but he was taken in by one weak mage and
The paranormal is everything beyond the scope of human scientific understanding. Espers, aliens, ghosts, everything that supernatural and sometimes sci-fi anime uses to be creepy. However, just because the paranormal can be creepy doesn’t need it always needs to be. Sometimes, these things beyond normal scientific understanding can be great devices for comedy, too. If
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What more unrelatable of a problem to a general audience than having their characters be too wonderful at everything? Maybe they are too beautiful. Too perfectly morally aligned. Just too good at everything they try that they keep being saddled with annoying praise or, more realistically, bothersome work. It may be an unrelatable problem, but
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800 years ago, as terrifying demons pushed mankind to the brink, they prayed to the gods and called for their aid. Emerging from these prayers, battle deities called Idaten came forth. With great strength and endurance, they defeated the demons, sealing many of them away. Now, in a long era of peace, the present generation
There is a general conformity to the art of anime that actually kind of defines it as a genre. However, as an art form, there is always a little room for experimentation. Some anime series are perfectly happy having an art style that looks like most others, but there are a few series that dare
A boy nicknamed Dorotabo lives with his aunt in a rural Japanese inn after being abandoned by his parents. One day, a detective that specializes in the occult named Kohachi Inugami arrives from Tokyo. He is there to investigate mysterious livestock deaths and takes an interest in Dorotabo. The boy ends up helping Inugami and
It’s always the quiet ones. Okay, not always. Sometimes the loud talkers are obnoxious and murderous. However, it is sometimes the quiet ones. They are people of few words, but many knives. They don’t know how to monologue before a fight, but they know how to fight pretty well. If you are looking for deadly
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