As the conversation around gender issues has grown complicated if not outright contentious, it seems the wiser course to perhaps stay away and just focus on talking anime, but the thing is, anime has always had – at least some – representation for those of different gender and sexual identifications. While representation has grown in […]
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While the anime duo is a powerful dynamic, the anime trio is a powerhouse of its own. When creating an iconic trio dynamic, usually what you get in anime is two male characters of differing ideals, temperaments, upbringings, or all of the above and one female character to mediate things with a 90 percent chance
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After the death of his father, Ittoki Sakuraba didn’t really think to much of his mother, uncle, and even childhood friend being extra protective of him. However, when a second year girl asks him out on a date and tries to kill him, he learns the shocking truth. His mother, uncle, childhood friend and so
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Long ago, the four elemental nations of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air all lived in harmony. However, when the Fire Nation attacked, the world was thrown into chaos. The Avatar, master of all four elements, possessed the power to stop the Fire Nation, but the youngest reincarnation of this ancient role vanished from the world.
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Every anime series has a main character, but no anime series has a main character alone all of the time. Even a well made character needs someone beside them to have actual dialogue with and bounce ideas off of. Maybe it is a childhood friend or a long-time rival. Maybe it is a sibling or
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You could say that a “big reveal” is pretty crucial to a successful anime. Not every successful series has one, but you will find that a lot of successful shows have at least one moment that you didn’t see coming. Whether it was that sudden but inevitable betrayal or showing that what’s been going on
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Anime is awash with weapons, but not all of them are particularly remarkable or memorable. No one fondly recalls the many times the lowly kunai saved the day in Naruto. No, no. They remember Zabuza’s big sword even if it was just in one rather short arc. Now being a big weapon doesn’t necessarily mean
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For some shows, they create their antagonist as a flimsy character who does bad things simply to do bad things and they call it a day. However, a villain operating under the abstract coverall concept of evil is hardly a character worth remembering. You will find that the best written anime villains are often the
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It feels weird to base an entire list around a slang term, but sometimes, you just see an anime character and the only way to describe them is with said term. Simp. I don’t even know where the term came from. It just pervaded the internet enough to find its way into my vocabulary. But
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Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss is determined to become a world-class Hunter, a skilled individual that performs all manner of dangerous tasks, just like his long-absent father. However, Gon finds that the path to achieving his goals is more challenging than he could have ever imagined, but in order to overcome it, Gon recruits some powerful friends.
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