The time skip is one of my low-key favorite tropes in anime series. An important rule in storytelling is to always tell the story of the most interesting time in a character’s life, but who says a life can’t have multiple interesting moments? Furthermore, do you really want to watch a character doing mundane choring […]
The world is ravaged by monsters called Nemeses. These demons fall from the sky and cause complete destruction to everything around them. In their path are Sorcerers that can defeat them. Seth is one such Sorcerer that seeks to destroy every Nemesis. He travels with his friends to destroy the near-mythical source of these monsters
You like characters? Why wouldn’t you? Sure, a series can do crowds of generic characters, some who may or may not even get faces, but it is not the same as creating a series with tons of characters that all have unique designs and personalities. If you enjoy learning about a lot of characters in
This is a world of skies where islands are adrift in a sea of clouds. Gran, a young boy, lives on the island of Zinkenstill. One day, he happens across Lyria, a girl that had escaped the militarily powerful Erste Empire. When they come after her, Gran gets pulled into the middle of it and
While looking to enhance her magic, celestial mage Lucy meets an energetic fire mage named Natsu. After finding out he is a member of the famous wizard guild Fairy Tail that she has long admired, the pair travel home so Lucy can join. Together with her new guildmates, Lucy and Natsu embark on adventures to
There are some pretty bad parents in anime, but things don’t usually come to blows. However, in more action-oriented series where the children are often imbued with great power, sometimes they do! When you have a bad parent, you know a beat down is in their future in these series. Best Parent Versus Child Fights
You know what they say, the face says it all. Nowhere is that more true in the expansively creative realms of anime. While some shows go for a more realistic approach, there are so many others that make full use of the creative flexibilities that come with animation. If you are looking with shows that
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The beauty of all fiction, not just anime, is that your imagination can flourish. However, it is notable that anime has some very strange aspects, sometimes primary among them, the weaponry. In anime, under the right circumstances, anything can be used as a weapon. No matter how unlikely or impractical, they can make it work.
Plenty of characters can die in anime. There is dying and then there is dying in a heroic sacrifice. What makes it so heroic, you may ask? It is the fact that they gave their lives directly so that another character could live. There are quite a few heroic sacrifices in anime, and as you’d
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Character design in any anime series is important. Creators have certain liberties they can take with characters in order to differentiate them from series in the same genre. However, if you make a character too “out there” with their choice of clothes, it can put people off. If you create a school life series, you
