For those not in the know, a trap refers to a person of either gender that convincingly dresses as the opposite gender. Traps traditionally refer to boys dressed as girls while reverse traps are girls that dress as boys. As it comes from such a conservative society, it is often surprising that anime is such […]
From secret identities to secret lovers, no one can resist the tantalizing allure of a secret – in anime or otherwise. If nothing else, by putting a main character with a secret in your show, it lightly entices the audience to stick around to figure it all out. Sometimes the more subtle you hint at
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After their high school’s recent transfer from all-boys school to co-ed, it wasn’t easy for Misaki Ayuzawa to become the school’s first female class president. While she inspires terror at school, she also works part-time at a maid café to help her struggling family. However, when one of the most popular boys at school, Takumi
It’s a simple concept: bro + romance = bromance. However, it’s not the same yaoi romance that some of you may be into, this one is purely fueled on equal parts testosterone and friendship. So while they may get together in your dubious fan fiction, in the canon world, the following brothers-in-arm make for the
Strong and stoic to the point of seeming cold, the kuudere anime boy is not someone who shows their feelings easily. However, as they say, those still waters run deep. Whether they warm up once someone makes the effort to get close to them or continue to hold tight the reins over their emotions despite
Ah, your fandom dreams have been realized. Your ship finally got together, the world was gloriously rent asunder, the villain finally died – whatever you definitely thought was going to happen, happened. Unfortunately, it turned out it was all just a dream… From the standpoint of the audience, having something turn out to be a
Ever since he was a child, Souma Yukihira helped his father cook in his restaurant, constantly challenging him to cook-offs in anticipation for the day when he would finally win. However, when his father suddenly decides to leave to go on a trip around the world, Souma is sent to the Totsuki Culinary Academy, an
In Ouran High School, the typical student is a member of the wealthy elite, but not Haruhi Fujioka. Accepted on a scholarship, Haruhi wants to avoid all the glitz and glamour in order to study hard and become a lawyer. While looking for a rare quiet place to do so, Haruhi stumbles upon a host
Between chronically dead mothers and father’s who are either absent for no given reason or “work overseas,” I’m beginning to think that a lot of anime creators might have parental issues. That’s (probably?) not true, though. An absent father or a dead mother is just easy back story for a character, or at best, a
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