Cliches and anime are old buddies. Lewd hand-holding buddies that go for long walks on the beach. And that’s not a bad thing! You know how cliches are made? Because fans enjoyed them so much that creators just keep using them. However, that doesn’t mean originality needs to be dead. Breaking cliches in anime can […]
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After the explosion of the methane hydrate layer, humanity was forced into a select few domed cities where society is strictly controlled. To assist humanity, autonomous robots called AutoReivs were spread throughout the cities. Enter Re-L Mayer, granddaughter of the regent, and charged with investigating a series of cases in which the AutoReivs have gone
Zen Seizaki works as a prosecutor in the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. In what originally was an investigation into claims of false advertisement, Zen uncovers that a Japanese pharmaceutical company faked clinical trials on their company’s new drug. Further investigation leads Zen and his entire department into a growing case of suicides spreading across
Have you exhausted your Law and Orders, CSIs, and 21 Jump Streets? Well, it sounds like you have a thirst for police dramas, and a pretty big one. If you somehow exhausted all your normal television options, there is always anime. What’s more, anime and it lack of shackles to reality can go above and
Brought together by a blog disproving the supernatural, nine unique individuals are confronted with both murder and the supernatural when they try to solve the mysteries within the city and get caught up in the events. If this show were a food – it would be a slow cooked food. It starts off questionably, you
There is an urban legend of an angel of death that releases people from their suffering – Boogiepop. The legends are true and when people start disappearing at a local school, the police think the kids are just runaways. However, the students at the school believe something more is happening. Dark, mysterious, and reviving a
Psychological anime is one of those genres that you typically don’t see standing on its own. You might see psychological action thrillers in which the characters are playing a game of strategic chess with people’s lives. You might see psychological horror shows where the characters within don’t know what is right or even real. You
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At a mysterious back alley ramen stand, a lonely college student in his final year accidentally bumps into a man that calls himself the God of Matrimony. There he pours his soul out to the god about all the regrets he has about his college life, which he spent bitterly trying to break up couples.
Comedy is subjective. A joke that has you laughing so hard your stomach hurts might be a complete miss for someone else. However, even in comedy, there are two types of people – People who like dead baby jokes, and people who do not. Black comedy certainly isn’t for everyone. However, for some, the juxtaposition
Sit down and gather round. You’ve read the legendary horror manga from Junji Ito, now watch a collection of his short stories come to life before your very eyes. The Junji ito Collection adapts stories from 11-volume Ito Junji Kessaku-shuu series and Fragments of Horror There are less horror short story anime series than there
