After years of tension, the Osaka’s Somei and Tokyo’s Miyama yakuza families have called a truce, one built on the engagement between the grandchildren of their leaders. For 17-year-old Yoshino Somei, she is forced to move to Tokyo to live with Kirishima Miyama where she will attend school with her new fiance. While Kirishima is […]
Brandon Heat and Harry MacDowel grew up on the streets together and both turned to crime in order to get by. However, when their activities are noticed by the eyes of the expansive Millennion mafia syndicate, the pair find themselves brought under their wings and rising through the ranks. Things go well until one fateful
What is a quick and easy way to make an anime character relatable to the audience? Amnesia. No, it’s not that we have all had our bouts amnesia in daily life. In fact, actual amnesia is rather rare in reality. Instead, making an anime character have amnesia is essentially making them a blank slate. As
Secret gadgets, hidden messages, intel gathering in the shadows – Spy anime is the most subtle of intrigues. It usually lacks the flashy action that drives anime to wild popularity, but there is no finer place to search for deep storytelling and mysteries to unravel. Espionage is a finer art that happens in the shadows.
Although a novice bounty hunter, Chateau Dankworth is confident in her skills. However, one day she is overpowered by a man who wasn’t even her target, and worse yet, he takes an immediate romantic interest in her. She soon learns that the man who continues to pester her is Song Ryang-ha – a former assassin
Anime is awash in killers, but assassins aren’t just killers, now are they? Hard in heart and body, assassins are killers trained specifically for the task. They carry out their contracts with precision and supreme skill that makes even some experienced villains look like rank amateurs when they cross another name off that list. If
After the appearance of the Heaven and Hell Gates, then rose the Contractors, individuals that gave up their humanity for supernatural powers. In Section 4 of Japan around the Hell Gate, Chief Misaki finds herself constantly at odds with a Contractor named Hei, a man who takes missions from the ruthless underground Syndicate that slowly
As a writer, one of the key pieces of advice you get is to “write what you know.” Using places you have been to and things you have seen, you can paint a clearer picture of it with your words. I imagine it is the same with manga artists and anime creators. For this reason,
Mafia, Yakuza, No-Good-Nicks – They are all drawn to one thing – the safety and brotherhood of a gang. Everyone loves a good gang story, even if gangs in real life are a bit of a hassle, to say the least. Gang anime has all the camaraderie and the good times of a group of
