Second-year high school student Shun Tokinoya lives with his mother and disabled sister. After an accident killed his father and injured his sister, he took up the roll of not only studying hard to get a good future job to support them, but working part-time at an e-sports cafe to help pay the bills. While […]
Sports anime is considered the most approachable genre for those unfamiliar with anime because sports are a widely popular hobby. Even for those that don’t play sports, the activity is an easily grasped stage for the character stories that are often the very highlight of sports anime. That said, if you do happen to play
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It is easy to forget sometimes that anime is an art form, and art is an explosion! I mean, art is expression, experimentation, exploration and, well, yes, an explosion sometimes! Yet, much of anime was made to appeal to a pretty big audience. Your shounen battlers. Your isekai harems. Your romantic comedies with basically the
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With sketchbook always on hand, Midori Asakusa has a passion for drawing both the world around her and the world in her boundless imagination. In stark contrast, her best friend Sayaka Kanamori and her calculated approach to life keeps her grounded. After a chance encounter with model Tsubame Misuzaki who has a passion for drawing
Filled with youth and vigor, the sports anime genre is often, unexpectedly, not solely populated by those that like sports. While not true for every anime fan, let’s just say we have a lot of indoor kids here. However, it is the themes in sports anime that often catch those non-sports fans. If you are
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We here at Recommend Me Anime can, on occasion, be animation snobs with the series we watch. It is understandable when looking at older series that the animation is less than stellar. They didn’t have the technology and special effects that we have today, and in many cases didn’t have the budget to do a
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Baseball, Basketball, soccer, boxing – heck – even volleyball. They are all pretty popular throughout the world, so it is only natural that Japan might make an anime series featuring it. However, sometimes you see those really obscure sports get an entry into the sports genre of anime that makes you question the sanity. And
Rei Kiriyama recently started to live alone in his last year of high school. He is able to financial support himself as a professional Shogi player, but while he officially became a pro in middle school, he is collapsing under the pressure to succeed. Burdened with his own problems, Rei has found solace among a
