Once a samurai until the warrior caste was disbanded, Shizuma Origasa began working as a rickshaw puller after the samurai rebellion in his home province of Aizu was put down. While dedicated to his work, he had another purpose of heading to the capital – to find his fiancee Sumie who went missing during the […]
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After being tricked into killing his future father-in-law, samurai Raizou Kurima is riddled with guilt. He swears vengeance on the lord that tricked him, and his path crosses with a merchant named Yuuen Usui who runs an underground group known as the Revengers. This group is actually a series of assassins who carry out the
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While the anime duo is a powerful dynamic, the anime trio is a powerhouse of its own. When creating an iconic trio dynamic, usually what you get in anime is two male characters of differing ideals, temperaments, upbringings, or all of the above and one female character to mediate things with a 90 percent chance
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Every anime series has a main character, but no anime series has a main character alone all of the time. Even a well made character needs someone beside them to have actual dialogue with and bounce ideas off of. Maybe it is a childhood friend or a long-time rival. Maybe it is a sibling or
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Everybody needs a little help sometimes. Even the most plot-armored shounen hero needs to get into a sticky situation they may need saving from every now and then to keep things interesting. However, for these professional damsels in distress, they don’t need saving “every now and then,” but instead likely need saving every week. Kidnapping,
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Anime is awash with weapons, but not all of them are particularly remarkable or memorable. No one fondly recalls the many times the lowly kunai saved the day in Naruto. No, no. They remember Zabuza’s big sword even if it was just in one rather short arc. Now being a big weapon doesn’t necessarily mean
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The term “road trip” tends to be a little specific, but not all road trips need to happen on a road. Road trip-themed anime are more about the journey than the destination. They are more about the adventures and friends that they found along the way. In fact, a good deal of anime have some
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After tragedy at sea left her stranded and orphaned on an island, Fena was raised to be pleasure slave for soldiers of the British Empire. However, after being broken from her chains by members from her past, she sets out to the sea in order find a place she can be free and unravel the
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For younger anime fans, even today their parent may not be fully familiar with what anime is. To them, it might seem little different than the cartoons on Cartoon Network. They may view it as childish, or worse, inappropriate when they walk in and someone getting their fingernails pulled out or a is woman inexplicably
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In the year 2030, Earth has been overrun by a disease that turns humans into freakish monsters. Joining a small group searching for a cure are a samurai and ninja transported from the Edo period. Their skills in battle turn the tide for this struggling small group. Gibiate is a collaborative project done by a
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