For as much as elderly people like myself may have tried to tell people throughout the years, anime has traditionally being a medium aimed more at children. However, unlike Western cartoons that were happy with just entertaining children, the animation industry of Japan dared to make anime something that could both entertain and even emotionally […]
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There’s a weird and wonderful world full of anime out there, and age has tempered none of the innate oddness that creators have injected into various series over the years. In fact, I daresay that the “weirdness” of it all is a not small part of anime’s global charm. Animation can be anything. It can
Allow me to be extremely pretentious for a moment and say that it was Kierkegaard who said, “the most common form of despair is not being who you are.” And it is deep thoughts like that which you expect from Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, though it does perfectly encapsulate the basic philosophy of it.
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Mindfuckery – You’re supposed to avoid swearing in articles you are writing. It’s not professional. However, there is no better way describe some anime that is so bent on violating your mind with its penetrating plot points. While there are anime series that explore a linear plot with rather obvious themes, there are other series
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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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The term “mystery” tends to evoke images of hard-boiled detectives tracking down criminals, but mystery is a blanket term. A lot of situations can be mysterious, and that is what can make mystery anime so very delightful. It can be a lot of different things, more so than just the standard gumshoe on the case.
One normal day during summer vacation, the school and the 36 students inside began to drift into another dimension. Once there, many of the students begin to develop supernatural powers. At first, the school is surrounded by blackness, but their world soon changes, and as they drift, they find their new realities bound by certain
After the death of her best and only friend, Ai Ohto became a shut in. One night while on a walk, she is convinced by a mysterious entity to buy an egg. In a world that only materializes in her dreams, she breaks the egg. This summons a person haunted by fears, regrets, or otherwise
Cyberpunk has always been a niche genre of sci-fi, but every niche has its heyday, and it appears that heyday for cyberpunk is now. Unlike its closely named cousin steampunk, cyberpunk isn’t about high tech melded with something old. Instead, the cyberpunk genre is best explained as melding high-tech with low-life. Cyberpunk settings often feature
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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
