In a wealthy town, the residents think nothing of throwing away trash, but their waste is precious to Rudo who spends his days pouring through trash for objects to reuse. One day, Rudo returns home to find his father murdered by a mystery assailant. Falsely accused, Rudo is sent to the pit, and area where […]
When investigating a strange sight he saw the night before, middle schooler Hikaru Amatsuga has his normal life upended when an orb, crying out for help, fuses itself to his jacket and turns into a mechanical arm. The arm, a mechanical life form from another dimension, introduces itself as Alma whose race has come to
All Fuko wanted was a passionate romance like in her shoujo manga. However, she has the unpleasant ability of Unluck that causes anyone she touches to suffer an accident – its severity based on her affection for them. After accidentally causing her parents to die in a plane crash, Fuko has been paralyzed by fear
As the conversation around gender issues has grown complicated if not outright contentious, it seems the wiser course to perhaps stay away and just focus on talking anime, but the thing is, anime has always had – at least some – representation for those of different gender and sexual identifications. While representation has grown in
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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
There is a battle about to begin in Tokyo, the Shaman Fight. This tournament is held every 500 years where shamans, those who command spirits, test their skills in combat. The winner becomes the Shaman King and gains command of the Great Spirit. Shaman King follows the story of the carefree Yoh Asakura and his
As we move ever closer to proving that Twain was right and there is no such thing as an original thought, remakes and reboots of older things are all the rage in other mediums. Your favorite childhood video game from a decade or two ago? Remake them with modern graphics. The Spiderman series every time
Not every bulb can be the brightest bulb in the box. Sometimes you have those defective bulbs that flicker, light on fire, and burn out in five seconds. Anime has characters like that when it comes to intelligence. There is something comforting about a character that is a bit of a moron. They may be
While there are those who enjoy the cute little moe fang, there are others who demand a whole mouth of sharp teeth. For some characters, they can come with a real set of chompers that make them look more like a shark than a person. In some cases, those teeth are used to denote a
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There are plenty of good anime adaptations out there, even if every single one comes with a fan of the manga who has a problem with it. The issue is that manga can spend time on small details while anime needs to maintain an appropriate pace to fit in the entire story or simply to
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