While old stories would have you believe that witches are withered old women with warts stirring a pot of newt’s eyes, but anime has rewritten the narrative a bit. Witch anime runs the gamut having witches fighting for the forces of good or doing the devil’s work all the way to them doing nothing but […]
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While walking through the woods, the petite witch Alyssa finds a baby in a bush who is exuding an incredible magical aura. Naming her Viola, she decides to raise the baby as he own child after taking her home. 16 years later, Viola now towers over her mother and her more mature looks often cause
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Yohane is a girl who has never quite fit in with everyone else in the scenic town of Numazu. While Yohane takes up a job as a fortune-teller that mostly sees her helping people around town with odd jobs, she continues to look for her place in the world. However, darkness gathers around this idyllic
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There is magic in a good chunk of anime these days. While there is certainly some charm to enjoying fantasy anime set in a fantasy land filled with magic, sometimes you wonder what magic might be like if it were present in our world. Contemporary fantasy anime, or urban fantasy anime as it is sometimes
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After the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cutting edge technologies have taken over and the old way of doing things is left in the dust. For childhood friends Serufu Yua and Miku Suride, they both applied to the elite Yuyu Girls’ Vocational High School that excels in teaching new technology. However, due to her grades, care-free accident-magnet
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After her parent’s death, young Sarasa was inspired to become an alchemist and graduated from the Royal Alchemist Academy. Sacrificing friendships for hard work, she graduates with top marks and under the apprenticeship of a master alchemist. This master helps her get set up with her first alchemy shop. It is in the middle of
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While many people are interested in anime for intense action, vivid animation, or cerebral plot, there is a particular group of people that just want to watch something to relax and feel a little better about the world. For this, there is iyashikei anime. Iyashikei essentially translates to “healing,” and it is a term used
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Fantasy is one of those genres that comes with certain expectations. Most traditionally, a main character in a fantasy land starts off living a normal life, then is thrust into an amazing adventure. However, when you mix the fantasy and slice of life genres, the main character starts off having a normal life in a
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Art is frequently inspired by real life, and while perhaps the busty monster harems and main character popularity are the stuff of pure fiction, the locations are less so. There are a number of anime series that use real life locations as inspirations for their backgrounds. In fact, it is likely easier to just draw
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Ever since she was a child, Elaina has been enamored by the stories in her favorite book. It tells the tale of Nike, a famous witch who enjoyed many great adventures around the world. After becoming a fully-fledged witch herself, she departs, becoming entangled in a number of stories of those she meets around the
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