In the year 1333, the Kamakura shogunate government is toppled after the betrayal of Ashikaga Takauji, a once-trusted retainer who was responsible for slaughtering the entire Hojo clan. However, in the chaos at Kamakura, the rightful heir to the shogunate, Hojo Tokiyuki does what he does best – flees. After escaping the massacre with the […]
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
In the Edo period of Japan, a strange disease started in the mountains and rapidly spread across the country. This version of small pox, named the Redface Pox, only infected and killed men. Within the first years of the outbreak, only one-forth of the male population remained, sending the gender roles of Japan into upheaval.
After repeated wars, human biology changed. Now when humans get too close to natural fire, they combust. However, society has not completely collapsed without fire. Instead it has been replaced by a special material harvested by Fire Hunters from giant monsters that stalk the forests. Touko, a girl from a rural village, is saved by
Been away from anime for awhile? We understand. You go out and have your life, anime will always be waiting for you when you come back. They always come back. If you are finally coming back and stopped watching sometime in or before 2022, here are all the best anime series that you missed and
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The city of Tom Sawyer is an augmented reality society where citizens buy and sell services and appearance augmentations with Love, a currency akin to likes on social media. The Decos implemented in their eyes from early childhood allows them to enjoy augmented reality and also allow the government to control it. One day, a
Well, if you worked hard enough, technically you can watch most anime series in a day. However, just because you can wedge 48 episodes into a day doesn’t mean you should. Besides, that leaves profoundly little time for crucial snack and bathroom breaks. No, when most people crave short anime, they crave a nice 12-episode
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There are a lot of ways to end an anime. You could cleanly cut off at the end of an arc or leave things particularly vague in hopes there is a budget for another season. You could, as so many shounen shows do at the very end, rush things up an insane amount so a
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 Taira Clan, also known as the Heike, have developed authority in Japan. When a young girl disrespect a representative of the clan, her father pays the price with his life. Later, this girl, now adopting the name Biwa after the instrument her father played, approaches Taira no Shigemori, the eldest son of the Taira
