At a glance, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya seems like a pretty straightforward series to watch. First season, second season, and a movie that wraps it all up neatly as well as well as alternate side series. However, like many anime series that we have covered in this “How to Watch” series of articles, the […]
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There are some anime fans that watch a series and then move right onto the next. However, I dare say that every anime fan has at least one series they would and have rewatched several times. Obviously, if it is your favorite anime series, you will go back to it for some fond memories. However,
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One of the most popular ways to start an imaginative anime is to have the main character living a boring normal life. It starts the series in a very grounded and relatable way. After all, we are all probably living boring lives ourselves. However, in order to break the monotony and bust into a large
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The beach episode – It is the ultimate fan service tool even if you aren’t making a fan service anime. You take all your characters out of their typical school uniforms or otherwise modest clothing and put them in swimwear. From busty bikini girls overwhelmed with confidence to forever flat girls too embarrassed to take
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After surviving a vampire attack, high school student Koyomi Araragi finds he has several supernatural side effects that remained after being cured including the ability to rapidly heal. While trying to live a normal life after the event, he ends up catching a classmate, Hitagi Senjougahara, as she fell down some stairs. As he catches
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Not just specific to anime, the literary genre of magic realism is used to encapsulate anything that provides a realistic view of the world while also having dashes of unexplained elements, or “magical” elements. Typically these elements are sorted into more specific sub-genres of the fantasy genre which can make magic realism so hard to
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Ah, school life. The older you get, the more you yearn for those simpler times. Not so much for the classes, those pretty much sucked, but for the camaraderie presented by other school activities. Every school may have formal clubs like band or sports teams, but anime also presents the more intriguing school clubs that
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There are a lot of anime characters you are supposed to hate out there. Having a villain you can put all your hate behind is a natural choice. However, sometimes the most hated anime characters are actually the main characters of the series. Sometimes shows try to build hate, sometimes fans just hate characters for
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What would you do if you could go back in time? Would you go back and kill Hitler, possibly altering the entire history of the world and giving Kouta Hirano no good villains for Hellsing? Would you keep things simple and just go back to just a few years ago and tell the Tokyo Ghoul
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Light novels – for a medium that has actually spawned quite a few beloved anime series, it seems that a large portion, if not the majority of the anime community knows very little about them. Light novels are, like their name in part suggests, novels. In the west, they would be most akin to Young
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