If you could go back in time, what would you do differently? It is an interesting question to ponder, but never something to dwell on. However, while you can’t change the past in reality, there certainly are a lot of anime about a main character given a chance to do just that by regressing back […]
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Dialogue-dense anime certainly isn’t for everyone, and it certainly isn’t for those who watch with subtitles and have slower reading comprehension. Sometimes you want to watch two brutes slug it out rather than listen to two dudes have an increasingly tense conversation about the ongoing events of the world. However, for those that enjoy anime
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In romance anime, your choices are typically romance anime following working adults or, more commonly, romance anime about high school students. Romance anime tends to forget higher education is a valid and more flexible place to carry on a love affair. College romance anime often enjoys the best of both worlds. Characters are old enough
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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
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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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
There is a general conformity to the art of anime that actually kind of defines it as a genre. However, as an art form, there is always a little room for experimentation. Some anime series are perfectly happy having an art style that looks like most others, but there are a few series that dare
Nozomu Itoshiki is a high school teacher that is so pessimistic that even small misfortunes can send him spiraling into a pit of despair. Surrounded by increasingly insane students, Nozomu’s unique brand of despair has its own way of affecting them, often in a positive manner. An eccentric dark comedy that can take you an
Cliches and anime are old buddies. Lewd hand-holding buddies that go for long walks on the beach. And that’s not a bad thing! You know how cliches are made? Because fans enjoyed them so much that creators just keep using them. However, that doesn’t mean originality needs to be dead. Breaking cliches in anime can
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