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 […]
Humanity has advanced to the point where mechs called Titatonostriders are used for combat in warfare. In a joint training exercise, soldiers from around the world have gathered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to put their Titatonostriders to the test in combat exercises. Ao Isami from the Japanese Self-Defense Force and Lewis Smith from
I know that having “ADHD-level focus” is kind of a joke that people make, but it is probably less funny for people that actually have it. It can take twice as long to get things done, you start a dozen different things, half of the things you plan out don’t get done, and then you
Under constant assault by an alien race called Noise, society doesn’t know that the idol duo Zwei Wing use their songs to charge powerful weapons known as Symphogear to fight back. After an attack at a concert, part of the duo sacrifices themselves to save a young girl, implanting a fragment of her Symphogear in
It could be a cheeky little screw to the audience in the first episode, it could be a shocking death mid-way through the series. Regardless of which avenue they pursue, there are a few anime series where the main characters you think you will get is not actually the main character at all. In a
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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
For some shows, they create their antagonist as a flimsy character who does bad things simply to do bad things and they call it a day. However, a villain operating under the abstract coverall concept of evil is hardly a character worth remembering. You will find that the best written anime villains are often the
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A red wind has swept over Japan and withered everything in its wake. Wherever the wind blows, rust grows and consumes all in its path. With humanity succumbing to this rust, and the world a barren wasteland, mushroom spores bore the blame for it. This has made archer Bisco Akaboshi, who grows mushrooms wherever his
The Labyrinth is an expansive space underground where humans live in colonies and many places remain unexplored. Due to the harsh conditions outside the colonies and the presence of large monsters, only brave individuals known as Markers explore the outside areas. Memenpu is a genius child who dreams of becoming a Marker in order to
Coming-of-age is a big theme in not just anime, but many forms of storytelling. However, the unique thing that can be done with anime, since it isn’t utilizing living actors, is that you can physically see a character grow up as the series goes on. Sometimes a series goes on long enough that it is
