Saito Houjou gets along easily with just about everyone in his class—except for Akane Sakuramori. With her temperamental attitude and their contrasting personalities, the two have been locked in endless animosity for as long as they have known each other. They are surprised when they learn that their grandparents not only know each other, but […]
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Nukumizu Kazuhiko is a high school boy that is content with just blending in with the crowd. One day, he watched a popular classmate, Yanami Anna, get dumped by her childhood friend that she had confessed to. Feeling like he should comfort her, Nukumizu ends up increasingly entangled with Yanami as well as several other
Behold the territorial and aggressive tsundere anime girl. She pretends to be a solitary thing, keeping would-be companionship at bay with a harsh word and a firm fist, but frequent attempts at contact are rewarded with flushed cheeks and compliments that get progressively less backhanded. While tsunderes are a little less popular than the used
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Ten years ago, Raku Ichijou made a promise with a childhood friend to meet again and use the key she holds to open the locket he wears around his neck then be together forever. In the present day, this heir apparent to an intimidating yakuza family continues to wait for his friend’s return while trying
With his tall stature, bulky muscles, and mean face, Takeo Gouda is not exactly a hit with the ladies. Men and women alike find him terrifying, but he still tries to do the right thing. One day he saves a cute girl from a molester on the train. When she reaches out to him again,
Jirou Yakuin, third-year high school student and otaku, has had a crush on his childhood friend, Shiori. He hopes to be paired with her for their school’s upcoming marriage practical – an exam where two people are paired to live together in order to practice married life as they are observed and scored. For popular
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While there is certainly something charming about two people falling in love at first sight, typically the best romances start with the characters actually coming to appreciate each other as friends before they consider becoming lovers. It is just the right natural progression to things. However, a lot of romance anime tends to make it
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Every anime series has a main character, but no anime series has a main character alone all of the time. Even a well made character needs someone beside them to have actual dialogue with and bounce ideas off of. Maybe it is a childhood friend or a long-time rival. Maybe it is a sibling or
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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 has occurred to me that I’ve never written this article. The recommendations on this site are indeed for any level of anime fandom, but for many of them, you need to at least have some knowledge of anime. You need to have watched at least one series that you can remember the name of
