Every morning, first year Taiki Inomata looks forward to heading to the school gym to practice badminton before school starts. However, it isn’t so much that he looks forward to the practice so much as he does getting to practice beside second year Chinatsu Kano, his crush who also practices basketball in the gym before […]
Born with a hearing impairment, Yuki Itose is college student who rarely interacts with others because of her disability. However, when she has an awkward interaction with a foreigner on her daily commute to school, the multilingual Itsuomi Nagi steps in to intervene. Learning of her impairment and having an interest in travel and learning
In order to pursue a career in politics to make a positive change for Japan, Mitsumi leaves her rural town to go to high school in Tokyo. While she has a clear life plan for herself, she is still a country girl in a big city and ends up late and lost on her first
Every night, Ganta Nakami is overtaken by insomnia that leaves him grumpy during the day. However, he happens across the easygoing Isaki Magari from his class sleeping in the Astronomy Club’s abandoned, supposedly haunted observatory. It turns out that she, too, suffers from insomnia and uses this room to sneak away for naps. While the
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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In middle school, two bookish kids met in the library, bonding over books, and eventually dating. However, as time went on, the small annoyances began to add up, and so Mizuto Irido and Yume Ayai ended up breaking their relationship off. Getting ready to move onto high school and move on with their lives, a
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
Living in a rural area and previously going to a small one-room school with no other girls her age, Akebi holds the dream of going to the prestigious Roubai Academy for girls like her mother and wearing that illustrious sailor uniform. With her uniform on, she endeavors to make as many friends as possible. With
Futaba Yoshioka was an attractive middle schooler, popular with boys, but not with girls. It left her feeling lonely, but none of that mattered as long as her crush, Kou Tanaka, liked her. However, when Kou moved away, Futaba decided to change herself, purposely adopting unattractive traits to be popular with the girls, but one
In all romance anime, it takes two to make a couple. However, in most narratives, the story is told from one perspective through one main character. Although romance anime is generally seen as a genre more appealing to women, just as many men enjoy the unique feeling that love can bring. I think the vicarious
