In the 15th century, the Church has firmly established the idea of geocentrism—the idea that the sun revolves around the earth—as God’s truth. However, there are those who have found compelling evidence of heliocentrism, where the earth appears to be revolving around the sun. While these heretics are dealt with by the church and their […]
In the year 1333, the Kamakura shogunate government is toppled after the betrayal of Ashikaga Takauji, a once-trusted retainer who was responsible for slaughtering the entire Hojo clan. However, in the chaos at Kamakura, the rightful heir to the shogunate, Hojo Tokiyuki does what he does best – flees. After escaping the massacre with the
For as much as elderly people like myself may have tried to tell people throughout the years, anime has traditionally being a medium aimed more at children. However, unlike Western cartoons that were happy with just entertaining children, the animation industry of Japan dared to make anime something that could both entertain and even emotionally
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Allow me to be extremely pretentious for a moment and say that it was Kierkegaard who said, “the most common form of despair is not being who you are.” And it is deep thoughts like that which you expect from Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, though it does perfectly encapsulate the basic philosophy of it.
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After his wife was burned at the stake for witchcraft, the powerful vampire Vlad Dracula Tepes declares that all of Wallachia will die. He summons an army of night creatures and summons his vampire allies to carry it out. However, as he plots destruction, the last living member of the House Belmont, a clan of
Who really knows as to why, but over the past few years, slavery has come back in style. This time, thankfully, just in anime. From living the power fantasy of freeing people from bondage to living a different sort of fantasy of buying a pretty girl for your own use, anime has developed a bit
For as many mercenary characters as there are littered throughout gritty action anime, there are profoundly little anime that actually follow the lives of mercenaries. It is strange considering a mercenary character or group of mercenaries can follow any plot as long as a carrot of significant size is on the stick. One day they
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Set during Prohibition, a man named Avilio returns to Lawless, a town famed for brewing illegal liquor, after the murder of his family by the mafia. A mysterious letter prompted him to return and infiltrate the Vanetti family to get his revenge. This anime tells the story of 91 days leading to the tragic end
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
When you have been wronged, it is only natural to seek revenge – and nothing shows that better than revenge anime. While there are moments when it can go a little over the top, watching an anime character enact their most clever or brutal plan of revenge can be cathartic. It is a little drop
