Category: Anime
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Nagi no Asukara
Human life started beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of a protection which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the people of the sea and of the surface widened. In the present-day, young sea people Hikari and…
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World Masterpiece Theater
World Masterpiece Theater (世界名作劇場, Sekai Meisaku Gekijou) is a Japanese TV anime time block that showcased an animated version of a different classical book or story each year on Sunday nights on Fuji TV. This post covers World Masterpiece Theater’s adaptations of Heidi, Anne of Green Gables, Tom Sawyer, and A Dog of Flanders. If…
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Houkago Teibou Nisshi
Tsurugi Hina, a first-year high school student who moved to Ashikita, Kumamoto Prefecture from the city, and ends up being roped into joining the Breakwater Club. Tsurugi comes to enjoy fishing on the breakwater and around Ashikita, along with her classmate Natsumi Hodaka and seniors Yuuki Kuroiwa and Makoto Ohno. A “cute girls do fishing”…
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
Three centuries after a great conflict between Earth and Mars known as the “Calamity War,” politician Kudelia Aina Bernstein travels to Earth to speak for the independence of the Martian city of Chryse, which is under the control of the Earth government. Escorting her are private security company CGS members Mikazuki Augus and Orga Itsuka.…
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Gundam Build Series
Gundam plastic models have become a global phenomenon. Special tournaments called Gunpla Battles are established to test a Gunpla enthusiast’s skill both in customization and virtual mock piloting. These incredibly popular Gunpla Battles culminate in an annual global tournament. Sei Iori, a young Gunpla builder whose family owns a Gunpla shop, has a dream of…
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Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
Bunny Girl Senpai, or Seishun Buta Yarou, is a light novel series. In the library where Sakuta Azusagawa studies, he runs into a girl in a bunny-girl outfit. She turns out to be Mai Sakurajima, a famous fellow student. His surprise at seeing Mai wear such risqué attire in the library, however, is nothing compared…
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Haikyu!!
Haikyu!! is a sports anime and manga series that centers around Shoyo Hinata, a determined and vertically challenged volleyball enthusiast. After a fateful encounter with a talented rival named Tobio Kageyama, Hinata joins the Karasuno HS volleyball team. The story follows the team’s relentless pursuit of becoming national champions, showcasing intense matches, character growth, and…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
Fifteen years after a global cataclysm called the Second Impact, teenager Shinji Ikari is summoned to Tokyo-3 by his father Gendo Ikari, the director of the special paramilitary force NERV. Humanity is facing an existential threat called the Angels, a race of colossal, powerful beings with impenetrable shields called AT Fields. NERV’s gigantic humanoid Evangelion…
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Gegege no Kitaro
GeGeGe no Kitaro focuses on the young Kitaro—the last survivor of the Ghost Tribe—and his adventures with other ghouls and strange creatures of Japanese mythology. Along with: the remains of his father, Medama-Oyaji, Nezumi-Otoko, Neko-Musume, and a host of other folkloric creatures, Kitarō strives to unite the worlds of humans and Yōkai. As a classic…