If angels had to work hard to learn their craft, even learning among regular students in the human world, things would be pretty wacky. That’s the premise of Gabriel DropOut, which follows Gabriel, the angel who’s gotten the best grades and had the most impressive …Read more »
There’s an old maxim in screenwriting that goes “write what you know.” The idea is that if you write about situations in which you have some personal experience, your stories will carry a certain sense of reality. And what do anime creators know more than …Read more »
Here’s one of the weirder petitions we’ve seen in a while (and we saw one recently to turn “Macho Man” Randy Savage’s birthday into national holiday): a man in Berlin is petitioning the United Nations to enact an international ban on anime and manga. The …Read more »
The Akihabara district of Tokyo is known as a place where you can - how do we put this? - engage humans in various activities for a predetermined price ("renting people" is a bit direct, isn't it?). Walks with high school girls? They've got that. …Read more »
If you've ever spent a semester in college and suffered a fit of procrastination, you have probably felt exactly like this series' protagonist, Satou Tatsuhiro, on some level or other. Pressed with the stresses of college classes and the outside world, and left on his own …Read more »
Brittany Vincent
Matt Schley
Julian Gnam