Falling in love can make a smart person dumb and a dumb person dumber. This is the beating heart of just about every romantic comedy that’s ever existed, anime or otherwise. Gamers!—the 2017 summer light novel anime adaptation by Studio Pine Jam—is no exception. It …Read more »
Yata, a high schooler, shares her house with five unusual roommates. “The rent is super cheap, but there’s one problem … my five roommates are literally monsters. That, and they all have huge boobs.” It’s all true! Mizuchi, the oldest and most mature of the …Read more »
Aoba, a petite young game designer fresh out of high school, starts work at a video game company with full fangirl enthusiasm. Her coworkers represent a spectrum of geek types: an otaku animator who collects figurines and waves swords around, a shy artist who can …Read more »
The studio behind Kill la Kill rides into the danger zone with DARLING in the FRANXX. Set in a post-apocalyptic desertscape where teams of teenage mecha pilots protect massive domed cities called Plantations from marauding bands of giant robots known as klaxosaurs, DARLING in the …Read more »
After failing at his old school, spineless rookie teacher Haruaki Abe finally lands his dream teaching assignment. Eager and bright eyed, he arrives at Hyakki Academy Island, where he’ll be teaching Japanese language classes. To his dimay, he discovers the school is for yokai, Japanese …Read more »
What happens when you take two very different teenagers from what seem like two worlds that clash in a big way and throw them into a relationship? It might look a little something like the gorgeously animated Tsukigakirei. It’s an emotional and endearing tale that …Read more »
Have you ever gotten so drunk that you end up saving a living dragon from potential death, and then said dragon appears at your doorstep prepared to live with you and repay a debt for all eternity? Well, Kobayashi did once, and now this dragon …Read more »
Nobuo, an affable young salaryman with hipster chin scruff, has a secret: his wife is a space alien whom he met when he was abducted by a UFO. Posing as an ordinary housewife, she wears a cute-faced human disguise to go outside but hangs around …Read more »
DNA Doesn’t Tell Us is another fun, silly romp through the world of “monster girls,” and it may have the strangest premise to explain the existence of sexy half-human monster women. It seems one day animals throughout the world suddenly started transforming into human girls, …Read more »
Amazingly Human At first glance, Interviews with Monster Girls—the 2017 winter anime adaptation of the seinen manga written by Petos, with animation by A-1 Pictures—looks it will be something of a spiritual successor to Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls. In Petos’s world, monsters …Read more »
One of the best things to happen to Devilman, Go Nagai’s horror manga masterpiece, is the inception of its expanded universe. The additions to the saga include complete reimaginings like Devilman G and Devilman Lady and expansions to the original story like AMON: Apocalypse of …Read more »
Initial D is one of the most popular anime series out there revolving around street racing (let’s be honest, probably the most popular), and it continues to attract new fans as the years pass. So it’s not surprising that the film trilogy is being released …Read more »
In the crowded genre of isekai “portal fantasy” manga, Arifureta’s innovation is to add an extra level of misanthropic bitterness: it’s not enough to leave your boring high school life and become a demigod, you have to do it angrily and drag all your former …Read more »
Michiru Amazuki moves from the country (Okayama Prefecture) to Tokyo for a sales position. But since she doesn’t want to face the metropolitan landscape alone, she decides to live in an all-female boarding/share house—Stella House Haruno—with three strangers. Her new roommates may have wildly different …Read more »
Having just moved to mountainous Yamanashi, plucky high-schooler Nadeshiko is eager to catch some classic views of Mt. Fuji. A late-night hiking encounter gets her interested in camping, so she joins her school’s Outdoor Exploration Club, which has only two other members. (The mountaineering club …Read more »
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