Everyone watches anime, from elderly viewers to young folks and teenagers who are only discovering this prestigious and hip genre. Teenagers in particular, are drawn to fantastic stories and intriguing anime concepts that will drive them insane, and fortunately, there are plenty of these shows accessible. In this article, I will share my pick for the top 35 anime for teenagers.
You might believe that all anime is appropriate for teen viewing, however, there are some really violent and sexually explicit shows available. This collection of over thirty excellent anime for teenagers includes programs that are enjoyable and fun without being overly gory.
Any of the anime on this list is a good choice if you have an older son or daughter. Don’t worry if you’re adolescent reading this—these aren’t shows that have been diluted for babies or anything; they’re all excellent programs that adults enjoy just as much as teens do.
When discussing anime for teens, we’ll talk about some great older shows that shouldn’t be missed, as well as some more recent shows that are now on the market. Stay with me until the end of the post if you are currently interested in a list of the best anime.
35. Yasuke (2021)
Watching Yasuke doesn’t change the way one views Champloo, a samurai program that was prepared to abuse its historical license in order to create an entertaining and alluring adventure story. Instead, Yasuke chooses yet another trite prophetic plotline, which frequently overshadows Yasuke’s (the titular character) own storyline, which was, despite being conventional, a deal more intriguing than magic-selected one plotfuckery.
The development of Yasuke’s character, including his acceptance of his role as a servant, his betrayal by the person he believed would understand him the best, and his unwavering allegiance to Nobunaga, is neglected in favor of dull magic battles and stereotypical antagonists.
With the exception of Yasuke and that attractive Russian bear lady, who regrettably meets the most horrible end in the entire series, the characters are completely uninspired. There are steps to demonstrate how you care about particular characters, but there is never enough time for us to get to know them.
So, everything feels very hurried. Yasuke lacks any desire with its premise to be fascinating, and I enjoy such types of creative undertakings because of the flexibility. Similar to how adding ketchup to vanilla ice cream does not improve the meal, adding robots and magic to a dull script does not liven it up.
Yasuke was unsatisfactory all around. It has a few great moments here and there, but overall, it’s ruined by the dull idea and lack of interesting characters other than Yasuke, who himself is pushed to the background in favor of the dull premise. Although Yasuke doesn’t have anything offensively negative, it also doesn’t have everything favorable either. Yasuke should be employed in more stories, but this was not the method to do it.
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34. Japan Sinks (2020)
The famous disaster novel Nippon Chinbotsu (Japan Sinks) has been updated in the anime series Japan Sinks 2020. This book has already inspired two real-life films with the same title and the parody “Everybody Sinks Except Japan.”
This time, it’s back as a 10-episode anime series that intentionally treats its characters cruelly in order to up the suspense. It prompted me to wonder when routine character deaths simply stop being significant. The Muto family is having a day as they would any other.
Father Koichiro is a member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic construction crew (well, hasn’t that joke held up nicely since it was first published). Mother Mari is returning to Japan from abroad aboard an aircraft. After school, Son Go plays online games at home while Ayumu, the main character’s older daughter, practices track and field during school.
Just a few moments in, a minor earthquake strikes abruptly and strongly. Go gets hurt at home, Ayumu catches up in class, Koichiro is left dangling from scaffolding, and Mari’s plane decides to start an engine and smash into a river for no apparent reason.
In the first episode, they all have trouble finding one another and meeting up at their secure location. Two new characters, family friends Nanami and Harou, are present with them. Nanami is still looking for her mother, while Harou has lost him and is by himself.
As they learn that some of Japan is sinking, they leave together with the village’s survivors. They learn about this from social media videos rather than the mainstream media. Kite, a YouTuber who is busy recording aerial footage of the destruction, is one of those sources of information.
Soon after, the villagers and the group make the decision to part ways and go for the shore in search of safety by boarding a ship.
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33. High-Rise Invasion (2021)
High-Rise Invasion is the epitome of a “high”-concept anime. It takes place in a world where dozens of people of all ages suddenly find themselves in a city filled with buildings that spread as far as the naked eye can see, with no memory of how they got there.
There is no safe path to the earth because each building is entirely shut off, except for the top few stories. But people who are imprisoned in this realm aren’t just abandoned on the rooftop they find when they wake up. Rusty rope bridges that wobble uncomfortably in windy conditions at the high elevations connect each of the structures.
People can explore and even meet one another thanks to the network of unstable bridges. However, the bridges are both a blessing and a curse because they allow armies of homicidal assassins to move between buildings while endlessly pursuing their bewildered and disoriented target. The “Masks” resemble something out of a slasher film as they brandish knives and other lethal weapons.
The teenager Yuri Honjo is the main character of High-Rise Invasion. The first episode opens with the viewer waking up and being given insight into the world alongside her. Yuri is by herself, however, she can contact her brother on the phone at first.
While Masks are a constant menace, they are by no means the only danger that exists in this world; as Yuri discovers, to her dismay, some regular people are making use of the opportunity presented by unrestrained violence to prey on the weak.
Poor localization of High-Rise Invasion offers a potentially more obstacle to delight as opposed to sex and violence. I found the first few episodes of High-Rise Invasion to be a tremendous chore, and it wasn’t until I switched from the English dub to the Japanese (with English subtitles) that I started to like it. This could have been due to a weak original story, poor translation, or poor voice acting.
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32. Baki (2018)
On June 25, 2018, the two-course animation series went live on Netflix in Japan. The second season was launched on April 30, 2019, and it started streaming outside of Japan in the fall of 2018. Netflix designated “Part 1” and “Part 2” for the international release.
Granrodeo’s “Beastful” is the show’s opening theme, and Azusa Tadokoro sings Miho Karasawa’s “Resolve” as the show’s closing theme. On July 1, Tokyo MX1 became the first Japanese television group to carry the series. The second manga series, ‘ Most Evil Execution Row Convicts Saga, is adapted for television.
The main character, Baki Hanma, trains with a laser-like focus to surpass his father, Yujiro Hanma, the strongest fighter in the world. To meet Baki, five of the cruelest and most savage death row convicts in the entire globe have gathered. The goal is to experience defeat.
As a result of their unrivaled strength and ability, they have become weary of existence itself and are now looking for Baki in with the expectation that he will overwhelm and completely destroy them. Other underground martial artists, like Doppo Orochi, Kaoru Hanayama, Goki Shibukawa, and Kaioh Retsu, band together to fight Baki during this crisis.
The main plot follows Baki Hanma, who knows his fighting skills to overtake his father, Yujiro Hanma, who is regarded as the best fighter in the world. Baki, who is still young to be in high school, has suddenly established as one of the world’s top fighters after winning the most recent underground arena competition.
Unbeknownst to him, a far more lethal opponent has arrived in the form of a group of five of the world’s deadliest and most ruthless death row inmates, who have gathered in Japan to take on Baki with the sole intention of finally tasting defeat.
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31. Expelled From Paradise (2014)
Expelled from Paradise (Rakuen Tsuihou), a science fiction anime that was first released in December 2014, features a script by Gen Urobuchi, animation by Graphinica, and joint development by Toei Animation and Nitroplus. The story centers on Angela Balzac, a DEVA artificial intelligence system agent, and her quest to track down the hacker “Frontier Setter,” who had infiltrated DEVA to spread his message.
She learns the truth about the existence of Frontier Setter from Dingo, a valuable asset on Earth, and shortly finds herself defying DEVA’s orders. She aids the AI “Frontier Setter” with completing his plans to complete a space colonization scheme using Dingo.
Expelled From Paradise uses a small cast and a setting to demonstrate a number of issues over the course of its 104 minutes; given that Gen Urobuchi is the author of the story, this is not entirely unexpected. Expelled from Paradise mostly on what it means to be human, and these features are repeatedly emphasized throughout the movie, to the nihilistic ideas presented in his earlier works.
Angela, who at first is not conversant with human requirements and characteristics, ends up being the vessel for a post-human. As a result, she thinks Dingo’s habits are strange and is always considering the value of music, a satisfying meal, and sleep in order to stay healthy.
The AI Frontier Setter, on the other end of the spectrum, acquired human characteristics through machine learning, and as a result, he is highly capable of conversing and even explaining how human responses might be portrayed by a computerized construct.
Angela and Fronteir Setter, who both wish to fulfill their purposes and share Dingo’s love of music, stand in contrast to one another in that the original is a human who has forgotten what it means to be human, and the latter is an AI who has come to realize the good qualities of human nature.
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30. Sword Art Online II (2012)
The new VR MMO Gun Gale Online is the focus of SAO II’s first half. While GGO has a gruff, realistic look reminiscent of Western military shooters, the original Sword Art Online, like the vast majority of MMOs in the aforementioned universe, was fantasy-inspired.
An occurrence early on in the first season, in a chilling callback to the first season, seems to indicate that one person in GGO has learned how to make sure those he kills in-game genuinely die in real life. Naturally, the administration is worried, but for some reason, the authorities are unable to use traditional means to look into the strange yet immensely popular game.
The GGO owners don’t file any taxes anywhere. Kazuto “Kirito” Kirigaya, the survivor and protagonist of the inaugural Sword Art game, is the most seasoned VR MMO player in existence, and the government seeks his help in order to figure out what’s going on.
In exchange for playing GGO, Kirito pledges to look into the mysterious “DeathGun” player-killer. Since Kirito is more accustomed to playing fantasy games than Western-style shooters, his attempts to play GGO like an aged RPG contribute to some of the season’s funnier moments.
Sinon, a talented sharpshooter, is the main character introduced in this arc. Sinon is one of the finest female players in the game, but the bulk of GGO participants are men. She naturally gravitates the chick magnet Kirito as a result, and she aids him in adjusting to the new game.
The GGO storyline is mainly enjoyable, but the cliché that every female character pines for Kirito annoys me. His “harem” of girlfriends has grown to five or six by the end of the GGO arc.
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29. K Project (2012)
As far as Yashiro Isana is concerned, he is an ordinary boy who appears to be one. But “Shiro” finds himself in the middle of a manhunt after a video showing the unassuming white-haired teen maniacally killing a young man is circulated online.
It gets worse because his predators aren’t your normal police officers but rather a variety of vengeful Seven Tribe of Colour members. These psychic clans, who are ruled by seven Kings, are wholly to blame for Japan becoming the modern technological superpower that it is.
While Mikoto Suou, the Red Clan’s King, endures his own harrowing ordeals while being held captive by the Blue Clan, Shiro is sought after by the Red Clan for allegedly killing a Red Clansman. The notorious “Black Dog” Kurou Yatogami, a skillful warrior determined to carry out the instructions of his late lord, the Seventh King, is out to judge the truth of Shiro’s crime.
A bizarre conspiracy begins to come into focus as Shiro fights to establish that he’s not responsible for a murder he can’t even recall committing, raising doubts about his very existence. Perhaps memory, which is far from being solid, is as flimsy as a roiling cloud.
A murder investigation turns into a conflict between Kings with special abilities. Although the focus of the first series is precisely the fight between the ferocious Red and strategic Blue Clans, I have a suspicion that succeeding installments of the franchise will go deeper into this tragic war of duty, honor, and brotherhood. The first season offers a lot of entertainment value on its own, but even if you stopped watching after these 13 episodes, you’d still be happy.
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28. B: The Beginning (2018)
Viral hits are made available immediately and exclusively on Netflix, Musaka Yuuasa’s most recent Devilman: Crybaby or any of the several Polygon Pictures productions. There are still obstacles, the fact that Violet Evergarden was released to be available on Netflix in all nations other than the United States.
In any case, they have been developing a new show, and one that just joined the line-up may have been the type of thing I had been hoping for a while. Production I.G. is best known—at least to me—for high-concept action/science fiction programs like Pyscho-Pass and Ghost in the Shell.
These are some of my favorite fictional works because they combine elements from the police procedural with protagonists who are unusually mature for the genre and stories that are unusually mature. In addition to incorporating several different genres into a condensed 12-episode series, their most recent scheme, B: The Beginning, manages to harken reference to these themes.
An unknown killer going by the moniker “Killer B” has been seeking down prominent criminals in the fictional country of Cremona and leaving an insignia behind. It is given to Lily Hoshina of the Royal Investigation Service, who is unaware that the murderer is an adult named Koku, one of her friends.
She arrives at the location of his most recent project, where she meets Keith Flick, an eccentric investigator who has been away for ten years. Both Keith Flick and Koku. Their lives are interconnected by the activities of an enigmatic group that sows division across the country by hiring assassins with superhuman talents.
The nation is caught in the crossfire as the three parties go after each other in pursuit of their people’s objectives. Koku looks for what he has lost and the people who were snatched from him, while Keith looks for the solutions that have plagued him for years.
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27. Gantz:O (2016)
Gantz is someone I like a lot. Despite its limitations and shortcomings, the manga is a tremendous form of entertainment. In spite of the fact that it is objectively devoid of detail and plot for viewers who are unaccustomed with the source material, this movie succeeds in capturing a piece of that, and it offers thrilling visuals that accurately reflect the aesthetic that inspired its namesake.
It’s at least an improvement over some anime adaptations that sacrifice all quality for fan service. The CG animated movie is quick, frenetic, and completely out of control because it is an adaptation of one of the anime’s main action arcs. The series is a high-concept science fiction story in which some people are given a second shot at life after dying and are reanimated.
But are then compelled to take part in the eradication of aliens that have settled on Earth. The movie effectively conveys all of this, and the CG style accurately reproduces the manga’s sharp artwork, which was created using 3D models and applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.
But the appeal is only surface-level. The manga’s sixth volume’s afterword by author Oku Hiroya discussed the movies that influenced him. He claimed to despise The Lord of the Rings and believed the plot was terrible, preferring instead movies like Die Hard, The Thing, and Independence Day for their themes. When reading the manga, it’s obvious how those latter movies affected and inspired his own work, and Gantz:O captures the vibe on a much more basic level.
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26. The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021)
The series is absolutely worth viewing if you’re interested in lore and backstory because you can witness how the organization itself crumbled in addition to how one child went through the grueling process of becoming a Witcher. Vesemir (Theo James) is a good, simple story that proceeds to the readily apparent wealth-engrossed git period.
Then, the final realization is that there is so much more to life than money. Vesemir sees his fellow prisoners die in the trials but sticks with it anyway to become a professional “better” than the poor person the moment he started as.
This comes with two equally shocking revelations: first, his mentor Deglan (Graham McTavish) and the mage who created the Witchers were using not permitted magic to create new, powerful abominations solely for the purpose of maintaining the need for Witchers after their group had been a little too successful in eliminating lethal threats.
Tetra (Lara Pulver), a sorceress who had been assisting Vesemir despite her outspoken opposition to the mutated assistance, is revealed to be responsible for a string of gruesome murders outside of town by possessing an elf who had been altered in the earlier experiments, all with the intention of framing the Witchers.
Due to this, there is a massive fight at Kaer Morhen where the Witchers are utterly destroyed, the magician and method of creation are lost, and Vesemir mistakenly kills an old buddy (who is now an elderly woman, so there you have Witcher aging for you!) He ultimately decides to instruct a small group of recently converted Witcher kids, among whom he recognizes a young Giralt.
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25. Kakegurui (2017)
Kakegurui is a psychological, nevertheless anime. Gambling is a mental contest — there is no physical conflict! The contestants’ minds are in motion as they compete in a high battle. Each game is an exciting puzzle filled with potential actions, bluffs, and analysis.
Cheating is a further that should be included in these games. The best gamblers usually don’t get that way by accident! The anime contains a staggering range of games, and you could speculate they were made with cheating in mind. The sheer inventiveness placed into the games played in the anime No Game No Life was one of its main appeals to me.
Magical chess, wonderful word games—the possibilities are endless. I was surprised by Kakegurui’s ability to create such a range of games without the aid of magic. Kakegurui doesn’t only stick to the typical roulette, coin toss, and poker games. Simply understanding the fundamentals of a new game is enjoyable, thanks to how peculiar and interesting the games are in this anime!
I am able to say that I just had a passing familiarity with most of the games we played. The items were either exclusive to the anime or so uncommon that I doubt anyone had ever heard of them. The games I learned from this were enjoyable, and I hope to play them with my own relatives and close friends in the future.
I suppose what I’m trying to say is that Kakegurui is fun to watch for the games alone, even if the shounen part doesn’t really do it for you. The fact that I now have to wait for an additional possible sequel to see titles is one of the worst things about concluding the anime sequel.
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24. Nura: Rise Of The Yokai Clan (2010)
Life may be difficult for most people, but twelve-year-old Rikuo Nura must survive while being a part demon. Even though Rikuo is a boy attending school, he is with yokai, who are members of the Nura clan, which his grandfather heads.
The dictator of the Night Brigade of the One Hundred Demons. As the yokai maturity age of thirteen draws near, Rikuo must either become the authority of the Nura household and lead the Midnight Parade or deny his yokai ancestry. Rikuo feels the weight of such a duty heavily on his shoulders and would want to put it all behind him and go about his daily life as a regular person.
The Kiyojji Paranormal Investigation Patrol was founded by Kiyotsugu, a boy so obsessed with yokai that he formed it, and Kana, a girl Nura is developing a crush on. However, things get a little tricky when Yura Keikan, a new student from Kyoto, shows up.
She uses magic in order to earn a living by destroying Yokai. Thanks to her yokai-detection abilities, she becomes accepted into Kiyotsugu’s yokai scavenging club, but for some reason, he and Yura miss that two of Rikuo’s more bizarre friends, Tsurara and Ao, are his yokai security guards, Yuki-Onna and Aotab, yokai who modify into humanoids and travel with him everywhere.
Clan politics are important because they affect everyone in Rikuo’s family and strife in the larger Yokai world. Rikuo’s potential ascension to the highest position of the Nura clan is a major source of contention. Opponents appear it takes to get rid of Rikuo and annex the Nura clan’s land.
Threats start when Rikuo is forced to accompany Kiyotsugu on his paranormal investigative patrols, and when a field trip to a thermal spring on Mount Nejireme is revealed to be a trap, Rikuo, and his friends are at risk.
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23. Devilman Crybaby (2018)
A series called Devilman Crybaby was specifically made to commemorate the fifty-year celebration of Go Nagai, one of the figures most responsible for the growth of anime and manga culture both domestically and internationally. Akira Fudou is weak and humble, but he has a hurting heart.
As a result, Akira readily agrees when Ryou Asuka requests for assistance in finding devils. Akira is shocked to learn that the location they visit is Sabbath, a celebration of immorality and degeneracy. Demons take possession of the revelers, their bodies into hideous monsters, and start causing blood and death.
Akira unintentionally fuses with the demonic Amon in an endeavor to save his buddy, becoming a Devilman with the ability to exterminate the remaining demons. It is known that the original Devilman animated series, which debuted in the same manga, was not entirely true to Nagai’s original creation.
The animation was in its “dawn” and was mostly targeted for viewers. For this reason, Masaki Tsuji (Astro Boy, Tiger Man, Doraemon) was given the script for the anime.
Keeping the aforementioned target audience in mind, he made the decision to entirely overturn Nagai’s work to where it is now thought of as a completely new work. Many sequences from the published manga were left out of this animated series, including those that showed nudity, sex, or violence.
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22. AJIN: Demi-Human (2016)
An ordinary high school student named Kei Nagai learns that he is an Ajin. Ajin were found in Africa some time ago, and as time went on, more Ajin were found all over the world. The Ajin are immortal demi-humans. Sadly, in this society, being an Ajin equates to being a criminal.
When Kei hears stories that the Japanese government uses captive Ajin in cruel experiments, he tries to leave the city with the aid of his best friend. Kei succeeds in leaving the city in the dark of night, unsure of what his near future holds. Being immortal can seem like a benefit to some people, but not on this planet.
You suppose that government agencies would want to keep an eye on them in the dimension where these supernatural exist. While it appears like the Japanese government is covering up Ajin to ensure public safety, we discover that something much more gruesome is taking place.
The government imprisons Ajin and uses them as test subjects for cruel experiments. Ajin are a gold mine for testing out new treatments, operations, and the efficacy of new weaponry because they are immortal. However, the true objective of all these heinous tests is not to understand Ajin.
It is less complicated. As a result, the anime has a large cast. We learn that Mr. Sato, an elderly-looking guy; Kei Nagai, the high-achieving student; Izumi, a female official in the government, and Tanaka, whom Mr. Sato rescued, are all characters who are Ajin.
On the human side, there is Tosaki, a senior government employee whose responsibility it is Ajin. There are few other characters, although they mostly supporting cast or haven’t yet had a big impact.
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21. Durarara!! (2010)
A high school student looking for excitement in an otherwise boring life is Mikado Ryuugamine. Mikado relocates to the Ikebukuro neighborhood of Tokyo on the advice of an old friend, enrolling in the high school there. On the first day he’s in the city, he sees the enigmatic Black Rider, a man riding a motorcycle that sounds like a horse and is totally covered in black.
Unbeknownst to Mikado, a series of events would eventually lead him into the seedy side of Ikebukuro, where tensions involving criminal syndicates and the supernatural were common. The show’s narrative is among its most distinctive features.
To see different points of view on a topic, it decides to switch between them rather than keeping the viewer fixed to just one. This is demonstrated by either retelling entire events or switching within a single scene. The earlier one is the more prevalent style, and it generally doesn’t feel abrupt and maintains your interest.
Three story arcs make up the first season, with the following stories building on and receiving hints from the last one. The show moves slowly and creates suspense or mystery over time. Overall, the flow is good, but there may be instances when some characters linger too long and are only sometimes given a reason to be around the main cast.
Additionally, the first several episodes of the show serve to introduce the cast and important supporting characters throughout the plot. The plot lags at the beginning, but it tries to make up for it by developing the mystery and adding new narrative lines.
Despite a sluggish beginning, the premise of the play is overall compelling, and the large ensemble helps to keep things fresh. In an era when rival anime are replete with tired character tropes, the Durarara!!! Cast is refreshing.
The cast behaves and interacts in a fairly human way, or as humanistic as you may expect for anime, despite their peculiarities. Every character is in Ikebukuro for a different cause and has a distinct outlook on life. The merit of the show, aside from its mystery, is how it depicts how these many creeds communicate when they come into contact.
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20. Kill La Kill (2013)
First off, Kill la Kill is one of those shows where the staff didn’t design the complete plot before production began. Without prior notice, some plot lines and concepts are abandoned in favor of others. I won’t reveal which ones were deleted due to potential spoilers.
But it can be a bothersome side note since a few of the rejected points were actually more intriguing than the ones on which the show ultimately chose to focus. Unlike Darling in the Franxx, The Rising of the Shield Hero, and of Yu-Gi-Oh episodes.
I wasn’t going argue that this program suffers from an identity crisis, but I did occasionally feel like that bit off more than it could chew, towards the middle. This contributes to my major issue with the tempo of Kill La Kill.
Some episodes passed relatively quickly, while others dragged on past their time limit. Additionally, I thought that Kill la Kill has been split into a few episodes because some of them, like filler, didn’t add anything to the story. Then, with the exception of Little Witch Academia TV, which was largely immune to Trigger’s pacing troubles, Trigger’s works have been determined to have pacing flaws that in affect them.
The Kill La Kill plot takes place in a prestigious studio, but the show has a strong sense of self. The show is stupid, but I respect that it is aware of this. Virtually every episode is enjoyable to watch, even those with little to no plot, such as episodes 4 and 7. The majority of the writing is between good and wonderful, with very few instances of mediocre writing.
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19. The Seven Deadly Sins (2014)
The Seven Deadly Sins are what exactly? Going in, I had the impression that it would be a cute, swashbuckling mashup of titles like Dragon Quest, Zelda, and One Piece, with a little bit of adventuring here and good-natured pirating there, all in good fun with no lasting consequences.
This impression was only made stronger by a main character who thinks every non-tunic’d Link you will ever see and a sidekick who resembles the Wind Waker people with the bogeys (you know the ones) and is squawky, bouncy, annoying like nails on a chalkboard bloody pig bloody. It turns out that this isn’t the case; rather, Elmer the Patched Elephant is telling the story of Humanity in the Middle Ages.
The premise is that a group of Holy Knights known as The Seven Deadly Sins are suspected of assassinating their lord in a takeover before concealing it. Ten years later, a random woman with absurdly large breasts trips over in a bar and starts a series of events that leads to the Sins’ reunion and attempt to clear their names.
They uncover the usual evil plot underneath the top hierarchy that has no real clear goal at any point in time. Unfortunately, The Seven Deadly Sins contains a lot of flaws. It features tone problems, pacing problems, story problems, dialogue problems, and graphic design problems.
It’s one of those annoying Code Geass situations where a relatively tiny component of just about everything is repeatedly a little off, making nothing ever quite feel ‘correct’ even though it initially appears to be really, really amazing. It’s given that once the sense of place is lost, every issue becomes obvious, like a house on fire.
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18. Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade works (2014)
UBW employs the same proven formula from Fate/Zero once more but with a few adjustments. ‘Holy Grail War’ between seven overlords along with seven servants for control of the omnipotent wish-granter, the Holy Grail.
The opening episode of the series was structured similarly to Fate/Zero’s first season, with the primary ‘good’ party (in this case, Rin, Shirou, Archer, and Saber) an adversary to vanquish. The key protagonists are focused, and they are well, giving us a solid foundation for their objectives while still moving the plot forward at a fast pace. These are personalities that are imperfect but, for the most part, appealing.
This aspect of the show is generally outstanding. The first half of the series has a plot that is similar to Fate/Stay Night (2006), which depicts the Fate course of the original graphic book. The plot diverges in episode 12, 48-minute episode that alternates between light slice of life and intense action.
One of the best episodes of the series is Episode 12, which blends the best of what was done and animation with a hint of the show’s humorous side that I really like. Overall, the plot is compelling from beginning to end, and the resolution (far even better than the episode’s ‘nice’ conclusion from Sunny Day).
The majority of the characters are excellent, and the show’s tone works well to support it over its 26 episodes. Regarding animation, visuals, and audio with amazing opening and closing scenes, insert music, and overall soundtracks, UBW has few peers. The animation’s devotion to detail is unmatched, especially in the action moments.
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17. Castlevania (2017)
But the unusual writing style of Netflix’s Castlevania is what you notice right away. The script, which was penned by Marvel comics great Warren Ellis, manages to establish its characters, develop a whole plot arc, and, quite honestly, astound viewers in just four twenty-five-minute episodes.
In fact, the only big criticism I’ve encountered of the Netflix series thus far—which is obviously a shallow exercise—comes from viewers who feel that it isn’t long enough. Netflix has now approved the second season, which will have eight episodes.
Following this heart-warming prologue, the action shifts to introduce our hero, Trevor Belmont, the last member of the demon-hunting Belmont family from the video game series. Richard Armitage’s portrayal of Trevor as a blustery, drunken, and violent man serves as Wallachia’s last line of defense against the demon hordes that inflict startlingly gruesome murder on its citizens.
This brings to mind the advice to wait a few years before putting your children in a position to watch this new “cartoon.” There are numerous instances of graphic violence, swearing, and gross humor. Everything works flawlessly, but let me give you an example: I bet your kids haven’t witnessed a Disney character deliver a five-minute narrative at a bar.
In order to find Dracula, Trevor partners up with Sypha, a wise magician and wandering scholar who is skilled in the ancient disciplines of whip-based warfare and snarky. The final episode, however, closes with the identification of the third member of the hero squad, who will likely face Dracula in series two rather than a Belmont/Dracula combat in the manner of the games.
16. Code Geass: Lelouch Of The Rebellion (2006)
The game Code Geass is annoying. I was irritated by that. It’s one of the rare things for which I Googled the conclusion before finishing it and didn’t feel the least bit guilty about it. The bloody thing started to irritate me, and I had to take three breaks from it.
I don’t have any kind of dog, but if I did, I would have likely punched it out of a fourth-story window out of pure rage. Yes, Code Geass did kill my imaginary, metaphorical dog. It can be compared to Gundam with mind control, Death Note with mechs, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion with a malnourished Batman and his army of butlers, or a massive game of Risk.
That’s not all over-the-top nonsense either; in Death Note, the protagonist discovers a terrible influence with curiously specific restrictions, hides it from his friends while the entire nation is aware of it, and becomes increasingly moral as the story progresses.
We have the nearly gigantic mechs and the world-conquering politics from Gundam, and we have a guy who dons a headdress and a black mask and makes some silly movements from Batman. For goodness’ sake, the name of his butler army, The Black Knights, makes the resemblance obvious.
According to the legend, Lelouch Lamperouge, a high school student with a brilliant mind but a perfectly normal name, meets a mysterious woman with green hair who grants him a Geass, causing a seagull to become stuck in his retina, giving him constant red eye, and granting him the ability to temporarily take control of another person’s actions.
With his newly acquired authority and an itchy eye, he seeks to topple the Holy Britannian Empire, which oddly enough does not contain Britain but also the USA, who have angrily seized control of Japan and the majority of the rest of the world.
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15. Fruits Basket (2019-2021)
A fanciful tale about the frailty of people and the fragile nature that can result from being alone, a plot about hellos and goodbyes, relationships, and the suffocation they can cause. The tale of a single high school girl who has suffered a great deal but still manages to smile comes to an end like the tales of the zodiac signs and their God do.
What awaits worn and traveled souls after one last final banquet? The third and final arc of the Fruits Basket plot, The Final, is when the tales come to a finish. From start to finish, every episode is a suspenseful climax that has been building ever since Tohru entered the home of the dog, cat, and rat. At the moment, all of the major character arcs that have been developed up to that come to a head.
Ultimately causing wave on wave of bodily anguish that is barely held together by these people’s psyches as their trauma and pain rush back to them as a last obstacle that they must conquer earlier than they can be free.
And this is where I believe the beauty of a plot like Fruits Basket to show. Human nature’s conflict is a complex and unstable entity. It’s not just the major events that depress us; we can actively or inadvertently damage others and be purposely wounded by them.
Instead, it’s the less noticeable, smaller things that eat away at us over time, leaving us with nothing more than a hollow remnant of our prior selves, striving to regain a sense of regularity while urgently crying out for someone to relate to us.
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14. Great Pretender (2020)
At the risk of appearing rude, a lot of anime’s visual direction (and all other art forms, for the record) is of an almost intolerable mediocrity. Without sounding reductive, I find it difficult to be drawn in by the visual design of the majority of seasonally recurring shows, not to mention any names.
The reason I bring this up is because I find it discouraging to see what art is capable of doing just to see the same stuff repeatedly. In some analytical groups, the importance of “the artstyle” is sometimes disregarded, which in a media dominated by moving pictures, I believe is dumb.
At the risk of appearing rude, a lot of animated series creative direction (and all of the other forms of art, for the record) is of an almost unpalatable mediocrity. I don’t want to seem simplistic, but the majority of seasonally recurring shows’ visual styles, regardless of any of their names, leave me cold.
The main reason I bring this up is simply because I find it disheartening to constantly be exposed to the same types of art. In some analytical organizations, the importance of “the artstyle” is occasionally disregarded, which I find foolish in a world where visuals predominate.
I was genuinely excited while watching the first few episodes, so it definitely delivers. I’ll say it again, “F*ck, this looks good.” From the sharp, realistic character design to the breadth of identities, this was oddly stimulating. Even though the first five episodes are by no means a screenplay achievement.
They feel perfectly crafted to introduce our team to the tone and main characters of the series as they attempt to con one of the biggest “film producers,” but more importantly, drug dealers in the business. What else can be said about the way it is presented in the whole series but “truly professional”? In that regard, I believe the initial storyline is somewhat amazing in its simplicity.
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13. Beastars (2019)
Beastars does a fantastic job of effectively illustrating the gap between the carnivore and herbivore kids without hindering the narrative’s flow with an excessive amount of background material. Without the need for a massive information dump, the remark about separate herbivores demonstrates that this is a segmented society.
The details are provided later. And while the brutal murder of Tem, the alpaca, contributes to a lot of the suspicion we see among the herbivore population, it is also clear from the kinds of things the characters have to say that these negative emotions are nothing new.
Because of regulations that make killing herbivores a serious crime, predators and prey on a planet populated by anthropomorphized animals appear to coexist happily, yet distrust and prejudice simmer this surface of apparent mutual civility.
Tensions regarding the herbivore and the carnivore scholars at Cherryton Academy rise after the murder of an alpaca student. Owing to the police’s suspicion that a carnivorous student committed the murder, Legoshi, a grey wolf who has always caused people to be uneasy owing to his big stature, his classmates become much more afraid of him.
Legoshi has the appearance of being a kind man, but what if temptation tempts him to succumb to his predatory tendencies? Despite my little complaints, I couldn’t help but get attracted to the universe of Beastars. Is it possible to ever overcome the gap between herbivores and carnivores?
Who will get promoted to the position of Beastar? Who then killed Tem? Future books in this series will surely be on my shopping list so I can find out what the responses are to these questions!
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12. Dragon’s Dogma (2016)
Ethan (Greg Chun) and his wife lead a beautiful, peaceful existence. However, this tranquility is short-lived when a huge dragon eats Ethan’s heart and the entire town is destroyed. Shortly later, our hero is restored by an enigmatic magical woman (Erica Mendez), and he makes a promise to track down and defeat the dragon that destroyed his life.
The fantasy/revenge structure is largely traditional and has aspects that we’ve seen before. However, it makes an attempt to stand out somewhat through its storytelling. The premise of each of the episodes is that as Ethan explores the nation in quest of the large, eerie reptile, he runs across various creatures and circumstances that are reminiscent of the seven sins of the Bible (which are even referenced in the titles of each episode).
I think they undone this heart steak a little bit, even though they have some great ideas for how that will function. The storytelling suffers as a result of the show’s rapid pacing, which also prevents it from becoming too stale.
In reality, nothing actually simmers. Each episode has intriguing twists and concepts, yet despite the intriguing subject matter, I never feel as invested as I would. We, therefore, get a story that, with the exception of one incident in the final episode, never achieves its full potential rather than the sophisticated fantasy storytelling that I know the crew is aiming for.
The characters don’t do anything to aid where the tale does fall short. Ethan, our main character, does indeed have some interesting things happening. We observe some minor adjustments on his side in each episode, and this does help to make him a fairly intriguing character.
Additionally, Greg Chun’s voice work there is excellent. Then there is the pawn, also known as Hannah, the enigmatic magical woman I mentioned before who brought Ethan back to life.
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11. Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy (2022)
Since the collapse of modern civilization 400 years ago, the world has been controlled by the anarchy of swords and sorcery. The powerful Four Divine Kings are leading the Dark Rebel Army, which is gaining strength in its attempt to rule the globe and has plans to resurrect the god of extinction, Anthrasax.
On the Northern Metallicana Continent, the Dark Rebel Army, led by a sorcerer, approaches the Kingdom of Meta-Eliana. Tia Noto Yoko, the Great Priest’s daughter, must choose whether to resurrect the old wizard who tried to rule the universe in the past and who is trapped in her younger years with Armand Renlen as a means to save the kingdom.
The first episode of the series provides background information about events that occurred 400 years ago when the planet was at its peak of development but not without some darkness. Humanity’s self-created evil power (Anthrasax) led their civilization to the verge of dissolution.
But prior to all the people being wiped out, a cross between a man and a dragon came out brandishing a sword. The creature ultimately triumphed over the darkness. Through the years, the plot changed into a mythology in which the powerful sorcerer Dark Schneider.
Who had been leading the Dark Rebel Army in an effort to retake control of the planet was instead imprisoned in the body of Geo Noto Soto (the great priest). 15 years later, the darkness’s Rebel Army makes the same attempt to take over the planet by unsealing Anthrasax.
A young woman named Yoko frees the Dark Schneider from her friend Lucien Renlen’s body in order to protect the Kingdom of Metallicana. To protect the kingdom and his beloved Yoko, Dark Schneider must now engage in combat with his erstwhile allies.
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10. Steins: Gate (2011)
Time travel is a famously challenging topic to convey well, especially in animation. The great shows sometimes dedicate an episode to the concept, with the outcomes ranging from confusing to subpar Back to the Future parodies.
There are a few great episodes that deal with the concept; “SB-129” from SpongeBob SquarePants’ early seasons was appreciated as a unique concept in a fit-that-show style; however, Steins: Gate took a different approach by choosing to make time travel the main plot element rather than the actual story, and in doing so, built its main protagonists around the theory with amazing success.
The Steins;Gate explores the consequences of a day, an hour, a minute, and a second, making the show all too cruelly real. Steins;Gate is a drama containing some action and a curiously slice-of-life air.
As I saw the main character, Rintaro Okabe (to as “Okarin” by his friends, especially Mayuri), experience the thrill and agony of realizing a long-held desire and the rationale of his principles only to realize the consequences of every action, I was able to relate to Rintaro’s experiences.
The team’s leader and self-described “mad scientist” is Rintaro Okabe. Okabe prefers to go by the fictitious name “Hououin Kyouma,” although his friends call him “Okarin” (a combination of his first and last names). When his invention, a time machine, transforms from a theory into a reality, Okabe, who uses aloof language or overt exaggeration, shows a much more serious side and, assumes duty toward a component of the as the plot develops.
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9. Vinland Saga (2019)
I promised not to provide spoilers, but since you could be one of many masochists who enjoy reading about anime you don’t yet have seen, I’ll give a brief synopsis. The main character of Vinland Saga is a kid from Iceland who quickly becomes devoted to a mercenary Viking group when they kill his father.
Thorfinn, the child, swears vengeance on the band’s leader and joins them in raids with the intention of finally beating him in a duel. I’ll take care of this one right now. Vinland Saga is a magnificent anime with great visuals. Everything—settings, action scenes, characters—is great. This is top-notch animation.
While I’m sure they’ll find a way, it’s shows like this that make me question how they may possibly improve upon cinematography for future anime. The pacing in Vinland Saga is superb. It has the feel of a true adventure throughout. It appears that a lot is happening.
When you get to the finish of one of these anime, the beginning seems like a very long time ago. And that kind of is the situation with 24 episodes! The anime does a fantastic job of escalating, with the plot hitting its zenith at the midway point and beyond. The last few episodes really stepped up the pace, and there was a little bit too much happening prior to the finish, if I had one criticism of the pacing.
Maybe ending on a melodramatic note was the intention, though. Thorfinn, who constituted with no doubt the largest flaw in the Vinland Saga, is a worse problem than this. But I didn’t like how Cnut suddenly changed from a shy “boy” to a brash and assertive man.
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8. Golden Kamuy (2018)
The Russo-Japanese War has just ended when the story takes place. Our hero, “Immortal” Sugimoto, is a soldier in the war and survived despite being thrust into life-threatening situations. He is goldpanning now that the war is over in an effort to assist an old friend’s widow.
He pays attention to a drunken moron telling him a plot about some tattooed escaped prisoners who found a valuable treasure. He doesn’t believe it at first, but when the drunken man calms up enough to regret sharing the plot, Sugimoto realizes that the drunken man is one of the tattooed prisoners.
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Asirpa, a teenage Ainu hunter, and Sugimoto form a hunting team in an effort to gain wealth before other teams do. This series’ sole obvious narrative flaw is that it occasionally moves too slowly. Many of the sequences have Asirpa merely Sugimoto in hunting methods or wilderness survival skills, and they add little to the main plot. They’re just a bunch of dull, drawn-out portions. Most of these scenes are omitted with little to no loss.
Noda performed research on the Ainu and wanted everyone to understand in which they lived and hunted. The concept is solid, which is to the series’ credit. An excellent, fight results from two large groups and one tiny group for treasure, while each has its own goals in mind.
And while the hunting scenes can drag on a bit, I do value the information provided on Ainu life and culture. They provide a foundation for the series. The show does a job of striking a balance between the more serious narrative. Even yet, the humor of Asirpa believing that miso is excrement wears thin rather quickly. The conclusion of the series is also fitting.
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7. One-Punch Man (2015)
There are two categories of anime that fall under the umbrella of the superhero genre. On the one hand, there are the standard “hero-defeats-villain” programs that, like the Marvel or DC varieties, center on a team of people with superhuman talents, they protect their home from evil.
Other shows that fit this genre, besides the many heroes from the aforementioned two programs, include the well-known Boku No Hero Academia, Astro Boy, Sailor Moon, etc. This category includes characters like the Power Rangers, Ultraman, and even the Japanese Spider-Man. On the other side is One Punch Man.
The two of them are eventually persuaded to join the protagonists Association, an alliance of superheroes, after fighting a number of villains together, including a mad scientist named Professor Genus and with hordes of manufactured fauna, Kombu Unlimited, who is made of kombu disappears, and Mosquito Girl.
The fight against the troops of the Deep-Sea King and Boros’ army serves as the climax of the alliance against evil, in which they are teamed with other heroes of strength. Saitama looks for the one antagonist in battle who is going to put up a valiant effort and put him to the test, reigniting his spirit of heroism.
In the world of One Punch Man, the good and the bad are continuously at odds with one another, and the characters are able to successfully embody these archetypes. The antagonists are portrayed as “take-over-the-world” sorts who are determined to annihilation and exact revenge on the very society they despise and dread.
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6. Dorohedoro (2020)
The Hole, a gloomy cityscape distorted by magic, is home to humans. The people try their best to survive, but it’s difficult when sorcerers frequently appear from their own realm and use the people as subjects for their powers. Caiman, for instance, has no understanding of who or where he is, and this stems from the fact that a sorcerer changed his head to resemble a lizard.
He has now set out to find the sorcerer who put a spell on him and recover his true face with the help of his best buddy, Nikaido. Of course, both inside the Hole and in the sorcerer’s own realm, there are a lot of sorcerers and a lot of other bizarre and horrific things. Caiman will continue to bite sorcerers he comes across and interrogate them, what the man inside the cavity said to them.
I occasionally just have to awe at anime. I mean, there are a ton of reasons why I’ve been watching it for most of my life, but the plot’s sheer scope and originality are key ones. Another place am I going to see a play that begins with a man biting down another man’s head before another head climbs up the lizard man’s throat and begins speaking?
That, or someone dropped something incredibly potent into the drink when I wasn’t looking, is probably how this whole thing got started. It’s difficult, to begin with this series since not only is the universe it portrays to us occasionally mind-bending weird, but it’s also organized in a manner.
More than half of the episodes are divided into shorter portions, much like a Remove of Life series (although this isn’t specified, so some of this may simply be attributable to some bizarre pacing). This is a strange choice, though, because the series is clearly not a Slice of Life one; instead, it has a clear underlying plot and a strong desire to solve a major mystery.
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5. One Outs (2008)
Kojima Hiromichi of the Saitama Lycaons, a well-known batter, meets Tokuchi Toua, an unknown player while participating in a minor league training camp in Okinawa. Kojima Hiromichi is caught up in the game “One Outs,” a one-on-one competition between pitcher and batter whose outcome is bet upon.
Kojima manages to defeat Tokuchi, handing him his first defeat in more than 500 contests, and qualifies him for the squad in the hope that he can guide the Lycaons to victory. Tokuchi agrees to Kojima’s, but the team owner is hesitant to hire him because he lacks professional experience and only considers the club’s success.
When Tokuchi proposes a grander version of the “One Outs” game to the owner, the two come to terms. Under the terms of this unusual contract, Tokuchi receives 5 million yen for each out he throws while paying a 50 million yen fine for each run toward him.
One Outs had a very unusual cast since, despite its baseball-related subject matter, which involves whole teams of participants, managers, and coaches, it had a relatively tiny cast. Furthermore, Kojima, Ideguchi, and the owner of the Lycaon squad only occasionally in One Outs, which centers on Tokuchi.
Although the Lycaons squad includes individuals and faces, the events they are happening and their role in story development are significant. The character of Tokuchi is given a lot of attention and stress in this type of cast, and viewers’ pleasure in the television program will probably be influenced by how likable they find him to be.
His arrogant and distant demeanor contributes to his overall persona and the way he preys on other people’s worries, making him a rather unique package from a character standpoint. His ability to manipulate people is both his quality and his most valuable pitching ability, and it is during this method that One Out’s acclaimed elements are put to use.
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4. Grand Blue (2018)
Iori is the main character. He wanted to have the best college experience possible, but everything changed when he joined the diving club. It’s not just about living in the world of aquatics for the rest of his life; he has the most fun around oddball characters who help him reach the heights of youth.
The story depicts an attitude to the beginning of adulthood deemed realistic, random, and wild, with just the right amount of humour to make you chuckle. Chio’s School Road gave me the same impression since they both possess the ability to make every episode amusing and approachable.
The anime is notable for how skillfully it conveys a normal storyline for each character. It is executed and doesn’t require much effort to achieve its own brand of humor. Despite the odd and absurd things, it manages to retain a friendly atmosphere where purity is all that elevates everything to the highest possible level.
Taking everything into account, everything appears to be in good shape, particularly with regard to the erratic duo of Iori and Kohei. The entire series clearly displays the funny element. Although there are a few ecchi moments, sexual situations, censored nudity, and overt fanservice, the show doesn’t allow the plot to develop in such an explicit manner.
It merely depicts the reality of ordinary people living their lives to the fullest while releasing stress related to college life. The normal behaviors of teens including living individually away from home, making new friends, going out late at night to party, making fun of and mocking one another, and developing feelings for the sex opposite of their own. These are only a portion of transitioning into adulthood, possibly, and it’s the most accurate representation of how things are.
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3. Ping Pong the Animation
Ping Pong emphasizes a deuteragonistic narrative style. Two high school students named Hoshino Yukata (Peco) and Tsukimoto Makoto (Smile) are the center of the story. They adore playing ping pong. The personalities and motives of the two buddies could not be more dissimilar from one another, yet they manage to get along well.
When they join the team at their school, smile is always there while Peco is abroad battling people for cash. When another school employs former Chinese national championship ping pong star Kong Wenge to coach their team, things get heated for the competition year.
Kong came here for his own reasons, one of which is to reclaim his pride so that he may go back home and rejoin his squad. When Kong easily overcomes Peco, Peco experiences his first professional defeat. When the competition starts, Peco and Smile easily win their respective rounds until being beaten by an old acquaintance of theirs and Kong, respectively.
Following their individual losses, the two split up and set out on a voyage that would change their lives forever. Smile is the antithesis of Peco in terms of aspirations while having an amazing talent and humility in order to demonstrate up to practice.
Although Smile possesses skills that can compete with Peco’s, he lacks the will and motivation to succeed. Smile’s talent grew as Peco practiced less and less, eventually reaching the skies. Observing that his one and only match was deteriorating. He started to lose interest in the game he cherished.
The journey of Smile truly has two parts. Since Smile, in the opinion of many, cannot smile, the moniker is ironic. Smile’s robotic nature and outlook on life are reflected in his skill at ping pong, the one activity he seems to find enjoyable. His quest is to know the motivation and to free himself from his artificial perspective.
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2. Kids on the Slope (2012)
Ritsuko, who has emotions for Sen, develops a crush on Kaoru, but Kaoru and Sen are far more connected with one another than they are with other females. They connect most over playing improvised jazz together with Sen on drums and Kaoru on piano, and being open and vulnerable with one another.
The enjoyable moment of the series is when they finally perform, to a lot of cheers, at a school festival. Kids on the Slope, like other coming-of-age tales, explore the passage from adolescence to adulthood through common challenges that, to the young mind, are insurmountable.
Sentaro needs to take on more responsibilities, Kaoru needs to act like such a spoiled brat, and Ritsuko will realize that a crush doesn’t define who you are. The main tension is caused by an endless circle of romantic relationships: Kaoru likes Ritsuko.
However, she also likes Sentaro, who likes this other lady, who likes a further person! I was wrong about how much space music takes up. I think they would become well-known musicians when I saw how much work went into generating the music, key pressing for key press, and beat for beat.
They are connected by a common interest, and tension in their personal relationships affects the music. I have no issue with the focus being on the characters. I felt sympathy for these characters because the writers put so much soul and affection into them. But when it came to dealing with the discomfort of adolescence, I shuddered. Not in a positive way.
There was nearly too much information in the first episode alone. Sentaro tries to be lovable with his near infatuation with Kaoru throughout their first hour of conversation, but the too-friendly nature comes off as unsettling in a forcedly eccentric sense. The characters are not yet familiar enough to act in this manner with one another.
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1. Banana Fish (2018)
One of the anime that you can appreciate more if you give it some time to settle in is Banana Fish. It seems easy to understand, uncomplicated, and entertaining at first glance. Banana Fish is smarter than those stereotypically “overpowered” main characters and attractive side characters.
Young male teens and children find the shonen genre to be appealing. The distinction between shonen and seinen is blurring in modern times. The goal of Shonen is to portray bonds of friendship and some form of atonement for the main character.
Ash Lynx is the leader of a tiny street gang in New York. His circumstances are altered when he comes upon a dying man who leaves him with a small object, a location, and the phrase “banana fish.” As he befriends the innocent Japanese teenager Okumura Eiji and works to cut his ties to the biggest mafioso in the area, Golzine Dino, he rapidly discovers himself on a journey to solve the riddle of those words and the ingredients of the enigmatic powder.
Consistency is a challenge as well. Golzine declares at the outset that he doesn’t mind if Ash is paralyzed. He only wants to murder him after breaking. The conversation swiftly turns to Golzine’s desire to compel Ash to succeed him.
Because he cannot alter his mind concerning delivering him alive, he is easily capable of doing so about the primary justification. Ash also boasts about being able to walk freely because he is no longer thought to be alive at one point. Three episodes or so later, he must go undercover to visit someone because he is a wanted guy.
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