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My 10 Favorite Romance Anime Shows
The first one is Yamada’s First time. It is about a high school girl who wants to sleep with 100 men. The problem is that she is a Virgin. So, she is searching for a practice guy. She ends up falling in love with the dude. Basilisk is Romeo and Juliet but they are ninjas this time. Fruits Basket is a love triangle. The gimmick is that if she hugs her lover, they turn into animals. Gravitation is a yaoi romance between a struggling rock star and a successful writer. They play off well from each other. Inuyasha at its...
My 10 Favorite Samurai Shows
The first one is Afro Samurai. It is kinda futuristic. It starts normal enough until the cyborgs show up. Bleach is more supernatural. It becomes a bit of a vs thing in later season. The plot is mainly to move the characters from action set pieces, to action set pieces. Drifter is an Isekai show made by the creator of Hellsing. Warriors across time and space are made to fight for reasons that don’t quite make sense. Gibiate features samurais fighting mutants in the future. Samurai 7 is just like the movie, except that it features giant armored cores as...
My Four Favorite Mangaka Writers and 3 of Their Best Works
The first writer is Kyoko Ozaki. She makes down to earth stories. Her main characters are usually women. I wanted to mention first Helter Skelter. It is about a fashion model that got pretty due to plastic surgery. To sustain herself, she keeps spiraling down with the surgeries. She was constantly trying to achieve something as elusive as perfection. Pink is about a call girl trying to overfeed her pet crocodile. River’s Edge is about how awful is high school in Japan. Clamp has Chobits, Tokyo Babylon and Magic Knight Rayearth. Chobits is sci fi with the robot maiden. Tokyo...
My Favorite Vampire Anime Shows
Blood Plus is based on an anime movie featuring a vampire hunter named Saya. She is a bit of a day walker. She hunts vampires with a katana. In the anime show, they gave her a black butler like sidekick. It is fight between two vampire bloodlines. In the end, it turns into a bit of a musical. Castlevania in Netflix is based on the hit anime vampire series. It focuses on a family of vampire hunters. Most of the time they are dealing with Dracula. At least in the anime show, they try to vary the vampire villain from...
My Favorite Sci Fi Anime Shows
The list features anime shows that do not have Giant Mechs. The mech blog I already made. There are mechs in some of these sci fi shows. However, the main characters do not pilot those robots. They are the antagonist. Without any more introduction, time to talk about sci fi anime shows. The first one is Angel Cop. It has a lot of Akira elements. Even the final boss rides a chopper, like Tetsuo. I think that is what he was called. Bubblegum Crisis features maidens in robot suits. They fight boomers or robots that go nuts for various reasons....