Mitsuri Kanroji is my favorite character in Demon Slayer and I refuse to explain why. Okay, all joking aside, Kimetsu No Yaiba is doing pretty good for a Shounen since it actually gives its female characters their flowers by expanding them from side props to actual complex characters. Instead of being pigeon holed into niches
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Did I internally cringe referring to Loid Forger (ロイド・フォージャー, Roido Fōjā) from Spy X Family as a daddy? Yes. But like, it’s true. There have been plenty of father figures in anime that have turned our attention, but no one has made the internet quite as thirsty as Loid did in his first appearance. What can
Bungou Stray Dogs is a peculiar show, but nothing is stranger in it than Dazai and his insane want to die. Osamu Dazai is a lot of things, but you really don’t scratch the surface of his character arc until you dive deep into his mindset. And that midst appears to be seriously messed up,
Whenever I go about writing these introduction articles about characters appearing in popular anime going on, I always want to look at them beyond what a wiki might tell us. I mean, yeah, we can gather some facts about the Gun Devil by just reading a summary, or we can break their character arc down
I’m usually a very big fan of the bishounen characters in anime, but I have to say, there is something very attractive about characters that got some grit to them. You know what I’m talking about here, right? Like, characters with messy hair, maybe a tattoo or two, and definitely some scarring. The way a
Winter 2023 is around the corner, and one of the heavy hitters in the coming anime season is looking to be NieR:Automata Ver. 1.1a., an adaptation of the popular video game NieR:Automata by PlatinumGames Inc. Set in our world during the year 11945 AD, Earth finds itself at war with an invading force of aliens
As the current main foe of any best-selling Shonen manga, you’d have to be a pretty unique character to make it interesting. It can’t just be any old bad guy; you need a compelling back story to sell the whole antagonist act without it becoming stale. And Tomura Shigaraki falls into that category, by being
