The most successful piracy site in anime history eventually went legal, got acquired by Sony, and now charges $7.99 a...
Somewhere between the hundredth kamehameha and the millionth friendship-powered transformation, action anime developed a problem. Fights became calculators. Character A...
Every season, the anime community collectively decides which shows deserve attention. The verdict comes fast—trending hashtags, YouTube video essays analyzing...
Every season, someone declares a new hierarchy. MAPPA’s on top. No wait, Ufotable. Actually, Kyoto Animation never left. The conversation...
Every anime season, someone declares an adaptation “ruined” before the first episode airs. The manga panels don’t match the trailer....
The Crunchyroll Awards stage in Tokyo witnessed something unprecedented in May. A Korean webtoon adaptation walked away with nine trophies,...
Every shonen protagonist eventually walks into an arena where the rules are simple: fight your way to the top, and...
The scariest thing about Johan Liebert isn’t that he kills people. It’s that he doesn’t exist. Not in the ontological...
There’s a specific kind of betrayal that happens when you revisit an anime you loved as a teenager, expecting the...
Truck-kun has a perfect kill rate and zero remorse. This unnamed delivery vehicle has ushered more Japanese salarymen into fantasy...
Serial Experiments Lain opens with a suicide. Chisa Yomoda throws herself off a building, then emails her classmates to explain...
The Death Note fandom has spent two decades arguing about whether Light Yagami was right, wrong, or somewhere in the...
Most time travel stories fall apart the moment you think about them for more than five minutes. Characters zip through...
People love calling Puella Magi Madoka Magica a “dark deconstruction” like it showed up to a tea party with a...
If you’ve spent more than fifteen minutes in anime discourse, you’ve encountered the take. Usually delivered with a smirk, sometimes...
Neon Genesis Evangelion doesn’t make sense because it’s not supposed to. The show that became anime’s most dissected text started...
Most anime about overpowered protagonists understand the assignment: give viewers the visceral thrill of watching someone annihilate their problems with...
Here’s something nobody wants to admit about Your Lie in April: the show is terrified of quiet. Not the pregnant,...
There’s a moment in episode eight of Death Note where Light Yagami, teenage serial killer and self-proclaimed god of a...
Most anime treats violence like confetti. Explosions bloom, blood sprays in aesthetic arcs, characters take planet-destroying attacks and show up...
There’s a special category of anime that operates like a slow-acting poison. You sit down expecting gentle vibes and tea-making...
There’s a peculiar alchemy in storytelling where the character meant to orbit the sun somehow becomes the supernova. The protagonist...
Most stories treat mentorship like a vending machine—insert troubled protagonist, receive wisdom, output better person. Anime has never been that...
There’s a reason Chainsaw Man feels like it’s laughing at you while bleeding out on the floor. It isn’t random....
There’s a specific kind of dread that only Studio Ghibli can pull off. Not the screaming, city-leveling kind. The quieter...
Most anime that wander into the moral minefield of bullying arrive with a comforting exit strategy. Someone apologizes. Someone cries....
If you’ve ever watched Hunter x Hunter and thought, “Yes, Nen makes perfect sense, I am very smart,” there’s a...
If Ergo Proxy were a normal anime, its ending would explain itself, roll credits, and politely ask if you enjoyed...
If you’ve ever watched Attack on Titan and felt personally targeted by its body count, you’re not imagining things. The...
If you’ve ever watched Jujutsu Kaisen and thought, “This feels a little too close to something people actually believed,” you’re...
If you’ve watched more than three episodes of anime in your life, you’ve seen it happen. A character leaps into...
There’s a moment—usually around 2:37 a.m.—when you realize you’re not just watching anime anymore. You’re negotiating with sleep, telling yourself...
If you enjoyed Frieren, congratulations: you’ve discovered that you like calm, reflective, emotionally cruel stories—the kind that don’t scream, they...
If you enjoyed Chainsaw Man, you probably have questionable humor, a high tolerance for stylized violence, and a strange soft...
If you made it here, you’re probably tired of adulthood, late-stage capitalism, and people who say “we should hang out...
Every season promises a dozen shows that swear they’ll change your life. Most of them change your free time and...
Power scaling in anime usually turns into a food fight: numbers thrown, feats cherry-picked, and someone inevitably shouting that “mana...
If Solo Leveling made you rethink your life choices while watching a protagonist start at rock bottom and end up...
You know that moment when you hit play with zero expectations and suddenly you’re completely hooked, ignoring basic adult responsibilities?...
Every year, there’s that one anime nobody asked for—but everyone talks about. The one that pops up in your feed,...
There comes a specific moment in every anime fan’s life when it finally sinks in: not every cancellation happens because...
There’s a very specific moment when someone realizes that otaku culture has left the screen and started paying bills, arguing...
There’s a question that keeps coming back like a shōnen character who absolutely refuses to stay dead: does anime help...
If you’ve ever wandered into an online argument about “the greatest anime of all time,” you already know how it...
Cute romance anime are a carefully engineered trap by the Japanese industry: they look harmless, but at some point you’ll...
