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Review
The return of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple
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The return of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple is quite the welcome thing as the first season surprised us with how much fun it was with its mixed martial arts fighting. Focusing on a young man named Kenichi who wants to get stronger so he can protect a girl he likes, a girl who is a very powerful...
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Ao no Exorcist
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This world consists of two dimensions joined as one, like a mirror. The first is the world in which the humans live, Assiah. The other is the world of demons, Gehenna. Ordinarily, travel between the two, and indeed any kind of contact between the two, is impossible. However the demons can pass...
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Beelzebub
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Ishiyama High is a school full of delinquents. Oga Tatsumi, nicknamed "Ogre," is known as the most powerful delinquent of all. Even the upperclassmen and students from other schools recognizes his strength. One day, while engaged in a fight, Oga spots a huge man drifting down a river....
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Gintama
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Gintama
The story takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of the name change in 1868), Japan, which has been taken over by aliens called Amanto since the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan have fallen, and the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The story...
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Gintama: anime/manga mentions or illustrates
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Japanese specific references In the Gintama series, most, if not all, episodes/chapters mentions or illustrates a different anime/manga, or a specific Japanese event or person. It also breaks the fourth wall in more than one occasion.
In the first episode of the anime, there is a...
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Heroic Age
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Storyline
The story’s theme is based on stories in Greek mythology, especially those surrounding Heracles, upon whom the main character is based, and his Twelve Labors. Many of the other characters are also based on Greek mythological figures; characters share similar names to their Greek...
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Kimi ni Todoke
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Kimi ni Todoke
is a romance shōjo manga by Karuho Shiina (Shīna Karuho). It has been published by Shueisha in Bessatsu Margaret since 2006 and collected in 12 tankōbon volumes as of September 2010. In 2008 it won the Best Shōjo Manga award in the 32nd Annual Kodansha Manga Award....
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Rurouni Kenshin
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Rurouni Kenshin. Review
Perhaps the astonishing thing about Rurouni Kenshin’s consistently strong following over the years is that the series is staggeringly inconsistent. For the first thirty episodes, it’s quite possible that I watched the same cliché on repeat. Some glory-hunting thugs or...
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Ichiban Ushiro no Daimaou
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The story of "love, magic, and battles" revolves around Akuto Sai, a boy who aims to become part of his country’s highest order of magicians and contribute to society. His dream is to one day become a "high priest", an exemplar and champion of good. On the day he is admitted into the...
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Togainu no Chi
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After being devastated in the third World War (known as The Third Division), Japan was divided in two. Several years after the end of the war, a crime organization called Vischio has taken control of the destroyed city of Toshima (formerly Tokyo, Japan’s capital city), where they are...
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