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Somali and the Forest Spirit is a very sweet, wholesome anime about a young human girl and her adoptive golem father venturing through a richly detailed fantasy world in an attempt to find her real parents. But, since humans are an endangered species, that will be no easy task. Instead, this series is really about finding family in the people who are already with you and love you, even if you’re not biologically related to them. Let’s see how this show explores that concept!
Dorohedoro is set in a world where amoral sorcerers use normal people as “test subjects” for their mutilating magic and vicious murders are so commonplace that they’re hardly worth remarking upon. Our protagonist Caiman’s stated goal is to track down and kill whoever transformed him into a lizard man, and his best friend Nikaido barely manages to keep her diner open in the crime-ridden corridors of the decrepit “Hole” they call home. And yet, somehow, this show is a comedy.
Every new season of anime brings with it new opening themes, also known as OPs. These lavish displays of music and sakuga animation get us in the right mood for the anime we’re about to watch, and the best OPs can even bring in new viewers who might not have checked out the show otherwise. Today, we’re counting down our five favorite anime OPs of the Winter 2020 season, along with a few honorable mentions. Let’s get started!
Kaede, also known by her character name “Maple” in the VRMMO New World Online, barely knows anything about video games. She only got it in the first place because her competitive gamer friend Risa/”Sally” wanted to play it with her as a fun bonding activity, and so she has no preconceived notions of how games are supposed to be played. Maple decides to put all of her skill points into defense so she doesn’t have to take damage, and thus begins her carefree journey of accidental success in BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense!
In the Winter 2020 anime season, two different anime have given a spotlight to the strange Japanese phenomenon known as “School Wonders”. You may have come across these whispered rumors in other anime like Attack on Titan: Junior High, where they’re used as pranks to make a test of courage more frightening, or even in Ghost Stories, where they’re actually shown to be real. So where did the idea of “The Seven School Wonders” come from? and how do Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun and Magia Record use the concept in their narratives? Let’s investigate!
