Top 10 Action Anime

Top 10 Action Anime

Mary Lee Sauder
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There’s nothing like a good action-packed anime to get the heart pumping faster, especially when it has god-tier animation and an engaging storyline to go along with it. Today, we’d like to highlight ten of our favorites in the genre – they’ll be ranked by the intensity and creativity of their action scenes, as well as the quality of the narrative that gives those scenes context and meaning. We’ll be focusing mostly on newer anime, since the sheer amazingness of classics like Dragon Ball Z and Cowboy Bebop is already well documented. So, with all that said, let’s get started!

Please Let Reki and Langa from SK8 the Infinity Be a Couple!

Please Let Reki and Langa from SK8 the Infinity Be a Couple!

Mary Lee Sauder
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SK8 the Infinity is a Winter 2021 original anime produced by Studio Bones and directed by Hiroko Utsumi, who is best known for her work on Free! and the anime adaptation of Banana Fish. It’s a vibrant, exciting story about a secret skateboarding competition called “S”, where people from all different backgrounds come together to wear flamboyant outfits and race down dangerous mountain roads like some kind of amazing cross between ‘80s underground gay clubs and Initial D.

Our two protagonists, passionate veteran skater Reki and Canadian snowboarder/newbie skateboarder Langa, grow close in no time at all and have more than enough homoerotic moments for us to believe that it might be possible for them to pull a Yuri on Ice and make it official by the end of the series. Let’s examine the evidence!

6 Anime Like Horimiya

6 Anime Like Horimiya

Mary Lee Sauder
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Horimiya is a Winter 2021 romance anime that we’ve fallen head over heels in love with, primarily because main couple Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura are perfect for each other and don’t wait until the very end of the series to confess. If you’ve enjoyed watching Horimiya this season and can’t bear to wait a week between episodes, we’ve got you covered with six anime that scratch that same itch - they’re sweet love stories between people who have strong personalities that onlookers may not fully understand from just a first impression, but those who are close to them can see who they really are. Let’s get started!

Kemono Jihen Mid-Season Impressions - Not Your Average Ghouls in Tokyo

Kemono Jihen Mid-Season Impressions - Not Your Average Ghouls in Tokyo

Mary Lee Sauder
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Kemono Jihen is the latest big anime adaptation to come out of the Shounen Jump family (it’s serialized in Jump Square), telling the story of a young half-ghoul boy named Kabane who leaves his oppressive hometown to join a supernatural detective business in Tokyo. It has a creative, modern approach to Japanese mythology and is much mellower than most shounen, giving it an unusual atmosphere that we’re definitely digging so far. Let’s check it out!

Horimiya Mid-Season Impressions - Top Tier Romance Right Out of the Gate

Horimiya Mid-Season Impressions - Top Tier Romance Right Out of the Gate

Mary Lee Sauder
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Most romance anime will spend their entire runtime hemming and hawing over whether the main couple will ever admit their feelings for each other, and audiences may never get a satisfying answer no matter how many seasons the show gets. Horimiya, on the other hand, wastes no time introducing us to its adorkable leads and demonstrating their instant chemistry with one another – Miyamura even confesses his love to Hori (sort of) within the first few episodes! With that in mind, let’s dive deeper into this wholesome romance anime and see what it has to offer!

BEASTARS 2nd Season Mid-Season Impressions - Into the Lion’s Den

BEASTARS 2nd Season Mid-Season Impressions - Into the Lion’s Den

Mary Lee Sauder
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This all-CGI anthropomorphic animal anime was a hard sell for many fans, but those who gave it a chance back in Fall 2019 (or 2020, when it aired on Netflix) discovered that both its animation and storytelling are surprisingly brilliant.

Season 1 set up a world where herbivores and carnivores live together in an outwardly peaceful relationship, but a devouring incident at Cherryton High School brings everyone’s attention to how shaky this arrangement’s foundation actually is. Three students from the school handle the fallout in their own ways: shy wolf Legosi questions his place in society as a carnivore, beleaguered rabbit Haru tries to leverage other animals’ lust for her to take control of her life, and serious deer Louis fashions himself into a hero to protect the weak. BEASTARS Second Season is well underway now, so let’s take a gander at how everyone is holding up after the chaos that was the first season’s ending!

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