As, I believe, a Batman movie said – You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain. While that is not true for every anime character in every series, there are some characters that you do get to watch have the fallen hero transformation. In many series, these characters aren’t necessarily the protagonist, but rather a sort of tragic antagonist that is slowly made rather than being evil because the plot demands they be evil. If you are looking for fallen heroes, we got fallen heroes. Griffith From Berserk There aren’t really any heroes in the world of Berserk. It’s hard and violent even before things get even worse. However, Griffith was probably the closest thing that you would see. He wants to be king to give everyone a better life. That is quite the ambition for a street child who runs a mercenary band. In his ambition, Griffith sort of gives away pieces of himself until he finally shatters. When there is only his dream

After finishing a random survey, Masato becomes involved in a government scheme that transports him inside of a game. Excited to begin his new life as an adventurer, he is thoroughly disappointed when his mother Mamako ends up being there as well. Eventually giving in to her companionship, they start their journey. You either watch this for the meme potential or for other degenerate reasons. Regardless if you want more anime like this MILF isekai, MILFsekai, if you will, then head on down below. For Fans of Isekai’d With Another Person Konosuba On his way back from buying a new game, Kazuma Satou died a pathetic death. However, he awakens before the Goddess Aqua who gives him two choices: go to heaven or reincarnate into an actual fantasy world. Naturally, the gamer picks the fantasy world. Now Kazuma must deal with defeating an evil demon king, useless party members, and paying living expenses. Both shows are about people transported to a new wo

Most anime series are classified as either drama and comedy. After all, they aren’t two genres that some would think would play well together, but they really do. Life is made out of multiple genres, as they say. So anime series that combine comedy and drama are more likely to mimic real life. They have a deeper complexity that you will definitely enjoy. Toradora This series is considered the ultimate heady blend of romance, comedy, and drama. Initially, all you see is the comedy, but as you move deeper into the series and the characters open up to each other, (and thus the audience) it creates some huge areas of drama that pair well with the budding romance. It can be over the top at times, but this is the ultimate romantic dramedy. Clannad Clannad is one of those series where everyone and their cat has huge over the top problems. As such, the main character aims to help them, which puts off him dealing with his own issues. However, in between

Hibiki, who has a great love of food, notices her clothes are starting to get tight. To fix that, she decides to enroll in a gym. At one, she meets a classmate named Akemi. Akemi, who likes the gym because of the abundance of buff dudes, tries to convince her to join. However, it is the beautiful trainer Machio that really convinces Hibiki to join their gym. We all know what this show is. Let’s find more like it. For Fans of FITNESS! Anime De Training EX Five girls are aiming need to keep their body in shape. This is their journey through many different exercise routines. Unlike Dumbbells, this series doesn’t make a real attempt at plot. However, both series do give you some solid information for working out and the girls are sufficiently cute. Training With Hinako Do exercise with Hinako, who used to be a real girl but got turned into an anime character. Even less plot than Anime De Training and Dumbbells and just ever so more lewd

Been away from anime for awhile? We understand. You go out and have your life, anime will always be waiting for you when you come back. They always come back. If you are finally coming back and stopped watching sometime in or before 2018, here are all the best anime series that you missed and definitely should go back and watch. A Place Further Than The Universe Upon discovering an old list she made in the last year of middle school, Mari Tamaki, who is now in her second year of high school realizes she is not making the most of her youth. Whenever she tries to do something new, she is paralyzed with inaction. Then one day she meets Shirase, a girl whose mother went missing when she was in middle school on an expedition to Antarctica. Knowing full well it is close to impossible, she works hard in order to go to search for her mother and invites Mari along for the ride. The most fantastic thing about this show is that their goal seems like such an anime

Each year, the students of Caird High School are placed in groups for Planet Camp. When group B5 land at their camp site, they are engulfed by a mysterious sphere of light that transports them into the middle of space, 5,000 light years away from home. After discovering an old space ship, they begin their very long journey home. Despite a generic appearance, this show has a lot to love. It doesn’t do anything particularly new other than showing you unique worlds and presenting you with an intriguing mystery to solve, but it does so in a way that just draws you right the fuck in. If you want more like Astra Lost in Space, then check out the anime recommendations below. For Fans of Kids in Space Infinite Ryvius In the distant future, Kouji Aiba and Aoi Housen are training to be astronauts in the Liebe Delta. However, when saboteurs strike the station while the kids are on a dive procedure, the space station plummets into a plasma field linking the planets

The first time I watched K, I really blundered it up. I ended up watching it in the complete wrong order and even not watching the first part of the series at all. I was so incredibly confused by the plot that I was actually angry at the show. Yet, because it had a number of great visuals, I kept at it. While it does paint a good mystery with ten tons of unique characters, take it from me, you definitely need to watch it in the right order to understand what is going on. So before you head to hunt it down on the streaming platform of your choice, this is what you are looking for. Watching K in Release Order (Best for New Viewers) In this series, watching in the release order is generally the best way to watch it, specifically if you intend on watching the Seven Stories movies (of which there are strangely only 6) afterwards. The movies make reference to events in the anime series that would technically be spoilers. The watch order for K going by releas

The girls of the literature club have recently been reading sexually charged pieces of literature. This combined with a newfound interest in adult relationships sends each member spiraling off into the world of sex and intimate relations. An anime about girls and sex without being lewd? Scandalous! The very idea! Well, it was a great idea. Not only does is have some great comedy amidst the furious drama, but it also ends up telling some pretty poignant tales. If you are looking for anime series like O Maidens in Your Savage Season, then head on down below. For Fans of Learning About Love Love Lab Student Council President Natsuo Maki is considered the epitome of perfection. However, when Riko enters the student council room on an errand, she discovers Natsuo practicing her kissing and not very gracefully. Riko discovers that the student council president desires more romance in her life and gets roped into helping her practice her romantic technique

While it has faded from the popular view, steampunk is a sub genre of sci-fi that takes the steam technology of yesteryear and basically futures it up a bit. It combines this old, outdated, but still important technology with futuristic advancements or used in different societies. Contrary to the name, it need not be focused on purely steam technology. Rather, any older technology combined with future aspects technically falls in this genre. There aren’t a ton of steampunk anime series, but if that is your jam, then these are your options. I don’t include anime movies, but if you are looking for steampunk, Studio Ghibli likes to use it in some of their movies. Namely Castle in the Sky and Howl’s Moving Castle. Some non-Ghibli options also include Metropolis and Steamboy. Samurai 7 I feel like a lot of people would be super excited by a straight up remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic movie, 7 Samurai. However, this anime turned it into a steampunk

With extinction-level meteors heading towards Earth, the government attempted to preserve humanity with the 7 Seeds Program. In this program, several teams of young people were established, frozen, and to be woken up in the future after the planet is livable again. However, the world these children wake up in is wild and dangerous where they appear to be the only humans left. While stumbling along in some of the finer details, 7 Seeds does a masterful job at telling truly sad stories about just what we would do in the end of the world. If you want more anime series like it, then give these anime recommendations below a try. For Fans Of Survival Dr. Stone One day, all of humanity was engulfed in light and mysteriously petrified. After a few millennia, two high schoolers awaken and find themselves in a wild world. These two set out to cure those still frozen and kick start civilization. Both of these series have almost the same premise, but with di

Ah, youth. You don’t really appreciate it until it is gone, but there are ways to reminisce, especially in anime. Coming of age stories focus on youth. Kids are just getting to that age where the future is wide open and full of possibilities. They get to experience mistakes when they don’t have as serious of consequences. They get to decide what they would like most for their life. Whether it is sorting out what their passion is or feeling the keen sting of love for the first time, we got tons of coming of age anime series for you to hunt down. Clannad Anime has a bit of a bad habit sometimes of only showing you the really good bits that come with growing up and kind of pulls the punches on the difficult bits. The first season of Clannad has kind of some typical “anime drama,” as I like to call it. All the girls have problems, and the main character helps them. They then grow because they had to deal with those long-brewing problems. However, the second s

Ravaging every land they touch, Vikings have become renowned for their thirst and talent for violence. Thorfinn, a son of a great Viking warrior, spends his childhood on the battlefield in order to reap his vengeance on his father’s murderer. Vikings – prized in other media, rare in anime. However, now you can sate your thirst for viking violence with this show. While there isn’t much else about Vikings in anime, these other anime recommendations can help sate your thirst for violence and vengeance at least. For Fans of Historical Influences The Heroic Legend of Arslan The young prince Arslan is ready to prove himself on the battlefield, but on his first battle, his father is betrayed and his kingdom is conquered. With his army in shambles, Arslan is forced to go on the run in search of allies to bring him back home. In both Vinland Saga and Arslan, they take place in a world of fiction, but you can feel the distinct historical infl

You know what can be so disappointing with romance anime? The relationship is built up for the ENTIRE series and you get that great kiss or declaration of love, then it just ends. It may not end for a few episodes afterwards, but it is hardly enough time to see any payoff. Sure, they say falling in love is the sweetest part, but sometimes you want a little more. If you want romance series that see a couple that gets together early on and explores their actual relationship, then try these anime series. Clannad Counting both Clannad and After Story, the romance becomes official at the end of the first series. Of course, the first series is also about exploring other potential routes as well. However, After Story gives you all the wonderful pay off you could ever want – plus some you didn’t want! His and Her Circumstances This particular romance series is a gem due to its solid romantic progression from high school and beyond. The main couple gets

One day, all of humanity was engulfed in light and mysteriously petrified. After a few millennia, two high schoolers awaken and find themselves in a wild world. These two set out to cure those still frozen and kick start civilization. Visually beautiful, Dr. Stone is worth watching for that alone, but this is the story of human history. If you want more like it, then consider these anime recommendations. For Fans of Survival 7 Seeds With extinction-level meteors heading towards Earth, the government attempted to preserve humanity with the 7 Seeds Program. In this program, several teams of young people were established, frozen, and to be woken up in the future after the planet is livable again. However, the world these children wake up in is wild and dangerous where they appear to be the only humans left. These series both have the same plots carried out in different ways. The people were unconscious for thousands of years, and when they wake up,

When it comes to romance anime, there are a lot of easy premises. The kind where you kind of just let the plot unfold as it naturally would so it doesn’t involve so much writing. One of those “easy” romance anime plots is where the main couple starts as a fake couple. Maybe they want to make someone jealous, get flirty classmates off their case, or just to look like someone can love them. Of course, we know that eventually that fake relationship is going to become a real one. If this trope is kind of your jam, you have quite a bit of romance series to choose from. Nisekoi This is the most well-known series and often gives people a taste for fake relationships in anime. Hopefully, that leads to anime relationships that have more romantic progression than this series had. In it, the main characters come from opposing Yakuza families. In order to stop a war, they must pretend to be dating to keep the peace. Oreshura Similar to Nisekoi, this i

A phenomenon has started overtaking mankind – one where people spontaneously combust and turn into destructive fire demons called Infernals. To fight these demons, special fire forces were established full of those with dedication and powers to control fire. This is the story of Fire Force 8 and their newest recruit – Shinra, who aims to become a hero and discover the truth behind the Infernals. This is fire fighting taken to the extreme! It is flashy and kind of super addicting to watch. If you want more like it, then head on down below. For Fans of Big Flash and Sizzle Mob Psycho 100 Kageyama Shigeo, otherwise known as Mob, is a young psychic with the ability to lift objects with his mind. Despite having this incredible power, he just wants to become friends with Tsubomi, a girl in his class. Due to negative reactions to his psychic abilities in the past, he now tries to keep them in check. Unlike Fire Force that shows its flash right from th

We don’t do manga series in our recommendations here, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t want to lie in bed and read a few good chapters quietly before bed. Instead of branching out into manga recommendations, we’re going to give you a few good ones that you can look into. So if you want to read some good yaoi manga or are just some sort of anime hipster that wants to be all “I read the manga before it was cool and animated,” then check out these yaoi manga recommendations below. Like The Beast Ueda Tomoharu is a cop in the local Koban station. He is quite happy with his boring life until one day, when chasing down an underwear thief, he bumps into local Yakuza member Gotouda Aki and is suddenly confessed to. Star-crossed lovers doesn’t even begin to describe their relationship. Complex Junichi and Tatsuya are best friends since childhood. They also just so happen to love each other. This is the complex story o

Dreaming of becoming a hero, Raul joined the Hero Training program. Unfortunately, with the demon king defeated, there is no market for heroes. Instead, Raul gets a job at an electronics store. He soon finds out that his new co-worker is in fact the old demon king’s daughter. Hey, its one of those series with a long title because light novel marketing is ridiculous! Well anyway, in this world of isekai, it is refreshing just to see an old-fashioned fantasy comedy. For Fans of Fantasy Comedy The Devil is a Part-Timer Just as he was on the cusp of conquering his world, Satan is thrown through a portal to Tokyo. Although he cannot use magic in this world, he is still motivated to conquer it, but first, he must get a job and pay his rent on time. A more similar series, there is not. Essentially, a demon king comes to our world and works part=time. The hero that would defeat him comes over too and becomes an office lady. It is just supernatu

Have you exhausted your Law and Orders, CSIs, and 21 Jump Streets? Well, it sounds like you have a thirst for police dramas, and a pretty big one. If you somehow exhausted all your normal television options, there is always anime. What’s more, anime and it lack of shackles to reality can go above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to police dramas. If you have a serious thirst for justice, give these anime recommendations a try. Ghost in the Shell Although it has a few iterations at this point, no matter what Ghost in the Shell you watch, it is going to be a cyberpunk police drama. In it, flesh and machine are melded in most people and it creates a unique capacity for crime as well as unique ways for the police to fight these crimes. Enter Section 9, an elite unit of police that deal with the most above and beyond crimes. Psycho Pass In Psycho Pass, the world has advanced so far that they can predict which people are going to commit

After the death of his parents, teenage Ryuuchi becomes the caretaker of his younger brother Kotarou. After meeting a chairman of an elite academy at his parent’s funeral, they are given room and board in exchange for him becoming the school a babysitter – a role established to support the female teachers. Ah, cute children being cute and not at all in a weird way that anime likes to do. If you are looking for more anime series like it, then head on down below. For Fans of Small Children Sweetness and Lightning After the death of his wife, high school math teacher Kouhei Inuzuka is left to care for his young daughter, Tsumugi. He does his best, but his busy schedule and poor culinary skills limit them to eating convenience store food separately. However, one day, his daughter expresses an interest to eat together after talking to one of his students in the park, Kotori, who deeply enjoys food. He rushes over to the restaurant owned by the stud