“Girls’ Frontline” is an anime adaptation based on the mobile game “Dolls’ Frontline” (known as “少女前線” in China), developed by SUNBORN and aired in 2022. Directed by Shigeru Ueda and produced by Asahi Production, the series is set in a near-future world where T-Dolls (tactical dolls) take on combat roles instead of humans. It features intricate strategy and intense battles, blending military themes with...
“Kaiju No.8” is a Japanese manga work by Naoya Matsumoto, serialised in a webcomic from 2020.An anime was broadcast on TV from 2024. Synopsis Japan is a “monster country” where monsters destroy people’s daily lives. The main character Kafuka Hibino, whose childhood home town was destroyed, promised his childhood friend Mina Ashiro that they would “exterminate all the monsters”.However, at the age of 32,...
“The Irregular at Magic High School” is a Japanese anime based on the light novel of the same name by Tsutomu Sato.The first season aired in 2014, and the second season aired in 2020. Subsequently, it was announced that a special version and a sequel to the series would be produced. Synopsis In 2095, 35 years after the end of World War III, which...
“COWBOY BEBOP” is set in space in the year 2071 and follows the exploits of a group of bounty hunters. The TV animation started in 1998 and attracted attention for its unique atmosphere, music and character design.The average age of the main characters, including the protagonist Spike (27 years old), is rather high for a TV animation work, and the work targets a somewhat...
“ASTRO BOY” is a science fiction hero animation created by Osamu Tezuka.Broadcast from 1963 to 1966, it was Japan’s first full-fledged, 30-minute-per-episode TV animation series with a total of 193 episodes (with some exceptions in black and white).At the start of the broadcast, there was a stock of original manga stories that had previously been serialised in monthly magazines for more than ten years,...
In the 1970s and 1980s, the “robot anime” genre was very popular in Japan. Real robots, as typified by “Mobile Suit Gundam,” and giant robot-based anime works, later categorized as “super robots,” split the popularity of the genre. Real robots may be more prominent in recent anime, but many anime fans still love giant robot merger scenes. Here are some “cool robot combination scenes”...
“Neon Genesis EVANGELION” is a Japanese animated television series. Directed by Hideaki Anno, the 26 episodes were broadcast on television between 1995 and 1996.The success of “Neon Genesis EVANGELION” led to an anime boom, and from around 1997, after the broadcast, there was an unprecedented boom of about 50 TV anime episodes a week in the Tokyo metropolitan area.Around this time, the soundtrack “NEON...
“Date a Live” The first TV broadcast of the first season began in 2013. The decision to produce a second season was announced when the 12th episode was broadcast, and a total of 10 episodes were broadcast in 2014 as “Date a Live II”. A series was later developed and a film was also released. Synopsis “Date a Live” is an anime work based...
