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Life? What life? 1. When you can’t pry yourself away from rewatching your favorite series to try something new:   2. When you realize how effortless it would be for you to do your thesis on a 400-episode shounen character arc: 3. When you try to make plans outside of anime, but your schedule won’t allow for it: 4. When your bishounen thirst has no chill: 5. When you’re in too deep to be anything but honest about your interests: 6. When anime morphs into your one tried and true procrastination tool: 7. When even under great duress, you prioritize your otaku habits over all else: 8. When you realize that true friends don’t judge lock screens or desktop backgrounds: 9. When you know you will never stop at just one episode, but try to do it anyway: 10. When you realize socializing will never fill the void like video mashups and AMVs do: 20 Probl

Let's be frank, some characters are really annoying. If we got a step further, some characters are really annoying and useless to a show's plot as a whole.  Creators try to get the audience to overlook this by making the character fuzzy and cute, but the point still stands. Today's List looks at 7 animal companions that are completely useless. 7. Jaken (InuYasha)  Jaken is technically a kappa, a sort of turtle-like demon thing. He's Sesshōmaru's most devoted lackey, which is the guy's only real strong point. He has a staff with fire abilities that he is somewhat capable with but his other powers are weak at best.  Despite this, I guess his loyalty really is worth something since Sesshōmaru opted to bring him back to life.    6. Shiina (Vampire Princess Miyu)  Shiina is Miyu's deceptively cute rabbit shinma. It's primary function is a sort of "alarm" to detect opposing shinma's power levels with its creepy, jaundiced ey

Like when you tell your parents you are going to cooking school instead of accepting your full ride to MIT, there are some anime series out there that waste their potential just like people do.  Sometimes it is everybody’s fault. Sometimes it the writers, or the time constraints, or the creative decisions, or the directing.  However, every time you run into a series the piques your interest with its plot, it is just heart-breaking when it doesn’t live up. Here’re 19 anime series that totally wasted their tremendous potential. 1. The Lost Village The ending of The Lost Village may or may not have (but definitely did) spark the idea for this list.  They built a cool concept, one that was able to tempt the viewer into watching in hopes of either a survival-based, possibly village-building anime or a real gore fest.  Even when neither of those things happened, you stayed invested to learn about the horrible pasts of a

Anyone who loves anime knows it’s not just about hyper cute, ocularly engorged, school children in short skirts fighting demons with the power of cleavage.  But the good stuff has a lot to teach us in between the awesome Engrish tunes in the credits. 1. First of all, always read the terms and conditions. No matter what.   2. Don’t battle your inner demons — befriend them. 3. Does your fruit look weird? Just eat it. Don’t ask questions. 4. Screaming only makes you more powerful. 5. Oh, and changing into a cute outfit also gives you more power. 6. If you break rich people’s belongings, you’ll earn six hot boyfriends as a reward. 7. Never build a wall around anything, cause some big-ass naked guy is going to break it. 8. Don’t trust girls. They will just die on you. 15 Life Lessons You Could Learn While Watching Dragon Ball 1

Otakorp Inc. announced on Tuesday that the total number of attendees for this year's Otakon event was 24,894. The number includes those who purchased badges as well as staff, dealers, industry, contractors, guests, and press. It also includes the Anisong World Matsuri. Otakorp noted that the number was down from last year. Otakon 2017 took place from August 11-13 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. It was the 24th convention, and the first year the convention was being held in D.C.; Baltimore has hosted the convention for the past 17 years.