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 Dragon Ball The most motivational and inspirational anime I’ve ever watched has got to be Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Starting with the original DB which is pureness at heart with a young Son Goku heart of gold who can always laugh and have fun no matter what happens teaches the type of mindset that you need in life. As no matter what happens in life, you must think of the bright sight which builds strength of the mind, grown up Goku has this mindset but you can see it in its truest form in the original. Goku has this mindset which is how he is able to enjoy every day to its fullest without having all the tribulations stop his tracks as he has amazing mental fortitude. OG DB Goku has that naivety as a child even as an adult which shows how he can do so much as he is not worrying about everything or doubts his worth and he has so much dedication you can’t help but be motivated like him. His dedication to everything is infectious in its final form, if you have seen a lot of Drago...

Uramichi Oniisan

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Now that it's the new year, have you ever had worries about the future? Well, why not watch an anime that pokes fun at life and the troubles of growing old :D Have you ever wanted to be honest at work and say anything on your mind? Have you ever not felt a hundred percent and want to tell everyone how you feel? Well, this anime called Uramichi Oniisan is about Uramichi Omota and the other adults who work with children on a television show where they entertain them and give advice. However, Uramichi goes on tangents about his depressive thoughts, which is done in a way that makes it into surreal humour and flips it so suddenly which makes it extremely hilarious. One day while bored out of my mind, I came across this anime from an instagram reel of the voice actor just genuinely dying of laughter, and they left it in; which made me want to watch this. Link to video It goes to show that this anime is a fun watch because the voice actors were just messing around and having ...

Grand Blue Dreaming

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This manga is for a mature adult audience. Grand Blue or sometimes called Grand Blue Dreaming (not to be confused with Granblue Fantasy) is a 2014 manga that includes slapstick and surreal humour that is targeted to a more mature adult audience for its inappropriate themes and jokes. The manga is about a guy called Iori who moves in with his cousins and gets coerced into joining a diving club. Now I've talked about a diving anime before so I can tell you this one is very unique. It’s like if you combined with Azazel-san, Gintama, Prison School and mixed in with Amanchu but with males in. Iori is forced to join the club, and wants to distance himself from the tomfoolery but instead ends up always being the worst one; the manga includes absurdity at every corner with crude jokes that are mostly inappropriate or opposite of exception or straight up illegal but done so well that it is hilarious. There’s juxtaposition all the time with comedy, with it having a plot of diving...

Kaiju No.8

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The manga I will be showcasing is one I found really interesting, called Kaiju No.8. The story revolves around a world like Earth, but kaiju exists, but instead of giant creatures, they can be any size; Kafka wakes up one day as a half kaiju half Human hybrid where he can transform and become very strong. He discovers his power, but despite that, he is an old geezer, so his confidence is low, being old and "out of service," as one would say. Nevertheless, Kafka and his friend Hibino join the Kaiju fighting force and must keep his power a secret because kaiju are killed. He has to transform and help save his comrades and gets into some altercations. The manga is a fascinating idea; as someone who loves Godzilla and other kaiju, combining it into a shounen manga with action is a fantastic concept I haven't seen before, so it's an original spin on a monster fighting manga. #comaaawikis #comaaablogs Kaijū No.8 has excellent action panels and enemies that are 1...

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

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Spoilers Ahead The movie when I first saw it stood out for me so incredibly, right from the start the art style is so different from any other movie I’ve seen by having dazzling types of high contrast, flat colors with little shading which looks like something that Takashi Murakami would make. Even though it has this unique art style, it still feels like a real movie and the bright colors really make everything pop, with shots of scenery that I really loved when I first watched this anime. The anime is about a girl named Smile which she calls herself that and is an idol on a livestream app. She meets a boy named Cherry, where all the characters do not have actual names except one minor character. They both share insecurities, Cherry has social anxiety and uses headphones to comfort him and Smile is conscious about her teeth and uses a mask to hide while also being a micro idol online. When Cherry gets too overwhelmed, he turns red hence why he is called Cherry; it shows the problems th...

Insomniacs After Dark

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 A recent anime called Insomniacs After School grabbed my attention as someone who has had insomnia since the age of 10, this anime shows a part of insomniacs that day enjoyers don’t know about and has the effects or feelings that people with this condition exhibit. I loved this anime so much when I was watching it, and it is the perfect anime to watch when you can’t sleep as well. What I liked about this anime is that it has a very calm feeling like you are laying down looking at the night sky and inhabiting those feelings so well. The feeling of this anime is so unique from its incredible styled soundtrack being a slow bpm with a soothing guitar or soothing vocals and the rest of the music being very cutesy with an amazing opening as well, just makes watching this anime even more enjoyable for me. The vibe on this anime is very sleepy or dreamy, kind of calm when it’s night and they are doing their activity or chatting, it’s like staying up in sleepover. You get to experience thi...

Amanchu

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 Iyashikei is probably my favourite subgenre of anime. Iyashikei is a subgenre of a slice of life meant to relax the audience and unwind to the point it has a healing effect on the audience that has heartwarming moments and an escape from reality. One of my favourites of this genre that I feel like no one ever talks about or a lot of fans of the show is Amanchu!. The anime is sort of like Aria, with being heavily inspired by the anime, but also it’s different because it doesn’t have fantasy and is about diving. There’s something about combining sports or activities like fishing or diving or shogi or school band and slice of life really goes well together; as well as bringing you back to a more simpler time in your life where everything was easier, and I believe that is the purpose for slice of life. I love this anime to death, even though it gets an average score, but to me I actually don’t know why it’s like that because it’s amazing. The story is about a green-haired girl called ...

Haibane Renmai

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 Haibane Renmei is about a girl called Rakka who is reborn as an angel from a cocoon and doesn’t remember who she is or anything about her which is common with the other people she lives with. Rakka develops wings, as it’s common with the people like her who were also from cocoon’s. Rakka goes throughout the story, with dissociation from herself and the world; I can’t stump what her purpose is in the world or why she’s there. Her wings get darker and full of oil when her mental state is worsening and at the start she has to develop her wings, which was very brutal to experience being in her shoes. I’d have to compare her character to Lain where she is listless all the time, and is always curious about outside her little village which she is not allowed out of without someone else. This anime shows that everyone faces the same issues with existence but doesn’t show and has to find their peace in the world or be ignorant of it. It also has themes of the afterlife as they are reborn i...

3-gatsu no Lion

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 The story follows Rei Kiriyama, a shogi elite that has been a savant at an early age and grew up being in the light of success, but as he grows older, he realises the amount of pressure and finds it hard to keep a float in the world. The opening really speaks to it, which actually shows the waves of water that are crashing into him symbolising all his trauma and expectations, etc that he's going through and I think the full animation opening video really metaphorically shows the imbalance of Rei’s life perfectly. Rei however finds three sisters that bring him into their home and show him admiration and love; it’s super wholesome to watch their daily lives and make Rei come out of his comfort zone. For me, I very much relate to Rei as when I first started watching, I experienced very much what he was going through and it’s very cathartic to watch this anime as it deals with so much heavy and deep stuff, but also it’s a very meaningful life lesson for anyone going through stuff. I’d...

How to Write a Good Blog

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So you want to become a blogger but you don't know where to start or how to write, well in this blog I'll show you how to make a blog easily. It's actually pretty simple how to write and once you know how it's very fun to express yourself. To get a featured blog, you’re usually looking at around 900 words minimum that's mainly opinionated throughout. You can, like me go a bit above that just to be something somewhere in the 1000 words ballpark or can be even more up to 3500 as long as it's more opinion than facts. (If you're doing a review of an anime, you can review the 5 points; story, characters, sound/voices/music, animation, art (style)/character design, enjoyment as well) First before you start you need a plan or what you are going to write about, so put the premise or helps to have an idea of the title of the blog first. Also, if you're doing a anime, review, then start the description of the anime or character. Once you know what you wanna talk a...