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Fruits Basket 2nd Season Review – A Beautiful Story, Finally Animated!

Fruits Basket 2nd Season Review – A Beautiful Story, Finally Animated!

Mary Lee Sauder
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Fruits Basket’s second season finally wrapped up a few weeks ago with a masterpiece of a final episode that deftly portrayed two big story reveals that long-time fans have been waiting for over a decade to see in animated form. The rest of the season kept up the same level of quality, introducing anime-only viewers to never-before-seen characters and story arcs in a non-intimidating way while remaining true to the text that manga readers hold so dear to their hearts. Let’s take a closer look at Fruits Basket 2nd Season!

5 Anime Couples We Wish Had Actually Gotten Together

5 Anime Couples We Wish Had Actually Gotten Together

Mary Lee Sauder
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The medium of anime has produced some amazing tales of romance where the relationship is built up properly and the couple gets to live happily ever after with canon approval. Unfortunately, though, some of our favorite anime couples either never got together in the first place or their relationship was cut short before it could even really begin. Some would say that the best way to mend our broken hearts is to write “fix-it” fanfiction, but we have an even better idea – complaining about it on the internet! So let’s talk about the five anime couples we wish had actually gotten together, shall we?

Juzo Inui from No Guns Life - The Cutest Gun-Headed Mercenary You'll Ever Meet

Juzo Inui from No Guns Life - The Cutest Gun-Headed Mercenary You'll Ever Meet

Mary Lee Sauder
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No Guns Life’s second season just finished airing, and we thought it’d be a fantastic opportunity to bring some attention to everyone’s favorite cyberpunk mercenary with a gun for a head – Juzo Inui. His vast array of cybernetic enhancements qualifies him as an “Extended”, and he uses them to clean up the messes that other Extendeds cause around town. He’s as hard-boiled as any noir detective, but he has a softer side that comes out when he’s flustered or taking care of his friends. Let’s take a closer look at him!

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out Proves That There's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out Proves That There's No Such Thing as Bad Publicity

Mary Lee Sauder
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Have you been watching Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out this season? It’s a fun show about a loner college student named Sakurai and his obnoxious, but well-meaning kouhai Uzaki who makes it her personal mission to get him to enjoy life a little more. Nothing particularly original here, but the comedic antics are entertaining and the dynamic between Sakurai and Uzaki is much more genuinely sweet than you might expect it to be. Still, is that really enough to make it the fourth most watched anime (besides sequels) on MyAnimeList for all of Summer 2020? Sure, the pandemic means that there isn’t much competition right now, but how did it manage to get so much attention?

Hana Uzaki vs Haruhi Suzumiya - Who's the Better Manic Pixie Dream Girl?

Hana Uzaki vs Haruhi Suzumiya - Who's the Better Manic Pixie Dream Girl?

Mary Lee Sauder
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The summer 2020 anime season’s surprise hit Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out is all about how a loner college student named Sakurai gets his life turned upside down by his energetic kouhai Uzaki. Uzaki is a classic “manic pixie dream girl” – a term coined in 2007 by film critic Nathan Rabin that refers to boisterous female characters whose only purpose in the story is to give a sad-sack male protagonist a new lease on life through wacky antics and bright smiles. One of the most prominent anime examples in recent memory is, of course, Haruhi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

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