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MAPPA’s highly anticipated adaptation of the smash-hit Korean webcomic The God of High School certainly made its mark on the anime world with its face-melting sakuga moments and non-stop action, but it also had one very noticeable flaw – it tried to compress over 100 webcomic chapters into just 13 anime episodes.
With the Fall 2020 anime season now in full swing, it’s time to take a look back at Summer 2020’s finest moments. Today we’ll be taking a closer look at the scenes that made us laugh the most this past season – we’ve got rap battles, slapstick comedy, drinking contests, horribly cast plays, and much more. Let’s get started!
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (translated as Higurashi: When They Cry) is a horror franchise that started as a series of visual novels in the early 2000s, but has since been adapted into an entire arsenal of anime, manga, live-action dramas, OVAs, and much more. The newest entry into the canon is Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou, a Fall 2020 anime by studio Passione that follows its own original storyline. So, if you’ve never given this franchise a chance before, where’s the best place to start? How much do you need to know to understand the new anime? We’re here to help, so join us as we discuss in which order you should watch Higurashi: When They Cry!
The Summer 2020 anime season is now behind us, but that doesn’t mean for a second that we’ve forgotten about it! One of this season’s biggest defining features was its abundance of hype-tastic moments, ranging from jaw-dropping plot twists in drama shows to climactic power-ups in shounen battle series. Join us on this wild ride of the most hype anime moments of Summer 2020!
The God of High School is the latest manhwa-turned-anime to grace our screens this year – only the second Korean comic to be adapted into animated form after Tower of God in Spring 2020. We follow taekwondo practitioner Jin Mori and his friends as they fight their way through a nationwide martial arts tournament that gets cranked up a notch when it’s discovered that certain participants possess unique superpowers called “charyeok”.
This high-octane action anime has been brought to life by top-tier studio MAPPA (known for their work on Dororo, Garo: Vanishing Line, Kakegurui, and others) and was heavily promoted on streaming sites as the next big shounen anime. But does The God of High School live up to its lofty expectations? Let’s take a closer look and find out!
P.A. Works’ original anime Appare-Ranman is colorful, bursting with creativity, and absolutely deserves more attention than it got. In the late 1800s, passionate but socially awkward teen genius Appare accidentally strands himself and his strait-laced samurai chaperone Kosame across the sea in California, where the very first Trans-America Wild Race is about to begin. Hoping to use the prize money to return home, they build an experimental car and join the race along with several more eclectic characters who will become either their best friends or their worst enemies as they speed across the Wild West.
