Anime, Manga, and Otaku Culture
“Live… Live and be free.” ~ Gilbert Bougainvillea, ‘Violet Evergarden’ Being alive. Being vulnerable. Lungs brimming with bliss or coughing up blood. Hearts fond. Hearts shattering. Bared open, exposed to the world. Being alive is a remarkably brave act. ‘Violet Evergarden’ lays a devastatingly beautiful testament to the essence of this art of ‘Being’. […]
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The last 31 days of 2021 will see some of the best anime of recent years returning, there are some much awaited exciting anime upcoming this December such as action-packed JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and the return of one of the most popular anime series in recent years in the form of the second
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Despite releasing its final volume and chapter over a year ago, Haikyuu!! is still one of the biggest manga series and entertainment franchises in Japan. The series sold a whopping 4.345 million copies in Japan during Oricon’s fiscal year of 2021 and is the 10th best-selling manga series of the year. The fourth season of
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Oricon has finally released their year-end list for the Best-Selling Light Novels (By Series) of 2021 and unsurprisingly Demon Slayer has managed to top even this chart as well. The Demon Slayer Light Novel series sold a total of 776,320 copies in the fiscal year of 2021. The beloved shonen franchise has three light novels
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In just over six months, Tokyo Revengers has become the 69th Best-Selling Manga of all time. Tokyo Revengers has seen such a huge unprecedented success since the start of the anime and has sold over 24 million copies within this fiscal year. This is not only the biggest year for any manga by Kodansha since Oricon
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Jujutsu Kaisen is the most popular manga of 2021 with over 30 million copies sold leaving Demon Slayer behind during this fiscal year. Before Oricon announces its year-end list for the Best-Selling Manga Series of the year in Japan, we looked up the Oricon charts to find out what has been some of the most
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Jujutsu Kaisen has quickly become one of the biggest anime and manga series around Japan within just a year since the anime first premiered. And, in a recent announcement from Shueisha, it has been revealed that the Jujutsu Kaisen manga series is going to reach 60 million copies in circulation with the release of its
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It’s the end of an era as the Attack on Titan anime which premiered more than eight years ago is finally coming to an end in a few months. The anime will commence the final arc of the series with the return of its fourth season which is slated to premiere on January 9, 2022.