A lot of anime fans will eventually experience an all too common frustration. They will finish that next great anime series that made them fall in love with it, only to find there is no second season – and might not ever be. However, if you are sick of finding great series that tell stories that you will have to wait a year to find out what happens next, it sounds like you need something a little more complete. Plenty of anime series can tell great stories with a conclusive ending in only one season. Parasyte Anime has a weird habits of turning alien invasion into something weirdly sexy, as in making them a romance or a comedy. Parasyte isn’t that. It tells the serious side of an alien invasion where they snatch human bodies, can mold flesh into deadly weapons, and have no regard for human life. Erased Mysteries always benefit from being told in a single season because there is only so much you can build intrigue before it is no longer intri

With sketchbook always on hand, Midori Asakusa has a passion for drawing both the world around her and the world in her boundless imagination. In stark contrast, her best friend Sayaka Kanamori and her calculated approach to life keeps her grounded. After a chance encounter with model Tsubame Misuzaki who has a passion for drawing characters, Kanamori, sensing a money-making opportunity, suggests they start an animation club. Take this anime series frame by frame and you will see that it is a love letter to animation and not at all as weird as you have come to expect from Masaaki Yuasa. For anime recommendations similar to Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, head on down below. For Fans of Anime About Making Anime Shirobako The five members of the Kaminoyama High School animation club all make a pledge to make their project for the school cultural festival a huge success, then afterwards move to Tokyo and work in the industry. Fast forward two years in th

You know the moments. There are some moments in anime that are so amazing (or amazingly meme-able) that they transcend the fandom. Everyone ends up knowing about them. Sometimes they bring new watchers to a series, but mostly they serve as tender little memories that you hold in you heart to fondly remember all your many weeb adventures. So what moments do we think endure the draining and corrosive passage of time? Spoilers? I will try excessively hard to not. (Let me know if I slipped up somewhere in the comments.) “Bang” – Cowboy Bebop Anyone who thought that Cowboy Bebop would have a happy or even an innately satisfying ending clearly wasn’t watching very closely. Melancholic throughout, Cowboy Bebop hosted a brief clash that it had been swaggering its way up to and ending with a literal “Bang” of the snazzy finger gun variety. Perhaps the only legal way to end a story following the classically cool Spike Spiegal. “I will ta

Historically, Oda Nobunaga perished at Honnouji. However, what you didn’t know is that he was reincarnated into the modern day as a Shiba dog named Cinnamon. He is eventually joined by other famous samurai who met the same fate in reincarnation. Stupid comedy premise? To be certain. Delightful as hell? Absolutely. It is a nice unwind type of show about historical people as dogs. I think we can all use a little more of that in our life. For Fans of Feel-Good Animal Series My Roommate is a Cat Subaru is a novelist, and not very good with people. He’s been alone since his parent’s death, but one day while praying at their grave, a cat comes and eats his offering. Deciding to take it home, he now is shouldered with a cat, and this stray is shouldered with caring for a human who can barely care for himself. Both series follow the lives of pets. My Roommate is a Cat is more traditional while Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga is about historical figur