One Way

Most people enjoy physical contact with other people, whether it's for comfort or affection. While hugging is often used as a romantic expression, especially in anime, it can also be used to portray friendship or other deep feelings.  Anime hugs makes for good drama, but there is so much more to them. So here is a collection of 19 of the best anime hug scenes ever, be they romantic, comedic, sad, or just plain ole friendly. 1. Ao Haru Ride's touching embrace Kou and Futaba have enough angst for a lifetime, but it makes for some perfect, tear-jerking scenes. Especially when they both stop the epic-level denial for moments like this.   2. Howl no Ugoku Shiro's companionable embrace Howl and Sophie are beautiful together. This is one of the best anime hug scenes of all time, as it portrays both Howl finally taking a stand and Sophie discovering her own sense of self-worth, two of the deepest themes in this anime classic. 3. Naruto: Shippuuden

Tim Drake’s been off the board for quite some time in the Rebirth DCU. Almost a year exactly, in fact. He was “killed” in Detective Comics #940 — but immediately revealed to have actually been abducted by the mysterious Mr. Oz, a status which put him in the esteemed company of other victims like Mr. Mxyzptlk and Doomsday. So, of course, no one actually believed he could be gone for good, making the mystery of just how he was going to make it back one of the longest running questions Rebirth has had going. Well, that and why Oz took him in the first place, considering his fairly blatant incongruity with the rest of his prisoner’s occupants. Luckily, as “A Lonely Place of Living” finally kicks into gear in Detective Comics #965 alongside Action Comics’ “The Oz Effect” answers are finally beginning to trickle in — and bring with them a slew of new questions to be asked. Reinventing Robin The arc title “A Lonely P