To celebrate National Anime Day, here are io9's favorite slept-on gems from 'Anohana' to 'Violet Evergarden.' If you’re a devout follower of Big Calendar who takes pleasure in celebrating every day ...

Boys' Love is a unique genre of anime that focuses on romantic relationships between two male characters. Sometimes called Yaoi, or simply just BL, the Boys' Love genre has always had a strong ...

Happy endings are becoming more and more rare when it comes to anime series in the modern era, with the focus of current series trending more towards bleak, bittersweet, or hopeful at best. The ...

Romance anime can be great, but this particular genre has a bad habit of making even simple love stories more frustrating than they need to be. Too many shows rely on exhausting love triangles, ...

Mark Sammut grew up on the PlayStation 1 and has been playing games ever since, although he is no longer limited to just Sony consoles. Be it JRPGs, shooters, platformers, or hack and slash games, ...

Anime is just like any other entertainment medium, with a wide variety of titles that attract both praise and criticism alike. In art, there’s no possibility of having a complete consensus across the ...