Audiences crave familiarity, but constant reliance on recycled ideas turns creativity into assembly-line entertainment.

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While shonen anime remains some of the most popular and most entertaining of all, shonen anime isn't free from its fair share of faults. Some tropes or recurring themes of shonen anime are downright ...

Characters can make or break an anime series. If they are great, the story is almost always stellar. However, if they are poorly written, or annoying, the characters can make it incredibly hard to ...