It’s why Grave of the Fireflies author Akiyuki Nosaka only agreed to let his short story be adapted into an anime film by Isao Takahata’s team at Studio Ghibli: The form could capture the emotions of ...

The current shonen landscape is ripe with dark shows ... and all three must strive to keep together. Dark anime doesn’t necessarily need to include gore or excessive violence, and some popular ...

The following picks offer other anime with dark, philosophical themes ... supernatural creatures with a grimy yet imaginative urban landscape, Blood Blockade Battlefront’s cool world-building ...

Dark Schneider, in the end ... just for how out-of-place it is in the current anime landscape. Nowadays all our male nerd power fantasies are about Hiro Potatoman getting isekai'd into the ...

From perilous, anomic landscapes to an odd sense of liberation from typical civilization, the worlds of these dystopian anime settings ... through this hellish landscape on their way to this ...

Many things make Claymore a special action anime that fans continue to love, but one of the most eye-catching is how it uses a predominantly female cast. Claymore is one of the most popular dark ...