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An Underrated Classic - Ushio to Tora

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 Welcome to another anime recommendation blog, this time I’m doing Ushio to Tora (2015) which is an anime I found some under-appreciated in the community and no one hardly talks about which is a shame to be honest. There will be little spoilers in this blog, and doesn’t really talk about the plot, just about the overall evaluation. Ushio to Tora is a very unique anime, as you can see when you first get into it is the art-style straight off the bat. As the anime is animated by the notable MAPPA studio back in 2015, the art is very interesting and found it very original to other stuff I have seen; which is what MAPPA has always done to me. Many people, including me, have said that it is reminiscent of 80s anime but modernised; this style couldn’t be better for this anime as the source material is from the 90s. It gives me massive respect to MAPPA, because they were clearly thinking about the fans of the series as they were remaking it to a newer generation, and it’s what I love to see fr

A Great Batsu Game - Tomodachi Game

 Back in action!! I recently came back to watching anime after a year, and I left some seasonal anime. A few stood out to me, this is one of them. Mostly spoiler free. I always knew about the manga from a friend, but never actually got into it until the anime aired in April last year. I was always meaning to get into psychological anime, but I forget to because I focus on my huge backlog of shows I must watch or already started from seasonal anime. This anime has always stood out to me because penalty games anime are a small trend, although still quite a few of them. However, this trend is full of anime that always fall flat on their faces during the runtime, but Tomodachi Game managed to keep my interest really high throughout the whole show. The anime is about a small group of friends, when things go astray and money is stolen by someone, that makes them get put into a batsu game with a live audience to repay their debt. The catch is to test their friendship by games based on truth o