Author: Abhradip Acharya

What’s the sauce bro? Sauce? Sauce Plz? No, this isn’t someone asking for the sauce or its recipe in a restaurant. This sauce is used in the anime community to know about the source of a video clip or an image posted on social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Reddit. etc. With 30 to 40 new anime coming out every three months of an anime season, it is expected for the anime community to ask for the source or names of an anime after a video clip or a screenshot piques their interest. Instead of asking, “what is the name…

Knight in shining armour. It would be a lie if you say you have not heard of this before. Anyone who rescues you from a difficult situation is your knight in shining armour, a kind, and brave soul. A knight is a high-ranked warrior from the medieval period riding on horseback. But in the current time, A knight is more of a symbol for the brave hearts. In anime, knights are often in their stereotypical attire. But some anime have depicted the knight in a way that transcends the stereotype. There are female knights, mecha knights, hybrid-human knights, magical knights, and many…

This question about Goku’s age has been circulating among Dragon Balls fans for quite a while now. Well, the whole anime keeps on wondering about the same question. Because why not? Goku has hardly aged since the ending of Dragon Ball Z, whereas everyone else got married and had kids, who have grown old enough to have their kids, but our man Goku is still in his prime. While everyone is researching Goku’s age, I am busy looking for the anti-aging cream Goku uses to look so young.  Jokes aside, I have made this article with a detailed timeline that…

It all started when Goku sacrificed himself during the Cell Saga. This is when Vegeta realized his desperation to surpass Goku. Vegeta realized he had lost his pride as the Prince of Saiyans, and he had become too soft at heart to start a family on the planet where he once came to find another surviving Saiyan to add to his forces. Following this realization, Vegeta began training to surpass his limits and ultimately beat Goku. However, the fact that Goku is in the afterlife and he won’t be able to fight him one-on-one frustrated Vegeta to no…

Bleach will always be one of the reasons for the success of the Shonen genre around the globe. Besides Naruto, One Piece, and Dragon Ball, you can like or dislike it, but you cannot deny the contribution Bleach made in both the mediums of anime and manga. Created by Tite Kubo, Bleach soon became the talk of the town, not only for its intriguing plot and cool action sequences but also for the style statement every character of Bleach portrayed. If not for Bleach, the trend of anime and clothing brand collaboration wouldn’t have gained so much attention and popularity.…

I clearly remember how much I enjoyed Pokemon as a kid. Like any other child at that age, Pokemon was a cartoon to me. In the early 2000s, I came home from school, sat in front of the TV, tuned into Cartoon Network, and got lost in Pokemon. Yep, with the school uniform and socks still on. I was so into it that I never realized being fed by my mother. And that was just the beginning. The obsession with Pokemon didn’t stop there. I bought packets of chips, lollipops, trump cards, bubblegums, and everything bundled with pokemon cards and…

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word Chibi? Is it a small and cute anime character with an oversized head? Because Chibi, like many other Japanese terms, does not have only one meaning, they have quite a few of them. Chibi is a slang term that means short or little in Japanese. It may also refer to a dwarf, a child, a small animal, a small fry, shrimp, and a few others. However, in anime, Chibi means characters with a small body and a huge head. So, Overall, Chibi represents cuteness to…

Call it Gear 5 or just the awakening of his devil fruit, but Luffy’s new form has turned the whole One Piece community upside down. Be it the billions of theories that have been proven wrong or the millions that have been proven correct, and the One Piece community feels more alive than ever. Because, with the clearance of previous doubts, several new ones have emerged. And the theorists are going haywire over topics like the real name of Gum-Gum Fruit, the Void Century, Sun God Nika, Gear 5, and gears beyond it, Zunesha being Joy Boy’s companion, and so…

The number of isekai anime these days might be more than the number of stars in the skies. If that feels exaggerated, you have no idea about the mass production of isekai anime for the past few years. Thankfully anime like Re Zero, Konosuba, Slime Datta Ken, Shield Hero, and Mushoku Tensei is leading from the front and keeping the originality of the genre alive. Isekai and reincarnation go hand in hand. But that does not mean every isekai anime has reincarnation in it. Similarly, not every reincarnation anime is an isekai. Re Zero, The Rising of the Shield Hero,…

When it comes to the term “American Anime”, the first question is, how can an anime be American Because anime means animation produced and animated in Japan. Well, you see, some animated series, be it cartoons or adult animations, are either inspired by the anime style of doing things or are produced and animated by a Japanese anime studio. That’s where the word American Anime comes in. There are many American animated series like that. And with the booming popularity of anime throughout the globe, more and more animated series from America collaborate with Japanese anime studios or with creators…

If you are someone like me, who always gets lost in these terms, or someone who has recently stepped into the world of anime, Dandere is a way of categorizing an anime character who is shy and quiet most of the time. Yes, A socially awkward being. While you might misunderstand them for being unemotional, they are calculating what to speak and what not to speak. People of these types want to be on the safe side of a conversation. However, If a dandere gets close to someone, they become very comfortable and bring out their sweet, innocent and bubbly…

Romance. How can one describe it? To some, romance is butterflies in the stomach, while to some, romance is the time one cannot recognize their mirror selves. For others, it might be a fleeting moment that does not last long. Romance is different for every individual as there are numerous shades in it. Maybe that’s why romance in anime portrays the author’s sentiment towards love, while the anime director adds their bits to it. There is no need to tell you about the vastness of romance anime as a genre. There are hundreds and hundreds of them, maybe even thousands.…

As if categorizing ourselves by the Myers-Briggs Test was not enough, we are now doing the same with our favorite anime characters based on their attributes. It is surprising how we always find a new way to entertain ourselves. Myers-Briggs Test, commonly known as the MBTI aka Myers–Briggs Type Indicator, is a personality test that shows your ideal personality type among the mentioned categories: Introversion (I) or Extroversion (E)Sensing (S) or Intuition (N)Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)Judging (J) or Perceiving (P) In this article, we’ll talk about the top 15 ISTP anime characters, where ISTP stands for Introversion, Sensing, Thinking,…