Anime goes through trends. Especially when it comes to the niche market otaku titles, if a certain style of story gets popular, it will be repeated endlessly. This has been true since the very beginning of anime itself with many of the first anime being various Astro Boy knockoffs. The late 2010s can be very… Read
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