We’ve already talked about what could make an anime age poorly, so let’s flip that around and talk about what makes an anime age well!
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Writing Prompt: What is your favourite generic anime?
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Writing Prompt: What is your biggest anime fear?
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Writing Prompt : What is an anime that you love but would not recommend
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Writing Prompt: Is there anything in anime that makes you uncomfortable?
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Writing Prompt: What’s your preferred length for an anime?
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Writing Prompt: What “unimportant” anime character did you really like?
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Writing Prompt: Can a fandom ruin an anime for you?
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What Makes Love Live! Sunshine!! Work So Well?
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Writing Prompt: Will AI kill anime?
Lot of drama these days involving AI, it’s certainly upheaving many different industries in different ways. So it’s natural that fans of anime would worry about this same…
Writing Prompt: What anime took a concept or idea too far?
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Writing Prompt: What is your favourite one of a kind anime?
Here we go with a nice easy question to answer!
Writing Prompt: Has anyone ever changed your opinion about an anime?
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What Makes Anime, Anime?
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Writing Prompt: What are some of your favourite school clubs in anime?
This one seemed fun to think about. As we all know, clubs are a pretty glorified part of any school anime. And to be fair, I’d say they…
Writing Prompt: What anime gave you the emptiest feeling after finishing it?
Well, I’ve definitely encountered that empty feeling after finishing a series and realizing that there was nothing left to binge. The question is which was the worst offender…
Writing Prompt: What idea have you never seen depicted in anime before?
I’ve changed this to be “idea”, but it really could be genre or theme as well. Whatever really comes to mind, as this is a tricky question that…
Writing Prompt: Is anime better than Hollywood?
Now here’s an interesting one. I could see this being a difficult question for some, but not for me!
Writing Prompt: What was something unexpected about living in Japan?
At face value this seems similar to the “caught off guard” prompt I recently did, but I think the spirit of this one is that it’s about living…
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Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (3)
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Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (4)
It’s time for another rapid fire edition of writing prompt, where I choose to be lazy and answer questions without much elaboration!
Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (1)
There are a lot of questions that I see on the Internet that I like to answer on my blog, often because I feel like my answer would…
Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (2)
Let’s power through another one of these, because just like before, I’ve got some questions that I can’t see myself writing a full post for. That, and because…
Writing Prompt: What are your thoughts on depictions of Western culture in anime?
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Writing Prompt: What was your first anime? Do you still like it now?
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Writing Prompt: What outfit would you like to see more of in anime?
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Writing Prompt: What outfit would you like to see less of in anime?
I guess this one could get controversial. I’ll try my best to think of a good safe answer here…
Writing Prompt: Is it OK to review an anime before it’s finished airing?
An interesting question to think about. And there are many different ways to think around this one, too.
Writing Prompt: What’s an anime that you enjoyed but wouldn’t recommend to someone?
This definitely seems like the easier variation to tackle, when compared to its counterpart. I can think of a few answers already, so let’s get to them.
Writing Prompt: What is the most memorable snow scene for you?
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Writing Prompt: What’s an anime that you never watched because it’s too hyped up?
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Writing Prompt: What’s your favourite JRPG?
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What makes Japanese cartoons “anime”?
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Writing Prompt: Which anime character has that SIGMA grindset??
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Writing Prompt: Which anime was most relatable to you?
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Writing Prompt: Novels you’d like to see in anime.
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Writing Prompt: What place would you recommend someone to visit in Japan?
Figured I’d switch things up with a Japan-related prompt every so often. Although this question certainly isn’t any easier!
Writing Prompt: What is one recurring theme that you both hate and love in anime?
An anime theme that I have a love hate relationship with? I can certainly think of some things that I love, and others that I hate, but both…
Writing Prompt: Is it OK to rate an anime entirely based on its entertainment value?
When I first typed this question out, I was thinking that I may not use it, as it seems like a very easy one to answer. But then…
Writing Prompt: What’s an anime that you enjoyed from a genre you normally don’t like?
Over the years I’ve watched pretty much all genres at some point, and earlier on I was basically watching anything and everything. But I’ve definitely formed preferences over…
Writing Prompt: Should Evangelion get a remake?
I’m going to assume this is referring to the original series, and not something newer as I know there’s a bunch of Evangelion content out there. I’ve personally…
Writing Prompt: How did you learn Japanese?
This was actually one that I just came up with myself, but I figured I’d frame this as a prompt anyways since it fits. I know that many…
Writing Prompt: What’s the worst anime scene you’ve ever seen?
When I initially wrote this question down I thought it’d be difficult, because it’s a pretty specific thing to have to remember. But after a few minutes it…
Writing Prompt: Do you think anime can change someone’s life?
For once I found an interesting question to write about. It’s something I’ve thought about before, and I’ve seen this sort of concept mentioned several times as well,…
Writing Prompt: Getting bitten by anime girls: Good or bad?
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