On Being An Action Whore

I love action shows. Everytime I see a well choreographed action scene, it takes me back to the time when I was reenacting Kamehameha’s in my garden or shooting friends with water pistols. There’s just something about the flow of a well-animated (or in the case of manga, well-drawn)action scene that seems amazing to me.  Though I do appreciate slice-of-life, romance and drama, the genre that holds the most appeal for me at the moment is shounen, since most anime and manga in that genre have great action sequences.

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One Piece: A Modern Day “Epic” In Every Sense Of The Word?

“Epic” is a word that’s thrown around all too often these days, to the point where it’s used to describe anything from that which a protagonist in an anime does that’s particularly shocking or an event of pure unadulterated win. But one case where the word “epic” can be used without exaggeration is One Piece.

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