10 Characters Wearing Heroic Sunglasses

Today we bring you a guest post from , a writer who's interested in Asian culture and anything art and design-related. I hope you'll give her a warm HeroMachine welcome!



A typical superhero wears form-fitting clothes, a cape, and a mask to complete their image but characters are now tweaking their signature look. While most superheroes hide their identities under a mask, there are those who prefer to give a hint while still leaving an air of mystery.

Animes i have seen

All the anime/manga i have watched/ read. Okay this won't be exact because i have watched and read A LOT of different series so this is me trying to remember



* Bleach

My Progress This Season

Well, I figure that my dear readers deserve to know how I have been occupying myself recently with anime, so I have decided to write a post on my general progress.Some older shows with which I have been dallying are Hunter x Hunter, a series of shorts named Sparrow's Hotel (completed in one evening), Majestic Prince, The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye, Solty Rei, and Tower of Druaga: The Sword of Uruk.At last, I've almost finished with the original Hunter x Hunter, having just watched Kurapica's major battle with one of the Spiders gang.It was so pleasant to see the god-like and glorious victory over a certain murdering blackguard-whatever his name is-that I have difficulty putting my feelings to words.Sparrow's Hotel is a great comedy about a kunoichi working at a midsized hotel, which I heartily recommend to anyone needing a laugh.I'm still trying to finish off Majestic Prince, which has to be one of the greatest mech shows of recent years-I place it next to Code Geass.You might know that two of those last three shows figure on my top fifty list, and hence deserve their own posts.Tower of Druaga is a great fantasy, and the first episode alone, which parodies fantasy anime in a grand style, suffices to give it a large place in any otaku's heart.



But, now onto some brief descriptions of this season's shows.I still have to get around to Samurai Flamenco and Coppelion, but I expect to accomplish this soon.At any rate, my ability to keep up with new shows is much the highest since 2009.That says something about the quality of this season!

Updates & Some Chit Chats

My last update was in August! That's how time flies! In between August and October, loads of stuff had happened. I'm away from home most days of the week for work and some of my family members are facing health scares so much time was spent taking care/paying attention to them when I'm home. It's like I totally understand how sometimes people - even huge anime fans - would slipped behind a few months because there are so much things going on.



Sometimes, just sometimes, other things take precedence over hobbies.

Future of the Shounen Battle/Action/Adventure Genre

I'm sure by now, most of you are familiar with this subsection of anime and manga. I know that shounen is a demographic which is aimed at boys, but over here in the United States it is often inadvertently identified as a genre for a large list of series which share similar characteristics. I tend to usually identify these series as Jump series since most of the titles people readily identify as shounen come from Jump, but in this article I'm going to have to broaden my explanation as their are other series such as Fairy Tail outside of that magazine that use the same formula. Typically, I would tend to define these series as being an action adventure series or a battle manga, but for the sake of this article, I'm going to be politically incorrect and classify these series as just "shounen" so everyone knows what I am talking about.

Now on to the content of this article.What is the future of shounen manga and anime? When most of us (at least in the United States) think of the classic anime that have withstood the test of time, most of them were in fact the battle shounens. When most people are asked what anime are considered "classics" or "must sees" many, if not all of these lists will include series such as: Dragon Ball, Hokuto no Ken, Saint Seiya,, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Rurouni Kenshin (I know that there are other technical shounen series such as Slam Dunk, but I'm focusing on the subsection like Dragon Ball that the American audience readily identifies as shounen).

Penguindrum

RONAN DALY DONS HIS PENGUIN CAP AND EXPLORES THE WORLD OF PENGUINDRUM (SEASON 2), WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KUNIHIKO IKUHARA (OF SAILOR MOON AND REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA ACCLAIM).



Terrorist plots. Blackmail with a sister's life at risk. The emotional toll of childhood abuse. Adorable, invisible penguins.

Naruto Shippuuden 335 October 24, 2013 Naruto Manga 651 October 16, 2013 Bleach 367 is unknown

Naruto Shippuuden 335 October 24, 2013 Naruto Manga 651 October 16, 2013 Bleach 367 is unknown - when? (Broadcast suspended) Bleach Manga 553 October 16, 2013 Fairy Tail 176 is unknown - when? (Broadcast suspended) Fairy Tail Manga 356 October smurf village game 18, 2013 One Piece 617 October 20, 2013 One Piece Manga 725 October 16, 2013 Hunter X Hunter 100 15-16 October smurf village game 2013 Kuroko's Basketball 3 October 20, 2013 Avatar: The Legend of Korra July 192013 - ------------------------------- Full Schedule



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