Durarara!! Durarara is a fantastic mix of reality and fantasy, taking place in the real-life district of Ikebukuro, but starring a wild cast of everything ranging from a vending machine hurling bartender to a Russian sushi chef, even to a dullahan that rides around the streets on her horse/motorcycle, searching for her long lost head. Bakuman also offers an interesting perspective on how manga and their anime are made. Bakuman follows the two’s immense trials as they work toward making a successful manga together all while managing their personal relationships, health, and rivalries. However, a secret sketch of his middle school crush lands him in a manga partnership when it’s discovered by top student Akito Tagaki who dreams of being a manga author.

Bakuman Moritaka Mashiro loved manga, but convinced himself practically that any other job was likely a more secure future, despite his talent and love for the craft. What’s special about these children that caused them to wind up at the afterlife school? Why do they fight against the student council president, whom they call Angel? Angel Beats provides satisfying answers to each of these questions, and in between, it also delivers an entertaining supernatural high school anime with plenty of laughs, and tears, along the way. 2010 Angel Beats Featuring a cast of characters who find themselves in a strange afterlife high school setting upon their deaths, Angel Beats unfolds like a mystery.

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