Just like any other film or television show, anime are broken up into genres. The genres include your classic drama, comedy, horror, etc. But there are also genres such as slice of life, shounen, shoujo, and fan service. Knowing these genres are key to finding the perfect anime for you!

Let’s begin with the slice of life genre! This genre is basically what it sounds like. Slice of Life can be any anime that includes a coming of age concept, relationships between friends/lovers as well as family. The key to the perfect slice of life anime includes seasonality within the series. Many sports anime can be categorized within the slice of life genre.

Shoujo and shounen anime are geared toward a specific audience type. Shoujo anime is typically made for young female viewers while a shounen series is made for a young male audience. A popular shounen anime would be Dragonball Z while Sailor Moon could be categorized as a shoujo anime series (one of my favorites). Many people don’t care for these two genres due to the fact that many people watch their anime of choice regardless of the shoujo or shounen genre.

Now anime that appear within the fan service genre are made specifically to please the audience. This may include intense violence, racy clothing or two characters who are strongly shipped together becoming intimate. Fan service is also found in shounen manga.

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• Bryce Papenbrook as Eren
• Josh Grelle as Armin
• Trina Nishimura as Mikasa
• Matthew Mercer as Levi
• Ashly Burch as Sasha
• Clifford Chapin as Conny
• Bryn Apprill as Christa
• J. Michael Tatum as Erwin
• Jessica Calvello as Hange
• Jason Douglas as Miche
• Jerry Jewell as Moblit
• Elizabeth Maxwell as Ymir
• David Wald as Hannes
• Robert McCollum as Reiner
• David Matranga as Bertholdt
• Mike McFarland as Jean
• Lydia Mackay as Nanaba
• Francis Henry as Nick
• R Bruce Elliott as Pyxis
• Jessica Cavanagh as Carla
• Todd Haberkorn as Marlo
• Brittney Karbowski as Hitch

There will also be new members of the team for the 26th episode:

• Jason C. Miller as Gelgar
• Felecia Angelle as Lynne
• Marcus D. Stimac as Tomas

The dubbed version will premiere on Adult Swim’s Toonami this coming Saturday and will also be streamed this Sunday on Funimation. The second season of AOT will have 12 episodes.

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Anime can be funny, scary, romantic, or absolutely heart wrenching. Every series has their own special way of pulling in the viewer. So with that said, here are the top 3 anime that broke my heart.

3) Akame Ga Kill

In this heart wrenching series, a group of killers go on quests for riches and power. Throughout the series you learn about their strengths, weaknesses, and inner demons. Throughout the anime there is loss of life, and I mean a massive amount of life.

2)Assassination Classroom

In this show a middle school class of outcasts is taken over by a genetically modified assassin. In an effort to honor his friend’s last wish, the assassin takes over the class as their new teacher and dedicates his life to teaching them. Yet, the catch here is that the class must assassinate him before their sensei destroys the Earth. After a year of attempted murder and class bonding, they finally are able to stop Korosensei, of course after becoming a small family over the past year. So, basically, they are not only killing their target, but they are killing their mentor and friend who helped them realize their true strength as individuals and a group. (Yes, the ending made me cry.)

1) Sword Art Online

Finally, the one anime that I refuse to watch again (or the second season for that matter) because it truly devastated me. This series went from innocent fun to a fight for the right to live. Friends and foes come together to try to break out of alternate reality video game that the creator has trapped them in. From months on end, they need to defeat different levels or rooms of the game. Once they pass through all the levels, the players will be released back into their true reality. But, here’s the catch, is they die in the game, they die in real life. At the end of the first series, after thousands of lives are lost, they are able to clear the game. Yet, love is lost.

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