Plenty of shonen anime series go to great lengths to keep their main characters alive, since those characters drive the plot ...

Louis Kemner combines his love of creative writing with his passion for anime to craft some of the most compelling anime articles on the 'net. He's also a total gamer who has two decades of Magic: The ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. While it's hard to call Reiner a villain right now, given the ...

Does this sound familiar? A television series’ character, most likely a fan favorite, finds himself cornered. By what? The undead, a dozen or so enemy soldiers, a brutal serial killer … it doesn’t ...

Anime characters have this weird thing where they refuse to stay dead, and honestly, some of them take it way too far. Plot armor, that invisible shield writers use to keep protagonists breathing, ...

No creator wants to permanently harm their protagonist mid-way, since that would end the story, but there are times when some characters evade danger in such a manner that it seems unrealistic. They ...