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The Hot Boys of Anime Are Back
A new crop of male characters is united by undaunted sex appeal, and diversely packaged in ways Hollywood can only dream of achieving.
Since falling in love with the art form a few years ago, I have found many of the propulsive genre exercises and pleasures I’ve missed elsewhere — in early 1980s war narratives like Barefoot Gen, brooding sagas like Vampire Hunter D, science-fiction wonders like 1998’s Blue Submarine No. The late ’80s, ’90s, and early aughts provided numerous hot-boy modes: the wiry bounty hunter Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop,the sweet-natured young men of Escaflowne, the broad-shouldered private detective of Goku: Midnight Eye’ s cyberpunk world. The series follows Saku Fukuzawa (voiced by Yui Ishikawa), a salaried office worker who is a bit ditzy, prone to hoarding and over-drinking, whose life is transformed one snowy evening when she finds a kitten she named Yukichi.
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