In real life, Japanese bureaucracy makes it pretty hard for new parents to actually adopt orphaned children, and kids with no parents typically live in orphanages or with relatives, not by themselves. However, this trope is fantastic for smoothing out plot holes, since normal parental...
One more thing: the orphanage kids all have large numbers on their necks, looking like tattoos. Much of the story is told from the viewpoint of two of the oldest, smartest children. Redhead Emma has a tomboy personality and a boundless compassion for her “siblings.” Norman is a quiet,...
It is kinda funny and annoying that the masked man keeps asserting that Genshi isn’t a threat without his Space-Time Monsters backing him up when the masked man still works purely from the shadows and typically has Space-Time Monsters doing his dirty work – particularly now. Next time, we...
But the school only accepts kids with two married parents, so he marries a woman named Yor who's happy to get her office coworkers and her brother off of her back with a sham marriage. But Anya and Yor both have secrets of their own. Yor is actually a skilled assassin ...
intelligent sociopath with no other goal than to kill everyone else in the world. He didn't just kill people, he made other people into monsters just like him. This skill of corruption is first displayed in his youth, when he used stories to convince the other boys in his orphanage to ...
(who was immune toeverythingprior to taking ill), or whether it will happen to the other kids. And when they cremate Tarao’s body, a bizarre, creepygrowthremains, untouched by the flames. The man from the boat mentioned transplanting parts of monsters into humans to give them powers and...
Tomo and Jun have been best buds since they were little kids, but now that they’re in high school, Tomo wants to be more than friends… too bad Jun just sees her as ‘one of the guys.’ Tomo may be a tomboy, but she’s determined to prove to Jun that she’s a woman, too....
Finally, we have this recent anime that gives us the story of Hinako Nakayama, a girl who has lived in several orphanages. When her brother finds her and convinces her to go to the school in his place, she hides her female identity. So, can our protagonist win the respect of her clas...
As a smirking Shadow looms above, 559 makes her report to Alpha and Epsilon that all monsters in the city have been eliminated. She also makes sure to shoot Rose a dagger of a look, but Rose stares right back through her blunt bangs. ...
As Emma, Norman, and Ray find out in The Promised Neverland, their “mother” at the Grace Field House orphanage is actually raising them to be human meat for demons. The trio of kids formulates a plan to try to outwit the adults, but it won’t be easy to trick someone as experienc...