Top Picks: OPMC Translations (Light Novels)

Over Powered Main Character (OPMC for short): Is a genre of anime where the main character is more powerful then anyone else. Usually avoiding the power up/training stages popular in shounen.

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Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku

Love Tama and Pochi, definitely my favorites.

ATM V13CH15. I read the web novel, not the light novel (I did try the light novel translation but... I did not like the changes, felt like they made it far to "generic"). The story is a nice slice of life story about a guy that is pretty much a god, its not about saving the world, or life and death, or any urgent event, its all about travel, inventing and fun. The main character does end up with a harem easily, but its a nice harem as the MC does not like "little girls" and has no real interest in anyone in his harem. Whats great is its proven true by his love found later on in story, which is the big break from a normal harem, thats what makes it so perfect. The girls are more like his family then anything, Tama and Pochi (my favorite little two) are like his daughters. The main characters "OP-ness" is obvious sort, the story reminds you often enough by his nonchalant attitude about things.

World Teacher

Our main character is the black haired one.

ATM CH.32. The biggest disappointment with this is the slow translation, its not that I blame or hate them for it, its just that Im dying for new chapters, d.y.i.n.g.. The story's main character is reincarnated, in his previous world he was an old well trained assassin (I think). In the new world the story follows him from... THE WOMB! Haha. Yes from birth. Its not bad, its actually very nice slow good start to story that introduces you to stuff. The main character uses his other world knowledge to train magic (imagine training) and his body. The best part of this series is the main characters maturity, he doesn't act like a kid, he even takes in two children and makes them his disciples (he was a teacher in the other world). The main character does have some restrictions that make him fall short of being a god, but his use of what magic he has makes him pretty close, which is great.

Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken

Can you pick out the MC from the pic???

ATM CH.120. Im still not finished with this one. Its your standard "I REINCARNATED INTO ANOTHER WORLD!!" story, if by standard you mean wake up as a monster not a human and have no idea wtf is going on. Its a nice change from standard stories of the same ilk, sadly though it devolves into a fairly standard story pretty far in. Its not that I dislike how the story becomes, as its still a good story with lots of world/city building and organization and event moderation (basically a slice of life alternate world type), but I miss how new and different it was in the beginning before it became basically like a normal "reincarnated as a human" type story. That said try it out, its probably my least liked of all the ones here but its still good. The story is mainly about learning new skills (learned same way as many others, by experiencing the skill), getting stronger (though he starts with an OP skill that makes him OP from start) and building a society. Its not to heavy on details concerning construction or technologies or anything really, so if you like details best stay away and pick up another, but if you like light hearted fantasy world building then this would suit you perfectly.

Yobidasa Reta Satsuriku-sha

Most amazing, badass, awesome hero summon story ever!

ATM CH.31. Like World Teacher, this one suffers from a lack of chapters, but it does have more than World Teacher, I still need to catch up. Now Im going to say, I have reread this twice so far, I really love the main characters personality, hes direct and to the point. I mean when summoned to another world the MCs first order of business is to put a sword to the throat of the summoner and threaten to kill for the crime of kidnapping him from his world. I don't do that scene justice, trust me its better than I describe. This story is all about the MC, any and everything he encounters only serves to be destroyed by him, or used by him, which is great, as his goal is to basically "improve" war and combat basically. Now, now, Im not saying he is heartless, he doesn't like killing innocent bystanders or anything, but if you attack him you die, if you get in his way he will warn you, then kill you. Hes simply a direct no bullshit MC who doesn't care what you think. That character attitude, that almost "bad guy" feel to the main character is the main reason I LOVE this. There is more to the story of course, theres some world building (the MC introducing his weapons/techniques and even technologies), and theres a steadily increasing harem (theres no romance or harem focus though).

The Man Picked up by the Gods

Sorry for the pic, theres really no illustrations for this.

ATM V4CH3. Long title, and it doesn't really properly depict the story within. Imagine the shittiest life possible, then imagine finally dying and being freed from it (in your sleep at that!), how nice would it be if some gods from the other world near by pick you to solve a little problem they have? Our MC gets the chance, and even meets the gods and has a discussion with them, hes not the first, nor will he be the last. They help him out with some gifts (abilities) but turns out he starts out with a huge amount already! The story is good, the MC is a bit childish and lacking but overall its more about what hes doing and other characters then himself. The main feature of this fantasy world story would be the MC using slimes for everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. Anyway, the story doesn't have a demon king (suppose to already be long and gone) or any other great overall arch, even the gods themselves tell the MC to live his life. The stories focus is on creation, building, being a business man comes to mind, though he really just invents new things and comes up with new ideas based on our world. The MC even keeps in contact with the gods, has a party with them every week (I think it was weekly anyway) and befriends them. Lots of details and thinking in this one, not a whole lot of combat (I think you might see a trend of OPMC novels).

Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

Seems more fan art, when i read this light novel the MC looked more badass, and the tech (his arm) was more magical and medieval.

ATM CH.123. Starts slow, takes about five to ten chapters to really get to the good stuff. This story has a badass MC who will stop at nothing to protect those close to him, though that doesn't include his former classmates he came to the new world with. There is an overall story and sense of impending doom, despite the MC and his group ignoring it for the most part for their own goals. The story focuses more on adventure and travel so far, and a bit of side inventiveness, it was more the opposite in the beginning, but slowly switches later on. I must say that the most memorable lines from a character are from this translation, the character (not the MC) was being tortured for information (beaten) and instead of anything else he taunts the torturer calling him names, telling him why he punches like a little girl, telling him to do it harder, etc. Its hilarious and something I will always remember when ever I read or watch a torture scene anymore. The MC is OP more so for his inventions than his own abilities (though his own abilities are nothing to scuff at). The "OP-ness" of the MC drops off in later chapters, much to my disappointment, as new enemies seem to appear that cause trouble. Don't get me wrong, he keeps on ticking and comes back stronger, I just really hope its not the start of a standard trend of powering up, which would ruin the entire thing for me.

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To keep up with all my current readings I use a combo of rainmeter rss I made, and a site which I plan to review at some point called Novel Updates. The site is also great for just finding new stuff to read. There are other light/web novels and translations I have read that should have made it to this small list, but I have trouble remembering some from before Novel Updates was discovered. That said stories often found on WuxiaWorld ARE NOT OPMC STORIES. Stuff like BTTH, ISSTH, ATG, TDG, these are more shounen, yes the are "OP" when compared to their own generation, but thats it, they still constantly need to power up, they constantly challenge new more powerful enemies and they even loss and run away at times.

Top Picks: Anime Torrent Sites

Anime torrent sites are easy access websites with torrent files that allow for file sharing of anime. This is the easiest way to assemble an anime collection, or find anime in high quality.

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Bakabt

I destroyed my ratio on bakabt, it was my first anime torrent site, and my first private tracker. Oh the regrets...

I have been a long time user of bakabt, from my young days I incurred a horrible ratio and from that day on I had to make due with the public trackers. I do encourage everyone and anyone into anime to be a member of this site, even if you dont download, or torrent anime. This site has amazing fans and a good comment system, this means that you can find great info and opinions about different anime all while enjoying screen shots, and info regarding that anime. Thats not the only reason though, theres also the search system, which is the best I have ever seen, allowing me to find a ton of anime that I would have otherwise over looked. OMG, also because only members can upload, and because the site only accepts certain content/complete series THERE ARE NO FAKE TORRENTS/VIRUSES HERE.

As I said before, the anime pages (where you download from) have lots of info, but its still very easy to navigate. This torrent has one design for its page, with its own screen shots. On each download page you will find the torrent link at the top, as one big green bar with the torrent name and size inside.


While this one has a completely different design for its page and different screen shots. Not to mention that a series is broken up into seasons for easy to download chunks. Also, many season will have different qualities to choose from, like 720p, or 480p, or even 1080p sometimes can be found. Allowing you to choose which ever you need.

Nyaa

Nyaa has a "fap" section. Yea, your guess is right. Bakabt doesn't even try to hide it that much.

Nyaa is my go to place for ongoing anime releases/episodes. You can find batch releases and entire seasons of anime, but this place is better served to finding single episodes or movies, or the most recent releases. You can use the search function, but its best to first scroll down and click on a purple tag that says "Anime Sub", these are the eng subbed anime, by clicking this first you will show only eng subbed works, and then if you search it will search only the eng subbed worked instead of all the others (including other language subs). I'm not sure if I even have a Nyaa account, as you can download the turrents without one (and I never do use one). That said the site runs much like a normal torrent site, there are some fakes and bad turrets (though very few from what iv seen) the users are quick to clean up bad ones.

As you can see, it gives you a nice simple interface for torrent information. The description can include images, which is nice, but most uploaders dont use it (I imagine because this isnt a place you go to find new anime, so much as find things your already looking for).

Animetorrents

My least liked of the options here, found this while using asiatorrents.me, still prefer other options.

This site I have used rarely, mainly due to its association to Avistaz.to (previously asiatorrents.me) I tried it out. Its a good site, easy to search through, though its a private tracker and requires you to register (free). It works in a very similar way to Avistaz (if you have used it) and Bakabt, it tracks your upload and download and gives bonus points. It works like a poor version of Bakabt, with the exception of my favorite part being the latest torrents found near bottom of main page. Here it shows the latest torrents (lol yea I know "Duh"), but it shows them as images with title, category, seeds, and leachers displayed. If they allowed browsing this way then it might take me away from bakabt more, but it doesnt. Aside from that, the main reason I use this is for torrents bakabt has placed on their "do not upload" list.

Like I said previously, the site is kinda a watered down version of bakabt. The download page has the relevent information and pictures, including screenshots, and even has comments near bottom, but it does so in a much less aesthetically pleasing way and with much less customization.

haruhichan

Im really new to this one.

Not much to say here, im new to this site, but I am liking it so far. The main reason I use this site instead of sticking to my main staple of just Nyaa, and Bakabt (seriously I use them all the time) is because this site allows for simple single episode download while at the same time putting all the different episodes together. It still gives your basic information for the anime, and offers different resolution choices. A feature that separates this is the IRC downloading, its done in a simple and easy to access way, which allows for an almost direct download type option.

The search is what was missing from Animetorrents, its a full anime list with pictures, sadly many pictures are missing but its still fun to look through, and a great help when searching for something familiar without looking through each page. When you use the search box and type in say "Gundam" it will popup all anime with the word "Gundam" in it, and shows them as pictures as it normally does.

The single funnest part of using this site, the calendar. Though im not sure when, or how they update or pick which anime to show on the chart, what I do see is a nice number of listings of popular and new anime with a countdown till torrent release, WITH PICS! Yes, I realize Im obsessed with the pictures. Plus when you click on an anime on the calendar, it will open (in a separate window) the anime torrent page for easy download.

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Kuiba

Our hero in the middle of his great triumph.
You are probably as skeptical as I was when I heard "Chinese anime", if not more so, but don't let that hold you back. Kuiba is an amazing movie, it has what you crave, an adorable main character to love, a hidden past, end of the world possibilities, futuristic SciFi as well as ancient time lines, a relationship built on love, and finally it doesn't go to far.

-STORY-

Our story is about a man (Kuiba) who sparks a rebellion against the gods (super tech guys), however our story starts long after his rebellion failed (they satellite nuked him). Our main character is a little boy, who is training to be a warrior to fight Kuiba (who is thought to have survived). The governments are calling warriors to gather to fight. Its a fun adventure that stops before the war nicely (don't worry, there are two sequals to continue the story).

-ART-

This movie seems to be a CG movie in an anime style, it looks very nice, lots of color and creative designs. This is not a dark art style, everything is well lit with lots of light.

-SOUND-

This is not my first Chinese movie,or my second or even my third, so the spoken language did not bother me much. I loved the music, it was loud and actions when needed, while still keeping up with the slower smoother paced music needed for the heart tug moments.

-Characters-

This story is being told across three different movies, so don't expect to fall for half the characters. In this first movies you will love and feel close to at least four characters, each one is unique and interesting, and I can't wait to see more of them.

-ENJOYMENT-

Laughter, tears, and hysterical "oh, shits" followed me through this movie, I love it and want every one todo the same.

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I must warn you, the second Kuiba movie has been out for a while now, but there is still no English subtitles out there for it. If on wrong the for the love of god correct me.

Kodi: Media Center

Media Center: Used for viewing/interaction of media (music, photos, video, games) in one place. This also is usually a one stop shop, with plenty of eye candy and functionality.

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Everything says "new" because I through this together on my PC for screenshots for this guide.

When you first saw this post some of you knew what I meant by media center, some of though were thinking some kind of theater setup where the only difference between it and a normal living room was you used a projector. That is wrong, a media center is far more then simply a bigger screen or speaker system or dark room.

The media center I will show you to setup to day is a one stop shop for your anime, tv series, movies, pictures, music and if you really want retro gaming. It requires only four things...

• A Computer (desktop, laptop, android device, tv box/stick <-- data-blogger-escaped-choice="" data-blogger-escaped-li="" data-blogger-escaped-personal="">
• Internet (to download all the files you need)
• Media collection (on your computer hd, memory stick, disc)
• Time

Lets make something clear, im not going to show you how to simply download and install the software, im going to show you how to setup your media center for anime (requires some changes) and give you tips and tricks I have come across, as well as give you an idea of other things you can do (you can message me for details/further info). Ok, got your shit together? Lets do this.

-Step One Setup-

Some links you need...

• Latest Version Of KODI (this guide used 14.2)
• Superrepo
• Wallpapers/screenshots you might like

Install Kodi.
This should be very simple regardless of what device your doing it (unless your trying openelec, but thats another thing).

Install Superrepo.
This should not be a problem as the link gives you step by step with pictures as to what to do.

Once your done there lets move on to getting some of those fancy new addons.

-Step Two Skin-

This is the skin you will be getting in this step, later you can try other ones.
Go to the main menu (press back all the way).
Then follow me!

System
(submenu)Settings
Add-ons
Get Add-ons
All Add-ons

In here we can see a great many categories for different kinds of add-ons, from web interfaces, to skins. Speaking of which, lets grab a new skin.

Go into the category "Skin", near the top is one called "Convergence" lets grab that one for now (its the one shown in the screenshot).
Mind you, different skins change many things, including the location of menus, name of menus and can even change contents of menus and functionality of different things, its not just new colors and pictures. In the future you might want to play around trying different menus for different things.

-Step Three Add-ons-

I suggest using google to find new add-ons as the shear number of them is staggering.
Go to your main menu, looks alot different doesnt it. Go ahead, play with it a bit, but once your done head back to it and click "Add-ons", then "Get More", thennnnn the two dots at very top "..". We are now going to get a bunch of new addons.

Install these...

• Tv information / AniDB.net [MOD]
• Services / Watchdog
• Video add-ons / animehere
• Video add-ons / Icefilms
• Video add-ons / pick a few more if you want, click it it will show more info.

AniDB.net [MOD]
This is a scraper, but its modified, trust me its better then the default one.
Watchdog
You just install this, you dont have to do anything, when you add content (say a new episode), to one of your media sources (folder) this will auto update your library of anime/tvshows/movies to include that new episode.
animehere
This allows for online streaming through kodi from animehere, there are many others you can get as well, some may be even better.
Icefilms
This one is like the animehere one, but its for tv shows, and movies, and it does require a little setup to get the full experiance (just go to add-ons, click on this one, go to settings and download the metadata).

Now lets get to adding videos and such to your Kodi library!

-Step Four Media-

My anime, my beautiful beautiful anime. I also add my anime movies separately as their own source.
Go all the way back to the home menu again. Click "Videos", then click "Add Videos...".

• Browse
• Find the location of your files (the first couple, usually C: E: F:, etc., are your harddrives.)
• Once you find the correct folder, click "OK" on the right.
• Enter a name for the videos (anime for anime, tv shows for tv shows you get it).
• Click "OK"
• BREATH, I know it looks like alot but its not.
• Choose what kind of media it is by clicking the arrows under "This directory contains" (pick tv shows for anime)
• On the right side choose the "scraper", which is where you want KODI to get information about the media. (pick anidb for anime.
• Click "OK"!

With that you your Kodi will start downloading all the information, depending on the size of your collection this could take forever, so give it a while. You can continue on with the steps while it does that. If you notice issues, such as episodes not showing for an item, then see the last step, it will help fix such things.

-Step Five Menu-

Time to make some smart playlists. Not all skins support smart playlists.

In this step we will edit the main menu to your preferences, and add in a few menu items for our media (only if you add anime, or home video type stuff, normal stuff will work with standard movie/tvshow menus).

First we need to make those playlists...

• Click on "Videos" on main menu.
• Click on ".." at top.
• Click on "Playlists"
• "New smart playlist..." (had to break that trend)

You should now be here!

This shows what settings I used for my anime playlist.

The options are pretty self explanatory, you can ignore "playlist options" if you want to, the important parts are "Type", "Name of the playlist", and "New rule...". "New rule..." is likely the only one a person needs help with, it tells Kodi how to determine what to put in the playlist (it fills the playlist itself, thus smart playlist).

As you can see in the picture above I choose the option "Path" (in the first box) and "Contains" (in the second box), you can change whats in the box with the arrows. Once your finished move on.

Alright next go all the way back to the main menu (yes again). From here go to "System", then "Appearance", "Skin", then "-Settings".
In the new menu that pops up go to "Home Menu Items", scroll down to "Menu Item - 7", it should be blank. When you click on it a side menu opens, click on "Playlist Menu", then "Videos - Playlist", here you should see the playlist you made earlier, click it. It will pop up asking for a Menu label. You could name your anime playlist "Anime" as I did, or even "SUPERDUPERSHIT" as I wanted to, its up to you.

You can do these steps for anything you want to put into a playlist, and if you look through the different rules, you will find all kinds of interesting things you can do (you can do more than one rule to).

To remove a menu item (im sure you noticed this though), click on the menu item of your choice (like "Menu Item - 7") and click the first option "clear menu option". Thats it.

-Step Six Tweaks/Fixes-

First and foremost we need to edit how Kodi looks at your episodes (for anime only) so that it can tell the difference between them, for a normal tv show its set as S01E01, but as you might know anime does not follow that. Go Here, its the page shown in the picture, its from the Kodi anime wiki page, where a the community has compiled a lot of useful information for anime users on Kodi. Just follow their instructions and you should fix most problems with Kodi not seeing episodes.

Showing Files On Disc In Kodi
So you can have part of your collection on dvds, and they, and their information/pictures, will still show up in Kodi.

What we are going to do will allow for media to be added to your Kodi that you dont actually have, then when you choose to play an episode of such an media it will instruct you to put in the dvd (you can edit the message). We will accomplish this via media stubs Wiki info here.

Alright lets get to it...

• Make a folder in the directory where you store your media, name it the same as the dvd.
  (For example if its Trigun, name it trigun. However, if its Psych season 2, name it "Psych", but then make another folder inside that one called "season 2")
• Create a new text document inside the folder.
• Name the text document "1" for episode 1, or name it "1,2,3,4" for episodes 1 through 4. Or if you have such info, the name of the episodes.

After all that edit the Text document, and put this info inside.

<discstub>
  <title>.HackSign</title>
  <message>Episodes are on disc in 3rd case.</message>
</discstub>

Of course you should edit the title ".hacksign" and the message "Episodes are on disc in 3rd case." to what you need. When done simply refresh your library (not sure if watchdog will notice this file), which means you just need to restart Kodi (theres other ways to do without restart but I want to tell you in the simplest way).

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If you have any requests or comments regarding anime kodi setup let me know in the comments!

YouTube: VisibleDesireStudio

This is my favorite MeP (Multi Editorial Project) group. There stuff is extremely well edited, and has a music sense I really enjoy, it also helps that im a romantic and love shoujo/love anime. The first video I saw from this group was on Feb 14, yep, valentines day, that video is one of my favorites from them.

My first, and my favorite MEP from VisibleDesireStudio. This could be mostly for the song, but still I love it.

I shared their entire MEP playlist above, but I still urge you to visit their youtube page and subscribe to this awesome group.

Top Picks: Serious Anime

Serious Anime: An anime where it takes itself very serious, and has a deep, or serious story. Normaly these would be limited to seinen, as it targets an adult audience while shoujo, and shounen targets children and teens.

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Kurozuka

Kurozuka is a fairly unknown anime, though I have no idea why, its one of the best anime out there, it has ancient japan, future japan, vampires, scientific experimentation of vampires, a kick ass main character, and, the cherries on the top, a love story and mystery. The dark world looks fantastic, the action is well done and fun to watch. The only thing this story might need is to have started sooner in one of the main characters previous "lifes" so that we could see more.

Ghost In The Shell

I should warn, not all ghost in the shell are equal, mostly im referring to the "Arise" movies and their series "alternative architecture". These are newer and they have a different feel to them. This series is more about thinking, philosophically, strategically, and probably morally. Don't let that trick you though, this is a top scifi creation, plenty of action and cool gadgets/tech to look forward to. The world looks amazing and shows so many different nooks and crannies of it. This anime is also considered a classic, on par with Akira (which is another serious anime you MUST watch).

Darker Than Black

This anime is different in how it arranges itself, the episodes are doubles, so episode one and two are one story, three and four another, and so on. This makes it less of a series and more of multiple movies all thrown in one collection, which isnt a bad thing. The story is nice, and really unique, one not really seen anywhere else. The main character is a hired gun for an organization (he does all kinds of jobs), hes great at his job and has a personality that says he gives no fucks. Many people in this anime have special abilities, with side effects, which really make it interesting to see what they must do after using the ability. The world is dark, not always art wise but just in general. The show can feel slow, as its not all action packed, its a more mild speed anime, but the action is great.

Speed Grapher

Another lesser known anime, and as iv said about all these, its a dark, very serious, and has a nice twist of super powers. This anime invovles a stripper/prostitute along side our main character, if that helps tell you something. The girl's dna awakens abilities in certain people, our main character was lucky enough to be one of these and his power allows him to blow shit up when looking through the focus of his camera. Shit gets real as special powered people keep showing up for this girl. The story does have its fun moments, but its definitely worthy of a slot here.

Zetman

I wasn't sure whether to put this up or not, it is fairly serious (manga way better btw) but the anime cuts certain things out to allow for a younger age. Its still good, but not nearly as dark as it should have been given the manga. Our main character is not human, he was in fact created to kill non-humans. He was stolen and raised in secret in a homeless group. Needless to say people die left and right around this guy. I put this up here still mainly because it has so many sad moments that make it feel dark.

Terror in Resonance

Theres no super powers in this one. WHAT!!! Yea, its a great anime though, here we have two main characters who set out bombing tokyo as a form of revenge. They have an awesome background that is slowly revealed in the series and adds to the seriousness of their imposing bombings. They post youtube videos prior to each bombing with a riddle (they are geniuses) that the police scramble to solve. Buts lets not forget the organization that shows up after these two. The point is the story is a fun ride with great jumps.

Iriya Summer of UFOs

Oh, my, fucking, god, why... its not that I wish I didn't watch this, its that it made me feel so sad and fucked up inside that I fear watching it again. This story is one of the saddest love stories I have ever seen, its a scifi with aliens (or so we assume) attacking the planet and one girl left to defend them. She goes to school, that's where she meets our main character is a boy who ends up saving the girls life by giving her some medicine during an attack (one giant needle in her heart). This is a physiological roller coaster that will stab your heart with a giant fucking needle over and over and over till theres nothing left of that pin cushion.

Witch Hunter Robin

I havent actually watched this anime in a while, its a bit older (as our the rest on the list). The story and super powers are the best in this anime, I absolutely love this story. Its how human kind (or japan) reacts to the surprising awakening of "witches" in the world, these are ordinary people who suddenly gain a super power, usually they go insane. We follow our main character Robin who joins a group who is in charge of capturing witches. Human rights questions will pop up in your mind, how far will people go to "feel" safe, and whats really moral.

Wolf's Rain

This story is an iffy one to put up here, as it does have a bit of lightheartedness to it, but the core story is definitely dark. The story is a post apocalyptic one with dome cities where people live. Our main characters are wolves, in this world wolves and other animals have the ability to appear human to humans (though not physically change). Theres even some questioning on the origin of man and how they might have evolved from wolves. Our wolves are searching for a way to paradise, a place where only wolves can enter.

Akira

I mentioned this one earlier, this is a movie, no series, and theres even been rumors of a someone making a live action adaption. Physic powers and scifi society are the best parts of this story, but the only ones with physic abilities are few and under watch by the military. This is one of the iconic movies of anime, and I promise its a great serious story worth every minute.

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Yes, I did go a bit over board, once I started adding a few I just couldn't bring myself to stop, this is a often requested type, and a type hard for most people to understand what is being asked.

Top Picks: OPMC Anime

Over Powered Main Character (OPMC for short): Is a genre of anime where the main character is more powerful then anyone else and thus never needs to train or anything else in order to win. This genre is not well known right now, but has always been extremely popular in manga and anime (Trigun for example was an OPMC anime), and is slowly gaining recognition.

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Problem Children Are Coming From Another World Aren't They?

Theres more than one main character in this anime, but that doesn't stop Izayoi from standing out, a lot. Hes powerful, defeats people with ease, and loves fights. Whats more, him being awesome and OP does not distract from the great interesting story being told. As always the manga of this anime came first and its story continues past where the anime stopped, but that doesn't stop the anime from feeling fine where it stopped. Sure you want to know more about Izayoi, and uncover the secret of his immense power, but as I said, hes not a distracting character, there are two other main characters that you will love as well.

Irregular Magic High School

Onetruetatsuya a reddit group that more then proves just how awesome and OP Tatsuya is in this anime. This anime is all about Tatsuya and his life as an emotionless, super powered magician (due to his mother removing his emotions at birth). Some make the mistake of thinking hes weak in magic, but brilliant and thus makes the most out of what he has, that is wrong, his magic is super over powering to the point of his sister having a magic seal on him to hold his interference level down. The point is, Tatsuya is a genius, with a huge amount of power and every intention of using it with no emotional attachments (aside from his sister, his only emotion left was sibling love). This anime did not spawn from a manga surprisingly, and very few people have read the original material, the light novel (translation here). I have read the light novel, in fact I read the light novel before the anime came out, and the anime disappointed me. The anime cuts out more than half the information (internal dialogue of Tatsuya) which gives you insight into his character.

Kaze No Stigma

Kazuma is a decendent of a fire spirit wielding family, but is basically thrown away as his lack of ability to control the spirits is evident. This anime starts out when Kazuma is returning to Japan in his adulthood, not just as a spirit user, but as a wind spirit contractor the first contractor to be seen for thousands of years. Needless to say, hes powerful, and his character has a great back story (time between leaving family and coming back to japan), its sad, tragic, and yet full of happy memories. The other characters fill out the anime nicely, the crazy bitch girl who falls for him, the adorable little brother whos since of justice is even greater then his older brothers, and the old man trying to fix his daughter up with Kazuma. I like this anime a lot, but for some reason I feel like its out of place here, not sure why, but I had to include it.

Hagure Yuusha no Estetica

Akatsuki, stolen from his world by a well known phenomenon that wisps children away to other worlds, has become the great hero who defeated the demon lord of this other world, and returns back to his world as a super powered (though people underestimate him) adult. Oh, he also spirited away the demon lords daughter to his world with him without letting anyone know. Hes not the only one that returns, many have, theres even an organization that takes these people, and trains them (as if to be weapons in their world). Any way, Akatsuki pawns off the demon lords daughter as his sister, this whole "not really his sister" thing makes the ecchi moments easy to accept. Speaking of ecchi, theres a lot, its a really fun and enjoyable mix. The characters consist of pretty much all girls, with two exceptions but they rarely get screen time. The story is great, and makes you want to know all about these other worlds, and everything. Unlucky for us you will have to go to the Light novel to see what happens after the anime, its found here.

Isekai no Seikishi Monogatari

Familiar with the Tenchi Muyo series? Yep, this is another spin off of Tenchi Muyo, its subtle in its connections, but its there just enough to let you know. Kenshin is amazing, seriously, hes like the perfect guy in this series, what ever he does, he does perfectly (lol, even giving massages). Not only that, hes an expert swordsman, a pilot of a giant robot (males are rare to be able to), and hes from another world! The story is great, the world is interesting and unique, with a post apocalyptic history and ruins that contain great secrets to the downfall of that civilization. Theres some school life story here to, which is really fun as Kenshin is at first not a student, and the short time he is a student just further enhances are view of the world without distracting from everything else. I have not read any manga, or light novel for this anime, and saw no reason to look for any, as I love this anime.

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Why Not This, or That?

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SAO? Because its not something I felt like watching again and again, and though Kirito was powerful, he was annoying in other ways and the series didn't show enough of him being bad-ass.
Trigun? Because its well known and you have seen it (or better see it), its definally one of my top picks but is well known enough you are not looking for it.
Naruto/Bleach/One Piece/etc.? These are NOT O.P.M.C. anime, their main characters are NOT over powered, as they constantly get power ups and go through training, and even loss fights.

That all being said, yes there are other great O.P.M.C. anime out there not on this list, this list is only of five that I really love and watch again and again. There is no order to this list either.

Shokugeki No Soma

Up front, I dont recommend this anime (though I do recommend the manga). Its not a cooking show, its a shounen battle manga, but with no actual battles, in their stead you get cooking. The cooking is fun, for the minute or half that you get to see it happening.

-STORY-

The story follows the manga decently, though it seems to speed up and slow down at its own pace making me want to skip around (I resisted). I think its because they try to hard to make the cooking LOOK like some kind of action, with weird visuals and other things which overall just ruins the overall feel of cooking in the anime.

-ART-

What can I say, it uses the new standard for art in anime, so it looks good, and has those extended food frenzy moments, but there's nothing super amazing that awes me.

-SOUND-

Again, like with how they do visuals for cooking, they added some kind of concert, or orchestra music that just doesn't fit with the cooking, like they tried to make it seem like a battle action anime. Its kinda annoying to me after the 3rd episode. To be fair it wasn't always like this, at the end of the first episode while talking with his father the music was very nice, and it followed in the beginning of the second episode. After looking back at the episodes I came to a conclusion, they use fast pace or actiony orchestra music when they want to give some kind of feeling of action or battle taking place, and that just doesn't work well into the anime.

-Character-

Theres a wide range of strange characters in this anime, but with 6 episodes in there's very little actually development of characters going on, and to be honest I don't think there will be much if any in the future, aside from possible the girl who almost fails in the beginning.

-ENJOYMENT-

I enjoy and love the F*** out of the manga, and I think ill go read it again today with all this thinking back to it. But the anime was annoying, with how they stretched it all out you rarely get to see much cooking (episode 1 and 2 should have been one episode). That said if you watch the first episode you might understand, you feel like there wasn't much that happened in it, and your right, it felt like you watched a 10 minute episode. But not because you lost yourself in it, but because when you think about it you dont know where those minutes where, there just wasn't enough happening to fill it.

-OVERALL-

The art and sound did not mesh well with one another as this should not have been treated as an "actiony" anime, but as a cooking one. The story and characters works fine, but its not something where I came to care about the characters, or whats happening at all, yes its only 6 episodes so far, but that's quite a few episodes. If it was 3 I can understand not caring even a little about anything, but 6? Overall the anime was all over the place but never where it should have been, like it was having an identity crisis.