Anime guides
Short, practical reads to play better and know anime better.
These guides go with the Otakudle games. Each one explains a way to recognise an anime (by its characters, its music or its style) with cues you can reuse in your very next game. No needless jargon, no sign-up: just useful reading.
- Recognising an anime characterHair colour, eye shape, outfit: the visual clues that give a character away before you even know their name.
- Recognising an anime by its openingA few seconds are enough: instruments, tempo, vocals and era form a sound signature you can learn to read.
- Anime studios, genres and erasShonen, seinen, isekai, iyashikei: the map of genres and studios to place any anime at a glance.
- Learning Japanese: kana, kanji and wordsHiragana, katakana, kanji and vocabulary: the three Japan-section games and the practice mode that makes them stick.