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Happy New Year! We thought that the best way to welcome the new year was to celebrate all the Animes that made 2019 so memorable. Here's hoping 2020 brings us just as many gems 😊 Here’s a list of our top ten favourite animes of the year that we think everyone should check out. FYI we didn’t include any animes that were either remakes (ex. Fruits Basket) or any that were on a second or later season (ex. My Hero Academia). These were just some of our favourites that came out this year, if you have any of your own that didn’t make the list let us know which ones they were in the comments below.     Now let’s get started! Studio: Kinema Citrus | Duration: 25 episodes | Watch on: Crunchyroll, Funimation 10 – The Rising of the Shield Hero
 We don’t know if it was just us, but 2019 seemed to be chock-full of Isekai* animes – Out of the many we saw though only two made our list this year, the first one being “The Rising of the Shield Hero”. 
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    We read a while back that they’re making a live-action adaptation of the hit anime movie “Your Name” by Makoto Shinkai, and all we can think is “Hollywood why are you doing this to us?” Why mess with a good thing?  We’re seriously getting sick and tired of Hollywood taking something phenomenal and deciding to remake it just so they can put their own spin on it. One could almost assume that this is happening because Your Name is now officially the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, having beaten out Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away who’s held the record since 2001.         We hope for the sake of the fans that the studio’s motives are driven by more than just the prospect of the monetary gain, because we’d hate to be stuck with another Dragonball Evolution.  We also hope that they understand that just because something does extremely well elsewhere that it does not mean that that success will carry over to here. There’s ...