It's no secret that anime has exploded in popularity over the last five or so years. While the biggest streaming services wrestle with one another to bring new, exclusive titles to their platforms, anime movies like the recent Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle are competing with, and overtaking, major Hollywood productions at the global box office.

The current landscape of anime, and the culture surrounding it, is almost certainly a little disorienting to any veteran fan. Each season, both the smash-hit titans of the industry and the far more niche releases appear on one of the many major streaming services at the same time they're airing in Japan.

As recently as 10 years ago, the modern life of an anime fan would have been unthinkable. Gone are the days of scouring the internet for ne

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