30 Amazing Anime Memes to Help You Shonen Jump Into the Coming Work Week (July 7, 2024)

All fantasy requires some level of suspension of disbelief. That's just par for the course when you're an enjoyer of space epics, dragon slaying, wand-yelding, and so on. Sometimes it feels like anime requires a bit more suspension of disbelief than the usual fantasy fare. Due to its 2D nature, lots of ridiculous premises can be easily explored, but even anime series that are meant to be grounded a bit more in reality with somber themes and hard magic/energy systems can require some serious mental gymnastics.

For example, in Naruto-- sure, it's a fantasy world where people fight each other with ninja magic, but still-- characters jump from tree branch to tree branch, having full conversations while gliding in mid air. Sometimes, they're suspended in the air for minutes before touching down on a branch. Similarly, in Attack on Titan, our beloved defenders of humanity have a tendency to talk using their 'inside voices' while galloping horseback away from a horde of Titans. Almost all fight-based anime include scenes where villains just sort of stand around without attacking while the protagonists discuss exactly how to defeat them. And if our lives were an anime, we would have to suspend our disbelief at how quickly another weekend slipped through our fingers yet again. Drats! Enjoy this week's selection of anime memes to help you cope, and check out last week's if you can't get enough!

Posted by Ely Bulnes