Anime. It's a word that can sometimes confound those who aren't familiar with the animation style. What makes anime anime, exactly? Isn't it just cartoons about a bunch of high school kids in supernatural situations? Why are they yelling all the time, or being perverts, or turning into weird, pint-sized, cutesy versions of themselves? And I've heard a lot about tentacles ... is it safe for my kids? These are all valid questions and criticisms of anime's many and varied tropes, but you'd be missing out on decades worth of quality characters, stories, and …