7 Ways You’re Living Your Life Wrong, According to Anime

As much as I enjoy fantastical anime that take me to worlds in space, in feudal Japan, or in dystopian futures, I also love a good slice-of-life anime that finds adventures in the real world—or at least that particular version of the real world. Because as much as the anime purports to take place in the real world, still, things work quite a bit differently than they seem to in reality. So here’s my list of seven ways in which you’re not living your life quite up to the expectations set in these select slice-of-life anime. Sports: Kuroko The Prince of Tennis Free! Eternal Summer I really respect your sport situation—you’ve got that community soccer team, you meet to play basketball with your friends every so often, and twice a week you do a few laps in the pool at the YMCA. Your game is on point and you’ve been working those burpees and building up that six pack. But anime has got you beat here. You thought you knew how to play basketball? Thought you had a good handle on your backstroke? Well, the guys of Kuroko’s Basketball, The Prince of Tennis, and Free! Eternal Summer have got you beat. If, when you’re on the court, you don’t make your opponents fall to their knees in shock at the mere prospect of your superior game, then you need to revisit your training. Think that anti-gravity power moves are only reserved for The Matrix? Well you must just not be training hard enough. We’ll talk again once you’re done with your next set of squats.

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