If you're like me, you've reverted to watching Netflix to pass the time during quarantine. One of my favorite genres is anime, and there are some really good anime on Netflix. In this post, I will be counting down my top five anime to watch on Netflix. Of course, there are the obvious ones, like Naruto, Death Note, Jojo's Bizzare Adventure ect. (If you haven't watch these shows, go watch them now!), but I want to highlight some of the lesser known anime in this post. I reccomend all of these shows. THERE WILL BE NO SPOILERS #5. Akame Ga Kill      I haven't really watched much of this show. That is probably why it's only number five on my list. The shows follows Tatsumi, as he goes to the captial and joins a team of assasins. This show is really funny, but also has many serious parts, and at least one death per episode (so far. I've only watched 12 of the 24 episodes.) All of the characters are deep and have very interesting backstories. So far, this ...

One of the hardest things to do right now is pass the time. Once you figure that out, then it's equally hard to to be invested in something that you actually enjoy and benefit from. Thankfully, by mere coincidence I had a lot of books from the library before the big break. While I like literature a lot, I needed a change in genre. Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe (the same man who created the online comic xkcd and wrote What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions)  isn't a story, but rather closer to a textbook about how things work. Literally, it lists the inner workings of different inventions. It meticulously labels everything about something, from the parts of a car's engine to even the parts of a tree. On paper, this sounds boring, but there's a catch: the entire book is written in with the 1000 most common words in the English language. That means that every explanation of something is brutally simple. For example, a helicopter is called...