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Bem is one of numerous anime series’ that made its debut in summer 2019, and this is the second time it has been remade. In the big city, Sonia, a detecti...
ReadmoreThe Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo) is written by Satoko Okudera, known for Summer Wars and Wolf Children, and directed by Mamoru Hoso...
ReadmoreIn the film Summer Wars, the story takes place in two worlds: OZ, an internet-based, virtual world with conveniences such as instant translation of any la...
ReadmoreLive-streamed videogame playthroughs are the biggest trend in gaming entertainment right now… aside from playing games for oneself, that is. But any trend is go...
ReadmoreDon’t worry, we’re not going to talk about the really obvious factoids, like Mike Tyson’s uncanny resemblance to a certain Boxer. Instead, we’ve found som...
ReadmoreVery few anime series become precursors of trends. Dragon Ball, Sailor Moon, and Naruto are probably the ones mentioned the most. But among them, we also ...
ReadmoreFor nearly thirty years, Fire Emblem has been a franchise known for making some of the best tactical RPG titles known to the industry. Obviously, a franch...
ReadmoreVideo games are first and foremost a kind of entertainment. They’re a form of media meant to entertain those who enjoy it, just like movies, books, and mu...
ReadmoreKenjiro Tsuda is another big name in the world of anime who has been in the game for the last 20 years. Born in Osaka, he spent some time in Jakarta as a ...
ReadmoreFor the past decade, a lot of anime, most notoriously the 2016 Berserk series, have taken the heat for applying cel-shading methods, and we can understand...
ReadmoreNintendo’s popular portable has recently been dismissed by Electronic Arts in a public statement expressing the latter’s disinterest in porting their game...
ReadmoreIf you’ve been following Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure this season, you probably just finished the last few episodes of Golden Wind and wondered, “What the hec...
ReadmoreFantasy adventures starring plucky teenagers setting out to save the world and slice-of-life high school stories waxing poetic about youth aren’t going an...
ReadmoreIn the video game world, there are tons of arguments held daily about what console is the best or what version of a game is better, the Xbox One version o...
ReadmoreThere’s old school and there’s retro; so, what makes retro distinguishing? As Ralph from Wreck-It-Ralph would say, it means old but also becoming cool aga...
ReadmoreVisual novel fans tend to have a similar way to describe the genre to those new to it. Often fans will say that VNs are just like watching the anime in pl...
ReadmorePerfect Blue is a perceptive and surreal look into the life of Mima, a former idol turned actress. With expert directing, courtesy of Satoshi Kon, direc...
ReadmoreWhen one thinks of Studio Ghibli, one remembers fondly the classics, the beautifully directed and wonderfully written stories. Studio Ghibli has a reputat...
ReadmoreThe US has once again faced a number of tragic mass shootings. In a course of less than one week, mass shootings happened in Texas, Ohio, and Illinois. Na...
ReadmoreWith a second season announced for Fall 2019, we thought it’d be great to give you readers a refresher to what Kengan Ashura is all about. Many enjoy it for its...
ReadmoreSaint Seiya, also known as Knights of the Zodiac, may not be that well known for American audiences, but in Europe and Latin America, it was one of the se...
ReadmoreDr. Stone is the newest in a line of Weekly Shounen Jump series that takes the general structure and tropes of a battle shounen (a la Dragon Ball Z or Nar...
ReadmoreIn Japan, ikebana is known as the art of flower arranging. It is highly regarded as an art and could easily be compared to a living sculpture. Many design...
ReadmoreThe world of yokai is filled with strange and unusual creatures. Many of these are immensely strange to western cultures that don’t believe in ghosts and ...
ReadmoreThere are many important historical Japanese figures that appear frequently in anime. They are renowned and known throughout the world for their contribut...
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