It’s very rare to find a character like Dragon Ball‘s Gohan, whose entire lifetime is carried out over the course of their series. Audiences first met the son of Goku as a …
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Naruto uses tragedy and sadness to evoke emotion from its viewers from beginning to end throughout the series. While the anime’s very first arc is one of its saddest, the pain …
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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Ranking of Kings up until Episode 7 “The Prince’s Apprenticeship.” Prince Bojji is an immediately recognizable character in the current anime season. Portrayed in …
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The shonen genre as a whole is primarily targeted at young boys. As a result, the characters celebrated the most were those its target audience was supposed to identify with …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter 1033, “Shimotsuki Kozaburo,” by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul, and Vanessa Satone, available in English from Viz Media. In the last chapter, …
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Avatar: The Last Airbender is a show centering around a war that has lasted for a hundred years, so it should come as no surprise that there are many characters …
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Son Goku, also known by his Saiyan name Kakarot, is often considered to be the father of modern shonen protagonists. Goku is the blueprint that many shonen characters are based …
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A harem anime sounds like a dream come true — one guy with multiple attractive women practically throwing themselves at him. There are worse things that can happen in life… …
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One of the strangest fights in Dragon Ball Z is the battle between the composite warrior Gotenks and the upgraded form of Majin Buu, colloquially known as Super Buu, after …
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Since the series first aired two years ago, Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest has received mixed reviews. The anime falls into the harem and isekai genres, and is based on …
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