While Frieza is one of Dragon Ball‘s most prominent, fearsome villains, one who’s has gone from interstellar tyrant to unlikely ally and back again over the course of Akira Toriyama’s shonen …
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Tite Kubo’s hit manga series Bleach launched in 2001 in Japan, and it soon became part of Shonen Jump’s fabled “big three,” along with Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto and Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece. Among these three, Bleach …
WARNING: The following contains spoilers from the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga, by Koyoharu Gotouge, available in English through VIZ Media. From his outfit to his Breathing Style, there …
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Combining mecha, harem and comedy together, Infinite Stratos is an anime culmination of rather different genres. Featuring a unique armament technology that only works for women, the world of Infinite Stratos was thrown …
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Over the past few years, the universe of the highly influential 1982 film Blade Runner, based on Phillip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, has grown. The futuristic world has been …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for One Piece Chapter #1020, “Robin vs. Black Maria,” by Eiichiro Oda, Stephen Paul, and Vanessa Satone, available in English via Manga Plus and Viz …
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Bleach features a massive cast of characters and has managed to develop nearly all of them over time — even incidental side characters. This includes many of the Soul Reapers …
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Dragon Ball Z marked a major turning point in the history of anime. It is directly responsible for the medium’s rise in popularity among mainstream audiences outside Japan and remains …
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Warner Bros. Japan dropped a new trailer for Girls’ Frontline (Dolls’ Frontline in Japan), an anime adaptation of SUNBORN’s popular mobile game of the same name. The news of a new trailer was originally …
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Usagi Yojimbo isn’t the biggest name in either American comics or Japanese manga, but he’s vitally important in the latter becoming an increasingly popular art form in America. Usually lumped …
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