Kentarou Miura has always been upfront about his influences when creating the decade-spanning dark fantasy manga Berserk. Some of those influences, like Fist of the North Star, are obvious just …
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Between them, the villains in Dragon Ball Z have a lot of henchmen. Every arc has either an army of generic soldiers, a squad of colorful characters or the muscle …
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Pokémon, over the course of its 25-year run, has had around 23 movies — one of nearly every year the franchise has been around. Some of them have been well-received …
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Episode 26 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, now streaming on Crunchyroll. In the appropriately-titled anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as …
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Many modern works of cyberpunk remember to lather their films, shows, games and anime with cybernetics, but they forget the key element of cyberpunk: punk. The core appeal of cyberpunk to …
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Chapter #54, “Bro,” by Masashi Kishimoto, Mikio Ikemoto, Mari Morimoto and Snir Aharon, now available in English from Viz Media. …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 182, “Ao,” now streaming on Crunchyroll. The Boruto anime continues to heat up now that Kara’s Vessel has crashed …
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Sokka is one of the best-developed characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender. On a surface level, The Legend of Korra‘s Bolin is often compared to Sokka because of his laid-back …
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Episode 182, “Ao,” now streaming on Crunchyroll. In the Boruto manga, it was unclear why Jigen would sanction an automated …
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Many international fans of One-Punch Man can easily catch its parodies of superhero comics and shonen manga, but they might not know that it also draws inspiration from a children’s …
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