AI / The Anime AI Closed Captioning Situation Is Crazy Crunchyroll getting in bed with an AI localization company and Netflix declaring it’ll use AI to improve localization spells bad times ahead for anime fans. By Isaiah Colbert / 27 Jan 2026
Movies / Kokuho Has The Juice Kokuho is a blistering look at how far an artist will bleed, bend, and break in pursuit of perfection By Isaiah Colbert / 26 Jan 2026
Anime / Josei Anime Is Back On The Menu, Boys Journal With Witch is an anime about the beauty in forging new relationships just as much as it's about mourning. By Isaiah Colbert / 21 Jan 2026
Manga / The Climber Is An Incredibly Beautiful, Devastating Manga About Hubris You'll never look at mountains the same way again. By Isaiah Colbert / 20 Jan 2026
Anime / What’s The Deal With Rumiko Takahashi’s Signature Hand Pose In which I play anime anthropologist to uncover the true origins behind the iconic anime visual gag By Isaiah Colbert / 13 Jan 2026
Manga / Smoking Behind The Supermarket With You Is A Cozy Rom-Com Manga Now that’s what I call a good slow burn romance By Isaiah Colbert / 12 Jan 2026
TV / Friendship Ended With Terrace House, Love Village Is My New Favorite Dating Show Old fogies searching for their last love while cohabitating in the Japanese countryside got me By Isaiah Colbert / 6 Jan 2026
Manga / I Don’t Care Who Wins Dragon Ball Z’s Popularity Poll, I Just Want Goten To Lose To Bulma’s Cat Witnessing DBZ’s first-ever popularity poll in real-time was an anxiety-fueled rollercoaster comparable to a Safdie brothers' movie By Isaiah Colbert / 5 Jan 2026
TV / Terrace House's Omurice Incident Is Still An All-Time Reality TV Moment The quickest way to push past a man's bullshit is straight through his stomach By Isaiah Colbert / 23 Dec 2025
Interview / Genndy Tartakovsky Won’t Let Original Animation Die—Even If He Has To Raise A Caveman From The Dead The Primal creator doesn’t want the industry to be dominated by legacy sequels, franchise building, and AI By Isaiah Colbert / 22 Dec 2025
Interview / Adventure Time Creator on AI: ‘We’re Cooked’ Pendleton Ward sees his fellow Cartoon Network all-stars’ new Adult Swim special, The Elephant, as “the last squirts of human creativity.” By Isaiah Colbert / 17 Dec 2025
Afterchat / Wake Up Dead Man's Saving Grace Is How It Talks About Religion A "road-to-Damascus thing" goes a long way By Isaiah Colbert and Riley MacLeod / 16 Dec 2025
