For years, I treated Akane-banashi like a dessert, saving the chapters for last every Sunday as the highlight of my Weekly Shonen Jump lineup. Then I got greedy. I stopped
I had The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity at the top of my manga and anime list for a long time. However, the powers that be at Netflix and Kodansha—
In all my 28 years on this spinning rock, I’ve read my fair share of manga—some absolute classics, some guilty pleasures, and plenty that were straight up trash.
Behind every great manga series is an artist, or mangaka, who more often than not opts to hide their face and let their work speak for itself. In print, readers
While “auteurism” can sometimes feel like a pretentious label, there’s a real thrill in watching a creator unapologetically pour their tastes into their work. Doubly so if it’s
In the past couple decades, anime has gone from a niche hobby in the West to a sensibility that suffuses large parts of mainstream culture. And yet, at least where
Last Saturday was JoJoDay, a special fan celebration event where the official JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure anime brought back beloved voice actors and the musicians behind its banger opening themes.
Imagine the opening credits playing on a pilot episode of a television show—the scene-setting, the character introductions teasing backstories and defining traits, the tantalizing hints of the larger story
I’ll let y’all in on a little secret: I do not watch every seasonal anime. As someone who was once tasked with writing up long-ass slideshows breaking down
While onboarding with Aftermath, I went on a tangent, laying bare all my frustrations with manga-reading apps while pitching a blog. After spewing a word salad for what felt like
Stories about the collapse of civilization are starting to hit too close to home to be fun now that we're living in “historic times” every week. Despite living
Word on the street is that Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa, which you might know as the main shareholder of Dark Souls and Elden Ring studio FromSoftware, but
