Category: Anime
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Icons of Shounen: Naruto Uzumaki
Ah, yes. Everyone’s favorite shounen hero: Boruto’s Dad. On the surface, Naruto is a fairly generic shounen hero. Kid is dumb as bricks, a genius of combat, and he’s got a heart of gold. Friendship gives him strength and he has a grand, seemingly unachievable goal: to become the king of the ninjas Hokage. While…
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We Need to Talk About Dragon Ball Daima
Toriyama is taking the franchise to strange new places… Dragon Ball is a series of highs and lows. Z was amazing… up until the Buu saga kinda messed it all up. GT was one of the most disappointing anime I’ve ever seen. Super was a mixed bag; it had some great moments and the movies…
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Icons of Shounen: Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
Shounen is by far the most popular genre of anime. Ever since Fist of the North Star, it’s been manga’s #1 cash cow. As such, it’s also the most competitive and densely packed genres. Which means we’ve got a lot of characters to look at. And more importantly: rank. Starting with everyone’s favorite martial artist…
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Horimiya: The Missing Pieces is More of a Good Thing
The first season of Horimiya is a brilliant slice-of-life romcom. Albeit an incomplete one. Large chunks of the manga had to be cut out in order to fill a twelve episode season. It’s like swiss cheese; delicious, but full of holes. Season two, ‘The Missing Pieces’, aims to fill these holes. And it does so…
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Fall Anime 2023: Old Leaves, New Shows
Here we are again, folks. With the turn of the season, we’ve got a whole slew of new anime to watch. Time to dig through it all to find the gems! First, there are the sequels. A lot of sequels. Such as: And there are probably more. Holy shit, dude, there’s so many shows this…
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