• The Peak: Celebrating One Piece & Wano

    The Peak: Celebrating One Piece & Wano

    The anime landscape has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Once upon a time, all the largest shows ran once a week, every week, for hundreds of weeks before it either a) ends or b) gets cancelled. If they got too close to the manga, or even ahead of it, the showrunners would just…

  • The Immortality of Marvel VS Capcom 3

    The Immortality of Marvel VS Capcom 3

    That’s right! We talkin’ ’bout Mahvel, baby! To an outsider looking in, few pairings in the world make less sense than Marvel and Capcom. But video games are a wild, unpredictable landscape. If Donald Duck can meet Sephiroth and Mario can throw hands with Minecraft Steve, then who is to say Ryu couldn’t shake hands…

  • Icons of Shounen: Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

    Icons of Shounen: Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

    The Big Three. ‘Naruto’. ‘Bleach’. ‘One Piece’. Once upon a time, before anime was the mainstream media juggernaut we know today, these three shows were at the peak. If you were an adolescent anime fan in America before the streaming days, you were probably watching one of these three. Without them, we likely would never…

  • Dune Messiah Review: Chains of the Divine

    ‘Dune’ is one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time. It’s also one of the strangest. Drug-induced visions and hallucination sequences. Complex characters and layered, meticulously written dialogue. A universe that captures the imagination, and a world so fleshed out you’d think you could step out onto the sand yourself. It is a masterpiece…

  • Journey to 60: Must-Watch Doctor Who Stories (5th – 8th Doctors)

    Journey to 60: Must-Watch Doctor Who Stories (5th – 8th Doctors)

    With the end of the Fourth Doctor’s era, things got rough for our favorite time traveler. Daleks? Cybermen? None of them can compare to the show’s ultimate enemy: the producers. Classic Who began an unfortunate downward spiral around this point. The BBC began to pull its already limited funding away and the heads in charge…