Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to the classic science fiction film, will release globally on October 6th. To link the original film with the new one, three shorter pieces were developed; the last of these was created by Shinichiro Watanabe, the great anime director, and explains events in 2022, just three years after those in… Read More Review: Blade Runner Black Out 2022
You might or might not be familiar with the term isekai, but if you are an anime fan, there is a very good chance you have at least seen at least one isekai show. The term describes a show where an ordinary person (or people) from our modern world gets sent into a fantasy world.… Read More Isekai for Christians, Part 1: A Little Piece of Heaven
Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu) is one of the more ridiculous shounen anime to air in the past few years. In it, a bunch of middle school students are tasked with assassinating their teacher before he destroys the world. The assassination assignment gives this class of outcasts purpose and confidence. And the teacher, despite his plans… Read More Annalyn’s Corner: Who Pulls Your Strings?
I loved my group of friends in high school. We bickered a lot, but we were also always cracking each other up. We were also a bunch of nerds, so we pushed each other to excel academically and had similar pop culture interests that we shared (The Matrix is the best movie everrrr adlkjalcjvaoeiw!). But… Read More The Importance of Being Digi-Destined
As much as I love Boku no Hero Academia, there was something about the series that irked me right at the beginning, which I’d conveniently forgotten about until now. Midoriya started out as someone so desperate to have a quirk, who longed for it in a pure, childlike way, and who proved worthy of it… Read More The Lesson Lost in One For All
The desert island episodes of Classroom of the Elite have been a chance to step back, reset, and look at the students individually as well as the structure of each of Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing School’s four freshman classes. Of course, D-Class takes center stage, and especially of note is how the class is managed… Read More Management of the Elite
At first glance, Berserk seems to have all the bells and whistles of an edgy teenage boy’s daydream. It sports an incredible amount of violence, almost every one of its leading female characters appear nude on screen at least once, and the majority of actual sexual encounters in the series are either violent rape or… Read More Berserk: Manliness and the Importance of Person
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