Month: April 2021

Since its debut in 2016, Re:Zero has become not only one of the most popular and critically acclaimed isekai out there, but one of the most successful new anime in recent years. It won fans over with its determined hero, loveable side characters, fully realized fantasy world, and impressive animation. RELATED: 10 Best Isekai Anime Out There

While the Mortal Kombat universe is filled with powerful warriors, Shaolin masters, Outworld warlords and divine Elder Gods, none of them can match the combined might of the Kamidogu, magical artifacts that were integral to the story of the 2015 Mortal Kombat X comic by Shawn Kittelsen, Dexter Soy, Daniel Sampere and Ivan Vitorino. First

While in the past many avid moviegoers didn’t think WWE — or wrestling superstars in general — could transition to the big screen, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has certainly proven them wrong. The Edge, Undertaker and Big Show have also made cameos in movies and TV shows, but the Rock certainly took it to new heights

The Nevers is an HBO series that explores a world where those with supernatural powers — the Touched — are cast out from society, leading them to only trust those that are like them. In the HBO series’ upcoming episode, “Ignition,” Amalia (Laura Donnelly) decides to recruit an unlikely ally to join her mission — to

A group of authors, in connection with the literary and free expression group PEN America, sent an open letter to a Texas school district to explain their opposition to the banning of a number of books, primarily graphic novels, from school reading lists. Leander Independent School District (ISD) is a school district based in Leander,

In past Star Wars subseries, such as The New Jedi Order, authors included a dramatis personae and timeline at the beginning of each book. On these pages, the authors listed the major characters and side characters to help readers keep track of players in the story, and the timeline helped ground the novel’s overall story arc. While

Attack on Titan‘s final chapter released earlier this month, ending the critically acclaimed manga that started in 2009. The chapter answered many questions that fans had and ended most of the main character’s arcs in the best way possible, such as Levi, Jean, and Connie getting to see their fallen friends one last time or

Originally released in 2016, Brigador is a criminally overlooked mech game that combines cyberpunk style with great gameplay to create a challenging mech game that is exhilarating and a pleasure to look at. In it, the Great Leader is dead, and Solo Nobre is at war — so it is time to blow everything up. Brigador

Behind every great hero is an even greater villain. And it’s worth noting that a hero’s growth is oftentimes dependent on the challenges their villain presents. Some of the best clashes between heroes and villains are those which contain fundamental perspective differences—that is, disagreements between their basic understandings of the world and the directions each thinks society

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episode 5, “Truth,” now streaming on Disney+. On The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, John Walker was just recruited by a new character who appears to be a future major player in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Countess Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Katekyo Hitman Reborn! is finally becoming legally available in several non-English-speaking countries. On Monday, Crunchyroll announced that the classic Shōnen Jump anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, typically translated as just REBORN!, would become available in several new countries. REBORN! was previously only available in English-speaking countries, but now Crunchyroll will stream the anime to the Americas, Australia, New

The latest Resident Evil multiplayer project might succeed where recent attempts haven’t, as the iconic horror franchise is the latest to cross over with Dead By Daylight. The collaboration was announced during Capcom’s Resident Evil Showcase event with a teaser trailer. All we know for sure is that the crossover has a June release date, and the RE antagonist will join the game’s

Shortly after Simu Liu’s birthday — which ended in Marvel Studios surprising him with a Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer debut — a fan made a Shang-Chi-themed poster paying homage to the starring cast of the CBC’s sitcom Kim’s Convenience. Liu shared the fan-made poster with fans on Twitter, noting, “Okay which one of

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Nightwing #79 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas & Wes Abbott, on sale now. Like any family unit, the Bat-Family has their own mix of interpersonal drama, inside jokes, and biting observations about one another. It all speaks to the bond that’s formed between the group of heroes,

Marvel’s television revolution is in full swing, and Loki will look to build on the momentum generated by WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Kevin Feige has teased that the show will be “intriguingly different” and hype around the series has led fans to speculate on just what the story may be about.

There are a lot of reasons readers have fallen in love with Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse since Shadow and Bone kicked off the franchise in 2012. One of the biggest is that Bardugo’s books are incredibly difficult to put down thanks to their tight plotting, easy-to-love characters and compelling Eastern European-inspired fantasy world. However, as poorly executed adaptations of young

The entire list of Quibi original content, including a “Marvel vs. DC” series, are being rebranded as “Roku Originals” when they make their debut on Roku. Slugfest is the title of the Marvel/DC documentary, which is narrated by Kevin Smith and produced by the Russo Brothers (Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame). RELATED: Roku Officially Buys Rights

The anime industry has only become more ambitious and creative over the past decade and each year brings with it a bunch of challenging new anime content. There’s a lot of focus on the ongoing anime series that turn into hits over multiple seasons, but there’s often even more reverence that’s held for anime feature

The X-Men’s new Krakoa era has radically reinvented the status quo for Marvel’s mutants. Since the Jonathan Hickman-masterminded relaunch that started with House of X/Powers of X, various creative teams have had the opportunity to help establish the mutant nation. In Way of X #1, writer Si Spurrier brings his psychological storytelling back to the

The newest Magic: The Gathering expansion set is Strixhaven: School of Mages, which is based on the five enemy-color pairs. In this set, players will find that instants and sorceries are a big deal in gameplay, and that factors into games of booster draft Limited. Here’s how to draft Strixhaven, starting with the five archetypes. Nearly all M:TG

Mortal Kombat screenwriter Greg Russo teased that the follow-up to Netflix’s 2017 live-action Death Note movie will be more faithful to the original manga. “And Death Note, I’m a huge fan of the manga, I’m a huge fan of the original source material and I think it’s one of the greatest mangas ever written,” Russo

Brainiac-5 and Dreamer go to 2009 in the promo for next week’s new episode of Supergirl, “Prom Night.” The promo starts with Nia telling the rest of the Super Friends that in order to get Kara out of the Phantom Zone, they have to go back in time. This is followed by Alex Danvers telling

As the second lead of Jujutsu Kaisen and one of the best friends of Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro has garnished a lot of attention from anime fans in the past year. Since Jujutsu Kaisen took the anime world by storm with its first season, he has proven that he is not to be underestimated. RELATED: Jujutsu Kaisen & 9 More Exciting

The world of anime is ripe with fascinating relationships, from friendships and fierce rivalries to passionate lovers and mortal enemies. A good old-fashioned friendship can bring out the best in both characters, and deepen both of them substantially as the story goes on. But just as in real life, not all friendships in anime had

DC is finally giving fans the Booster Gold and Blue Beetle team-up they’ve been asking for in Blue & Gold, an eight-issue miniseries by writer Dan Jurgens and artist Ryan Sook. July’s Blue & Gold sees the 25th-century hero Booster Gold attempt to reclaim the spotlight by using social media to make a name for himself.

Superboy will headline his very own DC ongoing series in the publisher’s Infinite Frontier era in Superman: Son of Kal-El from writer Tom Taylor (Nightwing, DCeased, Suicide Squad) and artist John Timms (Young Justice, Harley Quinn). Superman: Son of Kal-El will replace DC’s Superman title, currently written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Sean Lewis, with art by Scott Godlewski and

Tabletop RPGs have been a source of creativity, inspiration and camaraderie since the 1970s. They promote teamwork, exploration, risk-taking and the kind of heroics few people will actually see in their real lives. Games like Dungeons & Dragons give players the power to become so many things, from magic-wielding Wizards to lute-toting Bards, but not everyone

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point #1, by Donald Mustard, Christos Gage, Reilly Brown, Nelson Faro DeCastro, John Kalisz and AndWorld Design, on sale now. Batman and the Bat-Family are the latest guests in the Fortnite Universe, and they’ve jumped nto the frenetic battle royale combat of the online game. And as the Dark Knight

Alfred Molina is returning as Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man: No Way Home and the actor revealed that he is the same character from Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man trilogy. This begs the question of whether or not Doctor Octopus will return as a villain after his redemption at the end of Spider-Man 2. In an interview with Variety, Molina spoke about

Dave Bautista has provided more details on his previous attempt to get DC Films to cast him as the notorious Batman villain Bane. During the “Spotlight on Dave Bautista” segment of Justice Con, the wrestler-turned actor was asked who he would like to play in the DC Extended Universe. “Oh, it would be Bane all