Month: May 2021

Need a break from an anime with hundreds of episodes or are looking for a quick and captivating watch? Why not try a short, thirty-episode-or-less season of something new? Even for viewers who only have a single day to spare, here is a list of great anime can be binged in one sitting. RELATED: HBO Max:

Throughout both The Evil Within games, Sebastian is granted respite in safe rooms in a different plane than his current one. These safe rooms are signaled to the player through the sound of Claire De Lune, and must be accessed by staring into a cracked mirror. The rooms offer a haven where the player is free from

The Utopian carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. In Jupiter’s Legacy, Sheldon Sampson is the world’s first superhero, and he remains one of its mightiest after a whopping 90 years in the costume. But the world has changed in those 90 years, leaving Sheldon struggling to hold onto The Code, the superhero

WandaVision was a major success for Marvel, in no small part due to its exploration of grief and trauma. Seeing the Scarlet Witch deal with feelings of loss through unconventional means was moving and entertaining all at once. In the 1990s, Green Lantern explored similar themes of grief, albeit in a much darker manner than WandaVision. This traumatic, game-changing chapter

The Mortal Kombat franchise has long been associated with a set of brutal special moves known as Fatalities, which players use to destroy their opponents in incredible ways. Considering just how legendary Fatalities are, it’s no surprise that the 2021 movie corrected the mistake of its predecessors and brought the powerful moves into the fold. In

Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure features many important characters throughout its eight parts, but none stand the test of time quite like Robert E.O. Speedwagon. Normally, characters don’t reappear after their introductory part of JoJo, the most notable exceptions being Joseph and Jotaro. But Speedwagon’s presence is felt throughout the series, starting in Part 1. Speedwagon debuts as a street thug

A new teaser for Stranger Things Season 4 has dropped and it appears to show some kind of a flashback that takes the audience back to Hawkins National Laboratory. The flashback is set in a familiar and now seemingly significant location – the Rainbow Room. The Rainbow Room was first introduced in Stranger Things 2, when Eleven went to find her mother,

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the second episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, “Cut and Run,” now streaming on Disney+. In “Cut and Run,” the second episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Omega is almost attacked by a nexu, a large feline creature with an extremely large head and oversized mouth filled

Multiple F9 stars have listed Matt Damon as their dream pick actor to add to the Fast & Furious franchise. Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, who plays Tej Parker in The Fast Saga, became the latest one to do so during his appearance on Entertainment Weekly‘s BINGE: The Fast Saga podcast. When asked which actor he would

Out of nowhere, Nintendo dropped the announcement trailer for Game Builder Garage, the company’s latest user-generated content endeavor. It’s not a completely new project, as Game Builder Garage builds upon the foundation of Nintendo Labo‘s Garage mode. As such, the title is an economic use of resources in the pursuit of another Nintendo Switch success.

Boruto follows the next generation of shinobi as they find their own path in the post-war ninja world. Although they live in a time of peace, there are those that still dream of becoming powerful shinobi. Some have already mastered their skills, while others continue training to become stronger. RELATED: 10 Boruto Fights Better Than

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is full of villains who can rival the heroes when it comes to impact and fandom. While some are just plain evil and a lot better for it (ex. Hela from Thor: Ragnarok), others are so tragically relatable that some fans wish these characters were with the Avengers instead. RELATED: MCU:

Throughout  Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley‘s Invincible, Mark Grayson fills out many of the tropes familiar to the superhero genre. He learns to use his powers, struggles to balance his superhero life with that of his civilian identity, and perhaps best of all he earns himself a whole host of villains that absolutely

Evangelion 3.0+1.0 is officially Hideaki Anno’s highest-grossing movie of all time. Japanese distributor and publisher Toei announced that director Hideaki Anno’s final entry in the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time, earned 8.28 billion yen (75.7 million USD) on roughly 5.4 million admissions in the 59 days since its release date in

The series premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch on Disney+ spawned whitewashing concerns among some fans who pointed out that characters such as the various clones and Caleb Dume appeared lighter in complexion. Now, a new report suggests these concerns are being directly addressed by Lucasfilm. Shortly after the premiere on May 4, #UnWhiteWashTBB began

In Charmed Season 3, The Charmed Ones meet their estranged cousin, Joséfina, who opens their hearts to questioning their practiced magic. After realizing that The Charmed Ones’ current magic is based on the flawed concept of a gender binary and Western-based practices, the sisters seek to reconnect to their Puerto Rican roots through Joséfina and Brujeria. In an interview

In honor of his 60th birthday, George Clooney announced a raffle to meet himself and his wife at their Italian home for lunch. Revealed in a humorous YouTube video, Clooney begins with, “As soon as this pandemic is over, I want you to come celebrate with Amal and me at our house in Lake Como.” From

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1, Episode 2, “Cut and Run,” which is streaming on Disney+. Star Wars: The Bad Batch’s premiere episode featured a number of major characters from other animated Star Wars series, including a pre-Rebels Kanan Jarrus and Clone Wars/Rebels alum Saw Gerrera. By comparison,

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for My Hero Academia Season 5, Episode 6, “Foresight,” now streaming on Crunchyroll, Funimation and Hulu. The competition between Classes 1-A and 1-B has been an exciting, action-packed way to show off the results of Class 1-A’s extensive training from past seasons of My Hero Academia. However, the main cast now finds themselves sharing

Even before the modern age of resurrection on Krakoa, many of the X-Men and their enemies have died and come back from the dead in numerous ways over the years. One mutant with a particularly long record of resurrections is Magneto, the longtime villain and occasional hero of the X-Men corner of the Marvel Universe. Now,

Breaking Bad may be one of the greatest television shows of all time. But in the time of statistical analysis, the critical reception of television shows and movies allows for the closest thing to an objective metric one can have in gauging a show’s quality, and that even goes for dividing up a show by season. With

The concept of Haki was properly introduced in One Piece right before the two-year time skip when Rayleigh started training Luffy in the ways of this power. Simply put, Haki is a power that allows anyone who wields to manifest their spirit and use it in extraordinary ways. For example, it can be used to

When it comes to movie universes, not many fans would argue against the claim that DCEU is not structured particularly well. The movies themselves range from very, very good to very, very bad, but continuity is not a strong point at either end of this spectrum. Unfortunately, even fans of the DCEU agree that the

During a court examination in the Epic Games v. Apple court case, Xbox Vice President Lori Wright explained that Microsoft does not earn a profit on Xbox console sales. Wright, acting as a third-party witness on the case in order to give testimony and insight into the gaming industry as a whole, declared the news during an examination

Marvel Comics has revealed artist Phil Jimenez’s variant cover for Black Cat #7, which will be among the first of Marvel’s Pride Month variants to hit comic shops this June. The House of Ideas explains that its Pride Month variants aim to “spotlight Marvel’s growing LGBTQ+ representation, and when first announced in March, fans got to

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the story “Ghost-Maker: Chapter 2” from Batman #108 by James Tynion IV, Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Tomeu Morey & Clayton Cowles, on sale now As a secret hero operating around the world, Ghost-Maker has naturally earned his own Rogue’s Gallery over the years. They’ve even united in hopes of defeating

WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Strange Academy #10 by Skottie Young, Humberto Ramos, Edgar Delgado, and VC’s Clayton Cowles, on sale now. The students of Strange Academy have lived through some truly terrifying moments lately, and it seems as though things are finally starting to get back to normal. In the wake of

One of the most highly anticipated anime of Fall 2020 was none other than the multi-Crunchyroll Anime Award-winning series, Jujutsu Kaisen. The story follows the journey of Yuji Itadori, who finds himself in a supernatural dilemma that causes him to eat a cursed object and become the vessel for Sukuna, a powerful cursed spirit known

This year, the team behind The Simpsons celebrated May 4 (aka Star Wars Day) with “The Force Awakens From Its Nap,” a new Disney+ short film inspired by the galaxy far, far away starring none other than Maggie Simpson. In an exclusive interview with CBR, The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean — who co-wrote the short —

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 1, Episode 1, “Aftermath,” which is streaming on Disney+. From its very first episode, Star Wars: The Clone Wars focused on humanizing the clone troopers introduced in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, proving the identical soldiers’ uniformity was only skin-deep. Now, sequel series Star