Month: October 2021

After School Tea Time caused a stir when K-On! first made its 2010 debut. The band’s songs reached the Oricon charts several times, with the band itself quickly becoming a household name in the early 2010s. The anime’s success only pushed After School Tea Time’s popularity forward, creating a major cultural shift in the anime community.
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Although TV shows are usually placed into categories based on the audience’s age, a large number of recent series are beginning to deviate from this unspoken norm. There are quite a few teenage-led narratives that handle mature topics, often with incredible sensitivity. Conversely, shows with adult characters are occasionally simplified to ensure that kids are able to grasp
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Video games have a long history of drawing on comic books for inspiration. Both mediums are well entrenched in geeky spaces, and video games give players a chance to take the reins of their favorite characters as they leap off the page and onto the screen. Comics are represented in nearly every genre, and their
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, now playing in theaters. Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is the primary host of the Venom symbiote in the Venom films, but that doesn’t mean he’s the only one. The symbiote also hops to several other brief hosts throughout the two movies. The most notable
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Japan’s former foreign minister Fumio Kishida recently won the race to head Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, putting him in position to replace Yoshihide Suga, who is stepping down as the nation’s prime minister. Kishida recently revealed that he is an enthusiastic Demon Slayer fan and promised to support manga and anime creators. Kishida, who often uses the kishidaBOX hashtag on
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Pacific Rim is an eye-popping homage to two of Japan’s biggest pop culture creations: mecha anime and kaiju films. If there’s one anime that has been cited as particularly similar to Pacific Rim, it’s Studio Gainax’s Neon Genesis Evangelion. The similarities may be unintentional – director Guillermo Del Toro has never seen Evangelion and co-writer Travis Beacham after his work on Pacific Rim.
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for My Hero Academia Chapter #309, “Can’t Be A Child Anymore,” by Kohei Horikoshi, Caleb Cook and John Hunt, available now in English from Viz Media. In My Hero Academia Chapter #309, Deku debuted an ominous new outfit that’s starkly different from many of his previous hero costumes. This new getup might be more likely
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