Month: November 2021

To celebrate Sesame Street‘s first Asian American Muppet Ji-Young, various acclaimed Asian and Pacific Islander celebrities will be joining her on television for a special episode. Sesame Workshop revealed the episode, titled See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special, will feature appearances by DC Publisher/Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu, tennis player Naomi
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Attack on Titan will not sell Eldian armband merchandise. The official website for the series announced that it has canceled the release and distribution of official Eldian armbands. The production committee for the show acknowledged that the armbands recall real world examples of discrimination and apologized. The armbands went up for preorder online on Sunday before being
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Weekly Shonen Jump is still Japan’s most popular manga magazine, but this year its distribution dropped to its lowest numbers since the early 1970s. Throughout the 2021 fiscal year (from October 2020 to September 2021), Weekly Shonen Jump averaged 1,422,766 copies per week in distribution. While still significantly higher than the sales of any American
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Epic Games dropped a thematically stylish trailer for Fortnite‘s long-awaited crossover with beloved anime and manga Naruto Shippuden. The trailer sees Team 7 eating an assortment of delicious foods before being interrupted by an otherworldly giant. The group of ninjas charges into battle, while Naruto happily eats his ramen, relying on his small army of shadow clones
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is practically synonymous with the superhero genre, and yet in looking over their impressive stable of characters, there’s something crucial missing: actual superheroes. While the protagonists of the MCU’s biggest films may battle for the fate of the galaxy, defeat terrorists threatening the integrity of civilization and protect the world from
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Clerks III star Jason Mewes has revealed when fans can likely expect to see the latest film set within writer-director Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse. While Smith himself previously confirmed that Clerks III is expected to arrive sometime in mid-to-late 2022, Mewes got a bit more specific during a recent appearance on Steve-O’s Wild Ride!. According to Mewes,
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Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy will be sticking around the company for at least another few years. According to journalist Matthew Belloni of Puck, Kennedy reportedly “recently re-upped her deal for another three years,” leaving her in control of franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Willow until at least 2024. RELATED: Kenobi: That’s Not the Second Sister – But It May Be This
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Since the War for Wakanda DLC, Marvel’s Avengers hasn’t had any major content updates with new characters or story content. However, PlayStation fans who have been waiting patiently for Spider-Man to appear as an exclusive character won’t have to wait much longer. Spider-Man will bring all of the wall-crawling fun and action into Marvel’s Avengers and
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The Flash must prepare for “Armageddon.” When the Arrowverse series returns, it will kick off Season 8 with a five-part event that calls in such heroes as Batwoman, Black Lightning, Sentinel, The Atom and Green Arrow. Barry Allen’s Arrowverse compatriots will stop by The Flash to help him stand up against Despero, a powerful alien with
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Known for crafting diverse and immersive worlds, developer Bethesda Game Studios doesn’t seem to be making an exception for Starfield, as the studio’s publisher recently shared over a dozen pieces of concept art for the upcoming sci-fi RPG. Publisher Bethesda Softworks unveiled a total of thirteen pieces of Starfield concept art during the Skyrim 10th Anniversary Fan Celebration
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Eternals, now in theaters. Chloé Zhao‘s Eternals has finally premiered in theatres to mixed reviews, with critics calling it an ambitious but overstuffed addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Some of this criticism has been directed toward the film’s handling of Kro and the Deviants, a race of alien lifeforms created by the Celestial Arishem to wipe
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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Platinum End Episode 6, “Two Painful Options,” now streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation. The heavenly battle royale continues, but Mirai Kakehashi, the candidate chosen by the playful angel Nesse, has even bigger problems than the other God candidates and their arrows. Mirai has become his own worst enemy, and
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The Binding of Isaac: Repentance has been hailed as a fantastic expansion to the popular rogue-like (unlike other recently-released expansions). It changes up the experience significantly with item additions, balancing changes, new endings and even a whole host of new characters to unlock. However, fans were disappointed when Repentance was initially released with the game’s modding capabilities disabled. This
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My Hero Academia fans are reeling after reading the latest chapter of Kohei Horikoshi’s superhero manga. SPOILERS FOR MY HERO ACADEMIA CHAPTER 333 FOLLOW: Fans of America’s top pro-hero, the reality altering Star and Stripe, are mourning the character’s apparent death, but are also impressed with her selfless and very creative final use of her powers. Chapter 333
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