(AfroGamers.com) The cowboy America fell for was a lie of omission. Not the whole lie, just the convenient parts. Hollywood handed down John Wayne and a territory scrubbed spotless, when the real country got built in large part by folks who never made the poster. Historians estimate roughly 1 in ...
(AfroGamers.com) It is the year 12,090, give or take. The world went bad on us a long while back. Science got reduced to campfire stories. Out in the ruins, the junk our ancestors left behind still buzzes and sparks. Somebody comes riding across all of it. Wide black hat. A ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some anime grabs you by the collar inside the first five minutes. Big explosions, rising power levels, a kid hollering an attack name while the sky splits open. That style is a blast, and I came up on it. Every so often, though, a title leans close and murmurs ...
(AfroGamers.com) The loudest mouth in anime is back, and it’s about time. Crunchyroll brought Black Clover back earlier this month, more than five years after the original anime ended in 2021 with episode 170. Fans waited through a whole presidential cycle for this. Now Hage’s favorite screamer is on screens ...
(AfroGamers.com) Somewhere around midnight, back when the television still had a knob and a prayer, I used to catch these shows after the rest of the house finally gave up and went to sleep. Cowboy Bebop ran low so the volume wouldn’t travel down the hall. That saxophone came creeping ...
(AfroGamers.com) Back in 2014 a goofy cosmic romp ended its very first episode by blowing up its heroes, their ship, and the planet beneath them. The credits ran over the rubble. A week later the same crew sauntered back in, hair intact and swagger somehow louder, out chasing rare aliens ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some shows hand you a glossary. This one handed you a fist and dared you to keep up. Twenty six episodes, zero homework, all attitude. Let me put it plain. Back in 2001 a scrappy series named s-CRY-ed came out swinging, and it had zero interest in handing you ...
(AfroGamers.com) Somewhere in the middle of Magic Knight Rayearth, it clicks that those three girls are not on vacation. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu get yanked away while visiting Tokyo Tower on school field trips and dropped into Cephiro with a job nobody asked them to sign up for. Under all ...
(AfroGamers.com) Back in 1993, a whole slew of American children started absorbing Japanese storytelling logic every weekday afternoon, and not one of us had a clue. We figured we were just watching five teenagers with attitude stomp a rubber monster into the dirt. What we were actually getting was an ...
(AfroGamers.com) Somewhere along the way folks started talking like Vegeta drew up the whole blueprint himself. Arms crossed, that smirk, the grudging little nod when the hero finally pulls ahead. Ask around who built the proud opponent and the Saiyan prince gets the credit like he filed the paperwork. Respectfully, ...