(AfroGamers.com) In the fall of 1995, I was a 10-year-old youngster when Dragon Ball first aired on the our then staticky, unreliable UPN affiliate station. Anime as a whole was about to see a major boom in the next few years but I’m guessing UPN was the best option for ...
(AfroGamers.com) Exposition is something that really plagues anime and manga. The backstory of characters is super important but there is a such thing as too much information or too much backstory. Sometimes Anime Characters Talk Way Too Much A notable example of this is the Naruto franchise. On the one ...
(AfroGamers.com) World’s Apocalypse Online is a pretty incredible manhua that has been going for a while now. I just discovered it over New Year’s and Flaming Fortress’ work here had me hooked from the first two chapters. Let’s look at it and two other time-traveling isekai series. Time-Traveling Isekai I’ve ...
(AfroGamers.com) It’s time for another Manhua Manhwa Mash-Up! This time we’re looking at the manhua series Global Martial Arts—or World’s Best Martial Artist—by well…the loose translation is “Eagle Eats the Chick”. I’m having a hard time finding the phonetic version of their name. Anyway, it’s a series that has gotten ...
(AfroGamers.com) “You have failed this city” was a commonly uttered sentence by Stephen Amell’s character Oliver Queen/The Green Arrow in The CW’s former hit series Arrow. However, that’s not a phrase that can only be applied to the Arrowverse. Here are three times when not only the city but the ...
(AfroGamers.com) We’re back to Korean manhwa, folks! This time it’s one of the most extreme series I’ve read out of South Korea with Rooftop Sword Master. The series was created by KIM Ui-Kwon and has been running since 2020. The Story of Rooftop Sword Master At its core, this is ...
(AfroGamers.com) Bandai Namco’s Pac-Man is one of the legendary franchises in video game history. It’s one of the franchises that put Namco on the map in gaming while eating up high score-chasing arcade goers’ quarters for decades. If you can find an arcade, there’s likely to be a Pac-Man or ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let’s look at seven things that makes the Namek Saga the best saga in Dragon Ball Z. This was a saga where it seemed like it would never be completed because of broadcasting issues. 7. The Satisfaction of Vegeta vs. Zarbon II In their first encounter on Planet Namek, ...
(AfroGamers.com) While digging through some things, I found an old Viz Comics catalog. These catalogs had all of the subbed and dubbed anime available during the late 90s on VHS. Now, the prices for a tape featuring two episodes were always dicey but you were guaranteed to find something you’d ...
(AfroGamers.com) There are some major, influential franchises in comics and on the screen that eventually just fall by the wayside even if they have more to give. Japan has a number of them! Let’s check out four manga and TV series that deserve a reboot or revival. Lone Wolf and ...