(AfroGamers.com) Romance anime involves a dynamic field of possibilities when it comes to how ‘love’ is explored in animated storytelling. The genre can be heart-breaking, heart-warming, hilarious and frustrating – all good emotions to go through so long as we all finally get to see our favourite couples have their ...
(AfroGamers.com) Around 70 TV shows landed this summer, give or take. Not seventy episodes, mind you, but that many separate series, each elbowing for the same corner of my evening, and buried somewhere in that avalanche sits a masterpiece I will never lay eyes on, since the clock simply ran ...
(AfroGamers.com) For plenty of us, the introduction happened on a couch. Cartoon Network, weekend morning, cereal going soggy while a show opened cold. No longbox required. A comic shop pilgrimage and a wiki deep dive weren’t part of it either, since we understood the picture in front of us on ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every perpetual manga reader or anime watcher has encountered the infamous long-titled series. These mangas and animes have titles that are not only long but practically summarise the entire premise of the story. We find this a lot with those in the isekai and fantasy genres where the main ...
(AfroGamers.com) The spinner rack by the register had a squeak to it, and that squeak is what my memory reaches for first. Newsprint gone soft, a little sour at the edges. Ink that smeared gray on your thumb if you gripped it wrong. I’d slide a quarter across the counter ...
(AfroGamers.com) Most shonen come down to whatever logic is running the fights. That part matters more than a fat animation budget or a slick character design, since it quietly decides who has any business winning. Botch it and your big climactic showdown becomes two dudes screaming, each one praying he ...
(AfroGamers.com) Ask most people to describe Major Motoko Kusanagi and you will hear about a woman who barely blinks. That image has held for more than thirty years. Then this past July a new series dropped on Prime Video and made it pretty plain that we settled on the wrong ...
(AfroGamers.com) Something needs saying before we go any deeper: looking good and having a look are two completely different accomplishments, and a heap of anime confuse the first for the second. Pretty is cheap these days. A studio throws budget at the sakuga, hires whichever character designer is hot that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody told you where to go. Back then that felt less like design and more like getting ditched. You slid the gold cartridge into the Nintendo, watched the title screen shimmer beside that trickling waterfall, and then there you were. A tiny figure in green, dropped onto a screen ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody warned me what that chainsaw would do to my nervous system back in 2006. First time it caught a Locust mid-lunge, my roommate came flying out the kitchen convinced somebody was getting jumped in our living room. Just me. Hunched over a controller, sweating through a cover shooter ...