(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) 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) The global manga business has grown into one of the dominant forces in worldwide entertainment. So somebody explain this to me. The whole world is eating this stuff up. Then why do fresh stories keep catching the axe before anybody even learns their names? Been chewing on that one ...
(AfroGamers.com) Yoshihiro Togashi has kept his readers waiting longer than just about anybody in modern manga. His defining title has spent years stalled by hiatuses, moving in short bursts before falling quiet again. And still, nobody leaves for good. They hang on, then come running back the moment he resurfaces. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Science Saru’s newest series slipped into the summer schedule this July with none of the marketing noise thrown behind louder premieres, and that soft landing suits it better than any hype campaign ever could. Now let me talk to my people for a second. You already know the feeling ...
(AfroGamers.com) The global appetite for Japanese animation has never looked more voracious, yet the creative daring behind it keeps thinning in ways worth sitting with. Let me put it plain. We won. The culture won. Two decades back, telling somebody at the family cookout that you skipped the game to ...
(AfroGamers.com) Fantasy romance manhwas, as popular as they are, aren’t always safe from criticism – especially from their own fanbases. The biggest one that goes around in the Rofan (standing for romance fantasy) fandoms is how the genre a lot of times overuses tropes, plot lines, and magic systems. As ...
(AfroGamers.com) Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the best looking pieces of animated work ever put in front of an audience, which is not a controversial position to hold. Ufotable animated this thing like the studio had declared war on visual restraint. The trouble surfaces once you look past that ...