(AfroGamers.com) You might remember Kinnikuman better as those small, often pink, figures you could get out of the bubblegum machine at stores. In the U.S., it was called M.U.S.C.L.E or Millions of Unusual Creatures Lurking Everywhere. They were in just about every store during the 1980s and 1990s even though the ...
(AfroGamers.com) For all the horror anime fans, these anime featuring vampires, alien creatures, and mysterious people living among humans are just perfect for your Halloween nights. You can watch some of these horror anime with your kids, but there are some which you should watch alone as they feature everything you ...
(AfroGamers.com) Chinese manhua and Korean manhwa are also gaining popularity thanks to efforts of scanlators–scan and fan translation. Before the main thing you could get out of the scanlator scene was manga that hadn’t been translated into English. So imagine my surprise when I came across some pretty dope comics that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Samurai Executioner. If the series doesn’t ring a bell, the series creators Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima might. They’re the team that really upped the quality of storytelling and dramatic artwork in manga between the early 1970s into the 1980s. Their best known work is Lone Wolf and Cub or ...
(AfroGamers.com) Historical fiction can be hit or miss. Sometimes you get something truly great like the material Balogun and Davis puts out with The Scythe and other series. Or the Marvel Noir series and American Vampire. Another series that can be added to that is the seinen (men’s) manga series Blaster ...
(AfroGamers.com) I love martial arts anime and manga. Not really “I’m powering up, look at my aura flames! Ahhh!” martial arts manga–although I watch it–but more along the lines of series that depict pretty realistic interpretations of martial arts. However, this isn’t about martial arts manga, this is about another genre ...
(AfroGamers.com) I’ve been re-reading Naruto from the beginning–currently at Part 2, the timeskip–and I find myself appreciating the series more than I did when I first discovered it. I first saw the anime and the first big fight against Haku and Zabuza was what sold me on the series. It had ...
(AfroGamers.com) Akira Toriyama is one of my favorite mangakas. His style wasn’t conventional for action manga of the 1980s. As a matter of fact, his style was more along the line of gag manga early on but with Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, he got work that allowed him to spread ...
(AfroGamers.com) Recently, I wrote an article explaining the differences between certain elements that were only seen in the anime and manga. I am doing a second part explaining other differences between the anime and the manga of Dragon Ball. Here are several more differences between the Dragon Ball anime and manga. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Fort of Apocalypse is the manga series that turned me onto post apocalyptic horror manga. It’s violent, gory, at times humorous, but it has you on the edge of your seat through each chapter. It starts off at a Tokyo boy’s reformatory, where the fairly average Yoshiaki Maeda is thrown ...