(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, ...
(AfroGamers.com) Two cartoons sat at the middle of what Nickelodeon meant to a whole generation, and neither worked the same corner of the imagination. One lived beneath the ocean and treated a greasy fry cook gig like grand opera. The other set up shop in the suburbs and asked a ...
(AfroGamers.com) Back when I was coming up, the future actually had a shape to it. You could see it. Neo-Tokyo lit orange and tearing itself apart under a swollen sky, for starters. Then a cyborg woman steps off a high rise into neon and rain like gravity means nothing to ...
(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) I still remember the first time a pack of Gyarados whipped the ocean into a cyclone and wrecked everybody’s whole afternoon. Saturday morning, bowl of cereal going soft while I sat frozen on the carpet. Back then the show did not care about keeping you comfortable. It wanted you ...
(AfroGamers.com) Whenever some new convert acts like anime just took over the world, I have to laugh a little. Scroll any timeline right now and you would swear the whole thing got invented last Tuesday, born the day Demon Slayer started trending. That notion skips clean past the folks who ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some nights the memory that sticks isn’t the blockbuster everybody quotes. It’s the odd little gem that aired late, the one you caught half asleep on the couch while the rest of the house had gone quiet. For a certain kind of kid raised on Toonami and later Adult ...
(AfroGamers.com) Growing up on Toonami, I fell in love with the loner. You know the one. Posted up in the corner while the rest of the cast cracked jokes and passed the food, arms crossed, eyes low, not a word out of him because the quiet itself read as untouchable. ...