(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. ...
(AfroGamers.com) The industry has quietly figured out that some of its safest money does not come from whatever premieres next season. It comes from what a whole crowd of grown adults already loved back when they were broke and twelve. So who makes up a valuable part of the audience ...
(AfroGamers.com) Freakazoid is one those 90s cartoons that often gets brought up last or at random when folks are remembering old toons. Usually you’ll get Animaniacs, Rugrats, Daria, Tiny Toons, Powerpuff Girls, Batman: The Animated Series, and Pinky and The Brain to name a few. Hell, you’ll hear Taz-Mania and Gargoyles ...
(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) The Sega Genesis, like any console, had standalone games or short-lived franchises that make you go “Why are you even here?” or “What’s with this spinoff?” I constantly wander who asked for a particular game but I’m someone who can see potential or something decent in most games. Maybe ...
(AfroGamers.com) Those of us who grew up during the pre-streaming and cable marathon era of TV tend to hold up Saturday morning as the golden era for cartoons on TV. It was for good reason. The Saturday Morning Cartoon Landscape Depending on the network, the Saturday morning block was must-see ...