(AfroGamers.com) Let me tell you what gets me. Every couple years a fresh crop of fans finds anime, falls all the way in love, and starts talking like the medium got born around the time they made a streaming account. No shade to the young folks, the passion is beautiful. ...
(AfroGamers.com) If you came up in the streaming years, your gateway into this world probably looked like a phone screen and an autoplay button. One tap and you were neck deep in a season of something loud and gorgeous, subtitles flying by, the next credits already skippable in a heartbeat. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every couple months the timeline catches fire over the newest seasonal darling, and honestly, I feel the hype. But scroll past all that gloss and you hit a graveyard of forgotten greatness, discs and tapes that once ruled the racks at Suncoast and the back wall of Blockbuster. The ...
(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) The most infuriating thing that a story can do is create a character or plot device that starts off following a premise only for that premise to be completely lost along the way. The same applies with movie and book tropes that fall short of fulfilling even the basic ...
(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) I’ve been enjoying Dark Cloud lately. It’s an action RPG that was released on the PlayStation 2 in 2000 and in the West in 2001. I’d put it down as a cult classic of the early 2000s. It isn’t an underrated game as it and the sequel have both gotten ...
(AfroGamers.com) The Super Mario franchise has a number of spin-offs in its over 40-year run. We touched on two spinoffs in our “Here Are 5 of the Best Video Game Spinoffs” piece. Now we’re focusing just on Super Mario and ranking the spinoffs from strongest to pretty damn strong. Will ...
(AfroGamers.com) Those who are playing Fallout 76 are the survivors of Vault 76. After the Great War, the wasteland needs people who can rebuild the area. Set in West Virginia, Fallout 76 puts you in a world that is large enough and gives you plenty of options to do things you ...