(AfroGamers.com) I’m not the biggest on exposition and characters getting a ton of TV or page time to explain their backstory but I do love lore. There are better ways to go into a character’s backstory and motivations than for everyone to stand around and let them cook. It’s a ...
(AfroGamers.com) I enjoy the Lord of the Rings films and they’re one of my favorites to rewatch. There is more to catch up as far as film and TV are concerned and I still must re-read the books, but I’ve always enjoyed the franchise. If there’s a LOTR game, I’m ...
(AfroGamers.com) In 1967, the landmark anime Mach GoGoGo. aired in Japan. The one-season series proved popular enough domestically that an English dub was produced and released in the U.S that summer—mere months after it began airing! Known as Speed Racer here in the States, it was one of those super ...
(AfroGamers.com) Back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, a lot of media based around 80s nostalgia was made. Films such as Drive became a big thing because of its cinematography and the soundtrack, synthwave/outrun and chillwave were new forms of electronic music which became pretty popular in film, TV, ...
(AfroGamers.com) Tromaville is the universe where Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Hertz based many of their cult horror comedies and superhero comedies. Produced by Troma Entertainment—with many films based in the fictional Tromaville, New Jersey—the most known film series is The Toxic Avenger. The Toxic Avenger or Toxie was a weak-bodied ...
(AfroGamers.com) My brother and I have been watching All Def’s Great Taste series and one of the topics the SquADD went into was the best Saturday morning cartoon. Now, this is a video from four years ago but most of the selections were great. Let’s go into the best toons ...
(AfroGamers.com) There were several U.S animation studios formed during the black and white era of film and television. The most notable were Warner Bros, Disney, Fleischer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, and Hanna-Barbera. Of those, Warner Bros, Disney, and Hanna-Barbera had the longest influence and were able to continue producing popular animated shorts, ...
(AfroGamers.com) When I was younger, it wasn’t unusual to see spinach advertised by the cartoon character Popeye. The branding was “Allen’s Popeyes Spinach” and my mom got it all the time. Now, I was a big Popeye fan from watching the cartoons on what was then The Family Channel and ...
(AfroGamers.com) When it comes to classic cartoons, the cat is a popular character. Actually, cats and dogs are the animals you’re going to see more often than not. Maybe throw a bird in there for good measure. Let’s get into the five greatest cartoon cats. Where does your favorite fall? ...
(AfroGamers.com) We’ve discussed the first boom period of anime in the West during the late 1990s starting with Dragon Ball, Ronin Warriors, Sailor Moon, Teknoman, and Samurai Pizza Cats. Those series remained in syndication until 1996 when stations skipped everything following the Pilaf Saga in DB and returned with the ...