(AfroGamers.com) The cowboy America fell for was a lie of omission. Not the whole lie, just the convenient parts. Hollywood handed down John Wayne and a territory scrubbed spotless, when the real country got built in large part by folks who never made the poster. Historians estimate roughly 1 in ...
(AfroGamers.com) It is the year 12,090, give or take. The world went bad on us a long while back. Science got reduced to campfire stories. Out in the ruins, the junk our ancestors left behind still buzzes and sparks. Somebody comes riding across all of it. Wide black hat. A ...
(AfroGamers.com) Back in 2014 a goofy cosmic romp ended its very first episode by blowing up its heroes, their ship, and the planet beneath them. The credits ran over the rubble. A week later the same crew sauntered back in, hair intact and swagger somehow louder, out chasing rare aliens ...
(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) 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) There was a stretch in the 1990s when the medium operated with almost no adult supervision, and the results were glorious. Home video was booming, late night broadcast slots were cracking open, and a certain breed of creator figured out that the usual gatekeepers had stopped watching closely. What ...
(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) Alongside the manhwa’s release of the final chapter, Villains are Destined to Die was officially confirmed to have an animated adaptation in the works. Even though not much information has been revealed to readers about the studio, cast or release date, there is still heavy anticipation about what’s to ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every corner of the internet still swears the most important thing about this series is a Goku power ranking. Who beats who, which form tops the chart, whether Ultra Instinct snapped the whole scale in half. Fun arguments. I have lost afternoons to them myself. Yet all that noise ...
(AfroGamers.com) Everybody reaches for the same title. Somebody asks what to watch, adds the science fiction qualifier, gestures at Japan, and here comes the reflex. Cowboy Bebop. Every single time. And look, that pick earns its throne. Watanabe built something jazzy and cool and mournful, a bounty hunter road trip ...