(AfroGamers.com) Something needs saying before we go any deeper: looking good and having a look are two completely different accomplishments, and a heap of anime confuse the first for the second. Pretty is cheap these days. A studio throws budget at the sakuga, hires whichever character designer is hot that ...
(AfroGamers.com) There is a particular joy that lands when the machine everybody counted out just will not fold. MF GHOST runs on that joy. Nothing about the show screams revolutionary, which is probably why it sneaks up on you. Kanata Rivington rolls into the MFG circuit driving a Toyota 86. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Every few years the same ritual plays out, and if you came up with a stack of back issues under your bed and Toonami bumpers burned into your memory, you can see it coming a mile off. Some exec in an office decides the most recognizable hero on the ...
(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) Some anime arrives when the culture wants something loud and bright, then quietly declines to hand it over. Wolf’s Rain was that kind of trickster. It came out in the early 2000s while the boom was roaring, back when a cable box and a late bedtime felt like a ...
(AfroGamers.com) Marvel’s decision to pull the plug on Wonder Man only months after promising fans a second chapter says something ugly about how these platforms treat their boldest swings. Let me back up for the folks who missed it. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II played Simon Williams, a struggling Black actor sitting ...
(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) Kyoto Animation revives one of its longest-dormant dreams not with clashing swords or towering foes, but with a smoke-covered city, a missing catalog, and two young souls reaching toward a future that stays just past their fingers. Real talk for a minute. I’m a cookout-and-manga kid, plate of ribs ...
(AfroGamers.com) There is a specific ache reserved for the fan who watched something beloved get abandoned before its real finish line. Anybody who came up on shonen in the 2000s knows that exact feeling in their chest. Let me pour us both a drink and get into it, because this ...
(AfroGamers.com) Marvel Studios closed out its Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con by handing the vibranium suit to David Jonsson, and the roar that filled that hall carried two things at once: pure joy, and a hush underneath it that nobody really wanted to name. Here’s the part folks ...