(AfroGamers.com) The global appetite for Japanese animation has never looked more voracious, yet the creative daring behind it keeps thinning in ways worth sitting with. Let me put it plain. We won. The culture won. Two decades back, telling somebody at the family cookout that you skipped the game to ...
(AfroGamers.com) Most of us had our favourite shows that we grew up with. These shows became our favourites based on their genre being our favourite, the creators behind it who we can’t help but love or simply the channel the shows played on a lot of times giving what we ...
(AfroGamers.com) Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the best looking pieces of animated work ever put in front of an audience, which is not a controversial position to hold. Ufotable animated this thing like the studio had declared war on visual restraint. The trouble surfaces once you look past that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Heads up before you scroll. Spoilers ahead for seasons one and two, plus the opening episodes of season three. If you are still catching up, bookmark this and come back. Studio Bind came back on July 5th and did something sneaky. Instead of opening on Rudeus, season three handed ...
(AfroGamers.com) Watch enough samurai anime and something starts to stand out. The genre’s best swordsmen usually are not hungry kids clawing toward greatness. They are battle-worn veterans. Men who touched the top of the mountain years ago and walked back down carrying something they still cannot put down. It took ...
(AfroGamers.com) There’s an ongoing debate among longtime fans of the medium about whether recent technical leaps came at a quiet cost, and it deserves an honest look from someone who genuinely loves both eras. So let me be real with you for a second. Last week I fired up one ...
(AfroGamers.com) This post looks at how found footage is such an interesting concept in the film/movie space that somehow manages to separate itself from other types of movies and film techniques. Based on the title, this post also looks at why found footage horror is only good if its left ...
(AfroGamers.com) There’s a lesson the series puts on the table early, before you settle into your seat good. You cannot gain something without giving up something of equal worth. Simple math on paper. The genius of Brotherhood is how it takes that cold little equation and drags it through blood, ...
(AfroGamers.com) Peter Parker passed sixty in publishing years a while back, and the man is somehow still late on rent. I’ve thought about that a lot. Marvel spent decades stacking its shelf with a thunder god here, a billionaire genius there, an actual king running the most advanced nation on ...
(AfroGamers.com) Diving right in, we will be looking at a web novel called The Job of an Imperial Concubine and how it has and, for others, can inspire an interest in Chinese history and Chinese storytelling. Ranking Systems in the Imperial Palace This goes back to Ancient China when emperors ...