(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 ...
(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 ...