Most anime about overpowered protagonists understand the assignment: give viewers the visceral thrill of watching someone annihilate their problems with...
If you’ve ever watched Attack on Titan and felt personally targeted by its body count, you’re not imagining things. The...
Most anime that wander into the moral minefield of bullying arrive with a comforting exit strategy. Someone apologizes. Someone cries....
If you’ve ever watched Jujutsu Kaisen and thought, “This feels a little too close to something people actually believed,” you’re...
Here’s something nobody wants to admit about Your Lie in April: the show is terrified of quiet. Not the pregnant,...
If you’ve watched more than three episodes of anime in your life, you’ve seen it happen. A character leaps into...
Every season promises a dozen shows that swear they’ll change your life. Most of them change your free time and...
Most stories treat mentorship like a vending machine—insert troubled protagonist, receive wisdom, output better person. Anime has never been that...
If you made it here, you’re probably tired of adulthood, late-stage capitalism, and people who say “we should hang out...
If you enjoyed Chainsaw Man, you probably have questionable humor, a high tolerance for stylized violence, and a strange soft...
There’s a very specific moment when someone realizes that otaku culture has left the screen and started paying bills, arguing...
Power scaling in anime usually turns into a food fight: numbers thrown, feats cherry-picked, and someone inevitably shouting that “mana...
The most successful piracy site in anime history eventually went legal, got acquired by Sony, and now charges $7.99 a...
If you’ve spent more than fifteen minutes in anime discourse, you’ve encountered the take. Usually delivered with a smirk, sometimes...
Neon Genesis Evangelion doesn’t make sense because it’s not supposed to. The show that became anime’s most dissected text started...
If you’ve ever watched Hunter x Hunter and thought, “Yes, Nen makes perfect sense, I am very smart,” there’s a...
Somewhere between the hundredth kamehameha and the millionth friendship-powered transformation, action anime developed a problem. Fights became calculators. Character A...
Every season, the anime community collectively decides which shows deserve attention. The verdict comes fast—trending hashtags, YouTube video essays analyzing...
Every season, someone declares a new hierarchy. MAPPA’s on top. No wait, Ufotable. Actually, Kyoto Animation never left. The conversation...
Every anime season, someone declares an adaptation “ruined” before the first episode airs. The manga panels don’t match the trailer....
The Crunchyroll Awards stage in Tokyo witnessed something unprecedented in May. A Korean webtoon adaptation walked away with nine trophies,...
Every shonen protagonist eventually walks into an arena where the rules are simple: fight your way to the top, and...
The scariest thing about Johan Liebert isn’t that he kills people. It’s that he doesn’t exist. Not in the ontological...
