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Rules: name it in One Piece style (a doubled word, like Gomu Gomu), give it one strength, one weakness that isn't just "can't swim", and one signature technique. Best entry gets pinned. I'll start: Kami Kami no Mi, the P…
The doors are open! Introduce yourself with three anime: the first one you loved, the one you rewatch, and the one you push on everyone. I'll go first: Cowboy Bebop (first love), Mushishi (rewatch), Mob Psycho 100 (the o…
Netflix dropped all ten episodes of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 at once on October 20, and I watched every single one before sunrise. No regrets. Some regrets. TRIGGER is back in Night City with a brand-new cast: D, a nomad…
Now that JJK and Black Clover have finished their runs, how do you feel about how they stuck the landing?
Four episodes into The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 and Maomao is out-polling half the season. It's been in the top 4 of Anime Corner's weekly fan poll every week so far (#2, then #4, then #3), and before the season even…
Five episodes into the 2nd and 3rd STAGE of Steel Ball Run on Netflix, and Friday at 1 a.m. Pacific has become a holiday in my house. Johnny, Gyro, a horse race across 1890s America, a $50 million prize, and David Produc…
For when you want something nobody has adapted to animation yet: Goodnight Punpun by Inio Asano (heavy, unforgettable) A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori (gorgeous, gentle) 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (a page-turner th…
It's here. Episode 50, the final episode of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, is out today on Hulu (Disney+ outside the US). After 366 episodes of the original series and four TYBW parts, Ichigo's story finally finishes o…
Oda confirmed Luffy's fruit is the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika in chapter 1044. But go back and look at how his body was always drawn: cartoon physics, impossible stretches, that grin. The fruit was "Gomu Gomu" in name…
Halloween is next Saturday. My cozy-but-creepy picks: Mononoke (2007), with that unreal paper-texture art Mushishi, quiet and folkloric Perfect Blue (1997, Satoshi Kon) Uzumaki, the 2024 Adult Swim adaptation of Junji It…
Before you pay to grade, check the four things graders score: centering, corners, edges, surface. PSA grades on a 1 to 10 scale. For the 1999 Base Set Charizard (#4/102), a 1st Edition stamp or a Shadowless print is wort…
Takehiko Inoue adapted Eiji Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, and in the later volumes the art moves toward brush and ink. The fight against the seventy Yoshioka swordsmen is some of the most sustained action ever put on paper.…
Pick one original character and redraw them three times: Studio Ghibli: soft shapes, lived-in clothes, watercolor skies Studio Trigger: angular poses, huge perspective, neon color ufotable: sharp detail with glowing effe…
Science SARU's adaptation of Yukinobu Tatsu's manga premiered in October 2024. Ghosts, aliens, a granny spirit, and a romance that sneaks up on you. The opening, "Otonoke" by Creepy Nuts, lived in my head for a month.
My setup: side-loading 9-pocket binders for sets, penny sleeve plus toploader for anything valuable, and graded slabs only for the cards I'd grab in a fire. Avoid ring binders: the rings can dent the cards closest to the…
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is written by Kanehito Yamada, drawn by Tsukasa Abe, and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. The adventure is over before chapter 1 starts, and the story is about grief and time. Madhouse's…
My path: Shiver first, a short-story collection with Ito's own notes on each story. Then Uzumaki. Then Tomie, if you're brave. Gyo is the wild card: fish with legs. The bonus story at the back, The Enigma of Amigara Faul…
Planning Erza Scarlet's Heart Kreuz armor from Fairy Tail for a spring con. EVA foam is cheap, light and forgiving. Worbla is a thermoplastic you heat and mold; it gives crisp edges but costs more. What do you build with…
It won Best Animated Feature in 2024, Studio Ghibli's second win after Spirited Away. Spirited Away is the obvious pick for best. Hot take: Porco Rosso is his most personal film, and Heron is his most personal confession…
Bandai launched the One Piece Card Game in Japan in July 2022 and in English that December. Every deck is built around one Leader card, and the Leader's color shapes how you play. I'm on red Zoro from the very first set.…
My top three: Gon and Killua learning Nen from Wing (Hunter x Hunter), the Room of Spirit and Time (Dragon Ball Z), and Tanjiro cutting the boulder for Urokodaki (Demon Slayer). A good training arc teaches the audience t…
Kentaro Miura passed away in May 2021. The series continues with Studio Gaga and his longtime friend Kouji Mori, working from what Miura told him about the story. Some readers stop at volume 41. Some keep going. Both see…
Pick any side character from any series and pitch their solo show in three sentences: tone, setting, hook. Main characters not allowed.
Your Name (2016) is the one everyone knows. Weathering With You (2019) is the messiest and the bravest. Suzume (2022) is the most grown-up: a road trip about loss and doors. My ranking: Your Name, Suzume, Weathering. RAD…