Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (LOB) was the first English Yu-Gi-Oh! booster set, released in North America in 2002. Konami launched the card game in Japan back in 1999. A 1st Edition LOB Blue-Eyes is still one of the…
A friend wants battle anime but bounces off 1,000-episode commitments. My picks so far: Mob Psycho 100 (37 episodes across 3 seasons, by ONE, animated by Bones) and Chainsaw Man season 1 (12 episodes, MAPPA). What else f…
Both are Naoki Urasawa at his best. Monster is 18 volumes: a surgeon hunts the patient he saved, who grew up to be a killer. Pluto is 8 volumes, a retelling of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy arc "The Greatest Robot on Earth".…
From Part 4 on, most JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stands are named after music: Crazy Diamond, Killer Queen, Gold Experience. Design yours: Name (a song, album or band) Power (one ability with a clear rule) Weakness Look (on…
Watch the transitions in Millennium Actress (2001): a scene ends inside a film and the next shot is real life, with no cut you can feel. Paprika (2006) does the same with dreams. Kon directed only four feature films and…
It was awarded in 1998 to winners of a CoroCoro Comic illustration contest, so very few exist. A PSA 10 copy sold in 2022 for $5,275,000, a Guinness World Record for a Pokémon card at the time. The art is by Atsuko Nishi…
Scoring on three things: rules you can actually learn, room for surprises, and what it costs the user. My order: 1. Nen (Hunter x Hunter) 2. Cursed Energy (Jujutsu Kaisen) 3. Breathing Styles (Demon Slayer) Breathing loo…