DanDaDan: What If Every Weird Thing You Believed Was Real?
Ghosts are real. Aliens are real. Curses are real. Psychic powers are real. Urban legends might be waiting for you in a tunnel. And apparently the elderly woman sprinting toward you at horrifying speed is something you should be taking extremely seriously. Welcome to Dandadan. Happy Bingetober. At first glance, this thing feels like somebody […]
Yu Yu Hakusho: The Delinquent Who Had to Die to Learn How to Live
He’s fourteen. He skips school. He fights. He mouths off to adults. Teachers expect the worst from him. Most people around town have already decided exactly what kind of kid Yusuke Urameshi is going to become. Then he sees a child about to be hit by a car. Yusuke pushes him out of the way. […]
Beast King GoLion: The Dark Anime America Rebuilt into Voltron.
Five pilots. Five robotic lions. One enormous combining robot. A blazing sword appears. The monster realizes it has made several poor decisions.If you grew up in America, you probably know where this is going. Voltron. “Form feet and legs.” Blazing Sword. An entire generation knew the formula. But buried underneath that childhood classic is something […]
Saint Seiya: How Did America Miss One of the Biggest Anime on Earth?
There are anime Americans know are huge. Your standard bearers. Then there’s Saint Seiya. Depending on where you grew up, that name might immediately unlock childhood memories of armored warriors, constellations, impossible battles and somebody screaming about their Cosmo. Or you might be an American anime fan staring at this article thinking: Wait. Knights of […]
Vinland Saga: What Makes a True Warrior?
Warriors. Longships. Kings. Raids. Duels. Blood feuds. Revenge. Men trying to make their names immortal because their bodies certainly won’t be. At first glance, Vinland Saga looks exactly like the kind of story centuries of heroic tradition trained us to recognize. There it is. There’s our saga. Except Vinland Saga starts asking an uncomfortable question […]