Review: The Promised Neverland — Episode 1: 121045

Review Going into the 2019 winter season, there were only a handful of series I was personally excited to watch. Chiefly among these was the unconventional Shonen Jump hit, The Promised Neverland, which I’d started reading a couple years earlier. I walked in with a meteoric opinion of the series, and so did what I could to…

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Shonen Jump Announces Amazing New Subscription

Last Friday, Hisashi Sasaki, former Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan (the same guy who is in Bakuman), and ongoing staff with the American branch of Shonen Jump, made a huge announcement for the future of the company. On December 17th, 2018, they are opening a new subscription service. For $1.99 a month, you will…

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Video Games That Would Make Good Anime

Greetings geeks far and wide! Welcome to this month’s anime collaboration article, where our swashbucklin’ crew of otaku pirates tackle new waters. That is, the uncertain ocean of possibilities for which video games might make good anime if properly adapted. Each of the GUG skallywags (you can’t stop a pirate metaphor) has provided their take…

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Review: My Hero Academia: Two Heroes

Producer: Studio Bones Director: Kenji Nagasaki Writer: Yosuke Kuroda (script) &  Kōhei Horikoshi (mangaka) Starring: Justin Briner/Daiki Yamashita & Christopher Sabat/Kenta Miyake Distributor: Toho Genre: Superhero, Action Rating: PG-13 A series that really needs no introduction, My Hero Academia seemingly cannot be stopped. It is the quintessential, contemporary shonen titan which has everybody and their great-grandmothers talking about it, and not without reason. With…

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