Major spoilers for episode 149 of My Hero Academia, “Light Fades to Rain”

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I remember learning about Hello Kitty’s true nature in the mid-2010s. I immediately, conveniently tossed it out of my head. It simply hurt my brain too much to process that Hello Kitty was not a kitty. She is a little girl. Hello Kitty.

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So you’d expect the top-rated series to be something like Shōgun, which got nominated for a recording-breaking number of Emmys. Or maybe a show like The Bear or House of the Dragon, which get tons of coverage in mainstream entertainment outlets. But the top-rated show of 2024 (so far) on IMDb is none of those.

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The panel features a receding line of astronauts chopped in half. Their arms appear to be in prayer, their heads slightly bowed. Their upper and lower halves are spaced apart, with the legs sticking straight up out of the grassy field. The space in between creates a path that leads back to a truly horrifying and formidable-looking devil, half-obscured by the darkness.

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Long story short, Ranma 1/2 is both beloved and culturally important.

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Honestly, that’s most players’ experience, unless you’ve watched hours of lore videos on YouTube. Elden Ring‘s story is provided via item descriptions, environmental clues, and, yes, the occasional conversation with NPCs. It’s easy to miss, and even easier to not cohesively piece together. Hence the god-tier work of the YouTube lore videos.

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It feels dishonest to talk about Zom 100 without conceding it has some cringe moments (there were certain camera angles on certain flight attendants that were not necessary). But I’d still argue that Akira—in his quest to escape out from under the thumb of a toxic work environment, in his self-inflicted pressures of feeling he needs to give back to his parents somehow—represents one of the more empathetic adult heroes in modern anime. We so rarely get protagonists in their 20s and 30s, anyway.

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I say “almost” all accounts because, in the early days of its release, some outlets listed the DLC’s reception as “mixed” because the conversation around Shadow of the Erdtree became dominated by players saying the game was too hard.

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I love Chainsaw Man. I have three (3) Pochita plushies because pure logic cannot stop me. But when you’re a human being going through a rough time yourself, it can be really, really hard to watch a character you care about go through immense suffering.

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One Piece chapter 1120 gave us a significant development towards the Straw Hats’ escape from Egghead—at the cost of a tremendous sacrifice. So let’s jump right into it. After all, chapter 1120 is named after its brightest star.

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This year at Anime Expo, I noticed countless acts of kindness and generosity. Granted, as shounen mainstay My Hero Academia has vividly illustrated, anger and toxicity makes for clickable headlines, posts, and videos. A post espousing that “people are nice, actually” is generally considered less desirable by the media machine as a whole, which is quite dark—and all the more reason that the countless small acts of kindness I saw at Anime Expo 2024 should be celebrated.

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By the final episode of Stampede, the next season of the Trigun reboot was gearing up to be closer to the 1998 Trigun. Vash is in hiding with his old haircut back, Meryl is back to being a girl boss, Robert De Niro is mercifully nowhere to be seen. In fact, at the Trigun panel at Anime Expo 2024, Orange’s team promise that the next installment of the series will be closer to the manga.

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I waited until the end of the season and watched Train to the End of the World, front to back, over the course of a week. It’s one of the most refreshing anime series I’ve seen in a long time.

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Sh*t is going down. The days of cute high school culture festivals seem like a distant memory. In recent arcs, My Hero has proved there’s a darker side to its initially bubbly exterior. It’s not beyond killing or maiming characters, which makes everything feel tense as hell.

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While you fight your way through the multiple ridiculously difficult bosses that await you in the Land of Shadow, or while you’re trying to parse through the game’s notoriously difficult lore, perhaps you’ve thought, “I’d sure like to just watch this.”

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The official One Piece Twitter account announced the collaboration early in the afternoon on Wednesday, July 10, Japan time. Hipshop is a Japanese underwear brand, and don’t worry, One Piece isn’t the only series they’ve done this to. If you ever wanted Slowpoke’s smiling, open mouth printed directly in front of your private business, you’re in great luck!

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Crunchyroll was the only major streamer—other than user-generated content websites like YouTube or Twitch—that had a comments section. And that section was truly beloved. Other than the curated content on the streamer itself, for many users, the comments section was a huge part of what made Crunchyroll unique and desirable.

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The teaser depicts a stage, bleak and grimy, captured by a grainy camera. Suddenly, you hear static, and a piano plinks as a person with a trenchcoat and a smiling paper bag mask suddenly appears center-stage. The image is interrupted by several very quick close-ups before he disappears and you see three Japanese characters in the middle of the screen. They spell out the title of the video: “Emio,” or “smiling man.”

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My Deer Friend Nokotan managed to become one of the most highly anticipated anime of the summer 2024 lineup. For one, it took its rather unwieldy Japanese name—Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan—and turned it into a catchy, viral opening theme song. The series has also unleashed a parade of unhinged trailers and social media antics that turned heads. If those heads had antlers like Nokotan’s, walls would’ve surely broken.

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But despite the fact that the shonen genre translates to “young boy does action stuff to be the best at something,” there are some Jump series that are being more liberal with those confines. One of them is Akane Banashi, which features a female protagonist (GASP!) trying to make it to the top of the world of rakugo, a form of storytelling from Japan’s Edo period. Another is Blue Box, a sports-centric romantic comedy (GASP!!) which is about to get an anime adaptation.

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