What do soccer (aka. football everywhere outside of the U.S.) and anime have in common with each other? Well, as it turns out, there's a surprisingly large amount of overlap between them. Sports is a very popular theme in numerous anime series and movies, after all. Even just narrowing it down to
Godzilla is the iconic radioactive, atomic fire-breathing kaiju (and king of the monsters) that spawned an entire highly successful franchise for Toho Co.. Meanwhile, Formula One is the highest class of worldwide racing involving those open wheel, single person, almost jet plane-like racing cars
As you might expect from a superhero action-adventure story, My Hero Academia has a very strong focus on physicality. It's why it tends to intersect with sports quite nicely, especially since part of the story does in fact involve superpowered sports. And with how popular the manga/anime by Kōhei
Happy Gilmore is a very odd film, and a pretty elderly one at that. It's basically a sports comedy about a washed-up hockey player (played by Adam Sandler) switching to golf that first made its theatrical debut in February 1996. And yet, despite mixed critical reception, it achieved quite a bit of
Blue Box Ep. 25 "Even So" marks the finale of the first season of this anime. As you might expect from the previous episode, this one deals with the wreck of the Hina ship that sunk then. Interestingly, it's the way the story deals with that ship sinking in a way that blames neither party that
Blue Box Ep. 24 "A Roller Coaster" isn't quite as exciting as the title makes it out to be. In fact, it varies from being light-hearted fun to being downright tragic, with the roller coaster aspect of the show bringing the emotional feels swinging up and down until it hits the ground. Alas, this is
Blue Box Ep. 22 "Inota!" gives us a more in-depth look at the new girl: Ayame Moriya. Relax, everyone. She's not here to form another corner of the love triangle. If anything, she ends up supporting the Hina corner of the triangle after hearing her story. As it turns out, Ayame can be a very fierce
Blue Box Ep. 21 "A Chance to Blossom" carries multiple meanings. The first meaning comes from Chinatsu, and is only apparent when you look at her scene in a romantically philosophical context. The second meaning comes from the newly introduced Ayame Moriya, who is also getting a chance to blossom
This is a first for Marvel Studios and their Marvel Television branch for their Special Presentations. We've had others like Werewolf By Night that introduced a new character, but not one for an already established character like The Punisher. The Punisher: One Last Kill comes off the heels of his
The Sheep Detectives is a towering testament of how powerful animated stories can be when done right. A genuine crowdpleaser, the film is sure to warm and break your heart, wrestling with richly textured explorations of death and grief, lost and found families, and the necessity of memory.
It's been quite a long time since we've had a Star Wars movie in theaters. In the time between Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and now, we've had a revolution in entertainment in streaming and Star Wars moved from controlling the theater to a fixture in our living rooms with shows like The