Hey, protagonists. What’s your perfect filler day? Maybe it’s just getting all of your errands done: finally taking a crack at that mountain of laundry that’s been piling up on the designated chair, restocking groceries for the coming week, and getting those checks in the bank so you can finally use your debit card to check out your Amazon cart. Maybe your perfect filler is getting your driver’s license with Goku and Piccolo , daydreaming and scheming to uncover your sensei’s partially masked f…

Shikamaru is just as bored in this world.

You have to admit he's talented.

All fantasy requires some level of suspension of disbelief. That's just par for the course when you're an enjoyer of space epics, dragon slaying, wand-yelding, and so on. Sometimes it feels like anime requires a bit more suspension of disbelief than the usual fantasy fare. Due to its 2D nature, lots of ridiculous premises can be easily explored, but even anime series that are meant to be grounded a bit more in reality with somber themes and hard magic/energy systems can require some serious men…

Liam v. Brian at the Chuunin Exams was peak television.

Animemes galore!

Ramen sounds good right about now...

I'll take a potato chip... and eat it (at work).

Naruto fans, did you do a double-take?

I'm literally just a Cell at Work!

There’s no doubt that American and Japanese animation have been in active conversation since their birth. The father of what we know as modern Japanese anime, Osamu Tezuka, was inspired by Disney’s earliest animations. When he created Astro Boy, Tezuka looked to Disney’s doe-eyed, expressive, and exaggerated character designs, as well as Disney’s character-driven story-telling structures. And that was just the start. While Western and Eastern animation have developed their own distinct features…

Sasuke, the ultimate angsty teenager