But before we get to Terminator, Lords of the Rings, or Rick and Morty (all of which are coming out this year, by the way), we arguably have the headliner: WIT Studio’s Suicide Squad Isekai. The series has been highly anticipated ever since it was announced because Harley Quinn and The Joker are already basically anime characters. It’s a natural fit.

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Because sure, the very gory series where beloved main characters are known to die, and where our hero eats mummified fingers as a key part of his arc which may or may not turn him into a homicidal monster—sure, that series is obviously appropriate material for a Happy Meal. For children around the age of five.

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I felt like I should be excited. Instead, I felt conflicted. Seeing Demon Slayer in the theaters is a goddamn treat. I’m also the kind of Demon Slayer viewer who waits until there are one or two episodes left and binges the season. It’s a phenomenal binge show, and what’s a film besides binging a couple of episodes in public and with a big screen?

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Now that it’s July, the spring 2024 season is officially over, and the fates of the anime series which aren’t rolling immediately into a second cour are being decided. Where does that leave our dear Wind Breaker? Has there been any news on a season 2?

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The decades-awaited Elbaf arrival might not be long off. But how long will it be until we know?

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Tamayo—or Ms. Tamayo, or Tamayo-san, or Lady Tamayo—has played a vital role throughout Demon Slayer. Hell, Tanjiro’s been sending her letters and vials of Nezuko’s blood this whole freaking time. But he’s been doing that without saying to the camera, “And today, I sent my 15th vial of blood to Tamayo-san! Boy, we sure keep in good touch!” You’re just … very occasionally reminded that’s the case.

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And I was not alone in this: I received a tweet from a reader angry at me purely because I was the bearer of the bad news that episode 25 wouldn’t exist until season 2.

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Sure, the line between Disney+ and Hulu is now incredibly blurred, to the point where Disney+ will push you into a joint deal with Hulu before it tells you that you can, indeed, just have Disney+. The line gets even more confusing: Sand Land, for example, is a Disney+ show everywhere in the world … except the United States, which dubbed it a “Hulu Original.” This has happened over and over again. A series will be licensed by “Disney Platform Distribution,” and then premiere on Disney+ literally everywhere except the US, which gets it on Hulu.

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As I travel through the land of shadow, talking to Miquella’s followers and hearing about how nice he supposedly is, the question that keeps popping into my mind is: “Am I going to have to kill this guy?” It’s not the first time while playing Elden Ring that I’ve worried that my player character is actually the villain.

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Given that One Piece has broken an internal record for Netflix by ranking number one in 84 different countries simultaneously, a second season was beginning to feel inevitable. Still, it’s an astounding achievement, considering that Tomorrow Studio’s previous adaptation attempt, the widely-panned Cowboy Bebop, never made it past season one.

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That puts players in an interesting position when approaching the DLC. Some games, like God of War: Ragnarock, have DLCs which happen after the main story is over. Other games, like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, released their DLC after most of us had finished the game, and while the DLC absolutely would’ve made more sense to do over the course of the normal progression of the game, we did it anyway and had a nice time.

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“Why are humans not deer?” it pondered up front. And it only made less sense from there, in the best way imaginable. All of a sudden, My Deer Friend Nokotan was one of the most anticipated anime of the summer 2024 season.

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Surely, you think, these characters’ usefulness will last just for the arc. But then Eiichiro Oda will bring them back down the line and endear you to them even further. Somehow, these weirdos stay relevant to the story, even into the final saga. Mr. 3 is a prime example of one such character.

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And by a “wee fight,” I mean a fight that could very much alter the world of One Piece as we know it. The final panels of chapter 1118 “broke” One Piece in the best possible way. Now, we wait to see whether the outcome of that fight will either change the fabric of the World Government as we know it … or cause casualties among our heroes.

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The issue is, despite starting in the middle of the game, you can’t just waltz right up to a new spot in an easily accessible area like Limgrave or something and knock on the proverbial door. There’s a whole quest you have to do to get to that proverbial DLC door. Or rather, in true Elden Ring fashion, that withered hand.

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Turns out, there’s the satisfaction of making a correct prediction, and then the shock of Eiichiro Oda going even further than you imagined. Because in chapter 1118, Jewelry Bonney essentially broke One Piece. And it was spectacular.

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Blue Lock is what you would get if you took the premise of Squid Game, narrowed the contestant pool down to high school boys, changed the goal from a jackpot to becoming Japan’s number one striker, and made it only fatal to the losers’ careers. Because the stakes of Blue Lock are indeed that those who are kicked out of the compound can no longer pursue soccer professionally in Japan. These boys dream of being professional soccer players. It’s intense.

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Girl drama aside, a huge part of my obsession with FF7 has to do with Nobuo Uematsu’s score. General consensus has it that it’s is arguably the best in gaming, period. So, imagine my shock when I learned this week that Uematsu and Hironobu Sakaguchi—the creator of the Final Fantasy series and producer of every FF game through X-2—worked on another game together. And that it came out only three years ago.

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And yeah, on June 13, 2024, episode 24 aired. June 20 rolled around … and no new episode popped onto Netflix. Are Dungeon Meshi Thursdays officially over?

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The difference in Dragon Quest‘s cultural presence across the Pacific Ocean is roughly the size of the metaphorical gulf between a $100 steak and a McDonald’s cheeseburger. Dragon Quest‘s unbelievable popularity in Japan became very, very apparent upon the 1988 release of Dragon Quest III, whose HD-2D remake is coming out later this year. In 1988 Japan, thousands of kids took off school and formed thick lines several blocks long to get their copy of Dragon Quest III on release day. So many kids took off school that Square Enix decided to release Dragon Quest games on weekends forevermore.

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