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Tributes Pour In After Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama’s Passing
8.3.2024
Late last night, the world discovered that it lost one of its giants. Akira Toriyama, the creator of the Dragon Ball series and renowned character designer on games such as Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest, passed away at 68 from a subdural hematoma on March 1. In the time since his passing...
‘Warriors’ Games Rule, And That’s A Hill I’ll Totally Die On
31.8.2023
Musou games—the large-scale hack-and-slash games typified by series like Dynasty Warriors—often get a bad wrap, with detractors arguing that they’re just monotonous power fantasies lacking in depth. While there’s some truth to that, such a reductive reading misses the point behind games in this...
Netflix’s One Piece Live-Action Series Delivers More Than It Disappoints
31.8.2023
One Piece is a series built on lofty promises. Chief among them: that its hallowed treasure, which still has yet to be revealed since the series began 26 years ago, will be worth the journey; that protagonist Monkey D. Luffy will someday fulfill his dream of becoming the king of the pirates;...
Every Big Anime Announcement At San Diego Comic-Con
24.7.2023
Anime fans ate well at this past weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con. The four-day event saw both major series announcements and world premiere trailers for a variety of upcoming shows, sure to bolster your anime watchlist for the rest of the year and beyond. So, here’s a quick roundup of some of...
Twitch Star Hasan Thinks One Piece Is Socialist (And He’s Right)
3.4.2023
Did you know that political Twitch streamer Hasan Piker watches One Piece? If you aren’t a regular viewer of Piker’s Twitch or YouTube streams, you may not know that he’s been going through his first One Piece watch. And his takes are impeccable. Piker was recently on the YouTube podcast show Trash...
One Piece Creator Asked AI To Write A New Manga Chapter
1.3.2023
Last week, the official One Piece staff Twitter account posted a video of creator Eiichiro Oda diving completely off of the deep end by asking ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chat software, to write a new One Piece chapter for him. The tweet described the bold request as Oda asking “the taboo...
One Piece Just Said 'Trans Rights' In The Most Oda Way Possible
13.6.2022
Although One Piece is going on a month-long hiatus, its creator managed to squeeze in a nice pride month surprise for readers in his latest chapter.Read more
Manga Bizarro World: One Piece Goes On Hiatus, HxH And Berserk Return
7.6.2022
Hey, it’s 2022 and not the mid-90s right? I only ask because I’m not sure which of us otaku worked some magic–possibly making a wish to Shenron, or sacrificing a loved one with a behelit–so that we might live in a time where hiatus purgatory bunk buddies Hunter x Hunter and Berserk both announce...
One Piece ‘Super Fan’ Streamed Himself Reading All 1,051 Chapters In 106 Hours
7.6.2022
It should come as no surprise at this point that Kotaku is a pro-One Piece website on account of the manga being a crazy good read for nearly 25 years and by virtue of it being the only series to have Nico Robin in it. While some folks have yet to finally raise their anchors and venture into...
One Piece Odyssey Promises To Be a ‘Full-Blown’ JRPG Experience
28.3.2022
Move over Mario, Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat pirates are setting sail in a game of their own in the upcoming, One Piece Odyssey.Read more
One Piece Manga's Hiatus Leads To Fan Complaints In Japan
4.2.2022
One Piece began publication in 1997 and has now surpassed 1,000 chapters. There’s a lot for fans to celebrate! But according to website My Jitsu, some manga readers in Japan are not happy about how things are going. My Jitsu reports that a segment of fans in Japan are not only annoyed by...
New King Of Fighter Character Looks Like Fighter That Vanished Mysteriously
10.12.2021
SNK revealed a new KOF XV character named Krohnen. Longtime King of
Fighters fans have pointed out that Krohnen doesn’t look new at all. He
looks like a fighter that had vanished mysteriously years ago. Read more
Everything Leading Into One Piece's Historic 1,000th Episode, According To The Voice Actors
17.11.2021
With its manga counterpart surpassing a thousand chapters and a live-action Netflix series coming, One Piece, one of anime’s longest-running shonen series, will make franchise history this week with the premiere of its 1,000th episode. The landmark episode will stream on Funimation and Crunchyroll...
Eiichiro Oda Gives An Update On Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Series
10.11.2021
Massively popular manga One Piece is getting a live-action adaptation from Netflix. The adaptation was first announced back in 2017, with Netflix’s involved revealed last year. Now in 2021, the show’s main cast has finally been announced, and One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda seems excited about...
I Just Read 1,025 Chapters Of One Piece, And It's A Damn Masterpiece
14.9.2021
Only three things in life are certain for a shonen otaku: tournament arcs, Studio Trigger series finales ending in space, and One Piece continuing until the heat death of the universe. I’d made prior attempts to read One Piece, but each time I got too intimidated by its length, which has...
Hunter x Hunter's Current Hiatus Has Lasted Over 1,000 Days
23.8.2021
For those keeping count, popular manga Hunter x Hunter has been on hiatus for one thousand days—1001 days, to be exact. That’s 2 years and 8 months.Read more