A little psycho and a little soccer are what Crunchyroll is offering this week. The futbol anime Bluelock and the long-awaited third season of Mob Psycho 100 both premiere in mere days.
The offbeat NBC sitcom Community is how the world found out Dan Harmon existed. The show took a premise that was deceptively safe for the broadcast-viewing masses (a community college study group) and then piled on Harmon’s brand of nerdy insanity, twisting tropes, and high-concept ideas like a throw of the dice that split one episode into six different timelines. Harmon would expand on this formula with Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty, a much more successful show that finally won him the “Right To Do Whatever I Want In Hollywood” ticket.
The event, titled Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, will consist of eight episodes and will be available on Netflix. This horror anthology will provide you with four nights’ worth of original one-shot horror stories to keep you on the edge of your seat. Dreads can be brought on by anything from something upsetting to something that will keep you up at night. It is based on a Graphic book he published years ago. The book has his concepts from his early movies and the stories we will from this Netflix Original.
PBS’s Barney and Friends was introduced in 1992 and became instantly famous, not just for its popularity with toddlers but it’s ANTI-popularity with their parents. Most people above the age of five couldn’t stand the giant guffawing dinosaur, the dopey look on his face, the lack of any effort to make him look like he was talking (his toothy jaw just hung there open the entire time), the overall mind-numbing brainlessness of the whole thing in contrast to deliberately educational shows like Sesame Street…there were plenty of valid reasons for the show and the character to receive the negative response they did. But according to a two-part documentary coming to streaming next month, the reason you hated Barney is because you hate love.
Disney and Marvel Studios have released the latest Marvel movie, Thor: Love and Thunder, on physical formats today.
Been waiting for My Hero Academia? The sixth season is almost here. The second half of Spy x Family Season 1? It’s also coming soon. Crunchyroll will be debuting new material for some heavy hitters this weekend, along with a new Gnndam movie.
The Empress is a historical drama series that will introduce you to the Austrian-Hungarian empire. The Crown is ending its 6th Season. Netflix is running out of stories to milk out of the British Monarchs. The lives of the Blue Bloods are fascinating to the general public. The Austrian-Hungarian royal family is a topic that Hollywood only occasionally delves into.
Yesterday’s article about The Witcher got some comments along the lines of “see, it’s fully possible to make a good TV show based on a video game.” This is incorrect. The Witcher actually comes from a series of novels, which both the Netflix series and the CD Projekt Red games are based on. If we’re talking game adaptions, The Witcher doesn’t technically count.
Lookism was a hit Korean Webtoon/Manhwa that became a hit in 2014. Fans had fantasized about seeing this popular web-comic animated. Sadly it is not a manga, and mostly manhwas and webtoons get live-action adaptations. A webtoon got a Japanese Anime adaptation before, the Webtoon Tower of God. Netflix made the impossible because the Webtoon Lookism became Netflix’s first Korean Animation. Netflix is no stranger to adapting non-Japanese materials into Animation. They first did it with the Filipino graphic novel Trese. I am unsure if this will count as Anime despite the art style because this is a 100% Korean production. Let’s invent a new term for this new media. I am going to call it K-Nime.
The Witcher has three main characters: the Witcher himself, the sorceress Yennefer, and the princess Ciri — but only rarely have all three been onscreen at the same time. Season 1 involved Geralt and Yennfer meeting and fooling around while Ciri escaped her burning kingdom and ran from one peril to another. In Season 2 Geralt finally found Ciri and became her father figure, so they spent pretty much the whole season together but Yennefer was off doing her own thing somewhere else. It was only in the final episode of Season 2 that the three finally met in one place.
Hellbound was one of Netflix’s most successful Korean originals back in 2021. There is complete silence for a whole year. There was silence and no News for a whole years. People assumed the demise of this show. I can’t blame them because everybody has doubts about Netflix’s reliability these days.
Primal concluded its second season with a bang last weekend, but since there aren’t any more cavemen or dinosaurs, that leaves Rick And Morty the lone attraction of Adult Swim this week. They won’t be solitary for long, however…AS’s latest original anime, Housing Complex C, debuts in a week or two.