This weekend saw the release of Zack Snyder’s
Army of the Dead on Netflix following its preceding week-long premiere in Cinemark theaters. We quite enjoyed it. On top of that, R&B musician Abel Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd) was named the Top Artist at the Billboard Music Awards, while
As for us, we watched a ton of great movies and television this weekend, including a pre-Code dramatic comedy, a late ’90’s disaster epic, and prestige appointment television in the form of Barry Jenkins’
The Underground Railroad, Oh, and anime don’t forget about anime! Here are a few of the shows and movies we’re enjoying watching right now, and what you might enjoy watching as well.
(Welcome to
, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)
We don’t see nearly enough fantasy in anime. Sure, there are countless isekai shows where someone gets reincarnated in a fantasy JRPG, but there’s not a lot in terms of pure high-fantasy epics like
Game of Thrones or
Lord of the Rings. Except, there already was a definitive high-fantasy epic a decade before Peter Jackson debuted his seminal trilogy
Record of Lodoss War.
A ’90s OVA (Original Video Animation) that began as transcripts of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign,
Record of Lodoss War chronicles the story of a band of six heroes, including Parn the fighter, Deedlit the elf, Ghim the dwarf, Slayn the wizard, Etoh the cleric, and Woodchuck the thief, as they get swept into a war for the island continent of Lodoss. What begins as a simple adventure quickly evolves into a bigger conflict that includes vast nations, dragons, and even a god or two, all
JUJUTSU KAISEN Sets a High Bar for Future Shōnen Animes
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It’s a challenge for an anime series to stand out to a degree that viewers are overwhelmingly buzzing about it. They typically release seasonally with dozens of new series as well as returning seasons and OVAs (Original Video Animation). There’s a lot of competition and sometimes a season won’t have a notable anime. The last series to put people in a frenzy was
Attack On Titan, which has returned for its final season. Now, there’s
Jujutsu Kaisen, a Crunchyroll original which began in Fall 2020. The show has many similarities to previous animes, but thanks to its pacing, animation, music, and characters, it also manages to carve its own unique path.