• Super Mario Soccer’s Football history

    Super Mario Soccer’s Football history

    While most people only associate Super Mario with Soccer through the Mario Strikers franchise. Football is actually a sport that Mario has a longer history with. We’ll take a look at every single point in history where Super Mario has intersected with one of the most famous sports in the world Football Soccer. It’ s…

  • Masters of the Universe Revolution Revelation Reboot

    Masters of the Universe Revolution Revelation Reboot

    I was curious to check out this Masters of the Universe reboot, it seemed interesting but thought I needed to know the franchise a bit more since this was almost billed as a sequel series to the original. It seems to be its own thing so I ended up watching it. This seemed like the…

  • He-Man CG Reboot 2021 is how I started my MOTU journey

    He-Man CG Reboot 2021 is how I started my MOTU journey

    I was a little too young to ever get into He-Man or Masters of the Universe but something about it has always interested me. When this CG 2021 reboot got announced, it definitely did not seem like it’d be my entry point, but I then thought perhaps it’d be the best way to get the…

  • She-Ra Rebooted better than He-Man

    She-Ra Rebooted better than He-Man

    I remember when She-Ra She-Ra and the Princesses of Power reboot was revealed and I was really put off by the character designs. I couldn’t help but see She-Ra as a man, and the Diversity squad designs only worsened things. This show is a great example of not to judge a cartoon by its designs,…

  • Yotoden Saga: Wrath of the Ninja

    Yotoden Saga: Wrath of the Ninja

    Thanks to an ad for anime from Columbia House I got to experience Yotoden Saga which got adapted into a movie called Wrath of the Ninja. While intense, I never quite loved it, but I did watch it a couple of times. I felt a bit left down by it, but in a way it’s…

  • Manga Comics: Adapting manga for the American market

    Manga Comics: Adapting manga for the American market

    Manga might be mainstream right now but it had to struggle to find a market and so we go down memory lane to remember when Manga came in comic book form. And while some may laugh at the way it came out I’d say for the most part they did a pretty good job despite…

  • Localizing Japanese Names

    Localizing Japanese Names

    Replacing Japanese names in dubs is something that’s done a lot of times when localizing an anime, especially to the west. It can be because of the pronunciation of the name, the way the mouth moves during scenes or just because it’s more marketable. The fact is that it was done a lot in the…