While anime has rapidly crept into the popular culture space over the last decade, Solo Leveling, an adaptation of the webtoon/manwha of the same name–has reached new levels of both commercial and critical success. After a phenomenal first season last year, and its subsequent sweep at this year’s Crunchyroll Anime Awards, Solo Leveling makes history as the first anime under consideration for the Emmy Awards.


The series takes place after rifts to dungeons riddled with dangerous beasts open wor...

Guillermo del Toro’s long-prophesied adaptation of Frankenstein has finally been released. It serves as the latest in a nearly century-old line of putting Mary Shelley’s seminal novel on the big screen (or small screen, as the case may be). Del Toro himself has touted the original story as one of his favorites. His filmography, full of misunderstood monsters and supposedly “humane” creators, is proof that he understood the oeuvre of the Modern Prometheus long before directing an adaptation himse...

A little over four years ago, the status of anime films got a major global boost. Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020) slashed previous box office standards for animated films, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese animated film (dethroning the 2001 Studio Ghibli classic Spirited Away) and the highest-grossing R-rated film internationally. Anime, especially the action-packed shōnen fare, was getting some overdue international attention, which was especially thrilling to see for long-time fans of th...