One surefire way to make a show gain popularity is by giving it an immensely powerful protagonist. While protagonists with great backstories are lauded by viewers, it is the characters with unique and ...

Plenty of familiar tropes are easy to spot in anime, and some draw rather mixed reactions, including the "dumb protagonist" trope, which is most common in shonen action anime like the original shonen ...

Haider is a writer and editor with years of experience and has been a fan of Game Rant for years due to its great content. As an anime features writer for the site, he theorizes about the latest anime ...

We like the idea of someone else doing all the hard work, enduring all the pain, so we can eat the fruit of their labor and ...

In Trope-tastic, Ellaheh Gohari ’28 explores the history of tropes in film and media. Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. While it is ...

Heroes and villains, story arcs, love triangles, damsels in distress, amnesia, MacGuffins, quests, chosen ones — the list of tropes is nearly endless. Some may mistake tropes as inherently bad, but ...

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Yellowjackets Season 3.] While we know Travis well in the teen timeline, the adult version of him was relegated to flashbacks that focus on the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The newest Shonen anime, Gachiakuta, currently airing on the giant streaming platform Crunchyroll, ...