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The Weekly ☆ Character Showcase is an article series where we introduce one character from the Dragon Ball universe each week. This time, we’re looking at Liu-Shinron from the TV anime “Dragon Ball GT”.

Street Fighter(2026) is now out in theaters and is battling for box office glory, with an opening weekend of over $51 million worldwide, $31 million of that earned domestically. The reactions to the film have been divided, with critics souring on it, while audience scores are sitting in the ‘reasonably high’ range on sites like…

Before endless watchlists, viral clips and algorithm-driven recommendations, these were series fans passed from one person to the next. They became after-school rituals, late-night discoveries and gateway shows for generations of anime viewers.

In our house, when I was growing up, two authors dominated my father’s bookshelf: Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick. Given that both helped to create or reinvent genre fiction as we now know it, they aren’t the strangest bedfellows. My father’s favorite film was Blade Runner, and throughout my upbringing he often expressed his…

Shueisha’s next Jump Festa event is fast approaching, and now the publisher has confirmed the full schedule for the event with a tease of some of the major franchises that will have something on offer later this year. Jump Festa is the annual convention taking place in Japan each December where Shueisha shows off all…

It seems like Sony Pictures might have found their next big live-action anime and manga movie adaptation according to a new report, and it’s literally going to have some of the biggest characters yet. Sony Pictures has been quietly in the works on several different live-action anime adaptations over the last few years, and now…

Tonight is a salute to directing legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Wicked City, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust) as he makes his 2ndappearance during this month’s horrorthon, and it’s two personal favorites from the long-lost 20th century. The respective worlds that they inhabit couldn’t be more opposite from each other, but they’re both post-apocalyptic crapholes full of monsters,…

CultureEntertainmentSocietyOct 20, 2026 Driven by the creative genius of Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao, Studio Ghibli has crafted a landmark library of anime classics that revolutionized the industry in Japan and reshaped cinema worldwide.

Gegegegegegegeh! Welcome, foul creatures, to Beat’s Bizarre Halloventure. Every week this October, three evil writers will recommend their favorite spooky books and series from Japan, Korea and elsewhere. This week we have spooky children, tentacled husbands, and, of course, illness.

Despite a notoriously rocky launch in 2020, Cyberpunk 2077has successfully turned its fortunes around, establishing itself as a global hit with millions of dedicated fans. Now, CD Projekt RED is gearing up to bring its gritty, dystopian universe to the big screen with a live-action feature film produced in partnership with Paramount Pictures.