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AIPT’s 31 Days of Halloween is back! After a four-year absence, we’re celebrating the spooky season with a new article every day throughout October. Follow along as the AIPT staff explores horror across comics, movies, games, music, and more, with plenty of monsters, scares, and Halloween favorites along the way. Check back every day for…

The BLEACH anime is set to reach its conclusion next week with Episode 50 of BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity. Ahead of the finale, a new “THE STORIES VISUAL – Final Battle” has been revealed, depicting Ichigo Kurosaki delivering a final strike during his climactic battle against Yhwach.

Parasyte: The Grey is streaming on Netflix now, and it’s a sharper live-action version of Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasyte than you might expect. Instead of running through the manga and anime beat for beat, it tells its own six-episode story in South Korea. The tension is still there. So is the body horror, along with the…

Short films on YouTube prove that big stories and big feels can unfold in just a few minutes. Compiled here are the best anime shorts worth checking out, fueled by the creative talents of both big companies and independent artists. Many of the shorts are wordless, propelled only by the actions of their characters and…

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…

Thousands of anime, gaming and comic fans packed the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs this weekend as Anime NebrasKon ran from Friday through Sunday, filling the venue with cosplay, arcades, board games and celebrity Q&As. Hundreds of vendors lined the halls for the three-day convention, which organizers describe as a celebration of pop culture and…