This week we cover the newest American anime/manga adaptation from Robert Rodriguez: Alita: Battle Angel. Based on the 90s Manga and OVA, Alita: Battle Angel is a cyberpunk dream with a lot of action and heart. We’re joined by Hector Navarro from DC Daily to talk about the film, it’s status as an adaptation, and some serious topics like representation and whitewashing in anime adaptations.
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Kate: Food Wars!
About Food Wars: Ever since he was a child, fifteen-year-old Souma Yukihira has helped his father by working as the sous chef in the restaurant his father runs and owns. Throughout the years, Souma developed a passion for entertaining his customers with his creative, skilled, and daring culinary creations. His dream is to someday own his family’s restaurant as its head chef.
Yet when his father suddenly decides to close the restaurant to test his cooking abilities in restaurants around the world, he sends Souma to Tootsuki Culinary Academy, an elite cooking school where only 10 percent of the students graduate. The institution is famous for its “Shokugeki” or “food wars,” where students face off in intense, high-stakes cooking showdowns.
Neysha: Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World
About Re:Zero: Starting Life in Another World: When Subaru Natsuki leaves the convenience store, the last thing he expects is to be wrenched from his everyday life and dropped into a fantasy world. Things aren’t looking good for the bewildered teenager; however, not long after his arrival, he is attacked by some thugs. Armed with only a bag of groceries and a now useless cell phone, he is quickly beaten to a pulp. Fortunately, a mysterious beauty named Satella, in hot pursuit after the one who stole her insignia, happens upon Subaru and saves him. In order to thank the honest and kindhearted girl, Subaru offers to help in her search, and later that night, he even finds the whereabouts of that which she seeks. But unbeknownst to them, a much darker force stalks the pair from the shadows, and just minutes after locating the insignia, Subaru and Satella are brutally murdered.
Hector: She-ra! And the Princesses of Power
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Wanna watch the OVA? We got you! Check out the video below:
