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Built for the Nintendo 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time follows Link's quest to save Hyrule through an adventure that moves between childhood and adulthood. Its three-dimensional world connects settlements and open spaces with dungeons built around exploration and puzzles. Sword combat works...

The third Gintama film, also known as Gintama: The Final, concludes the anime's main story by adapting the remaining Silver Soul material. Two years after the Tendoshuu's invasion of Edo's Central Terminal, the Yorozuya have separated. Expecting Utsuro's return, Gintoki searches Earth's ley lines fo...

Under the Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, created around 1831 during the late Edo period. It is the most widely recognized image from his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. The artwork depicts a massive rogue wave threatening three fishing boats near...

Ordinary people take the foreground in One Piece Fan Letter, an anime special set around the Straw Hat crew's departure from Sabaody Archipelago. The search for Gol D. Roger's treasure shapes the wider age of piracy, but the civilians here are concerned with lives lived beside that adventure. Their...

An immense cross-country race begins in San Diego in Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the anime adaptation of the manga's seventh part. Set in the American Old West, the event attracts thousands of competitors with a fifty-million-dollar prize and a course stretching more than six thousand...

Shinpachi Shimura's return to Edo opens this continuation of Gintama with an absurd apparent transformation of the cast. Gintoki and Kagura seem to have become different people, and the changes extend throughout the city. Even Shinpachi's sister Otae appears to have married Shinsengumi chief Isao Ko...

A forbidden attempt to revive their dead mother sets the Elric brothers' journey in motion in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Human transmutation costs Alphonse his body and Edward a leg. Edward then sacrifices an arm to bind his brother's soul to a large suit of armor, leaving both boys to live w...

The Survey Corps return to Shiganshina in Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2, hoping to retake Wall Maria and restore humanity's dwindling confidence. For Eren Yeager, the ruined district is also his former home. The apparent absence of Titans allows the operation to begin without the resistance the so...

Gintoki, Shinpachi, and Kagura return as the fun-loving but broke members of the Yorozuya team! Living in an alternate-reality Edo, where swords are prohibited and alien overlords have conquered Japan, they try to thrive on doing whatever work they can get their hands on. However, Shinpachi and Kagu...

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a 2010 Wii platform game continuing the narrative of Super Mario Galaxy. It features Mario’s pursuit of Bowser, who has captured Princess Peach across multiple galaxies utilizing Power Stars and Grand Stars. The gameplay involves traversing diverse cosmic environments to reco...

Gintoki and the Yorozuya are in hiding after joining resistance to the bakufu in this Gintama installment, alongside Katsura and his Joui rebels. Nobume Imai and two Kiheitai members bring news that the Harusame pirates have turned against Kamui, captain of their Seventh Division, and their former a...

Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese horror film anthology comprised of four distinct stories based on Lafcadio Hearn’s folktales. Set in feudal Japan, the segments depict supernatural spirits enacting moral justice with little regard for human consequences. The film's ensemble cast includes several prominent...

An ancient promise has become a source of confinement in Fruits Basket: The Final Season. The zodiac spirits and their god once vowed to remain together forever, and the possessed members of the Sohma family inherit that binding connection. Clan head Akito clings to the special bond, while fear of p...

Super Mario Galaxy is a 2007 Nintendo Wii title that places players in an extraterrestrial setting. The game features galaxies with varied gravity and environments, requiring players to navigate planets and asteroids. Utilizing the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, players complete missions and battle bosses...

Commonly called Red Fuji, Fine Wind, Clear Morning is a multicolored woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai. It belongs to Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, published in the 1830s, and shows the mountain under a clear sky with its summit illuminated in red. Mount Fuji becomes the main visual subject, w...

Eccentric scientist Rintarou Okabe has a never-ending thirst for scientific exploration. Together with his ditzy but well-meaning friend Mayuri Shiina and his roommate Itaru Hashida, Okabe founds the Future Gadget Laboratory in the hopes of creating technological innovations that baffle the human ps...

Now in his second year of high school, Rei Kiriyama continues pushing through his struggles in the professional shogi world as well as his personal life. Surrounded by vibrant personalities at the shogi hall, the school club, and in the local community, his solitary shell slowly begins to crack. Amo...

Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past debuted in Japan in 1991 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Viewed from above, it follows Link through a connected world of settlements and dangerous dungeons. Sword fighting shares the stage with environmental puzzles, and newly acquired...

Tokyo Story depicts the journey of an elderly Japanese couple as they travel to Tokyo to spend time with their adult offspring. The film explores themes of familial relationships and generational differences within a domestic setting. It was directed by Yasujirō Ozu and features Chishū Ryū and Chiek...

The film Rashomon presents a complex narrative centered around the murder of a samurai within a forest. Multiple individuals—including a samurai, his wife, and a bandit—offer conflicting accounts of the event, each shaped by personal motivations and deception. Based on Akutagawa’s short story, the f...

Onibaba depicts two women in a post-civil war medieval Japan who engage in violent acts to acquire resources. The film centers on their efforts to steal from warring factions, with a male character’s intervention complicating their actions. Kaneto Shindō's 1964 drama explores themes of survival and...

Following the First-Class Mage Exam, the trio—elven mage Frieren, warrior Stark, and first-class mage Fern—gains access to the dangerous Northern Plateau. As the party presses onward toward Aureole, formidable adversaries force Stark to confront his insecurities, solidifying his resolve and his role...

Harakiri is a 1962 Japanese film set during the Edo period under the Tokugawa shogunate. It depicts the rōnin Hanshirō Tsugumo’s request for seppuku, performed before a lord and his samurai, accompanied by an explanation of his circumstances. The narrative explores themes of societal pressure and de...

The elite members of Shuchiin Academy's student council continue their competitive day-to-day antics. Council president Miyuki Shirogane clashes daily against vice-president Kaguya Shinomiya, each fighting tooth and nail to trick the other into confessing their romantic love. Kaguya struggles within...

While Gintoki Sakata was away, the Yorozuya found themselves a new leader: Kintoki, Gintoki's golden-haired doppelganger. In order to regain his former position, Gintoki will need the help of those around him, a troubling feat when no one can remember him! Between Kintoki and Gintoki, who will claim...

Super Mario 64 is a landmark 1996 Nintendo 64 adventure game. It established 3D platforming with its expansive worlds and innovative controls. Players explore as Mario, collecting Power Stars to progress through challenges and ultimately battle Bowser. The game remains popular among gamers of all ag...

A new adaption of the manga of the same name by Togashi Yoshihiro. A Hunter is one who travels the world doing all sorts of dangerous tasks. From capturing criminals to searching deep within uncharted lands for any lost treasures. Gon is a young boy whose father disappeared long ago, being a Hunte...

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 is a 2003 Game Boy Advance title that serves as an enhanced remake of the NES classic. It features two playable characters, Mario and Luigi, navigating eight kingdoms within the Mushroom World to confront Bowser and rescue Princess Peach. The game includes...

For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: Imperial Admiral Reinhard von Lohengramm and the FP...