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The world of anime lost a major talent earlier this year when the creator of Berserk, Kentaro Miura, and the future of the franchise that brought to life the likes of Guts, Griffith, Casca, and the Band of the Hawk is still up in the air, but Miura will be receiving a “posthumous” biography in the medium of manga. Kouji Mori, creator of Destroy And Revolution and Holyland, was a very good friend to Miura and had always planned on creating a manga documenting their friendship, but is now planning to tell the story of Kentaro Miura’s life....

Capcom has finally revealed exactly when it will host its E3 2021 showcase, which previously just had a nebulous window of “June 14th” when the schedule for the event was first announced. According to the announcement, Capcom will share news about The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, Monster Hunter Rise, and Resident Evil Village on June 14th at 5:30PM ET/2:30PM PT. What exactly Capcom might announce during the showcase remains to be seen, but considering that both Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin and The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles are set to release in July 2021, it seems fair to assume that there will be plenty about both titles....

Demon Slayer: Mugen Train is tearing up the box office in Japan, surpassing Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away as the highest-grossing animated movie in the country while pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars in profit, and with the movie slated to arrive in North America, it seems as if Ufotable is still hoping for the next adventure of Tanjiro and the other members of the Demon Slayer Corps to hit theaters!...

Destroy All Humans! is currently on sale on Steam, and to celebrate the occasion, publisher THQ Nordic has released a new trailer for the game. The trailer features gameplay clips and some review quotes to entice newcomers, but the most notable moment is a segment that appears at the end. In the final seconds, Cryptosporidium-137 is joined by the character’s clone, Cryptosporidium-138. Both characters go by “Crypto” for short, but the latter is the star of Destroy All Humans!...

Peter Jackson’s new documentary series, The Beatles: Get Back, debuted on Disney+ on Thanksgiving taking fans into the making of the legendary band’s iconic final studio album, Let it Be. It’s a raw look at the band and the making of the album, and according to Jackson, Disney asked him to censor the series. In an interview with NME (via CBR), Jackson revealed that Disney asked him to remove all of the swearing from the series, but that it’s a request he denied at the request of the surviving Beatles....

Director Sam Raimi says that America Chavez has some teaching to do during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The filmmaker talked to Empire Magazine about the upcoming MCU feature. Specifically, how Xochitl Gomez figures into the unravelling of the Multiverse. From the trailers, fans have already seen her reality-jumping powers at work. But, Raimi says there might be even more information that the young hero has to teach Benedict Cumberbatch’s sorcerer during the Marvel movie....

The newest poster for Dragon Ball Super’s next movie has given us the first look at Vegeta in the upcoming Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero! Toei Animation surprised Dragon Ball fans when it had announced that the anime was coming back with a new feature film now scheduled for a release next year in Japan. This was exciting considering all that Goku and Vegeta have gone through in the manga over the years since the anime ended, so fans were hoping to see the duo in action again with the release of this next movie....

E3 2021 organizer the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has announced new details on how, exactly, it will host the virtual-only gaming convention this year. Specifically, E3 2021 will have an interactive online portal and app that will act as a hub of sorts throughout the show, allowing “attendees” to check out virtual booths, attend hosted events, do video conferencing, and more. Public access to the online portal is set to kick off Saturday, June 12th, and run throughout the rest of the show, which concludes on June 15th....

Edens Zero has revealed the opening and ending theme details for its upcoming anime debut! Following the end of Hiro Mashima’s Fairy Tail franchise, fans of his works have been wondering when his current series, Edens Zero, would finally get an official adaptation. Thankfully, the wait for its anime debut will not be much longer as it’s set to make its premiere in Japan as part of the stacked Spring 2021 season of new anime releases....

Joe Dante may have directed the film and Chris Columbus may have written it, but special effects artist Chris Walas is literally credited as the “creator” of the Gremlins in the credits for the movie. Though his career also includes work on Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, David Cronenberg’s remake of The Fly (the sequel for which he directed), and Frank Marshall’s Arachnophobia, the Gremlins seem like the thing he’s best known for to fans....

Jujutsu Kaisen is going back to the first season of the anime with some new character posters! Gege Akutami’s original manga franchise is now bigger than ever as not only have sales of the manga risen to a massive new degree, but the anime franchise is enjoying the same kind of success. The debut feature film, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, is currently taking over the box office around the world, and the anime is currently in the midst of producing a second season....

Black Widow hit theatres and Disney+ Premier Access earlier this month, and there are many things that make the Marvel Cinematic Universe film unique. In fact, it’s one of the rare movies in the franchise that features an opening credits sequence. After a flashback to 1995 shows young Natasha Romanoff with her “family” in Ohio, the Russian spies escape the United States and end up in Cuba where Nat and her little “sister” are taken by Dreykov to continue their Red Room training....

Marvel has announced a new Spider-Man limited series is on the way: Savage Spider-Man! Writer Joe Kelly will be teaming with artist Gerardo Sandoval for this spinout from the recent Non-Stop Spider-Man series that Kelly wrote. This is a big announcement for fans of that series, as Marvel Comics canceled Non-Stop Spider-Man - a move which shocked a lot of fans of that book, as the story left off with a massive cliffhanger, which saw Peter Parker transformed into some kind of Spider-beast after being injected with a deadly drug....

Over the past decade, filmmaker Alex Garland has established himself as one of the most ambitious and inventive storytellers in the world of sci-fi cinema, thanks to projects like Dredd, Ex Machina, and Annihilation. Each film explores a different corner of the genre, which allows them to all feel uniquely compelling in their respective realms. Garland has once again attempted to explore a new corner of the genre with his latest film Men, which pivots away from sci-fi and more towards abject horror, while still denying the audience the opportunity to define it within categorized constraints....

Netflix has canceled Julie and the Phantoms and fans are a bit disappointed to hear the news. Producer Kenny Ortega confirmed the reports on Instagram. On the social media platform, he thanked all the fans out there for their support as well as crediting Netflix for their help in bringing the show to so many people. However, the supernatural musical comedy will now sit in limbo unless some other streamer comes in to save it....

Sega has announced that Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis will officially globally launch on June 9th for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC. The much-anticipated new version of Phantasy Star Online 2 brings with it an overhauled graphics engine, character creation, game system, and more. The free-to-play online role-playing game occupies a somewhat unusual space as it will be part of a shared universe with its immediate predecessor, Phantasy Star Online 2....

Spider-Man: No Way Home got shifted to Only Way Home after Hyundai released a new spot. More interestingly, Mysterio seems to be lurking if the advertisement is to be believed. Quinton Beck has been just kind of lingering in the background in the lead-up to the Multiversal crossover event. Some Spider-Man fans have not forgotten that his fate was left up in the air at the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home....

The Suicide Squad is out now and features many new fan-favorite characters who made their DCEU debut in the film. One such character is Polka-Dot Man, who is played by Ant-Man alum David Dastmalchian. Director James Gunn has taken to social media in the past to show off the “complexities” of Dastmalchian’s costume, and it turns out, he’s not the only one who has rocked the Polka-Dot Man suit. Earlier today, Twitter user @gynoidprincess shared photos of Dastmalchian and the cat he adopted while they were filming in Panama....

If you’ve got an Xbox and are subscribed to either Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you’ve got three games waiting for you to play for free this weekend. Those games are Far Cry 5, Unturned, and Bee Simulator, and as Xbox tends to do with its Free Play Days events, each of the games is on sale for the duration of the free trial so that people can own them permanently if they like what they see....

This year has already seen the introduction of a lot of unique superhero media, beginning with the HBO Max debut of Peacemaker. The series has pulled back the narrative onion that is Christopher Smith / Peacmaker (John Cena), and has revealed some emotional beats along the way. One of the most surprising revelations across the show’s first season was that Peacemaker is bisexual, which was revealed in the fight in the penultimate episode between him and his father, Auggie Smith / White Dragon (Robert Patrick)....