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Review April 22, 2026 Shannon Tindle’s Ultraman: Rising Proved the Spider-Verse Style Was a Permission Slip, Not a Template How a 23-year passion project killed the copycat era of animated filmmaking.
Review April 23, 2026 Sundays Without Luffy One Piece abandoned 26 years of weekly ritual. Was it worth it?
Review April 23, 2026 Johnny Yong Bosch Carried Trigun Stargaze on His Shoulders for 25 Years The voice behind Vash says goodbye, and the fandom fractures beautifully.
Review April 23, 2026 Fingerprints in the Hull How four friends spent a decade building a video game out of clay, wood, and stubbornness.
Opinion, Review April 23, 2026 The LipSync Joystick V4: A Field Guide to Open-Source Accessibility A $325 mouth-operated joystick is rewriting the rules of assistive tech.
Review April 23, 2026 Kore-eda, Fujimoto, and 35mm Film Stock Walk Into a Bookstore A field guide to the most exciting manga-to-live-action adaptation in years.
Review April 23, 2026 Epilogue Retrace and the AI War on Counterfeit Game Cartridges A pocket-sized authenticator arrives just as the fakes get really good.
Review April 13, 2026 The FiiO CP13 Is Not a Walkman (And That’s Fine) A cassette player built on lost knowledge and honest compromise.
Review April 5, 2026 Robert Vargas and the 12-Story Death Defiance of Freehand Muralism One brush. No grid. No net. Just the side of a building and nerve.
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