Maya Phillips

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New York Comic Con Fall 2018 Anime Preview

On Thursday, October 4, 2018, nerds of all flavors gathered in the Jacob Javits ...

Spring 2018 Anime

5 Anime Picks for Spring 2018

This year’s was a good winter — at least in terms of the new ...

Black Lightning, Luke Cage & Defining Blackness

This week, the new CW show Black Lightning will introduce another Black superhero — ...

Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma

Food & Class in Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma

When I consider my list of my favorite anime of 2017, Food Wars!: Shokugeki ...

Recovery of an MMO Junkie: In Defense of an Anxious Protagonist

Blessed are the anxious, for they shall inherit the earth. OK, so that’s not ...

My Definitive Ranking of All 8 Star Wars Films

It’s one of the most controversial questions of our time: How do you rank ...

‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’: The Strangest Show You’re Not Watching Right Now

Murder, soul-swapping, time travel, fate, conspiracies, magic, shape-shifters, psychics, assassins, alternate universes — it’s ...