As the anime medium is both created by and typically for Japanese audiences, it stands to reason that most titles will have few if any overlaps with Western or cowboy movies, which have their own common sets of tropes and themes. Nonetheless, given the medium's wide range of influences ...
He remembers where the Fortress of Solitude is from when he was there inSuperman II. He’s able to find it, and find the crystals that built it, which came with Superman in the ship that brought him. He knows he can use these crystals to build a whole new world – on...
While it unfortunately falls into several tropes of the procedural cop show, Elementary's cases always feature really interesting topics, including lab grown meat and bringing animals back from extinction. In addition, the show features strong performances from its main casts. Overall, it's not ...
Conversely, they might offer a new twist on established anime tropes. Series like Dragon Ball can appeal to just about anyone, but sometimes that universal appeal can only go so far to interesting fans who have seen hundreds of similar action anime. That's what sets these examples apart from...
Woodlands Dark, possibly because the tropes of the erotic thriller were more codified, so there’s less “feature creep” in exploring them, but also because the central question ofWe Kill for Love—why don’t they make ‘em like this anymore?—makes the documentary something of a mystery ...