Stock characters are, generally, delightful. The exception tends to be protagonists, and for all I love anime, it suffers a lot from lead characters being the flattest members of their casts.
In the next few weeks, we're going to be doing a Binge Club/Watch Party for the Dragon Quest anime series, Legend of the Hero Abel. Not only will it be a fun time, but we want to geek out with everyone over the series. You can find all the details right here, in this...
For the next several weeks, I'm binging the Dragon Quest anime series with a group of friends online. It's been a ton of fun, and I just wanted to recap some of the interesting things I've found in the anime so far. Don't worry, I'm trying to avoid as many story...
The kind of people who will read a media blog are, on the whole, the kind of people who consume a lot of stories to begin with. And once you take in enough of them (probably by the time you’re in middle school, really), you start to see certain patterns keep showing up.
![[Keywords] Digimon Adventure and Togetherness](https://geektogeekmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/digivice.png.webp)
Where monster-catching series (and their merchandise) were laser-aimed at kids, they predictably had some soft core Aesop around “teamwork” or “friendship”. But I don’t believe that a single one of them executed on it half as well as Digimon.
![[Keywords] Pokémon and The Drawing Board](https://geektogeekmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pamjoh.png.webp)
I’m a long-time fan of the Pokémon franchise, including one of the longest-running animated series still being produced. Now, the Pokémon anime looks to be lining up the TV-season equivalent of a Greatest Hits album.
