DEVILMAN CRYBABY

Steven Nguyen Scaife Aug 17, 2022. 6 minute read

Old-School Anime Lives (and Dies) Again at Netflix

Maybe you’ve heard them whispered about in hushed tones, part of some diatribe about the way things used to be: the anime OVA, for “original video animation.” OVAs can be (and have been) just about anything, from cyberpunk action to horror-tinged porn to historical epic. We associate them with a…

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Nerium Apr 7, 2020. 1 minute read

Fanwidth (A Fanbyte Podcast) Episode 58: Back in Your Sack

We’ve got video games galore on this latest episode of Fanwidth, the Fanbyte podcast! You won’t believe your ears when we regale you with news of Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 3, and other PlayStation 1 games. In all seriousness, though, it’s a packed show. We even take some time…

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Danielle Riendeau Mar 23, 2020. Less than a minute

Eric Thurm Makes merritt k Watch Anime 1: Devilman Crybaby

After the brilliance of Papal Bull, Fanbyte Features and Trending Editor merritt k and Secretary of Anime Eric Thurm decided they needed to keep podcasting. The full title of the show will give you the premise: “Eric Thurm makes merritt k watch three episodes of an anime, and they talk…

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Eric Thurm Nov 7, 2019. 7 minute read

How to Make Better Reboots With The Help of Friedrich Nietzsche

Why do we reboot popular media? Of course, there’s a financial motivation — this thing did well, so we’ll try it again, and wring millions of dollars out of consumers’ nostalgia for Batman or whatever. But the business incentive for rebooting old properties only exists, or continues to exist, in a…

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