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Fandom Report for Oct 26 2017: Happy Halloween!

Here are some seasonal animated shorts.

The Nightmare Before Christmas comes to Clue.

My colleague Emily Lauer writes about the 1980s comics series The Dracula File.

Yasuhiro Irie returns to a very Soul Eater aesthetic for his KickStarter.

Nerds on Earth look at the psychology of horror films. (And I’ve been teaching just a bit about it this semester.)

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Fandom Report for Sep 28 2017: Punch Nazis, Not Dinosaurs

Unless they’re Nazi dinosaurs or dinosaur Nazis–then punch them.

Check back later today for a review of Star Trek Discovery–and it’s failure to do for this time period what previous iterations did for those eras.

And check in tomorrow for a review of DuckTales–specifically, what they’re doing with Gyro and GizmoDuck.

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Fandom Report for Jun 29 17: Prelude to Anime Expo

I’ll be presenting at Anime Expo starting tomorrow, and reporting from Los Angeles for JAMS Anime. For more Fandom Report on anime, manga, and video games, click here.

And for advice on packing for Anime Expo and other conventions, click here.

Anime and Cosplay

Here’s your Death Note poster.

There is a web series of awkward comedy and cosplay.

Stan Lee and Hiroshi Nagahama’s The Reflection superhero anime will have the Hulk as an idol singer.

 

The new opening for My Hero Academia is out, along with a preview poster, character models, and casting info.

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