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The Hilarious Reddit Thread That Roasts Heteronormativity & Makes Us Worry For Our Straight Friends

The Hilarious Reddit Thread That Roasts Heteronormativity & Makes Us Worry For Our Straight Friends

Mary Lee Sauder
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The content sharing website Reddit is known for many things: originating a bevy of popular internet memes, hosting massive Secret Santa exchanges, banding together to bankrupt hedge funds, and having a subreddit for just about every topic imaginable. Today, we’ll be exploring one of our favorite subreddits, r/AreTheStraightsOK, which is a community where LGBTQ+ people and allies poke fun at the toxic heteronormativity that permeates straight culture like cigarette smoke in a bowling alley carpet. Let’s take a closer look!

Winter 2021 is Killing It with Gorgeous Anime Background Art

Winter 2021 is Killing It with Gorgeous Anime Background Art

Mary Lee Sauder
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The Winter 2021 anime season has certainly come out swinging, with outstanding sequels for favorites like The Promised Neverland and Beastars, as well as hot new properties like Horimiya and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation. One thing that we’ve noticed so far is that these anime are absolutely killing it with their background art, especially three of them in particular: Kemono Jihen, SK8 the Infinity, and Wonder Egg Priority. So, if you’ll allow it, we’d like to gush for a while about the beautiful worlds that the animators of these shows create with their minute attention to detail. Please come join us!

Hataraku Saibou: BLACK (Cells at Work! Code Black) Mid-Season Impressions - Bravery and Black Comedy

Hataraku Saibou: BLACK (Cells at Work! Code Black) Mid-Season Impressions - Bravery and Black Comedy

Mary Lee Sauder
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Summer 2018’s Cells at Work is a mostly lighthearted educational anime that uses anthropomorphic personifications of cells to illustrate how the human body functions and how it fights diseases.

Now, Winter 2021 has brought us two new additions to the franchise: the second season of the original, and our subject for today – a much darker spin-off called Cells at Work: Code Black. In this body, unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking and unsafe sex have made the cells’ jobs unbearably stressful and dangerous, akin to the Japanese concept of a “black company” that works its employees to the bone. Let’s take a closer look at this more mature take on the Cells at Work world!

The Promised Neverland Season 2 First Impressions - An Even Bleaker World Than Before

The Promised Neverland Season 2 First Impressions - An Even Bleaker World Than Before

Mary Lee Sauder
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When Yakusoku no Neverland (The Promised Neverland) first aired in the Winter 2019 season, it was praised for its shockingly dark premise and thrilling prison break storyline. Now, two years later, we pick up where we left off as the Grace Field House orphans try to navigate the outside world after successfully escaping their gilded cage. We’re only a few episodes into the new season so far, but let’s see what our favorite pre-pubescent masterminds are getting up to this time!

Izumi Miyamura from Horimiya is a Certified Very Good Boy™

Izumi Miyamura from Horimiya is a Certified Very Good Boy™

Mary Lee Sauder
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Winter 2021’s Horimiya has quickly become our new favorite romance anime, due in no small part to its male lead Izumi Miyamura. He seems like an unassuming nerd to his classmates, but in truth, his long hair and winter uniform hide a massive array of piercings and tattoos! This closet punk falls in love with another student who hides her private life: Kyouko Hori, a gorgeous popular girl who is at her happiest while acting as a stay-at-home-mom for her precious little brother.

Top 5 Cosplay We Expect to See When Anime Conventions Come Back

Top 5 Cosplay We Expect to See When Anime Conventions Come Back

Mary Lee Sauder
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It’s been just about a year since the pandemic forced large events like anime conventions to shut down indefinitely, and by now we’re feeling that con-fever more than ever. So while we wait for the world to go back to normal, we have to wonder – when conventions do eventually come back, what will be the hot new cosplays to spot? Which 2020 anime and video game characters will stick in the popular consciousness long enough to have fans dress up as them? Here are our speculations and theories!

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