For two days, Okada Manila hosted Otaku Pop Fes 2026, becoming the stage where Japanese excellence and Filipino warmth ...

Some gay icons aren’t born, they’re drawn. As animation rises in prominence in pop culture, artists are taking advantage of ...

One of the biggest surprises in the Black Clover ending is Charmy Pappitson’s relationship with Rill Boismortier, the captain of the Aqua Deer magic knight squad. They end up getting married and going ...

Animation is a medium that allows characters to come to life in the most creative and striking of ways. The animation pantheon is full of iconic figures from both film and television who have ...

WonderCon 2026 has come and gone, the colossal Anaheim convention now in its 39th year (give or take a Covid), and it continues to generate some of the best cosplay you’ll ever see. This year’s ...

One of the major criticisms of Crimson Desert I’ve seen since launch is that it does not let you create your own character. Instead, you’re locked into playing as Kliff, who himself has been ...

Very few video game series celebrate women as often as Resident Evil. The series began with two campaigns that both featured playable women in Jill Valentine and Rebecca Chambers. There is a good ...

Last week leading chipmaker Nvidia announced DLSS-5 (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a new artificial intelligence (AI) rendering tool it describes as a “breakthrough in visual fidelity for games”. The ...

When it comes to cosplaying female anime characters, there are hundreds of options to choose from. The cosplaying community has a few experienced cosplayers who are iconically known to replicate a few ...

Getting ready the morning of a convention has never gotten any less chaotic for C.J. Stiles. They wake up, find whatever source of caffeine they can and begin the long transformation process: skincare ...

You know about the Bechdel test, right? It's the famous and very simple test that is used today to assess the gender bias of films, TV series and books. It's actually very simple - to pass this test, ...

Lovers of cosplay, sci-fi, horror, anime, comics, gaming and pop culture descended upon the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont this weekend for Fan Expo Chicago 2025. According to the ...