Manga updates for Black Clover have shifted chapter releases to once every three months. Luckily for fans, on August 8, 2024, Black Clover will be coming out with two new chapters. Chapter 372 will consist of 23 pages, while Chapter 373 will have a total of 25 pages. It’s not a lot of pages, but they’re enough to conclude the events of the previous chapter, which left off on an exciting cliffhanger.

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Major spoilers for episode 149 of My Hero Academia, “Light Fades to Rain”

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So you’d expect the top-rated series to be something like Shōgun, which got nominated for a recording-breaking number of Emmys. Or maybe a show like The Bear or House of the Dragon, which get tons of coverage in mainstream entertainment outlets. But the top-rated show of 2024 (so far) on IMDb is none of those.

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The panel features a receding line of astronauts chopped in half. Their arms appear to be in prayer, their heads slightly bowed. Their upper and lower halves are spaced apart, with the legs sticking straight up out of the grassy field. The space in between creates a path that leads back to a truly horrifying and formidable-looking devil, half-obscured by the darkness.

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However, when Yoshino Somei, a family member of the biggest yakuza group in the Kansai region, is engaged to Kirishima Miyama, a member of Kanto’s biggest yakuza group, she finds he isn’t quite what she was expecting—or is he just hiding his true self?

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Long story short, Ranma 1/2 is both beloved and culturally important.

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It feels dishonest to talk about Zom 100 without conceding it has some cringe moments (there were certain camera angles on certain flight attendants that were not necessary). But I’d still argue that Akira—in his quest to escape out from under the thumb of a toxic work environment, in his self-inflicted pressures of feeling he needs to give back to his parents somehow—represents one of the more empathetic adult heroes in modern anime. We so rarely get protagonists in their 20s and 30s, anyway.

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We’ve all seen anime villains plot notorious things in the background and missed the hints scattered throughout the show when we weren’t paying close enough attention. But nobody was able to see through Dostoevsky’s plot in Chapter 116, which he planned decades in advance. He faked the prophecy about the next world war.

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I love Chainsaw Man. I have three (3) Pochita plushies because pure logic cannot stop me. But when you’re a human being going through a rough time yourself, it can be really, really hard to watch a character you care about go through immense suffering.

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One Piece chapter 1120 gave us a significant development towards the Straw Hats’ escape from Egghead—at the cost of a tremendous sacrifice. So let’s jump right into it. After all, chapter 1120 is named after its brightest star.

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We have a feeling we haven’t seen the last of Bam, though, as the second season focuses on the characters of Ja Wangnan and Jue Viole Grace, the latter of whom looks suspiciously familiar …

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His skills are so basic that people tend to underestimate him. Even Noor himself doesn’t think he’s anything special. But King Clays can sense that Noor isn’t just a common adventurer. For saving Princess Lynne, King Clays rewarded Noor with his good, old greatsword.

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This year at Anime Expo, I noticed countless acts of kindness and generosity. Granted, as shounen mainstay My Hero Academia has vividly illustrated, anger and toxicity makes for clickable headlines, posts, and videos. A post espousing that “people are nice, actually” is generally considered less desirable by the media machine as a whole, which is quite dark—and all the more reason that the countless small acts of kindness I saw at Anime Expo 2024 should be celebrated.

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By the final episode of Stampede, the next season of the Trigun reboot was gearing up to be closer to the 1998 Trigun. Vash is in hiding with his old haircut back, Meryl is back to being a girl boss, Robert De Niro is mercifully nowhere to be seen. In fact, at the Trigun panel at Anime Expo 2024, Orange’s team promise that the next installment of the series will be closer to the manga.

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Kafka and Mina have set their differences aside to fight the biggest threat to humanity, Kaiju No. 9. These two have also been hoping to fight beside each other as allies, but it took Kafka a long time to get to Mina’s level. But even with this iconic duo fighting as a team, Kaiju No. 9 proves itself to be a formidable threat.

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I waited until the end of the season and watched Train to the End of the World, front to back, over the course of a week. It’s one of the most refreshing anime series I’ve seen in a long time.

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Nagi is a genius at soccer. The only problem is that he’s not motivated to play the game. The only reason he got into the Blue Lock Program was because his best friend, Reo, persuaded him to go and play with him so that both of them could be the best in the world.

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No words more relatable have ever been spoken in this series, but relying on genius didn’t get Nagi too far in the Blue Lock program. Initially, it was because his best friend, Reo, aimed to be part of the national team. He merely got swept up by his friend’s vision and went along to help him.

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The Labyrinth Arc of Mushoku Tensei sure begs the question: Why would Rudeus go in there? Labyrinths are dangerous! But indeed, Rudeus’ intentions are made clear at the beginning of the arc, when his father Paul asks him to brave the labyrinth in order to help find not treasure, nor exp points, but his own mother who is trapped inside.

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Sh*t is going down. The days of cute high school culture festivals seem like a distant memory. In recent arcs, My Hero has proved there’s a darker side to its initially bubbly exterior. It’s not beyond killing or maiming characters, which makes everything feel tense as hell.

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