Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The final arc of Bleach, adapted a decade after the original series stopped, and it is staggering how good it looks: movie grade animation, brutal choreography, and a story with actual stakes after years of the original show spinning its…
The series that turned Naruto from a popular shonen into a generational one. Shippuden picks up two and a half years later: the kids are older, the stakes are real, and the story builds toward a war that engulfs every…
The answer to the question every new fan asks: do I really have to watch 291 episodes of Z? Dragon Ball Kai is the official recut, trimming the original series down to about 159 episodes by removing the filler arcs…
Akira Toriyama’s final work, and it plays like a love letter to the whole series. After a mysterious wish turns Goku and friends small again, the crew dives into the Demon Realm for a 20 episode adventure that feels like…
The official continuation, picking up after Buu with Goku and Vegeta training under gods. Super starts rough: the animation in the first arc wobbles and the retellings of the Battle of Gods and Resurrection F movies are the weakest stretch…
The black sheep of the family, and the only Dragon Ball series with no Toriyama manga behind it: GT is entirely anime original, which is why fans argue about whether any of it counts. The honest take: the first stretch…
The show that put anime on the map in the West. Goku is grown, his son Gohan is the audience’s surrogate, and the villains arrive in escalating order of apocalypse: Saiyans, then Frieza, then the androids and Cell, then Majin…
Before the energy blasts that could crack a planet, there was a weird little kid with a tail riding a cloud. The original Dragon Ball is Goku’s childhood: a loose, funny adventure series that slowly turns into the greatest tournament…
Saitama trained until he could defeat any enemy with one punch, and now the strongest hero alive is bored out of his mind. The greatest superhero satire ever made plays the mundane despair of a man who has nothing left…
The world’s best spy builds a fake family to complete a mission, not knowing his wife is an assassin and his adopted daughter is a telepath who knows everything. The sitcom engine of three people hiding their identities from each…