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Feisty characters are typically small, young, or underpowered. They also never turn down a fight or a bickering match. They often will pick fights, too, to challenge themselves or vent their frustrations. They are often like a Pomeranian dog that barks at a bull mastif.

Feisty characters know the odds may be stacked against them, but they're going to show their mean face and give the battle their best shot. Feistiness is also common with the diminutive woman trope who is small and often underestimated—much to their opponent's detriment. They may also be warrior characters who have youth and exuberance on their side, and sometimes they must learn their limits the hard way.

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A loud-mouthed raven may be annoying, but they can be very useful, like Almond in I'm the Villainess, So I'm Taming the Final Boss. Almond...

Chainsaw Man's Bomb Girl was brought to life in an impressive cosplay for the dark shōnen series.

Created and uploaded on Reddit by samzon_, the Reze cosplay is actually two different costumes. One shows the antagonist in her human form, while the other recreates her transformation into the Bomb Devil. The talented cosplayer has crafted equally stunning recreations of other notable anime characters, including Nazuna from Call of the Night, Astolfo from Fate/Apocrypha and Yor Forger (aka Thorn Princess) from Spy x Family.

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Tatsuki Fujimoto began publishing his ongoing Chainsaw Man series in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in December 2018; Fujimoto's story is now serialized through the online Shōnen Jump+ magazine. Alongside other modern titles like Kazue Kato's Blue Exorcist and Muneyuki Kaneshiro's Blue Lock,...

Hayao Miyazaki’s Shuna’s Journey and Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man will compete for the title of Best Manga.

According to Anime News Network, both iconic series have been nominated at this year's Harvey Awards, which celebrates outstanding creations in comics and graphic books, in the Best Manga category. The category was added to the ceremony back in 2018, and the winners will be announced at New York Comic-Con in October.

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Chainsaw Man appears to be the likely frontrunner to win Best Manga as it claimed the title previously in both 2021 and 2022. Part of the modern shōnen genre's Dark Trio, Fujimoto's series first appeared in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in December 2018, before moving to Shōnen Jump+ in 2022. The narrative follows an extremely poor youth named Denji; given the ability to transform his limbs and head into chainsaws by the adorable entity known as Pochita,...

Eiichiro Oda's beloved One Piece manga continues to dominate the marketplace.

Vol. 103 of the ongoing series claimed fourth place on the most recent New York Times bestsellers list for graphic books. The volume includes more chapters of Monkey D. Luffy's epic throwdown with Kaido of the Beasts.

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Making its debut in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1997, the One Piece manga features well over 1,000 individual chapters of content. The plot follows Luffy, a young pirate captain with a body made out of rubber, as he pursues his dream of becoming the next King of the Pirates. With his colorful crew, he sails across the Grand Line in search of the eponymous hidden treasure. One Piece stands as the undisputed best-selling manga of all time, with over 516 million copies in circulation around the world, an impressive...

Warning: Spoilers for chapter #85 of Spy x Family

Up until now, Spy x Family has always depicted Loid Forger as being invincible, however, as a recent chapter revealed, not only are some enemies better than him, but he is also surpassed by his own colleague, Fiona Frost.

Like Loid, Fiona Frost Aka Nightfall is an agent with the Westalian Intelligence Services' Eastern-Focused Division (Wise). In fact, she works as Loid's assistant in both their undercover personas and in their capacity as Wise agents stationed in Ostania. While Frost is a highly competent agent, until most recently she has never been depicted as being a more skilled fighter than Loid, who, with the possible exception of his wife Yor, has shown himself to be the story's strongest character, capable of using speed, power, and guile to always be the last man standing

Loid Gets Taken Out With Ease, But Fiona Steps Up

Chapter #85, however,...

Fashion retailer Bershka has released a special clothing line for Spy x Family, starring the adorable psychic Anya.

According to Crunchyroll, the collection, which is already available in Europe, Mexico, Columbia, the United States, Canada and the Middle East, includes a variety of outerwear and accessories that features art of the series' main characters. For example, one jacket showcases the entire Forger family with Anya front and center, while another spotlights the pink-haired mind reader and her classmate Damian.

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The Spy x Family manga by Tatsuya Endo first appeared on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website in March 2019 and the ongoing series has become one of the cornerstones of the modern pop-cultural landscape. The story follows the often hilarious misadventures of the Forgers -- an eclectic found family made up of a young child who can read minds...

Right on time, this week brings a companion documentary to one of summer’s biggest movies, directed by an acclaimed filmmaker whose pedigree makes him an immediate Oscar candidate — especially in a year that isn’t overflowing with breakout docs.

The contender to watch this week: “A Compassionate Spy”

On the heels of “Oppenheimer” comes a documentary about Ted Hall, an American physicist who gave the Soviet Union classified intelligence about the construction of the atomic bomb. “A Compassionate Spy” has deep pedigree in two-time Oscar-nominated director Steve James, who made “Hoop Dreams,” “Life Itself,” and “City So Real.” If the campaign gods are smart, they’ll put James and Christopher Nolan in a room together at some point, even though Hall isn’t depicted in “Oppenheimer.” “Spy” is now in theaters and on VOD.

Other contenders:

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Spy x Family is helping celebrate the 30th anniversary of Japan's J.League.

According to Crunchyroll, new collectibles, including shirts, acrylic standees, towels, and buttons, will feature the members of the Forger family decked out in the colors and uniforms of 45 different teams across Japan's professional football league. The announcement poster sees Anya sporting gear for Yokohama F. Marinos, Bond for Kashima Antlers, Loid for Kawasaki Frontale and Yor for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

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Tatsuya Endo began publishing his ongoing Spy x Family series on Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ website in March 2019. The manga's story follows the adventures of the Forgers, an eclectic found family made up of a young girl who can read minds, a Great Pyrenees with precognitive powers, a master spy and a deadly assassin. While the narrative has plenty of moments of intense combat and intrigue,...

Wit Studio and CloverWorks' anime adaptation of Spy X Family transcends genre and simultaneously serves as a spy thriller, a humorous comedy hit, and a heartwarming exploration of the concept of found family. One of the best elements of the show is Anya, whose adorable and funny quotes make her one of the most iconic modern anime characters. They also make her a welcome contrast to some of the show's more serious characters.

Anya is the adoptive daughter of Loid and Yor Forger, serving as the centerpiece of her father's espionage mission Operation Strix. As a telepath she is able to read the minds of those around her, and so she knows that her father is a spy and her mother is an assassin, both working for opposing governments. For Anya this is exciting, and she often tries to help out her parents on their various missions. But given her childish nature,...

Within the realm of anime, the shonen demographic is known for embracing clichés more than anything else. Shonen anime may be riddled with familiar clichés, tropes, and recurring themes, but at their best, these cliches and tropes make shonen anime comfortingly familiar and cohesive. This works well not just for "big three" titles, but also for second-tier shonen anime like Fairy Tail.

Fairy Tail never became a superstar anime like Dragon Ball Z or Naruto despite all its flamboyant shonen tropes, but it tried hard, and Fairy Tail's fans can admire it for that. Whatever the results, Fairy Tail eagerly embraced shonen clichés, and its fans love it all the more for that. At times, the anime fell flat or felt conventional this way, but in many scenes and character arcs, Fairy Tail was better for being so typically shonen.

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Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt will be joining filmmaker Aditya Chopra’s Yrf Spy Universe, which has brought forward films such as ‘Ek Tha Tiger’, ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’, ‘War’ and ‘Pathaan’.

He is now planning a new big-budget action spectacle with superstar Alia Bhatt, where she will be seen playing a spy. This yet-untitled tentpole film from Yash Raj Films will go on floors in 2024.

A source said: Alia is one of the biggest superstars of our country today and she will play a super-agent in the Yrf Spy Universe like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan.

“This will be another epic action spectacle that will leave people at the edge of their seats. Alia will take on a mission that will push her to the edge and this gritty action film will expand the Yrf Spy Universe further.”

The source added that Alia will be seen in a whole new avatar.

Physical season 3 comes to life in a brand-new trailer. The dramedy series, which stars Rose Byrne, premiered on Apple TV+ on June 18, 2021. Byrne plays Sheila Rubin, a troubled housewife in 1980s San Diego who begins to find herself when she signs up for an aerobics class. The ensemble cast of the series also includes Rory Scovel, Paul Sparks, Della Saba, and Lou Taylor Pucci.

Apple TV+ has now unveiled the official trailer for Physical season 3, which premieres on August 2 and will also be the show's last. Check it out below:

Although the trailer opens with Sheila's televised workout program making her feel on top of the world, she faces competition from Zooey Deschanel's new character Kelly Kilmartin. Kelly steps in as the voice in Sheila's head, causing her to doubt her every move just as her "healing journey" has supposedly reached its peak and sends her into a spiral.

Tollywood Nikhil Siddhartha, a small-time Telugu actor, has earned the tag of a ‘pan-India’ star mainly by indulging Hindutva sentiments. But does this signal a larger political, ideological shift for Telugu cinema? The overt right-wing slide of Telugu cinema became a topic of political debate when Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao said that Prabhas’s Adipurush, a retelling of Ramayana, was one of many films being made to peddle the Bharatiya Janata Party (Bjp)’s propaganda. “The Bjp has come up with a strategy to combine nationalism and communalism … They won't directly fund those movies. Many times we don't even understand those movies. Uri, The Kashmir Files, Adipurush, etc. How come their timing is so convenient? It’s because Bjp is working in a multi-faceted way to make this happen,” Ktr had said in April, in an interview to a TV channel. Speculation about their funding aside, there has indeed...

The fearsome and beautiful Nobara Kugisaki is brought to life in hammer-dropping Jujutsu Kaisen cosplay.

Uploaded on Reddit by skillful cosplayer Kawabarker, the Kugisaki costume recreates the first-year student at Jujutsu High's school uniform and clearly references her unique brand of sorcery through the many nails floating about. The costume-making master has crafted plenty of cosplays for other prominent anime icons like Makima from Chainsaw Man, Lucy from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and the titular sword-wielder from Akame ga Kill.

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Kugisaki Nobara from Jujutsu Kaisen by kawabarker by u/kawabarker in cosplay

Kugisaki is introduced early on in Jujutsu Kaisen's storyline, serving as one of the plot's main trio. Alongside fellow first-years Megumi Fushiguro and Yuji Itadori, the young sorcerer faces deadly curses and gets mixed in the plans of the villainous Kenjaku and Ryomen Sukuna, the undisputed King of Curses.

Oshi no Ko is a dark drama anime series that juggles a variety of themes, including the theme of found family. Some recent anime titles like Spy x Family portray found families in a positive light to entertain and inspire viewers, but Oshi no Ko takes a different route with the Hoshino family. There are many reasons, some obvious and some subtle, why the Hoshino family is truly bizarre.

On the outside, the three Hoshinos got along well, with Ai being a hardworking single mom and Aqua and Ruby getting along as reincarnated brother and sister. Under the surface, though, Aqua and his sister have been drifting apart ever since they were reborn, and that includes the matter of their new mother. Tellingly, Ruby calls Ai Hoshino "Mama" while Aqua simply uses Ai's name, and this simple difference speaks volumes about Oshi no Ko's co-stars.

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