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The theory that Vernon and Petunia Dursley mistreated Harry because of the Horcrux in him is false, as the books reveal they were terrible even before meeting him. Horcruxes need close emotional or physical proximity to affect a person, and the Dursleys did not share this connection with Harry. If the Horcrux theory were true, other characters close to Harry, like Ron and Hermione, would have been influenced as well, but they remained unaffected. Thus, Vernon's behavior was not due to the Horcrux.

A popular Harry Potter theory claims that Vernon and Petunia Dursley were bad because of prolonged exposure to Voldemort's Horcrux, but details throughout the series prove this false. The Dursleys resented their nephew's magical ability and treated Harry horribly as a result. For ten years, he was kept in a cupboard under the stairs, was forced to survive on the family's scraps, and was lied to...

New Delhi, July 21 (Ians) Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Friday released the trailer of Anand Pandit’s next Gujarati film ‘Tron Ekka’.

Even since ‘Tron Ekka’ was announced, fans have been waiting to see what the magical combination of Yash Soni, Malhar Thakar, and Mitra Gadhvi will deliver this time.

And, now, the trailer has exceeded their expectations by offering them a glimpse into the soon-to-be-released rip-roaring entertainer.

Sharing the trailer on the social media, Big B wrote, “The Terrific Trio is back again with hilarious rib-tickling comedy. Get ready to get your mind blown. Wishing my dear friend @@anandpandit63 loads of success.”

The story revolves around three clueless young boys trying to make money by turning a simple-middle-class home into a secret gambling den. It is a situational comedy and the trailer too radiates the fun and chaotic energy of the plot.

Pandit says it has now become normative for...

Anime is such a rewarding storytelling medium because it's able to tackle any idea imaginable, no matter the genre or how niche of an idea. Different anime cater towards different demographics and shonen series are those that are designed for younger male audiences. Shonen series can still cover radically unique territory and the demographic includes everything from Yu Yu Hakusho to Death Note to Gintama. Different trends have influenced shonen series over time, and it's fascinating when like-minded properties emerge and build upon each other's energy.

Dragon Ball is often cited as the grandfather of modern shonen series, but there's a lot of discussion around shonen's "Dark Trio" and how they're a contemporary counterpoint to shonen's previous "Big Three." Unsurprisingly, the Dark Trio's series are all gloomier than the Big Three. However, there are many more nuanced eccentricities that make up these celebrated anime. There are now anime adaptations...

Chapter 136 of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man will be released on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. It will be available to readers free of charge via the Viz Media website, Shōnen Jump, and Manga Plus app. The entire series library is also available to paying members of Shōnen Jump Plus.

Below is a list of the specific times that Chapter 136 will be available depending on the time zone:

Pacific Time (Pst): 8 a.m. Mountain Time (Mst): 9 a.m. Central Time (Cst): 10 a.m. Eastern Time (Est): 11 a.m. UK Time (BST): 4 p.m. European Time (Cest): 5 p.m. Indian Time (Ist): 8:30 p.m.

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The latest installment of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man -- Chapter 135, "Sentimental Drive" -- began with a conversation between Asa and Yoru. The former questioned whether the newly revealed Chainsaw Man on the TV was the real deal,...

UFC 290 emanates live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, where we’ll see UFC Featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski return to the Featherweight division to take on current interim champion Yair Rodriguez in a winner-takes-all slugfest. Volkanovski is unbeaten in the featherweight division and would love to continue his dominance once more. To do so, he’ll have to defeat former “The Ultimate Fighter” winner Rodriguez, who enters with a 16-3 record. UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez airs this Saturday, July 8 on ESPN+. Early prelims start at 6 p.m. Et, with prelims kicking off at 8 p.m. Et, and the main card beginning at 10 p.m. Et. You can watch the action with a Subscription to ESPN+ and purchasing the PPV for $79.99.

How to Watch UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez When: Saturday, July 8 at 6 p.m. Et (early prelims), 8 p.m. Et (prelims), 10 p.m. Et (main card) Where:...

Episode 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 will be released on July 13, 2023. The beloved Studio Mappa anime releases weekly episodes every Thursday on Crunchyroll.

Below is a list of the specific times the second episode is expected to arrive, depending on your time zone:

Pacific time (Pt): 9 a.m. Mountain Time (Mst): 10 a.m. Central Time (Cst): 11 a.m. Eastern Time (Est): 12 a.m. UK Time (BST): 5 p.m. European Time (Cest): 6 p.m. Indian Time (Ist): 9:30 p.m.

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What Happens in Jujutsu Kaisen's Season 2 Opener

Jujutsu Kaisen has finally returned for its highly anticipated sequel season, bringing fans back into the world of Sorcerers and Curses. Season 2 Episode 1, "Hidden Inventory," officially kickstarted the flashback story known as the "Gojo's Past" arc, which focuses on the fan-favorite Satoru Gojo during his school years.

The first episode of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 will be released on July 6, 2023. The beloved Studio Mappa anime will release weekly episodes every Thursday exclusively on Crunchyroll.

What Time Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Premieres

Below is a list of the specific times the premiere of the new season is expected to arrive, depending on your time zone:

Pacific time (Pt): 8 a.m. Mountain Time (Mst): 9 a.m. Central Time (Cst): 10 a.m. Eastern Time (Est): 11 a.m. UK Time (BST): 4 p.m. European Time (Cest): 5 p.m. Indian Time (Ist): 8:30 p.m.

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The long-awaited return of Jujutsu Kaisen has been hotly anticipated since Season 2 was confirmed in February 2022. This upcoming installment of the anime is set to adapt multiple arcs from the massively influential manga. The first of these is the "Gojo's Past" arc,...

The Disney Trio of streaming services is three, three, three times the fun for Disney — even if it’s not exactly three times the revenue for Disney.

Disney’s Trio — Disney+, ESPN+, and Hulu — runs $12.99 per month for the “Basic” plan (with ads) or $19.99 for the ad-free “Premium” plan. The combination provides a clear value to consumers: Trio Basic is a savings of 49 percent vs. subscribing to each service individually; without ads, it’s a 44 percent savings. (Disney is happy to give you a bigger break on subscription price in exchange for the advertising revenue; details on the options are here.)

But where the bundle really pays off for Disney is in a subscriber’s loyalty. The Disney Bundle, a term generally reserved for the Trio (there is also a Duo of ad-supported Hulu and Disney+ for $9.99 that falls under the “Disney Bundle” banner), has the lowest churn (the amount...

After taking an eight-month breather, TV’s MCU is swinging back into action later this month. Here’s everything you need to know for streaming the espionage thriller Secret Invasion.

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The series premieres Wednesday, June 21, and will release episodes weekly thereafter. Based on the 2008 Marvel comic of the same name,...

Every era of anime has its defining shows and heroes who represent the sensibilities of the time they symbolize. In the 1990s, Neon Genesis Evangelion's Shinji redefined the image of a mecha protagonist, and Dragon Ball Z's Goku took over the shonen genre. In the early 2000s, Shonen Jump's Big Three showed everyone the new ideal shonen hero in Luffy, Naruto, and Ichigo.

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But who fans will remember as the defining heroes of modern anime is yet to be determined. Today's anime landscape is as saturated as ever, yet, only a handful of shows will go down in history as classics. These anime heroes will definitely make the cut as those who shaped the medium of this decade.

Itadori Yuji (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Replacing Shonen Jump's Big Three in the limelight, the emerging Dark Trio paved the way for grittier,...

In the early 2000s, Bleach, Naruto, and One Piece were unofficially hailed as the "Shonen Jump Big Three." These shows were pivotal to introducing anime to newcomers, and for cementing anime's worldwide popularity. But like any other trend, the Big Three eventually passed the spotlight to a successor: the so-called Dark Trio.

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This new trifecta comprised Chainsaw Man, Hell's Paradise: Jigokurarku, and Jujutsu Kaisen. These new shonen hits owed a lot to the Big Three, but they undeniably improved on their predecessors in various ways. Without the imperfect but still highly influential Big Three, the Dark Trio wouldn't be where it is today.

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One barrier the Big Three has in gaining new fans is its age. Although Bleach's fights were epic 20 years ago, they pale in comparison to newer anime — including its long-awaited and heartbreaking finale, Thousand-Year Blood War. To be fair,...

UFC returns to Vancouver, BC for UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana. The main event will see current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes face top challenger Irene Aldana. Aldana steps in for Julianna Pena, who had to withdraw from her third match with Nunes due to a rib injury, and aims to make the most of her opportunity. UFC 289 airs live on Saturday, June 10, on ESPN+. Early prelims start at 6 p.m. Et, with prelims kicking off at 8 p.m. Et, and the main card beginning at 10 p.m. Et. You can watch the action with a Subscription to ESPN+ and purchasing the PPV for $79.99.

How to Watch UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana When: Saturday, June 10 at 6 p.m. Et (early pre-lims)/8 p.m. Et (pre-lims)/10 p.m. Et (main card) Where: ESPN+, ESPN (Prelims only) Streaming: Watch with a Subscription to ESPN+ and by purchasing the PPV for $79.99. Sign Up Now $9.99 / month espnplus.

It seems only apt that after decades at the top of her game, Michelle Yeoh finally triumphed at the Oscars this year with a performance that transcends both genres and languages. At times, Everything Everywhere All At Once even feels like a greatest hits montage of Yeoh’s already multi-faceted career – blending her most physical performances with her most emotional – going all-in on everything from her monstrous matriarchs to those hard-nosed cops; the delicate wuxia and the properly gnarly face-kicking.

After all, The Yeoh’s journey from Malaysian pageant winner to world-renowned action icon has been anything but straight-forward; there’s any number of reasons she’s as celebrated as she is in genre circles. Obviously she’s very, very, very good at beating people up whilst looking cool, but it’s also impossible to ignore just how much of a pioneer she’s been, not just for women in action,...

Studio Mappa's hit new series Hell's Paradise won't return for two weeks.

The anime's official Twitter account recently revealed that the series will take a one-week break following its latest installment. Episode 8, "Student and Master," was released on May 20, 2023, but the next outing has a slated release date of June 3, 2023, with no broadcast happening on May 27. Studio Mappa has yet to explain the unexpected delay at the time of writing.

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【お知らせ】 第8話のご視聴ありがとうございました。 来週5月27日の放送・配信はお休みとなります。 第9話の放送・配信は6月3日となります。#地獄楽アニメ — 『地獄楽』公式 (@jplus_jigokurak) May 20, 2023 Hell's Paradise Fans' Reaction to the Delay

Hell's Paradise has been one of the most popular anime titles in the spring season, with many fans expressing their disappointment at having to wait for the next chapter in the tweet's replies. Many of them pointed to the series as one of...

Johnnie To, Watanabe Hirobumi and Jang Sun-woo set to attend.

The Far East Film Festival (Feff), held in the Italian town of Udine, has revealed the full line-up for its landmark 25th edition, which is set to include appearances from filmmakers Johnnie To, Watanabe Hirobumi and Jang Sun-woo.

Running April 21-29, the festival will open with a double bill: He Shuming’s Ajoomma, the first co-production between Singapore and South Korea; and black comedy Bad Education by Taiwan’s Giddens Ko. It will close with Zhang Yimou’s Chinese blockbuster Full River Red.

The festival will screen 78 Asian films from 14 countries,...

The Far East Film Festival in Italy’s Udine will open with a double bill of He Shuming’s “Ajoomma” and Kai Ko’s “Bad Education.” It will close with Zhang Yimou’s blockbuster period epic “Full River Red.”

In between, the festival will showcase a stunning 78-title array of commercial and art-house films from across East Asia. Operating according to a motto of diversity –implying cultural asymmetries and artistic multiplicities – the 25th edition of the festival will run April 21-29.

Organizers say that their selection “shows in real time how the cinemas of East and Southeast Asia have re-emerged from the gruelling period of the pandemic, not all in the same way and not all with the same results.”

They point to the impact of Covid, politics and emigration from Hong Kong, and the recent resurgence of Cantonese-language cinema.

Similarly, Udine’s organizers note the recent box office struggles of South Korean cinema,...

The new age of Shonen anime and manga has taken a decidedly dark turn, reflecting the new generation of fans the same way One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach did in the era before. And with the premiere episode of Hell’s Paradise debuting on April 1, “The dark trio of Shonen” have all arrived from the printed page to the small screen. Hell’s Paradise, Chainsaw Man, and Jujutsu Kaisen debuted as manga in 2016, each dealing with demons, devils, ghosts, sorcerers, and morbid storylines. First was Hell’s Paradise, which follows the ruthless assassin Gabimaru, now on death row with only one way out: retrieve the Elixir of Life from a sinister island filled with fellow convicts and demonic beasts alongside his handler Yamada Asaemon Sagiri. Then Jujutsu Kaisen followed up, focusing on Yuji, who enrolls in a school’s occult club, unaware that its members are actual sorcerers. After getting caught up in a demonic entity’s scheme,...

With the shutdown of the Nintendo eShop imminent, many worthwhile Nintendo 3Ds exclusives will become unavailable, or at least very hard to find. The eShop closure will affect both 3Ds and Wii U users, furthering the discontinuation trend that began in 2019 with the end of the Wii Shop Channel.

It will unfortunately be a bit harder for players to buy games, as the 3Ds eShop recently stopped accepting credit cards. Thankfully, players can get around this by linking their Nintendo Network ID - the identifier for the 3Ds - with their Nintendo account. After linking, they can add funds to their Nintendo account and purchase 3Ds titles. Luckily, there's still time to pick up these standout exclusives players before the Nintendo eShop closes on March 27.

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Pixar decided to forgo Turning Red‘s theatrical release last year due to the Omicron variant, instead sending the film straight to streaming on Disney+ after a one-week screening for Los Angeles moviegoers at the Disney-owned El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.

The movie has been nominated for an Oscar for best animated film, where it will compete against Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Sea Beast. (The Pixar title was also up for best animated picture at the 2023 Golden Globes.)

Directed by Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Domee Shi (who won an Oscar for her animated short, Bao), the coming-of-age movie follows 13-year-old Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), who has a close relationship with her mother...

The Pokémon anime's Team Rocket Trio are dedicated to their life of evil and crime, almost as much as they are to each other. But for Pokémon's Jessie and James, that life of crime actually got started in their youth, long before Team Rocket ever entered the picture.

Team Rocket itself is a mafia-esque criminal organization, run by Giovanni with the intention of stealing Pokémon from trainers and using them to make a profit. Jessie and James are first shown to be highly competent members of this group, but as they fell to Ash and Pikachu again and again, their competency became more of a joke. No matter what elaborate scheme they try to pull, Ash and co. are always there to foil them. The early anime, however, established Jessie and James' street cred by revealing their more serious criminal pasts.

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