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Anime is known for many wonderful aspects, like imaginative stories, incredibly developed characters, wondrous worlds, and so much more. But it's also known for exploring many topics that are controversial or deemed inappropriate for audiences outside of Japan. Thus, the subbed version of an anime is often altered to suit this new audience.

One theme that appears to be quite common in anime is partners cheating either one or both of them. In some cases, and depending on the genres and tropes of an anime, this is okay. However, in many slice-of-life romance anime, infidelity is a horrible betrayal, and yet many characters cheat and ruin their relationships altogether.

Updated on July 24, 2024, by Antonio Samson: There are plenty of anime that have romance front and center. However, there are plenty of characters that aren't faithful in their relationships. This article was updated to include more characters and to meet...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows is a highly anticipated open-world title by Ubisoft that’s going to make its way to PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S on 15 November 2024. Given its massive scale and the promise of exploring feudal Japan, there’s a lot we can expect from the game.

In a new series of events, the studio is giving a chance to fans who would like to voice NPCs in the game. This is a “dubbing challenge” that will run on TikTok between June 18 and July 2. Those who come out victorious get to have their voice showcased in the game once it launches.

Fans Can Have Their Voice Immortalized Through Assassin’s Creed Shadows Assassin’s Creed Shadows can be the “big break” for upcoming voice-over artists.

The studio has switched things up with how Npc voice-overs work in the game. With Assassin’s Creed Shadows, they are giving...

Shoujo Tsubaki is a banned anime known for its disturbing content, including graphic scenes of abuse and trauma. Director Hiroshi Harada faced challenges and personal sacrifices to bring the dark and unsettling story to life. Other banned anime, like Violence Jack and Urotsukidoji, also push boundaries with intense violence and sexual content.

Trigger Warning: This article contains descriptions about disturbing subject matter, including pedophilia and sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised.There are several anime that are products of their proverbial environment, with the content being deemed inappropriate when released outside Japan. Examples range from mere kids shows to the most heinous adult content. Most countries, including Japan, have outlawed an anime film called Shoujo Tsubaki.

Also known in the West simply as Midori, Shoujo Tsubaki tells the story of a 14-year-old girl named Midori that undergoes extreme emotional and sexual trauma at the hands of a group of deranged circus performers.

Robert P. O’Brien is an American self-taught artist/illustrator that works in various mediums, creates shirt designs for 36styles.com and helps run the Kung Fu Fandom Forum hosted by that site. Nicknamed “Kung Fu Bob” because of his love of that cinema genre, in recent years he has created a lot of new, original artwork for DVD and Blu-ray film releases, in addition to book and CD cover art. In 2020 he recorded his first audio commentary for 88 Films’ release of Jet Li’s The Master and also joined Hong Kong cinema expert Brandon Bentley for a commentary on 88’s Blu-ray for New Fist Of Fury.

We speak with him about how he begun martial arts, drawing how he combines the two, the procedure he follows every time he deals with an artwork, his work with 88 Films, Midori Implus and Arrow, and many other topics.

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