Best Anime Fights of All Time: 15 Battles That Defined the Medium

What Separates a Good Fight from a Legendary One Not every anime fight earns the right to be called legendary. There are thousands of battles across decades of anime, and most of them are forgettable — two characters throwing punches until one falls down. The fights on this list are different. They hit different. And … Read more

Gojo vs Sukuna: The Fight That Broke Jujutsu Kaisen

The Fight That Shonen Had Been Building Toward for Years There are fights in anime and manga that fans wait for. Then there is Gojo vs Sukuna — a clash so mythologized across hundreds of chapters that by the time it finally happened, the entire Jujutsu Kaisen fandom had constructed an almost religious expectation around … Read more

Evangelion Turns 30: How Neon Genesis Changed Anime Forever

Thirty Years Later, Nothing Hits Quite Like It October 4, 1995. TV Tokyo airs the first episode of a robot anime about a boy who climbs into a giant mech to fight monsters. On paper, it sounds like every other show in the Saturday morning rotation. By episode 16, it has become something else entirely … Read more

Nen vs Cursed Energy: How Hunter x Hunter and Jujutsu Kaisen Built Anime’s Best Power Systems

Nen vs Cursed Energy: How Hunter x Hunter and Jujutsu Kaisen Built Anime’s Best Power Systems Two power systems. Two different philosophies about what makes a fight worth watching. Yoshihiro Togashi spent years constructing Nen as an almost academic framework — a martial art with rules so intricate that entire arcs hinge on readers misreading … Read more