Japan & Korea Fan Articles

In the first Pokémon generation there is one spot where the journey simply stops: a Snorlax is lying right across the path, asleep. No battle helps...

Demons in the world of Kimetsu no Yaiba have a serious problem with light: sunbeams burn them. That is why Tanjiro Kamado carries his transformed s...

In der Welt von One Piece ist ein Steckbrief keine Drohung, sondern eine Auszeichnung. Je höher das Kopfgeld, desto größer der Ruf, und die Strohhu...

Im Turnier der Kraft passiert das, worauf Fans jahrelang gewartet haben: Son-Goku hört auf nachzudenken. Sein Körper weicht von allein aus, die Haa...

Saitama hat ein Problem, das andere Helden gern hätten: Er gewinnt jeden Kampf mit einem einzigen Schlag und langweilt sich deshalb zu Tode. Sein T...

Tausend Jahre nach dem Verschwinden der Menschheit läuft die Stadt Eden 3 wie geschmiert: Roboter bestellen die Felder, halten alles sauber und sin...

Kakashi Hatake ist der Mann, der zum Training eine Stunde zu spät kommt und dann eine Ausrede erzählt, die ihm kein Mensch abnimmt. Kopierninja nen...

Die Capsule Corporation ist eigentlich das größte Wunder in Dragon Ball. Während sich draußen Saiyajins um den Planeten prügeln, hat Bulmas Familie...

Son-Goku hat vieles gelernt: fliegen, sich teleportieren, Haare in allen Farben des Regenbogens tragen. Ordnung halten gehört nicht dazu. Wenn im U...

Yasuke hat es wirklich gegeben. Im 16. Jahrhundert kam ein Mann afrikanischer Herkunft nach Japan, trat in die Dienste des Fürsten Oda Nobunaga und...

Am Ende von Naruto Shippuden hängt ein rot leuchtendes Auge als Mond über der Welt, und die gesamte Shinobi-Welt träumt denselben Traum. Das Unendl...

There is that one moment in a battle when your opponent sends out their last Pokémon and the thing does nothing but grin. Gengar has had that routi...

Eating a Devil Fruit is a trade. You are handed an absurd ability for free, and in exchange the sea becomes your enemy forever, because you will ne...

In the world of One Piece nobody has a phone on the wall. If you want to reach someone, you pick up a Transponder Snail: a living snail that carrie...

Pay Chopper a compliment and you get an indignant “That doesn't make me happy at all!” back, while the reindeer dances from side to side with delig...

Every crew needs a mascot, and with the Straw Hats that role goes to a reindeer who gets mistaken for a raccoon on a regular basis. Tony Tony Chopp...

Before a pirate crew gets round to any adventure, somebody has to make coffee first. In the morning half the crew sits around the table saying noth...

In One Piece a ship is never merely a means of transport. The Going Merry is the Straw Hat crew's first own caravel: small, a little wobbly and fit...

Luffy needs remarkably little to set out: a rowing boat, a barrel and the unshakeable conviction that he will be King of the Pirates. Ship, crew an...

The best part of getting a present is the moment right before the paper tears: everything rustles, everyone is watching, and for a few seconds ther...

Some people cannot find their way back to their own table after a trip to the toilet. Zoro has turned that talent into an art form: the swordsman o...

In One Piece the road to the greatest treasure in the world rarely runs through negotiation. Between the East Blue and the end of the Grand Line si...

Along the harbour walls of every sea they hang in stacks: wanted posters with a face, a name and a number underneath. The higher the bounty, the mo...

Between Naruto and his teacher Kakashi lie roughly two temperaments. One of them yells his goals across the village until everybody knows them. The...

Naruto Uzumaki never worked his way up on talent, he did it with blunt repetition: hundreds of Shadow Clones, hundreds of goes at the same exercise...

Imagine tapping your fully packed moving box with nothing but your fingertips and watching it float. That is exactly the Quirk of Ochaco Uraraka fr...

Ordinary playing cards have been ruled by the same little court for centuries: king, queen, jack, all of them solemn and none of them with any expe...

Collect seven Dragon Balls, then Shenron appears and grants one wish. Sounds like an afternoon, turns out to be half a world tour. Nobody in Dragon...

Muichiro Tokito usually looks like his thoughts wandered off two rooms ago. He stares at clouds, forgets halfway through a sentence what he was tal...

The founding bet in Dandadan is quickly explained: Momo thinks aliens are nonsense, Okarun says the same about ghosts, and whoever gets it wrong ha...

Dandadan opens with a bet between two classmates: Momo swears by ghosts, Okarun by aliens. Both of them turn out to be right, and the loudest proof...

In just about every classic role playing game the slime is the first creature you beat: a wobbling pudding with a face, worth three experience poin...

A god of death doesn't carry keys – but you do. Ryuk, the immortal Shinigami from Death Note, who threw the fateful notebook to Light Yagami and ha...

Kafka Hibino was supposed to be out hunting monsters long ago; instead, he spends years cleaning up their remains. Until a tiny kaiju slips inside ...

The world of Kaiju No. 8 is plagued by monstrous creatures, and stopping them takes nerves of steel. Mina Ashiro has those in spades: as Captain of...

In Kaiju No. 8, the Defense Force stands between humanity and towering monsters, and hardly anyone goes about it as coolly as Soshiro Hoshina. As V...