What Whitney's Watching

I am an over-critical fan. I tend to nitpick and deeply critique the shows and movies I love instead of just sitting and enjoying them for what they are. No, I'm not out here doxxing people who disagree with me on some dusty fan twitter but I will still go in about my shows. And it's that passion for a show or artist or fine ass anime boi that makes content worth taking in. Getting involved and attached to your favorite media enhances the experience. The more you care about it, the more immersed you are in the world. You're more likely to support other projects the creators and actors undertake and that's nice, we like that. You're more likely to read fan theories and lore and hey, that's a good use of time. That fills the void, yes?? For a long time, it seemed to me that unless you were trolling the shows and it's fans or engaging in targeted harassment of female participants in your lame ass fanboy boys club, that there was no true downside to stanning ...

One Piece is one of the greatest anime of all time and I will never let anyone convince me otherwise because they would be wrong and I don't listen to wrong people. It is a MASTERPIECE. An exercise in impressive and engaging storytelling. You know what's crazy? The One Piece Anime is 20 years old and still manages to keep an audience engaged and build suspense. 20 YEARS of the same handful of pirates and we STILL CARE ABOUT THEM!? Your favorite show can't keep a character interesting for 2 seasons and One Piece has kept Luffy fresh and dynamic for almost my entire life. That alone is so much of a feat that I don't even know why you would need convincing after that. Honestly, anime aside One Piece might be one of the greatest shows period across all mediums and it's not hard to see why. One Piece is about a boy, Monkey D. Luffy, whose life goal is to become king of the pirates. We watch him compile his crew, grow and train, and travel the seas as pirates do....

The Promised Neverland manga is some of the most compelling new manga to come out within the last few years and anyone who still insists on sleeping on it is severely missing out, a flop, and hates good things. Seriously, it's really good and is just the sort of biting social critique through an unconventional lens that seems to be gaining in popularity, especially in the United States. The best content to come out of this year in fact, acknowledges how dark our world is and then guides the audience through digesting that darkness through it's style and structure. A perfect example of this is HBO's "Euphoria", a show that finally captures how toxic, dangerous, and confusing the American high school is, while also accurately framing this chaos as commonplace and ordinary, almost banal. The sort of normalcy which, if you've been in any high school in the last 5 years, you know is the standard.  This also makes for powerful storytelling as up until now, it see...