Alex Maher

The 3-Minute Beginners Guide to Understanding ‘Xavier: Renegade Angel’

Adult Swim’s weirdest show melted my mind and soul forever. Ten years later, here are a dozen tidbits worth revisiting.

Here are six things I’ve learned from that experience.

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Or: The Evolution and Devolution of Dragon Ball Z’s once-powerful son.

The internet's most successful hip hop and cartoon mashup artist discusses his career, branching out, and giving back.

With only the finest—the mères de la mères—of animation. Happy Mother’s Day!

Love Spike and hate Andy? We got bad news for you, pardner…they’re basically the same person.

'Steven Universe' explores trauma over and over again. The movie is no different.

A brief look at the history of otaku subculture and how it’s been intertwined with the rise of anime in the United States.

A brief recommendation for a show about wolves.

Prepare for a trip to Heck.

Rounding up the show's successes and reviewing a handful of its films in miniature, including Makoto Shinkai's 'Weathering With You.'