Patrick Bender

How an Anime Tech Cult Can Help Us Grasp the Ethics Behind Game Development

A video game designer and purveyor of “mixed reality” takes a long, hard look through his headset at a heady ‘Bebop’ episode.

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

It’s been a long 10 years. These shows will get you through the next ones too.

Talking Nickelodeon with Fred Seibert, the backstage architect of your childhood.

For better or worse.

The 'Dexter's Laboratory' and 'Samurai Jack' creator discusses his brutal, bloody, badass new series on Adult Swim

The finest felines of animated fiction, finally fanatically filed. Enjoy.

Charismatic liar. Brutal bloodbender. Cain to his brother’s Abel. (Sort of.) Yet Amon’s story is nothing short of heartwrenching.

Maybe Deku should use his legs?