Tag Archives: Cartoon

Authentically Awesome Anime: A Gurren Lagann Retrospective

I would like to thank Chris Pranger for being such a good sport lately. And not just for giving me full position here at Toy-TMA, this goes way beyond that. Back as a guest writer, I never thought he’d actually approve of my DBZ article, as it was so long and unexpected. Not only that, [...]

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5 Things From DBZ I Wanted To See But Didn’t

Christmas is over and the end of the year festivities are about to hit, meaning everyone else is going to be covering the Best Of and Worst Of 2010 lists like they just remembered they had a final paper to write. Me, I decided I haven’t talked about Dragonball Z in quite a while and [...]

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Transformers Prime: Definitely more than meets the eye

If you’ve become skeptical about whether Transformers can still be really good, it’s understandable. The series has had a huge set of snarled and fragmented continuities in both animation and comics over the last 20 years. It’s understandable if some fans feel like the franchise is hopelessly lost, that it’s forgotten its heart, its spark, [...]

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Pranger’s Counter to The Top 10 Avatar Misconceptions

Guess what?! I’ve now seen all three seasons of Nick’s Avatar, plus the awful live action movie that no one should see, thus making me an Avatar expert. Didn’t expect that, did ya Gus?! This means that I can try something inspired by a few commenters from my DBZ plothole articles and write a full [...]

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Twenty Years and Still Going: A Simpsons Retrospective

True Fact: I grew up in the United States of America. I’m not trying to brag or anything, it’s just simple stating of fact. Why this is important to The Simpsons has to do with what The Simpsons is to me: An American Institution. This in no way means that I believe The Simpsons is [...]

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The Top 10 Most Awesome Moments in Dragonball Z

More than a month ago I spent some time really reefing on DBZ by coming up with 10 big plotholes. To follow this up I decided to dig up 10 more plotholes worth mentioning. And all this despite my noted love of the series. “Why all the hate?” I thought. The series made me so [...]

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The Top 10 Biggest Plot Holes In Dragonball Z

I’m on my big Dragonball Z kick and it got me thinking a bit about the series as a whole and what it did right. Then again, it got me thinking about what it did wrong. I started to think of some things that didn’t quite make sense, even after I watched the series a [...]

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Dragonball Z Evolution: A Fan’s Dreams Are Shattered

I’ll just come right out and say that I’m about the biggest Dragonball Z fanboy that ever lived.  I’ve been obsessed with the anime and manga for over 10 years now and I doubt I’ll lose my love for its stupidity any time soon.  Naturally, when I heard that they were making a live action [...]

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