VanillaCreamKilly

Am definitely excited that A.B.A. has finally returned after such a long absence. I'm gonna hold off on my thoughts on her inclusion here until after the last Season 3 character is revealed and released. I want to do a post reflecting on how Season 3 of Strive has been in terms of my predictions late last year, and should there be a Season 4 I want to refine my character predictions for that too. Speaking of Season 3, there's one more spot for a character, and I'm leaning towards it either being Dizzy or Slayer. Slayer is definitely one of the most requested characters for Strive, but Dizzy isn't that far behind and also has the benefit of being pretty significant within the Guilty Gear series. She even appeared at the end of Another Story, so she could have an arcade mode that followed up on that. Looking at the last characters from previous seasons, there's Testament in Season 1, who was a sub-boss for the first two games, absent for the Xrd games, and returned with noticable

The passing of Akira Toriyama came as much of a shock to me as it did so many other people, and it took me a while to really process it. Given that his impact on manga, anime and video game culture is so massive, and his name feels as ubiquitous to anime as Osamu Tezuka, it felt almost unthinkable for it to even happen, as though he’d naturally always be a constant the way his works are. But he was ultimately human just like the rest of us, and his loss will be felt hard along with the passing of other important manga artists like Kentaro Miura and Kazuki Takahashi in recent years. While those who knew him personally like Eiichiro Oda and Toyotarou could speak more in-depth about the kind of man he was, I’d like to share what his works meant to me. Like many folks around my age, Dragon Ball Z was one of the first shows I watched to really introduce me to anime. Here in Australia, it aired alongside Pokémon and Digimon on a cartoon show called Cheez TV and was one of things my older