Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni (In Another World with My Smartphone) and Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku! (God's Blessings on this Wonderful World!) are two anime series with a few things in common, aside from both having preposterously long names that I will henceforth refer to as Smartphone and KonoSuba, respectively. Both have the same basic premise: a modern, young, Japanese nobody dies, and divine forces allow him to live on in a world that resembles a RPG (magic, ex

Fantastic Beasts is the newest (and certainly not last, more on that later) installment in the increasingly broad and varied Harry Potter universe. Unlike the previous films, which focus on the titular young wizard, Beasts instead takes place nearly a century earlier, in the roaring '20s New York City. Three things to note about this era: the wizard Grindelwald is on the loose, American wizards, unlike their British cousins, have an apartheid-like attitude towards muggles, an