My brother and I would come home from the library with a new stack of books every week during the summer. I have enjoyed reading my whole life. I’m not the fastest reader, and there have been ups and downs to work around the busyness of life. But since elementary school, I have always loved reading. When you open a book you can escape to another world. A plot twist that leaves your jaw on the floor, the tears that you shed when you lose your favorite character, the times you

Growing up, I wasn’t your typical kid in our small Southern Illinois town. I didn’t care to play, or watch for that matter, baseball, football, or basketball. I did and still do, however, like anime. My first encounter with anime was watching Fairy Tail at a neighbor's house. That got me curious-what is anime really? A Brief History of Anime Cover of Fairy Tail-The Game video box For the most part, when people speak of anime they are referring to Japanese anime. The first a

Record of Ragnrarok, written by Shinya Umemura and Takumi Fukui, started out as a manga series. It had its own group of loyal fans eagerly anticipating the next volume. Eventually, the powers that be decided to turn the manga into an animated series to be streamlined on sites like Netflix and YouTube. Unfortunately, the series created a lot of controversy over the depiction of its characters, the animation, and its heavy use of backstory. So, is Record of Ragnrarok a good man