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Why Kaiju No. 8 Never Caught Fire in Japan: Japanese Fans React — "They Made a Mediocre Story... Mediocre."
Kaiju No. 8 was one of the biggest manga launches of its era — 14 million copies in print, a glossy Production I.G anime, an OP by an internationally famous band. So Western fans are often surprised to learn it left a lot of Japanese readers cold. This reaction thread, built around a Japanese fan-critic's video literally titled "Why didn't the Kaiju No. 8 anime catch on," is one of the bluntest looks you'll find at that homegrown disappointment. The recurring themes: that the genuinely great opening hook — a middle-aged ex-kaiju-cleanup worker using his cleanup know-how to fight monsters — got quietly abandoned the moment Kafka joined the Defense Force; that these "kaiju" feel less like Godzilla and more like talking, human-sized people in monster suits; that the much-memed "left elbow, right elbow" copy-paste panel became a punchline; and that fans kept name-dropping a different manga, Rai Rai Rai, as "the Kaiju No. 8 we actually wanted." The most quietly devastating line in the whole thread isn't even an insult — it's a correction to the video's own title.
1534 comments6/25/26, 7:45 AM
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Why Did Levi Survive Attack on Titan? Japanese Fans React — "He Wasn't Lucky. The Brigade Is Worth One Levi."
Levi Ackerman walking out of Attack on Titan alive is one of the manga's quietest miracles — a fan-favorite everyone was bracing to lose, who somehow made it to the final page. A Japanese reaction clip revisiting his survival blew up, and the most-liked Japanese comments turn it into the debate the West never quite settles in English: was it luck, or was it the point? The thread opens on the franchise's most-quoted scrap of dialogue — "Levi is worth an entire brigade" — and the running joke that the truer reading is the reverse: this brigade is worth one Levi. From there the recurring themes were two: the very Japanese reading-experience of following the series purely terrified of when Levi would finally die ("the story took a back seat"), and a serious, citation-heavy fan theory that his survival was never luck at all — that an awakened Ackerman senses lethal danger through the Paths, the way only he and Mikasa flinched at Zeke's rockslide from inside the airship. The luck-camp pushes back, the theory-camp digs in, and somewhere in the middle someone just says he's too short to hit. It lands on the only conclusion the comment section could reach about a 160cm man who dodges everything.
845 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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Blue Lock Ch. 350: Japanese Fans React to Ego Benching Rin — "This Finally Feels Like Blue Lock Again"
Blue Lock's latest chapter (350) had coach Jinpachi Ego go fully unhinged again — benching Itoshi Rin, the series' perennial No. 1, right after Japan's loss to France, while Isagi volunteered for the bench himself. The most-liked Japanese reactions split three ways: a genuine re-reading of Ego's philosophy (the top comment realizes his "if you doubt me" line isn't "if you can't follow my theory" but "if you don't believe Blue Lock can make you the world's best"); a wave of dark glee at the untouchable Rin finally getting dropped; and a flood of in-jokes only Japanese readers catch — most of all the panel parodying "The one who's cut is Kaz, Kazu Miura," the coach's infamous real-life line dropping the national-team king from the 1998 World Cup squad. The recurring theme was relief: after months of "this had turned into a normal soccer manga," fans felt Blue Lock remember it was always supposed to be an insane death game, and it lands on the kind of one-line verdict that only a Japanese fan refreshing the chapter at midnight would write.
480 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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DANDADAN's "Strongest Yokai" Reveal: Japanese Fans React — "She's the Most Famous Ghost in Japan. Of Course She's Strong."
DANDADAN dropped its "strongest yokai" reveal — and the figure who answered Turbo Granny's call turned out to be Hanako-san, the toilet ghost every Japanese kid grows up terrified of. The most-liked Japanese reactions didn't gush about the art; they explained the rules. The recurring theme was a piece of folklore logic English fans rarely get told: in this world a yokai's power scales with how famous and how feared it is, and Hanako — the undisputed queen of Japanese school ghost stories — outranks almost everything. From there the thread became a crash course only Japanese fans could give: the real 1950s urban-legend origins behind Hanako, why a spirit is near-unbeatable inside its own "territory" (a rule the series set up all the way back in the original Turbo Granny fight), Jujutsu Kaisen jokes about the toilet being her literal "domain expansion," and a running fan tier-list of which legendary Japanese ghosts could possibly be stronger. And underneath all the lore talk, the same warm note kept surfacing about a certain old lady fans can't stop loving.
205 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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Haikyu!!'s "Quitter's Battle": Why Ennoshita's Comeback Wrecks Japanese Fans Who Played School Sports — "I quit too. Some days it still feels like I betrayed myself."
A short clip of Haikyu!!'s "Quitter's Battle" — the backstory where reserve player Chikara Ennoshita quits the Karasuno volleyball team under a brutal coach, then crawls back — went viral in Japan, and the Japanese comment section turned into a confessional. The most-liked replies barely talk about volleyball; they talk about real life. The recurring theme is that Haikyu!! validates both the kids who quit and the kids who stayed, captured by one fan's line about the genius of writing a place that's "comfortable, relaxing, totally ordinary — and unbearably hard to be in." From there the thread fills with people who actually walked away from their own school clubs — soccer, tennis, basketball, brass band — some who came back, some who never did, all of them gutted that they didn't meet this story while they were still young enough for it to save them. It builds to a verdict only people raised inside Japan's all-or-nothing club culture would land on.
271 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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My Hero Academia Finale — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "Armored Deku Is the Perfect Answer to Episode 1"
My Hero Academia's anime finale aired in Japan, and the most-liked Japanese reactions barely touched the action — they read the ending like a thesis defense. The comment that rose to the top frames Armored Deku, the suit that lets a now-Quirkless Izuku Midoriya keep being a hero, as the perfect closing answer to the question he asks All Might in Episode 1: "Can someone without a Quirk still become a hero?" From there the thread becomes a love letter to the anime-original ("anime-ori") direction the studio added on top of the manga: longtime fans clock that the final scene returns Deku to the exact spot where he first met All Might to mark him as the One For All bearer; that the finale frame-rhymes Deku donning his suit with the very first episode and reuses the Season 1 opening; and a popular reading that the ninth-and-final holder is the "turn" in the story's structure, not its full stop. The recurring theme was reverence — for a staff whose love for the source read as deep as the readers' own — and grief that a decade-long Shonen Jump pillar is actually over. It closes on the kind of one-line verdict only a fan who watched the whole run could land.
252 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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Overlord: "Is Ainz Actually the Strongest?" — Japanese Fans Answer, and Start Worshipping Him Like Nazarick's Guardians: "He stayed loyal to us, so we stay loyal to him."
A long-dormant Japanese Overlord lore channel resurfaced with a video asking the eternal question — is Ainz Ooal Gown actually the strongest being in the New World? — and the comment section did something English-speaking fans almost never get to watch happen: it turned into Nazarick. Japanese viewers spontaneously slipped into Floor-Guardian roleplay, addressing the creator as "the merciful Supreme Being who never abandoned us" and "the one who stayed," because he kept uploading after countless other Overlord channels went dark — a fandom in-joke that mirrors the show's own premise, since Momonga is the one guildmate who didn't abandon the guild. Underneath the devotion, the recurring debate is genuinely sharp: the most-liked lore takes argue Ainz is "strongest" the way the US President is the world's strongest man (it's the position, not the muscles), explain his absurd spell count with a Dragon Quest skill-tree analogy, and point out — with a touch of unease — that his guildmates seemingly built their NPCs to serve him on purpose. The thread keeps circling back to one quietly devastating fact about what Momonga actually wants, and it lands on the kind of warm, in-character send-off only this corner of the fandom would write.
545 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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Hakurou Beheads the "300x Perception" Squad: Japanese Fans React — "They Thought They Were Toying With Him. The Old Man Was Toying With Them."
A clip of Hakurou — the white-haired swordmaster of Tempest in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime — calmly decapitating a trio of arrogant enemies blew up on a Japanese reaction channel (1.4M views), and the comment section turned into a masterclass on why "seeing fast" is not the same as "moving fast." The enemies carry a skill that lets them perceive the world at 300x speed and assume that makes them untouchable; the top Japanese comments patiently explain the trap — your eyes can run at 300x, but your body can't, so you watch your own decapitation arrive in slow motion and still can't dodge it. From there the thread becomes equal parts swordsmanship analysis (the "Oboro-ryu Water Slash" reads as a real water-style sword art) and pure schadenfreude at three smug characters getting humbled, before pivoting into a running gag — if Hakurou's strikes are that fast, then logically his villain monologue must also be playing back at 300x speed. It all lands on the one iron law of anime that these three forgot to obey.
264 comments6/25/26, 7:30 AM
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Detective Conan: Angel of the Highway — Japanese Fans React, and the Standout Wasn't Conan: "I Fell Hard for That Nameless Girl's Resolve"
Detective Conan's 2026 theatrical film, Angel of the Highway, became Japan's latest annual blockbuster — and when Japanese fans gathered to share spoiler-light impressions, the most-liked reactions weren't about Conan, the Black Organization, or the case at all. They were about a nameless mob motorcycle cop who appears for barely a moment, makes one suicidally selfless call to clear the road, and walks off with the entire fandom's heart. The thread then spirals outward into the things only longtime Japanese fans clock: the gap-moe of veteran motorcycle officer Chihaya blushing in a princess-carry, the gloriously stupid action physics (a bike hijacking a flying helicopter; Ran's offscreen beatdown that the movie literally couldn't be bothered to show), a running joke borrowed from a classic Japanese cop drama ("We can't close off the Rainbow Bridge!"), and a homage-spotting game pulling threads from movies one through twenty-eight. It builds to a quiet gut-punch about a name in the end credits, before landing on the kind of verdict only a Conan lifer would give.
685 comments6/25/26, 7:20 AM
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Gundam: The Witch from Mercury — How Japanese Fans Look Back on It: "Watching Guel's stock crash and then moon was the funniest part."
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury — Sunrise's first TV Gundam led by a female pilot — is the entry English fans most often hear was "a phenomenon" in Japan, but rarely get to see why. On a Japanese fan-reaction thread built around its Episode 1 hook (Suletta's "I'm a girl, though…" / Miorine's "Nice to meet you, my groom"), the most-liked Japanese comments aren't relitigating the divisive ending — they're nostalgic. The recurring themes: how the cast's "stock" violently crashed and soared (poor, beloved Guel and his infamous tent-and-part-time-job arc spawning the "Guel Camping" meme; Suletta being nicknamed the "Mercury tanuki"); how the show's wholesome school-yuri surface kept getting yanked back into brutal Gundam reality ("Stop it!", the tomato, the gut-punch prologue); and a very Japanese piece of media history — the wave of "Lycoris Recoil refugees" who flooded in for the yuri right as it aired, then got hit with YOASOBI's "Shukufuku" going viral. It closes on the kind of one-line verdict only a longtime Gundam fan would land.
85 comments6/25/26, 7:20 AM
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SPY x FAMILY: Does Loid Actually Love Yor? Japanese Fans Have a Theory — "It's Not Romance (Koi). It's Love (Ai)."
The question that every SPY x FAMILY fan eventually asks — does Loid Forger actually have feelings for Yor, or is it all just the mission? — went viral on a Japanese reaction channel, and the most-liked answers turn on a distinction English barely has a clean word for. Japanese fans split Loid's feelings into 恋 (koi, the fluttery romantic kind) versus 愛 (ai, the deeper, protective, you-are-my-family kind), and the top comment by a wide margin lands on the latter: Yor is in koi, but Loid has skipped past it into ai. The thread digs in from there — one fan reads the very kanji (愛 contains a "true heart," 恋 a "hidden" one), others point to the evidence (he keeps tolerating her insufferable brother Yuri, he visibly relaxes the moment he gets home, he snaps "don't point a gun at my wife" without a beat of hesitation), and a recurring camp argues the two feelings aren't even mutually exclusive — that Spy Twilight quietly stopped performing the role and just became Loid. It all winds down to a one-line verdict on the impossible gap between the two words.
120 comments6/25/26, 7:20 AM
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Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the Akaza Fight — How Japanese Fans Reacted to Tanjiro's Blade Slipping: "Hakuji Finally Beat Akaza"
In Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the climax of the Akaza fight hinges on a tiny, easily-missed detail: at the decisive moment, Tanjiro's Nichirin Blade slips clean out of his grip, forcing him to land the finishing blow with a bare fist instead. A Japanese reaction clip of the scene racked up hundreds of comments, and the thread splits into two very Japanese-fan obsessions. The first is emotional: a hugely-upvoted reading that the blade 'slipped' on purpose — that the late Flame Hashira Rengoku's spirit lives in that sword and was telling Tanjiro he didn't need to cut, that Akaza could be saved as a human instead, capped by the line that 'Hakuji,' the man, finally beat 'Akaza,' the demon. The second is comedy: fans reframing the whole fight as a brutal video-game boss with an absurd, undocumented win condition you'd need a strategy guide to find — 'land an unwinnable victory condition on your first try.' Somewhere in the middle, the same fans keep circling back to one detail nobody can let go of.
526 comments6/25/26, 6:10 AM
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Solo Leveling Shadow Monarch Scene: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "It's the One TUEEE Power-Fantasy I Can Still Watch With My Brain Off"
A Japanese clip of the Shadow Monarch awakening — Sung Jinwoo raising his hand to command the Shadow Army in Solo Leveling Season 2 — pulled in 4 million views, and the most-liked Japanese comments are refreshingly, hilariously honest about why they love it. The single biggest reaction isn't about the animation; it's praise that the show refused to bolt a harem onto its overpowered protagonist, a piece of genre literacy English subs rarely surface. From there the thread splits along three recurring lines: a frank, almost affectionate verdict that this is a "turn-your-brain-off" (脳死) anime and that's exactly the point; deep appreciation for the Shadow Army gimmick — "the coolest necromancer I've ever seen" — as the one thing keeping the power creep interesting; and a chuunibyou-core love for the "power reveal" moment that fans say scratches an itch nothing else does. Then there's the comedy: a 600-like thread of people who tried to copy Jinwoo's hand pose and hurt themselves, the running gag of the one ogre shadow Jinwoo forgot to extract because it got stuck in the ceiling, and a verdict on the entire cast's anatomy that turns the show's own title into a punchline.
304 comments6/25/26, 6:10 AM
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Medalist — Inori's Gold-Medal Skate: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "The kid who cried about wanting to skate while catching earthworms just won gold"
Medalist's Season 2 episode score17, "The Upset" (下剋上), aired in Japan and dropped on the official channel — the routine where Inori, a near-unknown with barely a year of figure skating behind her, steals gold at the Novice A finals. The episode's emotional gut-punch landed instantly, but the most-liked Japanese reactions did something English recaps rarely do: they broke down EXACTLY how she won. The recurring theme wasn't "she landed a harder jump" — it was Coach Tsukasa's strategy. Fans walked everyone through it: Inori doesn't have the high-difficulty jumps, so the plan was to max out her program-component score with flawless skating and stack points with a back-loaded combination, the now-famous 2A + Euler + 3S — where the single-rotation Euler exists only to switch her landing foot and unlock a third jump. Then someone clocked the real-world parallel: at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, men's champion Shaidrov won gold with 3A + Euler + 4S the very same week this episode aired, and the thread decided the universe was being poetic. From there it splits into manga evangelists insisting the chapter hits even harder on the page, ENGI getting overdue praise for the skating animation, and a quiet appreciation for the Yonezu song — before someone lands the kind of one-liner only a Medalist fan would.
2160 comments6/25/26, 5:10 AM
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Dr.STONE's Why-man Reveal — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "It Was Never a Threat. It Was a Genuine Question."
Dr.STONE SCIENCE FUTURE Episode 36 ("WHYMAN") finally unmasked the signal that has hung over the entire series — and Japan's most-liked reactions weren't about the spectacle. They were about a single line of dialogue. The reaction that shot to the top points out something only Japanese speakers fully clocked: Why-man's infamous "do you want to die?!" was never a threat. Because Medusa speaks broken, almost childlike Japanese, the line was a sincere, innocent question — closer to "don't you want eternal life? You'd rather die?" — and the realization reframes the whole villain. From there the thread spirals into the things English subtitles can't carry: the genius (and slyly menacing) casting of veterans Kōichi Yamadera and Kotono Mitsuishi as Why-man (the "Evangelion combo"), the nostalgic memory of fans theorizing during the manga run that Why-man was the comedian Atsugiri Jason — whose whole bit is literally yelling "Why, Japanese people!?" — and the quiet horror of "it was right beside us the entire time," meaning humanity had been unknowingly dismembering a living being to armor its own rocket. It all lands on the kind of one-liner only a Dr.STONE fan would deliver.
462 comments6/25/26, 5:10 AM
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Pokémon Horizons "Stellar Finale": Japanese Fans React to Spinel's Ending — "Being Dumped by a Friendship-Evolved Pokémon Is the Heaviest Punishment in the Pokémon World"
Pokémon Horizons: The Series wrapped its "Rising Again" arc with episode 136, "Stellar Finale" — the grand conclusion of Liko and Roy's journey — and Japan's most-liked reactions zeroed in not on the Mega Rayquaza spectacle but on the quiet gut-punch of the villain's ending. After Spinel is defeated and jailed, his lifelong partner Umbreon flicks his thrown Poké Ball aside and walks away. Japanese fans immediately read this through the franchise's own mechanics: this is an Umbreon, a Pokémon that only exists because an Eevee evolved through high Friendship — so being rejected by it is, as the top comment puts it, the single heaviest punishment the Pokémon world can hand down. From there the thread becomes a close reading of the staff's cruelty: the deliberate contrast with the lovable, never-truly-evil Team Rocket; the careful foreshadowing that Spinel's power-up item, Laquium, corrodes the very bonds Mega Evolution requires; and an unsettled debate over the final shot — when Umbreon glances at Spinel's prison cell, was it pity, lingering attachment, or pure coincidence from a Pokémon who'd already forgotten him? The argument over that one ambiguous glance is where the comment section truly lives, before someone lands the only verdict a Pokémon fan could.
224 comments6/25/26, 5:10 AM
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Frieren: Japanese Fans React to Fern's Sniper-Mage Style — "This Isn't a Mage Anymore, It's the World's Strongest Sniper"
A Japanese fan clip about Fern's long-range Zoltraak "sniping" style racked up hundreds of comments, and the reaction reads like a tactical breakdown crossed with a love letter. The most-liked take roots the whole thing in canon: Frieren herself foresees that Fern will become the more famous mage of this era, so what fans are really watching is the origin story of a future legend. From there two threads dominate. One is a deep-dive into the craft — fans note that "Fern" is German for "far/distant," that her real weapon is detecting an enemy's mana and firing at the signature rather than the silhouette, and that lining the target up against the moon to hide her spell circles makes her play less like a mage and more like an assassin; the comparisons pile up to real-world sniper Simo Häyhä, to Golgo 13's Duke Togo, even to a Sailor Moon "in the name of the moon" punchline. The other thread is pure shipping: every time someone tries to get close to Fern, a terrifyingly strong axe-wielding warrior steps in to guard her with his life — "just date already." It closes on the running gag every Japanese fan already knows: do not, under any circumstances, stand behind Fern.
311 comments6/25/26, 4:55 AM
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One Piece — Robin Reunites With Saul After 22 Years: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "Please, Praise Me for Staying Alive"
One Piece's anime finally adapted the moment a generation of fans had waited 22 years for: Nico Robin reuniting with Jaguar D. Saul, the giant who died — or so everyone thought — buying her escape from the destruction of Ohara when she was eight. The most-liked Japanese reactions almost never talk about the spectacle. They fixate on one thing: the always-composed, always-guarded adult Robin completely dissolving back into a child the instant she sees him — the cracking, sing-song voice, the unguarded grin, and above all the line "I want you to praise me for staying alive." From there the thread becomes a study in detail only Japanese viewers caught: how voice actor Yuriko Yamamoto pitched Robin higher to sound like a kid, how the childlike rhythm of "Hey — Saul!" was clearly obsessed over in the booth, that the scene got its own original insert song, and how Saul holds back his own tears until Robin breaks first. Running underneath it all is a second realization — that Saul's old promise ("there's no such thing as being all alone in this world") and Luffy's "say you want to LIVE!" are the two threads that kept this woman alive for two decades. It closes on the kind of full-circle gut-punch only a longtime One Piece fan would land.
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Re:Zero Season 4 Finale — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "It Was Never About His Memories. It Was His Resolve."
Re:Zero's Season 4 mid-season finale — the climax of the amnesia-driven "Loss" arc (喪失編) — landed in Japan, and the most-liked Japanese reactions didn't fixate on the action. They fixated on the architecture. The reaction that rose to the top points out a structural reversal only longtime fans clocked: the arc spends episodes with an amnesiac Subaru as the one who forgets while everyone remembers him, then snaps back — through Return by Death — to the series' original engine, where everyone forgets and only Subaru remembers. From there the thread becomes a love letter to the writing: a reading that Subaru never needed his memories, only his resolve; the way Emilia asking his name mirrors the very first episode (right down to a chapter-title pun that quietly turns "Zero" into "Re:Zero"); and the gut-punch of hearing STYX HELIX and Stay Alive — the Season 1 songs — return at the exact right moment. It all closes on the kind of one-line verdict only a Re:Zero fan would land.
985 comments6/25/26, 4:30 AM

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Why Kaiju No. 8 Never Caught Fire in Japan: Japanese Fans React — "They Made a Mediocre Story... Mediocre."

Why Did Levi Survive Attack on Titan? Japanese Fans React — "He Wasn't Lucky. The Brigade Is Worth One Levi."

Blue Lock Ch. 350: Japanese Fans React to Ego Benching Rin — "This Finally Feels Like Blue Lock Again"

DANDADAN's "Strongest Yokai" Reveal: Japanese Fans React — "She's the Most Famous Ghost in Japan. Of Course She's Strong."

Haikyu!!'s "Quitter's Battle": Why Ennoshita's Comeback Wrecks Japanese Fans Who Played School Sports — "I quit too. Some days it still feels like I betrayed myself."

My Hero Academia Finale — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "Armored Deku Is the Perfect Answer to Episode 1"

Overlord: "Is Ainz Actually the Strongest?" — Japanese Fans Answer, and Start Worshipping Him Like Nazarick's Guardians: "He stayed loyal to us, so we stay loyal to him."

Hakurou Beheads the "300x Perception" Squad: Japanese Fans React — "They Thought They Were Toying With Him. The Old Man Was Toying With Them."

Detective Conan: Angel of the Highway — Japanese Fans React, and the Standout Wasn't Conan: "I Fell Hard for That Nameless Girl's Resolve"

Gundam: The Witch from Mercury — How Japanese Fans Look Back on It: "Watching Guel's stock crash and then moon was the funniest part."

SPY x FAMILY: Does Loid Actually Love Yor? Japanese Fans Have a Theory — "It's Not Romance (Koi). It's Love (Ai)."

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, the Akaza Fight — How Japanese Fans Reacted to Tanjiro's Blade Slipping: "Hakuji Finally Beat Akaza"

Solo Leveling Shadow Monarch Scene: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "It's the One TUEEE Power-Fantasy I Can Still Watch With My Brain Off"

Medalist — Inori's Gold-Medal Skate: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "The kid who cried about wanting to skate while catching earthworms just won gold"

Dr.STONE's Why-man Reveal — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "It Was Never a Threat. It Was a Genuine Question."

Pokémon Horizons "Stellar Finale": Japanese Fans React to Spinel's Ending — "Being Dumped by a Friendship-Evolved Pokémon Is the Heaviest Punishment in the Pokémon World"

Frieren: Japanese Fans React to Fern's Sniper-Mage Style — "This Isn't a Mage Anymore, It's the World's Strongest Sniper"

One Piece — Robin Reunites With Saul After 22 Years: How Japanese Fans Reacted — "Please, Praise Me for Staying Alive"

Re:Zero Season 4 Finale — How Japanese Fans Reacted: "It Was Never About His Memories. It Was His Resolve."