I’m writing this under the assumption that you’ve seen the series, so I won’t go into a bunch of backstory and the like. HUGE spoiler alert if you haven’t. Over the past few months, I’ve been on a huge anime bender. Call it the My Hero Academia effect, because since season three ended, I’ve been […]
Read moreNew SOTBMusic: Love Me (Young Midoriya) is My Declaration that "I Am Here!"
I guess the cat’s out of the bag. In addition to discussing my relationship with my father and how that’s shaped me, Son of the Beast is influenced by the series My Hero Academia. And because that is so, I figured that it’s only fitting to reference the main character of the series–especially since there are a few […]
Read moreSOTBNerdy: Some Thoughts About CM Punk
About four years ago, I wrote a piece asking the question of who needed the other more: WWE or CM Punk? In the four years since that piece, it’d appear that Punk didn’t need the WWE–and some folks within the WWE make it seem like they wouldn’t welcome Punk back.. It probably doesn’t help that the […]
Read moreSOTBNerdy: Shaman King
Back during the end of my middle school years, I started getting more into anime and manga. Granted, I always had anime fascinations; Dragon Ball Z‘s Ocean Dub, along with stuff like Pokemon and Gundam Wing kept me enthralled with their stories. However, it wasn’t until I hit puberty that my, to borrow a term from Bennett […]
Read moreSOTBNerdy: Should We Still Care About the Eva Rebuild Series?
If you’ve read my site at any point, you’ll know my relationship with Neon Genesis Evangelion and its spin-off series is tumultuous at best. I loved the series at one point, only to go back into it and despise it for being holier than thou (and not really being about much than mechs fighting original humanoid, […]
Read moreSOTBNerdy: Remember Detention?
Okay, question time. Does anyone remember that time where Tara Strong worked with Tia and Tamera Mowry on a kids-to-tweens cartoon series? Said series was about a group of middle schoolers, their schemes, and their desire to avoid detention? Said series was, somewhat on the nose, named Detention? No? Well, truth be told, you wouldn’t […]
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