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  • Ben-Hur (1959 film)MGM bet its future on Ben-Hur, a 1959 epic whose budget more than doubled to $15.175 million.
  • South ParkFox balked at a talking stool, and South Park's creators walked away from the deal.
  • Attack on Titan (TV series)Attack on Titan was the first non-English show to become the world's most in-demand TV program.
  • Death NoteA plain black notebook sits at the center of Death Note, a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. Anyone who writes a person's name in its pages ends that person's life within seconds. In Tokyo, a…
  • Tokyo GhoulTokyo Ghoul is a Japanese dark fantasy manga by Sui Ishida, and by January 2021 more than 47 million copies of it were in circulation worldwide. That makes it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Its premise is a hard one to…
  • My Hero AcademiaMy Hero Academia is a Japanese manga series by Kōhei Horikoshi, and its hero starts with nothing. Izuku Midoriya is a boy born without a Quirk, one of the superpowers that have become ordinary in his world. He dreams of becoming a…
  • Sword Art OnlineSword Art Online opens with 10,000 players logging into a virtual reality game for the first time on the 6th of November, only to discover that they cannot log out. The year is 2022, and each player wears a helmet called the NerveGear,…
  • Code GeassCode Geass is a Japanese anime television series produced by the studio Sunrise, and its premise rests on a single dangerous gift. The gift is called Geass, and it is the power of absolute obedience. Whoever receives it can issue a command…
  • Animal Crossing: New HorizonsBefore anyone could play Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a delay wiped more than US$1 billion off Nintendo's market value. When the company announced the postponement, its stock value fell by 3.5 percent. That is a strange amount of weight…
  • Psycho-PassPsycho-Pass drew more than 1,000 people to a queue outside a venue that could seat only seventy. They had come for the final episode. Fuji TV producer Akitoshi Mori watched the line form. The show was the first work under his control, and…
  • Animal CrossingAnimal Crossing: New Horizons had sold 49.91 million copies worldwide as of the 31st of March 2026. That is remarkable for a game that never tells you what to do. You arrive as a human in a village of talking animals, and you stay there…

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