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How Toshiro Mifune and Hideo Nomo Inspired Netflix’s ‘Ultraman: Rising’

Laura Sirikul

In Netflix’s upcoming animated film Ultraman: Rising, Ken Sato (Christopher Sean) is a Japanese-born American baseball superstar who recently left his prestigious Los Angeles baseball team to return to Japan to play for their league. In reality, Ken returns to take the mantle of the superhero Ultraman, given to him by his estranged elderly father, who is forced to retire.

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Hard NOC Life 267: The Arrowverse is Dead, Long Live the Arrowverse

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Keith, Dominic, and Britney are back to talk about more cancellations of The CW’s DC content. They then shift to Marvel and discuss all of the forthcoming Disney+ content — including the She-Hulk trailer — before breaking down the recent Vanity Fair cover story on Obi-Wan Kenobi and the future of Star Wars.

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Go Asians: A History of AAPI Representation in ‘Star Wars’

Keith Chow

The month of May holds a special place in the hearts of Asian American and Pacific Islander Star Wars fans. For starters, May has been AAPI Heritage Month since 1990, though it originally began as “Asian Pacific Heritage Week” when it was proposed in Congress by Representatives Frank Horton and Norman Y. Mineta in 1977. That’s right, 1977. You know what else debuted in May 1977?

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