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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm back to handling seasonal anime lists! I wrote about the best shows of the summer for But Why Tho?, and it wasn't easy to narrow things down: white lilies, historical dramas, and odes to creation rounded out an incredible slate.

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The Best 2026 Summer Anime: This Summer Doesn't Belong To Shonen

For the 2026 Summer Anime Season, it wasn't battle shonens that dominated, it was yuri, shojo, and everything that comes with it.

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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The Best 2026 Summer Anime: This Summer Doesn't Belong To Shonen

For the 2026 Summer Anime Season, it wasn't battle shonens that dominated, it was yuri, shojo, and everything that comes with it.

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I reviewed Marvel Tokon, a stylish, unique tag fighter that’s really grown on me the more I’ve played it. Unfortunately, coming around on the game is a bit of a curse because it means interacting with a flaming dumpster fire of a PC port. Trying to play it online is a huge bummer right now.

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Marvel's Brilliant, Beautiful New Game Will Be Marred Forever By Its Messy Launch

The new Marvel game needs some major reworks on PC.

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I reviewed Avatar Legends, a free-form, fast-paced fighting game that might be lacking outside online play, but makes up for it with incredibly spicy core systems. I'm really hoping the game draws in some fresh blood: fighting games can be for everyone, and this one is worth the effort.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender officially has its first terrific video game

Avatar Legends is the best game the series has ever had

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thanks so much to @jessicogs.bsky.social for greenlighting my first article at GameSpot! I wrote about Meccha Chameleon and how the game embraces the fun of making things in a moment where human creativity is being offloaded to AI nonsense.

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Had the privilege of editing the wonderful @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social for the first time and man, what an absolutely banger of a first piece for GameSpot! Highly highly recommend folks read this one 🎨✨ www.gamespot.com/articles/in-...

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In An Era Of AI Slop, Meccha Chameleon Embraces Human-Crafted Chaos

Meccha Chameleon is a charming, wonky creation about making charming, wonky creations. It’s human through and through.

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Nolan's The Odyssey achieves the seemingly impossible: it finds new magic in a millennia-old story. Both grandiose and granular, this bold vision seamlessly binds myth with historical truth. You wouldn't think a legend everyone knows could have a "twist," but this version does, and it's brilliant.

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

D-topia asks big questions about the possibility of utopia in a world increasingly run by machines. But its commitment to coziness and comfort means that it never really confronts the thorny issues it only gestures at. My review. www.polygon.com/d-topia-anna...

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Annapurna’s brand-new game is way too nuanced for its own good

D-topia puzzlingly avoids taking a stance

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I lost a small chunk of my sanity reviewing Chainsmoker Cat, a show that puts weighty depictions of nicotine addiction next to cat girls and shitty jokes about well, shit. Add in impressive animation and an out-of-pocket masturbation joke to get a very confusing/ uneven 23 minutes of television.

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This controversial new Netflix anime features cat girls, addiction, and lots of poop jokes

Nothing in the world can prepare you for this bizarre new Netflix anime.

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Elijah Gonzalez @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Intense sapphic yearning with actual payoff, in this economy? While it takes a bit to get going, Botan goes from a seemingly straightforward hobby show, to an artfully presented will-they-won’t-they full of well considered imagery and double meanings. My review for the series at But Why Tho?:

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I will be ever grateful to Garrett for running this and my Mordor/Watch Dogs piece, but also for just letting me review like… Sid Meier’s Starships or whatever. The big critical swings were important, but the other thing that was developing a regular writing rhythm (and putting some cash in wallet).

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

At Paste, I got to gush over Fire Punch. I've never written so much for a blog (in the afternoon I pitched it, no less) without it feeling like work, and I have @elijahgonzalez.bsky.social to thank for taking me on. That's the type of ship they ran & it'll be missed. www.avclub.com/fire-punch-a...