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Happy New Year! And with the start of the new year I am putting out a post for the top shows and manga I'm hoping and wishing to see produced as an action figure line by S.H.Figuarts in the coming year! 2024 both brought Demon Slayer and My Hero Academia to the S.H.Figuarts line along with Kaiju No. 8 and numerous other properties and characters from across the anime brand. I expect many more toylines to be started and announced throughout 2025 from the anime brand, and I hope these five properties are amongst them.  5. Soul Eater (Image Source) I remember having a ton of fun watching this series in middle school and have now been going through the manga for the full story. Maka and Soul as well as the rest of the cast are extremely entertaining and all have really unique and stand out designs that make them ripe for action figure form and I'm frankly surprised that no toy company has produced articulated action figures for these characters.  4. Junji Ito (Image Source) An art...

About two years ago my brother stumbled across a Japanese horror author named Junji Ito and a story he had created called "Uzumaki." That was just the start of our journey through Junji Ito's horror repertoire, which is extensive, far-reaching, and to this point we've caught up on everything he has put out with his next releases already pre-ordered. His stories are genuinely creepy, with body horror unlike anything I've seen in other media, and art images that still creep into my mind when I'm trying to fall asleep at night. Many of his stories also carry deeper meanings and ideas to think about afterwards, with many being extremely thought provoking, and overall these next five stories I'm going to talk about have been the tales that stuck with me the most! Honorable mention: Deserter What really got me about this story was the ending, the final image of the tale, in which the titular Deserter appears after the truth about his death has come out. The rest...