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About Toussaint Egan

Toussaint Egan (he/him) has written about anime, games, movies, and comics for over a decade for publications such as Complex, Playboy, The A.V. Club, Paste, and Polygon — where he has served as a curation editor since 2021, highlighting the best movies, TV, and everything else you can enjoy from home. He is a proud member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and Vox Media Union.He co-curated a list of the 100 best anime films with Toonami co-creator Jason DeMarco, contributed to Vulture’s list of the 100 most influential sequences in animation history, and served as a judge for the 2023 and 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.(Some of) his favorite artists are Jean "Mœbius" Giraud, James Jean, and Ivan Aivazovsky, and (some of) his favorite writers are James Baldwin, Ian M. Banks, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Concept art of Vash the Stampede holding his revolver in Trigun Stargaze
When Trigun Stampede season 2 comes out, based on everything we know
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The anime’s second season is coming in 2026

Josh Hartnett as Cooper, standing behind a room full of police officers in tactical gear, in Trap.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap is a perfect Hitman movie

Flawlessly executed, Agent Cooper

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A gigantic hulking warrior sits before two cowering humans in A Writer’s Odyssey.
15 Elden Ring-like movies to watch while you wait for the Elden Ring movie
What to Watch

Get your popcorn ready, Tarnished

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How Blizzard went about bringing its ‘Berserk x Diablo’ collaboration to life
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Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal’s lead artists on doing right by Kentaro Miura’s magnum opus

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The untimely demise and belated resurrection of the notorious Captain Blood
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You best start believing in underdog stories, dear reader; you're witnessing one

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Here’s how Akira, District 9, and British police hats inspired the look of this apocalyptic extraction shooter
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Form follows function in The Forever Winter

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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX’s director on the ‘sense of the Cold War’ he wanted for the series
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The mind behind FLCL trains his sights on the granddaddy of mecha anime

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Mia (Sophie Wilde), a short-haired, dark-skinned young woman in a fluffy mustard-colored sweater, shakes hands with a plaster molded hand sitting on a table next to a lit candle in the horror movie Talk to Me
The best horror movies to watch on Netflix this April
What to Watch

Time to make spring scary

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Babygirl, No Other Land, Netflix’s Havoc, and every movie new to streaming this weekend
What to Watch

The Raid director Gareth Evans’ latest action thriller is coming in loud

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The song at the heart of Lazarus’ score was inspired by a blues classic from nearly a century ago
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Electronic maestro Bonobo on crafting the sonic universe of the sci-fi action anime

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Mobile Suit Gundam inspired Attack of the Clones’ biggest moment, and it's all thanks to the man behind Jar Jar Binks
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Real recognize real

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FBC: Firebreak breaches containment with June release date
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Remedy’s upcoming co-op shooter dives back into the Oldest House

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FLCL Reanimated is the ultimate fan tribute to a millennial anime classic
Anime

300-plus animators plus 4 years equals a labor of love worthy of its namesake

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Ash star Eiza González’s audition for Avatar was absolutely wild
Movies

González and Aaron Paul discuss starring in Flying Lotus’ sci-fi horror Ash, their mutual love, and her oddest audition

Key art for the Berserk-themed crossover for Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal, featuring characters wearing costumes inspired by characters from Berserk.
Berserk comes to Sanctuary in Diablo 4 and Diablo Immortal’s first crossover this May
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‘Struggle, endure, contend, for that alone is the sword of one who defies death!’

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The best horror movies of the year, ranked by scariness
This lesser-known Twilight Zone episode was a major inspiration on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners
What to Watch

‘What’s a bad miracle? They got a word for that?’

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Spider-Man 2099, a version of Spider-Man with a luchador-like mask and long blades on his arms, presses Miles Morales into the side of a building so hard that it leaves a divot in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this April
What to Watch

Get up close and personal with this month’s best picks

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Every MCU movie, ranked
Captain America: Brave New World, Companion, The Room Next Door on Netflix, and every movie new to streaming this weekend

Harrison Ford hulks out onto VOD this week

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Four anime characters standing next to one another in a darkened room in Lazarus.
Shinichirō Watanabe hopes Lazarus poses an apocalyptic question we all have to answer
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‘I want everyone to think about whether Skinner was in the right or in the wrong for what he did’

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Watch the Hayao Miyazaki anime that inspired Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
What to Watch

One generation passes the torch to the next

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