Anime criticism. Gaming retrospectives. Manga deep dives. Afrofuturism. The Black nerd experience, written by people who've lived it for 30+ years.
You missed the grief at 14. It was right there in episode one. Cowboy Bebop isn't a show about bounty hunters — it's a twenty-six-episode study in what people do when the thing they lost isn't coming back. Here's what we missed then, why the music was telling us the whole time, and why the ending isn't the tragedy you think it is.
Before we had language for it, we had side quests. An argument for why JRPGs shaped the emotional lives of an entire generation of Black nerds.
A Black samurai in feudal Japan voiced by Samuel L. Jackson. We accepted it at face value then. Here's what it was actually doing.
Holographic Charizard. The schoolyard market. The moment the hobby became an economy. A nostalgia piece that goes somewhere unexpected.
Miyamoto Musashi as the lens for examining discipline, ego, and what it means to dedicate your life to craft. Inoue never gets enough credit.
1995. The Major. What makes consciousness real? The film had the entire argument before the internet existed.
My kid watched their first Ghibli film at age 7. Here's what happened after — and what it made me remember about being 7 myself.
Parable of the Sower. Climate collapse, fractured communities, a prophetic leader building something new from the wreckage. It was all there.
Space Western. Gene Starwind. The ship. The atmosphere. It aired alongside Bebop and somehow got left behind. A long-overdue correction.
The particular isolation of the Black nerd who moves between worlds. And why Over30BlackandNerdy exists in the first place.