I eagerly watch the eighth annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards from home on March 2, hoping they spotlight smaller shows as they had done to an incrementally better degree each year. However, before reaching...

As the gritty music and raspy vocals of “Kick Back” by Kenshi Yonezu play in the background, characters from the anime adaptation of “Chainsaw Man” reenact scenes from numerous movies, an allusion...