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The Bests of 2024
All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year.
Later, old favorites made triumphant returns with Dragon Ball Daima and the pastel-colored remake of Ranma ½,comfortably sitting alongside a younger generation of exciting and idiosyncratic manga adaptations. Charli XCX’s Bratmobile and Shaboozey’s bar-stomping anthem each made national headlines; everyone from kids to grandmothers were singing “Red Wine Supernova”; Kendrick versus Drake was litigated for months on end. They did so in thrillingly weird style: this year, we entered into the mind of a conflicted nun, descended into a well populated by a menagerie of killer animals, cracked yakuza skulls in Hawaii’s sunny climes, and ventured across an unforgiving ocean floor as a hermit crab attempting to retrieve its stolen shell.
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