Japanese merch empire Sanrio is synonymous with Hello Kitty, the emblem of all things cute and innocent and sweet. This has been true for more than 40 years, and I hope it’s true for 40 more. But ...

Netflix’s cutest metalhead panda is back in the booth, trying to find love and train an insecure new employee. The second season of Aggretsuko can be divided roughly into two arcs. In the first, ...

In all honesty, I had written off Sanrio’s latest character Aggretsuko — a cute red panda with a secret penchant for blowing off steam from her office job via death metal karaoke — as a one-note joke.

“Aggretsuko” has become Netflix’s latest animated sensation thanks to its adorable lead character and her habit of screaming death metal during karaoke to deal with her crappy boss. She’s the growling ...

There’s a reason why corporate jobs are commonly described as “soul-sucking.” They suck. Aggretsuko knows the pain of corporate frustration well, but instead of just standing as an animated Office ...

I found Aggretsuko at the age of 24. Thirty seconds into the first Netflix Original episode, I shared it with my 64-year-old mother who knows absolutely nothing about anime but a hell of a lot about ...

In 2000 a famous band shared a now-infamous lyric with the world. When you’ve got to “get down with the sickness,” an array of things come to mind. The band Disturbed is high up there and rock and ...

Over the 4th of July weekend, sometimes entertainment news can fall through the cracks. Everyone is outside, trying to remember what we did before wifi and central air conditioning. It’s exhausting ...