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Isaac Rouse

May, 2025
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About Isaac Rouse

Isaac Rouse is a versatile writer and editor with over a decade of experience covering games, tech, and entertainment. Currently a Games & Entertainment writer at Polygon, he’s best known for his in-depth interviews with major figures such as The Walking Dead and Invincible creator Robert Kirkman, Star Wars actor John Boyega, and legendary director Spike Lee. Outside the newsroom, Isaac is a beatmaker and YouTuber with a passion for RPGs, anime, movies, TV, and comics. When he’s not creating or consuming content, he’s likely digging into his varied collections, making music, or laughing along to stand-up comedy.

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One Piece manga illustration with cast
One Piece celebrates major milestone by hiding its biggest secret at the bottom of the ocean

The secrets of the One Piece treasure are out in the wild...sorta

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Ghostface attacking someone on the train in Scary Movie 6
The Scary Movie trailer is desperately trying to trigger you

But will the bait result in ticket sales?

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An image of Ash holding up a giant trophy in the Pokémon anime. Pikachu is sitting on his shoulder and they’re both smiling.
The Pokémon anime still hasn’t adapted the best moment from the games

It's been 27 years and nothing has topped battling Red on Mt. Silver

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Henry Golding as Snake Eyes slicing
A new G.I. Joe movie is in the works from Paramount and a controversial writer

Or it could be written by Danny McBride — we vote Danny McBride

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The animated cast of Smiling Friends surrounding themselves in a circle
Smiling Friends creators shockingly decide to end the series despite its popularity

The creators are ending the show on their own terms

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Asuka, a character from Neon Genesis Evangelion, wearing red armor and shouting in close-up
The new Evangelion anime already has the perfect story, in this secret Asuka short

Let Asuka Soryu finally get her due, as she does in an anniversary-event short very few fans have seen

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Marin Kitagawa in My Dress-up Darling.
My Dress-Up Darling gets a new spinoff series as season 3 announcement looms

A new story that reunites everyone's favorite characters

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A knight on horseback (Peter Claffey) accepts a lance from a small bald boy (Dexter Sol Ansell) in a foggy jousting arena in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms succeeds because it had George R.R. Martin's road map

Something Game of Thrones used to do until it couldn't anymore

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The KPop Demon Hunters scream about eating ramen
KPop Demon Hunter is coming to the Criterion Collection in major win for collectors

This is a Huntr/x world and we're just living in it

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The Z Warriors standing in front of Kame House in Dragon Ball Z
'Watching it was a shock to me': The voice of Vegeta looks back on four decades of Dragon Ball

Christopher Sabat reflects on his unexpected journey from college student to iconic Dragon Ball voice actor.

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Denji in the street recieving a sunflower from a random woman in Chainsaw Man the movie: reze arc
Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu lists her 5 favorite anime, and she just like us fr

Anime sad boys win again

SPIDER-MAN BRAND NEW DAY - Tom Holland New Suit Reveal
Spider-Man: Brand New Day story synopsis just made those leaks harder to ignore

Here's everything we know so far

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An photo of two pages of a three-ring binder open with Pokémon cards. It shows cards from the Scarlet & Violet—151 set alongside other older cards.
Nintendo tells Pokémon card shop to change its name after robbery

Manhattan shop The Poké Court is now known as The Trainer Court

Vegeta in Super Saiyan form, glowing with golden energy, in Dragon Ball: Super Broly
Dragon Ball’s Christopher Sabat reveals three moments that made him feel Vegeta’s impact

'I always felt like I was just kind of the English-language option of a DVD.'

The cast of Pokemon Horizons Season 3 in a room with their respective starters
Pokémon Horizons: Season 3 — Rising Hope is back in this exclusive trailer and images

Liko, Roy, and friends will return to Netflix soon

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Luffy looking inside a lego figure wth a picture of Sanji, Nami and Robin in it
One Piece's Elbaph Arc gets official release date — and it's sooner than expected

One Piece starts its seasonal run with the Elbaph Arc, the beginning of a new era for the anime

Sosie Bacon as Rose running from a burning building at night in Smile
The first film of the decade's most promising horror franchise is now streaming on Hulu

Smile is a great start to a horror premise with some legs

mandalorian grogu
We finally know what The Mandalorian and Grogu is about thanks to the full trailer

The duo goes searching for a Hutt

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Sung Jin-woo from the Solo Leveling anime stands in a dark room with blood on his face and a sword in his hands
Fortnite's next anime crossover, Solo Leveling, teased by Epic Games

Sung Jin-Woo's next visit to an island may not be filled with killer ants

Mikasa kissing Eren's decapitated head in the mouth of a titan while Ymir looks on in Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan's greatest romance culminated in a gross act of love — I wouldn't have it any other way

Anime's biggest will-they-won't-they ends in a loving kiss...

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