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Madara Uchiha is the most legendary shinobi in Naruto's history — the co-founder of the Hidden Leaf Village, the rival of the First Hokage Hashirama, and the architect of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, a pla...
Read article →Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), born Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, was a Chilean poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the...
Read article →Pablo Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, served as a Chilean senator and diplomat, was persecuted by his government, fled across the Andes on horseback, and wrote love poetry so beautif...
Read article →Sophie Hatter is the protagonist of Howl's Moving Castle, both the 1986 novel by Diana Wynne Jones and the 2004 Studio Ghibli film by Hayao Miyazaki. She is an 18-year-old hat-maker who is cursed by t...
Read article →Sophie Hatter is eighteen, convinced she is plain, and resigned to spending her life making hats in her dead father's shop. Then the Witch of the Waste curses her into the body of a ninety-year-old wo...
Read article →C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Christian apologist best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, a seven-book fantasy series that has sold over 100 million copies. He wa...
Read article →C.S. Lewis lost his mother at nine, was brutalized at boarding school, fought in the trenches of World War I, and spent his twenties as a committed atheist who considered Christianity intellectually b...
Read article →Reigen Arataka is a major character in Mob Psycho 100 by ONE. He runs a spiritual consultation business called Spirits and Such Consultation Office despite having no psychic abilities whatsoever. He e...
Read article →Reigen Arataka has no psychic powers. He runs a spiritual consultation business that is entirely fake. His signature exorcism technique is rubbing salt on people. He charges money for services he cann...
Read article →Thorfinn Karlsefni is the protagonist of Vinland Saga, a historical manga by Makoto Yukimura serialized since 2005 and adapted into an anime by Wit Studio (Season 1, 2019) and MAPPA (Season 2, 2023)....
Read article →Thorfinn Karlsefni is a Viking. He has been fighting since he was six years old, when he watched his father Thors — the greatest warrior in the North — killed by the mercenary leader Askeladd. Thorfin...
Read article →Violet Evergarden is the protagonist of Violet Evergarden, a light novel series by Kana Akatsuki (2015) adapted into an anime by Kyoto Animation (2018). She is a former child soldier who, after losing...
Read article →Violet Evergarden was raised as a weapon. She has no memories before the military — no childhood, no family, no frame of reference for human emotion. She can kill with extraordinary efficiency. She ca...
Read article →Dio Brando is the primary antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a manga and anime created by Hirohiko Araki that began serialization in 1987. He first appears in Part 1 (Phantom Blood) as a Victoria...
Read article →Dio Brando is the antagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and he is magnificent. He is a Victorian-era street urchin who claws his way into a wealthy family, poisons the patriarch, becomes a vampire,...
Read article →Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, and screenwriter, best known for his children's books. His works include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Matilda (198...
Read article →Roald Dahl was a Spitfire pilot, a spy, a chocolate taster, and the most successful children's author of the twentieth century. He wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant...
Read article →Josephine "Jo" March is the protagonist of Little Women (1868-1869) by Louisa May Alcott. She is the second of four March sisters growing up in Civil War-era New England. Jo is an aspiring writer who...
Read article →Josephine March wants to be a writer. In the 1860s. As a woman. With no money, no connections, and a society that considers her ambition unfeminine. She writes anyway — melodramatic adventure stories...
Read article →Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter widely regarded as the greatest electric guitarist in history. He recorded three studio albums in approximately four years and...
Read article →Jimi Hendrix played the electric guitar for approximately four years as a recording artist. In that time, he redefined the instrument so completely that the entire history of electric guitar can be di...
Read article →Kamina is a major character in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, a mecha anime produced by Gainax that aired in 2007. He is the charismatic, hot-blooded leader of Team Gurren who inspires his adoptive young...
Read article →Kamina is loud, reckless, shirtless, and wrong about most things. He lives underground, has never seen the sky, and declares himself the leader of a team that consists of himself and a timid fourteen-...
Read article →Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a British-born American philosopher, writer, and speaker known for interpreting and popularizing Eastern philosophy — particularly Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism — for W...
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