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Haikyuu!! Seeing Bokuto and Kuroo With Their Hair Down

 The latest Haikyuu!! collaboration has finally answered a question that has plagued fans for a decade, and that is what Kuroo and Bokuto's hair looks like when it's down. As per Redbeanime, Haikyuu!! has collaborated with Raku Spa and unexpectedly dropped two illustrations of Kuroo and Bokuto fans never thought they would get to see. Nekoma and Fukurodani's captains Kuroo and Bokuto have rather unique hairstyles, with the former having part of his bangs hanging over his eyes while he spikes up the rest and the latter looking like an owl. The two have never been seen with their hair down in the anime or the manga.  As @/AniNinjaSpaz noted, "for years [Haikyuu!!] artists have done advanced mathematics and 3D analyses to figure out what these two would look like with their hair down," and now, thanks to the Raku Spa collaboration, they no longer need to go to such scientific lengths. Haikyuu!!'s mangaka supervised the illustrations. The collaboration runs from J

Some Star Wars Fans Criticized The Mandalorian Season 3

 Some Star Wars fans criticized The Mandalorian Season 3 for feeling bit like artistic regression after Disney+'s last live-action hit Andor. However, the subtle colonialism allegory in Moff Gideon's cloning plan is storytelling on the level of Andor. Since showing up in the first season finale, Moff Gideon has a fascination with both Mandalorians and baby Grogu. He knows quite a bit about Mandalorian culture, overseeing the Imperial purge of Mandalore and ruling over the ashes. Gideon's interest in Grogu is just about the Force, and his interest in Mandalore is primarily about the mighty beskar alloy. In Season 3, Moff Gideon fully appropriates the armor and weapons of the Mandalorian people. Yet, his plan to create an army of clones of himself could be a clever dig at colonization. Season 3's focus on the two divergent sides of Mandalorian culture was not as nuanced and complex of the slow radicalization of Ferrix. But taking a culture's resources, cultural knowle