Whether you love it or hate it, or have no feelings whatsoever, there is no denying how popular anime is. That immense popularity has allowed anime to go beyond television broadcasts and manga pages.
Games like Call of Duty have featured multiple anime collaborations, such as with Attack on Titan or Mobile Suit Gundam, and titles like Fortnite have outright included anime characters, like Goku from Dragon Ball Z. And if none of those two things are possible, then video games are ripe with anime references or callbacks.
As first spotted on Twitter, World of Warcraft became the latest game to reference anime. The end result might be the cheekiest thing you've seen all week.
Stacey Henley chats with Meg Pelliccio and Ryan Bamsey about the mixed feelings around Final Fantasy 14's Dawntrail expansion.
Included in The War Within expansion are multiple dungeons, and per Wowhead, Goldie Baronbottom in Cinderbrew Meadery can drop a new pet named Bop.
But get this. Bop is a bee wearing cowboy clothing. Put it all together, and you get Cowboy Bee Bop.
That, of course, is a direct reference to Shinichirō Watanabe's seminal 1998 anime, Cowboy Bebop. The futuristic western anime is often...