Megan Thee Stallion’s new album is a full-fledged love letter to anime culture

Grammy-winning rap and hip-hop superstar Megan Thee Stallion returns with her third album. MEGAN, complete with references to Jujutsu Kaisen and some of the most famous manga and anime of all time. Megan focuses on the theme of rebirth on her new album, leaving behind the toxicity surrounding her 2020 shooting and the resulting prosecution of the attacker, Canadian singer Torey Lanez. It’s only fitting that Megan uses her “cursed energy” to defeat her critics in songs like “Otaku Hot Girl,” a boastful track that compares Meg’s talents to Satoru Gojo’s “Limitless” technique.

Born Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, the artist known as Megan Thee Stallion is a Texan native and rapper who follows in her mother’s footstepsHolly “Holly-wood” Thomas. Megan’s 2019 breakthrough single “Hot Girl Summer” is a perennial hit and her popularity has only increased over time. After a lengthy legal battle with her former record label, Megan now releases music through Hot Girl Productions, her independent music and entertainment company. In addition to her music and production work, Megan is an actress, as in Dicks: The Musicaland Netflix Big mouth.

With certified hits like “WAP” and “Savage,” as well as TikTok classics like “Body” and “Her,” Megan is becoming known not only for her witty rhymes and complete embrace of her sexuality, but also for her spot-on anime references.

Otaku Hot Girl is a love letter to anime

Megan thee Stallion proves that both she and anime are global phenomena

The track begins with Adam McArthur, who plays Yuji Itadori in Jujutsu Kaisen‘s English dub, which repeats his infamous line about the kind of woman Yuji likes from episode #2, “For Myself.” This time, the jujutsu wizard swaps Jennifer Lawrence’s name for Megan Thee Stallion’s. The song goes into a chorus that is about being untouchable like Satoru Gojo. “Can’t touch me like Gojo / Look good in all my photos / Just landed in Kyoto,” Megan teases. This is Meg at her best, boasting about her untouchable place in the hip-hop landscape and peppering her jibes with evocative innuendo.

The sparkling beat samples JJK‘s commercial bumper jingle, as light and airy as Meg’s beats are fiery and precise. Reminiscent of Jujutsu Kaisen‘s groundbreaking fight when Gojo fought Sukuna for the first time In episode #5, “Curse Womb Must Die 2,” the lyrics conjure up images of the white-haired jujutsu wizard smoothly dodging every attack, just as Meg dodges shadows and subtle insults from artists who consider themselves her competition. “Chou ii onna / When I walk by, they stop / He don’t run from me / ‘Cause he wanna get caught in my domain expansion / B**s want my technique, couldn’t be like me / With a Sasuke Sharingan,” Megan raps, mentioning one of Sasuke Uchiha’s strongest fighting techniques.

Megan expands her repertoire with anime-inspired tracks

The Queen of Hip-Hop channels anime icons

MEGANThe Eastern influences of extend beyond “Otaku Hot Girl,” with Japanese rapper Yuki Chiba on “Mamushi” and a cosplay spectacle in the music video for “BOA.” In the video, Megan tests three teenagers caught up in a life-or-death video game, reminiscent of classic video games like isekai. .hack//sign And Sword art online. However, Megan’s visual references are mainly inspired by One Piece “Snake Princess”, Boa Hancockas the play’s title goes. The stately star wears a revealing pink outfit, a wig in the style of Boa’s signature face-framing haircut, and a fighting staff reminiscent of Hancock’s reptilian weapon Salome.

Between tkken And Mortal Kombat-Themed fight scenes, Megan dances in colorful outfits that pay homage to the popular Japanese arcade game, Dance Dance Revolutionand the SEGA music game, Space Channel 5With almost 10 million views on YouTube, “BOA”proves that anime and manga characters can be translated into films in a sophisticated and sophisticated way without dressing up. Most recently, Meg and her impeccable cosplay were seen in an Amazon Prime Day advert, which features Hot Girl Meg in a super kawaii outfit she purchased from the online retailer.

MEGAN is now available to purchase and stream.

Jujutsu Kaisen

Jujutsu Kaisen is a supernatural action anime that follows high school student Yuuji Itadori as he battles magical curses. After Yuji selflessly saves a classmate by absorbing a curse into his own body, he is discovered and trained by a powerful sorcerer named Satoru Gojo. Gojo, who also happens to be a high school teacher, enrolls Yuji there to help him and other students prepare for the supernatural forces plaguing humanity.

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Junya Enoki, Yuma Uchida, Yuichi Nakamura, Adam McArthur, Asami Seto

Release date

October 2, 2020

Seasons

3

Authors

Hiroshi Seko

Directors

Sunghoo Park, Shōta Goshozono

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