For the past several years now, we've catalogued various cultural phenomena under the umbrella heading Ground Zero. Whether in movies, comic books, or anime, it's well-documented that consumers could no longer expect new iterations of popular IPs to improve on their predecessors, starting in 1997.
Nor did Ground Zero happen all at once; it was a decade-l…
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