I'm an honest guy. I said to him straightaway it wasn't a penalty. He just fell to the floor. In the end we got the job done and it is a historic night for the club." ...

“Look, I’m an honest guy but today I want to put a bow on everything with McNeese if we can. That’ll be up to whatever else happens. Now I want to worry about McNeese.” ...

A version of this article appears in print on May 22, 2025, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Anime Master’s Long Devotion To Cool Heroes.