Daily Anime Podcast

The transhumanist space opera where memories have been digitized and your self can be placed into different bodies that also happens to be a terrifying dystopia where poor folks are vulnerable to theft and made to sell their bodies and memories to the rich, an amnesiac sets off on a dangerous interplanetary journey to find […]

I’m starting a new type of episode called Anime Sermon where I read passages from Deleuze and Guattari’s book, A Thousand Plateaus, and then discuss a preachy anime. For our first episode, we’re reviewing Dragon Ball Super: Broly, which is currently screening across the US. Today, I read from Page 272-274, Chapter 10, Section: Memories […]

I review a new show from the 2018 Winter anime season, Rascal Does not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai – Seishun Buta Yarō wa Bunny Girl-senpai no Yume wo Minai Right click, save as to download.

Finally another news episode! Right click, save as to download. I discuss a lot of news including the new Studio Ponoc anthology, Mari Okada’s film Maquia, Masaaki Yuasa’s film Night is Short, Walk on Girl, it’s a decent news round up! – Yuasa’s new film Night is Short, Walk On Girl will be screened in […]

I begin a new series where I try to regularly put out reactive podcast content. (not politically reactive) . This week, I covered two series that wrapped up airing: Gun Gale Online Megalobox I discussed the following series: Darling in the FranXX My Hero Academia Major 2nd Boruto Black Clover Right click, save as to […]

I realized that this is my last chance to put out an episode in 2017, so here’s my top 5. I’ve done my best to keep these spoiler free. The first 10 minutes or so are honorable mentions: Elegant Yokai Apartment Life Sakura Quest Miss Kobayashi-san’s Dragonmaid The last 20 minutes or so are my […]

I got one of my twitter buddies, Animated Ink who has their own show, Oldtaku no Radio (which is also pretty good) on as a guest to review the ghost waifu series, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. The amount of nerd-ing happening is really high. We spoil the series at about 18 minutes, give or take. […]

This is a crazy yokai anime (which I really like) that plays into the yokai Japanese nationalist genre through it’s narrative and character development and I absolutely love this it through it’s inconsistencies. With a middle school protagonist. It’s got a lot of anime strikes against it but check it out lmao. Right click, save […]

Hello, here I discuss episode 19, an Alliance episode where Yang responds to Reinhardt’s operation to implant a bunch of imperial agents who want to disrupt the Free Planet Alliance. It’s pretty cool to see the FPA fall apart and Yang try to salvage the situation. Right click, save as to download.

Andy returns with a freshly slain undergraduate degree and the smell of a graduate degree on the tip of his nose, and we’ve decided to turn our attention back to the days and decisions that led us towards our degree paths and how they related to anime and anime podcasts. Despite what was said on […]

Sorry this is late, but here’s the Wednesday News Wrap-up on Thursday Morning! Time Stamp 00:00-01:10 Introduction 01:10-06:26 Libre Publishing Story 06:26-09:46 Yamato 2202 News! (here’s the interview with Fukui) 09:46-12:27 New Job Postings with the Japanese Government! Right click, save as to download. ED: 10am ACNL

I haven’t done a First Impressions episode in a while, also I haven’t watched a full series since Akame Ga Kill, so here we go. This is Dororo This is Shomin Sample Timestamp: 0:00-6:20 – Dororo talk 6:20-17:17 – Shomin Sample (and harems in general) Right click, save as to download. To be honest I […]

There’s a lot of politicking in this episode. I suppose that’s not unique to this one! Ironically I imagine Bernie Sanders would probably love this show, since it resonates with his whole “young, capable people being proactive in politics” appeal. Right click, save as to download.

I saw the latest two episodes of Naruto and really wanted to talk about Hagoromo, the Sage of the Six Paths and what I thought about his story and the story of Ninja-kind. In season 1, the first adventure that Naruto goes on is protecting a bridge builder, who wants to build a bridge to […]

Here’s another news episode Time thing: 0:00-3:30 VR Sexy times and Ressentiment! 3:30-5:55 Yoshiaki Nishimura had to go and say some sexist nonsense. 5:55-9:30 P.A. Works and their behind the scenes documentary I’ll eventually watch. Right click, save as to download. ED Theme: Let’s Straighten it Out – Latimore

I talk about one of the coolest characters in all of Gundam, Mineva Lao Zabi, or as I keep calling her, Audrey Burne. One thing I didn’t talk about is the director’s comment that she would’ve been made moe if the series didn’t sell. Her presence would be mediated by sales, which is still scary. […]

I reviewed another bad show. I’ve been letting Hulu decide what to watch after each episode of Naruto that I watch so I need to not do that. If you want a shallow, grim show with anime querks and Tomino-inspired death counts, this may be for you. I tried a new segment where I read […]

Come visit us at Iserlohn fortress, on the borderspace between the Empire and the Free Planet Alliance! We have the sequel to Gone with the Wind playing in movie theaters! Right click, save as to download. Keep getting hyped over Legend of the Galactic Heroes with me! ED Theme: Konosuba Ending (Ukelele Cover) by Halcyon

It was a good episode, much like a lot of the other episodes. Look at him, don’t you just want to follow Yang Wen-Li into battle? Or would you rather pledge allegiance to a puppet child? Right click, save as to download. ED Theme: Konosuba ED (baritone Ukelele cover) by Halcyon

I review a terrible anime that came up on queue when I was too lazy to change to something else. DVD > Streaming Modern anime sucks. Yeah that’s right, it better be cruel! Here’s the Japanese word of the day: Right click, save as to download. The ending theme is a ukelele cover of the […]

I had my girlfriend on for this episode. Even begrudgingly talked about the news. Right click, save as to download. End Theme: “Kassai” Naomi Chiaki

I feel like I’m going to get so much flack for this, but this show left a bitter taste in my mouth. Ryousuke Takahashi, you turned this show into Fist of the North Star and 1984 after a really great space opera, like, what? Generic Environmentalism. Enjoyable love triangles. The most basic flower and love […]

This episode of Legend of the Galactic Heroes’s Achilles heel. This is really jarring. (a problem of the remastering) A pretty good general critique of the show. right click, save as to download. End Theme: Life is Sweet – Paul Freeman

If you can’t tell, I actually  like this awful right-wing anime. Right click, save as to download.

I review the two live-action films based on the Parasyte story, directed by Takashi Yamazaki. Both are pretty damn good and filled with interesting lighting, imagery and while a little bit fast paced, well-put together. Especially in comparison to the other bad Japanese live-actions I’ve seen. That said, it’s not a masterpiece, more like the […]

This episode is a lot more positive and joyful than I thought it would be. It is episode 100, so I decided that I should review something meaningful, so I reviewed Hanazawa Kengo’s first manga, Ressentiment. This is one of the few manga that I’ve read from start to finish, and re-reading it has been […]

Happy New Year or something. Right click, save as to download. End theme: Money Never Build a Mountain – Ronnie Davis

This episode starts off pretty strong talking about Kenji Mizoguchi’s Streets of Shame. But it spirals out of control and eventually we talk about the resurgence of the Japanese right, and eventually GATE. Right click, save as to download.

For the first time in a long time, I talk about news. The news in question is Makoto Shinkai’s new movie coming out next August, titled “Kimi no Na ha” and that Diskotech is going to be putting out Night on the Galactic Railroad (thank you Diskotech). And then I review an anime that is […]

Because I’ve been consistently watching this show for 2 years (I checked the old episodes and verified this), I decided to go ahead and start talking about it. It has so much for people who are into baseball anime… It’s also really silly, as serious as high school baseball is, it’s still high school xD. […]

In this episode, we learn why Scorched Earth tactics violate human rights, but that said all of this is over contested territories between two different systems of coercion. I mean, the romanticism of frontier life is the libidinal economy of colonialism, but whatever. lol. A lot of us dream of a better life and I’m […]

Oh wow, this looks so awesome. Or something. pic.twitter.com/yd43g6S46n — Brian Ruh (@brianruh) October 29, 2015 This is a terrible book. Go read it. Right click, save as to download. [audio https://archive.org/download/ShrineOfSirenSong/Shrine%20of%20Siren%20Song.mp3] ED theme: “GATE ~Sore wa Akatsuki no Yō ni” (GATE～それは暁のように～) by Kishida Kyōdan & the Akeboshi

As the robot cried, I cried. Right click, save as to download.

I’m honestly disappointed in this episode. There’s a decent amount of smart elements going into this episode, but overall it’s kind of a mess. Some of the live-action shots are meh, some of the editing is also meh too. I have faith though. Right click, save as to download. End theme: AnTC S8 Track 5 […]

Here’s the song used in the scene where young Ulrich is running through the forest with young Vier. I know very little about classical music, but I’m sure someone could use this information. Shoutout to Gustav Mahler, you did good buddy, you made it into an anime. Right click, save as to download.

I talk about Streets of Shame and episode 3 of Paranoia Agent to justify talking about the film. I have no business talking about this movie beyond appreciate it’s filmic qualities and I didn’t do enough of that. Right click, save as to download. Ed theme: Theremin Over the Rainbow

In lieu of another LoGH episode, I just talk a little bit about what’s going on with my life and some brief thoughts about the relationship between consumption and advertising in anime podcasting that speaks to a much broader pattern of consumption and advertising among young people of this age, I don’t think I contributed […]

I feel like I disappoint my shounen master Satoshi Kon by watching a show like this, but here I am. Right click, save as to download. ED theme: THE ED THEME TO DEATH PARADE I would probably be more consistent if not for Key and Peele videos on YouTue hahaha.

This episode is about the political opportunism that comes with people trying to gain seats at the highest level of political authority, looking back there’s a few more things I should’ve talked about, but this episode was already almost the length of the actual episode so it’s whatever, if you have a comment feel free […]

I talk about some comments in this episode. I don’t think this episode was up to par. It was strange because when I first watched this episode a few weeks ago it was a lot more interesting, but on this watch-through it was kind of meh, even though I do think this episode’s set-up is […]

I figured there’s going to be a point where I will want to talk about split-screen in anime again, so I’m using the ‘part’ in the names so that I can do another episode like this if I felt like it. Here is the “what” use of split-screen I was referring to in GATE. Like, […]

In this episode I mumble through the episode where Yang returns to Thernusen, the place where his old military academy was, and he encounters Jessica Edwards and struggles with survivors guilt, especially when thinking through his relationship with Jessica and his best friend Jean Robert Lap. There’s also a Char’s Counterattack-esque moment in here that […]

Today I a review a book. Andrew Osmond’s book on Satoshi Kon. It’s ok. But I really like Satoshi Kon. So there’s that. I also just moved and got a job that officially begins in a few days, so that means more episodes. Right click, save as to download.

This episode was awesome, got to see some more action in the Kaiser’s court from a man who opposed it and was ostracized and got to see some interesting background information on the Kaiser. There was also some hilarious looking laptops. No one likes the prince. Right click, save as to download. OP&ED Theme: 3DS […]

Given the recent wave of news and attention I figured that people should probably know about this manga. The property got kind of famous among, I guess you could say, a fringe group of Noitamina fans years ago and I plan on doing a proper review of the anime, but since I have it, I […]

7/2/15 will become LOGH Day and our grandchildren will celebrate by engaging in intricate space politics. — Kane's Dad (@jyareddo) July 3, 2015 Legend of the Galactic Heroes getting licensed and distributed in the United States is a pretty big piece of news in my humble opinion. It finally happened. After all these years, it […]

This is an episode filled with action, and it even has its own funny moments. Drunk Soldiers who have no idea what is going on when the invasion happens. The Empire for the most part is caught off-guuard Which is why they call him Miracle Yang Right click, save as to download. ED theme: ACNL […]

Today we have a special guest, Rob from the Zero Points Articulated Podcast to talk about Ore Monogatari. We talk about manliness, masculinity, and shoujo in general. Specifically, the negotiation and love of masculine characters in a genre that adores proper, manly characters, rewriting shounen in shoujo. Right click, save as to download. Op Theme: […]

This episode (of the anime) is pretty funny, I was giggling throughout a lot of it given the seriousness of the music and the laid-back attitude that Yang Wen-li had in the face of a suicide mission. I also noticed there’s a strange mechanical sound at the beginning of the episode, that’s my refrigerator, I […]

Another episode over Legend of the Galactic Heroes, this time we see the continued development of Lohengramm’s rise to power and the scheming by Phezzan in influencing the affair. There’s a lot of negotiation over nobility, with the critique of the corrupt nobles and all that. Right click, save as to download. End theme: ACNL […]

Here’s another installment in our episode-to-episode coverage of Legend of the Galactic Heroes. This episode establishes the backstory of Siegfried Kircheis and Reinhardt Von Lohengramm as they receive promotions from the King for their exploits at the Battle of Astate. We see Reinhardt, motivated with contempt for the decadent nobles who ask their subjects to […]