Five Point Podcast

What if dragons were actually pre pubescent anime girls? Answer: it would be painful, mostly. God damn it, anime.

Buy the series on Amazon: Michiko & Hatchin: Complete Series Part 1 [Blu-ray] Much delayed, we finally have Episode 60, featuring returning guest star Schroedinger’s Matt! We look at the anime Michiko and Hatchin and give it the ol’ Five Point review. For more of Matt, go to http://www.inkblackanalysis.blogspot.com.

Download Video Link: http://1drv.ms/1Eh5dYl For more of Lilac, go to http://www.lilacanimereviews.blogspot.com. This week, we look at the lives of frustrated Tanuki and the old men who grope them. Okay, fine, that’s not all it’s about. It’s also about purple haired women swimming with whales in the nude.

Download Video Link: http://1drv.ms/1vC13nF For more of Rob, go to http://www.planet-rob.com Remember how for a couple of years, Hollywood tried to remake various anime, and they all bombed horribly? Yeah, this is one of ’em.

Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1rLejXL Recipe for a podcast: take two cohosts, remove one, add one guest star, then add one ridiculously epic anime. Bake for half an hour at 300 degrees, serves eight. For more of Brainchild, go to http://www.mangatestdrive.blogspot.com and http://www.infiniterainyday.blogspot.com

Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1wuUKr1 Xam’d: if Studio Ghibli had created the Guyver. … damnit, shouldn’t have summed it up so well! Listen to the review anyway.

Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1nEjiTZ Our wonderful guest star, Brainchild, can be found here: http://mangatestdrive.blogspot.com/ and here: http://www.infiniterainyday.blogspot.com/. Check her out. She’s fun and classy. Oh great, an anime about a popular, attractive girl who wants to have sex with some unworthy schlub with no real personality! This is gonna be terrible! Ugh, Japan, come up with … Continue reading Episode 55: Yamada’s First Time →

Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1rZoLcQ Read the following in the voice of William Shatner in The Wrath of Khan. “KANOKOOOOOOON!” For more of Wade, check out http://www.wadejobkar.com/category/pcwa/

Five Point Podcast Episode 53: Captain Earth by fivepointpodcast Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1rbdZCB Watch it here for free! http://www.crunchyroll.com/captain-earth Captain Earth, he’s our hero, gonna explain the plot slightly more than zero! With good and bad points exemplified, he is fighting on the planet’s side! And no, there isn’t any cheesy 90’s environmentalism. Ah well.   … Continue reading Episode 53: Captain Earth →

Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kkfMMQ Buy the show from Amazon! Watamote: Complete Collection [Blu-ray] Watch it here! http://www.crunchyroll.com/watamote-no-matter-how-i-look-at-it-its-you-guys-fault-im-not-popular SERIES 2! WOOO! We’re back! After a year’s hiatus, we tackle Watamote, aka “No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular.” The shorter name makes more sense. How does the show stack up? … Continue reading Episode 52: Watamote →

Are you wondering who we crazy people are? Well, this video should explain… some of it. Also, new episodes start July 1st. The Boys are Back In Town. #ThinLizzy #Iamawarethatwordpressdoesn’tdohashtags,thankyouverymuch.

Originally Posted: 5/5/2013 as the last episode of Series 1! Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1n233jH The inner life of a recluse has never been quite so depressing and hilarious at the same time. Buy the show on Amazon (we get a cut!): Welcome to the NHK - The Complete Series

Originally Posted: 4/21/2013 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1n22upZ Schrodinger’s Matt (Formerly know as Madshadow) Website: http://inkblackanalysis.blogspot.com/ Wow, fifty episodes. It seems like just 16 months ago that we were complaining about Baka and Test… here’s to the next 50! So what are we reviewing on this special occasion? Bartender! An anime so boozed up that it required … Continue reading Episode 50: Bartender →

Originally Posted: 4/5/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month (technically) Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1n21wtW Cutie Honey Month is over, which means we finally get to compare the shows to each other! Who wins and who loses, and what direction is the franchise heading? You’ll have to watch to find out

Originally Posted: 3/28/2013 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1i2Lq7j Cutie Honey Month comes to a close with the most recent Cutie Honey show, Cutie Honey the Live. Want to see how a live action version of a 70s anime works? … Well, yes, there was the movie, but this worked better. How much better? You’ll just have to … Continue reading Episode 49: Cutie Honey the Live →

Originally Posted: 3/24/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month! Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1n207U0 Buy it on Amazon: Cutie Honey Cutie Honey Month continues with a special two for one episode! We look at two versions of Cutie Honey that came out at the same time and shared the same series bible. One is awesome, the other … Continue reading Episode 48: Cutie Honey (Film) and RE Cutie Honey →

Originally Posted: 3/17/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month! Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1i2L0Od Cutie Honey Month continues! Sailor Moon could be said to have borrowed some elements from Cutie Honey wholesale (specifically how the her disguise pen worked). So what’s Cutie Honey Flash? A version of Cutie Honey that borrows elements from Sailor Moon wholesale! How … Continue reading Episode 47: Cutie Honey Flash →

Originally Posted: 3/9/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month! Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1i2KyQf Buy it on Amazon: Cutey Honey: Collection 1 & 2 Cutie Honey month continues! Twenty years after the original series ended, it was brought to home video in the OVA New Cutie Honey. In the continuation of the original Cutie Honey series, Honey … Continue reading Episode 46: New Cutie Honey →

Originally Posted: 3/2/2013 as part of Cutie Honey Month! Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kEQI3n Buy it on Amazon: Cutie Honey: Complete TV Series To kick off Cutie Honey month, we start with the series that started all (naturally). Is this a forgotten gem, or a horror best left buried? You’ll just have to watch to find out. … Continue reading Episode 45: Cutie Honey (1973) →

Originally Posted: 2/23/2013 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1lr40GL Buy the Show: Dante’s Inferno Buy the Game: Dante’s Inferno – Xbox 360 Uh oh… a movie based on an ultra-violent action video game based on a classical work of literature that wasn’t ultra-violent? This must be crap. Right?

Originally Posted: 2/13/2013 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1lr3pVn This week, we review Trigun: Badlands Rumble. … Oh lord, another movie review. AND it’s a recent addition to a beloved franchise? Oh, this is going to be dreadful. … or will it? You’ll just have to listen to find out!

Originally Posted: 1/25/2013 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kENugk I am at a loss for words. Aside from this shameless plug: go check out our guest star at http://lilacanimereviews.blogspot.com/! Okay, that’s a lie. I have a word. Bizarre.

Originally Posted: 1/5/2013 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kEMOaO One is a Tiger. The other is a Bunny. Together, they fight crime. One of those three things is true. Listen to find out which one it is!

Originally Posted: December 12, 2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1qSO3rW Wow, a whole year. I can’t believe that one year ago, we were complaining about harmless anime. And now we’re… complaining about a whole bunch of anime all at once. See our countdown of the best, worst and in between shows we’ve reviewed this year!

Originally Posted: 12/2/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1qSNgHN The World God Only Knows: It’s The Last Starfighter, only with more Dating Sims and fewer clones and aliens. It’s also a premise that requires a master touch. Does this show work or fall flat on its NERD face? Guess you’ll just have to watch. Requested by friend of … Continue reading Episode 40: The World God Only Knows →

Originally Posted: 11/18/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1qSMXMU This makes me long for the action packed, character based drama of Twilight. At least you could laugh at that… Request by Paranormal Rob: http://planet-rob.com/. (Rob, we really need to stop this cycle of revenge… we apologize for Hammerman, really!)

Originally Posted: 11/4/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1qSMsCx Remember that game that had a definitive and satisfying ending? Well, it got a CGI movie sequel for… reasons.

Originally Posted: 10/22/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/U0EGf9 Having two jobs sucks… anyway, a week late, here’s Princess Tutu, featuring Paranormal Rob! You should totally check out his website (www.planet-rob.com), watch his vids and buy his swag. In a world where the barrier between reality and fiction, one girl must save the day with ballet. She fights … Continue reading Episode 37: Princess Tutu →

Originally Posted: 9/30/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1qSKvGm This week, we look at an anime famous for being an example of a harem anime and existing! Sounds exciting, right? Right?

Originally Posted: 9/16/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1i2957O Star Driver, a trippy, bizarre magical boy robot anime starring a protagonist in a red t-shirt with a white star. Check out the review at fivepointpodcast.net! (whisper whisper) fivepointpodcast.net! It’s dot com! Also, apologies for the slightly wonky audio on my (Bobcat’s) end. I figured out what I was … Continue reading Episode 35: Star Driver →

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012 Note: The contest mentioned in this video is LONG, LONG OVER. Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kE8y6o We finally wrap up this beast.

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kE8e7Q Here there be spoilers about Amon! If you get this show spoiled, let it be upon your own head!

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1pDCm8C The Epic Review of Epicness continues!

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1ln4xJF Here there be spoilers about Amon! If you get this show spoiled, let it be upon your own head!

Originally Posted: 9/1/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1kAnBOF Alright folks, this is a long one. More than two hours across Five (count them, 5) parts!

Originally Posted: 8/25/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1pDCm8C Firstly, some apologies for the wonky audio. There were issues with the recording that weren’t noticed until too late. In a world where anime studios have run out of ideas, one man, Vann the Stampede, comes to show us why everyone shudders at the name Gary Stu.

Originally Posted: 8/17/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1okd0PP Hark, an update! Yes, after many computer problem’s on Bobcat’s end, we finally have an episode up. Not Legend of Korra, sadly (that will have to wait to see if that file can be saved), but it’s Hell Girl, so… yay? Guest Starring Stephanie from Lilac Anime Reviews. Go … Continue reading Episode 32: Hell Girl →

Originally Posted: 7/29/2012 Download Link: http://1drv.ms/1pDCm8C This week, we… mostly talked about Dragon Ball. It’ll make more sense once you watch it. Maybe.