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This week's big topics include Postmodern Jukebox, Trigger Warning 3, Special Effects (Tech N9ne), Ninja Sex Party , Em-One, Marianas Trench, Persona music, History Repeating (The Megas), Totally Pokemon, Game Grumps, Minecraft Hardcore, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Gotham, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wayward Pines, Full House, Kinda Funny, How to Train Your Dragon 2, The Imitation Game, Birdman, Whiplash, Sports Jeopardy, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, 500 Questions, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Small Wonder, the Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Persona Q: Shadows of the Labyrinth, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Life is Strange Episode 3, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Persona 4: Golden, Heroes of the Storm, and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. The post Episode 105: Everywhere You Look appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's big topics include 5dolls, Sistar, Donna Summer, NSYNC, Final Fantasy Soundtracks, Daredevil, Community, Gundam 0083 Stardust Memories, Hades Project Zeorymer, Gunbuster, Final Fantasy XIII, Persona Q: Shadows of the Labyrinth, Super Mario 64, Heroes of the Storm, and Persona 4: Golden. The post Episode 104: Death the OC Returns appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's big topics include Money Idol Exchanger, Louis Prima, Welcome to Night Vale, Two Best Friends Play Silent Hill 2, Parks & Recreation, Gotham, Jumanji, Hook, The Oscars, Whiplash, The Theory of Everything, Selma, The Imitation Game, Grand Budapest Hotel, Boyhood, Birdman, American Sniper, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call, Don't Starve, MOTHER 3, HuniePop, Pokemon Y, Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3, Final Fantasy XIII, and Mega Man's Soccer. The post Episode 103: A Gentleman’s Guide to Cheating Jumanji appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's big topics include Girl's Generation, Pop Danthology 2014, Welcome to Night Vale, Goose House, History Repeating: Red, Live from the Globe of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Freeman's Mind, Vinesauce, The Colbert Report, PortsCenter, Agent Carter, Parks & Recreation, Broad City, Totally Spies, Archer, Doris & Mary-Anne are Breaking Out of Prison, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, Fantasy Life, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+, Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Trivia Crack, Hyrule Warriors, A Bird Story, Sakura Spirit, Pokemon Art Academy, Final Fantasy Theatrhythm: Curtain Call, Final Fantasy XIII, Sims 3, Super Smash Bros., and Pokemon OmegaRuby. The post Episode 102: There’s No Marty appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's big topics include Pokemon Christmas Bash, Taylor Swift, Agents of SHIELD, The Colbert Report, Gotham, Big Hero 6, Nichijou, Bible Black, One Piece, Super Smash Bros. for WiiU, Pokemon OmegaRuby, Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix, Grand Theft Auto V, and Patapon. The post Episode 101: Staycation Ending appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's topics include Alphaville, The Princess Diaries, Perfume, Bob's Burgers, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Recess, American Dad, Expendabros, Terraria, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Attack of the Friday Monsters, Runman: Race Around the World, Kola Kingdom Quest, Marvel's lineup of films for Phase 3, and Marvel looking to sue whoever leaked the Age of Ultron trailer. The post Episode 100: Big Man Hundo appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's big topics include the Final Fantasy X Piano Album, Girls Day, Beastie Boys, Persona, SBFC, Stand Proud, Portrait of a Plumber, Harmony of Heroes, Spooky Scary Stream 2014, Scary Godmother 2: Revenge of Jimmy, Return to Halloweentown, Halloween 2, The Twilight Zone, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works, Shitstorm 3: The Shittribution, The Flash, The Missing Scarf, Persona 4: Ultimax, Fate/Extra, Fate/Hollow Axteriea, Shadows of Mordor, Legend of Korra, Luigi's Mansion, Clock Tower, Outlast, Five Nights at Freddy's, Pokemon Crystal Nuzlocke, Super Smash Bros for 3DS, Splinter Cell, Grand Theft Auto V, and the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer. The post Episode 99: The Final Episode appeared first on Read the Manual.

This week's big topics include Mickey My Friend, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's soundtrack, Survivor Historians, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 OST, Banjo-Kazooie Full OST, Bob's Burgers, Gotham, Shitstorm 3: The Shittening, Diggin' in the Carts, Resurrection, Survivor, Achievement Hunter, RWBY, PBG Hardcores, Vlogoween, Gundam Reconguista in G, Rainbow Rocks, Kamen Rider Drive, Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, and Final Fantasy Theatrhythm. The post Episode 98: A Slight Desync appeared first on Read the Manual.

Did you know that the best way to write a series meant to be a prequel to a famous story is to SCREAM ABOUT WHICH CHARACTERS ARE GOING TO BE WHO IN THE FUTURE EVEN THOUGH YOUR AUDIENCE ALREADY KNOWS? No? That’s because it’s not. This week’s big topics include Tantei Jinguji Saburo, Martin Solveig, Smash The post Episode 97: A 45 Minute Wink appeared first on Read the Manual.

Richard Harris, Brawl's soundtrack, Smash 3DS's soundtrack, Selfie, Two Best Friends Play Prison Break, Two Best Friends Play Dark Souls 2, Pumaman, Pokemon X, Five Nights at Freddy's, Super Smash Bros. for 3DS (Demo), and Sims 3. The post Episode 96: Pumamen and Painter Goblins appeared first on Read the Manual.

WE SPOIL THE ENTIRE FIRST SEASON OF THIS SHOW. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Round three begin! How many rounds will there be? More than we can count, my child. More than we can count… This is a mini show where we talk about all of the challenges our backers gave us as part of our Kickstarter The post RTM Backer Challenges #3: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure appeared first on Read the Manual.

BRITISH PEOPLE NOW? John Oliver and Doctor Who. BRITISH PEOPLE LATER? Professor Layton and Luke Triton. BRITISH PEOPLE EVEN LATER? Maybe Rachel, I don’t know. Welcome to Read the Manual 95 where we are 5 episodes away from the thing. This week’s big topics include work days, the Protomen, Smash 4 music samples, Last Week The post Episode 95: British People Now and Later appeared first on Read the Manual.

It’s time for round two of our backer challenges! This is a mini show where we talk about all of the challenges our backers gave us as part of our Kickstarter that was successfully funded on July 1st, 2014. Obviously there’s no schedule for this show, it will just come out when they’re ready to The post RTM Backer Challenges #2: Order of the Stick, Insomnia, Spoorloos appeared first on Read the Manual.

Sorry if the audio sounds a bit muffled, Ben’s computer glitched a bit during export. It’s okay though, the whole thing’s there! It’s not as short as we thought it would be, because we’re nerds and can talk a lot about Dragonball and Pokemon. Come listen to our show and please don’t shove us in The post Episode 94: MY BULMA appeared first on Read the Manual.

I fixed this! This episode was dead, cut off in its prime and I BROUGHT IT BACK TO LIFE. BOW BEFORE ME, THE GREAT RESSURECTOR! MWAHAHA! This week’s big topics include Mouth Silence, Die Antwoord, Sound of Music, Welcome to Night Vale, RTM Radio, Two Best Friends Play, LoadingReadyRun, 5 Centimeters Per Second, Venture Bros, The post Episode 93: Was Broked Now Fixed appeared first on Read the Manual.

The first of the mini RTM Backer Challenges episodes has arrived! This mini show will be where we talk about the forced media items given to us by kickstarter backers. Whenever we both have completed an item and are ready to talk an episode will come out. There’s no schedule for this, obviously, they’ll just The post RTM Backer Challenges #1: Cooler’s Revenge, Poke Wars, Sly LP, RWBY appeared first on Read the Manual.

The first of the backer DJ episodes has arrived, this one’s by the founder of this here network and our good friend Youko! Youko went for more “obscure” stuff for his episode, music from games and anime you might have heard of but might not have heard the music of. It’s a cool concept and The post RTM Radio: Week 13 appeared first on Read the Manual.

We’re back, with 50 more comic villains! Still the same list, still the same description! Let’s do it! As a reminder, this is the Top 100 Comic Book Villains from IGN! Now with a slightly surprising ending. The List In Question Got a suggestion for a future list? Let us know in the comments! Who The post The List: Top 100 Comic Book Villains (Part 2) appeared first on Read the Manual.

Doba’s back and without that stupid “suave” voice this time! Again just a pick of things he’s been listening to a lot lately, mostly from games. Do you really expect different? Next week we’ll be hearing from our first backer DJ: Youko! Look forward to it, it’s gonna be a great show! NUMBER OF SONGS: The post RTM Radio: Week 12 appeared first on Read the Manual.

This has been an extremely frustrating week, and I am sorry. This week’s big topics include Mandatory Fun (Weird Al Yankovic), Boyz II Men, Righteous Brothers, Jake Bugg, Portugal the Man, Glass Animals, the Kongos, Welcome to Night Vale, MineZ Hardcore, Two Best Friends Play, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers: Age of The post Episode 92: Just Forget This Week Happened appeared first on Read the Manual.

Moses is back, and this time it really IS anime centric! I’m not talking out of my ass this time, I promise! This ends yet another cycle, and next cycle will work a little differently. Next week we’ll be back with Doba as usual, but after that it’ll be backer episodes of Radio. We hope The post RTM Radio: Week 11 appeared first on Read the Manual.

Comic books are weird. Like, really weird. Like super weird, guys. We don’t usually get in to how weird they are on RTM but this is a chance to. Today’s list is IGN’s Top 100 Comic Book Villains. Or at least the first half of it. Comics are just really weird and dumb sometimes I The post The List: Top 100 Comic Book Villains (Part 1) appeared first on Read the Manual.

Dark’s here this time, party people! It’s a popular cycle for themes it looks like, because this week Dark has decided to use the theme of “Internet Musicians!” ………. MOSTLY. The internet has a lot to offer in the realms of music, so give it a listen and let us know what you think! NUMBER The post RTM Radio: Week 10 appeared first on Read the Manual.

Explosions! EXPLOSIONS! EXPLOOOOSIOOOONS! Also Ben couldn’t make it because of the holiday, so Richard and KindKing showed up instead. Mostly voluntarily. This week’s big topics include Game of Turrets, Perfume, Tropical Freeze OST, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, LoadingReadyRun, Stein’s;Gate, How to Train Your Dragon, 21 Jump Street, Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Sequelitis, Tron: Legacy, The post Episode 91: Featuring America appeared first on Read the Manual.

Dark was a little busy this week and therefore couldn’t do a show, so we switched his week with Lucas! You’ll hear from Dark next week but this week we’re gonna come at you with another themed show! Lucas is coming at you with his favorite anime OPs! So strap in and get ready for The post RTM Radio: Week 9 appeared first on Read the Manual.

It’s SGDQ season and also a few days after the release of Shovel Knight, an indie game getting rave reviews from everything possible. So what better time to do a list of the Top 25 Best Indie Games? … From GamesRadar? Yeah there’s not much of a segue there, but whatever. Let’s talk about some The post The List: Top 25 Indie Games appeared first on Read the Manual.

It’s yet another week and you know what that means! Time for more cool tunes and dope beats and… uh… I don’t know how Ben would write this. This week is another week of Ben’s radio picks and we hope you enjoy what quickly turned into the weekend of not-Doba! NUMBER OF SONGS: 18 As The post RTM Radio: Week 8 appeared first on Read the Manual.

Doba had to duck out this week due to health issues, so it was time for Ben to call in some backup! His good friends Cooper and Caleb were gracious enough to step in as guest hosts in Doba’s absence and have provided you all with nearly four hours of RTM sounds and stuff for The post Episode 90: Witch’s Milk & Tree Tits appeared first on Read the Manual.

Another week, another cycle! This one’s gonna go a little differently though… Before you start listening this week I want you to imagine walking into a classy looking club, everybody is in nice suits and so are you! You order a whisky (OR ROOT BEER IF YOU’RE A MINOR, WE CARD HERE) and suddenly a The post RTM Radio: Week 7 appeared first on Read the Manual.

We’ve fallen far guys. We thought IGN was the bottom but oh how wrong we were. Please forgive us guys, because this week we went to Metacritic for our list. The horror, the drama, the sadness. It’s Metacritic’s list of the 25 Top Rated 3DS Games of all time as of the end of the The post The List: 25 Top Rated 3DS Games appeared first on Read the Manual.

The end of our first cycle has finally come! This week’s show is hosted by MajorMoses for the first time with a show consisting of more anime than you might hear from the rest of us. Even with that it’s a very balanced show and we personally think he did pretty well for his first The post RTM Radio: Week 6 appeared first on Read the Manual.

Giant monsters and kart races between the legs of those giant monsters! Yeah! YEAH! YEEEAAAH!!! God our lives are really sad… This week’s big topics include My Little Pony music, Lazytown music, Pink Guy, Volbeat, Elvis Presley, Girls Generation, PBG Gameplay, Two Best Friends Play, Godzilla, King Kong VS Godzilla, Mothra VS Godzilla, Ghidorah the The post Episode 89: Waity Nine After Waity Wait appeared first on Read the Manual.

Wel-come to R-T-M Ra-Di-O. This week’s show is hosted by ToonLucas, the quietest talker in all the land. One that even Audacity can’t fix sometimes. Thanks Lucas! In all seriousness he’s coming at you with some more traditional radio music, meaning his weeks will probably be different from the other four DJs, it’ll be a The post RTM Radio: Week 5 appeared first on Read the Manual.

They’re spooky! They’re insane! They’re evil as all hell and we love it! This week’s list comes from complex.com, and is a list of the Top 50 Villains in Movie History. It sticks with live action villains, so don’t expect any Disney or Pixar villains on here. Even so it has some great choices, so The post The List: Top 50 Villains in Movie History appeared first on Read the Manual.

Welcome to RTM Radio, where you’re all party people I guess! This week’s show is hosted by our wonderful stalker fan and friend Darkurai. He had a small part in the premiere but now it’s time for him to show us what he’s got with a full episode! NUMBER OF SONGS: 15 As usual, click the jump The post RTM Radio: Week 4 appeared first on Read the Manual.

I remember a time not too far in the past when it was extremely easy to stay up past midnight and record a podcast. However, it seems this time has passed. Time to buy a walker and a cane because that will earn us double old person cred. Sadly we both became old people before The post Episode 88: I Think We’re Getting Old appeared first on Read the Manual.

Welcome to RTM Radio, your one stop shop to make the kids bop (or whatever he says). This week’s show is hosted by our resident music fanatic thingymabober GymleaderBen. Starting next week you’ll hear voices not yet heard on RTM Radio yet so look forward to it! NUMBER OF SONGS: 14 As usual, click the The post RTM Radio: Week 3 appeared first on Read the Manual.

The List is back to normal, and we’re back to using an IGN list. So “you win some, you lose some” is basically what we’re saying. This time it’s IGN’s Top 25 Anime Characters and boy oh boy is it a doozie. Somehow we still managed to stretch a list of 25 characters into an The post The List: Top 25 Anime Characters appeared first on Read the Manual.

Welcome to RTM Radio, where we bring our musical tastes to your ears. This week’s show is hosted by thedobaga as he explains the new format and also who the other four rotating DJs will be. RTM Radio will be a weekly show releasing on Sundays, we hope you enjoy it! This week Doba brings The post RTM Radio: Week 2 appeared first on Read the Manual.

The day after recording we were given air conditioning at last. It was glorious. This week’s big topics include RTM Radio, Muppets Green Album, Kill La Kill OST, Agents of SHIELD, Two Best Friends Play Yakuza 4, Resurrection, Louie, Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, Fargo, Minecraft, Luftrausers, Kerbal Space Program, Orion The post Episode 87: Hot Sweaty Manuals appeared first on Read the Manual.

That’s right everybody, RTM Radio is back and better than ever! We’re kicking this new show off with a bang, this 4 hour show contains one song from each of our respective favorite 25 video game soundtracks as well as four songs chosen by guests Darkurai, Missingno, Joe Bush, and Youko giving us a whopping The post RTM Radio/The List: Top 25 Video Game Soundtracks appeared first on Read the Manual.

PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY PLEASE HURRY I FRICKED UP I FRICKED UP I FRICKED UP I FRICKED UP I FRICKED UP I FRICKED UP I FRICKED UP NO. This week’s big topics include the Super Mario 3D World OST, Ghibli Piano Album, Tower of Druaga OST, Super Street Fighter IV OST, Ducktales Remastered OST, Silent The post Episode 86: Hurry Up appeared first on Read the Manual.

You’re all dead to us. This week’s big topics include Turquoise Jeep, Mario soundtracks, Homestuck music, Chrono Symphonic, Dollhouse, The Truman Show, Dragonball Z, Resurrection, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Bob’s Burgers, Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy, Kamen Rider Gaim, Believe, ToQger, Blade & Soul, Ping Pong the Animation, Captain Earth, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, The post Episode 85: An Audience of One appeared first on Read the Manual.

The Wii was not a great system. It started out wonderful and a sign of the future but then just plummeted as time went on. Hell, we recorded a whole four parts of a retrospective on the console so I shouldn’t go into too much detail about it. Point is it still had some great games, The post The List: Top 50 Wii Games appeared first on Read the Manual.

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I love you. This week’s big topics include Plumber’s Best Friend, Random Access Memories (Daft Punk), Foxy Shazam, VH1’s Top 40 90s Hip Hop, Homestuck music, Ben’s Streaming playlist, MKIII (Steam Powered Giraffe), Maria Bamford, Bo Burnham, Dragonball Z, Thor: The Dark World, Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows, Muppet Treasure Island, Phoenix Wright: Ace The post Episode 84: I Know appeared first on Read the Manual.

A few months ago Ben found this list and sent it to me, saying we should do it for The List. Then about a month or so later Missingno sent us the same damn list. Obviously the universe wants us to do this stupid, terrible terrible list. It’s complex.com’s “Top 50 Franchises in Video Gaming” The post The List: Top 50 Franchises in Video Gaming appeared first on Read the Manual.

Joe Bush returns again! Because Doba probably froze to death or something, I don’t know. Wait that’s not the joke, hold on! Hold on hold on there’s a joke I’m supposed to make here hold on… Um… “Joe Bush has always been the host of RTM what are you talking about?” … This week’s big The post Episode 83: Wet Slimy Family Fun Time appeared first on Read the Manual.

Doba’s in Canada and frankly can’t be bothered with your silly “podcasts” at the moment. So Ben did what every feral cat does when it’s cornered: he brought Joe Bush in to help. At least that’s what I assume feral cats do when cornered, I’ve never actually seen one. Ben’s not actually a feral cat, The post The List: Top 100 PS1 Games appeared first on Read the Manual.

Guess who’s back Back again Marty’s back Tell a friend Guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back guess who’s back *A LAWSUIT* This week’s big topics include Matinee Slim & the Ultralight Orchestra, stonysteffcomedy, Harlem, Sex Syrup, Sonic 06 Sweet Sweet Akon Mix, Blunderbuss, Jake Bugg, Lorde, Arctic Monkeys, Nutcracker Suite, Dragonball Z, The post Episode 82: MAR-T-M appeared first on Read the Manual.

It’s 2014! … Has been for over a month! You might be asking yourself: “Why is RTM releasing their Top 10s for 2013 in February?” Let us answer that question with a question! Why are the Oscars in March? Check and mate. And Yahtzee. And Bingo. You get where I’m coming from. So here you The post The List: Top 10s of 2013 appeared first on Read the Manual.