Podcasts about Neon Genesis Evangelion

The Fork In Your Ear Ep#194 Cape Disappointment In Life: Nate shares his recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, including a visit to Bungie Studios for a charity Bungie Bounty event, where he raised funds for a mental health organization. He recounts an amusing yet frustrating experience with a Lime Plus Uber bike in Seattle, highlighting issues with the app and local regulations. Tim reflects on his own adventures, including a camping trip to Cape Disappointment, where he tackled a challenging hike and experimented with wood-planked salmon and impromptu apple pie churros. The duo discusses their emotional and personal challenges, with Tim opening up about his struggles with depression. Gaming: Nate gives insights into Bungie's vibrant studio atmosphere and his experience with the Marathon closed alpha, noting its extraction shooter style and Bungie DNA, though he's not fully sold on it. Tim geeks out over the upcoming Astroneer sequel, Star Seeker, detailing its Unreal Engine 5 development and multiplayer focus. They also touch on other gaming news, including FBC: Firebreak and Doom: The Dark Ages. Tech: they explore sodium-ion batteries as a potential lithium alternative and the ingenious design of plastic soda bottles.  Entertainment: Tim raves about the new Gundam anime, Gundam GQUX, produced by the Neon Genesis Evangelion team, and shares his newfound love for Andor, while both hosts discuss the upcoming Predator: Badlands movie, debating its teenage Predator premise. Join Tim and Nate for a mix of personal stories, gaming insights, and lively banter in this engaging episode! Join The Fork Family On Discord: https://discord.gg/CXrFKxR8uA Find all our stuff at Remember to give us a review on iTunes or wherever you downloaded this podcast from. And don't forget you can connect to us on social media with, at, on or through: Website: http://www.dynamicworksproductions.com/ Twitter Handle: @getforkedpod eMail Address: theforkinyourearpodcast@gmail.com iTunes Podcast Store Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dynamic-works-productions/id703318918?mt=2&i=319887887 If you would like to catch up with each of us personally Online Twitch/Twitter: Tim K.A. Trotter's Youtube ID: Dynamicworksproductions Tim K.A. Trotter's Twitter ID: Tim_T Tim K.A. Trotter's Twitch ID: Tim_KA_Trotter Also remember to buy my Sc-Fi adventure book “The Citadel: Arrival by Tim K.A. Trotter” available right now on Amazon Kindle store & iTunes iBookstore for only $2.99 get a free preview download when you visit those stores, it's a short story only 160-190 pages depending on your screen size, again thats $2.99 on Amazon Kindle & iTunes iBookstore so buy book and support this show!

Recorded am 2.4.2025Top ist ans Telefon gegangen. Die letzten 13 Minuten geht es nur noch um Osloer Gastrokonzepte und Neon Genesis Evangelion.Aubrey & Patinex DoorBoldy James Quality Control?!Westside Gunn - 12 (Fun Fact: Die CD Version hat einen anderen Audiomix)Daringer ProductionsStove God Cooks Label Drama Pt 2Michelle (WSG & Stove) auf GeniusPop Musikesque Releases Q1 2025Sabrina, the Teenage WeekndFka Twigs - EUSEXUABad Bunny - DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToSBad Barbie BeefThe Weeknd - Hurry Up TomorrowJace & Richard Milli - Das wär doch nicht nötig gewesenSarah4K SinglesRoey Marquis II. & Jonesmann - Majestic 2Haiyti - Stadium RockMobb Deep ODER ReezySeltene Nelly SongsTraya - grey menAuf Tauchgang KochrezepteEurothug & Funkvater (Frank) - REICH OHNE BANKENDigger Dance RemasterProducer in den Artist-Credits (Ikkimel, the Anti-Mach-Hommy)Die P und MP Freshly - Bring da P Vol. 1-3BigGhost - Griselda GhostrumentalsLarry June, 2 Chainz, The Alchemist - Life is BeautifulNo I.D. & Saba - From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - Hyperbolic Time Chamber 1-8Sample Snitching umgehen dank BandcampNostalgie Corner:Travis Scott - UtopiaMobb Deep - Amerikaz NightmareThe Game - The Documentary & The Documentary TourTommy Richmann Discography Raoul vergleicht Doechii mit Eminem und Maurice findet es nicht gutHoochie Coochie Pre-Release FreudeDas kulinarische Highlight:Remi, BerlinAlbatross Bakery, BerlinArtischockenBente, OsloMadonna, OsloJizonoods, OsloSOLD A BRICK OUTSIDE OF ESCOT

This month, we're trying something new by releasing the individual segments once a week, to spread the mountain of content we recorded out over the whole month. And that concludes with the month's last segment, but certainly not its least: The Monthly Ten, the part of the show where Sean and Jonathan challenge each other to make increasingly ridiculous Top 10 lists. In this month's installment, Jonathan tasked Sean with ranking the Top 10 most unlikely creative collaborations for the Mobile Suit Gundam franchise, in honor of the currently airing GQuuuuuuX, a partnership between Gundam creators Sunrise and the Neon Genesis Evangelion vets at Studio Khara. What Sean comes up with will surprise you, and maybe just make you wish to see some creative miracles unfold. Enjoy!   Read Jonathan Lack's movie reviews and stay up to date with all our podcast projects at https://www.jonathanlack.comSubscribe to JAPANIMATION STATION, our podcast about the wide and wonderful world of anime: https://japanimationstation.comRead Jonathan's book 200 Reviews in Paperback or on Kindle – https://a.co/d/bLx53vKSubscribe to our YouTube channels! Japanimation Station: https://www.youtube.com/c/japanimationstation Purely Academic: https://www.youtube.com/@purelyacademicpodcastSupport the show at Ko-fi ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuffOriginal Music by Thomas Lack https://www.thomaslack.com/©2012 - Present Jonathan R. Lack & Sean Chapman

The Spleen continues his crossover with Kevin, Jeff and Ryan discussing Episode 23 of Neon Genesis Evangelion. What's going on with Rei? Did she sacrifice herself for Shinji? How do the dead sea scrolls matter here? Is a current thunderstorm in LA related to an angel attack? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ON THIS EPISODE - All 3 of the democrats are back this week for another exciting episode of the Podcast Fresh Cafe! Ryan is back from the super secret special assignment overseas. The boys put their heads together and try to figure it all out in the worlds of movies, video games and beyond! It's your weekly round-up of what we're watching, playing and doing.PODCAST FRESH CAFE - Chris, Ryan, and Darren sit down once a week to discuss the latest video games, movies and other pop culture news! Between trailer previews, movie and game reviews and answering listener feedback, there's never a dull moment on the Cafe! Grab an espresso, sit back and enjoy! (Eddie, Eddie! Shorten this description). Drops WeeklyTAPED: March 26, 2025.--------------------RUN OF SHOW>INTRO>00:00 It's the Intro! The boys try to get through the intro and plugs in one piece. 04:00 "I'm gonna call you George"05:00 Where are the pork rinds? 07:00 The Plugs12:00 Tom Holland's new Spider-Man direction?13:00 Rachel Zegler the biggest heel? TRAILER ROUND-UP>14:00 Jurassic World Rebirth directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. A standalone sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), it is the fourth Jurassic World film and the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park film series. 23:00 Weird News of the World: Wooly miceSCREENFLOW>24:00 Snow White dead on arrival. 32:00 Alto Knights talk. It wasn't a success at the box office but is it still good enough to watch and enjoy?40:00 Marvel reveals the big line-up for Avengers: DoomsdayWHAT WE'RE WATCHING>46:00 Shoresy (2022) Darren shares his love for Shoresy, a comedy series spin-off that follows the Shoresy character. 50:00 Chris reviews Marc Normand: Soup to Nuts (2023)56:00 Ryan reviews Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)1:01:00 Chris reviews Kraven the Hunter (2024)GAMEFLOW>1:09:00 THPS 3 and 4 - Ryan has thoughts1:17:00 Assassin's Creed reviews are in! WHAT WE'RE PLAYING>1:27:00 Ryan plays Astro's Playroom (2020), Donkey Kong Country Returns (2025) and Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster (2021)1:32:00 Chris plays Team Sonic Racing (2019)THE FINISH>1:35:00 PlugsB ROLL>1:37:00 Ryan talks the new Daredevil TV show1:40:00 Chris on UbisoftSOCIAL MEDIAPodcast Fresh Network (@podcastfresh) • Instagram photos and videosTorres & Acapello Show (@torresandacapelloshow) • Instagram photos and videosChristopher Torres (@torresunlimited) • Instagram photos and videosΔ

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode!Treat yourself or a loved one! TokyoTreat makes the perfect gift for any occasion. Use code "NOSTALGIA" for $5 off your first #TokyoTreat box through my link: https://team.tokyotreat.com/theanimenostalgiaThis month, we're returning to my Creative Conversations series! In these episodes, I talk to people in various creative fields making things today who were greatly inspired by anime & manga, and are using that inspiration today to make their own cool things. This time, we're talking to Eisner-Nominated comic artist, writer, colorist, and occasional cosplayer Sarah Myer (They/Them)! We discuss how growing up loving cartoons & anime not only had a big impact on their life, but how fandom was a major plot point in their incredible auto-biographical graphic novel Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story. We also talk about early fandom memories, cosplay, how both TMNT and Evangelion have always been there for them, and answering your questions! Stream the episode above or  [Direct Download]Subscribe on apple podcasts | Spotify Just a FEW of Sarah's older anime & manga recommendations (listen to the ep for their complete list!): Unico (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Astro Boy 1980 (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Space Pirate Captain Harlock (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Endless Orbit SSX (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Galaxy Express 999 (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Neon Genesis Evangelion (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (buy at CR Store or Amazon!)Wings of Honneamise (buy on Amazon!)Martian Successor Nadesico (buy on Amazon!) Follow Sarah & their work online!: Sarah's home page with their comic workFollow Sarah on Instagram & BlueskyBuy their graphic novel Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story directly from their store! (You can even get it autographed!)Check out their work on the TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures comic series! My theme song music was done by Kerobit! You can find more about them on their website!See how you can get access to behind-the-scenes stuff, early access to the podcast, and a BRAND NEW subscriber exclusive podcast with my new Ko-fi Subscriptions!As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at AnimeNostalgiaPodcast@gmail.com.Thanks for listening!

In this packed episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, we explore Fuyutsuki's memories of the Second Impact and his complex relationship with Gendo, revealing shocking truths about the Eva project's origins and the shadowy organization Seele. Then, we witness Asuka's emotional breakdown as she confronts her traumatic childhood memories while fighting an Angel that invades her mind. The episode features stunning psychological sequences, including that unforgettable elevator scene with Rei, as Asuka's barriers crumble under the weight of her past. After that, we discuss Severance Season 2's disappointments, Twin Peaks' distinctive storytelling, and whether David Lynch is just a normal guy with a weird imagination. Spencer, Jeff, and Ryan also dive into recommendations for The Pit and Common Side Effects, two shows tackling modern society's challenges in vastly different ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's time to get your stolen spaceship hurtling round the sun and going back in time to the 1980's with “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home”!We're joined by our occasional editor and perpetual Pokémon expert, Reanna Reid-Lobatto, with some news about whales (and transparent aluminium).There's some impressive Shacting as Spock and the crew get up to hijinks in order to get whales going back to the future!Then we've got the second part of this ‘bus punk' duology with Picard's “Watcher”, where we're reminded why ICE should be abolished, Rafi is the most fun she's been in the show and Guinan's already fed up of JL!00:04:22 What Non-Star Trek Thing We've Been Enjoying: 00:13:32 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home01:10:28 Picard: The WatcherTalking points include: Continuum, Dr Who, Ecco the Dolphin, Whale Song, Tavern Talk, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuux, Final Girl, Top Gun, Karate Kid cosplay, the pronunciation of aluminium, the “I choose to stay” trope, is there no pizza in Star Trek's future?, Bester from Babylon 5, John Lithgow's acting career, Bill & Ted's poorly-aged comments, transparent aluminium facts! Hitchhiker's Guide dolphins, Some non-bummer news about humpback whales, I urge Comrade Whales to go further, Genma Saotome's parenting, McCoy Vs the American Health Industry, Alexa & the PS5's voice recognition, Eddie Murphy, Back to the Future & Howard the Duck's Lea Thompson, Fly me to the Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Buffy, ICE should be abolished, Edith Piaf, do you like references?, Jerati's history of constantly fucking up, Eternal Law, Ageing punks, Miles' connection to Kirk Thatcher, fuck Peanut Hamper, The Rosa Parks episode of Dr Who, Charlie has now finished Yoshi's Island. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.The Matthew Rosenberg Wolfsbane thing is covered here: https://www.cbr.com/rosenberg-apologizes-for-wolfsbane-death-scene/Pedant's Corner:Yes technically it's not been long since we've covered a movie, but it's best we all forget Section 31.The last scenario of Final Girl Series Three is based on A Quiet Place and Tremorshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_BountyJohn Lithgow played Dr Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th DimensionWe are children of the 80's living in 2025, not 2024. It's Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, not SevenCasual Trek is by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn and Miles Reid-LobattoMusic by Alfred Etheridge-NunnCasual Trek is a part of the Nerd & Tie NetworkWatch Reanna and former guest of the show Sean playing Super Mario RPG: https://www.youtube.com/live/bYSOk-bb6EM?si=LpAtQEqLjHrCpqGahttps://ko-fi.com/casualtrekMiles' blog: http://www.mareidlobatto.wordpress.com Charlie's blog: http://www.fakedtales.com 

Evan, Pat, and returning guest Tom Aznable just saw the latest Gundam anime in the theater (showtimes still available!), so they jumped on the mics to chat about G-Quacks and what to expect from the full TV series when it airs in April. Big-time spoiler alert on this one, the movie has a twist that we couldn't avoid talking about. Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Spotify Google Music Send us Feedback! Support us on Patreon! Join our Discord server! More episodes Show Notes Opening/Ending Song: “Blues Machine” by Scott Gratton Episode edited by Patrick Sutton. The Review: Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Beginning Name drops: “First” Gundam (Mobile Suit Gundam from 1979), Sunrise, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Khara, Trigger, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Yoji Enokido, Ikuto Yamashita, Animator Expo, The Dragon Dentist, The Witch from Mercury, 0080: War in the Pocket, Gundam SEED Destiny Behind-the-scenes materials referenced during the show: Interview with the staff: Part 1, Part 2 Design Works artbook (hosted on E-Hentai so the ads surrounding it might not be safe for work!) BlueSky: Ani-Gamers, Evan, Pat, Tom Mastodon: Ani-Gamers, Evan Evan runs Azuki, a manga publisher and subscription app

Gundam is back, which means Weekly Suit Gundam returns once more, thanks to this weekend's release of Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- in American theaters. The film, which collects the first few episodes of the upcoming GQuuuuuuX TV series, is the result of an exciting, long-awaited collaboration behind the Otaku madmen at Studio Khara, including Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Anno Hideaki and Gainax veterans Tsurumaki Kazuya and Enokido Yoji. The result is every bit as exciting as one would expect, a spectacular production that radically reworks Gundam history even as it forges a bold new path for the franchise. -Beginning- is a fantastic theatrical experience that bodes very well for the show to come, and after seeing these 80 minutes, we are extremely excited to see more in April. Enjoy, and be sure to join us for Season 5 of Japanimation Station, our anime ‘Grand Tour,' when it premieres on March 16th, 2025! Read Jonathan Lack's movie reviews and stay up to date with all our podcast projects at https://www.jonathanlack.comSubscribe to PURELY ACADEMIC, our monthly variety podcast about movies, video games, TV, and more: https://purelyacademic.simplecast.comRead Jonathan's book 200 Reviews in Paperback or on Kindle – https://a.co/d/bLx53vKSubscribe to our YouTube channels! Japanimation Station: https://www.youtube.com/c/japanimationstation  Purely Academic: https://www.youtube.com/@purelyacademicpodcastSupport the show at Ko-fi ☕️ https://ko-fi.com/weeklystuffOriginal Music by Thomas Lack https://www.thomaslack.com/

Listeners, get in the Gundam. This week Josh and Luke sit down to chat about the newest installment of the Gundam franchise Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Join them as they discuss the Beginning, thoughts on the anime, the different timelines, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Josh talking Gundam tangents, FLCL, sound design, and much more.  Thank you to our friends from GKIDS Films for hooking us up with early access to make this spoiler review. Check them out on Twitter @GKIDSfilms Instagram @gkidsfilms   We are looking for new cohosts! if you are interested in joining our team, please reach out to us on Instagram or via email at WUFcohosts@gmail.com.   Special Thanks to this week's sponsor Wild Bill's Soda! Enjoy crisp unique olde fashioned soda flavors anytime with Wild Bill's. Head over to drinkwildbills.com and use code FANDOM10 to get 10% off your purchase!    Do you have suggestions for the show? Do have specific voice actor or creator that you would like us to interview? We would love to hear from you! Feel free to message us.   If you enjoy the show, please rate and review! Follow the show on: Instagram @WhatsUpFandom Twitter @WhatsUpFandomPC YouTube What's Up, Fandom Podcast   Follow Josh @JoshLCain Follow Luke @tatted_triceratops   Tags:      podcast, podcasts, movies, tv, comics, pop culture, fandom, anime, gundam, evangelion, flcl, fooly cooly, gquuuuuux, space, scifi, mechs, char 

If you love gross freaks, body horror, and scathing indictments on government bureaucracy, then boy do we have the movie for you! Chels from The Q Division and And a Rewatch Podcast joins us to talk about her special boy that she couldn't be prouder of: a mutating creature who goes from adorable waddling googly-eyed baby to the scariest Godzilla of all time. We peel back the bloody layers of this masterpiece from Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame, including America's political relationship with Japan, how this harkens back to the original Godzilla film, that devastating opera song, and more.Find Chels:The Q Division⁠ | And a Rewatch Podcast | Bluesky | InstagramCover Art by: Alex Gayheart (@mekagojira3k)Bluesky | Twitter | InstagramPart of⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cover Art Gallery⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ |⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠skreeonkpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Theme song:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"BIO WARS - Synth Cover" by Kweer Kaiju⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sources include: The Notenki Memoirs Studio Gainax and The Men Who Created Evangelion by Yasuhiro TakedaGodzilla FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of the Monsters by Brian SolomonWikizilla

Kacper "prefetcher" Staroń created the PinkSea oekaki BBS on top of the AT Protocol. He also made the online multiplayer game MicroWorks with Noam "noam 2000" Rubin. He's currently studying Computer Science at the Lublin University of Technology. We discuss the appeal of oekaki BBSs, why and how PinkSea was created, web design of the early 2000s, flash animations, and building an application on top of the AT Protocol. Prefetcher Bluesky Github Personal site Microworks (Free multiplayer game) PinkSea and Harbor PinkSea PinkSea Bluesky Account PinkSea repository Harbor image proxy repository Harbor post from bnewbold.net imgproxy (Image proxy used by Bluesky) Early web design Web Design Museum Pixel Art in Web Design Kaliber10000 Eboy Assembler 2advanced epuls.pl (Polish social networking site) Wipeout 3 aesthetic Restorativland (Geocities archive) Flash sites and animations My Flash Archive (Run by prefetcher) dagobah Z0r Juicy Panic - Otarie IOSYS - Marisa Stole the Precious Thing Geocities style web hosts Neocities Nekoweb AT Protocol / Bluesky PDS Relay AppViews PLC directory Decentralized Identifier lexicon Jetstream XRPC ATProto scraping (List of custom PDS and did:web) Tools to view PDS data PDSls atp.tools ATProto browser Posters mentioned vertigris (Artist that promoted PinkSea) Mary (AT Protocol enthusiast) Brian Newbold (Bluesky employee) Oekaki drawing applets Tegaki chickenpaint Group drawing canvas Drawpile Aggie Other links Bringing Geocities back with Kyle Drake (Interview with creator of Neocities) firesky.tv (View all bluesky posts) ATFile (Use PDS as a file store) PinkSky (Instagram clone) front page (Hacker news clone) Smoke Signal (Meetup clone) -- Transcript You can help correct transcripts on GitHub. Intro [00:00:00] Jeremy: Today I am talking to Kacper Staroń.  He created an oekaki BBS called PinkSea built on top of the AT protocol, and he's currently studying computer science at the Lublin University of Technology. We are gonna discuss the appeal of oekaki BBS, the web design of the early 2000s, flash animations, and building an application on top of the AT protocol. Kacper, thanks for talking with me today. [00:00:16] Prefetcher: Hello. Thank you for having me on. I'm Kacper Staroń also probably you know me as Prefetcher online. And as Jeremy's mentioned, PinkSea is an oekaki drawing bulletin board. You log in with your Bluesky account and you can draw and post images. It's styled like a mid to late 2000s website to keep it in the spirit. What's an oekaki BBS? [00:00:43] Jeremy: For someone who isn't familiar with oekaki BBSs what is different about them as opposed to say, a photo sharing website? [00:00:53] Prefetcher: The difference is that a photo sharing website you have the image already premade be it a photo or a drawing made in a separate application. And you basically log in and you upload that image. For example on Instagram or pixiv for artists even Flickr. But in the case of an oekaki BBS the thing that sets it apart is that oekaki BBSes already have the drawing tools built in. You cannot upload an already pre-made image with there being some caveats. Some different oekaki boards allow you to upload your already pre-made work. But Pinksea restricts you to a tool called Tegaki. Tegaki being a drawing applet that was built for one of the other BBSes and all of the drawing tools are inside of it. So you draw from within PinkSea and you upload it to the atmosphere. Every image that's on PinkSea is basically drawn right on it by the artists. No one can technically upload any images from elsewhere. How PinkSea got started and grew [00:01:56] Jeremy: You released this to the world. How did people find it and how many people are using it? [00:02:02] Prefetcher: I'll actually begin with how I've made it 'cause it kind of ties into how PinkSea got semi-popular. One day I was just browsing through Bluesky somewhere in the late 2024s. I was really interested in the AT Protocol and while browsing, one of the artists that I follow vertigris posted a post basically saying they'd really want to see something a drawing canvas like Drawpile or Aggie on AT Protocol or something like an oekaki board. And considering that I was really looking forward to make something on the AT Protocol. I'm like, that sounds fun. I used to be a member of some oekaki boards. I don't draw well but it's an activity that I was thinking this sounds like a fun thing to do. I'm absolutely down for it. From like, the initial idea to what I'd say was the first time I was proud to let someone else use it. I think it was like two weeks. I was posting progress on Bluesky and people seemed eager to use it. That kept me motivated. And yeah. Right as I approached the finish I posted about it as a response to vertigris' posts and people seemed to like it. I sent the early version to a bunch of artists. I basically just made a post calling for them. Got really positive feedback, things to fix, and I released it. And thanks to vertigris the post went semi-viral. The launch I got a lot of people which I would also tie to the fact that it was right after one of the user waves that came to Bluesky from other platforms. The website also seemed really popular in Japan. I remember going to sleep, waking up the next day, and I saw like a Japanese post about PinkSea and it had 2000 reposts and 3000 likes and I was just unable to believe it. Within I think the first week we got like 1000 posts overall which to me is just insane. For a week straight I just kept looking at my phone and clicking, refresh, refresh, refresh, just seeing the new posts flow in. There was a bunch of like really insane talented artists just posting their works. And I just could not believe it. PinkSea got I'd say fairly popular as an alternative AppView. People seem to really want oekaki boards back and I saw people going, oh look, it's like one of those 2000s oekaki boards! Oh, that's so cool! I haven't seen them in forever! The art stands out because it's human made [00:04:58] Prefetcher: And it made me so happy every single time seeing it. It's been since November, like four months, give or take. And today alone we got five posts. That doesn't sound seem like a lot but given that every single post is hand drawn it's still insane. People go on there and spend their time to produce their own original artworks. [00:05:26] Jeremy: This is especially relevant now when you have so much image generation stuff and they're making images that look polished but you're kind of like well... did you draw it? [00:05:39] Prefetcher: Yeah. [00:05:40] Jeremy: And when you see people draw with these oekaki boards using the tools that are there I think there's something very human and very nostalgic about oh... This came from you. [00:05:53] Prefetcher: Honestly, yeah. To me seeing even beginner artists 'cause PinkSea has a lot of really, really talented and popular people (and) also beginner artists that do it as a hobby. Ones that haven't been drawing for a long time. And no matter what you look at you just get like that homely feeling that, oh, that's someone that just spent time. That's someone that just wanted to draw for fun. And at least to me, with generative AI like images it really lacks that human aspect to it. You generate an image, you go, oh, that's cool. And it just fades away. But in this case you see people that spent their time drawing it spent their own personal time. And no matter if it's a masterpiece or not it's still incredibly nice to see people just do it for fun. [00:06:54] Jeremy: Yeah. I think whether it's drawing or writing or anything now more than ever people wanna see something that you made yourself right? They wanna know that a human did this. [00:07:09] Prefetcher: Yeah. absolutely. [00:07:11] Jeremy: So it sounds like, in terms of getting the initial users and the ones that are there now, it really all came out of a single Bluesky posts that an existing artist (vertigris) noticed and boosted. And like you said, you were lucky enough to go viral and that carried you all the way to now and then it just keeps going from there, [00:07:36] Prefetcher: Basically if not for vertigris PinkSea (would) just not exist because I honestly did not think about it. My initial idea on making something on ATProto and maybe in the future I'll do something like that would be a platform like StumbleUpon -- Something that would just allow you to go on a website, press a button, and it gets uploaded to your repo and your friends would be able to see oh -- you visited that website and there would be an AppView that would just recommend you sites based on those categories. I really liked that idea and I was dead set on making it but then like I noticed that post (from vertigris) and I'm like, no, that's better. I really wanna make that. And yeah. So right here I want to give a massive shout out to vertigris 'cause they've been incredibly nice to me. They've even contributed the German translation of PinkSea which was just insane to me. And yeah, massive shout out to every single other artist that, Reposted it, liked it, used it because, it's all just snowballed from there and even recently I've had another wave of new users from the PinkSea account. So there are periods where it goes up and it like goes chill -- and then popular again. Old internet and flash [00:08:59] Jeremy: Yeah. And so something that you mentioned is that some people who came across it they mentioned how it was nostalgic or it looked like the old oekaki BBSs from the early internet. And I noticed that that was something that you posted on your own website that you have an interest in that specifically. I wonder what about that part of the internet interests you? [00:09:26] Prefetcher: That is a really good question. Like, to me, even before PinkSea my interests lie in the early internet. I run on Twitter and also on Bluesky now an account called My Flash Archive, which was an archive of very random, like flash animations. And I still do that just not as much anymore 'cause I have a lot of other things to do. I used to on Google just type in Flash and look through the oldest archived random folders just having flash videos. And I would just go over them save all of that or go on like the dagobah or Z0r or swfchan. 'cause the early internet to me, it was really like more explorative. 'cause like now you have, people just concentrated in those big platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, whatever. And back then at least to me you had more websites that you would just go on, you would find cool stuff. And the designs were like sometimes very minimal, aesthetically pleasing. I'd named here one of my favorite sites, Kaliber10000 which had just fantastic web design. Like, I, I also spend a lot of time on like the web design museum just like looking at old web design and just in awe. My flash archive on Twitter at least got very popular. I kind of abandoned that account, but I think it was sitting at 12,000 followers if not more? And showed that people also yearn for that early internet vibe. And to me it feels really warm. Really different from the internet nowadays. Even with the death of flash you don't really have interactive experiences like it anymore. 'cause flash was supposed to be replaced by HTML5 and JavaScript and whatever but you don't really make interactive experiences that just come packaged in a single file like flash. You need a website and everything. In flash, it just had a single file. It could be shared on multiple sites and just experienced. That kind of propelled my interest. Plus I, I dunno, I just really like the old internet design aesthetics it really warms me (and really close..?) Flash loops [00:12:01] Jeremy: The flash one specifically. Were they animations or games or was there a specific type of a flash project that spoke to you? [00:12:15] Prefetcher: Something we call loops. Basically, it's sometimes animations. 'cause, surprisingly while I like flash games they weren't my main collection. What spoke to me more were loops. Basically someone would take a song, find a gif they liked, and they would just pair it together. Something like YTMND did. At least from loops I found some of my favorite musical artists, some of my favorite songs, a lot of interesting series, be it anime or TV or whatever. And you basically saw people make stuff about their favorite series and they would just share it online. I would go over those. For example, a good website as an example is z0r.de, which is surprisingly still active and updated to this day. And you would see people making loops about members of that community or whatever they like. And you would for example see like 10 posts about the same thing. So you would know someone decided to make 10 loops and just upload them at once. And yeah, to me, loops basically were like, I mean, they weren't always the highest quality or the most unique thing, but you would see someone liked something enough that they decided to make something about it. And I always found that really cool. I would late at night just browse for loops and I'm like, oh, oh, this series, I remember it. I liked it (laughs)! But of course flash games as well. I mean, I used to play a lot when I was younger, but specifically loops, even animations and especially like when someone took like their time to animate something like really in depth. My favorite example is, the music video to a song by the band Juicy Panic called Otari. Someone liked that song enough that they made an entire flash animated music video, which was basically vectorized art of various series like Azumanga Daioh or Neon Genesis Evangelion as well, and other things. And it was so cool, at least to me, like a lot of these loops just basically have an intense, like immense feeling on me (laughs). I just really liked collecting them. [00:14:38] Jeremy: And in that last example, it sounded more like it was a complete music video, not just a brief loop? [00:14:45] Prefetcher: No, it was like a five minute long music video that someone else made. [00:14:48] Jeremy: Five. Oh my gosh. [00:14:49] Prefetcher: Yeah. You would really see people's creativity shine through on just making those weird things that not a lot of people have seen, but you look at it and it's like, wow. It's different than YouTube (Sharable single file, vectorized) [00:15:01] Jeremy: It's interesting because you can technically do and see a lot of these things on, say, YouTube today, but I think it does feel a little different for some reason. [00:15:16] Prefetcher: It really is. Of course I'm not denying on YouTube you see a lot of creative things and whatever. But first and foremost, the fact that Flash is scalable. You don't lose the quality. So be able to open, I don't know, any of the IOSYS flash music videos for like their Touhou songs and the thing would just scale and you would see like in 4K and it's like, wow. And yeah, the fact that on YouTube you have like a central place where you just like put something and it just stays there. Of course not counting reuploads, but with Flash you just had like this one animation file that you would just be able to share everywhere and I don't know, like the aspect of sharing, just like having those massive collections, you would see this flash right here on this website and on that website and also on this website. And also seeing people's personal collections of flash videos and jrandomly online and you would also see this file and this file that you haven't seen it -- it really gives it, it's like explorative to me and that's what I like. You put in the effort to like go over all those websites and you just like find new and new cool stuff. [00:16:32] Jeremy: Yeah, that's a good point too that I hadn't thought about. You can open these files and you have basically the primitives of how it was made and since, like you said, it's vector based, there's no, oh, can you please upload it in 1080 p or 4K? You can make it as big as you want. [00:16:53] Prefetcher: Yeah. Web design differences, pixel art, non-responsive [00:16:55] Jeremy: I think web design as well it was very distinct. Maybe because the tools just weren't there, so a lot of people were building things more from scratch rather than pulling a template or using a framework. A lot of people were just making the design theirs I think rather than putting words on a page and filling into some template. [00:17:21] Prefetcher: Honestly, you raise a good point here that I did not think much about. 'cause like nowadays we have all of this tooling to make web design easier and you have design languages and whatnot. And you see people make really, in my opinion, still pretty websites, very usable websites on top of that. But all of them have like the same vibes to them. All of them have like a unified design language and all of them look very similar. And you kind of lose that creativity that some people had. Of course, you still find pretty websites that were made from scratch. But you don't really get the same vibes that you did get like back then. Like my favorite, for example, trend that used to be back on like the old internet is pixel art in web design. For example, Kaliber10000, or going off the top of my head, you had the Eboy or all the sites and then Poland, for example, ... (polish website) those websites use minimal graphics, like pixel graphics and everything to build really interesting looking websites. They had their own very massive charm to them that, I don't know, I don't see a lot in more modern internet. And it's also because back then you were limited by screen size, so you didn't have to worry about someone being on a Mac with high DPI or on a 32x9 monitor like I am right now. And just having to scale it up. So you would see people go more for images, like UI elements, images instead of just like building everything from scratch and CSS and whatnot. So, yeah, internet design had to accommodate the change. So we couldn't stay how it was forever 'cause technology changed. Design language has changed, but to me it's really lost its charm. Every single website was different, specific, the web design had like this weird form, at least on websites where it was like. I like to call it futuristic minimalism. They looked very modern and also very minimal and sort of dated. And I dunno, I just really like it. I absolutely recommend checking, on the web design museum fantastic website. I love them and the pixel art in web design sub page. Like those websites to me they just look fantastic. [00:19:52] Jeremy: Yeah, and that's a good point you brought up about the screen sizes where now you have to make sure your website looks good on a phone, on a tablet, on any number of monitor sizes. Back then in the late 90s, early 2000s, I think most people were looking at these websites on their 4x3 small CRT monitors. [00:20:20] Prefetcher: My favorite this website is best viewed with an 800 by 600 monitor. It's like ... what? [00:20:28] Jeremy: Exactly. Even if you open your personal site now the design is very reminiscent of those times and it looks really cool but at the same time on a lot of monitors it's a small box in the middle of the monitor, so it's like -- [00:20:49] Prefetcher: I saw that issue, 'cause I was making it on a 1080p monitor and now I have a 32x9 monitor and it does not scale. I've been working on reworking that website, but, also on the topic of my website, I, I wanna shout out a website from the 2000s that still exists today. 'cause, my website was really inspired by a website called Assembler. And Assembler, from what I could gather, was like a net art or like internet design collective. And the website still works to this day. You still had like, all of their projects, including the website that my website was based off of. [00:21:28] Jeremy: Yeah, I mean there, there definitely was an aesthetic to that time. And it's probably, like you said, it's probably people seeing someone else's site in this case, what, what did you call it? Assem? Assembler? [00:21:42] Prefetcher: Assembler. [00:21:42] Jeremy: Yeah. You see someone else's website and then maybe you try to copy some of the design language or you look at the HTML and the CSS and I mean, really at the time, these websites weren't being made with a ton of JavaScript. There weren't the minifiers, so you really could view source and just pull whatever you wanted from there. [00:22:06] Prefetcher: We also had those design studios, design agencies, notably 2advanced which check in now, their website still works, and their website is still in the same aesthetic as it was those 20 so years ago just dictating this futuristic design style that people really like. 'cause a lot of people nowadays also really like this old futurism minimalism for example a lot of people still love the Wipeout 3 aesthetic that was designed by one of my favorite studios overall the designers republic. And yeah, it's just hard for me to explain, but it feels so soulful in a way. [00:22:53] Jeremy: I think there are some trade offs. There's what we were talking about earlier with the flexibility of screen size. But there used to be with a lot of websites that used Flash, there used to be these very elaborate intros where the site is loading and there's these really neat animations. But at the same time, it's sort of like, well, to actually get to the content, it's a bit much, but, everything is a trade off. [00:23:25] Prefetcher: People had flash at their disposal and they just wanted to make, I have the tooling, I'm going to use all of the tooling and all of it. [00:23:33] Jeremy: Yeah. Yeah. but yeah, I definitely get what you're saying where when I went to make my own website I made it very utilitarian and in some ways boring, right? I think we do kind of miss some of what we used to have. [00:23:54] Prefetcher: I mean, in my opinion, utilitarian websites are just as fine. Like in some cases you don't really need a lot of flashy things and a lot of very modern very CPU intensive or whatever animations. Sometimes it is better to go on a website and just like, see, oh, there's the play button and that's it. [00:24:17] Jeremy: Yeah. Well definitely the animations and the intro and all that stuff. I guess more in terms of the aesthetics or the designs. It's tricky because there's definitely people making very cool things now things that weren't even possible back then. But it does feel like maybe the default is I'll pick this existing style sheet or this existing framework and just go with that. [00:24:47] Prefetcher: A lot of modern websites just go for similar aesthetics, similar designs, which they aren't bad, but they are also very just bland. They, they are futuristic, they are very well designed. But when you see the same website. The same -- five websites have the same feel. And this is especially, at least in my opinion, visible with websites built on top of NextJS or other frameworks. And it just feels corporate kind of dead. Like someone just makes a website that they want to sell something to you and not for fun. [00:25:26] Jeremy: With landing pages especially it's like, wow, this looks the same as every other site, but I guess it must work. [00:25:38] Prefetcher: It works. And it really cuts down on development time. You don't need to think much about it. You just already have a lot of well-established design rules that you just follow and you get a cohesive and responsive design system. Designing the PinkSea look and feel [00:25:56] Jeremy: Let's talk about that in connection with PinkSea. What was your thinking when you designed how PinkSea would look and feel? [00:26:06] Prefetcher: Honestly, at first I have to admit I looked at other websites. I looked at Bluesky first and foremost. I looked at, front page. I looked at Smoke Signal, and I thought that I might also build something that's modern and sleek and I sketched it out in an application and I showed it to some friends. One of them suggested I go for more like a 2000 aesthetic. I'm like, yeah, okay. I like that. As the website was built, I just saw more and more of how much I feel this could sit with others. Especially with the fact that it's an oekaki page an oekaki BBS and as you scroll through oekaki has a very distinct style to it. And as you scroll and you see all of those, pixel shaded, all those dithered images, non anti-aliased pens and whatnot. It feels really really cohesive somehow with the design aesthetic. But of course, PinkSea in itself is a modern website. Like if you were to go to my PinkSea repository. It's a modern website built up on top of Vue3, which talks via like XRPC API calls in real time and it's a single page app and whatever. That's kind of the thing I merged the modern way of making sites with a very oldish design language. And I feel, in my opinion, it somehow just really works. And especially it sets PinkSea apart from the other websites. It gives it that really weird aesthetic. You would go on it and you would not be like, oh, this is a modern site that connects with a modern protocol on top of a big decentralized network. This is just someone's weird BBS stuck in the 2000s that they forgot to shut down. (laughs) [00:28:00] Jeremy: Yeah. And I think that's a good reminder too, that when people are intentional about design, the tools we have now are so much better than what we used to have. There's nothing stopping us from making websites that when people go to them they really feel like something's different. I know I did not just land on Instagram. [00:28:27] Prefetcher: Yeah. And making PinkSea taught me that it's really easy to fall into that full string of thought that every site has to look modern. Because I was like, oh yeah, this is a modern protocol, a modern everything, and it has to look the part. It has to look interesting to people and everything. And after talking with a bunch of friends and other people and just going, huh, that's maybe like the 2000s isn't as bad as I thought. And yeah, the website especially it's design people seem to just really like it. Me too. I, I just absolutely love how PinkSea turned out it is really a reminder that you don't need modernness in web design always. And people really appreciate quirky looking pages, so to say, quirky like interesting. [00:29:23] Jeremy: I interviewed the, the creator of Neocities which is like kind of a modern version of GeoCities and yeah, that's really what one of the aspects that I think makes things so interesting to people from that era is, is that it really felt like you're creating your own thing, and not just everything looks the same. The term I think he used is homesteading. You're taking care of your place and it can match your sensibilities, your style, your likes, rather than having to, like you said, try to force everything to be this, this sort of base modern, look. The old spirit of the internet is coming back [00:30:08] Prefetcher: I mean Neocities and by extension also Nekoweb are websites that I often when I don't have much to do -- I like just going through them because you see a bunch of people just make their own places. And you see that even in 2025 when we have those big social media sites. You have platforms where you can get a ton of followers. You can get a ton of attention and everything. People to some extent still want that aspect of self-expression. They want to be able to make something that's uniquely theirs and you see people just make just really amazing websites build insane things on those old Geocities-like platforms using nothing but a code editor. You see them basically just wanting thing to express, oh, that's mine and no one else has it. So to say that's why. Yeah. I feel like to some extent the old school train of thought when it comes to the internet is slowly coming back. Especially with the advent of protocols like ATProto. And you'll experience more websites that just allow people to make their own homes on the internet. Cause in my opinion, one of the biggest problems is that people do not really want to register on a lot of platforms. 'cause you already have this place where you get all of your followers, you have all of your connections, and then you want to move and then you'll lose all of your connections and everything. But with something like ATProto, you can use the social graph of, for example, Bluesky. I want to add followers on PinkSea. So for example, you have an artist that has like 30,000 followers for example, I can just click import my following from Bluesky. And just like that they would already get all of the artists that they follow on Bluesky already added as followers on PinkSea. And for example, someone else joins and they followed that big artist and they instantly followed them on PinkSea as well. I think that we are slowly coming back to the advent of people owning their place online. PinkSea and ATProto (PDS) [00:32:24] Jeremy: Yeah. So let's talk a little bit more about how PinkSea fits into ATProto. For people who aren't super familiar with ATProto, maybe you could talk about how it's split up. You've got the PDS, the relays, the AppView. What are those and how do those fit into what PinkSea is? [00:32:48] Prefetcher: My favorite analogy, ATProto is a massive network, and at least me, when I saw the initial graph I was just very confused. I absolutely did not know what I'm looking at. But let's start with the base building block, something that ATProto wouldn't exist with. And it's the PDS. Think of the PDS as like a filing cabinet. You have a bunch of folders in which you have files, so to say. So you have a filing cabinet with your ID, this is the DID part that sometimes shows up and scares people. It's what we call a decentralized identifier. Basically that identifier is not really tied to the PDS, it just exists somewhere. And the end goal is that every user controls their DID. So for example, if your PDS shuts down, you can always move to somewhere else. Still keep like, for example, that you are prefetcher.miku.place. But in that filing cabinet the PDS going back to it you have your own little zone, your own cabinets, and that has your identifier, it's uniquely yours. Every single application on the AT protocol creates data. They create data and they store the data in a structured format called a record. A record is basically just a bunch of data that explains what that thing is, be it a like, a post on Bluesky an oekaki on PinkSea and an upvote on front page, or even a pixel on place.blue. And all of those records are organized into folders in your cabinet. And that folder is named with something we call a collection id. So for example, a like is, if I remember correctly, it's app.bsky.feed.like, so you see that it belongs to Bluesky. The app.bsky part. it's a feed thing, and the same way, PinkSea, for example, the oekaki and PinkSea uses com.shinolabs.pinksea.oekaki with com.shinolabs being the the collective that I use as a, pen name, so to say. PinkSea being, well, PinkSea and oekaki just being the name. It's an oekaki. If you want to see that there are a lot of tools, for example, PDSls or atp.tools or ATProto browser, if you had to go into one of those and you would type in for example, prefetcher.miku.place, you would see all of your records, the things that, you've created on the AT protocol network. Relay [00:35:19] Prefetcher: So you have a PDS, you have your data, but for example, imagine you have a PDS that you made yourself, you hosted yourself. How will, for example, Bluesky know that you exist? 'cause it won't, it's just a server in the middle of nowhere. That's where we have a relay. A relay is an application that listens to every single server. So every time you create something or you delete something, or for example, you edit a post, you delete an oekaki. You create a new, like -- Your PDS, your filing cabinet generates a record of that. It generates an event, something we call a commit. So, anytime you do something, your PDS goes, Hey, I did that thing. And relays function as big servers that a PDS can connect to. And it's a massive shout box. The PDS goes, Hey, I made this. Then the relay aggregates all of those PDSs into one and creates a massive stream of every single event that's going on the network at once. That's also where the name firehose comes from. 'cause the, the end result, the stream is like a firehose. It just shoots a lot of data directly at anyone who can connect to it. And the thing that makes AT Protocol open and able to be built on is that anyone can just go, I want to connect to jetstream1.west.bluesky.network. They just make a connection to it and boom they just get everything that's happening. You can, for example, see that via firesky.tv. If you go to it, you would open it in your browser. Every single Bluesky post being made in real time right directly in your computer. So you have the PDSs that store data, you have the relay that aggregates every, like, builds a stream of every single event on the network. AppViews [00:37:26] Prefetcher: You just get records. You can't interact with it. You can see that someone made a new record with that name, but to a human, you won't really understand what a cid is or what property something else is. That's why you have what we call AppViews. An AppView, or in full an application view is an application that runs on the AT protocol network. It connects to the relay and it transforms the network into a state that it can be used by people. That's why it's called an application view. 'cause it's a, a specialized view into the whole network. So, for example, PinkSea connects, and then it goes, hey, I want to listen on every single thing that's happening to com.shinolabs.pinksea.oekaki, and it sees all of those, new records coming in and PinkSea understands, oh, I can turn it into this, and then I can take this thing, store it in the database, and then someone can connect with a PinkSea front end. And then it can like, transform those things, those records into something that the front end understands. And then the front end can just display, for example, the timeline, the same way Bluesky, for example -- Bluesky gets every single event, every single new file, new record coming in from the network. And it goes. Okay, so this will translate into one more like on this post. And this post is a reply to that post. So I should chain it together. Oh. And this is a new feed, so I should probably display it to the user if they ask for feeds. And it basically just gets a lot of those disjoint records and it makes sense of them all. The end user has a different API to the Bluesky AppView. And then they can get a more specialized view into Bluesky. PinkSea does not store the original images, the PDS does [00:39:26] Jeremy: And so in that example, the PDSs, they can be hosted by Bluesky the company, or they could be hosted by any person. And so PinkSea itself, when somebody posts a new oekaki, a new image, they're actually telling PinkSea to go create the image in the user's PDS, right? PinkSea is itself not the the source of truth I guess you could say. [00:40:00] Prefetcher: PinkSea in itself. I don't remember which Bluesky team member said it, but I like the analogy that AppViews are like Google. So in Google, when you search something, Google doesn't have those websites. Google just knows that this thing is on that website. In the same vein, PinkSea, when you create a new oekaki, you tell PinkSea, Hey, go to my PDS and create that record for me. And then the person owns the PDS. So for example, let's say that in a year, of course I won't do it, but hypothetically here, I just go rogue and I shut down PinkSea, I delete the database. You still own the things. So for example, if someone else would clone the PinkSea repository and go here, there's PinkSea 2. They can still use all of those images that were already on the network. So, AppViews in a way basically just work as a search engine for the network. PinkSea doesn't store anything. PinkSea just indexes that a user made a thing on that server. And here I can show you how to get to it somehow. Those images aren't stored by PinkSea, but instead, I know that the image itself is stored, for example, on pds.example.com, and of course to reduce the load, we have a proxy. PinkSea asks the proxy to go to pds.example.com and fetch the image, and then it just returns it to the user. [00:41:37] Jeremy: And so what it sounds like then is if someone were to create oekaki on their own PDS completely independently of Pink Sea the fact that they had created that image would be sent to one of the relays, and then PinkSea would receive an event that says oh, this person created a new image then at that point your index could see, oh, somebody created a new image and they didn't even have to go through the PinkSea website or call the PinkSea APIs. Is that right? Sharing PDS records with other applications [00:42:14] Prefetcher: Yep. That is exactly right. For example, someone could now go, Hey, I'm making my own PinkSea-like application. And then they would go, I want to be compatible with PinkSea. So I'm using the same record. Or what we call a lexicon, basically describe how records look like. I forgot to mention that, but every single record has an attached lexicon. And lexicons serve as a blueprint. So a lexicon specifies, oh, this has an image, this has a for example, the tags attached to it, a description of the image. Validate that the record is correct, that you don't get someone just making up random stuff. But yeah, someone could just go, Hey, I'm making another website. Let's call it GreenForest for example. And GreenForest is also an oekaki website, but it uses, for example, chickenpaint instead of tegaki but I want to be able to interoperate with PinkSea. so I'm also gonna use com.shinolabs.pinksea.oekaki the collection, the same record, the same lexicon. And for example, they have their own servers and the servers just create regular oekaki records. So for example, GreenForest gets a new user, they log in, create, draw their beautiful image, and then they click upload it. So GreenForest goes to that person's PDS and tells the PDS, Hey, I want to make a new. com.shinolabs.pinksea.oekaki record. The PDS goes okay, I've done it for you. Let me just inform the relay that I did so, relay gets the notification that someone made that new PinkSea oekaki record. And so the main PinkSea instance, pinksea.art, which is listening in on the relay, gets a notification from the relay going, Hey, there is this new oekaki record. And PinkSea goes, sure, I'll index it. And so PinkSea just gets that GreenForest image directly in itself. And in the same vein, someone at PinkSea could draw something in tegaki -- their own beautiful character. And the same thing would happen with GreenForest. GreenForest would get that PinkSea image, that PinkSea record, and index it locally. So the two platforms, despite being completely different, doing completely different things, they would still be able to share images with each other. Bluesky PDS stores other AppView's data but they could stop at anytime [00:44:38] Jeremy: And these images, since they're stored in the PDS, what that would mean is that anybody building an application on ATProto, they can basically use Bluesky's PDS or the user's PDS as their storage. They could put any number of images in there and they could get into gigabytes of images. And that's the responsibility of the PDS and not yourself to keep track of. [00:45:12] Prefetcher: Yes, that can be the case. Of course, there is a hard limit on how big a single upload can be, which is, if I remember correctly, I don't wanna lie, I think it's 50 megabytes, I don't recall there being a hard cap on how big a single repository can be. I know of some people whose repositories are in the single gigabyte digits but this kind of is a thing scares app developers. 'cause you never know when Bluesky the company -- 'cause most people registering, are registering on Bluesky. We don't really know whether Bluesky, the company will want to keep it for free. Forever allow us to do something like that. You already have projects like, for example, ATFile, which just allow you to upload any arbitrary data just to store it, on their servers and they are paying for you. So we'll never know whether Bluesky will decide, okay, our services are only for Bluesky if you want to use PinkSea you have to deal with it. Or whether they go, okay, if you want to use alternative AppViews you have to pay us in order to host them. So, that also leads me to the fact that decentralization is an important part of AT protocol as Bluesky themselves say that they are a potential adversary. You cannot trust them in the long term. Right now they are benign right now, they're very nice, but, we never know how Bluesky will end up in a year or two. So if you want to be in the full control of your data, you need to sadly host it by yourself. And it's honestly really easy in order to do so. There is a ton of really useful online content blogs and whatever. I think I've set up my PDS in 10 minutes on a break between classes and university. But to a person that's non-technical that doesn't know much I'd say around an hour to two hours The liability and potential abuse from running a PDS [00:47:14] Jeremy: Yeah, I think the scary thing for a lot of people is technical or not, is even if it's easy to set up, you gotta make sure it keeps running. You gotta have backups. And so it could be a lot. [00:47:30] Prefetcher: Yeah. This is to be expected by the fact that you're in control of your data. Keeping it secure the same way, for your personal photos or your documents, for example, your master's diploma or whatever. And it's on you to keep your Bluesky interaction secure. On one hand, it's easier to get someone to do it, and I expect in the future we'll get people that are hosting public PDSes I sometimes thought of doing that for PinkSea, just like allowing people to register by PinkSea. But, doing so as a person, you also have to be constantly on call for abuse. So if someone decides to register via PinkSea and do some illicit activities, you are solely responsible for it. PDS and AppView moderation liability [00:48:17] Jeremy: So if they were to upload content that's illegal, for example, it's hosted on your servers so then it's your problem. [00:48:27] Prefetcher: Yeah, it is my problem. [00:48:29] Jeremy: At least the way that it works now, the majority of the people, their PDS is gonna be hosted by Bluesky. So if they upload content that's breaks the law, then that's the Bluesky company's problem at least currently. [00:48:44] Prefetcher: Yeah. That is something that Bluesky has to deal with. But I do believe that in the future we are going to have, more like independent entities just building infrastructure for ATProto, not even the relay it's just like PDSs for people to be able to join the atmosphere, but not directly via Bluesky. [00:49:06] Jeremy: I'm kind of curious also with the current PDSs, if it's hosted by Bluesky, are they, are they moderating what people upload to their PDSs? [00:49:16] Prefetcher: Good question. Honestly, I don't think they're moderating everything 'cause, it's infeasible for them to, for example, other than moderate Bluesky to also moderate PinkSea and moderate front page and whatnot. So it's the obvious responsibility to moderate itself and to report abuse. I'd say that if someone started uploading illicit material, I do not think, and this is not legal advice, I do not think that they would catch on until some point let's say. [00:49:52] Jeremy: I mean, from what you were describing too, it seems like the AppViews would also, have issues with this because if, let's say someone created a PinkSea record in their PDS directly and the image they put in was not an oekaki image, it's instead something pretty illegal in the country that your AppView is hosted then, Wouldn't that go straight to the PinkSea users viewing the website? [00:50:20] Prefetcher: Yes, sadly, this is something that you have to sign up as you're making an AppView and especially one with images. Sooner or later you are going to get material that you have to moderate and it's entirely on you. That's why, you have to think of moderation while you're working on an AppView. Bluesky has an insanely complicated, at least in my opinion, moderation system, which is composable and everything, which I like. But for smaller AppViews, I think it's too much to build the same level of tooling. So you have to rely more on manual work. Thankfully so far the user base on PinkSea has been nothing but stellar. I didn't have to deal with any law breaking stuff, but I am absolutely ready for one day where I'll have to sadly make some drastic moderation issues. [00:51:18] Jeremy: Yeah. I think to me that's the most terrifying thing about making any application that's open to user content. [00:51:29] Prefetcher: I get it, sadly. I'm no stranger to having issues with people, abusing my websites. Because since 2016, my, first major project was a text board based off of, a text board in a video game called DANGER/U/. It was semi-popular, during the biggest spike in activity in like 2017 and 2016, it had in the tens of thousands of monthly visitors. And sadly, yeah, even though it was only text, I've had to deal with a lot of annoying issues. So to say the worst I think was I remember waking up and people are telling me that DANGER/U/ is down. So I log in the activity logs and someone hit me with two terabytes of traffic in a day. There was a really dedicated person that just hated my website and just either spam me with posts or just with traffic. So, yeah, sadly I have experience with that. I know what to expect that's something that you sadly have to sign up for making a website that allows user content. Pinksea is a single server [00:52:42] Jeremy: To my understanding so far, PinkSea is just a single server. Is that right? [00:52:47] Prefetcher: It is a single server. Yeah. [00:52:48] Jeremy: That's kind of interesting in that, I think a lot of people when they make a project, they worry about scaling and things like that. But, was it a case where you just had a existing VPS and you're like, well hopefully this is, this is good enough? [00:53:03] Prefetcher: I actually ordered a new one even though it's not really powerful, but my train of thought was that I didn't expect it to blow up. I didn't expect it to require more than a single VPS with 8 gigabytes of RAM and whatnot. And so far it's handling it pretty well. I do not expect ever to reach the amounts of traffic that Bluesky does, so I do not really have to worry about insane scalability and whatever. But yeah. I thought of it always as a toy project until the day I released it and realized that it's a bit more than a toy project at this point. To this day, I just kind of think that that website even if it were popular, I would never expect it to have -- And in the best, most amazing case scenario, like a hundred posts a day. I do not have to deal with the amount of traffic that Bluesky does. So one VPS it is. [00:53:59] Jeremy: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I mean the application is also mostly reads, right? Most people are coming to see the posts and like you said, you get a few submissions a day, but all the read stuff can probably be cached. Harbor image proxy [00:54:15] Prefetcher: Yeah. The heaviest, thing that PinkSea requires is the image proxy harbor, and that's something that right now only runs on that server. It's in Luxembourg. I think that's where my coprovider hosts it but yeah, that gets the most reads. 'cause in most cases, PinkSea, all it does, all you get is reads from a database, which is just, it's a solved problem. It's really lightweight. But with something like image proxying, you have this whole new problem. 'cause it's a lot of data, and you somehow have to send it -- it's enough for me to just host it locally on that PinkSea server and just direct people to it. But sooner or later, I can always just put it behind something like Bunny CDN or whatnot to have it be worldwide. [00:55:09] Jeremy: So Harbor is something I think you added recently. How did the images work before and what is Harbor doing in its place? [00:55:18] Prefetcher: Before I did what a lot of us currently do and I just freeload atop of Bluesky CDN 'cause Bluesky CDN is just open so far. But it's something that personally irked me. 'cause, I want PinkSea to be completely independent of Bluesky Corporation. I, I wanted to persevere even if Bluesky just decides to randomly, for example, close, the CDN to others or the relay to others or the PLC directory in the worst case scenario. So I wanted to make my own CDN more like proxy. You can't really call it a CDN because it's not worldwide. It's just a single server but let's just say image proxy. So Harbor whenever a person goes to PinkSea, they start loading in all of the images and every single image instead of going to, for example, the PDS or to cdn.bluesky.app. They go to harbor.pinksea.art, you get attached the identifier of the user and what we call a content identifier. Every single, thing uploaded to a PDS has an attached content identifier, which identifies it in a secure way so to say. So Harbor does in reality a really simple set of things. First and foremost, if the user has not seen it, like, not loaded it before first Harbor asks the local cache, do I have this file? If they do, if Harbor does, it just sends the file and it tells the browser, Hey, by the way, please don't ask me about this file for the next day. And in most cases, after one refresh, the user, all of the images load instantly because the web browser just goes, of those files were already sent. And Harbor asked me not to like, ask it more about the same file. So in the case of the image isn't in harbor's local cache, Harbor, first does a lot of those steps to resolve, the users identifier through their PDS, basically resolving that identifier, the DID to a DID document, which is a document basically explaining how that user, what is their, alias, what is their handle and where can we find them, which PDS. So we find the PDS and we then ask the PDS, Hey, send us this file for this user. The PDS sends it or doesn't, in which case we just throw an error and, Harbor just saves it locally and it sends it to the client. It basically just that. But to my knowledge, it's the first non Bluesky image proxy that's deployed for any AppView. Which also caught the attention of Brian Newbold one of the Bluesky employees and made me really happy. DID PLC Lookup [00:58:14] Jeremy: The lookup when you have the user's, DID and you wanna find out where their PDS is that's talking to something called, I think it's the PLC directory? [00:58:25] Prefetcher: Actually there are two different ways. First is PLC directory, PLC originally standed for a placeholder, and then Bluesky realized that it's not a placeholder anymore, and they stealthily changed it to public ledger of credentials. So we have PLC and we have web, the most common version is PLC. The document, the DID document is stored on Bluesky controlled servers under the moniker of PLC directory. They expose a web API that basically just allows you to say, Hey, give me the document for did:plc, whatever. And, the directory goes, have it. And this is the less decentralized version. You can host your own PLC directory and you can basically ask (their) PLC directory to just send you every single document and just you can have your local copy, which some people already do, you kind of sacrifice the fact that you are not in control of the document. It's still on a centralized server, even if you control the keys. 'cause every single DID document also has a key. And that key is used to sign changes to the document. So technically, if you define your own set of keys, you can prevent anyone else from modifying your document, even Bluesky. 'cause every single document is verifiable back and forth. You can see the previous document and its key is used to sign the next document and the chain of trust is visible and no one can just make random changes to your identity, but yeah, it's still on Bluesky to control service and it's a point of contention. Bluesky eventually wants to move it to a nonprofit standards organization, but we have yet to see anything come out of it, sadly. DID WEB lookup The next method is web. And web instead of -- 'cause in did:plc, you have did:plc, and a random string of characters. [01:00:30] Prefetcher: Web relies on domains. So for example, the domain would already like be the sole authority of where the file is. So for example, if I had did:web:example.com, I would parse the DID and I would see it's hosted at example.com. So I go to example.com, I go to /.wellknown/did.json which is the well-known location for the file. And I would have the same DID document as I would have if I used, for example, a PLC DID resolved via the PLC directory. the web method, you are in control of the document entirely. It's on your server under your domain. While it's the more decentralized version, it's just kind of hard for non-technical people to make them. 'cause it relies on a bunch of things. And also the problem is that if you lose your domain, you also lose your identity. [01:01:23] Jeremy: Yeah. So unlike the PLC where it's not really tied to a specific domain, you can change domains. With the web way, you have to always keep the same domain 'cause it's a part of the DID and yeah, like you said, you can't let your renewal lapse or your credit card not work. 'cause then you just lose everything. [01:01:49] Prefetcher: Yeah. You would still be able to change handles, but you would be tied for that domain to forever send your DID otherwise you would just lose it forever. [01:01:57] Jeremy: Yeah, I had mostly only seen the PLC and I wasn't too familiar with the web, form of identification, but yeah that makes sense. [01:02:06] Prefetcher: I think the web if I remember correctly, there is slightly over 300 accounts total on the entire network that use it. Mary who is a person on Bluesky that does a lot of like, ATProto related things, has a GitHub repository that basically gives insight into the network. And on her GitHub repository, you can find the list of every single custom PDS and also how many DID webs there are in existence. And I think it was slightly over 300. [01:02:38] Jeremy: So are you on that list? [01:02:40] Prefetcher: My PDS Yeah. If you were to scroll down. I don't use a web DID 'cause I registered my account before when I was brand new to ATProto, so I didn't know anything. But if you had to scroll down, you would see pds.ata.moe, which is my custom PDS just running. [01:02:55] Jeremy: Cool. [01:02:57] Prefetcher: Yeah. Harbor image proxy can cache any image blob [01:02:58] Jeremy: So something I noticed about harbor, you take the, I believe you take the DID and then you take the CID, the content identifier. I noticed if you take any of those pairs from the ATProto network, like I go find a image somebody posted on Bluesky, I pass that post DID and CID for the image into harbor. Harbor downloads it and caches it. So it's like, does that mean anybody could technically use you as a ATProto CDN? [01:03:38] Prefetcher: Yes, the same way anyone could use like the Bluesky CDN to for example, run PinkSea like I did. cause I do not know if there is a good way to check if a CID of an image or a blob basically. 'cause files on ATProto are called blobs. I do not think there is a nice way to check if that blob is directly tied to a specific record. But that also allows you to make cool, interesting things. Crossposting to Bluesky talks directly to the PDS [01:04:06] Prefetcher: 'cause for example, PinkSea has that, cross post to Bluesky thing. So when you create an image, You already have an option to cross post it to Bluesky, which a lot of people liked. And it was a suggestion from one of the early users of PinkSea. And the way it works is that when we create a PinkSea record, we upload that image, right? And then PinkSea goes, okay, I'm gonna use that same image, the same content identifier, and just create a Bluesky post. So Bluesky and PinkSea all share the same image. I don't upload it twice, I just upload it once. use it in PinkSea and I also use it in Bluesky. And the same way Bluesky its CDN, can just fetch the image. I can also fetch the image from mine, 'cause blobs aren't tied to specific records. They just exist outside of that realm. And you could just query anything. Not even images. You could probably query a video or even a text file. [01:05:04] Jeremy: So when you cross post to Bluesky, you're creating a record directly in the person's PDS, not going through bluesky's API. [01:05:14] Prefetcher: No, I sidestep Bluesky's API completely. And, I basically directly talk to the PDS at all times. I just tell them, Hey, please, for me, create a app.bsky.feed.post record. And you have the image, the text, which also required me to manually parse text into rich text. 'cause like, Bluesky doesn't automatically detect for example, links or tags And you basically get -- like PinkSea creates a record directly with the link to the image. And all of those tags, like the PinkSea tag and whatever, And I completely sidestep. Bluesky's API. If Bluesky, the AppView would cease to exist, PinkSea would still happily create Bluesky crossposts for you. Other applications put metadata into Bluesky posts so they can treat them differently [01:06:02] Jeremy: And since you're creating the records yourself, then you can include additional metadata or fields where you know that this was a PinkSea post, or originally came from PinkSea. [01:06:13] Prefetcher: I could do that. I don't really do that right now 'cause I don't really have much of a reason other than adding a PinkSea hashtag to every single oekaki. But I, noticed, for example, I think it was PinkSky, interesting name, PinkSky, which is like (a) Bluesky Instagram client. Any single time you make a post via PinkSky it uses the Bluesky APIs. It's Bluesky, but it attaches a hidden hashtag like PinkSky underscore some random letters. In its feed building algorithm, it basically detects posts with that hashtag, that specific hashtag, and it builds a PinkSky only timeline. 'cause it's still a Bluesky post, but it has hidden additional metadata that identifies, Hey, it came from PinkSky. [01:07:02] Jeremy: It's pretty interesting how much control you have over what to put in the PDS. So, I'm sure there's a lot of interesting use cases that people are gonna come up with. [01:07:14] Prefetcher: Yeah, of course. You still lose some of the data when you go through the Bluesky API. 'cause of course it stores the record and it's all in formats and whatnot. But you can attach a lot of metadata that can identify posts and build micro networks within Bluesky itself. I see it like that. Bluesky CDN compression [01:07:37] Jeremy: And I think, this might have been a post from you. I think I saw somebody saying that when you view an image from the CDN that the Bluesky CDN specifically, there's some kind of compression going on that that messes with certain types of art. [01:07:55] Prefetcher: It's especially noticeable artists are complaining about it all the time, left and right. Bluesky is very happy with jpeg compression, by default, their CDN, -- like to every single image it applies a really not good amount of jpeg compression which is especially not small. If you compare an image that's uploaded via PinkSea, view an image on PinkSea, and view the same image, which is, it's the same content id. It's the same blob. And you view it on Bluesky, it loses so much fidelity, it loses so much of that aliasing on the pen. You just see everything become really blurry. And on top of that, when you upload an image via Bluesky itself, if I remember correctly, I don't wanna lie here, but they also downscale the image to 1024 pixels by default. So every single image, not only big ones, and artists usually work with really big canvases, they get, downscaled and also additionally they get jpegified. So for example, PinkSea directly uploads PNG files to the PDS. And for example, Harbor gives back the original file. It does no transformations on it, but Bluesky transforms all of them into JPEG compressed images and for photos, it's fine sometimes. 'cause I've also seen people just compare directly, downloaded images of the PDS versus images viewed on Bluesky. But for art it's especially noticible. And people really (do) not like that. [01:09:31] Jeremy: Yeah, that's kind of odd. 'cause if, if I understand correctly, then if you post directly to your PDS and Bluesky pulls it in you'll avoid that, that 1024 resizing. So your images will be higher quality? [01:09:47] Prefetcher: I actually do not know. That's an interesting question. Cause I know that the maybe their CDN also does that 'cause that's what I've heard from others, that on upload the image gets processed and squashed down. So I don't know if doing it via an alternative AppView would change it or would Bluesky just directly reject this post? Because for example, PinkSea, I have built-in which I think I might change in the future -- PinkSea will reject your post if it's bigger than 800x800. 'cause then it'll notice that something is off. This could not have been made with PinkSea. [01:10:26] Jeremy: Yeah, that's a good point I suppose we know at the very least, they have some third party and internal moderation tools that they feed the images through to, so they, they can do some automatic content tagging. But yeah, I, I don't know, like you said, whether, the resizing and all that stuff is at the CDN level [01:10:50] Prefetcher: The jpegification is definitely at the CDN level. 'cause, Bluesky is actually running an open source image proxy. It's called imgproxy. Brian Newbold talked about it a bit on that harbor post. And, yeah, so a lot of the compression, the end user things are done via image proxy, but that, downscaling, I don't know, you'd have to ask someone who's a bit more intimate with Bluesky's internals. [01:11:19] Jeremy: Cool. yeah, I think we've, we've covered a lot. Is there, is there anything else, you wanted to mention or thought we should have talked about? [01:11:26] Prefetcher: Regarding PinkSea I think I've mentioned a ton both the behind the scenes things and, the user things, the design principles. What I'd want to absolutely say, and it will sound cheesy, and, is that I'm eternally grateful to anyone who's actually visited PinkSea. It's definitely grown outta all of my like dreams for the platform, to the point where I'm sitting here just talking about it. I definitely hope that the future will bring us more applications (in) ATProto. I definitely have ideas on how to expand PinkSea, a lot of ideas, a lot of things I want to do, and I'm also a very busy person, so I never get around them. But yeah, think that's it, at least regarding PinkSea. [01:12:15] Jeremy: Cool. Well, if people want to check out PinkSea or see what you're up to, where can they find you? [01:12:22] Prefetcher: So PinkSea is at pinksea.art. That's the website and Bluesky Handle is at pinksea.art and me, well, search prefetcher on Bluesky, you'll probably find me. My tag is at prefetcher.miku.place. all of my socials are probably there. I'm Prefetcher pretty much every single platform except for the platforms that already had someone called Prefetcher. GitHub, github.com/purifetchi because Prefetcher was taken. And, yeah, hit me up. I'm always eager to talk. I don't bite. [01:13:00] Jeremy: Very cool. Well, Kacper thanks. Thanks for taking the time. This was fun. [01:13:04] Prefetcher: Thank you so much, Jeremy, for having me over. It was a pleasure.

It's time to climb into your giant robot and battle us about what the hell a Newtype actually is. That's right, we're talking about Gundam! We've enlisted the help of Gundam experts Thom and Nina from the great Gundam Podcast:  Mobile Suit Breakdown. We discuss the deep history and enduring appeal of the Gundam franchise, just as an exciting new Gundam anime is about to release!! The creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hideaki Anno, has co-written the brand new Gundam series: "Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX", which has injected fresh excitement for the long running Gundam franchise. On the eve of its release, we dive deep into how Gundam changed anime and the mecha genre forever and how you can get into it yourself! We also discuss the Gunpla model kit phenomenon and how the toy industry helped to establish the mecha genre as a defining part of anime.

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This week, Dee & Jay take it back to the 90's with the intriguing theatrical finale to Neon Genesis Evangelion, The End of Evangelion. The hosts take a deep look into the battle between Asuka Langley Soryu in her EVA Unit-02, the JSSDF forces and SEELE's Mass-Produced EVA Series, as well as the surrounding events of the entire film. Tune in as they give their experiences with the movie throughout their lives, as well as their thoughts on recent events like Akio Iyoku's interview on Dragon Ball Daima's direction and the Super Bowl! Follow The Lookout Network on Twitter: @TheLookoutRNCFollow Dee on Twitter: @DeeWeTrustFollow Jay on Twitter: @VersaceVegeta_ 

Writer and comedian Cody Ziglar returns to walk us through Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 18. An Eva gets infected by an angel! Shinji hesitates, can he save the day? A massive battle, explosions and confusion reign, while everyone wonders what's going on and what they aren't being told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textWe dive into the evolution of The Weekend's identity as Abel, discussing his upcoming tour and the emotional context of his latest album. The episode intertwines concert experiences with a deep reflection on the psychological themes in Neon Genesis Evangelion, encouraging listeners to explore both music and anime for their emotional journeys. • Examining The Weekend's transition to Abel • Personal concert experiences and what makes them special • The emotional impacts behind the latest album • Discussion on Neon Genesis Evangelion and its themes • Anime recommendations for new viewers, focusing on single-season shows https://www.carolinaotakus.com/

I LOVE L.A.! That's right Randy Newman and audience, it's time to celebrate the L.A. Amigo himself, Ed! This week, the Plummet boys dive into Ed's top 20 anime of all time and learn a little more about his history with anime. Ed's list has something for everyone and even a little trash for King. Let us know on the Anime Summit Discord what shows you loved on Ed's List. Theme Song: Toilet Paper by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Danya Vodovoz⁠⁠⁠ (00:09:09) Golden Boy (00:14:46) Bleach (00:20:36) Air Gear (00:23:43) Code Geass (00:28:06) Cowboy Bebop (00:35:12) Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (00:39:24) Dragon Ball (00:47:06) FLCL (00:50:07) Full Metal Alchemist (00:57:02) Great Teacher Onizuka (01:01:22) Honorable Mentions (01:05:59) Hunter X Hunter (01:10:59) Initial D (01:14:30) Kaguya Sama (01:16:50) Konosuba (01:19:05) Mob Psycho 100 (01:20:34) Naruto (01:24:42) Neon Genesis Evangelion (01:29:12) Nisekoi (01:31:20) Samurai Champloo (01:33:32) Yu Yu Hakusho

In December 2024, Sunrise announced the newest Gundam TV series coming in 2025 titled Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuux.  Created by the minds behind hit anime Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL, what universal secret is GQuuuuuux hiding?  Just how many u's are in GQuuuuuux?  How do you even pronounce GQuuuuuux for that matter?  Who gave the White Base a green paint wash and go-fast stripes?   Brian fears he might be the old man yelling at clouds while Isaac demands those Zaku hips must be lying.  Will there be sparkles and Gundam guitars?  What about the Doms?  We'll find out in 2025!

Ben and Hank watched the entire 26 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) written and directed by Hideaki Anno. Next time: The End of Evangelion (1997) Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Bluesky: saltcirclepod.bsky.social Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels The Burning Barrel Discord: discord.gg/jBDGW5j Theme Song: topianmusic.bandcamp.com/ Youtube: youtube.com/@saltcircle

We have reached the end(s) of Evangelion! This week we finish episodes 25 & 26 AND watch the alternate ending movie The End of Evangelion! Which ending will Lindsey prefer? Will she finally understand instrumentality? Do penguins go to heaven? All this all this and more on AnimEighties! Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/animeighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to ad-free episodes & videos, discord, bonus content, and more! Free and paid tiers available! Your help allows us to improve the podcast and offer more retro anime content! If you'd like to check out our retro anime video essays, or our incredibly funny short videos, please subscribe to our YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@AnimEighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you'd like to follow us on social media we are @animeighties everywhere! If you liked this episode please rate and leave a review! If you have feedback or questions, please email us at animeighties@gmail.com

In this packed episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji becomes trapped inside a mysterious void-like Angel. We explore the symbolism and character development, and wonder about the mysterious nature of the EVAs. Also, Spencer has trouble in a Costco line, Kevin goes to his Good Place, and Ryan and Jeff clean up in Spencer's trivia contest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we find ourselves in the end game as we watch episodes 21-24! Lindsey had so many questions we ended up having an impromptu recording session to ease her ailing mind. And of course, fill it right back up again with theories, Ritsuko Rule 34, and more! I'm sure I got things wrong in this one. AND YES I REALIZE I FORGOT ABOUT THE STUPID NETFLIX DUB CHANGING LOVE TO LIKE WITH SHINJI AND KOWARU. I'LL COMMENT NEXT EPISODE. I'M SORRY. Patreon: ⁠⁠patreon.com/animeighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get access to ad-free episodes & videos, discord, bonus content, and more! Free and paid tiers available! Your help allows us to improve the podcast and offer more retro anime content! If you'd like to check out our retro anime video essays, or our incredibly funny short videos, please subscribe to our YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@AnimEighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you'd like to follow us on social media we are @animeighties everywhere! If you liked this episode please rate and leave a review! If you have feedback or questions, please email us at animeighties@gmail.com

Though Rob is out because of some ongoing construction, Patrick, Janet, and Cado were lucky to find a suitable replacement: Austin Walker. Naturally, we must first address the breaking news of a Gundam series coming from the creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion. But after that, it's several long discussions on Arctic Eggs, 1000xResist, NYU's recent No Quarter exhibition, Arco, Grunn, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard. We talked about so many games that we had to cut the news section! But hey, we had some great questions about early access and puzzles.Discussed: Gundam News 3:58, Arctic Eggs 13:43, No Quarter 40:39, Arco 52:40, Grunn 59:52, 1000xResist 1:03:35, Dragon Age Veilguard 1:36:22, The Question Bucket 1:51:08, Outro and Announcements 2:43:40See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're coming into the end game and Lindsey's mind is already at it's breaking point. This week all "bras" are off when things get a whole lot darker and more secrets get revealed when we watched episodes 17, 18, 19, and 20 of Neon Genesis Evangelion! This episode is "sponsored" by Liquid Shinji: Now in Orange! Visit our Patreon to support the podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/animeighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Your help allows us to improve the podcast and offer more retro anime content! If you'd like to check out our retro anime video essays, or our incredibly funny short videos, please subscribe to our YouTube Channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@AnimEighties⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ If you'd like to follow us on social media we are @animeighties everywhere! If you liked this episode please rate and leave a review! If you have feedback or questions, please email us at animeighties@gmail.com

We're all taking our first walk through the critically and culturally acclaimed series Neon Genesis Evangelion. We discuss our collective history with anime, and do our best to dissect "Angel Attack." We discuss the beautiful look of the show, the UN, Babylonian myth, angels, Shinji being a big whiny baby, Freud, and so much more. To catch up with the rest of our Evangelion watch through, sign up for the patreon. $1 a month gets you bonus episodes, original music and more. patreon.com/nogodspod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at NoGodsPod@gmail.com

Matthew Fox and Riki Hayashi explore the profound philosophical themes and controversial endings of the influential anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. From its groundbreaking original TV finale to the theatrical response film The End of Evangelion, we unpack how creator Hideaki Anno's personal struggles with depression shaped one of anime's most debated conclusions.What makes the controversial ending of Neon Genesis Evangelion so impactful? We examine how the series transforms from a traditional mecha anime into a deeply psychological exploration of depression, trauma, and self-acceptance. The final two episodes abandon conventional narrative for an internal journey into protagonist Shinji's psyche, culminating in a powerful message about choosing individual identity over collective consciousness.How does The End of Evangelion serve as both a response to fan backlash and an artistic statement? We discuss how the theatrical film offers a darker, more explicit version of the TV ending while incorporating actual death threats and hate mail the creators received. The movie provides closure for plot threads while still challenging audience expectations about what they want versus what the artist needs to express.Why does this series continue to resonate with audiences decades later? We explore how Anno's authentic portrayal of depression and journey toward self-acceptance created something far more profound than typical genre fare, even if it frustrated fans at the time.Other topics covered:The cultural context and potential issues around the show's use of Jewish & Christian imageryThe significance of the Human Instrumentality Project as a metaphor for social anxiety and isolationKey character arcs including Asuka, Misato, and KaworuProduction challenges and budget constraints that influenced the original endingParallels to modern fan backlash against subversive works like The Last JediThe series' complex exploration of sexuality and coming-of-age themesHow both endings ultimately convey similar messages about self-acceptance through different meansWhether you're a longtime Eva fan or newcomer to the series, this episode offers fresh insights into one of anime's most analyzed and debated conclusions. More than just a reaction to the ending, we examine how Evangelion's themes of depression, identity, and artistic integrity remain deeply relevant to modern audiences and creators. We've started the conversation. Now we want to hear from you!Want to continue the discussion with us? Agree or disagree with what we talked about, or add your own thoughts? We've got options for you!Email: ✉️ Matthew@TheEthicalPanda.com

Spencer, Kevin, Ryan, and Jeff dive deep into a revelatory episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Shinji visits his mother's grave with his emotionally distant father Gendo. Misato and Kaji rekindle old flames after a wedding. And in a shocking twist, Kaji discovers a horrific secret deep in Nerv's bowels. We speculate on the disturbing implications as the show's mythos takes a dark turn. Plus, astrology hijinks, black olive soda incentives, and a crazy message from Spenpai! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Noam and Jen spend this last episode before the election discussing the intricacies of the popular anime Neon Genesis: Evangelion, how its themes refer back to the Old Testament, and the value of subjugating one's personal desires to the greater good. Nah, just kidding. They discuss the accusation leveled by Nate Silver and Nate Cohn that the 2024 general election polls are the victim of herding, which is the desire to not stand out from the crowd by publishing polling results that would be perceived as outliers to…well there are a lot of reasons they get into. They briefly discuss Trump's last week of campaigning and what the hell it means, from dump trucks to mic stands to Liz Cheney.  Stick around to the end of the pod for Noam's truly heterodox opinion about what electoral outcome would be best for America and whether he and Jen will attend the post-election pink keffiyeh protest.   Check us out Thursday nights at 7:30pm EST on Twitch. https://www.twitch.tv/ambitiousxover   

This week Will, Ian & Nora welcome Marco to the pod. And then they get reeeaaallll high.... and they talk.... there's talking.... they.... um.... they smoke and then, like, talk... about the movie. They talk about things... like... it... and..... PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008) R (111 minutes) Directed by: David Gordon Green. Starring: Seth Rogan, Danny McBride, James Franco, Rosie Perez, Gary Cole, Craig Robinson, Kevin Corrigan, Nora Dunn, Ed Begley Jr., Amber Heard, Bill Harder, James Remar, Joe Lo Truglio and Many Other Talented People! 00:01:00- The Weed Episode! with- 00:01:30- WELCOME MARCO! 00:02:15- SMOKE 00:03:00- GUESTIONS! 00:11:00- First Thoughts 00:19:00- Whatcha Been Watchin'? (ian- Brothers (2024). Nora- 1996 NBA Championship Game Bulls-Jazz. Marco- One Punch Man, Terrifier 1 + 2, Neon Genesis Evangelion. Will- The Penguin. 00:27:00- PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008) 00:30:00- Tasty Morsels 00:32:00- Rating/Review 01:04:00- Totals 01:07:30- Next Week/Thank You Marco/Bye Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/THELastActionCritics⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: @TheLastActionCritics email:   Thelastactioncritics@gmail.com Next Week: Smile 2 (in theatres)

Season 3, Episode 11 This weeks, Spooky Season episode host Zack speculates on a battle between Shinji Ikari (Unit-01) from Neon Genesis Evangelion and Monster King Orochi From One Punch Man! This podcast is a member of the Dynamic Podcast Network. Explore other shows in the network: The Dynamic Duel: Marvel vs. DC, Max Destruction, and Konsole Kombat! Visit us at senjohworld.com and dynamicduel.com TRP Out Now!

No One Can Know About This hosts Jeff Eckman and Ryan Kasmiskie are back again to discuss what may be Evangelion's most budget conscious episode so far. Can a show pull off a clip show only 14 episodes in, or is this a framing device for something deeper? Does the show's sense of conveying the emotional impact and loss of a sense of self hold up? Kevin does a book report on the first episode of Death Note, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue to be BLESSED with more anime announcements. Nick, LeAlec, and Josellie are talking all about the latest from My Hero Academia, One Piece, WIND BREAKER, SK8 the Infinity, and more! Then, they're revealing their favorite mech anime (besides Neon Genesis Evangelion and Gurren Lagann) and sharing your messages. Have a question for The Anime Effect? Ask it here. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Vote for The Anime Effect in the Signal Awards! My Hero Academia Anime Final Season Officially Announced for 2025 One Piece Anime Announces Hiatus, Newly-Edited Fish-Man Island Arc WIND BREAKER Season 2 Anime Premieres in April 2025 SK8 the Infinity Anime OVA Reveals New Visual, Release Date Oshi no Ko Manga Ending Date Announced Goku Balloon Returns to the Skies for 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2024! Monográfico de más de 4 horas sobre la serie animada NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, probablemente una de las obras más aclamadas y fascinantes de todo el anime japonés. En nuestra primera hora os presentaremos cuáles son los fuertes de esta magnífica y profunda serie de 26 episodios, sin ningún spoiler, para que aquellos que no conozcan este producto descubran si está hecho o no para ellos. Después de nuestra alarma spoiler, profundizaremos hasta los rincones más oscuros de este título, con ciertos momentos probablemente confusos y cargados de simbolismo, para intentar aclarar todas las preguntas que la gente suele formularse en torno al final de la saga. Para ello, será necesario sumergirse en Evangelion Death & Rebirth y en The End of Evangelion, dos ovas imprescindibles para el buen fan de este universo lleno de criaturas extrañas de origen incierto, robots gigantes que no son precisamente robots, niños de catorce años con destinos descorazonadores y un sinfín de tramas y subtramas que tejen la gran historia de un clásico de la animación, que cuenta con una auténtica legión de seguidores en todo el mundo que revisitan una y otra vez una producción grandiosa llena de elementos que mezclan la cotidianidad, la acción desenfrenada, la mitología religiosa y lo más denso e introspectivo de las relaciones humanas. Evangelion no merecía menos que un programa especial como éste, por lo que es la hora del Tercer Impacto y de prepararse para el Proyecto de Complementación Humana. ¡Adelante! Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

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No One Can Know About This hosts Jeff Eckman and Ryan Kasmiskie return to discuss a polarizing episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion. NERV gets a computer virus that's more than just a virus, Ritsuko and Misato's past get revealed and we try to figure out what a protein wall is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No One Can Know About This hosts Jeff Eckman and Ryan Kasmiskie return to discuss a polarizing episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion. NERV gets a computer virus that's more than just a virus, Ritsuko and Misato's past get revealed and we try to figure out what a protein wall is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back with another set! In this episode of the Fake Fans Podcast, Scarra & Peter share stories about World of Warcraft raiding, moving homes, and adjusting to new life changes. There is no Fake Fans Manga Club assignment for the next week!

  We're back and we're done complaining about Shinji. We spy a critique of bureaucracy, more evidence that the Eva is (at least metaphorically) Shinji's mom, and we look to scripture to take a stab at where the Evas and the Angels come from. To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at NoGodsPod@gmail.com

Hang out with Al Mega as he chats with jaw-dropping YA graphic novelist, rising star, writer Ricky Lima. Tune in to learn all about is new book from Top Shelf Productions, Undergrowth and more…..   Undergrowth hits bookstores and  comic shops Sept. 4th and is now available for preorder from Top Shelf, Indigo, and Amazon. Perfect for fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Punch Up! and First Test.   To learn more about Ricky Lima, check out https://limepressonline.com/ or give him a follow on Instagram. And to learn more about Daniele Aquilani follow him on Instagram. Follow Ricky on Social Media at: @KingKRule Press by DHPR: DontHidePR.com Thank You for Watching / Listening! We appreciate your support! Episode 456 in an unlimited series! Host: Al Mega Follow on: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook): @TheRealAlMega / @ComicCrusaders   Make sure to Like/Share/Subscribe if you haven't yet: https://www.youtube.com/c/comiccrusadersworld Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/comiccrusaders Visit the official  Comic Crusaders  Comic Book Shop: comiccrusaders.shop Visit the OFFICIAL  Comic Crusaders Swag Shop at: comiccrusaders.us Main Site: https://www.comiccrusaders.com/​​​​ Streamyard is the platform of choice used by  Comic Crusaders and The Undercover Capes  Podcast Network to stream! Check out their premium plans for this amazing and versatile tool, sign up now: https://bit.ly/ComicCrusadersStreamyard * Edited/Produced/Directed by Al Mega

Writer and creator Cody Ziglar (Rick & Morty, Futurama, She-Hulk, etc) join Spencer and Kevin to talk about the next episode of Neon Genesys Evangelion. Find out who gets promoted and save Tokyo-3 from destruction on this action packed recap! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dive into the mind-bending world of Neon Genesis Evangelion with hosts Matthew Fox and Riki Hayashi. Unravel the complex themes and iconic characters that have made this 1995 anime a cultural phenomenon and a cornerstone of the mecha genre.What makes Neon Genesis Evangelion stand out from other mecha anime? Our hosts explore the show's unique approach to biomechanical robots and the psychological depth of its characters. They discuss how the series subverts traditional mecha tropes, focusing on the trauma and inner turmoil of its protagonists rather than just epic robot battles.How does Evangelion handle themes of trauma, loneliness, and human agency? Matthew and Riki delve into the show's exploration of these heavy topics, examining how each character's past shapes their actions and relationships. They highlight the stark contrast between the adult and teenage characters' responses to trauma, offering a nuanced look at human psychology.What role does religious symbolism play in the series? The hosts unpack the abundant Jewish and Christian imagery and terminology used throughout Evangelion, discussing its significance and what it tells us about cultural appropriation. Other topics covered include:The iconic opening theme song and its dissonant lyricsThe series' portrayal of sexuality and its potential controversiesThe mysterious Human Instrumentality Project and its implicationsThe show's influence on subsequent anime and pop cultureThe multiple endings of Evangelion and their impact on fansWhether you're a long-time fan or new to the world of Evangelion, this episode offers fresh insights and thought-provoking discussions. Join Matthew and Riki as they navigate the philosophical depths and ethical dilemmas presented in this groundbreaking anime series. Don't miss this deep dive into one of the most influential and enigmatic shows in anime history! We've started the conversation. Now we want to hear from you!Want to continue the discussion with us? Agree or disagree with what we talked about, or add your own thoughts? We've got options for you!Email: ✉️ Matthew@TheEthicalPanda.com

In this episode of Anime Binge Club we jump into Episode 11 of Neon Genesis Evangelion. A mysterious power outage causes chaos in Tokyo 3, Spenpai gives another lesson, the Olympics wraps up, and we debate the role of computers and AI in governance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DISCLAIMER: SPENCER LIKED DEADPOOL. HE LIKED IT A LOT. On today's episode of Anime Binge Club, we look at the fascinating world of anime tropes and storytelling with Neon Genesis Evangelion episode 10. Spencer and Kevin discuss the intricate plot points and character developments in the latest episode, highlighting how the narrative builds tension and explores themes of vulnerability and competence through Asuka's character. They also touch on the cultural nuances in anime, such as the trope of school trips and the unique way Japanese voice acting adds to the experience. The episode is rounded out with Abed's Banter Corner, some very Canadian Coke, and a humorous recap of the "Syrup Village" arc from One Piece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Anime Binge Club, we're joined by Alexis Quasarano to jump into the intricacies of Neon Genesis Evangelion episodes 8 and 9. We discuss the introduction of new character Asuka and her dynamic with Shinji, touching on themes of teenage angst and the burden of piloting Evas. The conversation also explores the complexities of Misato's past relationship with Kaji and the comedic yet action-packed moments that define these episodes. Alexis shares insights on the cultural and thematic elements of the show, while Kevin provides a fresh perspective as an anime newcomer. The episode wraps up with a discussion on the layered storytelling and the importance of understanding the characters' emotional landscapes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Anime Binge Club, Spencer and Kevin delve into personal introspection and the impact of self-help books, specifically "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" by Lindsay C. Gibson. Spencer shares his recent personal revelations and the validation he feels from the book, while Kevin reflects on his own patterns of behavior in relationships. The conversation also touches on the political climate and the nature of healing fantasies. Then we dive into episode seven of Neon Genesis Evangelion, discussing its slower pace, budget-conscious animation choices, and character development, particularly of Misato. We also explore the cultural differences in how sexuality and prudishness are portrayed in anime versus American media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We dive deep into episode 6 of Neon Genesis Evangelion that maybe spends a little too much time engaging chevrons and not enough on the art and story. Spencer and Kevin come away with some wildly different takes on the same scenes, then Spencer goes over some self-discovery breakthroughs and possibly makes up some One Piece plot lines to impress Kevin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices