Anime Roundtable

On the eve of Anime North (and the afterglow of PRIDE), one of the regulars has a very important message for the Roundtable listeners and hopefully Anime North attendees too

Kevin visits Mike to dust off the old microphones and to check their Anime North worthiness. In the process they talk about going into Mike’s vault to find things that might be Nominoichi worthy, and immediate thoughts as Anime Expo begins to wrap up This might have been taped last week, but for sure there’s more to come this week

We start by getting Canadian political as we do every so often from Bill C-11 and Canadian Content to the Ontario General Election (which does have an Anime North link) 9:35 - We talk about the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and the controversy surrounding the invite given to, and then taken away from Pink Cat creator Saba Moeel 46:31 - A year after Kentaro Miura’s death, Beserk’s fate has been deter...

We settle back into our first recording of any sort in about a month 7:08 - James and Geoff give their take on the Netflix issues and the current streaming landscape. With a longer discussion about the past and present way of consuming content (both anime and mainstream). Netflix hasn’t been all bad has it? Well… 36:22 - Worker in the North American dub industry is looking to do what a lot of othe...

We’re back with the first regular episode in more than a month (and a few weeks since the last time we chatted). And we talk just a little more about Kevin’s LA trip, ice cream there, vacations in general, and a COVID update 26:40 - Yes we had to talk Netflix and their recent downturn. But of course we tried to put some sort of Anime view on it 1:05:17 - So what have you been watching or reading l...

Mike talks with Kevin a few days removed from his Los Angeles vacation. With some thoughts on KPOP and spots that would be of interest to Asian pop culture junkies, and of course relate it to Toronto and the pandemic Mike Nicolas and Kevin Ng Editor’s Note: This isn’t Kevin’s first one on one space heater chat. He did one on Halloween night too

Mike and James again go off topic talking about early Spring in Toronto (which is very much like winter), and some sports. Then we talk Discotek’s twitch stream of announcements, Sentai titles leaving the Crunchyroll streaming service (and staying on their own HiDive service), how Sony actually looks at their Crunchyroll brand and ad supporting. Then we end coming home with some Anime North observ...

Mohamed and Geoff return to the table this week after successful Batmen pursuits. So we’ll get their takes and follow up on the CR and AN stories before getting everyone elses takes on Disney+ expanding into more Japanese programming, Megumi Ogata and gender in the seiyuu industry, and Makoto Shinkai’s earlier works finding a new home. We’ll end by looking back on a bunch of things as well Mike Ni...

Mike, James and Kevin continue the conversation started a few days back. This time we talk Anime North (we are official podcast after all), and a bullets segment full of Anime YouTube and Manga thoughts Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng Visit our website for more information and links: Website: animeroundtable.com Twitter and IG: @animeroundtable Email: animeroundtable@gmail.com Twitch: https:/...

Mike, James and Kevin on impulse decided to sit down and hit the record button, and ended up giving their thoughts on Sony’s formal announcement merging the Funimation and Crunchyroll streaming services into a single one under the CR name Visit our website for more information and links: Website: animeroundtable.com Twitter and IG: @animeroundtable Email: animeroundtable@gmail.com Twitch: https://...

After spending almost 40 minutes talking about the long weekend in various parts of Canada, COVID, Winter Olympics, and somehow connecting all of those dots to anime, manga, and graphic novels (trust us, it worked out better than you thought), we talked about a Japan Society online presentation on the topic, and Nintendo doing its best Sony impression when it comes to their older online game store...

And here we thought we’d start doing weekly episodes… On the first weekend of the Winter Olympics, and a week after Canada’s latest successful games in FIFA World Cup Qualifying (and the usual jokes about the organizations who run them), we react to the latest in the aftermath of the Microsoft Activision-Blizzard acquisition, the latest in the Totally Not Mark fair use story, and react to the othe...

Let’s be honest, Microsoft’s announced acquisition of Activision/Blizzard is the big story this week (it took almost an hour of the show). So we’ll talk about it, and try to tie it into the anime sphere. Around that though, we do also talk about Anime North being pushed into July, and take a crack at Project Anime’s 2022 predictions (since we did them last year too) Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kev...

It’s a very Seinfeld-ish episode. Or at least one that wasn’t prepared. Geoff adds his two cents on the NFT and Scott Pilgram talk from last week, Moh shakes his head on the Netflix price increase news. Then after we look at the latest Anime North news, Mike poses a question on one of the great male protagonists of the medium before finally looking ahead to next week…and a plot Mike Nicolas, Kevin...

We begin 2022 with some significant stories already with the acquisitions of Sentai and Retrocrush and what could the future hold. Then we talk about a manga episode that’s not coming soon to a digital device near you…kind of like a COVID update. We end of the real talk by mentioning some Lum and Netflix New stories, New Theme Music, New Year. Hopefully new good luck too. Something to lounge to wh...

In our final 2021 episode, we decided to take a peek at anime’s gossip column and talk about Runa Narumi. After we look at the changes at the winter Comiket which was set to happen. Then we wind down the year by looking back on the things that made an impression on us after a tough second pandemic filled holiday season Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke Visit our website for m...

The rest of the Roundtable join Mike and James for a live Space Heater Chat for Christmas Eve. After talking about hunting for PS5s (and the let down of a successful one), we try to talk at length about some of the buzz surrounding the new Rurouni Kenshin anime series, as the past its creator Nobuhiro Watsuki comes back out of the shadows again and becomes a major part of the discussion and possib...

On the happy side we talk Ken Akamatsu’s political ambitions, Discotek, and Jump Festa on the bookends. Sandwiched in between is the depressing stuff like COVID, Sayaka Kanda, and Hana Kimura in the second last Roundtable of 2021 Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke Visit our website for more information and links: https://animeroundtable.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/anime-roundtabl...

We look back on the first live-stream a few days back both on the presentation, and content. We talk the Totally Not Mark/Toei situation, the cancellation of Cowboy Bebop, and the deaths of both the Bebop anime’s screenwriter (among other things), and the lead man behind the NES and SNES Mike Nicolas, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke, Geoff Greig Visit our website for more information and links: Websit...

Anime Roundtable v2.0 Space Heater Chat - December 8 2021: Faces for Radio Mike and James gave a live-stream a try for the first time…AND IT FAILED MISERABLY. Care to see how so? But we taped this the evening after the Totally Not Mark/Toei situation publicly broke. So we check the nuts and bolts of it, as well as give our usual thoughts How did we look? Oh wait, you're listening to the audio vers...

We begin December shorthanded. But somehow we do get in a good length episode. We talk more Cowboy Bebop a couple weeks after the live action has come out, and we’ve seen more of it. Then we have a pandemic conversation as it takes another twist, as talk a little Anime NYC and Anime North in the midst of that. Geoff talks Jojo’s on Netflix, James talks video games, and Mike talks about stuff to ch...

Some quick analysis from Mike, Moh, and Geoff after seeing a few episodes of the Cowboy Bebop live action series on Netflix, and then compare it with their blurry memories of the anime series. And how it sets the table for future live action adaptations Kevin is just along for the ride… *Oh yeah, spoiler alerts in our talk concerning Cowboy Bebop (anime or liveaction???…yes)* Visit our website for...

In our first regular episode in more than a month, we finish off the conversation that started with the Halloween Space Heater Chat. Then since Netflix talked this week, we talked Netflix, before ending off with stuff we think you should check out Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Kevin Ng, Mohamed Sharmarke, Geoff Greig Visit our website for more information and links: Website: animeroundtable.com Twit...

Mike and Kevin wanted to at least get a second recording in October before it ended (so we saved it until the final hours). So we talked Halloween, Yomacon and Scans, EVA fashion, more Cowboy Bebop, some actual Japanese headlines, supply issues affecting manga, and things coming on to the Crave streaming service that caught Mike's attention Visit our website for more information and links: https:/...

The Canadian Thanksgiving episode was a cornucopia of little appetizers of headlines that came together for a big meal. James and Kevin talked about NYCC and the fall season. Some streaming news concerning Demon Slayer and Lupin III, a few notable (rightful or wrongful) figures passing, the new Japanese PM and his take on the country’s soft power industries, NPR talks anime, Right Stuf kickstarts...