Otaku Ryōhō

Gian and Josué talk about death & the afterlives using Dragon Ball Z as illustration. What happens after we die? The question yields more questions than answers. The hosts talk about their personal beliefs and how those beliefs influence how they go about their lives. As the conversations develop, they explore religious diversity and how it affects our collective view of death. They end up pla...

Round #3: Gian chooses to talk about Language, Accessibility of Language and Deafness using the 2016 Kyoto Animation movie, A Silent Voice. He is quickly taken aback by Josué’s unexpectedly extensive history with Sign Language and the Deaf Community. They discuss the themes discussed in the movie as well as whether the movie is truly about deafness or about something else altogether. Gian wildly d...

Round #2: Josué presents the topic of Japanese Culture and how anime functions (and sometimes fails to function) as a window into a culture that we would otherwise have no exposure to. He begins the discussion talking about informational boxes in the anime Excel Saga that would explain jokes that lacked context for western audiences. They then discuss their doubts on whether they have a correct id...

Round #1: Welcome to the Otaku Ryōhō Podcast! A podcast where we talk about psychological themes using anime as illustration. In this episode, Josué and Gian introduce themselves and each detail their history with anime growing up. Each of them discloses their history of what brought them to anime growing up as well as what aspects of anime speak to them the most. Lastly, they talk about their fav...