Ani-Gamers Podcast

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a gelling of past and present; an awakening; a transition (multiple transitions, really); and a handoff. But this movie, as an experience, is ultimately a visually enthralling, action- and emotionally packed exploration of what being a hero means to self and community and the means by which it takes for that to manifest. Join Jared and Ink as they babble o...

Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has made Death Stranding real, Evan attempts to review the game without going completely over time. Since David hasn’t played it, the review is spoiler-free! Plus, Evan and David discuss The Ultimate Doom , more Gal & Dino and Sing “Yesterday” for Me , EVO Online, and Netflix’s announcement of the release date of BNA . Topics include: netc...

Evan and David continue their coverage of anime con and TV series cancellations due to COVID-19 (including some positive news about the online convention Anime Lockdown ), then talk about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sound! Euphonium . Then David reviews the manga series The Dungeon of Black Company , a transported-to-another-world story that’s surprisingly anticapitalist. Topics...

As the song goes, “You always hurt the one you love,” and our takes on Dennou Coil  (alt. Den-Noh Coil ) are definitely not sparing. Scott Spaziani rejoins our humble ‘cast as we break down what endears this much-overlooked darling of a Sci-Fi series to us and explore some of its weaker points. This original story from Mitsuo Iso began production in 1997 and&n...

Evan and David check out some anime from the Spring 2020 season, including Gal & Dino , Listeners ,  Hi Score Girl Season 2 (technically not this season but … Netflix), and Sing “Yesterday” for Me . Then Evan reviews the unhinged, hyper-violent Weekly Shonen Jump manga Chainsaw Man ! Topics include: playing video games to lose weight, air horns, and being allegedly horny...

Since so many of our listeners are stuck at home (or working extra hours if they’re at an essential job!) due to COVID-19, we’re providing a bit of bonus content on the main feed. In this short episode, Evan and David run through their usual “Queue” segment, discussing some games they’ve been playing — specifically Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Granblue Fant...

Evan and David cover the latest COVID-19 news, including the cancellation of Comiket 98, then sit down with dakazu from the Manga Machinations Podcast to review Studio Orange’s 2019 anime adaptation of Paru Itagaki’s anthropomorphic animal manga Beastars . Topics include: “Anime Cons Cancel Your Damn Conventions” challenge, Animal Crossing is better than Slack, and the retu...

Grab some canned goods and hunker down, it’s time for a COVID-19-centric episode of the Ani-Gamers Podcast. Evan and David discuss the impacts of the global pandemic on the anime, manga, and video game industries and answer some listener questions about the virus. Keep in mind, this episode was recorded a week ago, before many of the more visible impacts of the virus such as Italy’s health system...

Evan and David catch up on the news and their queues this episode, including the What the Font?! manga license, the launch of Pokémon Home, and Masaaki Yuasa’s new anime Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Then David digs up his 3DS to review The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (the sequel to A Link to the Past), and talk about its influence on more recent Nintendo games. Topics include: Kemono F...

Golden Deer vs. Blue Lions! Evan and David have both finished Fire Emblem: Three Houses, so it’s time to dig into this tactical RPG behemoth. In this in-depth review, the hosts cover the game’s balance of turn-based strategy combat and social sim elements, its extremely anime story, and the many amazing, memorable characters. Plus: some news about Byleth’s appearance in Super Smash Bros! Topics in...

Finally, a Shinkai film that makes Children Who Chase Lost Voices look good! How does Makoto Shinkai twist “boy meets girl” this time? How do Jared and Ink tweak their takes on the auteur’s output this time? The answers are as predictable as weathermen are accurate in our most recent episode, and you have a front row seat to Gallagher-style hot takes. (Pro-tip: bring an umbrella...

It’s our annual roundup of the best anime, manga, and video games of the past year! This time Evan and David are joined by Gerald (@Gerald_AWO), one-third of the Anime World Order Podcast. We cover the stuff you’d expect — Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Promare — as well as some picks that haven’t gotten any airtime on the show before, including Baba Is You, Vinland Saga, and… Miru Tights. Plus a dis...

This episode of Oldtaku no Radio welcomes Erica Friedman for a review of “a story of survival,”  Kase-san and Morning Glories  – both the anime adaptation and the manga! The anime’s a short affair about a developing relationship, but there’s a lot to learn and love about choices made in its adaptation as well as its source material’s publicat...

Evan and David are joined by Pokémon superfan and GameSpot reviews editor Kallie Plagge for a deep dive into the latest Pokémon games: Sword and Shield. This is a long episode, covering the ins and outs of the new Pokédex, the introduction of the Wild Area and Dynamaxing, various quality-of-life improvements over previous games, and the new battling and breeding meta. We recorded this before the P...

It’s time again for Anime Secret Santa, and a certain special someone left us one heck of a present to unpack: Patlabor ! While we were given the OVAs and movies to review, we had more than enough to talk about with just the OVAs, so we’ll get around to the movies on a bonus episode or three. We talk about the OVAs as a collection in general and then get into specifics a...

Evan and David had to postpone the Pokémon episode until January, so in the last AGP episode of 2019 the hosts check in for some news and anime/video game discussion. We cover GKids’ license of Tokyo Godfathers, the state of animator pay in Japan, the new Xbox with the silly name, and the complete revamp of Amazon’s colonialism simulator New World. In the queue segment, David is watchi...

Evan and David check in on the anime and Japanese TV they’re watching, including Carole & Tuesday and Game Center CX, touching on Ani-Gamers’ Best of the Decade lists, algorithms, and Elon Musk along the way. Then, in this episode’s review, David delves into the Sword Art Online light novels. Topics include: moé war veterans, gamer wife guys, and ragging on Ernest Kline. Runtime:  1 hour...

The works of Satoshi Kon are few but powerful, and his directorial debut, Perfect Blue , is no exception. This adaptation of Yoshikazu Takeuchi’s novel, Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis , is a psychological thriller that follows the career of pop star and aspiring actress Kirigoe Mima. It’s biting commentary on idol culture and the ugly dangers therein. Join Jared and Ink and speci...

It’s the holiday season, so Evan and David convene to celebrate the most important holiday of all: Gundam Day. Then Evan talks about his slow progress through the first season of Psycho-Pass, David checks in with first impressions of Pokémon Sword, and Evan reviews the three volumes of the Saint Young Men manga that are currently out in English. It’s a sitcom about Jesus and Buddha living together...

Evan and David team up to review the anime movie Blackfox from Studio 3Hz (Dimension W, Flip Flappers, Princess Principal), which is ostensibly a sci-fi ninja revenge story. Plus, Fortnite and HBO Max anime news (go figure), the Dororo anime, Super Mario World, and a quest to discover which animal ears are the scariest on an anime character. Topics incude: drones are evil, Brad City, and tradwife-...