Ani-Gamers Podcast

There are several reasons why Higurashi When They Cry consistently finds itself on so many must-watch series when October rolls around, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a show for everyone. Listen in as Jared and Ink are joined by AGP’s @QX20XX and Reverse Thieves’ Alain Mendez to dig into the origin and makeup of this iconic series about a series of gruesome murders an...

The Fall 2019 anime season has started and Evan and David are feeling the seasonal anime itch again. This episode, the hosts discuss some gaming news, including the big Blizzard/Hong Kong debacle, and talk about four shows they’re sampling from the current anime season. Topics include: normie pop culture, and incel turtles, and the mind-bogglingly weird tagline for No Guns Life (used as the title...

After a brief break due to our two-part Evangelion podcast, Evan and David check back in on anime industry news, Rie Kugimiya’s ticketed AnimeNYC appearance, Super Nintendo games on Switch, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. And in this episode’s Mini-Review, Evan discusses Control, the new supernatural action game from Remedy Entertainment. Topics include: gacha guest signings, turning into a tree, a...

If you don’t remember MTV back in the ’90s, when it was 98% music and 1% Kurt Loder, then you definitely don’t remember the other 1% – the ballsy, experimental animated shorts of Liquid Television and the longer, more serial (but not any less weird) shorts of the Oddities animation programming block. Join Jared and Ink as they reflect upon their tee...

Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast returns to wrap up our extended discussion of the legendary 1995 anime TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion. In this half, we answer audience questions and get into the spoiler portion of the show, covering the end of the TV series and the mind-bending finale that is End of Evangelion. Topics include: Evangelion presented by Tesla, “Both of You, TikTok Like You W...

To celebrate Neon Genesis Evangelion being available legally in the US for the first time in about a decade, Evan and David sit down with Dawn (a.k.a. Usamimi) of the Anime Nostalgia Podcast for an in-depth discussion of the legendary 1995 anime series and movies, covering the show’s themes, some of their favorite episodes, the new translation, and more. The episode ran so long that we had t...

Evan and David discuss the news around Kizuna Ai’s body swap and the rumored SNES Switch Online offering, finally get back into seasonal anime with JoJo’s and Lord El-Melloi (aka “Detective Waver”), and try out a new segment: a short “Mini-Review” of the josei manga Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura. Topics include: bad Kiznaiver jokes, the Odakyu Bitter Singl...

Looking for one of the cutest stories about a tortured artist? Look no further than Barakamon, which focuses on a professional calligrapher (who knew?) who butts heads with the Tokyo art crowd and is sent to live on a remote island to cool his head and refine his art. Doesn’t sound cute? Just wait until you meet the village brat Naru … not to mention an entire cast of characters so&nb...

Evan and David check in with some news about the Nintendo Switch Lite and some thoughts on the 2018 Switch drumming game Gal Metal, the 2004 Gunbuster sequel OVA Diebuster, and the 2004 TV anime Samurai Champloo. And yes, the biggest news of all is that David is watching anime again! Topics include: Tak Fujii name-searching, MOMRPGs, and the Ani-Gamered Podcast. NOTE: This episode was recorded sho...

The Transformers toy line is legendary, and the car-toon it inspired was hugely popular with many of the kids growing up in the ’80s. But when one set of toys outwears its welcome in the marketplace and a new set of toys is ready to be sold, there remains a question of transition. The answer is a HUGE animated movie showcase that surprised just about everyone who saw (and hear...

It’s an overstuffed E3 recap show as Evan and David are joined by Kotaku’s Nathan Grayson (@Vahn16) to look back at the press conferences and announcements from the game industry’s big annual event, including the Breath of the Wild sequel, Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Elden Ring, Halo Infinite, Watch Dogs Legion, the Xbox Scarlett, and the rise of streaming game services like Google S...

Get ready for Jojo’s Bustzarre Assventures as Jared and Ink talk about the 2016 sports parody Keijo!!!!!!!!  by Xebec with special guest Basil from OSMcast. This shonen anime, which adapts a portion of Daichi Sorayomi’s manga (alt title: Hip Whip Girl ), centers around a fictional sport wherein girls in bathing suits do battle atop different floating stages in a pool using nothing...

The boys get serious this episode as Evan and David are joined by Okazu’s Erica Friedman (@OkazuYuri) to talk about the history of yuri manga and its intersection with lesbian identity, then review Kabi Nagata’s auto-biographical manga My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary. Get ready for lots of talk about everyone’s favorite subjects: depression, loneliness, and dysfunc...

The Pokémon hits just keep coming as Evan and David discuss game news, including the new Death Stranding trailers and the FOUR new Pokémon announcements (a new Detective Pikachu, Pokémon Home, Pokémon Sleep, and Pokémon Masters). Then Evan recaps FanimeCon 2019 and the state of panels at the San Jose, CA convention, and talks about the Old Boy manga. Topics include: The Paprika Child, the Presiden...

It’s a double-feature movie night as David talks Detective Pikachu and Evan talks Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection (spoiler warning for the original Code Geass, but we don’t spoil the movie). Are the realistic Pokémon disturbing? Is Code Geass still as lovably dumb as we remember it? And in the questions segment, the hosts dish out some advice for aspiring anime, manga, and game reviewers....

Originally meant to accompany our PEZ episode for a grand, post-apocalyptically themed episode, we’re talking about the whimsical despair that is  Girls’ Next Tour ! This anime features Takaharu Ozaki adapting Tsukumizu’s manga (which we also discuss! …briefly) about two friends, Chito and Yuri, exploring the world into which they’ve been thrust by war and t...

It’s a sad episode as Evan and David discuss the death of legendary manga artist and Lupin III creator Monkey Punch and the retirement of Nintendo of America President and de-facto Nintendo mascot Reggie Fils-Aime. Evan’s also catching up on anime and games — specifically Aggretsuko and Kirby’s Adventure (NES) — while David is getting his From Software fix with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. On that s...

David is back on the mic to talk TAX NEWS (specifically the alleged tax evasion of Ufotable’s president) and his secret tryst with Granblue Fantasy. Then Evan talks about his return to The Witcher 3 and his week at the Game Developers Conference, including: game worker unionization; sessions about animation, accessibility, and censorship; and the experimental controllers at Alt. Ctrl. GDC. Topics...

We’re talking this episode about Hiroyuki Asada’s PEZ – a small, full-color manga with big heart, impact, and presentation – published and distributed in the USA by Denpa LLC. For something a little different, we are also excited to be able to talk with the Denpa’s Ed Chavez! The interview is a lot longer than the review, but it does also touch on PEZ as well as the s...

It’s another long one as Evan is joined by Patz (@PatzPrime) and Tom (@TomAznable) of The Cockpit Podcast to review Studio Trigger’s 2018 anime series SSSS.Gridman, based on the 1993 tokusatsu series Denkou Choujin Gridman, a.k.a. Gridman the Hyper Agent, a.k.a. Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. This episode has two separate spoiler sections, one for things that happen after episode 2 and another fo...

In this extended episode, Evan brings in special guests Daryl Surat (Anime World Order, Otaku USA) and ABCBTom (The Fandom Post, Crunchyroll News) to review Alita: Battle Angel, James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga series Gunnm, aka Battle Angel Alita. The episode is mostly spoiler-free, other than a section at the end marked by a handy spoiler aler...

We’re d-elvin’ deep into some serious fantasy nerding with The Record of Lodoss War OVAs, which are base on a novel series based on a D&D campaign published in a magazine back in 1986! Joining the party on this, our epic quest, are the goodly gentlemen from All Geeks Considered: Vinnie and Diego! (Ink is definitely the acrobat in this episode.) The Record of Lodoss War OV...