Anime Doubleplay

Have you heard of iyashikei anime? Do you think the anime world gets too crazy with its sub-genres? We talk about what we know and don't know about this anime categorization over a nice bowl of ramen.

With all the recent announcements, there's a lot of anime news to talk about. We also talk about some of our most emotionally impactful anime moments! What are yours?

Why Attack on Titan's recent character return is something we don't care about, why we read so much weird but good manga, and why we are not super excited for one of the most anticipated anime of this year.

We don't just talk about Attack on Titan the whole time, we promise. Ganon11 joins me for some fun anime/video game conversation and I challenge him to a game of Complete the Set! Know that game? Probably not since I kind of made it up! Let's go.

Is Attack on Titan the best anime of all time? It's definitely making its case this season. And we go through our backlogs and figure out what we want to watch next in our spare time. Recommendations are appreciated.

Happy New Year! We are back with our first formal pod where we leap head first into the new season, finish off the old, and say hello to the new diva sweeping the internet! Vivy? No. Miku. No, but I wish. Everyone say hello to Belle!

We react to the Crunchyroll Anime Award nominees live on Twitch with some of our listeners!

Winding down our year of anime on this beautiful Christmas Eve, Mary and Thomas go through their faves of the year, their top five, things they loved, things they hated, and everything Thomas dropped...which is most things. But don't worry, he's not a hater. Not yet, anyway.

The new year is coming and that means a new year of anime! We discuss our picks for Winter 2022 and start to think about our favorite anime of the year...if we had any.

The twins are back! And we talk about everything! Anime, manga, real TV, real life...but definitely manga. This week, we read a handful of new Shonen Jump titles so you don't have to! What's good, what's bad...find out what to skip and what gets Doubleplay Approved!

Getting in the mood for the holiday season with a Ghibli Tier List! And we watched half of the Cowboy Bebop live action...yeah...just listen if you're curious.

Thomas is back after a week away. We have both watched something new and both need to get something off our chests....this season isn't that great, is it?

Mary and Mikey G give you the load down on all their recent anime conquests, including the highly anticipated Star Wars: Visions. And the age-old question still stands: will Mike ever learn "Neji's sister's" name?

We totally know what's going on in 86, and, for the holiday season, we watch a spoooooky anime. Kind of? Or is it just bad?

This is the Berserk episode. We are talking about Berserk by Kentaro Miura. If you have not read it, you have been warned. With that out of the way, we get to chat about this masterpiece with our good pal John (Nostalgia_Goggles) and have a darn good time!

200 Episodes! We have so many things to celebrate! #Sora4Smash, a great new season of anime, and over four years talking anime with you! Join us as we reminisce and check out some great titles!

Thomas finally does what he said he would do (no, it's not finishing Megalobox)and we go through the Fall 2021 season of anime! What are you looking forward to? What are your faves? Is there anything we missed? And to answer your question, yes I do fix it in post.

My Hero gets good in more ways than one and we talk coffee vs tea, panels vs merch room, HIDIVE vs VRV, and all the joys of Connecticon. It was a pleasure to present and we really did have the best time.

Nothing is worse than a good show with a bad ending, which means nothing is worse than these anime, right? We talk about good shows with bad endings and start planning our 200th episode celebration.

If there was an anime you could erase from your memory and watch again for the first time, what would it be? We answer that question and many more on this week's pod!

Mary and Thomas both read two very popular manga over the last weeks and are excited to discuss them. They also have a big announcement and another potential watchalong?

A round table discussion on Netflix's new anime film, Words Bubble Up like Soda Pop, with a surprise visit from the gyoza fairy.

Trying to decide what to watch this season is hard...but not as hard as trying to like Endeavor. And when we basically choose the topic live on the pod, it usually works out! Right? Right???

Mary binged a manga that she knows at least one of the listeners will be happy about, and we have a competition centered around poking fun at ridiculously long and redundant isekai titles.

Thomas is back! We finally get to talk finales, life AND the second season of Beastars...which we...well, listen and find out what we thought.