Anime Sickos

The Sickos identify another real life Devil Fruit that causes people to form psychosexual religious obsessions with The Rules, a framework of systems they believe to be divine, inviolate, and infallible, even as it's clear to all that you can just do whatever. Then, we return to the Fruit Annihilation Tournament to close out Da Boys region. Follow Anime Sickos @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle...

The Sickos welcome Dylan, a true homie and big time sicko. We discuss Dylan's inexplicable love of fighting games, his incredible cog stories of having an actual murderer as a manager, and exhort him to complete a concept album about Farfetch'd. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Dylan @FioFiorello Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

For years, games criticism has been lambasted as a wasteland with no structure or discipline, little more than a PR arm of the studios. No more--the Sickos debut a scientifically indisputable new 11-point system that will objectively determine any game's quality with no margin of error. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

The Sickos eulogize The Venture Bros, a cartoon that released 4.7 episodes a year for 17 years. The Venture Bros was a miracle show that all the rules of capitalism hell dictate should not exist, and we extol how amazing and important it was. Then on Cog Talk, we talk about how all good bosses are ultimately powerless to stop the awful shit tide that will inevitably drown all workers. Follow the S...

The Sickos welcome Andrew Sherman as he goes guesto mode! We discuss Andrew's new podcast The Podcast Mines, a project dedicated to generating ideas for podcasts and then not making them, rendering it the noblest podcast of all time. We also talk about the infuriating and excellent Ring Fit Adventure, plus run a few bouts of the Fruit Annihilation Tournament! Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSic...

The Sickos diagnose the civilian equivalent to Media Brain, "Poster's Ear," a loss of equilibrium caused by too much posting, causing people to share takes about what kinds of movies girls like for the 1000th time even as society collapses around us. Then, we decide Round 1 of the Big Fruits region of the Fruit Annihilation Tournament! Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUn...

The sickos heartily recommend the bleak and crushing manga of Tatsuki Fujimoto, one of the most unique and freshest talents in the business. Then, we discuss how our gaming philosophies are diametrically opposed because we were trained at competing gaming dojos. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe @ShariaUncle Follow Tom @TomHarrison19

The Sickos mourn how the devastating explosion that hit Beirut appears to have been the natural result of extremely common boss behavior that will keep happening until society collapses. Then, we unveil a stunning new sicko project: The Fruit Annihilation Tournament, a 48-combatant tournament to discover once and for all the Ultimate Fruit Under Heaven. Follow the Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Fo...

Mega sicko Devon Price kicks off the promo tour for their upcoming book Laziness Does Not Exist by going Guesto Mode, much to the consternation of their agent and publisher! We discuss how being "lazy" is a fake idea used to exploit you, how to live better through grift and fraud, and how Metal Gear Solid is the best dumb series of games around.  Pre-order Devon's book Laziness Does Not Exist here...

The Sickos reflect on board games, a hobby that's impossible to do but also tricked them into spending hundreds of dollars anyway. Then, Cog Talk discusses the "skills gap," the fun way companies blame the bad economy on the proletariat deciding to be too stupid to live, and NPR is like, that sounds right! Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on...

The Sickos damage their brains with exposure to terrible posts! First, we discuss Duchess Goldblatt, an inexplicable gimmick account that has never been funny yet which commands a cult following that'd kill for it. Then, we discuss two new incredible wife posts in a mini-Wife Addendum. Posting sucks ass you guys Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow...

The Sickos welcome Paul Starr, a professional Anime Sicko who makes a living translating manga and light novels! We discuss what it's like to infect your anime hobby with cog energy, how onomatopoeias do (or don't) work in Japanese, and the official style guidelines of the word "numby." Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twitter @TomHarriso...

The Sickos watched Tower of God, an anime that asks "what if Hunter x Hunter was shorter, but also way more complicated?" Well, the answer is that it would be a truly wild experience that turns your brain into goo (the good way). Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twitter @TomHarrison19

Homie and noted sicko Alex Borkowski goes guesto mode! We discuss Monster Hunter, a game that hates you and wants you to have as little fun as possible (while simultaneously being the best game in the world), plus a Cog Talk about how being a professional writer, like everything, sucks ass and is fake. Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twi...

Cogdom is over! The decaying world is falling apart and one of the four pillars just doesn't exist anymore! It's fucked! Plus, we catch up on the first 100%-posting-based rap beef, and Tom discusses how doing numbies is the worst thing that can happen to you.

The Sickos discuss the Fate series, an inscrutable ecosystem of games, visual novels, animes, and phone games that steal all your money. The lore of the Fate series is longer than the Bible and its purpose is to serve you stories where wizards kill each other with history ghosts in order to drink out of a nice cup. Also the history ghosts are hot babes with lots of different outfits so you'll pay...

The Sickos had a ton of ideas for dumb short segments that we could never find room for. So we decided to just do them all. Oops! All Goofs! Follow Anime Sickos on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Joe on Twitter @ShariaUncle Follow Tom on Twitter @TomHarrison19

We welcome our first repeat guesto, sicko scientist John Hasier along with his funnier wife Mike Hasier for our first-ever two person Guesto Mode episode! John once again uses facts and logic to prove anime is real, and Mike schools the sickos in the rich and bountiful sicko world of shojo anime. Follow us on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Tom @TomHarrison19 Follow Joe @ShariaUncle

Our listeners had questions—first anime? Favorite Western comics? Why won't you say "Luffy" right?—and your favorite Sickos have the answers in our Listener Mail Episode! Follow us on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Tom @TomHarrison19 Follow Joe @ShariaUncle

The Sickos welcome podcast-doer and major Sicko Quinn Welsh-Wilson to the show for a scintillating guesto episode. Quinn is cursed enough to share heretofore unrequited obsessions with each Sicko: like Tom, they love One Piece, and like Joe, they love the Yakuza games. In addition, we discuss how no one on the internet knows what themes are and how being a cog now is just listening to people chew...

In order to better understand why they are compelled to Game, the Sickos explore formative video games from adolescence that permanently cemented their addiction to the worst hobby on the planet. For Joe, it was endlessly grinding loot in Diablo 2. For Tom, it was barely retaining control of a frictionless car in F-Zero GX. Then, the boys do a deep dive on yet more variations of the Maddow-Maddow...

The Sickos welcome close personal friend Kevin Johnson to the show! We've known Kevin for years as both a homie and co-worker. On the longest Cog Talk yet, Tom and Kevin discuss their time working at a fake company doing no work as an insane man did shit that made no sense. Then, we interrogate Kevin's almost unfathomable commitment to extremely difficult competitive games like Counter-Strike and...

A lot of listeners have expressed that our show made them want to give anime a try. Now with quarantine in effect, they have more time than ever to watch anime. We Sickos do NOT endorse watching anime, but if you must, we offer this dope primer of great series to start with. Also, we revisit Cog Talk for the first time post-pandemic to discuss the weird impulse in the elite to make sure we're suff...

The Sickos put on full plate armor in a futile attempt to protect themselves from being Roasted, because on this episode, an ACTUAL TEEN goes guesto mode! Tom's niece Isa is a major Sicko who loves anime, gaming, D&D, comedy, performing, and general Sicko behavior while simultaneously being an actual child. We discuss what anime and games the kids like, whether the teen slang we know about is real...

It's Animal Crossing time! Joe takes Tom to task for being too neurotic to enjoy the chill game where you play with virtual dollies. In Tom's defense, games with limited inventory are cruel sadists who are doing violence to you for no reason. Follow us on Twitter @AnimeSickos Follow Tom @TomHarrison19 Follow Joe @ShariaUncle