Anime Sickos

Posting is a horrible battle dome where everyone is forced to do bloodsport by Lord Bones. Anything anyone says is mere seconds away from igniting a days-long PvP match where you can't log off. It's a nightmare but also is the literal only way to be a creative person and cannot be opted out of. We all fight and beg for scraps of attention while simultaneously fearing attention more than anything....

While discussing how cool it is when bosses have phases, the Sickos stumble into one weird trick for making any game, comic, or show extremely better: make every guy actually be a lot of guys.

The Sickos take you on a guided tour of some of history's best, worst, and most powerful posts. See posts both old and new, horny and stupid, funny and horrifying, and more. God, posts suck ass! Fuck this

You know how sometimes you play a video game where you hold a big fuckin plastic gun and it goes pow pow. That kicks ass to us. Guns are like the coolest thing in the world (only when fictional or toy version)

Whitney Reynolds goes guesto mode! We discuss their inexplicably verified Twitter account, the siren call of shitty mobile games, how they craft unique soup creations, and cats. Check it out!

The Sickos discuss the roguelike deckbuilders they've been playing lately, Roguebook and Griftlands, and how their preponderance of ancillary game systems outside of the core card game dilutes the overall experience. Basically we're just gonna play Slay the Spire forever

As though it weren't enough to live in a world so beset with catastrophe, people keep insisting you have to be worried about it all the time! The Sickos discuss how this impulse to remind others to be worried is demonic and demonstrably anti-life. Plus, Tom shares stories of how international travel is fucked, and on Cog Talk we discuss Joe's impending return to the office.

Trump is gone, but comedy still refuses to not suck! Since it's not allowed to talk about the Main Part (the imminent collapse of society), all that is left is empty culture war where people point at things and go "that's good!" or "that's evil!" It's not very funny! Plus, we finally remember to do the Fruit Tournament again, finally completing round 2!

The Sickos indulge in frankly disgusting levels of self-congratulation as they go behind-the-scenes to relive the process of producing The Tragical History of Modesty City, a five-act audio play that took a year of secret work to complete.

The Anime Sickos present: The Tragical History of Modesty City, a Play in Five Acts Directed by Tom Harrison and Joe Anderson Written by Tom Harrison from a story by Joe Anderson and Tom Harrison Audio Design and Engineering by Adam Goron Act 5 Scene 1 Audio Design and Engineering by Casey Toney CAST: Joseph - Joe Anderson Thomas - Tom Harrison Bryan Steven A'Lee Stevenson - Tom Harrison Doctor Vi...

The Sickos share what manga/comics they've been reading lately, specifically: Kengan Omega, Shamo, Usogui, One Piece, Orc Stain, and The Marquis. If you like comics, check it out (and we're sorry you also have the "likes comics" debuff applied to you)

The Sickos are back with a brand new slop experience that goes down smooth. We define "Dude Time," a horrible time late at night where you turn to sludge. Then, we debut a brand new segment, Cat Talk, to discuss Joe's awesome new cats. Then, we read listener-submitted cog stories on the first crowdsourced Cog Talk. Folks, this is one tasty spoon of slop!

Riley Hopkins (of The Podcast Mines and many others) steps in for Tom as the Sickos discuss the nightmare hell of working retail during the pandemic, in which the demons who already wrought their infernal torture on all workers suddenly get a massive automatic power-up as their very breath can now potentially kill you for real. Plus, we sing the praises of the offline wife (the purest kind of geni...

The Sickos look over the state of Posting and find a desolate waste devoid of life. Leaderless, the screaming hordes of fascist maniacs splinter into sub-groups led by Substack racists. Content creators devolve into endless grievance-based feedback loops as they rage against each other and their own audiences. Basically we gotta go full Dune and make computers illegal.

The Sickos welcome Stephanie Mattos, a certified fight coordinator, to confirm that anime is real and fighting kicks ass. We discuss how to plan, choreograph, and execute a stage fight like a genius, ponder over the anatomy of Godzilla (what type of neck mobility are we looking at), and myriad other topics about the coolest thing that can happen: fighting!! Turns out when you have a subject matter...

The Sickos discuss the Suffering-Suffering Fruit, a real life Devil Fruit that makes you think suffering is inherently noble and good. Every Democrat has eaten it and they get extremely confused when you tell them you want to suffer less.

After hundreds of hours playing JRPGs, the video games where anime is spreadsheets, the Sickos compile the best parts of the genre that must be present in order to create the perfect JRPG that will stand atop the genre for 1000 years. Behold a masterclass in game design!

It's another batch of bite-sized goofs from the Sickos! Joe says goodbye to Hell Tower and hello to the cursed neighborhood of Little Shitaly, we read some of Tom McHenry's mind-melting job stories that we didn't get a chance to hear on his guest episode, we outline a skeleton-based anime series, and more! Check it out!

The Sickos expound upon Earthbound and Mother 3, uniquely quirky JRPGs that no one played. Turns out when you put jokes into a Dragon Quest clone, it's extremely good.

Sicko homie Tom McHenry finally goes guesto mode! Tom shares his truly nightmarish work stories on one of the greatest Cog Talks of all time, then we discuss why being a cartoonist is the life-ruiner, the goofy horror comics of Junji Ito, and more. Folks, this episode's one of the greats.

The Sickos set sail for One Piece, the pirate comic about a rubber boy that is longer than the Bible. We discuss how the comic's ingenious structure allows for incredibly effective long-term storytelling, how the uniquely silly art style adds an invaluable layer of humor to the whole thing, and why the series, in the end, is about smashing neoliberalism with your homies.

We thought it was gone forever, but Cog Talk makes its triumphant return! Joe and Tom both recently took time off work and were amazed at the immediate and enormous health benefits that come from not working, leading them to recognize that work is simply the Life Removal Machine. Then, we remember to do another round of the Fruit Annihilation Tournament.

It's come to this: the Horny episode. The Sickos discuss what Horny means, why they've never been Horny, how Horny makes your posts bad, and more Horny topics. Don't expect us to do any shit like this again

It's about time for a posting episode but there have been no interesting posts made for months now. Turns out we're forever stuck in an awful time loop as our brains stagnate into mush, and now it's infecting reality as our government and media spend all their time bickering about whether the awful poster Neera Tanden gets some crony job. It's all just endless yelling to no end, and folks, we don'...

The Sickos talk about that famous goop, "food." First we highlight Golden Kamuy and Delicious in Dungeon, two amazing manga that spend half their pages showing the characters making dinner. Then, the sickos share what we've been eating lately and ponder the role of cooking and food on pandemic mental health.