Anime Sickos

Casey Toney, cast member on and audio sicko for the Neoscum podcast (among others), goes guesto mode! We praise the ending of Chainsaw Man as the masterstroke it is, discuss how Casey's afflicted brain luckily allows him to become an audio engineering genius, and mourn the fact that we all love anime and manga, a medium that continually fails us despite being the fuckin best.

College is a big grift that is dumb as shit. The Sickos reflect on how deeply they were failed by their education, and propose a new pedagogy that would dramatically improve the college experience, along with pitching an entirely new major: Sicko Studies.

Curl up around the fire as the Sickos spoon you up a fresh batch of slop. First we review a ridiculous anime trivia book from 2000 generously donated by our lovely listeners. Then, we revisit the Fruit Annihilation Tournament to decide round two of the Rebels region, led by the tournament's most controversial combatant: coffee.

Your Sickos reflect on how a year of quarantine has changed how the four pillars of modern misery shape our lives (spoiler: they all just got worse). Then, we hoot about Yakuza: Like a Dragon, a game designed in a lab to make our ape brains achieve nirvana.

Southwest suburb homie Em Haverty goes guesto mode! We discuss her love/hate relationship with sketch comedy and the peculiar Chicago SW suburb rot that shaped both her and Joe as children. Plus, Tom tells the story of how Em introduced him to Robot in the Family, one of the most deranged films ever made. Check it out!

The Sickos finally give you a guided tour to the world of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, a daunting and inscrutable anime juggernaut that is less a show/comic and more a gallery of weird shit presented the way a child would show their parent a bug, curated by a clown man with the perfect brain.

Aaron J. Shelton and Vince White from the Kame House Party podcast go guesto mode! We discuss Aaron and Vince's cog woes, the fever dream of trying to play Cyberpunk 2077 on a PS4, and how they were able to do improv and actually be funny, something which living in Chicago leads one to believe is not possible. Check out the excellent Kame House Party podcast at kamehouseparty.com!

We discuss the endemic feeling of being a Dumb Baby Bitch, in which the world treats you as a contemptible idiot for trying to do literally any of the things you are supposed to and/or required to do. Then, we return to the Fruit Annihilation Tournament for Round 2 of the Classic Killers region, in which the four heavyweights who had byes in the first round finally step into the arena.

The Sickos have tricked you into providing content for us so we don't have to come up with it ourselves! We answer our listeners' burning questions with the charm and verve you've come to expect from "The Boys of Online"

The Sickos clean out their Trello with a collection of 11 extremely goofy segments too small to carry episodes on their own. Folks it's a grab bag of bite-size Sicko hits, chow down ya piggies!!!

It's an actual anime episode! The Sickos warm up by reading some shit from the Fate wiki before diving into Deca-Dence, one of the best anime series in recent memory, in which chubby little Lego men do cog work that is also gaming. Trust us, it makes sense.

The Sickos welcome cartoonist and internet hero KC Green! We discuss his childhood spent tormented by the promise of an animated episode of The Nanny, what it's like to make comics in a world designed to punish you for doing so, and why reboots and Funko Pops are pitiful symptoms of a diseased, nostalgia-addicted culture unless they're about the shit you like in which case gimme gimme.

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This time we do a gaming episode and talk about Monster Train, Atomicrops, and Bloodborne. Turns out they all suck ass but we love to play them. Folks, sometimes we just have to do a gaming episode, that's just how it is!

We're all laughing at how Jeffrey Toobin got caught masturbating (or "Toobin' it") on Zoom, but soon we'll forget and he'll be back. The Sickos discuss this sick phenomenon where blue checks can bounce back from truly mind-exploding posts with no consequences because they know you'll forget. Then, we discuss an underdiscussed aspect of homiedom stolen by the pandemic.

Sicko homie Angela Quinton goes guesto mode! The Sickos interrogate why Angela enjoys the frankly insanely difficult hobby of ultra marathons and receive a startlingly affecting and convincing answer. Then, we discuss Angela's preferred sicko topic, werewolves, and why they kick ass despite almost no media portraying them in a way that doesn't suck. Check it out!!

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...