Anime Was (Not) A Mistake

Last time on Digimon Adventure 02, the new DigiDestined found their groove and defeated the Digimon Emperor. Their next mission is to help the Digital World recover from the emperor’s short but destructive reign. Thankfully, with the Dark Digivice out of the picture, their partner Digimon can now access Champion level. Meanwhile, former emperor Ken Ichijouji faces his demons as he starts the long...

Set three years after the first season, Digimon Adventure 02 begins with the Digital World under siege once again. A human calling himself the Digimon Emperor is enslaving Digimon using Dark Rings. He’s also been constructing Control Spires that prevent Digimon from evolving past rookie level. With our original heroes unable to fight at full power, a new generation of DigiDestined is chosen. We ha...

Our Prodigious Summer's first half boards a train car to bid a tearful farewell (but, not a goodbye) to the partners we grew to love along the way. On this episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake the Numemon choose Jonathan as their new savior and Dan battles and defeats anxiety/depression while inside a cave. Haven't we all been there? With the Digidestined slowly defeating each of the Dark Masters,...

Our Prodigious Summer continues to go strong on this episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake. After battling a batty, yet sinister evil that we may see again, our Digidestined friends (plus) one extra, head back to the Digital World to face off against a malicious pantheon dubbing themselves “The Dark Masters.” The future of this world and our own is at stake and only friendship, and constantly makin...

Anime Was (Not) A Mistake is the champions! It's another summer and you know what that means, chilling with friends and taking in a well-deserved vacation...or does it? Dan and Jonathan are suddenly flung into a digital world in an unprecedented event we like to call Prodigious Summer: Volume I. Join us for the summer of digivolution as we examine EVERY episode of Digimon Adventure 01 and 02. (Ski...

Our course is set for certain doom as we spotlight the 1993 OVA Lupin III: Voyage to Danger. After years of failing to catch the master thief, Inspector Zenigata is unceremoniously removed from the Lupin case. Determined to help the old man get his groove back, Lupin decides to bring down the notorious arms smugglers “Shot Shell” and give Zenigata all the credit. The first step in Lupin’s plan inv...

Well, there are worse things than recording a theater/anime podcast on a Sunday? On this glorious Sunday's episode of Anime Was (Not) a Mistake presents Good Movie Podcast?  Jonathan hopes to inspire Dan's artistic sensibilities with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapines' proshot of Sunday in the Park with George (1984). In a fictional, yet powerful examination of Georges Seurat's life in painting li...

Animasterpiece Double Feature sexy witches and waterlogged creatures... Tonight, Anime Was (Not) A Mistake gets classy as we focus on two highly lauded anime feature length classics from time gone by. First, we are off to the pastel water colors of France in Eiichi Yamamoto's morality tale Belladonna of Sadness (1973). When the young innocent Jeanne is beset by every man, devil, and facet of the h...

All the stars are out (and looking a little dimmer than usual) for today’s Sinister Selection. The episode begins with a special presentation of the Sinisties, where Jonathan and Dan recount their favorite Sinister Six picks of the year. Then, we journey across time and space to suffer through 2017’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. United Human Federation dispatches police partners Va...

Anything in life can happen in a show and every clown gets to build a mountain on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake presents Sinister Six. Tonight, Jonathan and Dan are musically inclined inmates at Arkham Asylum as they get lost in the madness that is Todd Phillips's  Joker: Folie a Deux (2024). Join us as we sing and dance through this (nonmusical) and try to correct the flaws of this crown prince of cr...

The Super Android 17 Saga of Dragon Ball GT comes to a close, leaving Earth and its protectors facing an uncertain future. Android 17 and his evil twin finally unite and fuse into Super Android 17. This new Android far outclasses his two halves in terms of power, and gives the Z Fighters a run for their money as well. A globe-spanning battle ensues, but even Super Saiyan 4 might not be enough to s...

Things continue to get more and more interesting on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake as your two Chibi Bois continue with Cardcaptor Sakura Season 3. As Sakura still struggles with the effort of changing Clow Cards into Sakura Cards, more magical anomalies present themselves. First off, a panicky bike possessed by Dash speeds through the city. Then, a lore heavy episode with Sakura connecting with her gr...

Spring is in the air and so are evil cybernetic lifeforms. Today’s Dragon Ball double feature begins with the movie Super Android 13 from the Z era. This alternate take on the anime timeline features Dr. Gero’s supercomputer creating three new androids to take revenge on Goku and his friends. Android 13 proves to be the most dangerous member of the trio, absorbing parts from his fellow androids to...

Cardcaptor Sakura returns once more for the final third season on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake. With Sakura arriving at the end of another school term, deemed Master of the Clow Cards everything seems to be soaring higher than the Fly Card. However, with this newfound power, some new strange happenings star occurring around our heroes. Firstly, there are a few new classmates arriving at Tomoeda, and...

Can we offer you an egg in this trying time? Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is the ninth Pokémon movie overall and the final cinematic adventure of the Advanced era. Ash and his friends team up with Jack Walker, a Pokémon Ranger on a secret mission to protect a mysterious egg. Alongside the Marina Group, a traveling circus that performs using Water-type Pokémon, our heroes set out to fin...

In fair Vienna, the City of Music, two rivals engage in an eternal musical vendetta. No not Dan and Jonathan, but masterful composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In Milos Forman's 1984 adaptation of Peter Sahffer's play Amadeus (1984) truly enters the Good Movie Podcast? decadent opera house halls with a resounding crescendo. When Salieri devotes his life to God in the pursuit of...

A thousand years in the future, a cataclysmic conflict nearly destroyed the world and temporarily ruined our podcast’s audio. The story of 2018’s Mortal Engines starts here, with humanity fighting for survival while living on mobile metropolises known as “Traction Cities.” As an apex predator in this goofy apocalypse, London rolls around and devours other wheeled settlements for resources. A young...

It is finally time for Daniel and Joanthan to get in the f*^king robot...no not those yet. In our first J.Lo starring joint, we head into the stars, stronger together with Netflix's sci-fi feature Atlas (2024).  In the distant year of 2043, A.I. is on the rise and that isn't topical by today's standards, oh at all. The International Coalition of Nations (ICN) is on the verge of capturing the human...

Our long and treacherous trek around the globe concludes with the finale of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. The Joestar group presses deeper into Dio’s mansion, but the last of the vampire’s acolytes won’t go down without a fight. Grueling battles and tragic losses bring the group face to face with their mortal enemy. While Dio has yet to fully master the power of his stolen body, he...

Have you ever wondered how the co-hosts of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake ever met? Well, tonight's film, Tetsuya Nakashima's Kamikaze Girls (2004) sums it up pretty damn well! Picture it, Momoko Ryugasaki/Jonathan a young, jaded girl obsessed with a bygone era of hedonism and Rococo tendencies. On the opposite end of the spectrum, is Ichigo "Ichiko" Shirayuri/Dan as a renegade, trash talking, yanki bi...

On tonight's episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake Jonathan and Dan confront the final judgement with the finale of Cardcaptor Sakura Season 2. However, before their destinies can finally be achieved, they must first take the stage in a school play that embraces both the light and darkness. Once our cohosts roles have been reversed and all of the Clow cards have been obtained it is time for a trial...

Anime Was (Not) A Mistake and our Jojo Crew continue moving every closer to the vampire villian Dio through Egypt. The remaining stand users are just as crafty and kooky as ever. We start with a comic book/sharpshooting pair up that will have enthralled, like being pulled by your nostrils. Next, you may be wondering what that powerful pup Iggy has been up to the whole time. While it may seem he's...

In this new year, Anime Was (Not) A Mistake begins our 15th season by returning to where we left off in Cardcaptor Sakura. And in this episodes dreams will follow a long tangent nightmare discussion of Stranger Things. With a new school term beginning for our Cardcaptor and her friends, some things may seem the same, but slowly and surely we are approaching a momentous change. Miss Mizuki is the n...

Close your eyes and dream dream dream of a better podcast as another Sinister Six invades the real world. 2005’s The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl focuses on a young dork named Max, who escapes his boring life by dreaming up the planet Drool and its bizarre denizens. Things take a turn for the stupid when Linus, the school bully, steals Max’s dream journal and makes some villainous edits. Sh...

Magic Podcast on a rail, never takes a rest, gliding through the airwaves and the snow. Our 2025 Holiday Extravaganza concludes with a burst of steam and the tingling of a bell with Robert Zemeckis's Christmas "classic" 2004's The Polar Express. Daniel Ryan is your conductor on this one and Joanthan, Grant, Gabe, and Heather are just the passengers sorting through presents and glaring CGI. Hopeful...