Anime Was (Not) A Mistake

All voyages must come to an end, and tonight on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake we take the next steps into the future with the Season 1 of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Frieren, Fern, and the rest of the intrepid mages continue on their path towards first class magedom. What lies before them is a labyrinth filled to the brim with unfeeling clones and even worse than that a one-on-one interview with Se...

Today’s Good Movie Podcast marks our third visit to Gotham City, this time for 1993’s Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Made between the first and second seasons of Batman: The Animated Series, the movie sees Bruce Wayne’s old flame Andrea Beaumont suddenly returning after 10 years. At the same time, a mysterious vigilante known as “The Phantasm” starts eliminating Gotham City’s biggest mobsters. As t...

Rev your engines and be prepared to toot your sweets, Anime Was (Not) A Mistakes' 2024 Holiday Special continues this madcap race with the seminal fleet-footed fender lined film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). When the inventor Caracticus Potts, is commissioned to save a beat-up car from the scrap heap, a magical musical adventure is set into motion. We have a film full of bops, barons, and a litt...

Ghost and Ghoulies everywhere come to Anime Was (Not) A Mistake for a Yuletide scare?!? That's right, this year's first half of our Holiday Special is devoted to the stop-motion animation classic The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Join your normal hosts Daniel and Jonathan as they tromp through the pumpkin patch...but what's this? Three crafty trick or treaters have stumbled upon the podcast a...

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, continues once more on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake with the departing of one character and the introduction of man, many more.  Stark is given a reprieve as Frieren and Fern are tasked with proving their magical might in a series of tasks.  When split into groups, surrounded by talented, unique mages, and challenged in catching a crafty bird, where will the chips fall...

Our journey through realms inspired by tabletop RPGs continues with another Delicious in Dungeon and Record of Lodoss War combo episode. In the Mad Mage’s Dungeon, Laios and his party must traverse the watery Fourth Level while learning a few (harsh) lessons from the dungeon’s ecosystem. Then, a surprise encounter with an Undine leaves Marcille drained of her mana. With the help of an old teammate...

Our journey continues once more with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake. On this casual batch of four episodes we may get a new priestly party member that's on a voyage of his own for his "Gorilla Warrior." With some liturgical magic, perhaps the party will take down a Refelga infused plant monster, participate in a ball, and help out a stubborn old woman in polishing her s...

Its getting a bit chilly on this week's Anime Was (Not) A Mistake with a frosty double feature. With a return to form with some anime, first we have Cooler's Revenge (1991). Goku, Gohan, and the gang are just getting some well-deserved rest when Earth is threated once again by Frieza's evil brother Cooler. Hope that you have packed some extra senzu beans because if our intrepid Z Heros survive we...

I see a bad moon rising... Anime Was (Not) A Mistake concludes our first ever Spooktacular with a quick trip across the pond. In the moonlight of tonight's episode is the furry fury of 1981's An American Werewolf in London. Stick to the road and beware the moon! When two Jonathan and Dan insert characters get attacked by a werewolf chaos ensues. With some sexy nurses, zombie nazis, and an intricat...

Fans of cobwebs and candelabras rejoice as our Halloween Spooktacular takes an ill-advised trip to Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak! Since the day she lost her mother as a child, Edith Cushing has been able to see and speak with ghosts. While Edith is determined to channel this gift into her writing, fate has other plans. After a brief (and tragic) courtship, Edith is whisked away by Sir Thomas S...

Whatever they offer you don't feed the plants! On this episode of Anime Was (Not) a Mistake's first ever Spooktacular we are dealing with an alien invasion right in the heart of New York City! We are all in full bloom tonight, especially Jon, he had little bit too much of that Miracle Grow. Run and flee in terror with the classic, 80s, horror, musical Little Shop of Horrors (1986).  Dan and I have...

Our Halloween Spooktacular continues with 2001’s Thir13en Ghosts. While still mourning the untimely death of his wife, Arthur Kriticos is informed that his estranged uncle Cyrus has passed away as well. Arthur takes his family to see the mansion that Cyrus left for them, but his late uncle’s house is far from ordinary. An avid ghost hunter until his supposed death, Cyrus had turned his home into a...

Do you know what we are doing here? No, but if you hum a few bars, maybe we will get it? Anime Was (Not) A Mistake, presents our first Spooktacular continuation with Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988). When the vamp/camp showgirl Elvira finds out that she can achieve stardom/an inheritance by going to a New England town, sign us up! We have witchcraft, class, sass and a whole lot of ass! Who coul...

A chill runs down your spine. Your blood runs cold. You feel something behind you, watching. You slowly turn your head and see….A BIG PLASTIC PUMPKIN! That can only mean that our fated Halloween Spooktacular has officially begun! We have six horror movie favorites coming your way, starting with John Carpenter’s mind-bending In the Mouth of Madness. The film follows John Trent, an insurance claims...

Feel that rumbling and rolling, as Sinister Six continues with a Jurassic journey. When all you have is a quickly written script, a dream and an animatronic T- Rex you have to make a movie. Tammy and the T-Rex (1994) gives us a romance for the ages, starring Denise Richards and Paul Walker in their film debuts. With crazy bullies, a mad scientist, big jungle cats, and plenty of gore, will this one...

The latest installment of Sinister Six warps down to Earth as we suffer through 1992’s Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe. Jesse “The Body” Ventura plays the titular intergalactic cop, who chases the evil Secundus across the stars to New York or Canada or Minnesota. Secundus has returned to our world to find his genetically-engineered son Tommy, who he hopes will enable him to solve the Anti-Life E...

Open a new Window, Open a new Door.! Good Movie Podcast is back with a vengeance with the 1958 classic Auntie Mame.  When Mame Dennis receives the love and affection of her young Ward Patrick Dennis their lives will be changed forever. From the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the Deep South of Peckerwood, Mame Dennis knows that life is worth living and that most poor suckers are starving to death....

We're proud to unveil the first installment of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake: Midnight Run! In this Toonami-centric format, we take to the stars to enjoy a few anime classics from that beloved programming block. The first series to be showcased are none other than The Big O and Outlaw Star, which you may (hopefully) remember from our Pizza Party Preview event. In The Big O, Roger the Negotiator solves...

Tonight, we tip the scales on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake as we return to Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Cook yourself a delicious hamburg steak and settle in for tons of action and characterization.  Make sure to conceal your mana as Frieren fights with Aura the Guillotine. Do Demons truly feel or is it all a facade of their race. Anyways, it's starting to get cold we better do some shirtless calis...

Anime Was (Not) A Mistake anticipates the splendor and the magic of the fast-approaching Millenium Comet. That's right, its time to make a wish as we watch Pokémon: Jirachi, Wish Maker while continuing our Pokémon movie rewatch journey. When the mysterious Jiriachi awakens from a 1,000 year slumber it is up to Ash, Pikachu, Misty, Brock, and Max to prove that their friendship can stand the test of...

Another helping of high fantasy is heading your way with both Delicious in Dungeon and Record of Lodoss War. As Laios and his friends venture deeper into the dungeon, good nutrition will be harder to come by. Luckily, Senshi knows a few golems who are good for growing fresh veggies. Another party led by Kabru gets the spotlight for a moment, but they soon fall victim to some bite-sized treasure in...

Beware Anime Was (Not) A Mistake fans, a fully evolved Neopets dragon lurks within this episode. As we continue our long-lived trek with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, we can learn what happens when a singular Dan Ryan is exposed to a party of Jonathans.  With a whole past behind her Frieren is beginning to learn, experience, and recall how her past party might influence her experience lugging a c...

A Duplicitous Dungeons & Dragons Double Dip awaits you on today's episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake! The first item on the menu is the recent smash-hit Delicious in Dungeon. After being defeated by a Red Dragon, Laios Touden and his party must quickly reenter the dungeon in order to save his sister from being digested. With no funds to purchase supplies, Laios decides to take advantage of t...

Anime Was (Not) A Mistake begins at just where the journey ended. Tonight we kick off our 13th season with an emotional and rational recent anime. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Frieren, being an elf, is having to come to terms with life, her friends, and the human experience. As the years pass and she is tasked with raising a new apprentice in the waked of the ancient Demon King's defeat, how wil...

A roll of the (oversized) dice ends the most recent Sinister Six event, as well as an entire podcasting season. Before our next saga can begin, fate decrees that we watch the 1987 cult classic Don't Panic. On his seventeenth birthday, Michael is surprised when his friends break out a Ouija board. Tony, Michael's best friend, ends up being possessed by a demonic entity known as Virgil. Using his ne...