Anime Was (Not) A Mistake

     Get in your old jalopy and get ready for a trek across the American Midwest in this iteration of Good Movie Podcast? In Peter Bogdonovich's classic Paper Moon (1973) real life father and daughter duo Ryan and Tatum O'Neal play a pair of light hearted con men. Daniel is out here to hock some bibles, Jonathan is after his money and who knows maybe we will pick up the Texas showgirl Grant Farrok...

The Hit List nears completion after 5 long years of waiting on this episode of AniMaysterpiece.  AMNAM presents Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004) where secrets are revealed, all during stylish heated bouts of Kung-Fu. With the bloody Bride revving up her continued hunt for revenge no one is safe. A few members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad linger full of regrets and glory long since gone. Howev...

Our latest Animaysterpiece event begins with Katsuhiro Otomo’s legendary anime film Akira. In 1988, a mysterious explosion destroyed Tokyo and ushered in World War III. The year is now 2019, and Neo-Tokyo exists in a state of fear, corruption, and division. A member of the Capsule bike gang, Tetsuo, is kidnapped by the military after colliding with a strange, psychic child. His best friend and gan...

A finale of an age-old story on tonight's episode of Anime Was Not A Mistake. As it seems now our tale's many characters are at their breaking points. A murder of crow circle them, the play is yet unwritten, and the dance unfinished. Through this and all will the prince obtain his heart, the writer pen a satisfying conclusion, the child of crows feel love, and a duck be born again in the dance? Th...

The final course is served in our Delicious in Dungeon x Toriko combo series. After leaving the Golden Country, Laios and his friends are attacked by a griffin. This perilous encounter gives us some insight into Senshi’s past and motivations. The party is slowed down again when changeling mushrooms mix things up, forcing them to think quickly and adapt. As the party descends deeper, outside forces...

A dance of ravens and crows begins anew on this episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake as the curtains rise for a second act. We continue the performance that is Princess Tutu as all of our characters have seemingly met their storybook ends. However, all is not as it seems, in this anime. A duck longs to be a swan, a crow yearns to be a lover. A knight a storyteller and a prince to be free. As our p...

In what’s already being hailed as our best episode yet (by us), we dive into another combo platter of Delicious in Dungeon and Toriko. First, Laios and his friends arrive at the dungeon’s Sixth Level. After dealing with some uncanny shapeshifters, the party gains a new member in the form of the beastman ninja Izutsumi. A supernatural detour then brings the party to the legendary Golden Country, a...

Christine, Christine? Tonight, on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake presents Sinister Six's first true blue direct sequel with The Phantom of the Opera's musical continuation Love Never Dies (2011). We take a trip to Coney Island in the hopes of making 10 long years of waiting make any sort of sense in the musical theater canon. Christine Daae arrives to sing an aria or two with her fractured family, only...

The latest installment of Sinister Six digs way too deep into the “natural horror” genre with 1976’s Squirm. When a freak electrical storm strikes the town of Fly Creek, angry worms emerge from the ground and start attacking people. As the worms unleash their wrath one tree at a time, city boy Mick arrives in town to visit his long-distance girlfriend Geri. Fly Creek’s very sweaty Sheriff Jim imme...

Good News! In a most scandalosious turn of events, that still sticks to the vague principals of magical girls and anime, our humble little podcast is heading down the yellow brick road with Wicked: Part One (2024). Although our intrepid hosts are well versed in the magic of weebdom, we needed another more attuned to the art of showtunes able to decipher The Grimmerie. That's right fellow Ozians, G...

The dice have stopped rolling, but Anime Was (Not) A Mistake has more dungeons and delicacies to explore. Immediately back by popular demand, Delicious in Dungeon resumes with Laios and his friends searching for an exit. A tense meeting with the warrior Shuro forces the party to reevaluate their ultimate goal. Falin has been transformed into a terrifying monster by the Mad Mage, and Laios cannot r...

A duck, a raven, a prince a knight. Some stories come to an end and other questions arise on this episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake. Today on the podcast, we see as Duck, Rue, Mytho, and Fakir deal with their assigned roles in a cosmic story dictated before them. Should a sword of swans be used to shatter a prince's heat? Could a knight forgo the innocence of others in order to save his charged...

Once upon a time...there was an anime podcast (Anime Was Not A Mistake) with two cohosts. One of them. A shonen fan through and through, the other, a man of taste not afraid to embrace the beauty of all that was maho shojo. "I know!" said the man with taste. "I'll introduce my rival to the classic magical girl anime Princess Tutu. Once I do that, he's bound to see the error of his ways." In a seri...

Our Weebs & Wyrms arc comes to close with the grand finale of Record of Lodoss War. Heroes and villains converge upon Fire Dragon Mountain, where the legendary dragon Shooting Star guards the Scepter of Domination. The dark wizard Wagnard intends to use the scepter to awaken and control Kardis, the primordial goddess of chaos and destruction. As evil ascends, Parn and his allies journey to the...

Fated battles await in today’s exciting installment of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake: Weebs & Wyrms! First, Dungeon Meshi reaches its halfway point as the party finally faces the infamous Red Dragon. The battle pushes Laios and his friends to their limits, and a grim discovery afterward proves hard to swallow. Marcille may have a solution in the form of ancient dark magic, but the dungeon (and its...

Spectacular! Spectacular! A Sinister Selection? It's in the vernacular! Anime Was (Not) A Mistake pulls back the red curtain and tunes the orchestra to present a 40th sinister film celebration!  With plenty of returning actors and a director to this humble podcast we explore the themes of freedom, beauty, truth, and love with Baz Luhrmann's seminal Moulin Rouge! (2001). In this Parisian, jukebox m...

A new Sinister Selection crash-lands on the scene and vows to dispense cosmic justice…just very slowly and on a budget. In 1987’s Alien Private Eye, Earth is threatened by an odd combination of narcotics and nuclear weapons. Our only hope is Lemro, a super-cool alien who lives among us as a private detective. Aided by a mysterious woman and a pair of rival space cops, Lemro searches for the two ha...

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...