Dreaming Machine / Keyframe | An Animation & Anime Podcast

Post-War Pat’s Big Bag of Letters With the sad news that Ghibli co-founder and legendary anime director Isao Takahata passed away, we take some time to remember some of his remarkable work. After that it’s time for us to continue our examination of the Winter season in anime, so join us as we point ourselves in the general direction of Pop Team Epic, Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, The...

24 Carrots And A Leaf We had a few technical issues during this episode so we apologise for the audio quality. Girl Power makes a surprising return this week with the announcement that The Spice Girls are getting their very own animated superhero movie. There’s no point looking at us for answers. We’re not sure what’s going on either! After that it’s time for our featured cartoon and anime, which...

A Shakespearean Bromance Spring time is upon us which means we’ve been let out to frolic in the fields! Before that though, there’s the serious business of animation to contend with, and nothing comes more serious than a census. Not the kind that measures population growth, density, divergency, or any of the other things that might be relevant, but an anime “census” … In other, slightly more impor...

Old Man Godzilla So Nicholas Cage is finally going to get to play the role of Superman, but the only problem is that it will be in the Teen Titans Go! Movie. In other news, we have the first teaser for the anime adaptation of ‘s high school sumo manga Hinomaru Zumou, Kenichi Sonoda’s Gunsmith Cats are getting a kind of reboot, and Netflix Japan are going to offer you an option for just the best bi...

Hooray For Jim! Animation is serious business so this week we scrutinise the trailers for Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and BallMastrz: 9009 through the lenses of our stop-motion microscopes. After that we dissect Crunchyroll's Anime Awards for 2017 as we really want to know why … ? Not why anything. Just why? In amongst all of that "science" are our featured anime, which are Princes...

A Game Of Segues Confusion reigns this week as the alcohol flows (for one of us anyway), wigs are glued and Reboot gets a reboot. In other news, Sega and Paramount pictures pick up the gauntlet thrown by Nintendo and announce a Sonic the Hedgehog feature film, and Kumo Kagyu's dark fantasy light novel series Goblin Slayer gets an anime adaptation after its successful manga adaptation by Kousuke Ku...

The Empire Ran On Tea So we're back once again on our ongoing exploration of the great sea of animation, and this week we found a teaser trailer for The Incredibles 2 floating in the shallows around Pixar Island. After that we get into a fight with God Eater (which is adapted from the hit video game franchise from Bandai Namco), and wax lyrical about Chrono Crusade (adapted from the manga by Daisu...

RUN! It’s a Pixelated Cockroach! Keyframe rides again, and this time we’ve got a new member for our conga line as we parade through multi-sensory theme park attractions, Bob Marley’s music, samurai bunnies and a new animated feature set on Hawaii during Halloween that has a suitably cringe-worthy name (see if you can guess what it is). In one of our rare changes to “normal” service we’ve got anoth...

Having A Chuuni Moment This week we brace ourselves after the announcement of a new Mario Bros. movie (but thankfully it may not be live-action). We also get our first look at the new design of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Netflix announces several surprising partnerships to produce exclusive anime. After that it’s time for the main event with Sword of the Stranger, Fairy Tail collection...

Wreck-It Ralph's Slash Fiction Adventure We're a man down, but with stiff upper lips we'll soldier on! This week we kick things off with a look at the nominations for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards (cue the anger and derision), before before we take a look at the trailer for Bilal - an uncommonly mature CG movie that may surprise a lot of people. After that it's down to business with...

Duck-Shaped Speedos for Tanks Now that we've got the good and bad of 2017 out of the way we have to resume normal service … for a given value of normal that is! This week we cast our eyes (which are admittedly in various states of working order), over the Winter 2018 season of anime and pick out the things that have caught our attention (i.e. were very shiny). Our featured anime are Girls Und Panz...

We've kicked arse, so now it's time for the second half of our look back at anime in 2017 and the better things that were released during the year. Get ready to take some names because it's time for the good stuff! If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @KeyframePodcast or on other social media by searching for The Geek Show . If you want to show your support then head ov...

2017 is over, and what better way to mark the beginning of a new year in animation than a two-part look back at the previous year. With that in mind, we decided to do something a little bit therapeutic (for us), and get all of the bad stuff out of the way first - so get ready for the rants and the strange awards we're handing out! If you've enjoyed this podcast, then please follow us on Twitter @K...

Waifu or Otter? So Disney have bought the lion’s share of the Fox media empire, which means Star Wars and Marvel fans have something to be happy about over the Christmas holidays. Meanwhile, we discuss the impact this will have on the Disney Princess register. Hey! Pointless things can be important too! We’re just not sure how or why – questions which also apply to the rather conspicuous anime eye...

Magic Mushroom Milk So we finally hit the big one hundred mark, and it’s been … emotional. Okay, so in actuality we forgot our birthday (blame it on old age), but we do have some interesting things to talk about this week. We start with the 45th Annie Award nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Feature - Independent, and more importantly why they annoy us. After that it’s down to...

Scrooge McDuck's Human Trafficking Operation Shocking revelations abound this week! First we discover that Batman is actually a ninja in the trailer for the cunningly titled animated film Batman Ninja. After that we’re left positively thunderstruck by Akira Toriyama’s claim that Saiyans need S-cells to become super. All together now … MIDICHLORIANS! It’s enough to send Mark searching for some quie...

Gundam’s Glorious Jazz Hole The 26 animated feature films that have been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination have been announced so naturally, we're going to see what all the fuss is about … Before all of that though, our first order of business is visiting Mark who is currently wallowing in mech-hell after his addiction flared up again due to the extreme musical stylings of Mobile Suit Gundam Thu...

Peter Rabbit's Death Star Fundraiser The trailer for Sony's new Peter Rabbit movie is out so we decide to share our thoughts on it (which aren't very positive to be honest). Then it's time to get to business with season 20 of South Park and a Pokémon double-bill of Indigo League and the 20th movie in the franchise - I Choose You! After that it's time to get serious with the Sunao Katabuchi's stunn...

Satoshi Kon's Anime Sausage The times, they are a-changing … 45 years after their original team-up, Batman once again joins forces with Scooby Doo and the rest of the Mystery Gang. Meanwhile, Sony complete their purchase of Funimation (a lot faster than we expected), and Anime Ltd. move into music distribution. Our featured anime movies are Satoshi Kon's psychological thriller Perfect Blue and Mak...

Now With Added Mathservice It's a strange thing when a show about animation doesn't actually feature any actual cartoons or anime, but we do have some related and very interesting things instead. First up is Andrew Osmond's Ghost in the Shell - a book that covers the production, influences and legacy of the original animated movie that was released in 1995. After that the gloves come off and we ge...

Farmer Goku's Fight Club This week we forego any preamble and dive straight in to our featured anime. With Girls und Panzer: Der Film, Mark proves that his addiction to anime beginning with the letter G looks set to continue. Meanwhile, Tucky gets suuuuuuuuuperrrr! with Dragon Ball Super season 1 Part 1 (Episodes 1 to 13), after which we explore the inner workings of a most epic night out in Masaa...

The Censored Brow We kick things off this week with our featured cartoon and anime (Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls, Netflix’s Bigmouth and Ushio and Tora), and those somehow lead us on to seasonal holidays and mockumentaries. After that little aside we get down to business with our views on the new titles that make up the Autumn season in anime - including The Ancient Magus’ Brid...

Netflix's Anime Big Boy Pants As the Summer season winds down, we take a look at the good, the bad, the mediocre, the just plain wrong, the unexpected and the anger-inducing anime of the last three months. Our featured animated movie and cartoon are Michaël Dudok de Wit's The Red Turtle and Netflix's Neo Yokio. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leave us a rat...

Godzilla's Summer Fair Bake Sale To celebrate the release of the first in a trilogy of anime movies, Godzilla is finally getting its own festival! Aside from that we also take a look at the trailers for Aardman’s Early Man and Netflix’s Neo Yokio. Our featured anime are Belladonna of Sadness and Kiniro Mosaic (Kinmoza!). If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or leav...

The Worst Kept Secret in Anime This week we’ve got movies galore with the Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy (I, II: Soldiers of Sorrow and III: Encounters in Space – we had to break Mark out of Gundam rehab for them), followed by a special treat called The Boy and The Beast (Bakemono no Ko) – which leads us on to a discussion about Mamoru Hosoda’s other works. If you've enjoyed this podcast then pl...