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The usual crew gets together this week to wrap up the Spring 2021 anime season. Cain, DJ, Kestrel, and Kate Tackle the news before we get to the heart of the matter, and this certainly was a season with plenty of heart! My Dear Cramer, Fruits Basket, Meglobox, Zombie Land Saga, Tokyo Revengers, Moriarty, and more! Plus some recommendations and banter. Yay, banter!

No news is good news. Cain, DJ, and Kestrel have a month of news to cover and while some of it is welcome, much of it isn't. Demon Slayer continues to slay, while more Madoka, Made in Abyss, and Lupin the 3rd are on the horizon. Vinland Saga and a slew of others finally get a home release and a bunch of Dragon Quest stuff is coming as well! Yet the untimely and unexpected death of Berserk creator...

A year of being trapped away from other people has not had a detrimental effect on us, nope! And we have anime to thank for that! It's spring, and a new crop of anime is budding. It looks to be a hell of an anime season and the gang is all here with our thoughts! To Your Eternity, Moriarty Season 2, Vivy, Nomad, Super Cub, Zombie Land SAGA Revenge, more Fruits Basket, and series with names so long...

Cain, DJ, Kate, and Kestrel are joined by fellow Fandom Post reviewer Brandon to discuss our final thoughts on the Winter 2020-2021 anime season! AND WHAT A SEASON, WHAT A SEASON! Attack on Titan, Wonder Egg Priority, Jujutsu Kaisen, Laid-Back Camp, Slime, Dr. Stone, SK8, Higurashi Gou, Re:Zero... no seriously! Plus, which shows fell on their faces and a month's worth of anime news! Strap in folks...

Kestrel and Darius sit down to talk with the US anime industry icon Justin Sevakis about his career, the early days of the internet anime community, and the joys and hassles of authoring blu-rays. Plus Kestrel and Darius have some recommendations for stuff, both from Discotek and elsewhere!

The Winter 2021 anime season is in full swing. Not only have many of these delayed seasons finally arrived, they have ARRIVED and DELIVERED! It's an embarrassment of riches, and the usual crew is here to talk about what we've been watching and the early standouts of a packed season. Plus a small amount of news and a few recommendations to lighten your wallet! Stay safe!

It's a wrap on a year that was unforgettable for all the wrong reasons. Yet here in our podcast bunkers we survive! Kestrel, DJ, Cain, and Skyler are here to talk about the best anime of those year that they watched. Did your favorite make their lists? Listen to find out! Plus news and recommendations. Happy 2021 everyone. Stay safe!

Party like it's not 2020 anymore! Okay, well, we recorded this before the new year, but the sentiment still applies. The regular crew arrives sleepy and well-fed to go over the Fall season as the shows finish out a very strange year. Which shows stuck the landing and which tripped over themselves at the finish line? Is it likely different reviewers had very different opinions on a few shows? Absol...

BREAKING NEWS on the western anime streaming front! The Crunchyroll deal is done and not only were they sold to Sony, but Funimation in particular? What does this mean for anime streaming going forward? We discuss it! Then DJ, Kestrel, Kate, and Cain are here with wish lists for anime Santa. Well, maybe not exactly wish lists but certainly recommendations for the best releases of the year and othe...

We are on the eve of the annual anime sales season, but we have some news to get through before the sales actually kick-off! DJ, Kestrel, and Kate get together to try to keep things brief and fail amazingly. After some heartening old news and disheartening late-breaking news, we jump into a discussion on the current anime season and how while our charts and opinions of many shows are the same... s...

Cain, DJ, Kestrel and eventually Kate gather for a talk about the latest anime news followed by more talk about how the fall 2020 anime season is progressing. Which of the shows is climbing the lists and which have fallen ever so sharply off. IWGP isn't at all what we expected, and neither is the newest adaptation (?) of Higurashi, or Wandering Witch for that matter. Plus recommendations and a hea...

Summer is over and Fall is here! The regular gang gathers to discuss gang names, idols, witches, food in the form of baskets and otherwise, all in the context of anime! First Kestrel and DJ have some thoughts about the finished summer season before we contemplate how Funimation got all the good shows this fall, for once. Whether that holds true for the entire season remains to be seen. Plus some t...

The usual crew returns as fall moves in and summer moves out. We have a ton of news to delve into from the latest online conventions, various mergers, acquisitions, licenses rescues and more! Will Viz's partnership with Sentai finally pull some of those home video releases out of the vault? Will the next live-action anime remake every get filmed? How about that Final Fantasy 16 announcement? That'...

Yoshihisa Hirano is the composer, arranger, conductor, and lyricist behind the wonderfully eclectic music of Hunter x Hunter, the unforgettably thrilling symphonies of Death Note, the inventive new sound of the Hajime no Ippo sequels, the elegantly Brandenburg-evoking concertos of Ouran, and many other anime soundtracks. When not scoring background music, he has collaborated with Mikiya Katakura t...

The doldrums are here, and boy are we feeling them. Kestrel, Kate, and DJ sort through the last few weeks of anime news. We contemplate mergers and acquisitions, the changing media landscape, and Kate tries to sell DJ an over-the-air antenna. Then Kestrel and Dj give an update on the summer anime season before we dive into recommendations. Pay attention DJ!

DJ and Kestrel convene to lay out their thoughts on a summer season of anime. A season which is looking very different now than what we thought it was going to look like at the beginning of the year. With many series scheduled for spring pushed back into summer it's now more of a Sprummer? Springer? Re: Zero, OreGairu, Fruits Basket, Rent a Girlfriend, God of High School, and the worst anime of th...

" Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the greatest anime of all time." - Kestrel Swift Cain, Kate, and Skyler will be the judge of that. If you have seen the series or have not, Kestrel is going to tell you why you should watch it again and again. We keep the first half spoiler-free for the new anime fans because there's a new anime fan born every day and everyone has to start somewhere!

Summer convention season is a bust, or is it? Kate and Kestrel run down the news and announcements from AX lite, Funicon, and Aniplex's.... whatever. Is it really a convention if nobody is convening? Is it really an exposition with no bill of goods? Kestrel watched an awful lot of the panels and breaks down what worked, what didn't, and the conundrum that is the business hierarchy. At least the ma...

The spring 2020 anime season limps over the finish line. With summer anime being a big, giant question mark right now we go over all the shows which just wrapped-up. Kaguya-sama, Sing Yesterday for Me, Tower of God, LISTENERS, there was a little something for everyone here. What came out on top, which failed to live up to expectations? Join the regular crew plus Skyler as we break it all down. Plu...

After a soul-crushing two weeks, we return for an episode of mostly news. We say a few belated words on the passing of ANN co-creator Zac Bertschy. We talk about the change of studio for the final season of Attack on Titan. Then the talk lightens as we discuss anime merchandise tie ins, the more ridiculous the better. Are you pro or nah Char-dines? Even in these dark times we can't stay mired in d...

Do you follow the "three-episode rule?" Have you ever pushed past a lousy first episode and found gold at the end of the anime rainbow? What does it take to grab hold of the audience and hook them? That's our topic of discussion this episode as we talk about how anime has a very limited chance to grab someone's attention and hold it. Which shows succeed, which fail, and what we can all learn about...

How are you all doing? Hanging in there? Kestrel, Kate, and Cain are here to talk about the best anime and manga to binge during this long lockdown. Take your mind off of the isolation and do so cheaply with some of the best long-running shows out there. Always been curious to check out some classics that feel like they have no end in sight? We share some of our favorites. Plus, news of more cance...

The usual crew (minus Cain because we forget to tell him we were recording, whoops!) gather remotely to talk about the new spring anime season. What are we watching? We shall tell you! How about some Kaguya-sama, Listeners, Fruits Basket, Sing Yesterday For Me, My Next Life as a Villainess, and Kingdom? Plus, the pandemic starts to affect production schedules and more news from the anime front. Oh...

The spring anime season couldn't have come at a better time. The usual crew gathers for one last wrap of the winter 2020 anime season. Case Files of Jeweler Richard, Runway de Waratte, Somali and the Forest Spirit, 22/7, Chihayafuru 3, Eizouken, Magia Record and many more shows are discussed. We ponder spam mailings, review mailings, the latest news and of course some recommendations to get you th...

This week we have a short-cast where Kate, DJ, and an increasingly disappointed Kestrel discuss how everything is canceled, likely canceled, or postponed until further notice. Fandom Post is a mostly work-at-home operation so at least we have that working for us. After the news, we dive into the video game industry for a bit to talk about the specs for the next-generation systems, DJ's porn game,...