GateCrashers

Previously on Anime August, the heroes of GateCrashers handled the Chainsaw Devil in Chainsaw Man, learned to love in Your Name, digivolved with the Digimon, and learned to cook with Food Wars. But now, three of the heroes have finally arrived on Namak to handle one of the biggest anime of all time... Dragon Ball ! Jake, Jon, and Dan fly headfirst into the series from Dragon Ball up until the end...

Come join Amanda and Patrick as they dive into Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma , the hit anime about the power of… gourmet food? That's right! The world of Food Wars is one driven by the power wielded by the stars of the culinary world, and they're willing to go to war over it… a Food War, that is! Following Soma Yukihira, Erina Nakiri, Takumi Aldini, Megumi Tadokoro, and their fellow classmates of...

We'd be lying if we didn't say that Tik Tok has been a huge source of my entertainment since the start of the pandemic. There are a ton of truly funny, weird, and inventive people using the platform to express themselves. A lot of musicians have been using the platform but none as well as sad alex . Recently, Alex has been running a campaign recently through a series of Tik Toks leading up to the...

On this episode, J.H. Williams III ( Sandman Overture, Promethea, Batwoman, Batman, Desolation Jones, Blondie, The Sword ) returns to the show after the release of the first volume of his series Echolands from Image Comics . Our first conversation happened after Issue 1 which only gave us a brief glimpse into the world he co-created with W. Haden Blackman ( Star Wars, Elektra ). The team is once a...

On a very special interview episode, we are joined by some of the biggest anime voice actors ever. With Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero releasing today in the United States in theatres, we are releasing our round table interview with the cast of the film. In the first roundtable, we are chatting with Zeno Robinson (Hawks in My Hero Academia and Cyborg in Young Justice ) who is playing Gamma 2 in Dra...

On the third episode of this Anime August, Scarlett, Gunner, and Ashley have a thoughtful conversation about the smash hit anime film, Your Name , as Jake twiddles his thumbs thinking up his next joke. Which is the same thing he did while writing this episode description! Mitsuha is just a small town girl that gets on a train going anywhere. Taki is just a city boy that wakes up in Mitsuha's body....

Jake and Jon discuss the champions, Digimon. The pair try hard to stay on task discussing Digimon Tamers, a standalone season of the series. Chosen for its mature take on the franchise the delves into trauma of its characters as the children deal with hardships, such as death of a friend, depression, and other potential harm they face on Earth or the Digital world. That said the pair discuss vario...

Releasing on December 3 rd 2018, Chainsaw Man created by mangka Tatsuki Fujimoto vrmm'd onto the shounen scene and begged the question humanity was begging to know: what if a man, but with chainsaws? The answer as it turned out was clear: Yes. The series has vrrrm'd to massive popularity with widespread acclaim. With the release of Part 2 of the series on Shonen Jump as well as an anime adaptation...

Fan Fiction. It's a hot topic genre that elicits deep emotions from both readers and detractors alike. But its roots go deep in the history of storytelling, and the GateCrashers want you to explore all the good that fanfic has to offer the world. It's a place for readers and creators to live out fan cannon, let unfulfilled ships sail, and connect with people in the fandoms you love most. Fan Ficti...

With Harley Quinn season 3 dropping its first three episodes on HBO Max today, we had the chance to chat with co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the show Patrick Schumacker about the series. Patrick's other work include Abbot Elementary , Powerless, Surviving Jack, and the upcoming Harley Quinn spin off Noonan's. Be sure to check out this Harley Quinn interview before watching the new s...

We hope you brought your thickest black mascara, your fishnets, and your leather black trench coat because the GateCrashers are getting all kinds of Goth as we cover The Sandman! It's their first time reading it and the first time Neil Gaiman has been covered on GateCrashers! Jake and Dan both read The Sandman from DC Comics for the first time ever. It's the first episode in nearly 2 years where n...

Do you love D-list super villains and crooks who are more so looking to make ends meat rather than take over the world all the time? We've got the perfect book for you then, Minor Threats ! The book is co-written by Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, the duo who brought us MODOK on Hulu and MODOK: Head Games from Marvel Comics. They are rejoined on art by Steve Hepburn who did the art for Head Games....

After the success of Avatar: The Last Airbender, show creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko decided to tell the story of the next Avatar; headstrong 17-year-old Korra of the Southern Water Tribe. Set seventy years after the concluding events of Avatar: The Last Airbender , The Legend of Korra catapulted watchers into the future of The Four Nations to see the mark Team Avatar left on...

I will take every chance I get to spread the good word of the Solar Opposites . Luckily Disney and Hulu were kind enough to set up some interviews with the cast and producers for a Solar Opposites Interview! Solar Opposites has returned for a third season on Hulu with the series only pushing the boundaries of animation further and further. Solar Opposites is about a team of four aliens escape thei...

On this episode full of winners, Dan and Jake interview the DC Mech writer, Kenny Porter, and and artist, Baldemar Rivas! They discuss the upcoming DC Mech coming July 26th, 2022. Jake gets to gush over Gundam as one of the inspirations for the series. We seriously recommend you check out this new six issue series after listening to this DC Mech interview. Also discussed is the DC Round Robin, a t...

What do Dan McMahon and 75% of the middle aged women on Facebook have in common? They love the Minions. They think about these little yellow freaks constantly. Today, that love is being put on record as Dan and Ethan go off the rails to talk all about Despicable Me and Minions . We dive head first into the history of the Minions with a rowdy reading of the timeline of their journey to Gru. Dan rea...

In Our Flag Means Death , sailing the open seas meant freedom for many in the 1700s, and that could not be more true than it is for real-life pirate captain Stede Bonnet, the Gentleman Pirate! Running away from his life and family among the colonial elite of British Barbados, Stede builds a boat, hires a crew, and fails miserably as a pirate captain… that is until he meets the infamous Blackbeard!...

A dark cloud has hung over the town of Hawkins for the past few years, and things are certainly not getting any brighter. The line between our world and the upside down thins as an old, yet familiar enemy run's out the clock on the youth of this formerly quiet town. We settle in as our GateCrasher hosts Ethan, Jon, and RJ find themselves venturing into this Netflix behemoth, only to find themselve...

A few weeks ago, Dan and Ethan made the long trek to California to celebrate all things A Galaxy Far, Far Away at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim . Not only was Dan incredibly lucky to attend the convention as a member of the press, but it was also the first time Dan and Ethan got the chance to meet in the flesh-realm. Braving a convention center packed with tens of thousands of Star Wars fans, and...

GateCrashers has interviewed a huge array of guests from artists to Tony winners to New York Times Best Selling authors but nothing can measure up to one of the scum dogs of the universe, GWAR. The Intergalactic conquerors/band known as GWAR have released a new album entitled "The New Dark Ages" that is available to stream now on all platforms. The physical CD will be released on July 15th along w...

We are joined by colorist Marissa Louise to chat about her work on the Nubia story "Confessions" in this year's DC Pride anthology! We chat about her approach to color, her signature color, and her recent work on the Black Manta mini series. Marissa also gives some resources for how you can help out the LGBTQIA+ community which are all linked on our website! 

It all started with a mosquito stuck in amber and ends with Dinosaurs reclaiming the Earth. Welcome to Jurassic Park! As the Jurassic Park series ends its second trilogy with Jurassic World Dominion, Dan decided to invite Mike to his newest endeavor on Isla Nublar.  Tune in for a retelling of the original film Jurassic Park if it starred a handsome, thick, charming, funny, and modest founder named...

This week starts our first of a few DC Pride centric interviews! To kick it all off, we are joined by the absolutely charming and wonderful Ro Stein who Ted Brandt penned the DC Pride story "Think of Me". In this story, Connor foils the Music Meister's evil plan all while we read his letter coming out as asexual to his mother. Ro and Ted chat with Dan about the experience of bringing this to the p...

We get into all things X-Men 92 House of XCII and Archer & Armstrong Forever with the incredible talented Steve Foxe! Steve returns for another episode of GateCrashers to talk about all of his new projects from Marvel and Valiant comics! Steve is an incredibly talented editor and writer of other projects such as Party & Prey, Spider-Ham, and many other titles. He is also the co-creator of horror m...

Did you see Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and say to yourself "I need a little more magic in my life" or even "I need to get a little more Strange"? Well if so, we've got you covered this week! Today's episode is all about Doctor Strange with our fellow GateCrasher and first time guest, Jordan! For this episode, Dan opened up a portal all the way to New Zealand thanks to a mysterious ma...