Gateway to Anime

It's time for our Winter 2024 Mid Season Check In. We're talking about all the hits and misses of the shows we're currently watching, with some big hitter in Solo Leveling, (the returning) Frieren and Apothecary Diaries, as well as some hidden gems like Seventh Time Loop and The Wrong Way to Use Healing magic.    Follow us! website: https://www.gatewaytoanime.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram....

Satoshi Kon was a truly legendary film maker who left behind an incredible legacy. His work has influenced some of the biggest names in Hollywood, demonstrating to the world that anime can truly be considered an art form in and of itself. For this long overdue episode, we're joined by Alexei Toliopoulos for his esteemed film critique. Alexei lives and breathes film, producing his own work and host...

Nothing more satisfying than a well animated food sequence in anime! This week the gateway team are dishing up their favourite foodie anime! From battle style cook offs and other world Izakaya's this genre has got it all. Caution: Eat before listening. Follow us! website: https://www.gatewaytoanime.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gatewaytoanime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gateway_to...

Anime was hard to find for a lot of us growing up. It began in Australia as a very niche interest till companies like Madman and Crunchyroll stepped in to bring anime to the masses, and our guest Sly Ip has been an instrumental part in that long journey.  Follow us! Website: https://www.gatewaytoanime.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gatewaytoanime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gateway...

The best anime of 2023 voted by you! Welcome to the 2023 Gateway to Anime Awards! This year we nominated 4 shows in 8 different categories and asked our Instagram and YouTube followers to vote the winners. Safe to say the results were not what we expected! Yet again our instagram and youtube polls were vastly different. This episode is a celebration of what has been an absolutely incredible year f...

The Fall 2023 season is one the strongest in recent memory with some absolutely phenomenal shows. The next season certainly has a lot to live up to! Join us as we send off the amazing season that was, and give you the heads up on what to keep an eye on moving into the new winter anime season and new year!

Music brings people together. With anime, this takes on a whole new aspect. Rather than the power systems and fighting styles popularised in shonen anime, these series use music to tell their story. Whether it's a band coming together or a solo artist finding their voice, characters in music anime explore coming of age and finding community in a way that's uniquely relatable to real life.

In this episode of Gateway to Anime we talk about (in our opinion) underrated anime, that have either been somewhat forgotten through the passage of time, or simply not given the credit they deserve amongst the community.  With an arbitrary criteria implemented (from MAL ranking and popularity scores) the gang go through shows they think are underrated and deserve more credit.  You might just find...

One of the biggest Gateway Anime shows of all time has ended! We discuss its huge cultural impact and how it helped anime breach further into the mainstream. 

This is one of the most excited anime seasons in a very long time! With the climactic ending of Attack on Titan, the Shibuya Arc of Jujutsu Kaisen and incredible new shows like Pluto, Fireren & Apothecary Diaries, we are feeling very spoiled as anime fans. In this episode we discuss everything that we’ve been watching and what’s happening in the anime community. Let us know what anime you’ve b...

This week we're talking about all things anime power systems. Shonen anime is basically synonymous with intricate and sometimes ridiculous power systems that govern their respective world's. We break down some of our favorite power systems from Naruto, One Piece and Hunter x Hunter as well as some of the more ludicrous ones like Jujutsu kaisen and Fire Force.  We also talk through the connection b...

YouTube Creator Forgotten Relics joins us to talk about the art and animation of the Dragon Ball series, as well as sakuga and the broader trends of animation currently happening in anime. 

This week we chat with friend Kieran Clancy-Lowe about the ultimate gateway anime; Dragon Ball Z. Kieran is a massive fan of the Dragon Ball series and goes deep on the history, storytelling, impact and overall brilliance of the absolute game changing phenomenon that is the Dragon Ball universe. Kieran re-watched all 291(ish) Dragon Ball Z episodes in preparation  for this podcast, so he really br...

We couldn't be more excited to start a whole new season of anime and this fall season is shaping up to be a real hit.  It's a versatile season of huge sequels (JJK, Tokyo Revengers, Attack on Titan and Dr Stone) along with some hugely anticipated smash hit manga adaptations (Frieren & Undead Unluck)  What's your top pick?

This week we have one of the co-hosts of Charlie's other podcast, Supporting Cast, Seamus Quinn on to talk about all things Jujutsu Kaisen.  Seamus is a massive fan of JJK so we talk about why we all love the show, what makes it special, interesting, different and (to all of us except Graeme) the best of the dark trio.  Somewhere along the line we segue into talking about Boruto for way longer tha...

It's time for our Summer 2023 Mid Season Check In! Join us as we discuss our thoughts and feelings about how this season is shaping up. From old shonen favourites to fresh and exciting new series, this summer season is really heating up! What have you been enjoying this season?  

The gateway team has enlisted the help of special guest star Gerald Lillywhite - will they make it to regionals? What important lessons will they learn along the way? The hype is real in this weeks episode on Sports anime! This genre is so huge that we felt we needed to talk about it again. We cover the classics such as Slam Dunk, Haikyu!! and Hajime No Ippo as well as some absolute wild cards of...

What anime are you nostalgic for? This week the team take a trip down memory lane to discuss the anime that makes them most nostalgic. Is nostalgia the death of art? Do we need another remake/reboot of our childhood favourites? Will we ever be able to recreate the highs of Rock Lee dropping his weights? Join the debate and be ready to defend your favourite nostalgic anime! 

This week the gang gets together to talk all things mystery with the wide genre of detective anime.  Sam talks through the history of detective fiction in Japan and the decidedly Sci-Fi flavor that tends to accompany these kinds of stories in Japanese storytelling.  Sam and Charlie then go over some old ground with a couple of classic shows from our earliest episodes in Death Note and Psycho pass...

The gang get together to round-up their hits and misses from the anime winter season and then predict their future hit and misses of the now airing summer season. The season just gone became a bit of a surprise hit with everyone and the next season has big shoes to fill. It's a season of huge sequels (Bleach, Jujutsu Kaisen, Mushoku Tensei) with some hidden gems to accompany them (Zom 100, Reincar...

This week the gang get together to talk about the "Dark Trio" of shonen anime; Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man and Hell's paradise.  We speak about the similarities (or lack thereof) between the "Dark Trio" and the original "Big Three" of animanga, break down what these shows are all about, which are our individual favorites and how anime and shonen are evolving. 

We're back to check-in with how the Spring 2023 anime season is tracking.  What are the heroes and what are the howlers?  Sam regrets misreading a synopsis of a show in the hype-up episode that ended up being terrible.  The big hitters are still hitting and the Rom-coms are at an all time high (much to Charlie's happiness).  There's also a highly controversial and popular show which stokes a very...

We preview the Spring 2023 anime season and talk about the shows we're excited about and what the community at large is talking about.   These are all very early impressions of the spring season shows, some of which only had their first episodes air at the time of recording and some hadn't even aired at all. At the end of the season we'll be back with our verdicts on these shows.   Sam previews a...

Here is our latest episode: Winter 2023 season verdict. We're changing the way we do our seasonal round-ups moving forward. This is our verdict on the winter 2023 season that has just finished and we'll be following this up with our hype-up for the currently airing Spring season. That will be an early preview of the hyped upcoming shows for the season and our first impressions of the few shows tha...

Everyone is a fan of something. But can a fanbase actually influence the thing they love? We explore what it means to be an anime fan and the fascinating nature of fandom. Brett rejoins us to discuss his first impressions of the anime community while Charlie and Sam talk about how anime fandom has changed over the years.