Otafest Podcast

Join Jei as he welcomes back special Otafest staff co-hosts G and Linda! It's spoopy month so we're dipping into Halloween traditions and more! - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Fall 2023's anime season is here, so listen in on Jei, Nancy, and Angelo's sweater weather takes! We're talking about Freiren: Beyond Journey's End, Undead Unluck, Butareba, DOG SIGNAL, and Overtake!

Jei suffers a fate worse than death, watching anime. Come hear our thoughts about Zom100, Reborn as a Vending Machine I Now Wander The Dungeon, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today, My Catholic Church Can't Be This Cute, and Undead Girl Murder Face! I mean Undead Girl Murder Farce! - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Deo, Nancy, Angelo and Jei are back from our 2023 season break and popping back into the recording studio to catch up on our summer shenanigans, including food, Barbie, and Angelo watching ONE PIECE?! - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Join Angelo and Jei as we muse on Summer 2023's anime offerings, as well as treet Fighter 6 and summer plan shenanigans. See you around in Season 9, thanks for listening! - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

The crew review the Spring 2023 season; did we truly find a Season of Bangers? - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Spoiler alert -- We loved everything! What did the crew get up to this year, and what was their fave part of the weekend? It was all you! - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo

The gang hype each other up for Otafest with dancing, gaming, eating, and friending, while Jei spends every waking moment crying kingly tears. - "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Adventuring the alcoholic halls, Angelo admired ocular adornments. A cheatcode for friendship was discovered. Manuvering many menus, monitary risks were minimized. Jei uninstalled a gacha. - "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Angelo pedaled his heart out while drinking copious amounts of cold amber beverage, while Nancy and Jei enjoyed CCEE and Honkai Star Rail!- "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Jei, Angelo, and Deo said "IT'S MORBIN' TIME" while contemplating life, the universe, ketchup chips, and what was in those brownies. Need to cleanse your media palate? Oshi no Ko is actually pretty good. Want to watch something else? ALL BANGERS. Anime not good enough? Simply go to Japan.- "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Angelo, Jei and Nancy witness Deo confess her crime of playing FFX-2 before FFX. Also some stuff about anime and Japan, but really, WHO DOES THAT? Find out other weeb crimes we've committed on this week's episode! - "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Rocking some of the best self cut hairstyles, perfect for radio, the gang discusses expensive fashion, The Mario Movie, and The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Angelo and Nancy cook the food, Catbot delivers the food, but there's no longer an Electronics Entertainment Expo to enjoy while eating the food. E3 is dead. Big sad. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Quick -- Jei is away, so the nerds are at play! Angelo and Nancy go on techno tangents about their own PC issues, the wide terrifying world of internet safety, and things disappearing from the internet. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Spring is upon us once more and the as the sakura fall, the anime cycle begins anew. Join Angelo, Nancy, Deo and Jei as we preview an artisanal, hand-selected batch of Japanese animation for your viewing recommendation. - "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

For every preview there must be a review. It is the unwritten law. In this follow up to the winter preview, Angelo, Nancy, and Jei subject themselves to the offerings of the winter season enjoying delicious food and abject horror. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Exposing their age, the Otafest Crew wax nostalgic about old technology, while shaking their fists like an old man to a cloud, with anger towards preorders.- Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

What franchises or phases have their hooks permanently in you? We all want things we don't need, whether or not we're going through a phase. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Deo, Nancy, Angelo and Jei return to the Otafest podcast - or are we just reading ChatGPT-generated conversations about TETRIS, boba tea x anime promotions, and more? Guess you'll have to listen to find out! - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

There are two wolves inside of you. One is struggling to cook at home, while the other is struggling to make a reservation at a restaurant. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

In a hard break from trying to control the weather, Jei, Nancy, and Angelo muse about how music anime makes you want a band, and anime music burns itself into your soul. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

It's your Otafest podcast hosts Nancy, Angelo and Jei gabbing and blabbing on a wonderful and weird range of topics - VR, cult classic Asian cinema, Korean barbeque, and more. Stay awhile, and listen. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

The crew needs to be paid overtime for their dreams, and are greatly opinionated about calendars. - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.

Angelo consumed the most POWERFUL craft beers, while Nancy was burried in board game manuals. Early 2000s Discmans and MP3 players seem to be making a resurgence. But Why? - Intro/outro: "Memories" & "Place on Fire" by Creo.