Otaku Host Club

Can you believe it’s been two years since we began our little podcast way back in 2020, during the world's reckoning with the pandemic? So many anime podcasts were born out of the national-wide lockdowns, including us. A lot has happened since then: we helped create a small anime community, made new friends along the way, watched some questionable series like Kiss x Sis , and hosted our very first...

SASAGEYO!! We're back this week to talk about episode 85 "Traitor." With three episodes left until the end of the season, we're not sure why they are spending time on some things and not spending time on others. LOTS of anime logic and LOTS of coincidental happenstances leading up to this episode. And all we're saying is everybody keeps an eye on Gabi... she's known to go off rails and take matter...

SASAGEYO!! We're back this week to talk about episodes 83 "Pride" and 84 "Night of the End." We had some technical issues recording this one but hopefully, it sounds seamless to you guys! SO Levi wasn't dead and while he might be missing a few of his parts he's still down to take out Zeke. Too bad Zeke is the least of everyone's worries now with The Rumbling actually leaving the island. Or is he??...

Amelia has been wanting to do this episode basically since the inception of the podcast and the time has finally come. Lucky for you we turned it into a whole month of dedicated Moe discussions!  To consume Moe one must first understand the origins of the word itself and the characters and series that make this style of animation what it has evolved into today. First, we break down the word a...

SASAGEYO!! Annie's back, Levi's back, we're all back this week to talk about episode 82 or Sunset. The dust is settling on Paradis and the tension are high as to what the future may hold. When you realize Eren might actually kill the whole world out side of Paradis your world suddenly come crashing down.. like Annie out of the chrysalis! OHHHHHH! We still don't know what exactly Annie knows or wha...

Before there was One Room and Marukra no Danshi, there were these things called VHS tapes that played movies and you could go to a store that had a ton to choose from and you would pay them money to borrow it for a short period of time. We know a lot of you probably know what a VHS is but most of you have probably forgotten about this 90s OVA classic, Video Girl Ai. Imagine if that tape you just r...

SASAGEYO! So what if we were to tell your past self who just started Attack on Titan that it all started with a pig? And that your life would change after you saw what was in Greisha's basement??  We're still trying to warp our heads around it. But AoT takes no breaks and in this episode a bunch of factors have changed in literally the 2 minutes it's taken for Eren to @everyone and now so man...

SASAGEYO!! THE RUMBLINGGGGGGG!! My guys we did not expect it to happen this soon but here it is, coming for you! But first we get into Ymir's origin story and how the Kingdom of Eldia came to be and how they utilized the titan powers some 2,000 years ago. When we first started Attack on Titan we could have sworn this was a post-apocalyptic setting but it kinda seems like we're witnessing the apoca...

Over sexualization of female anime characters in anime. There are so many facets to this conversation but one interesting question was brought up in our discord and we decided to at least attempt to dissect it in an episode featuring a very good friend of the pod, Kristella! We're basing this conversation around a "viral" tweet and the upset surrounding one of the anime community's most precious o...

SASAGEYO!! After such a stellar action-packed episode last week, it's only natural to come down from that high with an exposition-heavy episode. And you had better be paying attention to all the callbacks to the previous episode because we're taking a walk down memory lane through Greisha's memories to reveal a bunch of stuff about the past.  https://linkre.ee/otakuhostclub

We are back once again, after suffering through a year's hiatus we are finally back on the Road to Paradise! Join us as we embark on Part 2/Season 4 of Attack On Titan! Follow us each week as we dissect and comment on every last episode! Thanks for sticking with us! If you would like to listen to these and all our episodes early consider supporting us on Patreon! https://linktr.ee/Otakuhostclub

As anime fans we her the dreaded hiatus of our favorite series. Hunter x Hunter and No Game No Life being at the top of most weeb's list of anime they're waiting for another season of. In this episode we cover all the anime we're dying to see more content from. Some new, some extremely old that you probably haven't heard of, and some that you might have forgotten about! Let us know what anime you'...

We are back once again, after suffering through a year's hiatus we are finally back on the Road to Paradise! Join us as we embark on Part 2/Season 4 of Attack On Titan! Follow us each week as we dissect and comment on every last episode! Thanks for sticking with us! If you would like to listen to these and all our episodes early consider supporting us on Patreon! https://linktr.ee/Otakuhostclub   

It’s back! The anime we, and probably the entire furry community, were waiting for!! This time we take a deep dive into the second season of Beastars. There was so much going on in these next 12 episodes of the series that we couldn’t even keep track of all the things we wanted to discuss. Where is Ruis and what has he been doing this whole time? What’s up with that snake lady? Who is this titilla...

Look at us getting right to the point in this episode! Round of applause! So we have some big announcements in this episode like where weekly AoT episodes are and the launch of our Patreon page!! If you want to support us hit that link down below!! But for now, lets get into the maybe potentially the biggest let down of 2021... okay that's saying a lot but we need you to be on the edge of your sea...

Welcome to The Road To Paradise, the weekly digest for Season Four of Attack On Titan! Come along with us and most of weeb-kind as we dissect the biggest final season  since Game of Thrones! Maybe that's an overstatement?   Join our discord to continue the conversation and get notified of weekly watch parties! https://discord.gg/8azF2VHAhC  check out our bi-weekly episodes on our website www.otaku...

Grab a drink and join us as we take a look back at all the anime we watched, our favorite podcast episodes, favorites from our community, collabs with friends, and highlights of the year in anime. Thanks to everyone who supports us in our anime adventures and for listening, we wouldn't be here without you... well we'd be here but we'd have a significantly less fun time so thank you for hanging out...

The holiday season is upon us; the smell of plastic resin is in the air, the taste of Pocky lingers. Being an otaku comes with a few caveats, one being our obsession with collecting and in some cases hoarding adjacent-related paraphernalia of our favorite shows and manga. What does it mean to be a collector of things? Are all nerds collectors of things? We ask these age-old questions and break dow...

Over here at OHC, we're no stranger to Netflix adaptations or original Netflix anime, some of which have been our favorites. This week's review isn't about an anime but it is an adaption of one of the most beloved anime of all time, even people who don't like anime have seen or know of Cowboy Bebop, and some that are waiting to watch to savor that good-good 90s nostalgia. wink wink. Netflix couldn...

Squid Game has taken the world by storm being the number one show on Netflix pretty consistently for the past few months and we put it to the test against the anime version Kaiji Ultimate Survivor. Since Kaiji is one of Dan's favorite anime, and Amelia loves horror/ death game shows we thought what a great idea. We watched two shows for this one and boy I think we might be anime'd out! (Jump to 40...

So Halloween has come and gone, but we decided not to review a “horror” title this season. Let’s face it, the medium is lacking in this department. So we decided to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Otaku No Video! The penultimate fan parody of otaku culture from the 90s. We sit down this week to discuss how fandom has changed over the last 30 years and does this hidden gem still hold up?  ht...

We’re back this week to talk about a pretty unique film that was created almost single handedly by Kenji Iwaisawa called On Gaku Our Sound. This isn’t just your run of the mill anime movie about a delinquent guy who looks like Saitama and wants to start a band. No, this is very stylized story telling mixed with vibrant sound design and animation sequences that pop out of the screen. This film is d...

What happens when Japan thinks "We need more Star Wars, but let's make it anime." They spread a piece of the Star Wars pie around to a bunch of different studios and whabam Star Wars: Visions. We're not saying we hated it but we're not not saying that either. We come from a couple different Star Wars fandom backgrounds, one mildly big fan, one moderate fan, and Amelia, who really doesn't care abou...

So a magical girl and a demon cat thing walk into a bar.... Now that we have your attention it's been 10 years since the birth of one of the most iconic genre subverting series to grace our eyes and for this episode we decided we needed a little help from our good friend Kristella. She found us a really cool online academic journal that brings up a lot of really compelling and provocative takes on...

They said it couldn’t be done, but Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash was finally adapted into a theatrical film, ready for your viewing pleasure via NETFLIX. If you're a long-time fan of the Gundam franchise like Geoff, you know that this film is huge and we only had to wait three months to get it! If you're just excited as we are, join us in this week’s episode at www.otakuhostclub.com continu...