Otaku Melancholy

In this week's episode, I talk about how hot Toji Fushiguro is. That's the entire episode. What does it mean to be a prequel? It means having established lore to follow and not being able to stray from it. It means you can't kill off anyone important so why even bother? Jujutsu Kaisen dared to bother by showing us Gojo's past and explore his relationship with his super best bud Get...

It's been a minute. The hiatus is over. I've missed you. I've also missed wanted to watch anime. I watched a tiny bit during the hiatus. I'm going to talk to you about them. I hope you'll enjoy it. Anime discussed in this podcast: Demon Slayer: The Swordsmith Village Arc The Dangers in My Heart Digimon Adventure 01 The Eminence in Shadow (Season One) The Girl I Like Forgot Her...

Mattie wasn't able to adequately produce an episode due to some mild health issues and a waning mood due to certain life events so here's a curated collection of colorfully crafted ending songs courtesy of the delightfully not real radio station: 103.3 The Weeb. With all due earnest affection, I'd like to extend a huge amount of love to everyone for giving your support and sending out...

momma always said, "get busy flippin' or get busy flappin'" finally I see that this is what she meant Our spoilers are sectioned off for your convenience! Please go check out Alex's fantastic podcast the Anibuddies wherever you get your podcasts! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at  www.otakumelancholy.com  to see all our links including...

We play a classic a game this week of "Would You Rather?" but with (ALMOST) exclusively anime related questions with JD from the Anime Brothers Podcast! It's an episode full of discussion on quality vs. quantity as it relates to anime, the value of your hobbies in your social life, and the sexual reproductive appendages of the majestic whale! It's mostly about that last topic tho...

Did you know that May is Mental Health Awareness month? I didn't for sure but maybe Alex from The AniBuddies Podcast did as they suggested this week's topic of mental health and illness and how it's portrayed in anime! It sounds a lot more insightful and intellectual than it actually is (I mean we're basically talking about cartoon character brains or whatever) but hopefully you&#3...

Spoiler warnings are in the episode if you care about that sort of thing! The bonus content becomes the regular content this week as we break down Makoto Shinkai's latest film: Suzume! Is this new movie the film that will finally have the KEY to our host's heart or will it LOCK up any chances of our host caring about Shinkai? Is the main character aDOORable enough to be a perfect FRAME of...

Egg time. A big thanks to Earthworm for joining us for another week of anime discussion again! Go listen to the Anime Brothers Podcast on Spotify! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at  www.otakumelancholy.com  to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at  https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW  to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special than...

In this episode, we get our goopy goblin gamer brains togethers as Earthworm from the Anime Brothers Podcast joins us to pick more anime characters for a huge hypothetical Smash Bros. style game! We choose our special attacks and even a couple of stages as we go from stands to seances deciding on a roster of characters from all across the anime spectrum. Listen in to find out if your favorite made...

Description to be added later! It's Easter and I'm struggling! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special thanks to Boomslank for sponsoring the episode! You can get 10% off your total order...

We're back to our seasonal shenanigans so it's time to strap yourselves in and make a long commitment to what anime you're (probably) going to watch during the course of the season! Spring 2023 is looking kind of thick so the plan was to just talk about and read off the descriptions of (almost) every anime and break down the absolute why and what of each show and how that's going t...

We've watched a lot of bad anime for this podcast and some of it, if you didn't know, has been misery inducing. So... here we are officially putting that in a tier list. That's what the kids like, right? As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discor...

THIS EPISODE ISN'T LATE BECAUSE I FORGOT TO UPLOAD IT, YOU'RE LATE Check out and subscribe to our YouTube channel for upcoming exclusive content including the Animisery tier list at https://www.youtube.com/@otakumelancholy Celebrities liking anime? It might be closer than you think. Michael B. Jordan talked about his top 5 anime for people who aren't into anime and since I've watched a Michael B....

またいつか会おうね、オードリーちゃん.  いつも 私 の そば に いて くれて ありがとう. 元気でね. Thank you for supporting the Otaku Melancholy Podcast!

Video games! They're like anime except they're not like anime at all except for when they're entirely like anime or have anime influences or are based off anime or have anime in them. They're basically anime, yeah? As long as the human race has been on this Earth, we have sought out with great vigor to adapt video games to EVERYTHING for no reason. Like EVERYTHING. They tried to turn Sonic into a...

After a year and some months, Yu Yu Hakusho has finally been completed! It took a lot of determination and fighting spirit but we fought against the tides of apathy, new anime, and just everything else to finish it and now there are some opinions to be had. It's mostly an opinion in the questionable ending and quality of the final saga or arc or whatever you want to call it but still an opinion an...

Scheduling is hard. Audrey is out this week so it's another solo session as Matt talks about when anime series get movies because That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime got a movie and someone wasn't particularly thrilled about it. Join us as one person talks about watching anime movies on Adult Swim, driving to Ohio to watch the Naruto: The Last movie, and more! I'm trying my best, dad! As alway...

I mean, the description is in the title, right? And just so you know there is a spoiler section so don't worry about, you know, random spoilers or something. We talk Chainsaw Man which is practically like the anime version of The Beatles in that everyone knows about it and certain people have made it the whole of their personality but that's not a bad thing. OR IS IT? We break all that down and mo...

We're back! To talk about ourselves! It was another year of OtaMel and what a year it was between two hiatus and infinite solocast episodes but WE PERSISTED and that's all that matters, right? A D is a passing grade and all that. We are the bugs in your walls of anime podcasts or something similar to that. We break down some of the anime and content we made in this year and reflect on what we're g...

Thank you all for always supporting us! We'll see you soon! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Special thanks to Boomslank with their help in sponsoring this episode! You can go to www.boomslank.com...

We all need motivation some times and so I chose some select anime quote that get me feeling pretty okay and just decided to read them out loud and talk about them! It's been a hard few weeks for us and the motivation to lead with your best foot forward can be so hard to find but hey! Some small sentiment of determination can be found in everything even anime! Just always try your best. I hope you...

It's another week of just me, myself, and I as hosts of the podcast so I really struggled to just come up with something to talk about but I've recently started reading Ranma 1/2 and thought to myself that I really really do like Rumiko Takahashi's manga especially Maison Ikkoku so I just went ahead and talked about it in a spoiler free discussion. Maybe you'll get something out of it and gather u...

Spooky anime! Japanese curses! Umbrellas! Is Another even really that scary? We talk all that and more (but mostly more) in this episode! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Special thanks to Boomsla...

It might be kind of late to give some impressions but we're talking about the Fall 2022 seasonals that we're checking out anyways! Audrey is watching THREE WHOLE SHOWS! It's like a high score among high scores! We also talk about what we've been doing too. In case you care. I hope you care. I care about you. Friendly reminder that this is a mature podcast for mature people who are mature and do ma...

It's a trashed episode that was turned into a Patreon exclusive that's been turned into a regular episode again! It's a wonderful butterfly of a piece of podcast content! We couldn't record this week but we had to have something so here's the something! Light novels are an ever looming threat (I think) to anime and must be treated with respect and dignity and sincere thoughtful consideration but i...