Otaku Melancholy

This Atlanta sure has a lot of anime weekend, huh? I said AWA so much this weekend that it started to sound wrong and I had to doubt that I had a grasp of the English vernacular and language. One of us went to AWA and one of us had to talk about it so here it is! One of us talking about it for about forty minutes or so? Maybe thirty? Time is an illusion. Break free of the shackles of allowing time...

The wheel giveth and the wheel taketh. The wheel be taketh-ing an awful lot lately as we discuss the recently finished anime My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex! It's not quite Domestic Girlfriend and it's not quite Scum's Wish either so what even is it? It's mid is what it is but you won't know that for sure unless you listen to this episode and get our opinions on it. Well, you could watch it yoursel...

Visual novels! They exist and we play them. Sometimes. With the recent (well recent when we recorded this) rejection and then reacceptance of Chaos;Head Noah on Steam, we thought maybe we'd talk about that! What does this mean for the medium of visual novels in the west and what even is a visual novel? We break down most of that and more this week! BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR BOOMSLANK FEATUR...

[Spoiler Warning Included in the Episode!] It's a Cyberpunk Edgerunners review and discussion, chooms! I don't got much else to tell ya unless you got the eddies for it. As you can tell by my hip lingo, I'm kind of a big deal in Night City. We discuss and review the latest and greatest(?) Trigger anime this week so join us and be sure to delta out to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see a...

"If the anime boobies be floppin' then you know the show is probably not gonna be rockin'" is the old saying and we're out to see if that's true with our review of High School of the Dead! Is this zombie show really a classic or is the universe collectively playing a game trick on everyone by making this one of the most popular anime out there? We dive into that question (but not for very long) an...

I'm not saying we have filler episodes or anything but this? It's kinda filler-ish. Filler-esque even. Audrey's on a personal break this week due to being a very good supportive partner so we couldn't cover High School of the Dead like we planned but we gotta put something out and OH NO it's Saturday so I decided I'd discuss a little bit about growing up with anime and all those mixed experiences...

We get in touch with our romantic side in this week's episode as we discuss the coming of age middle school romance anime: Tsuki ga Kirei! One of us has a VERY high opinion of this series but does that actually mean anything when you haven't seen in it in three years? It doesn't. We break down our thoughts and feelings on young love and why it doesn't mean anything and how you'll probably never re...

Bruh, how do I even describe the Tatami Galaxy??? I'm getting super bad at doing these descriptions lately. Go watch the Tatami Galaxy! 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!

GOTTA GO FAST 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! We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in thi...

Fun fact: we both have colds during this episode! It's a Mob Psycho 100 review. You're going to listen in or you're not going to listen in. I don't know how to sell this to you in the episode description. Maybe listen to it at 2x speed for an extra burst of fun since we both sound a little dead. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to se...

Flash back to 2020. What were you doing back then? Trying to bake bread or grow some beans or some other superfluous plant in your house while you waited the pandemic out like the rest of us? I know what we were doing. We were talking about a certain siscon anime until suddenly someone's computer didn't process their audio correctly and left us with half an audio file. Now, thanks to the marvels o...

Audrey's back after a THREE MONTH HIATUS (wow) and so she got to pick all our content this month in a celebration I am definitely calling Audgust! It's a combination of Audrey and August. Do you get why that's great? It's also basically going to be ONE month as we cover One Punch Man this week and some other show based off a manga of his (Mab Psychosis or something) during this month long celebrat...

WHAT EVEN ARE DEADLINES I DON'T CARE THIS EPISODE CAME OUT ON TIME YOU CAN'T PROVE ME WRONG. Anime is a hobby in itself but it's a hobby that can create other hobbies as you watch other people do hobbies that make you think "man I wish I had another hobby that was like the hobby that these hobbyists are currently hobbying on about in this hobby anime" and thus you pursue that other hobby from your...

My audio sounds off cause we had to use the Discord Craig's recording of my audio so it's not going to sound super fantastic but it could be nonexistent! It's already late to release and all. The fresh spring breeze washes over the winter chill and delights us anew as the blooms of seasonal anime come forth in a rainbow of all sorts of colors and KAGUYA AND KOMI ARE BACK BAYBEE AND THAT'S ALL THAT...

I thought that making a podcast into three acts so I could focus on everything appropriately was a good idea and then the episode became 2 hours long so, uh, enjoy. Anime video games! Since the dawn of man, man has wished to become more like anime and less like a person so they invented video games but oh wait these games have no waifus (unless you like 8 bit Princess Peach I'm not gonna judge you...

New style of opening! It's SUPPOSED to sound like that! It's art! Yep, I mispronounce "rurouni" a lot in this episode so get ready for that. We explore the classics of anime OVAs in this new series: The VHS Ventures! We're kicking it off with the samurai classic Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal that serves as a prequel for the franchise! Is it good? YE BOI AND I DON'T SHUT UP ABOUT IT. Prepare...

You ever say "oh man this anime is gonna be MID" and then lo and behold the anime was not, in fact, mid? It turns out that it was actually something revolutionary and life changing for you in such a way that it became iconoclastic in just how much it reformed your thoughts on anime. Yeah, that's what this episode is about. It's not really about that. I lied. I just need to fill up this episode des...

We like to make a special episode each June for our listeners who celebrate Pride Month by focusing our critical lens on a piece of media (be it anime, manga, or game) that puts LGBTQIA+ groups in the spotlight and this year we chose Wandering Son or Hourou Musuko, the story of a young trans woman and her transformation in her blooming years of middle school as she deals with love, drama, and frie...

We're back! It's so good to see you again here in the episode description part of your favorite podcasting app. I missed you. After a month long hiatus full of mental rest and repair, we thought the first thing we should do is immediately sour all goodwill by discussing which anime you really liked that was a huge let down. It's honestly not that great of a list but hey if you really like two spec...

Introducing in this episode: rampant violence! The winter months may be cold but the anime is (supposedly) fire enough to keep warm, right? We break down and discuss (in this order!) Akebi's Sailor Uniform, Sasaki and Miyano, World's End Harem, Sabakui Bisco, Love of Kill, and My Dress Up Darling because those were the shows we said we were gonna watch and at least one of us watched all six of the...

I was gonna call this episode a rehash on the old streaming episode but that would be too funny because, uh, someone showed up to record... hashed up? Is that what the cool kids say? The only drug I get high on is life (and antidepressants). We retread old ground on what we've already talked about before except now we live in an awkward future where Crunchyroll and Funimation have fused into what...

Remember when we did this with Himouto! Umaru-chan and Neo Yokio back in 2020? Of course you don't because we had only two listeners at the time and one of them was me making sure Craig didn't screw up our audio. Well, we're trading shows again except this time with the intent not to make the other person suffer! We've grown weak and flabby with the shame of a frail constitution if this is our beh...

Attack on Titan finally ends... except it doesn't again cause Final Season Part Three is on it's way in a year. At least it's not a movie, I guess. We talk the "final" episode of this part and give our tentative scores and complain about 60 hour work weeks all in one handy dandy episode! There's so much content in this episode that it's like you're getting two episodes in one except you aren't! Re...

It's the start of APRIL and we're kicking off a series covering a very underground anime and manga series. You might've heard of it before but I don't know. It's kind of indie. Anyways we were FOOLS not to start this franchise sooner and we regret it. YOU folks all requested it and we were STUPID not to listen until now. Well, none of you really requested it but we thought we'd be IDIOTS not to co...

A'ight, I know this is a week late and everyone has already talked this episode out but we're just so sensitive and hurt by all the events in this episode and we just needed some time to really process everything like these wild yet tender emotions that are running rampant in our hearts from this episode and also I got food poisoning. It was my first time! It's a beautiful battle at the boats in t...