Otaku Melancholy

We're back at it again with the seasonal reviews and we have 11 shows to discuss and talk about this time which I guess is an okay number for doing this seasonal watching thing. We also have time stamps so you can skip all the useless stuff like us talking about our day and lives and favorite things and our actual thoughts and all our hopes, dreams, and fleeting ambitions. You know. All the stuff...

We're back at it again with the siscon anime so you know we had to get someone else involved to suffer with us! If we just covered these shows by ourselves then it would be just two guys creepily discussing all the ways that incest is cool (or not cool, I GUESS) or something but if we get other people involved then we're not absolutely culpable for all the weirdness that happens and we can totally...

It is finished (for now)! No more double episodes! We had a lot of fun but all good things have to be put on hold as we conclude the first part of Attack on Titan's final season and think a little bit about just how we got here but it's mostly more Pieck discussion. Does she lose points for saving Gabi? Yeah but she's still best girl. It was a ride up to this point, though it had some ups and down...

Does a show being sad actually make it hype? From a literal standpoint, no. It's very hard to rave with tears in your eyes. That said, we already picked a terrible name for this series of episodes and we have to keep to it so... Here's our episode on Angel Beats! Is it a trip to anime hell, anime heaven, or anime purgatory? Technically, it's the last one but I'm tired. Listen in, hear us talk abou...

It's Attack on Zeke-tan (that sounds better out loud) as we get double episodes both kinda focusing on the Monke Titan's bearded boi. The gears are really moving in this double feature with friends and foes breaking their ties with one another and even breaking a few bones in the process too. With one more episode due, this final season of Attack on Titan is burning it's plot fast as we see all th...

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We go 1v1 with the creative process in this episode as we figure out just what characters we'd put in our version of anime Smash Bros! It's in the title but also I'm just clarifying for any mild confusion. We decide who is "classic" and "iconic" enough to be put in the illustrious roster of this imaginary game that we concoct and one of us also throws a character from 2020 just because. So who is...

Heaven got a new angel in this episode... right? I mean, someone got something. I don't know if you get rejected from going to heaven just because you made someone eat their own "stuff". It doesn't say that you can't not do that in any religion, yeah? Anyways, stuff actually kinda happened in this episode and we actually kinda talk about it. I think a lot of this episode is us sincerely praising A...

Since the dawn of time, man has asked: "if it's completely CG, does that still make it anime?" Many wars have been fought and so much blood has been shed seeking for the final answer to this cursed question. You cannot convince me that The War of the Roses wasn't about anything else. Anyways, Lupin the Third pops his head out and says "I'm gonna refuel the fires of war once again" and now here we...

I'm not doing spoiler buffer for this one. I'm about to drop some real truth that you need to hear. THAT HORSE IS 2021'S BEST ANIME CHARACTER, YO. Calling it right now so just go ahead and check on me in a year when that horse wins my best boy/girl in the OtaMel Aniwards or whatever. Anyways, in this episode, we get a lot of Falco and Gabi and that's okay, I guess. We talk about the obvious lesson...

Joined by our friend SilentKitten from our Discord (and real life too, I suppose), we join the light music club and rock out to some of our favorite moements (it's a combination of moe and moments!) and ask if 2009's K-on! really is worth being one of the popular anime of that year and maybe in general. Which girl is best? Which girl is worst? Which girl is most mediocre? Why does Ritsu's forehead...

Why, hello. I see you're here ready to listen to another episode of Attalk on Titan. Specifically, you're here to listen specifically to our discussion on episode 69. How do you feel? Are you ready for our long and hard discussion on (episode) 69? I bet you are, you naughty weeb. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Anyways, that's enough immature spoiler buffer. Badly timed flashbacks, bandage revelation, and pregnancy r...

We're talking all about therapy dogs, why you need to just shut your kids down and tell them they aren't princesses and that Santa is a corporate lie, and what it means to be the loneliest number 66 in this episode! Joined by the very big wrinkly brained hosts of The Weebology Podcast, we also talk about 2017's Scum's Wish but you know that's just a pretense for us to talk about anime dicks or som...

The big info dump episodes return as we get another episode of people talking about people and how those people treat other people that they don't really see as people and how those people (who aren't considered people) feel about those people. Alright, now that the spoiler buffer is out of the way, in this episode we see the origin of the Marley heist (it's not really a heist but hey I think it s...

The Journeymonogatari continues (after like 2 months or something, huh?) as we dive into the series of Kizumonogatari films that feature the real hottest vampire "dommy mommy", Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade! And there's a lot of Tsubasa here too! But... something is definitely off about her which you'll find out all about in this episode! Hop all aboard the waifu train with us as we ta...

All these other podcasts that are doing weekly Attack on Titan episodes just immediately put THE BIG EPISODE SPOILER in the first part of their episodes description but I respect you, my dear listener, and how you're waiting for all of the last season of Attack on Titan to come out so you can binge it. Thusly, I'm gonna stall for time so this first line you see when you see this episode is posted...

We're talking an incest anime (that isn't really incest) this time so we brought on two brothers (who aren't really brothers) to come on and talk all about the forbidden fruit of familial love (that isn't really the forbidden fruit of familiar love). We're talking all about 2019's Domestic Girlfriend (or Domestic na Kanojo if you wanna be THAT guy) in this episode in a brazen attempt to just strai...

Just like how the Scout Corps assaulted the Marleyans, MAPPA decided to assault our opinions on their CG skills. Not only do we get to see some hype beast Titan vs Titan vs Human vs Human battles, but we also get a nice B-story on some Titan cuisine, like BBQ and jawbreakers. Even Armin shows up to show us MLG level Alabama fishing. Oh and we talk about some CG techniques and behind the scenes pro...

Is it good? Is it bad? Whatever it is, it's Toradorable! We're starting a new series where we review the most popular show of each year (according to MAL numbers so we might easily make us look stupid in a few years or something) and reviewing them to ask the question: is this show actually that good or is it just overhyped? We're starting with 2008's Toradora which is basically just tsundere cent...

We finally get to see the War Hammer Titan in this episode! And some other things too but they're not as important as the War Hammer Titan! Some CG was on display in this episode and maybe it wasn't the best? Just maybe? I'm not judging. Well, I am but that's what this thing is, right? Like we have to judge and talk about the episodes or there wouldn't be content. Anyways, new Attalk on Titan epis...

I honestly thought we would've dropped out before we got to a year of doing this but here we are. There is no reason for us to survive a year of doing this really. We're taking an entire episode to talk about what happened in the past year so this kind of counts as like a recap episode or something? I mean, it's important so don't skip it like you would with anime or anything! We reflect on wrappi...

Are we sure this show isn't actually called Attalk on Titan because good lord was there a lot of chit chat in this episode. Willy was talking, (spoiler character) was talking, Reiner was talking... Everyone was just talking. But is that a bad thing? Maybe not. I dunno. A sleep deprived Brad is featured in this episode and it is a treat just like this episode of Attack on Titan. We continue to make...

We watched a lot of anime in 2020. Like a lot of anime. We were stuck inside and had nothing else to do but watch anime, think about anime, and put off watching the anime we had to go through to actually have discussions for this podcast. And maybe we watched the most anime of what was actually airing in 2020, you know? So here we are giving our review of all the anime in 2020 that actually matter...

Just as a warning, we're both tremendously drained and have kind of low energy in this episode because life just threw both of us for a wicked suplex from the top rope. That's how suplexes work, right? Well, you can't have a good season every season, right? I mean, I'm not talking about the quality of the shows in this season but about the sheer few numbers we managed to get through this time. Lif...