Otaku Melancholy

You know, maybe there is such a concept as too much of a good thing. Scratch that. There are definitely times when you can have way too much of a good thing and Manyuu Hikenchou is definitely out to prove it by giving us as Brad calls it "double Q sized anime tiddies". Enter the wild world of alternate time line Japan during the Edo period where EVERYONE is a boob guy and they all want their girls...

Quick heads up: we've sectioned off our spoilers for your enjoyment! Here we go again. It's that time again. Netflix had to just go ahead and grab more of those sweet wolf boys. We're talking about more anthropomorphic animal anime with Trigger's BNA: Brand New Animal! I mean, I think we all knew that we were going to do this and we just had to make a full episode out of it because WHEW. There was...

I think it's just a common part of otaku culture to just go to the bookstore and read through entire volumes of manga. There's a lot of manga out there though so which ones do you take spend your hard earned money and time on? We're here to see if you should just "peep" a manga or actually "keep" it in a no doubt short lived episode style that we're calling "Peep Or Keep?" Our first manga up is To...

Never trust any mask salesman especially if they're a big T H I C C kitty. That's the lesson you can take away from Netflix's new anime movie: A Whisker Away. It's all about teenage emotions, messy home lives, and being a freaking adorable cat. That sounds like a very winning combination for any project but is it actually good or just another piece of fluff in the ever expanding Netflix library? L...

Be kind and rewind back with us to a time when anime wasn't streaming and there were far fewer conventions teeming with merch. We're going back to the 80's and 90's and doing throw back on the history and practice of VHS fansubs (and a little bit on the subject of how it's done today too)! It's part of a series called OTAKUMENTARY where we discuss our collective otakulture and reflect on it all! I...

one night, hot springs store page (also on Steam!): https://npckc.itch.io/one-night-hot-springs WARNING: super awkward discourse ahead. Hey hey! It's a smaller episode but we're still talking about big content! It's Pride month so let's talk about something super inclusive(?): visual novels! We're discussing the LGBTQ+ friendly story of One Night, Hot Springs (by npckc) and about the importance of...

It's a show so mediocre that we needed guests to help us with it! We're joined with the cool as ice cold ramune hosts of The Otaku Host Club to talk all about the "incestuous" "comedy" "romance" that is Kiss X Sis! Be sure to go grab your onii-chan and get ready to play some footsie under the kotatsu for this episode. There's gonna be a lot of talk about pee in it. In this episode, find out the fu...

Lelouch Lamperouge continues his absolutely vengeful angry boy shenanigans and we're talking about them! Obviously there's spoilers for season one in this but I'm telling you here because I care about you. You're my Knight of Zero, listener. Heart emoji. In this episode, find out why only a real friend would roundhouse kick you to the face, how mad an anime can make a man to threaten his own carpe...

It was the best of anime and it was the worst of anime and we're talking about our favorites and our not so favorites! From drills that pierce the heavens to little sisters who draw lewds, we're going to talk about all the things we like and what we don't! Top fives all around, darlings! In this episode, find out where Animisery had taken Brad in his anime watching, why A Silent Voice MIGHT be bet...

It's time for another Satoshi Kon-quest stop and this one is a trip (obviously)! Crack open an ice cold sparkling water and listen as we Kon-tinue our journey by watching the trippy psychedelic movie Paprika. We're gonna try not to have too many Kon-treversial opinions but we won't Kon-demn you if you disagree. Kon-sidering all the facts, you should probably watch the movie first. I mean, you shou...

The Winter 2020 season was filled with highs and lows and we're talking about one of the lowest in this Animisery episode. Sorcerous Stabber Orphen is a remake of the classic Orphen anime that only serves to remind us to let anime corpses stay in the dirt (even if you have a Philosopher's Stone). The Kimluck Church doesn't believe in a god that can fix this show and the Tower of Fangs doesn't have...

New season! More shows! Part two! We're going through the rest and telling you what's best! This time we're talking Tower of God; Sing Yesterday to Me; The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?; Appare-Ranman!; Arte; BNA; Wave, Listen to Me!; and Digimon Adventure:. In this episode, find out which Tower of God boy is best boy, why Sunrise is going to just throw money at whatever they want, and how Brad des...

Let's just get it out of the way. Yeah, we talk a little bit about furries in this episode. I mean, Beastars is about anthropomorphic animals so it comes up, right? That said, these good boys and girls are super cute but if Louis wanted to take me out to the school shed then I would only lightly protest. I'm not a furry though. I just think deer are really cute. In this episode, find out when we e...

First off: sorry for Matt's less than stellar audio quality but he had to record in a massage room... it's a long story. We're wrapping up our seasonal review with some of the hottest shows... and Science Fell in Love. We watched them so you didn't have to and now we're talking about Science Fell In Love So I Tried to Prove It, Interspecies Reviewers, and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Come for the...

It's seasonal review time! We put ourselves through this so you can find out what was worth watching and what you should be dropping. Winter 2020 had some ups and some downs but what was worth taking a look at? In this epsiode, we're covering ID/Invaded, Darwin's Game, Smile Down the Runway, Toilet Bound Hanako-kun, I Don't Want to Get Hurt So I'll Max Out My Defense, The Case Files of Jeweler Ric...

Ah, high school. The carefree years of your life where doing something so leisurely as snapping a picture of your crush will quickly escalate to you being able to finally get ahead and take a fun ride on a nice boat sans your body. We're talking about School Days this Animisery and it's THAT School Days. You know it. Your mom knows it. Your dog knows it. It's all about the doki-doki escapades of M...

Peanut butter and jelly. Knives and forks. Anime panties and a conveniently placed camera. These are all classic combos. Now what about the unfamiliar ones? What about something new? What about an isekei mixed with mecha that's also a shoujo that's also a fantasy that's also a romance? Studio Sunrise in 1996 decided to just combine everything in their anime blender and out came The Vision of Escaf...

It's another stop on the Satoshi Kon-quest and this time we're doing his most psychological taxing and haunting work: Perfect Blue! This 1997 classic is definitely the kind of anime that you don't show to your parents so listen to our review to hear our take on it! In this episode, find out why Matt cancelled his Nintendo Power subscription, who in the OtaMel team was personally traumatized by Per...

You might think that mecha shows are only about fighting and destroying and epic warfare and heavy political intrigue but PatLabor would dare to prove you wrong. PatLabor is a classic anime franchise about the men and women who use their mechs to solve weirdly philosophical based crime and look really confusing doing it! Is it good though? Your OtaMel hosts are here to get those answers for you. I...

March Mecha Madness continues! The hosts are talking about arguably the best entry in the Gundam franchise with Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. It is serious real anime discussion time about the nature of war, the loss of innocence, and how giant robots play a part in that. In this episode, find out what it's like to meet famous people as a kid, how much sadness one anime can bring, and why it's i...

Have you ever wanted to get into Gundam but were just too lazy to Google how to start? I hope so because we're talking Gundam in this episode and almost all you need to know so that you don't get your Universal Century confused with your Correct Century. Gundamn there's a lot of timelines! In this episode, hear what started our hosts into watching anime's arguably biggest mecha franchise, how many...

Our hosts fight each other in a glorious battle of anime intellect as they go head to head in anime quiz bowl! Play along and see how much (probably useless) info you know! Which host will be the one fated to have a shameful nickname thrust upon them? Listen to find out how loud Matt can yell "buzz", what you should probably do when someone has a stroke, and why you should probably have someone wh...

Okay, listen real quick before you murder us. Zero Two might be your waifu. That's respectable. We are not bashing her (mostly). We're just saying what everyone else has said already and that maybe the second half of Darling isn't the best thing in the world and ruins the first half and might have made Matt lose some faith in anime. That's all. Put the dakimakura down and let's talk. You'll mostly...

You ever see something that just made you want to hug it and protect it from all the impure evils and heinous sins of this world? Well, that thing was probably moe and there's probably nothing (in anime) more moe than 2007's slice of life classic Lucky Star. Following the lives of otaku Konata and her assemble of friends, Lucky Star is the kind of cute that makes a grown man cry manly tears in mar...

With the recent controversy of Funimation removing the too-ecchi-not-to-be-hentai series Interspecies Reviewers, the hosts of Otaku Melancholy decided to take a critical look at anime streaming services and piracy. In this episode, we joined up with our friend Lucas (artist and creator of the Webtoon F*cking Magical who also did the awesome art for our pod) to talk about all things streaming inclu...