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This week on the Otaku Street podcast, the guys cover episodes 16-18 of Cowboy Bebop. Don’t worry, there is a lifetime’s worth of banter book-ending this episode too. Elden Ring is fresh on the mind of Jamal. Chris is super big on Horizon: Forbidden West. And Adam and Wopeh get ticked off at the outlandish criticisms of Horizon’s smallest details. Wopeh has an electrifying outlook on Dwayne Johnso...

This week on The Otaku Street podcast, Adam pulls main character duty as he hosts guests (and friends of the show) Xavier and Mike. The panel discusses their favorite video game genres, their levels of experience with role-playing games, and Square Enix RPG’s. Both individual Final Fantasy games and the franchise as a whole come to the forefront as the guys discover how much in common they truly s...

The Otaku crew discusses Microsoft’s Infinity Stone scavenger hunt following their recent acquisition of video game titan Activision Blizzard. What does this mean for the future of Xbox? Where do Sony and Nintendo now rank in the never-ending console war? Which IPs do people want to see make a return to the forefront of the industry? Sssss’many questions! Wopeh and Chris cover episodes 10 and 11 o...

The Otaku Street Crew welcomes a special guest for the first dedicated filler episode of Otaku Street! Trust us, you don’t need a filler guide. The massively hyped-up FromSoftware title “Elden Ring” is here and Jamal and Micah are more than ready for thousands of in-game deaths. The guys also discuss and compare gamer scores and trophies they’ve amassed over the years because they’re cool guys and...

This week, the guys are coming at you NOT live from The Spot. Jamal just got an iPhone 13 Plus and drops it on the crew when he says he’s leaving for Barcelona. Adam details his experience with the Dead Space franchise. Pokemon Arceus is quickly approaching and the Otaku boys have varying levels of anticipation. The upcoming Uncharted movie may be placing its bets heavy on the namesake of Tom Holl...

The Otaku Street crew put anime on hold to talk about their other favorite topic: video games. Chris goes deep underground with Pokemon BDSP to prepare the rest of the crew for The Game Awards. The guys theorize heavily about the new Sonic the Hedgehog game and sincerely wish it’s not another Sonic ‘06 situation. Adam discusses, in detail, the good, the bad, and the ugly of Halo Infinite. Have 343...

This week’s episode starts off with the most successful introduction of all-time. Jamal’s new book looks and sounds interesting but Adam thinks the protagonist is lacking. Adam runs the crew through his borderline-traumatizing run-in with a married woman. Chris is obsessed with Retro Bowl. And why is The Rock in absolutely everything imaginable? The crew recaps and reviews episodes 4 through 6 of...

Welcome back for the 20th installment and Season 3 premiere of the Otaku Street podcast! Are the Grand Theft Auto remasters worth your money and time? How about Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl? The Otaku Crew investigates. The guys are straight up assaulting your nostalgia and begin their review of the influential 90’s anime Cowboy Bebop. Do the art style, animation, music, plot and ch...

The guys record their immediate reactions to the critically acclaimed Demon Slayer movie. Adam has contracted some sort of voice-deepening sickness. Is the best way to wake up from a dream sequence, to cut your own head off? Chris cuts corners by combining names. Jamal proposes a toast to the one and only Rengoku. Wopeh and Chris both agree that the fight between Akaza and Rengoku is up there with...

The Otaku boys are back together to review and discuss the final four episodes of Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Season 1. But before they get into the anime, Adam tells his recent hospital story. The Demon Slayer game is elite and polished but this leads Wopeh and Chris to ask why we have not seen a game based exclusively on Dragon Ball (Not DBZ). Adam blind reacts while Jamal proves that he’s t...

Coming at you “LIVE” from Adam’s house, the Otaku boys are pumped to get into episodes 17-20 of Demon Slayer. That basically means they’re free-falling into the Spider-Verse because goodness gracious, are these episodes not for the arachnophobes in the audience. This one’s a gold mine of quality bits and hilarious moments. Tanjiro is now a fire bender and Shinobu shows off her skills after working...

WE ARE BACK (with an archived episode from last year). The boys discuss last year’s massive Nintendo Direct and, the lot of games that were presented. Have you experienced Nintendo’s abysmal online multiplayer service? These guys have. The crew dives deep into the extensive list of games that were shown by Nintendo and deem them worthy of being “cop-worthy” or hard passes. Jamal likes cards, so mu...

On this happy birthday episode of Otaku Street, the boys first discuss the blasphemy that is Wopeh and Jamal not having ever seen Titanic, Kill Bill, or Zombieland. Netflix operations at Adam’s house have come to a screeching halt. Chris for some reason stans Zenitsu heavy and the rest of the crew is all about Inosuke’s unorthodox methods. The crew also asks the age-old question, “What if a sparro...

It’s Spooky Season and the Otaku boys are here to celebrate. This week, Chris, Adam and Wopeh are in the Halloween spirit. Scary games and moments in gaming are in the spotlight this episode. Adam and Chris judge Wopeh for avoiding horror games at all costs. Adam recounts a story of his selfish childhood gaming tendencies. Chris can’t stop saying “In any case…” and Adam’s had enough of it. Chris s...

On this week’s episode of Otaku Street, the boys ask themselves how in the world has Sonic the Hedgehog maintained his relevancy through the decades despite the travesties that have come forth in his name? They also run through the most recent PlayStation Showcase. What games does Insomniac even make? The Otaku crew has no clue. Demon Slayer steps back into the limelight with Tanjiro venturing int...

Word on the street, Otaku’s back with an all-new season of podcastin’. Season 2 is starting off with a bang as the boys talk about real-life changes and happenings, Riders Republic and Splitgate, as well as the next anime in the Otaku Street pipeline, Demon Slayer! There are some pretty eerie parallels between this show and the previous one, Joran , and the boys can’t help but talk about that. Wit...

It’s the Season 1 finale of Otaku Street coming at you live (not really) and the boys are all back together under one roof. The crew is wrapping up their watch along of Joran: Princess of Snow and Blood with a loaded show. Jin proves he is one blunt MF while Sawa and Rinko go head to head in a wild showdown. Hey, guess what? Someone in this show is alive when we were all confident they were dead....

It’s the Return of the Woap as all the boys are back this week for another Joran double-header slug-fest. “Air Jamal” makes his debut and both Adam and Wopeh give a rundown of their experiences at the Beer Olympics (no shoulders were safe). On the anime side of things, Sawa meets Rinko, a brand new Nue executioner, and soon discovers she is both an absolute tank for alcohol but also a world-class...

This week, Adam and Jamal take up the tall task of running the first doubleheader episode of Otaku Street; two episodes of Joran back-to-back. Adam gets caught up on Dragon Ball Super and expresses his nostalgia over those PlayStation demo discs from the late 1990s. The boys also discover that although Asahi and Sawa seem to have reached a point where they can finally take a well-deserved sigh of...

Another week, another cookout on Otaku Street. Jamal gives some updates on new seasons of both Vinland Saga and The Rising of the Shield Hero. A “new” Nintendo Switch is on the way. Adam is desperate to find out what’s up with Ubisoft and Assassin's Creed. Joran: Princess of Snow and Blood is still producing more questions than answers. Is Asahi a murderer turned savior and how can she dig so fast...

Welcome to this week’s Otaku Street Podcast: now, with music (courtesy of Wopeh)! Adam finally introduces the show as Jamal indulges the boys in his sexy skydiving fantasy. As they get into anime-talk, they discuss Makoto’s new prosthetic arm and what plays she may have hidden up her one and a half sleeves. Who could replace Janome as Joran’s next big-bad? Who else but … some dude named Travis. Ne...

The Otaku boys are back on the anime train. This week’s episode of Joran: Princess of Snow and Blood proved to be an eventful one. Fast-paced fight scenes, legendary anime-style screams, big snakes and plenty of blood. A little bit of everything. The end of the episode left the guys with more questions than answers as they pondered where the show goes from here. Sawa’s a badass with plenty of bagg...

In this week’s episode, the crew welcome a guest commenter to collectively gush in adoration over the first season of “Invincible”, Amazon’s animated superhero cartoon based on the iconic Image Comics series of the same name. Topics range from crew members’ favorite show moments to full-on episode reviews to even theories on where the show will go. “That one scene” is one the guys won’t soon forge...

The Otaku boys are back in anime mode after taking time to focus on E3. They discuss what exactly makes Naruto’s music so good and which other anime compete. Episode 3 of Joran is definitely setting up for a wild ride of a show. The boys react to this episode’s foreshadowing action scenes, backstabbing schemes and traitorous boobies. Especially the traitorous boobies. Listen (and maybe watch?) alo...

Games. Are. Back. And the boys are ready. They talk about E3 2021 and give their “Top 4” lists. There is a massively wide array of games on the way. Just about everything from Battlefield 2042 to Super Smash Bros to Riders Republic is discussed. Will we see a Metal Gear Solid remake? The guys sure as s*** hope so. Is there a reason to play super hero games anymore? Is free multiplayer the right mo...