Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) take a look at what’s coming out in the second half of 2025 and beyond with regards to video games and anime.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) get very French to check out one of the highest rated games of the year thus far. We see if the praise is warranted and how wild you can get with making these characters look.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) go back to the tumultuous times of the late 1960s in southern America with the third Mafia game that features a different kind of story and one heck of a soundtrack.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) return to the world of otome where there’s a dude in a sword and a whole lot of fighting.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) take a look at the big games announced around the Summer Game Fest festivities to see what’s coming out later this year, 2026, and beyond.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) finally talk about the game where you power wash after the final DLC was released and why it became a big co-op game for us in the last few years.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) see what happens as the Daybreak portion of the Trails series continues and why after 12 games, this might be the series’ first miss.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) head to the deep south to see how much this game embraces various mythologies of the area and aspects of Southern Gothic literature. Microsoft | BDS Movement

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) check out the latest Love Live! game that has the bizarre distinction of being a sequel to a gacha game that is no longer available.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) discuss the final season of Mythic Quest and its controversial ending with regards to its story and changing the ending as well. We also talk about the spinoff series Side Quest that was a welcome surprise.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) see Dynasty Warriors return to its origins by letting you fight more dudes than ever before and also be pursued by more dudes than ever before in more ways than one.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) get back into the otome world with a famous character artist, a found family, and some crimes.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) check out Hazelight’s latest co-op game where we both became authors traversing through each other’s stories, saw some impressive technical aspects, and saw how subtle the story likes to be.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) get back on the otome wagon as we see a rarity with multiple protagonists and a whole lot of flower talk.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) go over a litany of Nintendo announcements that feature some surprising late console cycle announcements, a bunch of information about the Switch 2, and some less than exciting pricing.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) get mad as our annual March Madness tradition returns with a bracket full of playable characters from the Trails games. Who will survive to the end and be seen as the best of the best? If you’d like to fill out your own bracket, you can do so by clicking this link !

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) take it back to the year 2000 to see what a Kotaro Uchikoshi game is like before he made the Zero Escape trilogy and the Somnium games. Unsurprisingly, there’s sci-fi and a lot of discussions about Schrödinger’s Cat.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) return to the world of Yakuza/Like A Dragon to see what’s going on with Majima and why he’s become a pirate. We discuss the new gameplay elements, how this game is similar to The Man Who Erased His Name, and where the series will go next. Apologies for Jared’s audio being a bit funky this week. Hopefully we’ll have that fixed soon.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) check out what’s up with the latest game from Hironobu Sakaguchi and how the expanded version of the game reunited Sakaguchi and Square Enix for the first time in over twenty years, thanks in large part to a video game called Final Fantasy XIV.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) return to the world of otome to see what happens when you get stuck in an amusement park where if you leave you could die.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) look at two different Ace Attorney games that have finally been bundled together. AL breaks down both games to see if they’re still worth playing and if the second was worth the wait for it to come out officially in English.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) discuss everything announced at Sony’s first State of Play of the year.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) begin the Nijigasaki movie trilogy to see what’s up with the School Idol GPX, new combinations of the girls together, and a new suspicious mom has shown up.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) return to the concept we started last week as this time, we rank AL’s past eight games of the year. There’s only two games that are shared between her list and Jared’s so it’ll be a different set of games this time around.

Jared and Anne Ladyem ( anneladyem.com ) take a look at the past ten years of Seasonal Anime Checkup Game of the Year and see which game is the best game of the past decade.