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Send us Fan Mail It's a Christmas Miracle! Happy Anime! Satoshi Konmas! Emailus - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow @whydopeoplelikeanime on IG

Send us Fan Mail Hey - it's the movie everybody loves! Right? The only anime to ever win the academy award and other stuff. It's Spirited Away. What more is there to say about it? A lot, it turns out. Email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow on IG - @whydopeoplelikeanime

Send us Fan Mail A CRUNCHYROLL ORIGINAL DOES IT HAVE ORIGINAL IDEAS FIND OUT email whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com follow on ig @whydopeoplelikeanime

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a real Ouron Hater's club sorry in advance! Email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com follow @whydopeoplelikeanime on IG

Send us Fan Mail It's John's favorite anime from childhood! But does it hold up? Find out how we cared for Satoshi Kon's only TV show.  email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com follow @whydopeoplelikeanime twitch - twitch.tv/theonlychannel

Send us Fan Mail THE BIG DOG! follow @whydopeoplelikeanime Email - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail ALIEN! ALIENS! ALIEN 3! ALIEN 3 ASSEMBLY CUT! etc we watched Anime Alien and it was good but maybe not. I dunno email - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com IG - @whydopeoplelikeanime twitch.tv/theonlychannel

Send us Fan Mail Waah. Waaah. WAAAAAH. I'm a crybaby. I'm not good at video games and I yell at people. Waaaaaah. We watched the boob anime.  Follow us on IG - @whydopeoplelikeanime Follow us on twitch - twitch.tv/theonlychannel

Send us Fan Mail Oh baby. Perfect Blue! Satoshi Kon! Spooky! Julie stays awake! We had a good time watching this one, and I hope you have a good time listening. We played Fallout New Vegas on stream too, so we'll let you know when we're streaming so you can check it out. email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com follow us on twitch - twitch.tv/theonlychannel follow on IG - @whydopeopleli...

Send us Fan Mail THE END  THE END OF THE TOKYOO GHOUL actually it's the first season so, not really. Someone thought this was great. Someone thought it wasn't. Find out who.  Email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow us @whydopeoplelikeanime on IG

Send us Fan Mail There's gotta be somewhere out there named Lucifer, right? Someone had to have named their kid that as a joke or as some kind of weird curse. Have you ever met the devil? Probably sucks. The devil in this show is actually pretty sick, and for the record, we liked the show a lot even if we got off track. Our bad.  Email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow us - @whydopeo...

Send us Fan Mail We watched the anime adaptation of the world's Only Harem Anime Love Hina. It was.... yeah. Let us know what you think!  email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com IG - @whydopeoplelikeanime @juliatdunham @johnxhill

Send us Fan Mail VROOM! VROOOM! VROOOOOM!! Much like a racecar, we upgraded our recording set up to be way better sounding! Also we watched Redline, which is about racing and planets and boobs. Older brothercore for sure email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com follow us on IG: @whydopeoplelikeanime @juliatdunham @johnxhill

Send us Fan Mail Gee whiz, we all watched a Miyazaki film this week! Wow! Wonder what Julie and John thought about it. Maybe perhaps they liked it? Or maybe John's weird Miyazaki vendetta still holds up? I dunno. Maybe all of our neuroses popped up and it became about other stuff in the meantime. 

Send us Fan Mail What should the episode description be? Julie? Uh something like, "John and Julie discuss the End of Evangelion and talk way too much about Twin Peaks in the process." Anything else? "Uh... sometimes too much IS too much. Too much of a good thing... there is such a thing."  Email us - Whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow us on IG @whydopeoplelikeanime @johnxhi...

Send us Fan Mail Why Do People Like Puella Magi Madoka Magica is the correct name of the podcast, but for SEO purposes I shortened it. Sue me. This was a good one - John tries to make some weird metaphor about Brooklynite fake humbleness but it doesn't work too well. Maybe a better way to put it - you know when someone in town tells you he's taking his friends to a Burmese restaurant tha...

Send us Fan Mail Gotta give it up for Junji Ito, IMO. Great stuff right? What about the anime? Is that actually good? Find out. Also John goes maybe overboard on some death stuff. But, whatever. Send us your questions whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @whydopeoplelikeanime Follow Julie @JuliaTDunham Follow John @JohnXHill

Send us Fan Mail We watched the sadnime called Violet Evergarden. Someone liked it more than the other person. John and Julie get into a "heated" debate. Also: is having a pen pal cool? Are texts letters? What was James Joyce's deal? LEAVE US A FIVE STAR REVIEW ON ITUNES Email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.com Follow us on IG - @WhyDoPeopleLikeAnime Follow John - @JohnXHill Follow...

Send us Fan Mail John and Julie Digivolve beyond having a discussion on Digimon: The Movie to talk about Haim Saban, the economics of children's television marketing, the power of translation and other stuff. I dunno. Ska. This movie fucking sucked. t's like seeing someone color in a really beautiful outline with dried out scented markers. A beautiful, perfect drawing of Agumon riding a...

Send us Fan Mail We watched Yuri!!! on Ice, the latest Meme anime. Is it a meme anime? I don't know. Maybe it's not. It was fun....or was it? Is the show for queer representation? Or is it a cynical way to get a fandom to fawn over characters without committing to their concept? Find out our thoughts. Maybe.  LEAVE US A FIVE STAR REVIEW ON ITUNES! Email us - whydopeoplelikeanime@gmail.co...

Send us Fan Mail Present Day. Present Time. We watched Serial Experiments Lain, one of the wildest anime we've ever seen. We don't even really know what happened, so we decided to talk about cyberpunk fiction, the connection between spirituality and the internet, stuff like that. Plus, would the singularity be cool? Is Virtual Self the best artist of the last decade? Find out.  Email us...

Send us Fan Mail John and Julie have complained about excessive fan service in the past. But what happens when they watch a show that's entirely that? We watched Kill La Kill this week. I don't know if I should do these in third or first person. You will listen. You will hear us work around how the show is satire and punk. You will hear us answer questions at the end of the episode.  Ema...

Send us Fan Mail TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT RAPE SUICIDE BAD ANIME  This show was one of the worst things we've ever watched! Julie has never played an MMO and could not relate to it at all. John has played numerous MMOs and could not relate to it at all. Questions asked: What is a healthy relationship? Why is there fanservice in anime to begin with? What's a light novel? What are b...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back! John and Julie discuss the movie 'Mirai,' the latest movie by acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda, most known for Digimon the Movie and bringing Ska to the masses. There is no ska in this movie, but there's a lot of big questions about familial dynamics, happenstance and talking dogs. There's a lot of beauty in the world. There's a lot of beauty...

Send us Fan Mail The big kahuna. Not for fans of surface reality. Maybe the reason why John wanted to start this podcast in the first place. Worth the hype? Good? Find out. Do robots matter? Does the self matter? What is the self reflected in the perception of those around you? Is it okay to hate people you don't know? Maybe. If you don't have an inner-monologue or interiority, watch som...