Taiiku Podcast

It's hot stove season, and my dude Hyun-Jin Ryu has accepted the qualifying offer to stick with the Dodgers for at least one more year. The Cubs might trade Kris Bryant? The White Sox might sign Manny Machado and/or Bryce Harper? Who knows! Anyway, this episode I have Chris ( @gokuffy ) on to continue out Kurosawa series with Ikiru. Then Ink ( @AnimatedInk ) joins me to talk about Harukana Receive...

MLB playoffs are here, and the White Sox are of course not in it. My NL team, the Dodgers, are struggling. So here's to rooting for the Brewers in the World Series, as that would be more fun than the Astros again or the Red Sox again again again again again again again again again (I think that is the correct number of agains). The sports anime we're talking about this episode is the sports anime-...

Crazy Rich Asians has a preshow coming up this Wednesday, then wide in a week. I have been waiting for however long it is since I've read that a movie adaptation was in the works. I have every so often opened up the Wikipedia page in hopes that another cast announcement was made and clicked through all the people to see who they were, even if I already knew who they were. My body is ready for Craz...

The Dodgers are better, the White Sox are better, and Carlos Rodon is back, but struggling a bit. As I edit this podcast, I have his first major league start this year on mute in the background so I can maybe catch a sexy slider. This time around, we've gone Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Corey ( @Modandrocker ) talking about Avengers: Infinity War. Then Ink ( @AnimatedInk ) and Patz ( @PatzPrime ) join m...

Matt Harvey was DFA'd?? Not to be confused with the Woken one, Matt Hardy. This is the Mets pitcher, and he's been kind of bad since 2016 after being good in the World Series, at least as far as I remember. That Royals team was good though, baseball life is unfair. Anyway. The Taiiku Podcast is finally back! I've been packing or moving and Chris and Camellia were gonna pinch hit for me, but life g...

Baseball is back! Pitchers and catchers have reported, Jake Odorizzi has moved from Tampa Bay to Minnesota, and Eric Hosmer has finally signed somewhere. Sorry San Diego. This time is Chris's favorite show of the year, the top movies show! This time, we're covering, of course, our favorites from 2017. Unfortunately, no one talked about Lady Bird because both Camellia and I, at least, have kicked i...

Oops, this is a bit late. But by the time I finish, it will perhaps be Valentine's listening? It's also the winter Olympics in PyeongChang and Chloe Kim, the Korean-American snowboarding phenom that won a gold medal for the US, has won the hearts of millions. Anyway, this time Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Corey ( @Modandrocker ) join me to talk about Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Then Chris, Camellia ( @wil...

Andrew McCutchen was traded to the Giants while I was editing this podcast, so that was the super exciting news for today. Perhaps the free agents will eventually sign as well... Also the Bears have assembled their (all white) major coaching staff, and they look great on paper besides the thing I just said. Hopefully they'll at least win football games. This time is just our top anime of 2017 show...

Playoff football is on and, as of writing this, the Kansas City Chiefs blew a pretty big lead against the Tennessee Titans. Plus there's seemingly some drama going on in New England that could cause either Belichick or Brady to split off from the team, though I'll believe that when I see it. But I digress. This time, Chris ( @gokuffy ) joins me to continue the Kurosawa series with Stray Dog. Then...

It's winter again, I almost fell outside this morning because of the ice, and the snow is beginning to fall and stick to the ground here in Iowa. So you know it's time for... ...Our now annual (???) Reverse Thieves Anime Secret Santa podcast! Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Patz ( @PatzPrime ) join me to discuss their choices. First up is Chris with Girls und Panzer , next is Patz with Love Live, and lastl...

We're getting closer to the winter meetings in Major League Baseball and, for those of you that read both these and the Manga In Your Ears introductions, you'll know I'm very excited for anything baseball. Or, actually, just listen to any of the baseball anime podcasts we've done over here on Taiiku. But anyway, Shohei Ohtani could be days away from signing with a team and Giancarlo Stanton seems...

NBA basketball has been back for a while, but NCAA basketball has been missing in the interim. Having a shorter season means they start later and end earlier, but it also means that I might suffer less through what might be a miserable Iowa State Cyclone basketball season. This episode, Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Camellia have joined me to keep the break on Kurosawa coming with David O. Russell's Thre...

A Halloween episode of the Taiiku Podcast for everyone! I haven't written one of these for Taiiku in a while. My fledgling mango podcast is doing alright I guess, and I'm writing some introduction over there every two weeks, but this is a monthly podcast so I feel like it's been forever. I also haven't recorded basically anything in a while for this podcast either because my memory is terrible and...

Baseball has entered the playoffs and, I think by at least some metrics, my White Sox did a little better that expectations would have them at beginning of the season. Rookies came up and performed, and a few craft veterans keep helping in more ways than just on the field. But this is about sports anime, and that's what we're here to talk about. At least it was gonna be before my audio for Yowaped...

As they say, all good things come to an end eventually after literal years of coordination and (mostly) procrastination. But we are finally here at the end of the Slam Dunk podcast series that I promise starting way back in August of 2015. Jeez, actually two plus years... Anyway, Chris ( @gokuffy ) and I start off the podcast with the second to last movie in the Post-War Kurosawa box with The Idio...

We're a while out from Otakon, but we're still gonna podcast about it! I brought fellow podcasting cohorts Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Helen ( @WanderinDreamr ) to cover Otakon 2017 in relative depth. Listen Next time is actually gonna be Slam Dunk, which is definitely not a running joke.

I know I said next time was definitely gonna be Slam Dunk, but look...There were these gorgeous ladies and they wrestle, so. Slam Dunk is still actively in the works. I still have about a dozen episodes left to watch, so it is coming soon. Until then! There's a packed episode of content. Chris ( @gokuffy ) and I continue the Kurosawa series with the next in the Post-War box set , Scandal. Then Bam...

We're back in action and we're talking about cycling! No, not that cycling because Yowapeda season three isn't quite done yet, but Minami Kamakura High School Girls' Cycling Club. The optics of the show demanded I ask Ink ( @AnimatedInk ) to join us in this journey, and he accepted on the condition we also review Rolling Girls , which I sort of did and everyone else actually did. If you didn't kno...

We're back for season two! Funim-I mean Nozomi finally released Big Windup 2 and we're covering it, right here, right now. Joining me are my cohorts of the Taiiku Podcast, Camellia and Chris ( @gokuffy ). And in our ongoing Kurosawa review, Chris and I talk about No Regrets for Our Youth, the first in the post-war Kurosawa set . Listen Show notes: 0:30 - Chris and I resume our Kurosawa watch with...

We're back for a special episode, rounding up Acen 2017 with my friends Kenny ( @Minoru79 ), Kyle ( @ANewtypeCentury ), and Patz ( @PatzPrime ). No show notes this time, just us shooting the shit about Acen. Listen

Man, we talked a long time... At over three hours on the horn and an yet to be determined amount of time edited (still editing as I write this), it may be the longest just Chris and I have talked. But it was worth it. We're finishing up the First Films of Akira Kurosawa set with The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail; continuing on to a long discussion on Makoto Shinkai and his newest film, your na...

We are back once again, and it is finally baseball season! My White Sox are a surprising 6-5 only nine games into their season, but there's still time to #TankForBeer for the rebuilding Sox. More importantly, we're here with Chris ( @gokuffy ) and Jared ( @savevsjared ) to talk about March Comes in Like a Lion. Chris and I also continue our trip through the Kurosawa catalogue, this time checking o...

We're back on the sports anime / manga bandwagon, and this time we're talking about Kodansha USA's Welcome to the Ballroom by Tomo Takeuchi! We're also starting a very exciting new segment covering the filmography of Akira Kurosawa, starting with his first movie, Sanshiro Sugata , and the follow up, Sanshiro Sugata Part Two. Listen Show notes: 0:30 - We begin and talk about Sanshiro Sugata! 37:50...

We're back with the top movies of 2016! The gang's all here; my two co-hosts, Camellia and Chris ( @gokuffy ), are where they should be: In the co-host chair. The whole Taiiku Podcast is back once again, if only we were talking about sports anime. Listen Show notes: 0:30 - Number fives! 40:52 - Number fours! 1:24:07 - Number threes! Break! 2:02:49 - Number twos! 2:52:44 - Number ones! 3:31:17 - Al...

We're back again with the end of the year podcasts! First up is the top five anime of 2016 list. Joining Chris ( @gokuffy ) and me this time are the Oldtaku no Radio ( @OldtakuNoRadio ) crew, Ink ( @AnimatedInk ) and Jared ( @savevsjared )! Listen Show notes: 01:41 - Number fives! Had to pause in the middle of Chris's number five because reasons. I threw in some of our out-of-show material and a m...