The Otaku Nate Show

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Adamisajoker, John AKA Mercuryfalcon and Super Dave from the Anime Field Guide Podcast are all sent to Hell to review Madhouse's absolutely bonkers 2008 movie HELLS! This movie is both famous and infamous for its zany animation and English Dub chock full of members of Team Fourstar, but is this movie like a trip heaven? Or is it absolute hell to get through! Tune in...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Tim The Otaku Jock and William AKA Lordcrab, accidentally dial the wrong number and wind up covering the 1993 OVA Adaptation of Kosuke Fujishima's popular supernatural RomCom series: Oh My Goddess! Hear stories about our first encounters with Oh My Goddess, our thoughts on anime dubbed in North Carolina, what makes the series work, and whether or not the OVA is the...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Justin Young and Jebus all gather around and reminisce about 2014's hugely popular and equally controversial isekai series No Game No Life! Is the series as good as we remember it? Is it still worth watching today? Are all the criticisms levied towards it valid or overblown? Why haven't we gotten a Season 2? Do we even WANT A Season 2? All of these questions and mor...

In Today's Episode: Otaku Nate, Rayce, Patrick and Pixel all sit down and dive DEEP into Yoshiyuki Tomino's polarizing and somewhat maligned 1998 mecha anime that was DEFINITELY NOT inspired by Evangelion: Brain Powerd! Rayce has been bugging Nate to review this one for YEARS now ever since this podcast started to exist, and it has gained a cult following in recent years, but what does Nate have t...

In Today's Absolutely off-the-rails episode, Otaku Nate, Rayce, Jeremy Kaufmann and special Guest Mercuryfalcon do everything BUT talk about Tatsunoko's 1993 remake of their 1973 Classic: Casshan: Robot Hunter! We Talk everything from Tatsunoko's many revivals, streamline pictures, the death of Hair Metal, and the forgotten 90s cartoon Bots Master! Many laughs were had, indeed!   Follow Mercuryfal...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Rayce, Kat and Steve Dave take a deep dive into one of Otaku Nate's absolute favorite series ever: Sunrise's 2004 Magical Girl series Mai-HiME! Otaku Nate loves the series to death, and he will tell you that it still holds up, but what do the other co-hosts think? Is the series still worth watching? What does it do that makes it stand out? Is Otaku Nate right to mar...

In today's episode, Otaku Nate, Erik Berg, Patrick and Pixel sharpen their axes, gear up in their martian robots and check the price of eggs as they look at 2014's highly-scorned mecha anime: Aldnoah. Zero! A show that Otaku Nate hated so much that it turned him off of Seasonal anime watching. But was it really that bad? Well, let justice be done through the Heaven's Fall and listen in! "The Truth...

In Today's episode, Otaku Nate, Tim the Otaku Jock and special guest Brady Hartel (Discotek Media) go on an adventure look at the most famous, most acclaimed, and (Arguably) best entry in the entire Lupin franchise: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro! The film is (of Course) best known as the theatrical debut of Hayao Miyazaki, but we get into a lot more as to why the film holds up, its history,...

In this week's episode, Otaku Nate, Alex Berg and Patrick take a look at one of the most acclaimed anime of 2024-2025, Orb: On the movements of the earth. How does a show take something as mundane as the search for the theory of Heliocentrism and make it interesting? And what do 2 Christians and a former Catholic think about the show's use of religion? Well, get out your astrolabe and Gyroscope an...

In Today's episode, Otaku Nate, Tim the Otaku Jock, Jebus and Lavendula all sit down and take out their bento lunches for a look at one of the most popular romantic comedies of the 2000s: Toradora. The Escapades of Taiga, Ryuji and Company all took the internet by storm when it was airing in 2008, but how does it hold up almost 20 years later? Well, tune in and find out!

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Justin Young, Adamisajoker and Slap assemble to look at a search and rescue procedural anime that never came to the U.S.: Rescue Wings! It's rare for a Procedural to get an anime in today's day and age, but how does this one fare compared to others, and why did it never come stateside? Well Climb aboard a UH-60J Helicopter with the boys and find out whether or not t...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Rayce, Jeremy Kaufman and Kat talk about (Or try to talk about) the 2001 Collaboration film between Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto (Sort of): Interstella 5555! This is our most off the rails show yet, and we talk about everything BUT the movie...and yet somehow we still come out giving our thoughts about it! Everything from Leiji Matsumoto's involvement (or Lack ther...

In Today's episode, Otaku Nate, Erik & Alex Berg convene together to discuss a teen romance anime by acclaimed writer Mari Okada: O Maidens in Your Savage Season! Does this series about a group of girls in a literature club going through their own sexual awakenings stand up to scrutiny, or is it just plain embarrassing like so many other teen sex comedies? Well, put away your "Rhythm" DVDs and...

In Today's episode, Otaku Nate, William Hindman and special guest Ollie Barder (Along with a cameo from Rayce) are fortunate to remember the tale of Byston Well as they look at the first-ever Isekai anime: Yoshiyuki Tomino's Aura Battler Dunbine! Isekai anime has become commonplace in a world of seasonal anime to the point oversaturation, so how does Tomino's first attempt to combine fantasy with...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Dan the Man, Tim the Otaku Jock and Sarah the Stardust Possum put on their Mawashi Belts and step into the Dohyo with one of the most overlooked anime of 2018, Hinomaru Sumo! A Show that (Like an actual Rikishi) Has a tough exterior and is full of passion and fire, but beneath its tough exterior lies a show about how Sumo can bring so many different people together....

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate and Erik Berg fly south to Osaka to take a look at a Harem anime that has so much more than what you expect from a show of its ilk with 2010's Cat Planet Cuties! This show has EVERYTHING! Catgirls, Dog Girls, a Conspiracy circles about UFOs, a Cult that worships cat people, References to Old Hannah Barbera Cartoons, Cute Mascots, and...Guns? You bet! Also, learn why...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, RaycerX, Dan the Man and Sarah the Stardust Possum saddle up, strap on their big irons, and ready a box of donuts as they trek through the scorching wastelands of the classic Sci-fi Western series: Trigun! For many, this was their gateway into anime, and for Otaku Nate, it's a series that he hasn't seen for a long, long time. But do the adventures of Vash, Wolfwood,...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Justin Young and Bronxkuma break out the power tools and talk about the glory days of TNN as they look at 2022's slice-of-life comedy: Do it Yourself! What looks to be yet another "Cute Girls doing Cute Things" show turns out to have a lot more heart and soul than one would expect? What exactly are they building in there? Well, tune in and find out! Follow us on Soc...

In today's episode, Otaku Nate, Kat and Jeremy Kaufman break out the Happi Coats and Glowsticks as they look at the sci-fi/action/comedy vehicle for one of the hottest idol acts of the 2010s: AKB0048! What sounds like it's going to be a cheezy vanity project for an idol group turns out to be a show that is so much more than the sum of its parts! There's a lot of discussion about AKB48 and Idol cul...

In Today's episode, It's time to Rock and Roll and time to lose control Otaku Nate, Erik Berg and Slap look at 2012's military action anime Jormungand. Otaku Nate has described this show in the past as trying to be "Like Black Lagoon...but BIGGER" but is bigger better in this case? Well, strap on your MP40 and hop aboard an HCLI Freighter as we roam the earth in the quest to dominate the arms trad...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate and Jeremy Kaufman look at the controversial follow-up to the first installment of the series that kicked off the OVA Boom of the 1980s: Megazone 23, Part II. There's a lot that has changed from part 1 to part 2, from a change in director, art design, animation studios, and overall tone. But are these changes for the better, or for worse? Who cares really, as long as...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, William AKA Lordcrab and Adamisajoker take a look at the first season of the Hyper-popular Battle Shonen anime series that took the entire world by storm: Demon Slayer! A lot has been said about the series and the hype surrounding it. But removed from its praise, popularity and hype, is Demon Slayer really deserving of all of its praise, or is it simply "Mid?" Tune...

In today's Super-late Christmas/New Year's Episode, Otaku Nate, Justin Young, Sarah the Stardust Possum and Ocean Studios' Aaron Chapman take a look at Satoshi Kon's seminal work: Tokyo Godfathers. We look at the film, its themes, its cast of characters, and it's legacy. Why is Tokyo Godfathers the definitive Christmas anime, and why is it the film that makes us miss Satoshi Kon the most? Well, li...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Dan the Man and Kat look at 2004's forgotten Romantic Comedy series: Midori Days! Lots of Laughs are to be had with a series about a teenage delinquent whose right hand becomes a living puppet of a girl who secretly admires him from afar? How can these two make an unusual Situation work? Well, listen in and find out!   Kat's Youtube Channel youtube.com/@katstreats  ...

In Today's Episode, Otaku Nate, Tim the Otaku Jock and Preston McFarlane all take a look at Lupin III's first big theatrical outing: Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo! We cover all bases from its history, how the film holds up, whether or not it's the best place to start for someone new to Lupin, and ALL FOUR English Dubs! If you like Lupin, you know you wanna listen to this one!   The Ultra Qties Po...