Third Impact Anime Podcast

Makoto Shinkai's latest film Weathering With You was released in US theaters a few weeks ago! Tori, Austin, and Tobias share their thoughts on it and how it stacks up against Your Name., even though they felt bad about constantly comparing the two. It's hard not to, okay!! They also briefly discuss Kingdom Hearts III: ReMind, Lupin the IIIrd: The Blood Spray of Goemon Ishikawa, and Keep Your Hands...

A month after everyone else's Decade in Review lists, here's ours! Tori, Austin, Bill, and Sarah talk about 4 of their favorite anime from the past 10 years! Plus honorable mentions and lists from our listeners/random people we polled on the internet. Maybe we read yours? Let us on Twitter know if we did. Please enjoy this monster of an episode that is STILL shorter than our 2018 in Review episode...

In this super special interview episode, Tori and Austin talk to Susan a.k.a. Metaandpotatoes about the incredible Neon Genesis Evangelion fanzine they put together called Rebirth Dilemma. Meta discusses how they came to become an Evangelion fan, how making a zine works, and tons more. If you'd like to order the zine for yourself, there are a few copies left at the time of this episode's release....

This past weekend, Hayao Miyazaki celebrated his 79th birthday! What better way to celebrate than to review the film he regrets the most. On this episode, we take a look at 1992's Porco Rosso from Studio Ghibli (our VERY FIRST review of a Studio Ghibli movie). Bill and Austin also discuss some upcoming Third Impact Anime projects and our 2020 Anime New Year's Resolutions. We're hoping our dear lis...

Hey folks! We'll be on a brief hiatus until probably mid-January when we return to discuss our picks for anime of the decade! Until then, have a wonderful holiday and feel free to check out our backlog of episodes. We wish you a happy and healthy holiday and a happier and healthier 2020. See You Space Cowboys. Visit our website at www.thirdimpactanime.com Follow us on Twitter at  twitter.com/TI_An...

Surprising nobody, the Third Impact Anime gang spent this year's Halloween weekend at a convention -- Anime Weekend Atlanta, to be precise! How did the convention fair in this unconventional date? What guests did they bring out? How many people will stay up until 3 AM to see a panel about anime-inspired musical theater!? All these questions are answered in our convention report, starring Ryan, Sul...

Happy Black Jack-sgiving! Or, Black (Jack's) Friday? Either way, he'd be the best one to slice the turkey. This episode, we're gathering around the dinner table to discuss the Osamu Dezaki directed film based on the classic Osamu Tezuka character, Black Jack: The Movie! Joining us for this family get together is returning champion and "question-asker-supreme," our wonderful friend Basil from OSMCa...

Note: This episode was recorded before Halloween and intended to be released before we went to Anime Weekend Atlanta but hey, we had a convention to prep for so please pardon the outdated info in the beginning. To stave off the inevitable arrive of Thank-Christmas-giving, we're here to extend the Halloween season just a bit with our post-Halloween special on legends and yokai in the TV series Yami...

To conclude(?) our reviews of 2019 Summer anime, we're back with Team "Our-Shows-are-Over-More-or-Less" giving final thoughts on: How Heavy are the Dumbells You Lift? Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? O Maidens in Your Savage Season Tori, Sarah, and Edwin discuss what they loved and hated about their chosen shows and give you their final recommendations on if anything they...

Following up on our previous Summer Anime Impressions episodes, we're back with "Team Midpoint". These shows will be running for more than one cour, so we're taking a break halfway to discuss our thoughts so far. Do they still burn as brightly as they did 13 weeks ago? Will they make history in the saga of anime canon? Here's the ensemble we're bringing you today: Fire Force (Bill) Vinland Saga (R...

In this episode, Sully, Tobias, Austin, and Bill discuss Isao Takahata's directorial debut feature film, Horus, Prince of the Sun. We discuss the film's background, legacy, possible inspirations on The Legend of Zelda, and what we thought of watching it through our 2019, post-Ghibli eyes. In a lot of ways, it feels like an anime from the 60s, but in a lot of ways... it doesn't! Buy Horus, Prince o...

In this episode, Sully, Tobias, and Bill discuss Eiichi Yamamoto’s surreal, psychedelic classic Belladonna of Sadness, the story of a young French peasant woman who after a traumatizing event, uses the power of witchcraft to forge her place in her country’s national consciousness. The gang dig into the film’s deeper cultural, psychological, and artistic meanings, as well as debate in the canon of...

Here's the promised Group B of our summer seasonal anime impressions! Sorry this is coming out a week or so later than we intended. School has started and Austin is a BUSY BEE! In this episode, Tobias, Tori, Bill, and Edwin talk about their seasonal picks (1 per) and give their modest first impressions. The anime reviewed in this episode are: Fire Force (Bill) How Heavy are the Dumbbells That You...

Wow we're doing a seasonal impressions episode?! We haven't done that in forever! In this episode, Sarah, Austin, and Ryan talk about their seasonal picks (1 per) and give their modest first impressions. The anime reviewed in this episode are: Vinland Saga (Ryan) Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? (Sarah) Dr. Stone (Austin) Briefly Fire Force, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba...

A couple weeks ago, we were given the great pleasure of attending Hamacon in Huntsville, Alabama for the second year in a row as their Featured Panelists. This year's Hamacon was the last EVER and while we are sad to see it go, we are truly grateful for the great times and awesome friends we've made through it!  In this con-versation episode, Tori, Tobias, Austin, and Edwin are joined by fellow po...

Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice, Liz & the Blue Bird) is one of the youngest and most critically acclaimed anime directors in the business today. Austin, Tori, and Andrew look back at her 2013 original TV series and subsequent sequel film, Tamako Market and Tamako Love Story. Thank you for listening!  If you'd like to support our show, please consider sharing our show with your friends, or donate to...

If you haven't heard by now, Final Fantasy VII's long awaited Remake is coming out next March! We got a ton of new information about it at this year's E3, so of course it's the perfect time to revisit Final Fantasy VII in anime form! Austin, Tobias, and Tori are joined by our gaming pals, Will and Ryan of Mid Shelf Gaming , to discuss the 2005 film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, as well as it...

To celebrate Pride month, Sully sat down with voice actor, script writer, and ADR director David Wald to discuss his work in working to dub and license LGBTQ themed anime, including Love Stage!! and Hitorijime My Hero.  David is known for voicing Gajeel Refox in Fairy Tail, Bulat in Akame ga Kill!, Berg Katze in Gatchaman Crowds, and Tetsutetsu in My Hero Academia, and has been the ADR director fo...

So while some jerks were in Atlanta on Memorial Day weekend, the rest of us were in Raleigh for Animazement ! The con brought us out as Featured Panelists, doing what we do best: talk way too much about Japanese cartoons. We had a total of 24 hours of content to provide over the weekend, some new, some old. As we’ve never really talked in-depth about our panels on the podcast, we break all of them...

A couple weeks ago, bits and pieces of the Third Impact crew visited Momocon 2019 in Atlanta, GA. Panels, parties...plenty of fun was had! Join Ryan, Sarah, and recurring-side-characters-with-cult-followings Edwin and Will as they share some of their favorite experiences from the con and determine if Momocon is worth the hype or not! Thank you for listening!  If you'd like to support our show, ple...

Last weekend, at Animazement in Raleigh, NC, Sully got the chance to sit down with voice actor Linda Young, most famous for her iconic portrayal of the evil Frieza in the first Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z! Besides Frieza, Linda has a long history of acting and voice work, from stage and commercials, to other anime roles. Notably she can be heard as Genkai in the dub of Yu Yu Hakusho, and the l...

Last weekend at Animazement in Raleigh, NC, Bill and I had the pleasure of having Robert Woodhead on the show. Robert is the Founder and CEO of Wilmington, NC's AnimEigo, one of the oldest anime licensing companies in North America. Anime fans these days would know them best for their highly successful Kickstarter campaigns to re-release titles such as Bubblegum Crisis, Otaku no Video, Riding Bean...

Tori, Austin, and Tobias review the latest anime adaptation of a Tomihiko Moremi novel, Penguin Highway! We have lots of good things to say about it, but a solid handful of critiques as well, so give it a listen! Hopefully you had the chance to see it in theaters recently yourself!  Our next convention coming up is Animazement in Raleigh, North Carolina (May 24th-26th, 2019) and we hope to see you...

This week, Austin and Bill pay tribute to Kazuhiko Katō (a.k.a. Monkey Punch), the creator of Lupin the Third, who passed away of pneumonia on April 11th, 2019. To celebrate his life and work, we're reviewing the first Lupin the Third TV special, 1989's Bye Bye Lady Liberty! Please enjoy! Show notes are available at  www.thirdimpactanime.com Follow us on Twitter at  twitter.com/TI_Anime PodBean: ...

Tori and Austin recount their recent trip to NYC to see Frozen on Broadway, Perfume in concert, and Sailor Moon: The Super Live! Sully jumps in as well to give a brief history of Sailor Moon on stage. Please enjoy! Available on most podcasting services!  Show notes are available at  www.thirdimpactanime.com Follow us on Twitter at  twitter.com/TI_Anime