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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the passing away of Plastic Little co-creator Kinji Yoshimoto, the return of a bizarre double-feature, more Netflix live action news, the return of Tiger and Bunny, and the debut of spicy anime memes in US politics
• Discuss the recent death game sensation SQUID GAME
• Give their thoughts on the original Cowboy Bebop
• Pontificate on how tastes mature
• Review the Mamoru Oshii classic JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the return of No More Heroes, Lollipop Chainsaw, and Trigun, a Dark Souls novel, release information for the last Evangelion movie, more Gundam news, and a really cool Shigeru Mizuki (GeGeGe no Kitaro) art exhibition in Tokyo
• Discuss latest watches, including Love After World Domination and Amaim
• Pontificate on what is the first form of entertainment to bounce back from rock bottom
• Review the first two episodes (mini OVAs?) of the latest adaptation of SPRIGGAN, from Studio David (of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fame) and airing on Netflix
Music:
Tears of Joy
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, anime sequels this summer, more ports of very popular games heading to the Switch, ZZ Gundam now available on Crunchyroll, some good news for English language manga fans, more news from the Seven Seas union saga, and Netflix continuing to tank
• Discuss latest watches, including Love After World Domination and The Executioner and Her Way of Life
• Review the new Beavis and Butthead movie
• Review the second two episodes (mini OVAs?) of the latest adaptation of SPRIGGAN, from Studio David (of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fame) and airing on Netflix
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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Gaijin Animation Appreciation Hour – Podcast – Episode 35 – Suitcase Machineguns
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, a trailer for the latest Gundam movie, the release of Love Death and Robots season 3, Nausicaa Kabuki, Mario movie delay, more strange merchandising crossovers, and the slow death of Netflix (maybe not so slow anymore)
• Discuss recent watches including Rising of the Shield Hero, and the Warhammer Plus release The Exodite
• Take a trip down memory lane, discussing favorite American cartoons of the 80s and 90s (apart from the obvious)
• Review the stone cold classic 90’s anime, the original Ghost in the Shell, from creator Masamune Shirow and director Mamoru Oshii
Music:
Tears of Joy
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including the potential fallout from Sony’s acquisition of Crunchyroll and a convention update
• Discus the concept of “Western anime”
• Explore why the manga industry uses fan polls, and the reasons why they succeed where mainstream American comics fail
• Review the second half of the classic OVA Orguss 02
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Anno overseeing the Thunderbirds remaster, Tomino being a man of culture, an update on NFTs, some interesting Gundam adjacent news, and the abomination that is the live action Cowboy Bebop trailer
• Discuss Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE
• Laugh at the sad failures that are game “journalists”
• Review the vampire killing OVA BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, AMC making some interesting acquisitions, the Initial D follow-on, new Urusei Yatsura, and a live action version of a classic Super Robot show (no, not from Netflix)
• Discuss the second season of The Witcher
• Wrap up their review of G Gundam
• Review the seemingly forgotten OVA that was pretty big back in the early 00’s, READ OR DIE
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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• Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Japan’s lust for milking every last yen out of a property, a Gundam related hula dancing anime, another example of Japan’s insane work culture, and the worse get out the vote endorsement since P Diddy on South Park
• Discuss the intriguing new Korean supernatural drama HELLBOUND
• Compare and contrast the classic BATMAN tale THE LONG HALLOWEEN, in both graphic novel and animated form
• Review the Captain Harlock classic from Leiji Matsumoto, MY YOUTH IN ARCADIA
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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Prepare yourself for a hard boiled private eye, who also has a robot eye that hacks everything, and also doesn’t like shirts and loves ties, as the Gaijin appreciate the 80s anime OVA GOKU MIDNIGHT EYE, based on the manga by BUICHI TERASAWA.
Music:
Tears of Joy
Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
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