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In this episode, comedian and tea enthusiast Jesse Appell of Jesse's Teahouse takes us on a journey from studying Chinese comedy to building an online tea business. He shares how navigating different cultures shaped his perspective on laughter, authenticity, and community. From mastering traditional Chinese cross-talk comedy to reinventing himself after a life-changing move, Jesse and host Brian Lowery discuss adaptation and the unexpected paths that bring meaning to our lives. For more on Jesse, visit jessesteahouse.com and for more on Brian and the podcast go to brianloweryphd.com.…
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A podcast all about Japanese cartoons and comics as discussed by three self-proclaimed experts in the world of anime and manga! Plus anime news / reviews, coverage of classic anime, hentai / yaoi, and much, much more. Updated every week. We hope.
Anime World Order Podcast에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Anime World Order Podcast 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
A podcast all about Japanese cartoons and comics as discussed by three self-proclaimed experts in the world of anime and manga! Plus anime news / reviews, coverage of classic anime, hentai / yaoi, and much, much more. Updated every week. We hope.
2025 is off to a terrible start, not just in terms of current world events but because in this episode Daryl follows up on his previous review of the 1997 Berserk TV series with this review of the decades-anticipated Berserk sequel TV series from 2016. Oh boy. Introduction (0:00 – 56:51) It’s finally happened, after years of waiting! All of Macross (almost) is now streaming in the United States…with closed caption-y style subtitles because it’s Hulu and some edits to content because um…Disney? It’s still a major step forward. In addition, the one that isn’t streaming– Macross: Do You Remember Love? –is also now out on 4K UHD and finally with official English subtitles after decades of waiting…and it’s an AI upscale, like how they did Macross Zero. The Summer 2025 issue of Otaku USA Magazine is now out, and we’ve got reviews in there for some highly anticipated titles such as the They Were Eleven manga; no longer must you pay hundreds of dollars for used copies of Viz’s Four Shojo Stories! Discotek Media annnounced a new set of licenses, so we recap their anime announcements. This time around, they were focusing more on live-action and US animation than anime, but there’s still some solid Japanese animation picks worth considering. We then talk about what we’ve checked out in this current anime season that’s just started, as one has to do every few months lest you fall too out of touch. Contrary to popular belief, the AWO is watching current anime regularly. We’re just mostly writing about it rather than doing podcast episodes, because we like to wait for things to be completed before reviewing them just in case the quality of the show varies relative to how it started. Review: Berserk 2016 (56:51 – 2:12:14) Now that we reviewed the original 1997 television series , it’s only fitting that Daryl follow up and review the Duke Nukem Forever of anime: the 2016 sequel that is a hybrid of 3D CG with some traditional 2D digital animation. Perhaps comparing it to Duke Nukem Forever is unwarranted. After all, even Duke Nukem Forever at least had Dr. Proton. Let’s not think too hard about the fact that Duke Nukem Forever is now such a long time gone that it’s been out for pretty much as long as people were waiting for it to come out in the wake of Duke Nukem 3D. Anyway, this Berserk 2016 TV show remains a meme, and it’s been almost a decade. Daryl elected to show Gerald and Clarissa–who’d never actually seen it before–the retail Blu-Ray version (which he owns!), since that’s the “fixed” and “cleaned up” version rather than the broadcast version everybody else gets their animated GIFs and screen grabs from since that was a massively anticipated simulcast once upon a time. There is probably nothing about this we can say or insight we can provide that hasn’t extensively been said before by others who know Berserk in far more granular detail than we do. We imagine everyone who worked on this that wasn’t one of the 8 credited producers asked this daily. Nine credited production companies brought this to you. None of them could successfully blend what they were doing with what the others were doing. That was how we felt too, Farnese. But this was episode 2 of 24. Every time they showed Sonia’s face in the credits, all I could think about was Osaka from Azumanga Daioh because of her agape mouth. The end credits of the final episode are in a totally different, mostly 2D style. We feel like this is the studio saying “we would’ve wanted the whole show to be done this way, but we were too small to handle the production ourselves.” We have no evidence to support this aside from the scene existing as it does, where it does.…
As we mark our 19th year of anime podcasting, it’s time for our annual holiday roundup of Christmas episodes! But first, we take a moment to pay our respects to the recently departed Jan Scott-Frazier, not by pressing F but by talking about her influence on us and this podcast. Introduction (0:00 – 26:25) Although Daryl’s call for submissions for his proposed Otaku in Memoriam throughout this year didn’t exactly succeed, we unfortunately have to end the year on one. Jan Scott-Frazier passed away at the start of the month, and while you can certainly read her list of career accomplishments on Wikipedia or Anime News Network (which, in a Christmas miracle, was NOT bought out by Sony after all, as they only purchased a percentage of Kadokawa), the idea of Otaku In Memoriam was to hear more personal testimonials about fans no longer with us. Although our interactions with Jan were limited, but our Bobby’s Girl episode of AWO would never have existed were it not for her actions. (And for the record…that is also the case in the event you saw Bobby’s Girl via a digital fansub.) Jonathan Clements wrote up a memoriam which is worth a read . Rest in peace to a true anime pioneer. Clarissa was recently a guest on the now award-winning Shoujo Sundae podcast , where they recapped a few key later episodes of the newer anime adaptation of Fruits Basket. As goes with the territory for recap podcasting, spoilers will therefore abound. We then can’t help but hate on Sola Digital Arts, as their recent theatrical release of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim made around $7 million despite being released in over 2600 theaters nationwide. THis was not for lack of awareness, as its trailer was saturation bombed, playing everywhere for what felt like ages. In the wake of this “half as popular as Madame Web” performance, Warner Discovery has admitted that it was a “Roger Corman Fantastic Four” effort, hastily shoved out in theaters just to ensure the film rights to Lord of the Rings would be retained. Holiday Roundup, 2024 (26:25 – 1:39:26) For the third year now, we’re covering Christmas episodes of various anime series. This year, by popular request (well, more like demand), we’re going to list in advance all of the things that we talked about, in the order in which we talked about them, so that you can go check the episodes out yourselves if you desire. With the exception of Dr. Slump, every anime episode listed here has had a legal release in the USA: Martian Successor Nadesico episode 13 Japan Xmas or X Japan Mas? How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift episode 10 This is not how I expected ladies who apparently really need to hit the gym to look like… Dr. Slump episode 35 Rest in peace, Akira Toriyama. Christmas isn’t a thing in the world of Dragon Ball (where Arale showed up once), but it is in Dr. Slump, so we’ll be watching many of these in future years. This sort of action would have to be pixelated out for modern Japanese broadcast. Buddy Daddies episode 1 You say Santa is your dad? Does the money for the presents come from the government? What do you mean we didn’t do Azumanga Daioh? Gintama episodes 200-201 It took willpower to not embed this one into the MP3 of the episode itself. Food Wars The Fifth Plate episodes 6 and 7 It took willpower to not set this one as the featured image of the blog post you’re reading. Bartender episode 10 The narrative setup for Bartender is not that far removed from Golgo 13. It’s impossible. No bartender could make that shot.…
For the tenth time, it’s our annual trivia episode! We are joined by Basil, head honcho of the OSMcast as well as The Carbuncle Chronicle and OSMquest podcasts who’s been doing this for just about as long as we have. Basil has been doing this for about as long as us and is from our same fandom generation, though he’s got more experience on camera as our Patreon supporters at the $5 and up tiers were able to see during the live recording which was held about a week ago. Introduction (0:00 – 18:20) We talk to Basil about how he became an anime fan and what inspired him to start podcasting, while also going over his contributions to anime conventions in the Southeastern United States which are numerous enough that we couldn’t get into them all. Trivia Round One (18:20 – 1:18:22) The carnage commences! Yell in frustration as we are unable to identify famous anime catgirls, are asked questions about animals in which not one single person says “call me YOON-kers!”, and have to remember anime by their OP/ED song titles…to limited success. Trivia Round Two (1:18:22 – 2:11:11) This one’s got a music category aka the sort of thing that would prevent us from posting this to YouTube and the like. We’ve also got to identify titles whose international titles don’t necessarily align to what a translation of their Japanese titles are, aka “absolute anathema to adherent users of MyAnimeList.” There was going to be another round of Anime Family Feud, but regrettably Basil actually had family committments over the weekend and could not simply sit around all day and talk about vague memories of cartoons. There’s always next year, I guess!…
The initial version of the file that was uploaded was in stereo rather than mono, meaning different people spoke on different channels. That has now been fixed. Delete the old file and redownload if you encounter this issue. Although we’re posting this on Halloween, there’s not much especially spooky about this episode since after having seen Uzumaki, Daryl has instead elected to review the theatrical film adaptation of Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Be forewarned that we do spoil it all in the event you didn’t already read or watch it first. Introduction (0:00 – 54:24) We were fortunate that the two recent hurricanes did not do significant damage to where any of us were, but it was lucky breaks on both occasions. We go over what we’re watching in the current anime season, and Daryl finally receives his Macross Plus Blu-Ray set. Not mentioned in the recording is the fact that due to inadequate packaging during transportation–this despite shipping from the old Right Stuf warehouse, which has clearly been mandated some changes to their procedures and policies by the new Sony ownership–a corner of his Blu-Ray set box was slightly crushed despite no damage to the exterior packaging box; an extremely common thing which Crunchyroll Store’s service reps say they can do absolutely nothing to remedy. This is not even close to the worst news coming out about Crunchyroll as we touch upon the then-breaking David Wald situation and contrast that with some recent financial publication coverage of Crunchyroll strategically rolled out to coincide with the broadcast start of the new Dragon Ball Daima series. Toho’s acquisition of GKIDS has us wondering if a similar fate will befall them, for the number of independent anime publishers in the US is basically down to about two or three guys at this point. Oh yeah, and we also talk about the anime adaptation of Uzumaki, which was originally going to be the subject of this episode until well, we saw the rest of it. Not stated in this recording: we’re 99.5% sure that the infamous quality drop coincides with the concurrent-with-production merger of Warner Brothers and Discovery to form WBD and the appointment of then-new CEO David Zaslav. We’re placing our chips on the roulette wheel as far as that, since it’d also neatly explain why Jason DeMarco couldn’t name names when talking about who was responsible (before locking/disabling his social media accounts). Review: Look Back (54:24 – 1:47:03) Originally released in US theaters in a very limited engagement, 2024’s Look Back vastly exceeded expectations and got additional showtimes, which on a per capita basis is better than the singing clown movie everybody who saw it hated. Adapted from a one-shot released in 2021 by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto, this film by Kiyotaka Oshiyama (whom we’d previously talked about in our review of Flip Flappers) is absolutely worth seeing by everyone. It’ll stream on Prime Video starting November 7, 2024. You can also read the original manga courtesy of Viz, who have released it both in print as well as digitally. If you pay the $3 a month for Shonen Jump, it is available to read as part of that. Daryl recommends you either watch the film or read the manga before listening to this, since we basically summarize what happens scene by scene from start to finish in order to give our thoughts on it. You can purchase a physical copy of Look Back here (affiliate link) The Crunchyroll Store also has the Look Back manga , which will be a lower price if you have a Mega Fan membership or better (affiliate link) For those curious, this is the video Daryl made as far as his questionable Billy Mays impersonation…
Despite a grievous tech failure, we’re back to discuss the upcoming Fall 2024 anime season before Daryl reviews the 1997 anime adaptation of Berserk, recently back in print in the US due to a Blu-Ray release. Introduction (0:00 – 59:42) The actual on-topic anime discussion doesn’t begin until about 23 minutes in, so feel free to skip ahead if you don’t want to hear about Daryl’s ineptitude that resulted in him shelling out for a new PC as an unplanned emergency expense, which somehow segues into us making fun of the PS5 Pro. A new anime season is underway, and while Patrons who tuned into our Discord live event saw our reactions in real time, we’re recounting those to the best of our ability here. There are 68 new titles this season alone, and that’s not counting continuations of previous shows, stuff for young children, or 18+ material. As such, there was no possible way we could talk about everything here, so if there’s something noteworthy or enjoyable that you’re checking out, let us know about it! PS: It’s In My Desk is a song commonly sung by elementary school chorus kids. Or at least, it was something done back in the 1980s. If YouTube is anything to go by, it seems to have endured into this century as well . Review: Berserk (59:42 – 2:40:50) Daryl’s PC death means he lost all of his notes, but perhaps that doesn’t matter since Berserk by Kentaro Miura is one of the single most popular manga and anime series among American fans, as it has been for decades now. With the release of the new Blu-Ray set from Discotek Media (available from the Crunchyroll Store or Amazon — note those are affiliate links), we figured now would be a good time to review the original 1997 anime series, now that everybody has a legal way to watch it again. We understand that there are entire podcasts and entire websites devoted to covering Berserk in detail, so this review is mostly centered on how each of us have engaged with it over the decades. For example, Gerald has only ever seen this anime version, and has yet to read any of the manga. Daryl by contrast has seen and read everything (but is bad at remembering things), while Clarissa has seen this series and read much of the manga but has not dared to watch…the 2016 series. Hmm. Perhaps Daryl should make Gerald and Clarissa watch the 2016 Berserk TV series–which he watched as it simulcast and then purchased the Blu-Rays of–and then record a future episode about that… This was posted in our Discord and will hopefully be a relic of a forgotten meme in the near future, but it’s a sign of this moment we live in now.…
No review this time around, but Gerald and Clarissa went to Otakon 2024 so here’s their convention report. Despite another record breaking attendance figure, they did NOT catch COVID! They did however, barely manage to avoid getting heat stroke/exhaustion. Curse you, climate change! A chalk art tribute to the recently-deceased Akira Toriyama. Take note, Anime Expo: THIS is what a top-tier anime con game room looks like (not pictured here: all the Initial D/Gundam sit-downs)! Carl Horn at the Dark Horse Comics panel springs a free plug of Gerald’s midnight panel. The MangaGamer dealer’s table truly speaking to the average visual/light novel enjoyer spirit, which since they spend money on this stuff skews Aylo’s algorithm metrics and now all the mainstream real-life US-produced pornography follows these tropes as well (within approval parameters of credit card payment processors). GamerSupps was also courting that demographic. Someone should probably tell them that even though he’s dead, they aren’t legally clear to use George Carlin’s photo on their “Grandpa’s Ashes” flavor. This is probably the closest to SFW picture of Gerald’s present: a 2 foot, 3D printed Rangiku. Perhaps someday we will actually watch/read Bleach rather than just leer at Rangiku and Yoruichi… We never actually did say what Clarissa’s gift WAS, but it was this.…
This time around, Clarissa “pulls a Gerald” by reviewing something that we thought was still readily available via streaming and home video but is in fact totally out of print: 1993’s four-part OVA, 8 Man After. This gives us a good excuse to talk about the original 8 Man from the 1960s, its American localization, and of course Streamline Pictures and “Uncle” Carl Macek. Introduction (0:00 – 46:49) The new anime season has just begun, and if it feels like we say that every few episodes, that’s because of the way time works. We weigh in on our initial impressions of a selection of the current season, much of which only had maybe one or two episodes out at the time of recording. Gerald was a guest on the Anime Addicts Anonymous podcast, and since the last time any of us were on that was 2013 he didn’t realize that they’d pivoted to video long, long ago! The result is a Nixon/Kennedy debate-esque review of Wicked City in which shabbily-lit Gerald is the only one who likes it contrasted with the slick YouTubers who uh, did not like it at all. Watch and wonder why only Clarissa is smart enough to have set up a VTuber rig! Promo: Places That Were Anime To Me (46:49 – 48:52) Listener Anders Häger Jönson has written and directed a film which he describes as “an extremely subjective depiction of the history of Japanese animation filtered through Swedish teenage years at the turn of the millennium” and it’s going to be premiering at Otakon 2024, Saturday August 3rd at 6:00 PM. That’s a particularly rough spot to place something like this, since that means it’s opposite both the AnimEigo and Discotek Media panels, but if you don’t feel the need to be in the room for the announcement since the social media posts get made in real time anyway, then head on over to Video 2 since this is something you likely won’t be able to readily see afterwards unless you plan on attending conventions in Europe. Visit Anders’ website or his YouTube channel to learn more. In Swedish with English subtitles. Promo: Anime Brain Freeze Podcast (48:52 – 49:52) Remember: if you’re an anime podcast and have released more than 10 episodes without burning out on the whole thing, send us your promos and we’ll play them! Anime Brain Freeze is a podcast about anime of (recent) seasons past going back to 2016. Unlike us, they do a Best of the Season where they each pick one and only one title among the 40+ that have been coming out every season. Some of their picks include Odd Taxi, Appare-Ranman!, Re:Creators–wait, Re:Creators? RE:CREATORS?! Maybe us reviewing THAT is the next Patreon subscriber goal… Review: 8 Man After (49:52 – 1:51:46) Despite the cheery slogan (used in a phone ad), this is generally the last thing you kind of sort of see before getting your robot prosthetic ripped from your body. Clarissa reviews a superhero title that 90s kids will likely remember as being part of the Sci-Fi Channel’s Saturday Anime rotation, or possibly a thing available from Blockbuster Video. Maybe some saw it unedited on pay cable, and others still actually bought the tape through mail order or direct market comicbook shops since it was originally released in the US courtesy of Streamline Pictures, then decades later was re-released by Discotek Media (since out of print/gone from streaming). 1993’s 8 Man After was one of those gritty, bloody sequels/reimaginings of Jiro Kuwata’s (“the Bat-Manga guy”) kid-friendly superhero series, though at the time Daryl mainly only knew it as a Neo Geo game since he never saw the live-action film (apparently also dubbed by Streamline, but it appears to have only ever been released on VHS and we can’t find a digital capture). The original 8 Man may have preceded Robocop, but 8 Man After definitely takes cues from it. 8 Man precedes the tokusatsu/henshin hero tradition, so he’s more of a Western style superhero. He’s still got sick poses though. Part 1 of the fantastic Streamline Pictures historical retrospective by the late Fred Patten, over at Jerry Beck’s Cartoon Research site Carl Macek on ANNCast – he died very shortly after this interview was done Star Fruit Books will be releasing the reboot series 8 Man Infinity next year Thus far, this picture has not inspired anyone to do a “My Adventures With 8 Man” retelling.…
Even though TimeHealsAllWoundsButWeSTILLAskWHYYYY, through a combination of its thirty year anniversary as well as upcoming new announcements, Daryl is reviewing the Patient Zero of fighting game anime that is the original Fatal Fury anime trilogy: the OVAs and the 1994 motion picture. In an age of scientific wonders, the human body is still the world’s most dangerous machine. Especially when it can fire ki bullets. Unless the scientific wonder in question is Mai Shiranui because she’s cutting diamond and putting out eyes with those things. Intro (0:00 – 40:32) Gerald and Clarissa have been doing a lot of work adding to their Otaku Archive collection, a catalog of American anime fandom’s past consisting of newsletters, zines, catalogs, con guides, interviews, and other print relics that have largely been lost to time thanks to the advent of the digital age. If you have materials or wish to otherwise contribute to the Otaku Archive cataloging efforts, the fastest way to reach them and get a response is through Bluesky: Gerald is @geraldawo.bsky.social and Clarissa is @clarissag.bsky.social. With Anime Festival Orlando happening right now, Gerald is presenting a panel related to the preservation of American anime fandom’s history, and since Otakon rejected that one he’ll perhaps be doing a virtual panel presentation of it over on the Anime World Order Discord, which you can post to if you back us on Patreon at any tier (but is free to just lurk and read, and we’ll probably let anyone watch the panel as well). The preorders for Macross Plus on Blu-Ray are now open , and as we hinted at last episode, it is not cheap: $190 (though you can save 10-15% depending on your Crunchyroll membership level). This will be sold exclusively on the Crunchyroll Store and is limited to 5000 units (which is a whole lot of copies such that we’re not in any way concerned that it’ll sell out quickly, and that’s before you consider the expense). Disclosure: that’s an affiliate link where we’ll get a small commission if you choose to make the purchase from that link. If you want to bookmark the CR Store with our affiliate link, it’s https://crunchyrollstore.sjv.io/animeworldorder (which is also on the sidebar). Though, as the recent Discotek Media sale has demonstrated, we have quite a few issues with the CR Store, especially as it compared to Right Stuf which it replaced by way of a Sony buyout. As of Summer 2024, the Crunchyroll Store packaging is officially not on the level of what Right Stuf’s was. We also go over some news items. Gainax is officially no more, GoHands is still going strong, Sony has bought the Alamo Drafthouse (in a move that once upon a time, long before any of us were born, would have been prevented by federal laws and oversight agencies), and Toru Furuya has been dropped from his current roles after all. It was a real place once… Review: Fatal Fury: The OVAs and Motion Picture (40:32 – 2:05:04) The announcement that Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui will be coming to Street Fighter 6 along with the release of a new Fatal Fury videogame, City of the Wolves, means that awareness of the series is the highest it’s been in years. As 2024 marks the 30 year anniversary of the Masami Obari-est anime to have ever been, 1994’s Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, Daryl has elected to talk about the original two TV specials/OVAs as well as the film here. Join us for a reminiscence of what SNK and the Neo Geo even was–don’t think we forgot how you Smash Brothers people reacted to the addition of Terry Bogard to Ultimate back in 2020!–as well as an overview of the anime titles in question, which you can now purchase on Blu-Ray high definition courtesy of Discotek Media. Don’t worry, if you use the Pause feature here you stand no risk of wearing out your VCR heads! (You see, in nearly every shot that consists of the fighting ladies in the motion picture making a quick movement, their breasts, buttocks, and possibly labia pop out either for extended periods or single frames such that you would frame by frame advance through these sequences to see them. Many of these shots made it through not only to the VHS previews, but also the Sci-Fi Channel television broadcasts. Like this one ! Note the picture is flipped 180 degrees and audio playback rate is slightly sped up to fool the DRM bots.) There are a handful of cameo appearances by other SNK characters in these productions, be it Samurai Shodown, Art of Fighting, etc. Everyone else has scene to scene wardrobe changes that’d make Andy Sidaris proud. EXCEPT TERRY. This is a truly HALF-ASSED outfit design, but at least you get fan service. Get it? She got hit by a FAN thrown at high velocity! Look, I’m not ONLY frame by framing it for the sake of cartoon tiddy; there are actual Easter Eggs too, okay?! Check out Bean Bandit et al. in the club. Peter Chung would be proud. Maybe the Alexander the Great in question came from Alexander Senki aka Reign the Conqueror……
It’s finally time. As a result of us reaching over 250 Patrons, we’re reviewing what you’ve voted “the worst anime of all time”: Hand Shakers from 2017. But maybe it’s NOT actually the worst, since we can name at least one show that was much worse than it… Introduction (0:00 – 29:44) Follow-ups from last episode: as an update to the Macross situation in North America, preorders for Macross Plus Blu-Rays will open up next week, as a Crunchyroll Store exclusive. It…won’t be cheap, from the looks of things. Gerald saw the French animated film Mars Express, which we alluded to seeing the trailer of last episode. He highly recommends it, and you should be able to see it for yourself in a few days since the theatrical run was extremely limited and short. Also, thanks to your support, our Otaku Archive is now an official collection on Archive.org! Thanks so very much! That’s about it for the good news. We then talk about the whole Toru Furuya situation , which is…extremely awful, but hey. Can’t NOT talk about it. Review: Hand Shakers (29:44 – 1:24:28) It’s notorious online. It made the name “GoHands” instantly infamous. But just how bad is 2017’s Hand Shakers? Does it still have that same impact? Have things gotten worse since then? Do we not live in an era where some of the most beloved anime titles utilize comparable animation techniques and story beats? Have you ever wanted to get God’s attention so bad that you use your sub big hooter girlfriend to power your CG chains? I’m Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn: https://www.awopodcast.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hand-Shakers-Chains.mp4 This is not nearly as cool as a bunch of producers looking at a piece of concept art in a boardroom thought it would be, but dangit they’re going to try and convince you it is. https://www.awopodcast.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hand-Shakers-Gears-Sword.mp4 This is the sort of GoHands camerawork and direction now synonymous with their name. Unlike their subsequent shows, Hand Shakers keeps this up for its duration. Everyone who said it didn’t HAS LIED TO YOU. https://www.awopodcast.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hand-Shakers-Bed-Spin.mp4 Review: W’z (1:24:28 – 2:12:19) We’re going the extra mile and reviewing the far less popular STEALTH SEQUEL to Hand Shakers from 2019. We’re pretty sure the people who made this heard of the term “DJ” and maybe saw a picture or short clip of one in action without actually knowing what it is they DO. DJs are hip and cool and speak in such heavy lingo that it needs to be translated even for the Japanese. Except not really. Prepare to see the same few presumably rotoscoped shots of turntable spinning again and again, independent of the audio that results. Now we need to think up a goal for when we hit 275 Patreon backers. Dare we ask for suggestions?…
In a feeble attempt to delay the inevitable even if by just another month or so, Daryl elects to talk about what is only one of the most popular anime currently running, as he reviews SPY x FAMILY CODE: White, the standalone theatrical installment of the mega-hit Shonen Jump sitcom SPY x FAMILY, which is about as mainstream a title as anime gets in America. Introduction (0:00 – 51:03) We kick things off by talking about stuff we are thoroughly unqualified to discuss, since we haven’t been paying attention. Namely, what is the deal with those Macross releases we thought we’d be hearing something about in the nearly two years since the announcement was made that we’d be seeing them in the US? We also touch upon a few titles we’re watching in the current anime season…or not watching, as the case may be, and then Gerald follows up with an update regarding the digitization of the various old American anime fandom relics of decades past. Everybody should start checking out his Otaku Archive on archive.org , since if enough people do so then it can become an actual curated collection rather than just a topic. AND THAT’S WHEN WE IMPLEMENT ROBERT’S RULES OF ORDER. Otaku In Memoriam: Jim Rosenbaum, Wayne Yin, Donald Tsang (51:03 – 59:22) Walter Amos, previously a guest, is the one who proposed this project, and after several months finally sent in a submission. It was over 20 minutes long and listed off numerous notable individuals, so for the sake of brevity I’ve gone ahead and edited it down to 8 minutes focusing on three individuals who may not have been historically famous but nevertheless were influential on not just Walter, but American anime fandom nationwide to some extent even if their names weren’t known. Bonus points for invoking Antarctic Press’s Ben Dunn in a positive manner that is a far departure from the polemic material he’s known for doing nowadays. Review: SPY x FAMILY CODE: White (59:22 – 1:56:19) While there is typically no need to bother with covering what has for the past few years been among the most popular anime in the world, and one of the most cosplayed things at conventions, entropy unmakes all things and so Daryl has decided to take a snapshot of what may very well someday be a bygone forgotten relic of a time when theaters simply needed something new to put in their multiplexes while still reeling from the aftermaths of those strikes. In any case, SPY x FAMILY is meticulously crafted to be loved and adored as breezy popcorn fare, and so the people who’d say something like this sucks tend to be either edgelords attempting to be contrarian or perhaps people who receive payment from Shonen Jump’s competition. Typically, the Shonen Jump theatrical film that isn’t adapting source material and doesn’t advance anything is something derided, but since SPY x FAMILY is already a wacky sitcom we don’t particularly mind it the way we would for a action/adventure battle type series. Besides, it’s still a rarity to see anime in IMAX (that’s actually got a print formatted for it)! There have been other anime released in US theaters, but Daryl can’t remember any ever getting the full nerd collectible treatment, not even Dragon Ball. Is this the first to get this treatment here?…
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