We recorded this once already, but they went and changed the schedule while we were recording! So a couple of weeks later we reconvened to talk about our picks of the upcoming Kitacon, with Leon Everett of Kitacon phoning in midway through to cast light on some of the more obtuse events of the convention.… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
To begin the episode Anthony & Brian look back to episode 33 and the winter anime they said they were looking forward to. Did they watch them? What did they think of them? Then, having undermined their anime quality soothsaying abilities, they go ahead and pick what spring season anime they are looking forward to.… [Read more…]
March 18, 2012
It’s Mothering Sunday, so Brian and Anthony run down their TOP 5 ANIME MUMS! There’s likely some spoilers in here, so consider yourselves warned. Also, Brian goes an a ridiculous, lengthy tangent that has nothing to do with mums whatsoever, but does, of course, involve Devilman and Violence Jack. Let us know who your favourite… [Read more…]
March 11, 2012
Bradley C Meek from THEM Anime Reviews joins us to talk Urusei Yatsura and the film Beautiful Dreamer. It’s a long one and we will spoil the hell out of this 1984 film that is now out of print, and so it doesn’t really matter. As well as lots of UY talk, we digress into… [Read more…]
March 1, 2012
As we are looking back to 2002 each month, there could be only one choice for our fourth ninja related show – Naruto. Gary Hedges joins us to talk about the first five episodes of the show that kicked off a decade of orange jumpsuited ninja-ry. We talk about our history with the franchise, whether… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
Behold, the death rattle of a once popular fad. It’s the 1996/97 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OAV series – Legend of the Supermutants. The turtles get EXTREME TO THE MAX with an Image Comics style redesign before travelling to Japan to rip off Saint Seiya. Gary Hedges joins us in our discussion of this oddity… [Read more…]
February 14, 2012
Lupin III: The Last Job gets the Dynamite In The Brain once over. It’s Lupin vs Zenigata vs Fujiko vs the last of the Fuma Clan vs Papal Euro Ninjas, in a fight to get their hands on an centuries old Italian doomsday device. Disguises are worn, kittens are saved, and Anthony doesn’t like blonde… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
It’s NINJA MONTH! And what better way to kick it off than with Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1993 OAV, Ninja Scroll. Well, a better way would have been for Anthony and Brian to have not been incredibly ill during the recording, but fear not friend listener, for we have a guest to carry us to the end… [Read more…]
April 11, 2012
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