SPOILER WARNING - we talk through the four films in competition at Scotland Loves Anime 2023, so expect some in-depth discussion of specific elements of these films.

In this episode, Andy Hanley is joined by Scotland Loves Anime jury chairman Jonathan Clements, as well as three of the four jury members:

- Donna McAvoy - Animator/Illustrator

- Ana Songel - Director/Animator

- Sean Mulvenna - Illustrator/Art director

- Gordon Howie - Director/Animator (not present for this recording)

The jury talk about their thoughts on the following films - listen in to find out how they picked their winner!

- Lonely Castle in the Mirror

- PHOENIX: Remembrance of Flower

- The Concierge

- Blue Giant

Let's talk films... but beware, spoilers lurk!

Andy Hanley is joined by Scotland Loves Anime festival jury chairman Jonathan Clements, and juror Kambole Campbell, to talk about the films in competition for this year's prestigious jury award. Does Blue Thermal soar? Does the Tunner to Summer take a U-turn? Will you want to say Goodbye to Don Glees or watch it until the Break of Dawn? All is revealed here!

With the Edinburgh leg of Scotland Loves Anime over, Andy Hanley is joined by festival director Andrew Partridge and jury chairman Jonathan Clements to look back over the festival in what has been a very different year from the norm for the event.

Join us for a special edition of the AllTheAnime podcast, brought to you courtesy of Scotland Loves Anime and the power of remote meetings! For this episode of the show we’re joined by the jury of Scotland Loves Anime 2021, as they discuss the films in competition at this year’s festival and their voting choices, overseen by jury chairman Jonathan Clements and festival director Andrew Partridge. Expect spoilers as we discuss BELLE, Sing a Bit of Harmony, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko and Over the Sky.

0:00:00 – Introductions

0:05:55 – Sing a Bit of Harmony

0:32:10 – Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

0:48:47 – Over the Sky

1:01:24 – BELLE

1:25:30 – Closedown

CLOUD MATSURI PREVIEW!

It's been a few weeks since our last podcast, but for very good reason as this weekend we'll be having our own virtual convention featuring special guests from Japan and more at CloudMatsuri.com

Join Jeremy and Andy in this special episode originally broadcast live on YouTube, where they run down what to expect from Cloud Matsuri, the new Screen Anime streaming service we (AllTheAnime) launched this week and more!

"Climb inside and control him"

Jeremy and Andy bring some anime related chatter including discussion Gleipnir, Wave, Listen to Me! and BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defence.

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Jeremy and Andy return for some anime related discussion to take you through the week!

But before they get to anime talk, they talk about podcasts. And more specifically their habits when it comes to consuming podcasts and ultimately storing them.

After that unexpected tangent, they get back to anime related business by talking about the latest addition to the "anime production delayed" list, and then discussing the show Gleipnir; you might remember Andy talking about this on a previous episode. He's watched some more now and give some thoughts on this!

Then we talk about the series BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defence. Andy has previously brought this up, but now Jeremy has been able to check out the first couple of episodes, so there's some thoughts on those.

And to conclude we have some discussion on recent episodes of Wave, Listen to This!, following some initial discussion on a previous episode.

Another fun 50 minutes or so of anime discussion for you! We'll be back with our next episode on Friday. Until then, have a nice week!

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APPROX TIME CODES FOR THIS EPISODE -

00:00 - 14:53, Intro, discussion on our podcast storage habits; Gal & Dino is the latest to add to the Spring Season simulcast delay list

14:54 - 24:00 , Discussion on Gleipnir

24:01 - 39:27, Discussion on BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defence

39:28 - 45:14 , Discussion on Wave, Listen to This!

45:15 - 48:37, Tower of God English dub version announced by Crunchyroll

48:38 - 51:59[END], Show Close, brief talk about Promare following details mentioned on last episode

"Do you take jam with your tea?"

Jeremy and Andy conclude the week with talk on our home video release of PROMARE, and discussion on watching Sakura Wars and Gundam 00.

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Jeremy and Andy are back to bring some anime related discussion to take you into the weekend!

After some unplanned talk about bubbles, they fire straight into giving you the full lowdown on what to expect with our stacked home video release of Studio Trigger's first full length feature film, PROMARE! Which you can pre-order right now at our AllTheAnime online shop!

After gushing over all the details of that upcoming release of ours, Jeremy talks about his viewing experience of episodes 2-5 of the currently airing series, Sakura Wars - he spoke about the first episode on a previous episode.

Following on from that, Andy brings Mobile Suit Gundam 00 into the conversation, but perhaps not in the way expect as he talks about his viewing experience with the first of the "Special Edition" recap films that will be included in future release of the Gundam 00 film, A Wakening of the Trailblazer. Has hasn't seen the series before, so we discuss how this film was a literal first-time viewer of Gundam 00 - including an interesting observation Andy has about it in relation to another particular anime.

A fun show to end the week! We'll be back on Tuesday with our next episode.

Enjoy your bank holiday weekend everyone!

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APPROX TIME CODES FOR THIS EPISODE -

00:00 - 16:28, Intro, details on our home video release of PROMARE!

16:29 - 29:56, Discussion on Sakura Wars episodes 2-5

29:57 - 50:07, Discussion on Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Special Edition Film #1 / Season 1

50:08 - 52:02 [END], Show close, some brief talk on Your Lie in April.

"Super Dragon"

Jeremy and Andy are back to discuss the Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond" OVA on Crunchyroll, plus talk about anime productions this season announced as completed and more.

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Jeremy and Andy are back with the first show of the week!

Today, after some brief discussion on Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo as well as an update on our release of Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, they go into detail on the anime series from the current season that are confirmed as having completed production and not being impacted due to COVID-19, plus some talk on other productions and companies that may completed certain elements of their productions.

After that discussion switches to what they've been watching. The primary focus of today if the Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond" OVA that debuted on Crunchyroll last week and we get onto that in quite some detail, but not before we also talk about the third episode of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom. So we get into detail with thoughts on that episode.

Then we get onto Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond", we split our discussion into two sections, starting off in a spoiler free way, before talking in more specific detail (i.e. spoilers) about particular elements of the story in this OVA.

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QUESTION FOR LISTENERS: We talk about this during the close of the show, but in an effort to potentially evolve the podcast in some the other way, would people be interested in us doing a live stream video podcast via our YouTube channel?

It's something we're considering, but obviously any feedback on if this would be something people are interested in would be very helpful.

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A fun show as always! We'll be back on Friday with our next episode!

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APPROX TIME CODES FOR THIS EPISODE -

00:00 - 07:09, Intro, brief talk on Gankutsuou (as it's on special offer),

07:10 - 22:12 , An update on anime productions that have not been pushed back due to COVID-19

22:13 - 32:50, Discussion on My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom

32:51 - 46:01, Our experiences with the Re:ZERO franchise, Spoiler Free discussion on "The Frozen Bond" OVA

46:02 - 56:28 , Spoiler based discussion on Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond",

56:29 - 59:21, Show close; would people be interested in a video podcast from us?

"Scotland loves... London?"

Jeremy and Andy are back to conclude the week with discussion on the new AKIRA 4K UHD release in Japan, Fate/EXTRA Last Encore, Tower of God and first impressions of Ascendance of a Bookworm.

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To take you through the weekend Jeremy and Andy return to chat about some of what they've been watching and to tell you about a new product in the Anime Ltd. catalogue!

That product being a new Collector's Edition Blu-ray set of the series Terror in Resonance, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop).

Following on from that they move into discussing some things they've been watching including the brand new UHD Japanese release of the classic, AKIRA, which leads into some discussion on the possibility/state of UHD anime releases in the UK in the future.

There's also talk on the recent Fate/EXTRA Last Encore series on Netflix, the third episode of Crunchyroll's Tower of God, and the first impressions on the first three episodes of the currently simulcasting Ascendance of a Bookworm.

A fun way to end the week!

Our next podcast will be released on Tuesday next week, where we'll be discussing the new Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond" OVA that's recently launched on Crunchyroll.

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APPROX TIME CODES FOR THIS EPISODE -

00:00 - 10:32, Intro, talk on new Terror in Resonance Collector's Editions set

10:33 - 21:38, Talk on Fate/EXTRA Last Encore

21:39 - 31:03, Tower of God episode 3

31:04 - 43:18, The Japanese UHD Blu-ray release of AKIRA, Discussion on possibility/state of UHD releases in general

43:19 - 1:03:43, Ascendance of a Bookworm episodes 1-3

1:03:44 - 1:09:04 [END], Show close, some brief gaming talk, we decide we'll discuss the new Re:Zero OVA on the next podcast.

"Deep Diving"

Jeremy and Andy are back to bring you a show with with a heavy focus on the Ghost in the Shell franchise and the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 series on Netflix!

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Our first podcast of the week see Jeremy and Andy return and end doing a big deep dive into Ghost in the Shell!

The original plan was to put the focus on new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 series on Netflix specifically, but with the way things worked out they ended up pretty much making this a Ghost in the Shell special of sorts.

The discuss their first experiences with the franchise, delve through the timeline of various projects the franchise (including the original two Stand Alone Complex (SAC) series) has had and their thoughts on those too.

Then discussion gets to (in as spoiler-free way as possible) on the new Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex_2045 show. They talk about the setting and world that's established, how the show feels, overall thoughts and perhaps one of the bigger talking points leading up to its release, its visual style.

A fun show to start the week! Perhaps more so if you're a fan of Ghost in the Shell!

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APPROX TIME CODES FOR THIS EPISODE -

00:00 - 04:00, Intro,

04:01 - 37:03, Jeremy's and Andy's experience with the Ghost in the Shell franchise, a timeline of releases leading up to the new SAC_2045 series

37:04 - 1:04:46, Discussion on the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 series.

1:04:47 - 1:07:33 [END], Show Close.