Anime Death Spiral

The Spiral spins up on two big seasonal reviews like good little podcasters, and a sneaky trick to backdoor some more Death Game talk for the real ones.

• Kaiju Girl Caramelize
• Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games To Put Food On The Table Cloudy Beach

The Only Anime Podcast dissects the comments of legends taking aim at their own peers in a very funny and doomery way, before a smoldering Chainsmoker Cat breakdown leads to a music criticism segment, then finishes out with yet another samurai dunking session

• Chainsmoker Cat
• Dara-San of Reiwa
• A Dogs Life

Damn I want a cig...

The Spiral begins the season's reviews with two bangers, one flop, and a very strong digression.

• The Ghost In The Shell
• Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia
• Black Torch
• All You Need Is Kill

The Spiral does not dwell on its terminus, but looks beneath its own feet at SUMMER ANIME SEASON 2026, the most exciting summer anime season of 2026!

• Black Torch
• Kaiju Girl Caramelise
• Let's Go Kaikigumi
• Sekiro
• Star Wars The Ninth Jedi

After a long tangent about digi necromancy, The Spiral takes you into the first half of the Summer Anime Deluge. Beat the heat by passing out in front of your melting laptop as anime cat girls shoot up on the screen!

• Chainsmoker Cat
• Jaadugar: A Witch In Mongolia
• Dara-San of Reiwa
• Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games
• Thunder 3
• Goodbye, Lara

The Only Anime Podcast self indulgent enough to ramble for an hour about various tangential subjects they have a loose grasp on and release it as entertainment returns to accidentally skips over everything they were actually going to talk about and instead discuss Dark Cute at the turn of the century.

If you hate the impromptu pseudo intellectualizing, feel free to skip this one.

Note: Toru Honda wrote the short essay

The Spiral accidentally delayed the podcast and you are all furious for depriving you, many and much apology. It returns with meditations on the meaning of Family, crime and punishment in the cute anime girl world, and class crisis in the world of dope ass sword jumping shonen battles.

• Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express
• Mujina Into The Deep

The Spiral spend longer than necessary flitting from one inane topic to the next before tiptoeing around a discussion of Oshimi Shizu's work before diving into one new manga and one new summer preview anime. So much psychology.

• Blood on the Tracks
• The Crossdressing Boy Wants To Take Off His Skirt
• Smoking Behind The Convenience Store With You
• Kamudo
• Punk Gun

Fair Use! Fair Use!

Americans have fallen deeply and abusively in love with the yandere all over again, truly a sign of the culture healing. The Spiral examines the phenomenon from different angles. They're not bad, they're just drawn that way.

• Obsession
• The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Seen
• My Girlfriend Gives Me Goosebumps

The Spiral inaugurates its new episode naming scheme by shamelessly engagement baiting using our favorite punching bag, Star-Wars, before desperately squeezing in a few obligatory manga discussions.

• Mandalorian and Grogu
• Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
• Class of Brains
• Smiley & Lively☆Your Girl Happy