Anime Outsiders

Monty Oum’s “masterpiece” RWBY is a computer-animated, anime-aping crudfest the likes of which The Other Side has never seen before. It’s derivative, it’s boring, it’s poorly animated, and it’s full of the most soulless automatons trying to pass as human the boys have seen since that creepy Robo-Robin Williams from Bicentennial Man. Marvel as the trio at the Other Side thoroughly dissect everything that is so very wrong with RWBY. And find out why some people would rather watch hardcore rape hentai than this series!

In one of their many forays into geek culture, the trio at The Other Side decided to bring out the magnifying glass of scrutiny and point it towards Channel Awesome, and their flagship site “That Guy With The Glasses”. Examining the good, the bad, and the ridiculous over at the popular review hub. And while they’re at it, the boys have themselves an extended discussion about inner and outer beauty, objectivism, and the need fanboys have to bring their favorite internet personalities into their world.

The Other Side’s look into the most promising anime season in a long time continues, as the boys find yet another must-watch series they didn’t see coming! And if that weren’t enough, you get a rousing debate between Cody and Max, giant farting slugs on Capitol Hill, and a funny story that demonstrates the true power this podcast wields! This is one episode you’re not gonna want to miss!

Continuing with their tradition of season overviews, The Other Side–joined by guest host “Bonglorio”–takes a look at both the Winter 2013-2014 anime season, and some TBA series slated for either Winter, or possibly early Spring. What makes this season overview special? This time there’s more than a few diamonds in this rough! While the season is still comprised mostly of crap, this is the most amount of solid material the boys at the Other Side have seen in years!

Finally, The Other Side’s longer-than-they-wanted-it-to-be look at TGWTG comes to a close with a look at their last handful of good content producers, before bringing you folks the horrors of their godawful anniversary specials. Cody, max, and Andrew braved these hellish pits of sheer un-entertainment to bring you, the listener, a recap of everything you’re thankfully missing out on by avoiding these comedic abominations. And to top it all off, Andrew drops a joke so funny it stops the podcast dead in its tracks!

You’d think TGWTG would just be a place to see internet reviewers internet review things, right? Well you’d be wrong! It’s also a place where you can see human beings completely melt down, humiliate themselves, and commit both figurative and literal abortions. The trio at The Other Side continues their look at TGWTG by highlighting the self-destruction of The Spoony One, the living joke that is Angry Joe, the torrid story of the comically liberal Nostalgia Chick, and cap it all off with a couple more shout-outs to producers on the site who actual make quality material worth watching! And what Other Side episode would be complete without tangents that lead into discussions of serious social issues on a shock jock podcast for an anime website?

ITEM #: SCP-6969OBJECT CLASS: KeterSPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURES: Subject is to be uploaded onto Anime3000.com for the enjoyment of the public. All personnel are recommended to listen at thier earliest convenience. If personnel are thin-skinned, or posses an unhealthy obsession with Japanese culture and entertainment, they are to avoid listening. In the place of listening, said personnel are to be flogged with a wooden paddle upon the posterior as per Procedure 420-Yomomma.DESCRIPTION: SCP-6969 is a podcast starring Cody Baier, Max Vader, and Andrew Erickson, where the three discuss the popular SCP Foundation wiki, as part of their forays into general geekdom. The Foundation wiki has always been a popular creative hotspot, with upwards of 2000 entries of varying quality. In this episode, Cody, Max, and Andrew go over the best, and the worst, that the wiki has to offer. During the first half of their discussion, an anomaly can be detected at random intervals that suggests the presence of [DATA EXPUNGED]. Other anomalous effects can be seen if a listener has an excessive attachment to Japanese animation, or related fandoms. Should such a person listen, a marked regression of the mind, and loss of logical and intellectual faculties has been recorded. SCP-6969 has been known to cause grown men to act like small, petulant children, and for socially awkward individuals to go “full retard”, as described by Dr. [REDACTED].

It’s rare that an anime comes along that’s so bad, it renders Cody Baier, of all people, nearly speechless. A show so terrible it drains the very joy from his soul. Kill la Kill is just such an anime. But what makes it so terrible? In this episode of The Other Side, the boys dissect the ins and outs of why this is, objectively, one of the worst anime to come out in years. And to provide a little backup, Cody Baier’s partner-in-watching-terrible-shows LeighAnn Williams joins the fray. Usually making observations that are relayed by Cody, this time she’s here to speak for herself! But before all that, the crew discusses another controversy stemmed from the podcast involving some familiar faces!

One day, the boys of The Other Side found something on Steam. It was a game they weren’t quite fully convinced was real. It was a visual novel dating sim-slash-series of playable Wikipedia articles. Combined with the ridiculous dating sim archetypes and the fact that it doesn’t even end in any real payoff, they knew it would be worth subjecting themselves to for an episode. Listen as the trio go on a million and one tangents in order to desperately avoid reliving this inane experience, before begrudgingly reliving this inane experience.’

The spread of Abridged Series is out of control. It’s become like a virus that’s infected the anime fandom so deeply it seems like most people that start Abridged Series don’t even know why they do it, anymore. Like a compulsory need to make an abridged series out of every anime ever made. So, Cody braves through a viral infection of his own to gather his co-hosts to critically discuss this phenomenon. They’ll take a look at the small handful of good Abridged Series, leave the rest out with the trash, and get into the nitty gritty of this zombie-like trend. As well as demanding an end to certain things that every anime fan (even some A3K contributors) needs to stop doing. Seriously, people, cut it out.’