Anime Shmanime

A bit of a change-up this week as Mikey and Jay decide to dive into some of the more spicy topics within the world of anime! Touching on things like genre over-saturation, or the ethics of waifus, you won't want to miss this week's special edition of Anime Shmanime!

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

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Welcome all edge-lords and neko girls! We have the perfect episode for you today! Extreme violence? Check. Gratuitous nudity? Double check. Neko ears? YOU KNOW IT! Elfen Lied is a classic to many but is the infamy of this show warranted? Or do violence-loving horny-dudes rule the world? Find out this week on Anime Shmanime!

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
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Mikey has cats and toys!
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Jordy has a dog and a band!
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FINALLY IT’S TIME TO GET FLASHY! The shmanime fellas return to the world of Demon Slayer with the Entertainment District Arc!  And what do you know, it looks like it’s just in time for that upcoming Swordsmith Village Arc! 

Tune in this week as we discuss Tengen’s wives, annoying voice acting, Nezuko’s boobs, and of course some of the most incredible animation any of us have ever seen! 

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
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Mikey has cats and toys!
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Jordy has a dog and a band!
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Join us this week as we fly through the multi-verse while attempting to review The Tatami Galaxy! It's a bigger challenge than any of us thought and you may be surprised by who loved this one and who didn't! So don't be an Ozu and make sure you check out this insane episode!

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
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Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
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Mikey has cats and toys!
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Jordy has a dog and a band!
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It's Jay's Birthday! Which means we are headed back to the Gundam Universal Century! Stardust Memory is a landmark anime in both animation quality and story-telling and much to Jay and Mikey's surprise, Jordy might actually enjoy this one? Or could Jay just be getting his hopes up? Tune in for this week's episode and celebrate our senpai and this amazing OVA!

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
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Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
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Follow Us!
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Jay does design and merch!
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www.instagram.com/jay.beckett91/
Mikey has cats and toys!
www.instagram.com/koreanbbq86/
Jordy has a dog and a band!
www.instagram.com/reachingin/

Welcome to Anime Shmanime… The Anime! Just kidding it’s Genshiken this week on the pod! Genshiken is a show about a group of otakus just doing otaku things. It’s a pure slice of life anime with little substance beyond that. The art style leaves something to be desired and there’s not much plot to sink your teeth into but that’s not the point. It’s a cross-section of otaku culture that covers all the bases with characters that are almost too accurate. Anyone who has dabbled in the lifestyle will be able to find themselves in this show and that’s worth something to the community. Throw it on in the background while you build your gunpla in the Spring, and then listen to us get into it!

 SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
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Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
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Follow Us!
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Jay does design and merch!
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www.instagram.com/jay.beckett91/
Mikey has cats and toys!
www.instagram.com/koreanbbq86/
Jordy has a dog and a band!
www.instagram.com/reachingin/

FLCL is a landmark in the anime world. It serves as a launching point for well loved Studio Trigger titles that came after including one we loved in camp Shmanime – Kill La Kill. This show is a roller coaster that is all over the map, but it is clearly a free expression of the unbound imagination and artistry of it's creators. It's a show that doesn't take itself seriously which allows the viewer to take every wild idea at face value. It's clunky and janky in a lot of ways, but it's too fun not to enjoy. Drive your Vespa to your friends house and smoke them in the head with your Rickenbacker bass and then watch FLCL and then watch us chat about it!

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
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Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
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Follow Us!
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Jay does design and merch!
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www.instagram.com/jay.beckett91/
Mikey has cats and toys!
www.instagram.com/koreanbbq86/
Jordy has a dog and a band!
www.instagram.com/reachingin/

Sword of the Stranger is a samurai movie. It's exactly what you'd expect from any samurai movie. In camp Shmanime, we are divided on whether it's a particularly good one or not. There is a fine line between an homage to a genre, and being derivative and we spend a lot of time debating where this film lands. We also talk about cute dogs and how we love them. We all agreed that much of the art displayed in this film is fantastic and does a lot to make Sword of the Stranger a unique film in a saturated genre. As always, we laugh and get mad at each other, but mostly we are vibing.

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience this show without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
https://www.tiktok.com/@nevernotkittens

Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
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Follow Us!
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Jay does design and merch!
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www.instagram.com/jay.beckett91/
Mikey has cats and toys!
www.instagram.com/koreanbbq86/
Jordy has a dog and a band!
www.instagram.com/reachingin/

You know at Anime Shmanime we like giving you every perspective we can. Well we weren't going to cover our top couples without ALSO covering the most toxic! From couples that simply don't make sense, to others that literally make our skin crawl, Mikey and Jay have once again done their best to bring you over an hour of riveting debate covering anime's most toxic relationships!

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience these shows without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
https://www.tiktok.com/@nevernotkittens

Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
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Follow Us!
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www.instagram.com/shmanimepod/
Jay does design and merch!
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www.instagram.com/jay.beckett91/
Mikey has cats and toys!
www.instagram.com/koreanbbq86/
Jordy has a dog and a band!
www.instagram.com/reachingin/

Happy Valentines Day Shweebs!  Mikey and Jay are back for another ranking episode as Jordy is off sick! We have covered Waifus, Husbandos, and even villains on past episodes but Valentine's Day is for our personal favourite Anime Couples! Some are sweet, some are scary! Some are grounded in reality and some are simply IMPOSSIBLE! Either way the passion is on display for this episode as Mikey and Jay dish on plenty of classic and new anime couples! 

SPOILER ALERT!!!
Save this episode for later if you want to experience these shows without a high-energy, often heated, very thorough discourse on it's high and low points. We cover each Anime from top to bottom, leaving no stone unturned. 

Later Shweebs!
-Mikey, Jay, and Jordy

Support NEVER NOT KITTENS and help Lisa save kitty lives! She works tirelessly to take care of her rescues and find them forever homes! There are many ways to help but it all starts by following Never Not Kittens on TikTok!
https://www.tiktok.com/@nevernotkittens

Come join our inclusive community of anime fans! All levels of fandom are welcome and you can interact with us there directly!
https://discord.gg/NMpMy7FbwF

Follow Us!
www.tiktok.com/@shmanimepod
www.instagram.com/shmanimepod/
Jay does design and merch!
www.instagram.com/hangar.91/
www.instagram.com/jay.beckett91/
Mikey has cats and toys!
www.instagram.com/koreanbbq86/
Jordy has a dog and a band!
www.instagram.com/reachingin/