Anime Sickos

It's about time for a posting episode but there have been no interesting posts made for months now. Turns out we're forever stuck in an awful time loop as our brains stagnate into mush, and now it's infecting reality as our government and media spend all their time bickering about whether the awful poster Neera Tanden gets some crony job. It's all just endless yelling to no end, and folks, we don't love it!

The Sickos talk about that famous goop, "food." First we highlight Golden Kamuy and Delicious in Dungeon, two amazing manga that spend half their pages showing the characters making dinner. Then, the sickos share what we've been eating lately and ponder the role of cooking and food on pandemic mental health.

Casey Toney, cast member on and audio sicko for the Neoscum podcast (among others), goes guesto mode! We praise the ending of Chainsaw Man as the masterstroke it is, discuss how Casey's afflicted brain luckily allows him to become an audio engineering genius, and mourn the fact that we all love anime and manga, a medium that continually fails us despite being the fuckin best.

College is a big grift that is dumb as shit. The Sickos reflect on how deeply they were failed by their education, and propose a new pedagogy that would dramatically improve the college experience, along with pitching an entirely new major: Sicko Studies.

Curl up around the fire as the Sickos spoon you up a fresh batch of slop. First we review a ridiculous anime trivia book from 2000 generously donated by our lovely listeners. Then, we revisit the Fruit Annihilation Tournament to decide round two of the Rebels region, led by the tournament's most controversial combatant: coffee.

Your Sickos reflect on how a year of quarantine has changed how the four pillars of modern misery shape our lives (spoiler: they all just got worse). Then, we hoot about Yakuza: Like a Dragon, a game designed in a lab to make our ape brains achieve nirvana.

Southwest suburb homie Em Haverty goes guesto mode! We discuss her love/hate relationship with sketch comedy and the peculiar Chicago SW suburb rot that shaped both her and Joe as children. Plus, Tom tells the story of how Em introduced him to Robot in the Family, one of the most deranged films ever made. Check it out!

The Sickos finally give you a guided tour to the world of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, a daunting and inscrutable anime juggernaut that is less a show/comic and more a gallery of weird shit presented the way a child would show their parent a bug, curated by a clown man with the perfect brain.

Aaron J. Shelton and Vince White from the Kame House Party podcast go guesto mode! We discuss Aaron and Vince's cog woes, the fever dream of trying to play Cyberpunk 2077 on a PS4, and how they were able to do improv and actually be funny, something which living in Chicago leads one to believe is not possible. Check out the excellent Kame House Party podcast at kamehouseparty.com!

We discuss the endemic feeling of being a Dumb Baby Bitch, in which the world treats you as a contemptible idiot for trying to do literally any of the things you are supposed to and/or required to do. Then, we return to the Fruit Annihilation Tournament for Round 2 of the Classic Killers region, in which the four heavyweights who had byes in the first round finally step into the arena.