As convention prep comes down to the wire, we?re joined once again by Mike Toole to do what we do best with him. Namely, talk about some Discotek Media developments and review anime from Yoshiyuki Tomino! This time around, it's Blue Gale Xabungle aka Combat Mecha Xabungle. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

The listeners have demanded it: we must return to our roots! After playing some audio submissions from LISTENERS LIKE YOU, Daryl reviews the 2018 theatrical film, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Now that Devilman Crybaby is all the rage?or well, WAS all the rage a year and a half ago?Gerald reviews the Devilman OVAs from 1987, 1990, and 2000. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Two episodes in a month! It?s practically an AWO double decker, so it's only fitting that Clarissa review the surprisingly overlooked Tiger and Bunny spinoff of sorts, Double Decker! Doug and Kirill. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Two episodes ago we told you to go check out Erica Friedman and her blog Okazu, but much like a rogue outlaw space idol singer this Most Dangerous Erica has come to us so that we can talk about the 2018 yuri anime Kase-san and Morning Glories. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

As promised in Show 170, we fulfill the latest donation marker met by once again reviewing a listener suggestion as Daryl and gang talk about the 2005 sci-fi western series, Gun x Sword. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

To kick off our 13th year of anime podcasting, we talk a bit about yuri manga before Clarissa reviews the largely overlooked and recently concluded spinoff to Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, 2018's Mr. Tonegawa: Middle Management Blues. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In what is likely but hopefully not our last episode of the year, thus silently celebrating another podcasting anniversary (12 years!), we partially fulfill the donation goal requests by reviewing the 1991 one-shot OAV that is Judge aka Judge: The Magistrate of Darkness. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

With Thanksgiving holidays upon us, as a public service to those of you with lengthy commutes on your way to or from relatives it's time once again for another trivia episode, this time as tinged by mystery-colored happiness thanks to our special guest Emily from Shoujo Manga Land aka MagicalEmi on Twitter! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

For this special SPOOOOOOOOOKY edition of the Anime World Order podcast, we're rejoined by Mike Toole to review the most recent of Yoshiyuki Tomino's head-scratching trainwrecks, Gundam Reconguista in G. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.