Season 2 of AFTF comes to a close as Mallory and Ranka finally visit one of Kirara's most popular properties in recent memory, GochiUsa! WIll this magical-realism ambiguously European slice-of-life deliver the right drinks (jokes and a fun time) to the right table (our brave hosts) or do the cafe wenches of Rabbit House need some extra sessions with the Demon Trainer? Pour yourself a hot cup of AFTF and join us in the break room!

Timestamps:

Start to 1:01:00 - Intro, Cast & Crew, Show discussion

1:02:40 to 1:35:50 - Tippy Talk, Best Funnies and Pairing chat

1:37:30 to End - Big ol fuckin mailbag (stay tuned for important announcements!!!!!!!!! or skip to the end its ok)

Happy Anniversary!!!! With this release, AFTF celebrates its first birthday! To reward you all for listening, here is the upload of our Haruhi episode, over one week late! Enjoy as Mallory, Ranka, Gigi and MM talk serious shop about Haruhi: the girl, the god, the show and the cultural legacy it left in its wake.

The rarest of Kirara rarities: a hetero romance. It is absolutely the first thing, but is it at all the second thing? Let alone, is it even a fun thing?? Enjoy as Ranka and I try our hardest to make a compliment sandwich for Acchi Kocchi, and then settle on a compliment tartine, or maybe more of an hors d'oeuvre, or a canape. I'm having a turkey sandwich right now; very underrated deli meat. Such a good partner to mayo. Try chopping some basil up into your mayo next time you make a nice cold cut sandwich!

Timestamps:

Start to 15m - Intro and Background

15m to 26m - Cast & Crew

26m to 30m - Tangent on A Centaur's Life

30m to 37m - The rest of the Cast & Crew segment

37m to 57m - Show discussion

59m to 1h18m - The compliment part of the compliment sandwich

1h18m to End - Mailbag (we need to start making these smaller)

That Kirara show about video games? Yeah you know the one. No not that one. It's Stella no Mahou!! In one of our most heartfelt and intellectual conversations thus far (for real), we gush over Stella's love and attention to the doujin creation and doujin market scenes while waxing nostalgic on our own convention experiences. Genuinely one of my favourite episodes we've done yet, please enjoy!

Three parter inbound, timestamps below:

Start to 1:03:00 - Show intro, Cast & Crew, General impressions

1:05:00 to 1:48:00 - Themes, Doujins, Shipping Discussion

1:50:00 to End - Mailbag

The pod returns. Azumanga returns. You asked one billion questions. We answered all of them. Just under 2 hours. Have a grerat time

It's all mailbag so no timestamps. There's a break at like 1:05:00 or something

It's finally here! Our actual, for realsies, biggest episode to date! We tackle the legendary comedy of the modern era, Azumanga Daioh! Aurora (@request_healing) and G (@no_stunts) come in as our pinch hitters to discuss the legacy and cultural impact of one of the most enduring comedy animes of all time. Part 1 covers our entire show discussion, whereas Part 2 will reach your feeds shortly, with just about 2 hours of pure unadulterated mailbag! Stay tuned!

Timestamps:

Start to 35m - Intros and Cast & Crew

35m to 1:48 - Show analysis & comedy talk

1:49 to End - Western influence/legacy & shipping chat

Part 2 coming soon!!

Another season passed! Time to talk about upwards of a dozen shows we watched. That's so many!! Don't worry, one of them is Machikado Mazoku Season 2!! And another one of them is Tomodachi Game!? Discover the rest inside <3 Mwah

This episode is huge, here's a bunch of timestamps so you can skip around:

Timestamps:

A very special episode, dedicated to all of you who have been clamouring for us to discuss a long-forgotten shounen series that randomly happens to fall within our Manga Time Kirara purview! Yes, that's right, it's finally here, Dream Eater Merry! The inexplicably Kirara-published battle series packs a visual punch and mild dramatic/romantic intrigue, but is that enough for us to actually like it when there's no lighthearted pastoral antics to be had? Also our mailbag is full of nonsense this time so I hope you're read up on Mnemosyne.

It's finally here, for real this time! Mallory and Ranka argue incessantly over what might be the #1 yuri-anime-you've-seen-people-post ever, Sakura Trick! Who liked it and who hated it? Who is this show for? How off-topic can the mailbag possibly get? All this and more, right behind the play button!

An anime about manga? What the hell are they going to think up next... Kirara's stab at the shockingly autobiographical leaves Mallory and Ranka with mixed reactions and a lot of hilarious material to talk about. Thank god for that, cause I think we're about to get audited...

Longer one, so it's been broken into 3 segments! Enjoy!