Hot Takes Podcast

Last episode Nick was put on trial. His crime? Dropping shows too early or for unclear reasons. Now the defense puts up a case.

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The artists

Jessie's Bluesky

Jill's Bluesky

The Previous Episode

Nick's AniList

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:00 Some background and score discussion

00:06:40 Gurren Lagann

00:09:50 Hunter x Hunter

00:17:00 Number of episodes watched

00:17:44 One Week Friends

00:21:08 SHY

00:22:24 My Happy Marriage

00:24:06 The Apothecary Diaries

00:35:08 Christian examines his dropped shows

00:37:24 Michael is betrayed by Sword Art Online

00:40:33 Demon Slayer

00:44:30 Nick calls out Michael

00:48:44 My Hero Academia

00:56:31 Haruhi Suzumiya

01:00:14 Back to Apothecary Diaries

01:01:17 GATE

01:02:10 Outro

What do you do when you show up to record without a topic? Find out how we work (or don't) in this bonus episode where we also publicly commit to several things.

Nick is too busy to record so it's up to Michael and Christian to make an episode happen. Surely this will go well.

Nick's AniList

Michael's AniList

Christian's AniList

Ah summer... a time to get in the sun and be outdoors. Or you know, do what we do and watch all of the great anime releasing. Christian and Nick give Michael some recommendations since he's been missing out on those.

The Water Magician

See You Tomorrow at the Food Court

Clevatess

Rascal Does Not Dream

- Links to the first season

Kaiju No. 8

- Links to the first season

The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity

CITY THE ANIMATION

This is not legal advice. This is not financial advice.

We go through and rank the 37 existing movies in the MCU... despite only one of us having seen all of them.

Main Spider-Man: Homecoming Poster

Better Spider-Man: Homecoming Poster

Christian and Nick sit down to discuss the Crunchyroll Anime Awards several weeks after everyone else has talked about them.

Connect with us on Bluesky

We have a lot to talk about when it comes to this debate, most of it isn't actually about subs vs. dubs but hey that's not why you're here anyway! Shoutout to our friend @jessayleee on Twitter for making us some new PNG Tubers!

We just kinda started talking and some funny things went down. New full episode tomorrow!

Have you ever wondered what the criteria are for a good starter anime? We have, and we think we've come up with a pretty good answer! Take a listen as we debate what does and doesn't make a good starter anime and give our general recommendations.

Link to review article - https://www.fandomspot.com/beginner-anime/

Link to Vicky the Viking for some reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky_the_Viking

We are just a little behind in getting out a third episode here, but we wanted to give you some behind the scenes content to make up for it! Enjoy our Episode 2.5 kindly dubbed "Our Various Tech and Life Issues" for your listening pleasure.