Imbibe in Anime

We look back over our entire anime knowledge to give your our top "feels" moments from many different shows. Major spoiler warnings for several shows as some of our choices give away important plot points and surprised for many series (see time stamps below). For our regular show this week, we give our reactions to Fire Force episode 19 "Into the Nether".

Spoiler time stamps:

Naruto and Naruto Shippuden 0:11:00 - 0:35:45

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood 0:35:45 - 0:39:15

Sword of the Stranger 0:40:10 - 0:44:40

Angel Beats 0:44:40 - 0:48:00

Mild spoilers for Berserk (1997) 0:48:00 - 0:53:10

Haikyuu!! 0:54:05 - 0:58:45

Mild spoilers for Wolf Children 0:58:45 - 1:03:30

Music Credit: (Mayday) by coldrain ft. Ryo

After some long serious binging, Stan and Motster reflect on our experiences with Pokemon Sword and Shield. We give our review of the game as well as recount our experiences with the Pokemon franchise in anime more generally. We also give our reactions to episode 18 of Fire Force.

Music Credit: (Mayday) by coldrain ft. Ryo

This week we are talking about one of our favorite parts of an anime, the opening. We talk about why we enjoy OPs so much and what we think makes a good OP. As part of our seasonal anime watching, we continue our review of Fire Force with ep 17.

Link to Mother's Basement analysis of Tokyo Ghoul OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UojMX9k--bE

Music Credit: (Mayday) by coldrain ft. Ryo

We discuss the how superb anime address questions of morality in series like Death Note and Psycho Pass. Strong SPOILER WARNING for anyone who has not seen either series. As per usual, we review the newest episode of Fire Force, episode 16.

Music Credit: Tiptoe Through The Tulips by Tiny Tim

This week we check in on two of the seasonal anime airing this Fall. We give our first impressions of the 4th seasons from Food Wars and My Hero Academia after having watched the first 3 episodes. We review Fire Force episode 15 as well as the new opening and ending.

Spoiler alert for the first 3 episodes of Food Wars and My Hero season 4, and mild spoilers for the series more generally.

Music Credit: (Mayday) by coldrain ft. Ryo

We discuss a sampling of our recent manga reads including Demon Slayer, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Vinland Saga, My Hero Academia, and more. We continue our Fire Force review with episode 14 and get to dive into a lot of head cannon for the lore of Fire Force.

Spoiler alert for Demon Slayer 0:13:40 - 0:18:50

Music credit (Infernal) by Mrs. GREEN APPLE

We discuss the merits of binge watching anime or watching weekly. We also discuss our disappointment with the recent story telling in Fire Force and our thoughts of episode 13 in general.

Music credit (Infernal) by Mrs. GREEN APPLE

We share out thoughts on Demon Slayer now that season 1 has concluded, as well as our weekly episode of Fire Force after a 2 week break from the show.

Links to videos mentioned in this episode:

Demon Slayer analysis from an animators perspective for episode 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df9RNez-HPI

Analysis for why Inoske is best boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZE1TnlpHT0

Music credit (Infernal) by Mrs. GREEN APPLE

Our friend Eden joins us on the podcast to reminisce about our college anime shenanigans. Together we go through the upcoming releases for Fall 2019. Eden gives us her first impressions of each show, and we discuss what we will and won't be watching.

Fall 2019 releases: https://myanimelist.net/anime/season

Black Fox trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKnR6uryWz8

We take some time this week to explore our anime ratings on our My Anime List profiles. We got through Stan, Mott, and Michael's completed anime and judge each other's personal preferences and tastes in anime. As usual, we review the most recent episode of fire force, but this week we have a lot to say about the weaknesses of the show so far.

Music credit: (Infernal) by Mrs. GREEN APPLE