Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #121 - The Mystery of the Ball State Larping Disaster

Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back to break down the 5th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. Bcom talks about Chihayafuru, but his voice floats into a soundless void where no one but Shinobu can hear him. We get into a discussion about the safety concerns at the Eizouken girls’ school, which leads Leo to debunk a myth about Kat’s university. During our conversation about ID: Invaded, we figure out what the results of drilling holes in your head has in common with the plots of Beastars and American Pie. Our Dorohedoro segment devolves into an advertisement for Texas Roadhouse. Chimpanzees cheat on Seton Academy’s field day, but Bcom is too distracted by a random “skunk” girl to really care. Maple becomes a walking environmental disaster in the latest episode of BOFURI. Haikyu continues to proceed a little slower than we would like. Between mushroom lolis and Cyclops eye fetishes, all of our hosts are pushed a bit too far by this week’s episode of Interspecies Reviewers. Recorded February 28, 2020. Timestamps: 1:39 - Nonsense (Bcom watches F1: Drive to Survive season 2 which leads into a discussion of reality dating shows somehow, Leo spreads the good news that another Japanese TV station has picked up Interspecies Reviewers, we have a very early discussion about Coronavirus which is very quaint in retrospect, Kat goes to a dinner that gives out free rubber duckies) 12:10 - Chihayafuru 3 (Ep. 17) 20:04 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Ep. 5) 35:35 - ID: INVADED (Ep. 5) 48:24 - Dorohedoro (Ep. 5) 1:01:27 - Commercial Break 1:03:01 - Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (Ep. 5) 1:18:41 - BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (Ep. 5) 1:29:09 - Haikyu!!: To the Top (Ep. 5) 1:36:31 - Interspecies Reviewers (Ep. 5) Social media and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/nerdomandothernonsense