The Crunchyroll Anime of the Year Awards are right around the corner and Xell and Crim are here to talk about the nominees this year! Did Crunchyroll miss a few anime? Do we agree with the nominees? What do we thing Anime of the Year should be? Find out on today's episode of the Nii-San Podcast! 

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0:00 Intro to Crunchyroll Awards3:19 Best Film Nominees9:03 Best Fantasy Nominees17:39 Best Romance Nominees26:20 Best Drama Nominees33:36 Best Comedy Nominees45:26 Best Action Nominees48:01 Best Ending Sequence50:17 Best Opening Sequence52:30 Best VA Performance (Japanese)54:52 Best Score Nominees56:51 Best Character Design1:01:41 Best Animation Nominees1:09:05 Best Director Nominees1:12:43 Best Fight Scene Nominees1:20:20 Best Antagonist Nominees1:24:51 Best Protagonist Nominees1:30:26 Best Girl Nominees1:34:40 Best Boy Nominees1:39:29 Anime of the Year Nominees1:52:27 Closing Thoughts

WINTER 2022 IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT IT COULD BE. Today Xell and Crim are chronicling their journey dredging through the winter wasteland of the 2022 season.

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Follow Nii-San Podcast Here:https://Reddit.com/r/NiisanPodcasthttps://twitter.com/NiisanPodcastwww.tiktok.com/@niisanpodcast0:00 Intro0:54 Where is Xell?!??!!!?2:24 Winter 2022 is Really Bad3:50 Weeb Weekly: Weekly Anime News3:57 Final Fantasy 14 Cancels Itself5:09 Manga Piracy Costs Trillions9:11 Belle Anime Movie Earns $2 Million in States11:08 Moon Knight Trailer Release14:51 Winter 2022 Season of Disappointment15:54 Attack on Titan17:45 Demon Slayer20:52 My Dress-Up Darling27:44 2nd Season Speedrun30:18 The Genius Prince31:39 Sabikui Bisco32:05 Love of Kill32:39 Princess Connect Re:Dive32:48 Sasaki to Miyano35:12 Akebi-chan no Sailor-fuku39:54 Fantasy Bishoujo40:30 Tokyo 24th Ward45:36 Slow Loop47:01 Tribe Nine50:50 World's End Harem1:00:38 Winter 2022 First Impressions1:04:53 Outro

Happy New Year! We are back from a small Holiday and ready to tackle the new year! With the lull in Anime at the moment, Xell and Crim are taking a look back at some anime that they missed throughout the year and are now catching back up on. 

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0:00 Intro3:10 Weeb Weekly Weekly Anime News3:21 Scott Pilgrim Anime Announcement5:57 Odd Taxi Movie Announcement6:25 Jujutsu Kaisen Zero Makes Big Bucks8:39 Initial D Reboot10:21 Season 2 Announcements11:08 Square Enix is Pro NFT12:55 Pokimane Banned for Restreaming15:14 Gordon Ramsay Doesn't Know About Twitch17:04 2022 Catch Up List17:54 Bunny Girl Senpai 21:43 Kuroko No Basket31:26 Slam Dunk37:44 Odd Taxi44:24 The Fate Series50:08 Disastrous Life of Saiki K. 55:59 Gintama58:24 Outro Happy New Years!1:00:01 Love is Hard for Otaku1:02:49 Outro Happy New Years!

On today's episode of the Nii-San Podcast. Xell and Crim take a look back at 2021 and pick out their TOP 5 ANIMES OF THE YEAR. Do you agree with their picks? Did we miss an Anime that you really loved? 

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0:00 Intro1:26 Year In Review 2021 Anime Season3:36 Honorable Mentions3:54 Xell's Honorable Mentions: Odd Taxi4:08 Xell's Honorable Mentions: Fruits Basket4:32 Xell's Honorable Mentions: Horimiya5:59 Xell's Honorable Mentions: To Your Eternity7:00 Crim's Honorable Mentions: Remake Our Life8:13 Crim's Honorable Mentions: Komi Can't Communicate8:36 Crim's Dishonorable Mention: Tesla Note10:14 Xell's #5: Vivy Flourite Eye's Song12:09 Crim's #5: To Your Eternity15:20 Xell's #4: Zombieland Saga19:05 Crim's #4: Sonny Boy21:34 Xell's #3: Attack on Titan24:26 Crim's #3 Vivy Flourite Eye's Song26:47 Xell's #2: Kobayashi's Dragon Maid32:08 Crim's  #2: Quinteseential Quintuplets37:11 Xell's #1: Ousama Ranking41:44 Crim's #1: Horimiya46:03 2021 Concluding Thoughts47:25 Outro

On today's episode of the Nii-San Podcast, Xell and Crim bundle up and start warming up to the Winter 2022 season. We'll look ahead to see what's new in 2022. Is there promising anime to watch next season? Everything sounds kinda lame right? Could Winter 2022 be the Worst Season Ever? Let us know your thoughts on our social media below!Check out our pretty looking podcast on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsPR4t556wjeH6ChZW8P0kQFollow Xell Here:https://twitter.com/XellTweetshttps://twitch.tv/Xell

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Follow Nii-San Podcast Here:https://Reddit.com/r/NiisanPodcasthttps://twitter.com/NiisanPodcast0:00 Intro0:50 Weeb Weekly1:02 Keiko Nobumoto Passes Away1:32 Netflix Cancels Cowboy Bebop2:42 Sonic 2 Trailer Release5:10 SAO Progressive Earns $1M6:08 Video Game Awards9:06 Warming Up to Winter 20229:52 Attack on Titan Final Season12:13 Demon Slayer District Arc17:31 My Dress-Up Darling21:20 Takagi-San21:43 The Case Study of Vanitas22:27 Princess Connect! Re:Dive22:38 The Irregular at Magic High School24:41 Sasaki to Miyano26:57 The Genius Prince29:33 She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man31:26 Love of Kill34:46  The Strongest Sage of Disqualified Crest38:00 Orient39:43 Akebi-chan no Sailor-fuku42:35 Slow Loop46:24 Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to50:26 Tribe Nine53:25 What's new for 2022?1:00:00 Outro

On Today's Episode of the Nii-San Podcast, Xell and Crim is taking on ANIME PROTAGS. We're ranking some popular anime protags from best to worst on TierMaker. Why is Spike Spiegel so dang cool? Why did Shinji have to inspire the army of Eren Yaegers? Can purposefully bland characters be good? We'll answer all of that and more on today's episode! 

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0:00 Intro0:52 Boruto From Naruto1:33 Kaneki Ken From Tokyo Ghoul2:22 Madoka Kaname From Puella Magi Madoka Magica4:08 Light Yagami From Death Note5:56 Lelouch From Code Geass7:03 Edward Elrich From Fullmetal Alchemist9:01 Eren Yaeger From Attack On Titan11:19 Deku From My Hero Academia12:57 Gon Freecss From Hunter X Hunter14:58 Shoyou Hinata From Haikyuu!!19:37 Hiyori Iki From Noragami21:35 Mob From Mob Psycho 10022:42 Naruto Uzumaki From Naruto24:38 Naoto Nandaba From FLCL26:45 Saitama From One Punch Man29:12 Saiki Kusuo From The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.31:05 Shinji Ikari From Neon Genesis Evangelion34:10 Simon From Gurren Lagann37:29 Natsuki Subaru From Re:Zero39:33 Spike Spiegel From Cowboy Bebop40:59 Umaru Doma From Himouto! Umaru-Chan42:52 Yumeko Jabami From Kakegurui44:54 Aggretsuko From Aggretsuko45:49 Monkey D. Luffy From One Piece47:56 Tanjiro Kamado From Demon Slayer50:36 Senku Ishigami From Dr. Stone52:47 Kaguya Shinomiya From Kaguya-Sama Love is War54:20 Yuji Itadori From Jujutsu Kaisen57:28 Outro

Today, we're going back to our roots and reviewing the Fall 2021 Animes! We'll talk about the meh, the sleepers, and the must watch! Don't know what to watch this season? Let us take the L and trudge through the trash for you! 

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0:00 Intro1:39 Weeb Weekly1:56 Jujutsu Kaisen Overtakes Demon Slayer3:56 Jojo's Stone Ocean Released5:02 Hideo Kojima Blesses Arcane8:06 FF14 Endwalkker Release8:55 Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Shining Pearl11:59 Fall 2021 Anime Review14:57 Platinum End18:15 The Faraway Paladin19:58 Irina: Vampire Cosmonaut22:38 86: Eighty-Six25:34 Blue Period28:12 Sakugan33:04 Vampire Dies in No Time37:29 Mieruko-Chan40:44 Komi Can't Communicate46:18 Ousama Ranking51:31 Mushoku Tensei54:12 Takt Op. Destiny1:01:23 My Senpai is Annoying1:06:41 Fall 2021 Final Thoughts1:08:26 Outro

The time has finally come for the review of the Cowboy Bebop live action! We've followed this show ever since it was announced and oh boy it's been a journey. Did Xell and Crim like the shows? How were the characters? Can the live action capture the soul of the great Cowboy Bebop? We'll answer all of these questions and more on today's episode of the Nii-San Pocast.Check out our pretty looking podcast on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsPR4t556wjeH6ChZW8P0kQFollow Xell Here:https://twitter.com/XellTweetshttps://twitch.tv/Xell

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Follow Nii-San Podcast Here:https://Reddit.com/r/NiisanPodcasthttps://twitter.com/NiisanPodcast0:00 Intro2:48 86 Ep. 19 Production Delays4:15 Made in Abyss Season 2 Announced5:58 ALI is back8:20 Cowboy Bebop: This is the Transition14:53 Cowboy Bebop: Spoiler Warning15:13 Cowboy Bebopo: The Costuming21:11 Cowboy Bebop:  The Music24:03 Cowboy Bebop: Plot Analysis37:23 Cowboy Bebop: Faye's Amnesia41:11 Cowboy Bebop: Jet's Backstory45:55 Cowboy Bebop: The Ending53:27 Anime Vs Live Action: Spike58:07 Anime Vs Live Action: Jet58:50 Anime Vs Live Action: Faye1:04:10 Anime Vs Live Action: Vicious1:04:19 Anime Vs Live Action: Julia1:05:29 Anime Vs Live Action: Anna1:05:47 Anime Vs Live Action: Gren1:07:03 Anime Vs Live Action: Ed1:09:49 Cowboy Bebop: Closing Thoughts1:19:41 Outro

We have arrived at the final chapter of Arcane! Did Arcane stick the landing? How well did the ending wrap up all of the loose threads? Today Xell and Crim are here to give their thoughts on the last three episodes of Arcane Season 1. Do you think the show stuck it's landing? Let us know in the comments below!Check out our pretty looking podcast on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsPR4t556wjeH6ChZW8P0kQFollow Xell Here:https://twitter.com/XellTweetshttps://twitch.tv/Xell

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Follow Nii-San Podcast Here:https://Reddit.com/r/NiisanPodcasthttps://twitter.com/NiisanPodcast0:00 Intro1:40 Weeb Weekly 1:53 Weeb Weekly Arcane S2 Announced3:33 Arcane Episode 721:11 Arcane Episode 831:35 Arcane Episode 954:37 Arcane: A Look Ahead1:08:12 How is Arcane Performing?1:11:17 Outro

Xell and Crim give their thoughts about ACT II of League of Legend's Arcane. Did the show live up to the hype of Act 1? Did they fix their Imagine Dragons issue? We'll be covering all of Act 2 and some big news on Weeb Weekly. Did you like Act 2 more? Let us know in the comments below!

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Follow Nii-San Podcast Here:https://Reddit.com/r/NiisanPodcasthttps://twitter.com/NiisanPodcast0:00 Intro2:34 Weeb Weekly3:02 One Piece Live Action5:48 Cowboy Bebop Live Action8:56 Alice in Borderland S29:56 Arcane Act II First Impressions30:59 Arcane Act II A Look Ahead39:48 Arcane Act II Closing Thoughts46:06 Outro