Hello Adventurers! As Valentione’s Day has just passed us by, we thought now would be a great time to show some of the characters in Final Fantasy XIV some love. As it just so happens, GPOSERS had kicked off the month with a post on Bluesky that links to a FFXIV character Tiermaker. And thus, after recording for three or so hours… and many… many more hours of editing after the fact, we now present to you The Official Carbuncle Chronicle Character Rankings: From ARR to Endwalker. But also, we talk a little bit about what we are excited for in the upcoming patch of 7.2: Seekers of Eternity.

Spoiler Levels: Archon Loaf! Baked with either fish or vegetable flour, this fluffy loaf of rye bread is?from a nutritional standpoint?wholesome indeed. OK, so rather than fish or vegetable flour, this no-less fluffy loaf of a podcast is baked with love (and hate) for the many great (and terrible) NPCs that form the backbone of the MMORPG we all enjoy! So spoilers will, in fact, be aplenty.

Thank you to GPOSERS for the great idea prompt for the podcast topic! But without further ado, here’s that final tier ranking image:

But also, Time Cues! And just so you know, we end up going through the list alphabetically, so when you see a name listed in the cues that’s where we are in the ranking: Ahewann thru Zenos.

• 00:00:00 – Intro and Three Things We Are Looking Forward to in Patch 7.2!
• 00:11:26 – The Character Tier Rankings Begin
• 00:16:46 – Setting the Rules
• 00:17:14 – We Each Pick a Winner
• 00:24:41 – Ahewann, and Other Characters that Start With the Letter A
• 00:40:31 – Beq Lugg, and Beyond
• 00:56:00 – Estinien!!!
• 01:14:59 – Kai-Shirr???
• 01:26:33– Moenbryda, Forever in Our Hearts
• 01:39:39– Pipin, and His Most Glorious Hair
• 01:53:10– Ysayle, and Wrapping up the Rankings

Music is this episode features tracks such as “Sanctuary’s Heart: Close in the Distance” (Remixed by DJ Mitsu the Beats), “The Aetherial Sea” (Composed by Masayoshi Soken, Arranged by Daiki Ishikawa), “Black and White” (Composed by Masayoshi Soken, Arranged by Yukiko Takada), “Pulse: A Long Fall” (Remixed by Takafumi Imamura), “estinien.mp4” (Remixed by Denmo McStronghuge), “Knowledge Never Sleeps” (Composed by Masayoshi Soken, Arranged by Yoshitaka Suzuki), “Magicked Skulls” (Composed by Masayoshi Soken), “Sultana Dreaming” (Composed by Masayoshi Soken), “Perfumed Eves” (Composed by Masayoshi Soken, Arranged by Daiki Ishikawa), “Your Answer” (Composed by Nobuo Uematsu, Arranged by Takafumi Imamura & Daiki Ishikawa), and “Pulse: Insatiable” (Remixed by Shoya Sunakawa).

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Hello Adventurers! And wait for it, no longer! Since we’ve gotten the vast majority of things one can do in the current patch that is 7.1: Crossroads, we figured now would be a great time to talk about it. But not only that, we also delve into some of things that we are looking forward coming to Final Fantasy XIV this year. (And in fact, after we recorded, we learned even more about what is coming soon since there has been a Live Letter all about 7.2: Seekers of Eternity!)

Spoiler Levels: Popoto Chips! Thin slices of popoto, fried to a golden crisp and lightly salted to create the perfect snack. Just like this episode! Until we break out the spicy cheese sauce of spoilers. But those are clearly marked by the Time Cues below!

That’s right folks! Time Cues:

• 00:00:00 – Intro and the Feeling of a Trial Series Well Defeated
• 00:10:45 – Jeuno: The First Walk
• 00:21:38 – Yuweyawata Field Station
• 00:33:08 – Raids! (Minstrel’s Ballad: Sphene’s Burden, Futures Rewritten (Ultimate), and Jade Stoa (Unreal)
• 00:41:56 – Various Other 7.1 Contents
• 00:50:06 – 7.1: Crossroads MSQ Spoiler Talk
• 01:00:12 – Commercial Break, Looking Forward in FFXIV in 2025
• 01:25:32 – More Speculation and Outro

Music is this episode features tracks such as “Battle in the Dungeon” by Naoshi Mizuta (FFXI), “Paved in Solitude” by Masayoshi Soken (Interphos Part 1), “Unbroken Vessels” by Shoya Sunakawa (Yuweyawata Field Station), “The Grand Duchy Of Jeuno” by Naoshi Mizuta (FFXI), and “Windswept Echoes (Remixed by Shoya Sunakawa)” (Pulse: Final Fantasy XIV Remix Album Vol. 2 Session 1).

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It’s now the year 2025, so what better way to kick off a new year… Than to release an episode that we meant to record and release in 2023! If it helps, it’s about an anime that came out in 2020 that not enough people watched at the time. Including us! But we have now rectified that problem. As we have watched it, enjoyed it, and now are releasing a podcast it all about so you can hopefully enjoy it too!

And that anime is Appare-Ranman! It’s a wild crazy racing romp across the United States of America, brought to you by the studio at P.A. Works and directed by Masakazu Hashimoto. We also get into the anime version of I’m in Love with the Villainess, the tabletop role-playing game Fabula Ultima, as well as the video game hit sensation Balatro.

Like we mentioned on the podcast you can both watch the anime on Crunchyroll, as well buy it on Blu-ray (Amazon | Crunchyroll Store)! And without futher ado, have some Time Cues:

• We start the OSMcast!ing – 00:00
• General Gabbing – 00:36
• OSMplugs (Discord, Patreon, TeePublic) – 01:49
• Moments of OSM – 03:42
  • I’m in Love with the Villainess – 04:04
  • Fabula Ultima TTRPG – 07:54
  • Balatro – 11:21
• Appare-Ranman!
  • Appare-Ranman!, Sans Spoilers (Mostly) – 21:31
  • Appare-Ranman!, Full of Spoilers – 50:08
  • Questions from Listeners Like You about Appare-Ranman! – 1:04:11
  • OSMs Out of OSM and Final Thoughts – 1:26:34

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You know that ye ole holiday tune, The Christmas Song? You probably do, only most people would know it more as the “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” song. Well, this podcast is kinda like that. Only it’s not chestnuts roasting, but spent mobile suit artillery shells. Still on a open fire, though! That’s right, in the spirit of the season, we are talking about Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket. It’s an anime OVA animated by Sunrise, directed by Fumihiko Takayama and written by Hiroyuki Yamaga. It’s a great six episode story all about the wonders of asshole children, secret giant robots, and the true spirit of Christmas. Kinda.

Happy holidays! All of them. You celebrating a holiday this year? Hell yea, go you! We’re over here celebrating that we got a holiday episode out that’s not Itsudatte My Santa! for once. Also on the celebration docket? Time Cues:

• We start the OSMcast!ing – 00:00
• General Gabbing – 00:36
• OSMplugs (Discord, Patreon, TeePublic) – 01:51
• Moments of OSM – 03:40
  • Fantasian: Neo Dimension – 03:43
  • Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake – 08:41
  • Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite & Beyond – 12:07
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Sans Spoilers (Mostly) – 14:47
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket, Full of Spoilers – 38:22
  • Questions from Listeners Like You about Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket – 1:08:42
  • OSMs Out of OSM and Final Thoughts – 1:20:14

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Ah, Fall. For many, it is the time for crisp, cooler air, pumpkin spice lattes, and bundling up all warm and toasty while you watch the leaves change from the colors of green to the colors of autumn. But if you’re us? It’s all about families of assassins, yakuza, military complexes, bear cults, and devious pro wrestlers. Or perhaps intrigue, spy craft, and amorous rendezvous aplenty! Oh, and murder. Just lots and lots of murder. All kinds. But mostly the kind of murder that’s best served up by feet-knives.

That’s right, this time on the OSMcast we are talking about the manga and anime that is Crying Freeman! The manga was written by Kazuo Koike and illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami. The anime was adapted by Toei Animation and was directed by Higashi Shimizu and Ryunosuke Ono.

Crying Freeman! It’s a special show. Or manga. Either way, you can watch and/or read it! Here’s how:

• Stream on Devices that Stream
  • on RetroCrush (Subtitled, Dubbed)
• Buy on Blu-Ray
  • Amazon
  • Crunchyroll Store
• Buy as Manga
  • Dark Horse Digital

As for the podcast episode itself? Here, have some Time Cues:

• We Start OSMcast!ing – 0:00
• Crying Freeman
  • Crying Freeman, Sans Spoilers(ish) – 03:05
  • Crying Freeman, Full of Spoilers – 24:35
  • Crying Freeman, The Spoilers Continue – 55:28
  • OSMs Out of OSM – 01:32:18

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Hello Adventurers! While our last episode was all about our journey through Dawntrail as it was happening, this one is looking back at after finishing the Mainline Story Quest (colloquially known as the MSQ). Since we are now in the thick of Patch 7.1: Crossroads, we wanted to make sure to take a beat before the patch hit and get our thoughts out before the game continues to change and grow.

Joining us in reminiscing of uh, times not all that long passed, is our pal Umi aka Doug from OSMcast proper. He gives us a blow by blow of all the Jobs he’s been playing since the new expansion came out, and came up with some excellent sound design tips! And how about that MSQ , huh? Stuff sure happens, and we talk all about it! Finally, we get ourselves all hyped up for the new patch (which is already out). If you want our thoughts on that however, you’ll just have to… Wait for it.

Spoiler Levels: Creamy Alpaca Pasta! These rustic handmade noodles are boiled until tender, then tossed in a pan with grilled alpaca fillet and broccoli florets in a cream sauce. This hearty dish is the perfect compliment to both speeding up your spells’ cast times, but also for really digging into the spoilers that we chat about in the later portions of the episode.

You know it, you love it, you may even use it! That’s right, we got Time Cues:

• 00:00:00 – Intro and Current (whoops!) Events
• 00:22:04 – Umi’s Dawntrail Job Breakdown
• 01:00:13 – Delving into Dawntrail Spoiler Territory
• 01:32:04 – What’s Next? And Outros

Music is this episode features tracks such as emberling – “SPC700 cover: Final Fantasy XIV – Blade’s Exaltation,” Manuel – “Gas Gas Gas,” Minako Adachi – “Battle! (Marnie)” from Pokemon Sword and Shield, and Takafumi Imamura – “Starless Skyline.”

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From 1988 to 1989, the anime studio Gainax gave us a six episode OAV(OVA?) series known as Gunbuster. It had it all: Giant robots, space aliens, ladies from an all-girls school training in giant robots to fight the space aliens, the whole nine yards! Then in 2023, Discotek Media gave an outstanding Blu-ray release of that show complete with a brand new English dub handled by Sound Cadence Studios. And then in 2024, the OSMcast! gave the world a podcast about Discotek Media’s Blu-ray release of the anime Gunbuster by Gainax. But also joining us to talk about Gunbuster is Melissa Sternenberg, the voice of Kazumi Amano from the Sound Cadence Studios English dub production for the Discotek Media Blu-ray release of the anime Gunbuster by Gainax. We also talk about Glass Mask way more than expected, but not unappreciated.

Gunbuster! You should go watch it. There’s a really good Blu-ray you can buy! Or stream it on Crunchyroll (as of this posting)! And big thanks to Melissa and Tobias for joining us on the show! But before we forget, Time Cues:

• We Start OSMcast!ing – 0:00
• OSMplugs (Discord, Patreon, TeePublic) – 02:30
• Gunbuster
  • Gunbuster, Sans Spoilers – 03:34
  • Gunbuster, Full of Spoilers – 55:55
  • OSMs Out of OSM & Final Thoughts – 01:23:15

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John is back with another interview, and this time it’s with the one and only Rebecca Forstadt. Her voice has been in tons of anime, like for example: Nunnally Lamperouge in Code Geass, Rika Furude in When They Cry, as well as Tima from Metropolis. Or perhaps you may better know her as Reba West, when she was the voice of Lynn Minmei in Robotech. It’s a great conversation that covers her career, her blogging, and all sorts of things.

We want to thank Rebecca once again for taking the time to chat with us! And you can find all the places where Rebecca is by checking out her online at:

• Website: https://rebeccaforstadt.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/rebeccaforstadt/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rebeccaforstadt
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccaforstadtolk/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rebeccaforstadtvoices

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Hello Adventurers! OK, we are actually finally here! It’s Dawntrail time! Now that said, it’s been a month and change since release. But this episode is a amalgamation of multiple sound bites that we all recorded when the expansion was just launched into early access. It covers the first, oh we dunno, two-thirds of the game? Right up into Zone 5. All those early moments, storytelling beats, the various dungeons and trails? Hanging out with Wut Lamat and scopin’ out Tural? As we experienced them, we set voice to microphone and recorded them for you. Enjoy.

Spoiler Levels: Tender Shortcake! Layered with whipped cream and sliced nopalitender tunas, this light and fruity desert is the perfect summertime treat. Just like this episode! (Okay look. We already explained the actual spoiler levels in the paragraph above. You know what you are getting into here!)

In other news, we have posted on our YouTube page The Music of Final Fantasy XIV Panel that Tobias and Anna hosted at MomoCon earlier this year! It was a fun time and a great panel. If you haven’t watched it yet, you should! They did amazing.

Music used in this episode are the various day and nighttime themes used in Dawntrail. While the official credits have not been published for these it’s a safe bet they were all worked on in some fashion by Masayoshi Soken, and for the nighttime themes also arranged by Keiko.

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Hello Adventurers! Well, we are finally here! Kinda. Not quite. We are now just days, days before the latest Final Fantasy XIV expansion: Dawntrail! The servers are down, the patch is up for download, and Square Enix is already asking folks to not spoil stuff. So we’re not gonna! Because this is all pre-Dawntrail stuff. The latest Letter from the Producer LIVE, our muses, our crackpot theories, all you need to keep that Dawntrail hype alive for a couple more days! And then we’re in it! So go forth, listen, and enjoy.

Spoiler Levels: Baked Eggplant! Now, you would think that Baked Eggplant wouldn’t be all that spicy. You’d think. But this is a potent DPS-rich meal! So perhaps this isn’t an episode spoiler filled per se, but we would recommend that you listen to this episode after you are current playing right before Dawntrail. And then listen right before you start Dawntrail!

So after you have listened to this episode, some other things to help while away the time!

• Husky by the Geek’s Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Medley with 300 Musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjoFug9U5y4
• Sharlayan Dropouts‘ Dawntrail Predictions Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3McYv7GfvmyUdnw2dO28OJ?si=8a91a0921ff24cad
• Rong Rong’s When the final boss is a gen Z: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6D8EUUV448

But until then, how about some Time Cues:

• 00:00:00 – We Start the Carbuncle Chronicling and Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LXXXII (82) Thoughts
• 00:50:17 – Our Last Minute Predictions, Wants, and Thoughts for Dawntrail

Music used in this episode: “The Carbuncle Chronicle Theme” composed DJ Inubito and arranged by Anna, “Miracle Works” from the Sanctuary’s Heart Chill Arrangement Album, “Unwound (Qitana Ravel)[Chiptune Remix]” by EzeDuzzIt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBYECQ4tFI,”Equilibrium” from Pulse: FINAL FANTASY XIV Remix Album, “On Blade’s Edge” from Endwalker

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