We all need motivation some times and so I chose some select anime quote that get me feeling pretty okay and just decided to read them out loud and talk about them! It's been a hard few weeks for us and the motivation to lead with your best foot forward can be so hard to find but hey! Some small sentiment of determination can be found in everything even anime! Just always try your best. I hope you have a great week. Thanks for supporting us and listening like you always do. It means a whole lot. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! 

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[songs used]

KODOMOi - Sayonara April https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic

CC: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

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It's another week of just me, myself, and I as hosts of the podcast so I really struggled to just come up with something to talk about but I've recently started reading Ranma 1/2 and thought to myself that I really really do like Rumiko Takahashi's manga especially Maison Ikkoku so I just went ahead and talked about it in a spoiler free discussion. Maybe you'll get something out of it and gather up the urge to read Maison Ikkoku yourself or maybe you'll just not do that and live your life. I think you're doing great regardless. Solo podcasts are hard unless you just script everything. I'm kind of tired of doing them. 

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We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

[songs used]

KODOMOi - Sayonara April https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic

CC: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Music promoted by Just No Copyright ツ https://youtu.be/beHDY4qjqKM

Spooky anime! Japanese curses! Umbrellas! Is Another even really that scary? We talk all that and more (but mostly more) in this episode! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Special thanks to Boomslank with their help in sponsoring this episode! You can go to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to take 10% off your total purchase or just use OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST at check out to take that 10% off! It helps support the podcast and you get some of the coolest anime apparel merch out there!

We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

[songs used]

KODOMOi - Sayonara April https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic

CC: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Music promoted by Just No Copyright ツ https://youtu.be/beHDY4qjqKM

It might be kind of late to give some impressions but we're talking about the Fall 2022 seasonals that we're checking out anyways! Audrey is watching THREE WHOLE SHOWS! It's like a high score among high scores! We also talk about what we've been doing too. In case you care. I hope you care. I care about you. Friendly reminder that this is a mature podcast for mature people who are mature and do mature things so, you know, be wary. Like keep your guard up at all times. You never know when a mature discussion could strike. Bond is also best boy of the year. Borf. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

[songs used]

KODOMOi - Sayonara April https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic

CC: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Music promoted by Just No Copyright ツ https://youtu.be/beHDY4qjqKM

It's a trashed episode that was turned into a Patreon exclusive that's been turned into a regular episode again! It's a wonderful butterfly of a piece of podcast content! We couldn't record this week but we had to have something so here's the something! Light novels are an ever looming threat (I think) to anime and must be treated with respect and dignity and sincere thoughtful consideration but it's just so hard when you're trying to read a book that is titled something like" The Results From When I Time Leaped to My Second Year of High School and Confessed to the Teacher I Liked at the Time", you know? We (and by we I mean me, Matt) break down literature and if light novels are literature! The answer will not shock you but we have to have dramatic tension for the sake of content, you know. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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This Atlanta sure has a lot of anime weekend, huh? I said AWA so much this weekend that it started to sound wrong and I had to doubt that I had a grasp of the English vernacular and language. One of us went to AWA and one of us had to talk about it so here it is! One of us talking about it for about forty minutes or so? Maybe thirty? Time is an illusion. Break free of the shackles of allowing time to dictate your life. Be anti-time. All thoughts and feelings about this convention are basically one person's so don't allow that to dictate your enjoyment or anything like that. If you had fun and thought that Line-mageddon of AWA was fun then you keep that energy and carry it with you. I won't hate you for it. I think you're beautiful. Anyways yadda yadda as always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Special thanks to Boomslank with their help in sponsoring this episode! You can go to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to take 10% off your total purchase or just use OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST at check out to take that 10% off! It helps support the podcast and you get some of the coolest anime apparel merch out there!

We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

[songs used]

KODOMOi - Sayonara April https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic

CC: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Music promoted by Just No Copyright ツ https://youtu.be/beHDY4qjqKM

The wheel giveth and the wheel taketh. The wheel be taketh-ing an awful lot lately as we discuss the recently finished anime My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex! It's not quite Domestic Girlfriend and it's not quite Scum's Wish either so what even is it? It's mid is what it is but you won't know that for sure unless you listen to this episode and get our opinions on it. Well, you could watch it yourself and make your own opinion or whatever but it's 2022! You don't have time for that. You only have time for us to talk about it for you. I humbly accept this glorious position.  As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! 

Special thanks to Boomslank with their help in sponsoring this episode! You can go to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to take 10% off your total purchase or just use OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST at check out to take that 10% off! It helps support the podcast and you get some of the coolest anime apparel merch out there!

We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

[songs used]

KODOMOi - Sayonara April https://soundcloud.com/kodomoimusic

CC: Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) 

Music promoted by Just No Copyright ツ https://youtu.be/beHDY4qjqKM

Visual novels! They exist and we play them. Sometimes. With the recent (well recent when we recorded this) rejection and then reacceptance of Chaos;Head Noah on Steam, we thought maybe we'd talk about that! What does this mean for the medium of visual novels in the west and what even is a visual novel? We break down most of that and more this week! BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR BOOMSLANK FEATURING THEIR NEW IPHONE 14 CASES! GO TO WWW.BOOMSLANK.COM/OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST OR USE COUPON CODE "OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST" TO GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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[Spoiler Warning Included in the Episode!] It's a Cyberpunk Edgerunners review and discussion, chooms! I don't got much else to tell ya unless you got the eddies for it. As you can tell by my hip lingo, I'm kind of a big deal in Night City. We discuss and review the latest and greatest(?) Trigger anime this week so join us and be sure to delta out to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our past, present, and future episodes as well as links to all our social media including our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Be sure to join our Discord to hang out with your fellow netrunners! Ganbatte!

We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

"If the anime boobies be floppin' then you know the show is probably not gonna be rockin'" is the old saying and we're out to see if that's true with our review of High School of the Dead! Is this zombie show really a classic or is the universe collectively playing a game trick on everyone by making this one of the most popular anime out there? We dive into that question (but not for very long) and more all in another episode of our watchlist roulette reviews! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We do not own or claim to own the songs and media used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs and clips used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.