We go through all our favorites of the year from 2020 Western TV animation after giving all of our thoughts on the recent Adventure Time Obsidian special, the premiere episodes of Onyx Equinox, Season 1 of the Animaniacs reboot, and Season 3 of Craig of the Creek.

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & April Collins.

Timestamps for the podcast:

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & Alex Bonilla share their thoughts on the final season including the series finale of BoJack Horseman.

Happy New Year everyone! After years of moving forward with a similar format, we’re switching things up for the podcast.

The headline is: We’re going to stop doing episode recap podcasts, and we’re going to focus on more high-level discussions.

The immediate change you’ll see is no episode recap podcasts which will result in less podcasts. However, we’ll still be covering the same shows, the podcast will still generally be similar, we’ll just be structuring our discussions in different ways. We think this new structure will result in more interesting discussions, and we’ll be better equipped to cover shows with a wide variety of release formats.

Here are the types of podcasts you’ll see instead of episode recaps:

Some exceptions to no more episode recaps: First, we still could do one if there’s an episode we’re super excited to talk about! Also, Steven Universe Future may or may not continue with episode recaps until its completion (if not we’d have every-other-week podcasts when it comes back). We’ll finish out Volume 7 recaps for RWBY since it’s almost over. We may finish out the She-Ra S4 recaps we almost finished. And we can still do pods on a single movie, whether it’s recently released or not!

We’re excited to continue to talk about a lot of awesome animated shows and movies in a format we think will work better. As always reach out with any feedback you have on the podcast!

Dylan Hysen, Delaney Stovall, Michelle Anderer, & Sarah Potter look back on the good, the bad, and overall trends in the portrayals of queer characters in 2019 animation including in Steven Universe, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, Young Justice: Outsiders, Craig of the Creek, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, gen:LOCK, Arthur, Rocko’s Modern Life, RWBY, BoJack Horseman, Tuca & Bertie, The Dragon Prince, Twelve Forever, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Miraculous Ladybug, Love Death + Robots, Hazbin Hotel, Big Mouth, Given, Stars Align, Sarazanmai, Carole & Tuesday, & Fruits Basket.

The results are in for our 2019 OVA-ies TV Animation Awards! After 645 votes cast, the winners in seven categories have been determined. Listen to the attached podcast to hear us announce the winners and analyze the results.

Steven Universe was the big winner of the night, taking home four of the seven awards, including the two biggest categories: Best Show and Best Episode. Infinity Train also had a big night with wins for Best New Show and Best Main Character for Tulip. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power won Best Supporting Character for Scorpia.

How the results were calculated: final placement was determined by an averaging of the percentages of the Open Vote and the Internal Vote of our patrons and staff, the latter of which was also weighed by number of shows watched in each category.

Winner: Steven Universe

Past winners: 2018-Steven Universe; 2017-Rick and Morty; 2016-Steven Universe

Winner: “Change Your Mind”, Steven Universe

Past winners: 2018-“A Single Pale Rose”, Steven Universe; 2017-”Tales from the Citadel”, Rick and Morty; 2016-“Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls”, Gravity Falls

Winner: Tulip, Infinity Train

Past winners: 2018-Marinette, Miraculous Ladybug; 2017-Star Butterfly, Star vs. the Forces of Evil; 2016-Pearl, Steven Universe

Winner: Scorpia, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Past winners: 2018-Lotor, Voltron: Legendary Defender; 2017-Diana Cavendish, Little Witch Academia; 2016-Peridot, Steven Universe

Winner: Infinity Train

Past winners: 2018-She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Winner: Steven Universe

Past winners: 2017-Little Witch Academia & Samurai Jack

Winner: Steven Universe

Here are the nominees for the 2019 OVA-ies Awards, celebrating the best in television animation from the year. Listen to the nominations announcement podcast accompanying this post and check out the nominations below!

Vote for your favorites in 7 categories. Winners are chosen 50% by an open vote, 50% from our internal community of patrons & staff weighed by shows watched. Nominees were chosen internally by our patrons & staff, and you can see the nominations below! Winners will be revealed in a podcast at the end of December.

Steven Universe leads with 6 nominations, one in every category it was eligible for. Followed by Tuca & Bertie and Infinity Train with 5 nominations, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power with 4 nominations. gen:LOCK, The Promised Neverland, and RWBY had 3 nominations each.

Voting closes at noon on Sunday December 29th. Google sign-in is required for voting. Voting is anonymous, the sign-in is just required to restrict voting to 1 per person.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, Sam Quattro, & Ally Martin recap the last two episodes of BoJack Horseman Season 6 Part 1, “The Face of Depression” & “A Quick One, While He’s Away”!

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer & Ally Martin discuss the fifth and sixth episodes of the final season of BoJack Horseman: “A Little Uneven, Is All” and “The Kidney Stays in the Picture”.

Alex Bonilla, Sam Quattro & Michelle Anderer discuss the third and fourth episodes of the final season of BoJack Horseman: “Feel-Good Story” and “Surprise!”

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer, Sarah Potter & April Collins discuss the first two episodes of the final season of BoJack Horseman: “A Horse Walks Into a Rehab” and “The New Client.”