Overly Animated OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Podcasts

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.

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.

Alex Bonilla and Michelle Anderer get the chance to sit down with creator Ian Jones-Quartey and executive producer/supervising director Toby Jones about the development of O.K. K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes!, favorite side characters, representation, and their fondest memories from working on the show!

You can follow Ian Jones-Quartey on Twitter @ianjq and Toby Jones @tobytobyjones.

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer, Steve Zec and Ally Martin discuss the final episodes of OK KO! Let’s Be Heroes!: “Let’s Fight to the End” and “Thank You For Watching the Show”.

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer, Steve Zec and special guest Justin Cummings cover the latest episodes of OK KO! Let’s Be Heroes!: “Let’s Meet Sonic”, “Let’s Get Shadowy”, “You’re a Good Friend, KO”, “Red Action 3: Grudgement Day”, “Carl”, “Dendy’s Video Channel”.

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer, Steve Zec & Ally Martin discuss the latest 5 episodes of OK KO! Let’s Be Heroes!: “Whatever Happened to… Rippy Roo?”. “Planet X”, “Deep Space Vacation”, “Big Reveal” and “Radical Rescue”.

Dylan Hysen & Alex Bonilla bring you all the animation news from this week’s 2019 San Diego Comic-Con!

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer & Steve Zec recap the six episodes that kick off Season 3 of OK KO! Let’s Be Heroes!: “We Are Heroes”, “KO, Rad and Enid!”, “TKO Rules!”, “KO Vs. Fink”, “Chip’s Damage” and “The KO Trap”.

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer & Steve Zec discuss the latest six episodes of OK KO! Let’s Be Heroes!: “Gar Trains Punching Judy”, “Beach Episode”, “KO AU”, “KO’s Health Week”, “Rad’s Alien Sickness” and “Dark Plaza”.