Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) dive into the wild world of the CG animated Resident Evil films based off the video games as we watch the latest of those that takes place between Resident Evil 6 and 7. We discuss the wild, wild action in this film, Leon being sad, Chris being beefy, and the film fridging Rebecca.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss an anime that AL got Jared to finally watch after having read the manga initially. We talk about the anime’s entire run thus far, what makes it fun and enjoyable, the joys of having adult characters, how it’s relatable, and the bummer of anime adaptations that barely touch upon a manga’s story.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) travel back to 2008 to talk about a JRPG that was a XBOX 360 exclusive for a long time until just recently. We discuss our initial time with the game, what’s new in the definitive edition, how one of the costumes made Jared be incredibly shocked, and how Patty is a great new addition to the game.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) celebrate Jared’s birthday by discussing his recent senior seminar project from college that he did where he created a course on manga. We talk about the structure of the course, how manga is treated in academia, what manga the course would use, and why a course such as this is important.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) finished watching Pop Team Epic back in September of last year, but there’s no better time than now to discuss the series. We talk about the anime’s run, our favorite gags and jokes, and how much we really want to see an actual version of Hoshiiro Girldrop.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) dove deep into a lengthy JRPG series in the Trails of Cold Steel games as we played through the first game. We talk about all the wild twists and turns and how much we ended up enjoying this game with it getting us very excited to play more of the series.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) have tallied everything up and are ready to present their Game of the Year awards! Who walks away as the Best Game of 2018? Who gets one of the coveted supplemental awards that we will give out? What’s our favorite anime of the year? These questions are all answered in our final episode of 2018.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) ring in the holidays with another anime film that takes place during Christmas in Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. AL has never watched anything Gundam related so she went into this extremely confused and left extremely confused, but we discuss the film, Gundam Wing’s rise in North America, and some of the interesting marketing techniques for the series in Japan.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) are prepared for everyone to be here as we discuss the latest iteration of Smash Bros. We talk about what parts we enjoyed, what parts we absolutely did not enjoy [looking at you unlock system], and what’s up with World of Light.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) look ahead to the future (zura) and see what video games and anime that are coming out in 2019 they are excited about. We go through a lot of different games that have at least some form of release date or are rumored to come out in 2019 and also some anime that will come out next year as well. Like last year, we recorded this before the awards shows that happened this week so those announcements are not represented here.