The Gaijin Animation Appreciation Hour

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Elden Ring DLC announced, new Grendizer game, some streaming news, a new RPG maker gets a release date, an intriguing anime project, 86 gets a bizarre spin-off, more salt for haters, get in shape or you’re already dead, take a shower you filthy degenerates, and the final nail in E3’s coffin

· Discuss recent watches from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Review the new crossover movie between 80’s pink jacket Lupin and cat burglars in skin tight body suits, LUPIN III VS. CAT’S EYE

· Review the final four episodes of the surprising collaboration between AKIRA’s Otomo and CUP NOODLE, the actually decent 2006 OVA FREEDOM

Music:

Tears of Joy

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, RIP to the godfather of Japanese space opera, another old franchise revives, Crayon Shin-Chan gets a 3D CG anime, another giant Pokemon plush, a recreation of a burning mummy sword, last chance to see the life sized moving Gundam, Bandai Namco picking up where Sega left off, weebs will rule the world, learn how to do city shots over cool music from the master, and Crunchyroll totally not hurting financially

· Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Review the first season of THE VENTURE BROS., a cynical take on a classic cartoon done out of love instead of malice (and one of the funniest cartoons ever made to boot)

· Review the first three episodes of the surprising collaboration between AKIRA’s Otomo and CUP NOODLE, the actually decent 2006 OVA FREEDOM

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Nintendo with some surprise drops (some well received, some not so much), more Katamari, a tiny sliver of hope for the next Transformers movie, Shin Kamen Rider looks great, a dope backpack, game pricing in perspective, and Gundam in some hot water for a little of the old ultra violence,

· Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Review the final four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE

· Review a non-Japanese animation, with the return of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force in AQUA TEEN FOREVER : PLANTASM

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, E3 may have finally given up the ghost, awesome Jackie Chan collection featuring City Hunter, Discotek brining the heat, Star Wars Visions Wallace and Gromit edition, a Kickstarter failure, another End of Evangelion, WOTC is dragging Hasbro into the abyss, some ridiculous Spanish luxury anime goods, Japan decides they do indeed need tourist money, Shinichiro Watanabe has no chill for NETFLIX Cowboy Bebop, and anime VAs acting like brain damaged children again

· Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Review the middle four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE

· Review Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic movie, based on his own manga, and one of the holy trinity of hand drawn animation, 1988’s AKIRA

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, some more manga get live action adaptations that may actually be good, NHK Worldwide with some must see TV, another statue for men of culture, the right way and the wrong way to handle translation, and a Bandai heist worthy of Goodfellas

· Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Review the first four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE

· Finish a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the fourth and final film in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 3.0 + 1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME

Music:

Tears of Joy

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, really milking it featuring Attack on Titan, some new Eva animation, Lupin gets his own channel, everyone’s favorite German soldier as DLC, some really cool and sometimes obscure mecha get models, spicy JoJo’s merch, and AI already getting into trouble over on Twitch (no hot tubs involved)

· Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Review the near forgotten movie that ties into the 2000’s anime TETSUJIN 28-GO, TETSUJIN 28 MORNING MOON OF MIDDAY, from GIANT ROBO and G GUNDAM’s Yasahiro Imagawa

· Continue a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the third in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 3.33 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO

Music:

Tears of Joy

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, one of the best Tales games gets a remake, more heavy metal dark fantasy, more sorcerer stabbing, a new AAA gaming property that just doesn’t seem all that exciting, PS5s may actually get easier to find (don’t hold your breath), manga continues to dunk on mainstream western comics, another anime convention update, and Belarus making pirates into privateers

· Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede

· Opine about the season finale of Gundam the Witch from Mercury and where the series might go from here

· Review the second season of NETFLIX’s live action adaptation of ALICE IN BORDERLAND

· Continue a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the first movie in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 2.22 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE

Music:

Tears of Joy

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the least surprising manga hiatus, a cool Patlabor event, an interesting assignment for a Fist of the North Star legend, a trailer for a crazy project from the Philippines, and Hideo Kojima saying the obvious

· Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Gundam the Witch from Mercury, and Chainsaw Man

· Review one of the highest grossing anime movies of last year, JUJUTSU KAISEN 0

· Review the first season of NETFLIX’s live action adaptation of ALICE IN BORDERLAND

· Kick off a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the first movie in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 1.11 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, release dates for the continuation of the hottest anime around, the continuation of the more and more bizarre JoJo’s, a hidden gem from Akira Toriyama gets an anime adaptation, a strange but excellent anime with the strangest name possible gets a Kickstarter, Junji Ito draws a Magic card, more Seven Seas drama, and the most metal (literally) giant robot statue exists in one of the most inexplicable of places

· Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, the new season of Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man

· Review most of KAMEN RIDER BLACK SUN (there’s a reason it’s only most)

· Review the stop motion animation classic Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Music:

Tears of Joy

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· Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Armored Core returns, how much Death Stranding can one man need?, you’re going to be waiting a while for that Kaiju Number 8 anime, a Netflix live action City Hunter (pray for this one to not be terrible), the last performance of an stone cold legend, Elden Ring is the best (you already knew this), creepy Gundam AI, and Nintendo them park attractions come stateside

· Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new season of Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man

· Review the third season of the NETFLIX animated series DOTA: DRAGON’S BLOOD

· Review the Korean high school zombie drama ALL OF US ARE DEAD

· Review the retro modern tokusatsu spectacular from EVANGELION and SHIN GODZILLA’s HIDEAKI ANNO, SHIN ULTRAMAN

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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