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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the surprising yet not surprising success of the Jujutsu Kaisen movie, Bandai’s restructuring, the Oscars again failing to recognize the glory of anime, more interesting anime merchandise tie ins, and Amazon raising prices after making record profits (gotta pay for that, um, much anticipated Lord of the Rings show somehow)

· Discuss recent watches including the current season of Demon Slayer and Attack on Titan

· Wonder about the phenomenon of light novels (pulp by another name perhaps)

· Review the recent CG movie that celebrates and distills to its essence Monkey Punch’s most famous creation, LUPIN III THE FIRST

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the RX-78 Gundam statue sticking around, anime music making US Billboard charts, everybody getting down with the sickness, and conventions continuing self-destructive practices

· Discuss recent watches including the current season of Demon Slayer

· Pontificate on a vital part of the Shonen formula

· Wonder why CG is as bad as it is in many modern anime

· Review the CG classic that even had some involvement from John Woo, APPLESEED EX MACHINA, based on the world created by Masamune Shirow of Ghost in the Shell fame

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Adult Swim on the decline, Cinedigm continuing the trend of consolidation, and E3 sinking further into the abyss

· Wrap up the Fall 2021 season of anime

· Discuss the modern improbably classic Cobra Kai

· Review the mostly forgotten Kamen Rider-esque show from the early 00’s, SADAMITSU THE DESTROYER

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, AMC making some interesting acquisitions, the Initial D follow-on, new Urusei Yatsura, and a live action version of a classic Super Robot show (no, not from Netflix)

· Discuss the second season of The Witcher

· Wrap up their review of G Gundam

· Review the seemingly forgotten OVA that was pretty big back in the early 00’s, READ OR DIE

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Jujutsu Kaisen ruling the box office in Japan, the OddTaxi movie announcement, Junji Ito voicing some of his own work, another game maker escaping California, and Tomino being Tomino

· Discuss franchises that should make a comeback

· Go over some franchises that did come back and did it well

· Review the hidden gem that is KOUTETSUSHIN JEEG

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, very unexpected Gundam, Demon Slayer’s continued dominance, the acquisition of Dark Horse, and some very Japanese thoughts on Matrix Resurrections

· Praise the excellent writing from a most unlikely source, ARCANE, a LEAGUE OF LEGENDS adaptation/spinoff on NETFLIX

· Discuss their top 5 favorite Christmas episodes

· Review the simple pleasure that is the 80’s movie DIRTY PAIR – PROJECT EDEN

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, new Ultraman, some other tokusatsu related news, the return of Wizardry, some unfortunate passings, and one good one (sayonara Cowboy Bebop gaijin version)

· Discuss the first half of the insanity that is G Gundam

· Marvel at the strange, slow death of live action anime – or maybe not

· Review the strange 80’s anime movie, DAGGER OF KAMUI

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, some good and some very spicy Sony news, Netflix continuing to ruin Japanese franchises, manga once again dominating American comics, the long wait for more UC Gundam, and conventions continuing to virtue signal themselves to death

· Compare and contrast COWBOY BEBOP and OUTLAW STAR

· Ponder whether we’re finally on the downslope of poorly written garbage entertainment

· Review the 90’s movie, and many Americans’ gateway to Gundam, GUNDAM WING: ENDLESS WALTZ

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Japan’s lust for milking every last yen out of a property, a Gundam related hula dancing anime, another example of Japan’s insane work culture, and the worse get out the vote endorsement since P Diddy on South Park

· Discuss the intriguing new Korean supernatural drama HELLBOUND

· Compare and contrast the classic BATMAN tale THE LONG HALLOWEEN, in both graphic novel and animated form

· Review the Captain Harlock classic from Leiji Matsumoto, MY YOUTH IN ARCADIA

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, a recycled Gundam head, Kojima entering the belly of the beast, a politician censured for spicy anime memes, one of Twitter’s many nightmares coming true, and Miyazaki coming out of retirement

· Discuss the trash fire that is Netflix Cowboy Bebop

· Go through their favorite subgenres that need to return

· Review the very different from the series ESCAFLOWNE THE MOVIE

Music:

Tears of Joy

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