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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the Demon Slayer plane, more bad game console news, pirate manga sites getting shut down, illicit cake sales, and modern sensitivities striking again

· Give a mid-season update on Fall 2021 anime, what’s good, and what’s steaming garbage

· How Japan gives its weirdos what they want

· Review the Mamoru Oshii classic URUSEI YATSURA 2: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the passing away of Plastic Little co-creator Kinji Yoshimoto, the return of a bizarre double-feature, more Netflix live action news, the return of Tiger and Bunny, and the debut of spicy anime memes in US politics

· Discuss the recent death game sensation SQUID GAME

· Give their thoughts on the original Cowboy Bebop

· Pontificate on how tastes mature

· Review the Mamoru Oshii classic JIN-ROH: THE WOLF BRIGADE

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Nintendo chip shortages and other issues, another adaptation for Hollywood to ruin, Pokemon sumo, and another ridiculous bit of anime tie in merchandise

· Dissect the absolute disaster that is High Guardian Spice

· Advise that mental children not be allowed to do anything even remotely difficult or important

· Experience existential dread over our ever expanding Dystopian nightmare

· Review the Mamoru Oshii classic PATLABOR: THE MOVIE

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Anno overseeing the Thunderbirds remaster, Tomino being a man of culture, an update on NFTs, some interesting Gundam adjacent news, and the abomination that is the live action Cowboy Bebop trailer

· Discuss Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE

· Laugh at the sad failures that are game “journalists”

· Review the vampire killing OVA BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, mourn an inordinate number of passings in the past week, the strange case of NFTs, a new Godzilla short, and the madness that is the costume designs for the stage play version of BATMAN NINJA

· Discuss one more Fall 2021 new release and declare MECHA IS BACK!

· Discuss the Mugen Train prequel episode of Demon Slayer and the return of Lupin III

· Admire Japan and Invader Zim sticking to the formula while Rocco’s Modern Life puked all over itself

· Review the strange, David Lynch-esque psychological suspense classic PERFECT BLUE

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, a Cowboy Bebop tabletop RPG, a Pimp My Ride RPG situation involving Sword Art Online and Tales of Arise, anime nobody cares about featuring Crunchyroll, and Duke Togo telling you what’s what with outdoor survival

· Wrap up Summer 2021 anime, including Nighthead, Idaten Deities, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, and Getter Robo Arc

· Preview the Fall 2021 anime season

· Review the Miyazaki classic Princess Mononoke

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, anime inspiring heroism, and crowdfunding for a Dirty Pair re-release

· Finish a deep dive into all things animated UC Gundam, discussing Hathaway, F91, Victory Gundam, and even Reconguista in G and Turn A Gundam

· Compare how Japan and the West handle franchises and continuity, comparing Gundam to Star Wars and Lupin III to James Bond

· Review the Miyazaki classic Lupin movie The Castle of Cagliostro

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Tears of Joy

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, including some surprise nostalgia releases, laugh at the sad Cowboy Bebop adaptation some more, and mourn the death of Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito

· Continue a deep dive into all things animated Gundam, discussing ZZ Gundam, Char’s Counterattack, Unicorn, and Narrative

· Review STAR WARS VISIONS

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, as well as the laughable Cowboy Bebop adaptation, some ridiculous licensed merch, China being China, and a ridiculous lawsuit

· Continue a deep dive into all things animated Gundam, discussing 0083, Z Gundam, and the Z Gundam movies

· Discuss the importance of the classic “hero’s journey” in storytelling

· Review the tokusatsu classic MECHANICAL VIOLATOR HAKAIDER

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· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, as well as a number of new Gundam releases and Japan’s continued domination of the comic book market

· Continue a deep dive into all things animated Gundam, discussing the OVAs around the original series

· Discuss the proliferation of ugly animation in the west

· Review the definitely not animated movie SHIN GODZILLA

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Tears of Joy

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