Join the Gaijin as they:

· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, as well as Netflix defiling another Japanese property and more streaming services (yay?)

· Start a deep dive into all things animated Gundam

· Puzzle over why western comics eschew the highly successful manga business model

· Review the strange and entertaining sequel to Gunbuster, Diebuster (aka Gunbuster 2)

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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Join the Gaijin as they:

· Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and video games, as well as Japanese business culture doing what it does

· Discuss the animation launched with Warhammer +

· Lament the death of escapism

· Review the pre-Evangelion Anno work Aim for the Top! aka GUNBUSTER

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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Join the Gaijin as they:

· Cover Recent Anime News, including new Final Fantasy releases, the success of Evangelion, and when isekai goes too far

· Look back at Evangelion, focusing on the movies and how everything has come full circle

· Discuss live action anime and manga adaptations, and why so few are any good

· DC animation vs live action, or why Hollywood screws everything up

· Review the late Universal Century classic Mobile Suit Gundam F91

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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Join the Gaijin as they:

· Cover Recent Anime News, including the potential fallout from Sony’s acquisition of Crunchyroll and a convention update

· Discus the concept of “Western anime”

· Explore why the manga industry uses fan polls, and the reasons why they succeed where mainstream American comics fail

· Review the second half of the classic OVA Orguss 02

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

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Join the Gaijin as they:

· Cover Recent Anime News, including upcoming releases and the spicy topic of the purity spiral strangling the convention scene

· Give early 2021 Summer season recommendations (even though the season is almost half over)

· Gaze into the future to figure out which show will trigger the Twitter keyboard warriors

· Discuss the disappointing state of anime critics

· Review the first half of the classic OVA Orguss 02

Music:

Tears of Joy

Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/