Sometimes, in the course of your life, you just have to watch a show about teens who turn into animals if a member of the opposite sex touches them. Or at least you do if you’re Eric and Liam and you run the Shmanime Podcast. This week, with the (brief) help of returning guest Lily, we take on Fruits Basket, and we discuss toilet paper, Liam’s hatred of Fleetwood Mac, and Mr. T re-envisioned as a butterfly. Click here to listen. Subscribe to the show on iTunes. Follow Shmanime on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter. Follow Liam on Twitter. Follow… all of the twitters

The Shmanime episode Liam and Eric have for you today is about Gurren Lagann – Hiroyuki Imaishi’s frenetically stylized mecha anime series. Along the way, they also discuss the Shmanime Podcast’s research team (a solitary gerbil) and how great Nina Simone is.

Hey did you know Liam, a white person who has lived in suburban or urban America his whole life, has never even been inside a Costco? Isn’t that frigging weird?  Anyway, the Shmanime episode he and Eric have for you today is about Gurren Lagann, Hiroyuki Imaishi’s frenetically stylized mecha anime series. Along the way, they also discuss the Shmanime Podcast’s research team (a solitary gerbil) and how great Nina Simone is.  Listen to the episode here.  Subscribe to the show on iTunes. Follow Shmanime on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter. Follow Liam on Twitter. Follow… all of the twitters

Your hot fresh new episode of Shmanime is here, and hoo boy is it tasty. Liam and Eric take a spin on Space Dandy, and they bring along their returning guest Donovan (Mister Daywalker) for the ride. They yell at Donovan for being too funny, but they also talk about Marvel’s cancelled superheroes and introduce the podcast’s very first character. His name is Cletus.

Your hot fresh new episode of Shmanime is here, and hoo boy is it tasty. Liam and Eric take a spin on Space Dandy, and they bring along their returning guest Donovan (Mister Daywalker) for the ride. They yell at Donovan for being too funny, but they also talk about Marvel’s cancelled superheroes and introduce the podcast’s very first character. His name is Cletus.  Listen to the episode here. Subscribe to the show on iTunes. Follow Shmanime on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter. Follow Liam on Twitter. Follow… all of the twitters

One Piece is a franchise as weird and involved as you’d expect from the top-selling manga in Japan, and Eric and Liam are here (on our 20th episode!) to talk about it. They discuss Brian Eno and a movie about a bus crash, Liam sings Amazing Grace, and Eric spoils EVERYTHING.

One Piece is a franchise as weird and involved as you’d expect from the top-selling manga in Japan, and Eric and Liam are here (on our 20th episode!) to talk about it. They discuss Brian Eno and a movie about a bus crash, Liam sings Amazing Grace, and Eric spoils EVERYTHING. Listen to the episode here. Follow Shmanime on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter. Follow Liam on Twitter. Follow… all of the twitters

It’s Shmanime time once again, and for this episode, Liam and Eric bring their friend Donovan on board to discuss Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings. For all the two Shmanime aficionados out there, we hit all the classics: animal penises, US presidents, and James Joyce (again).

It’s Shmanime time once again, and for this episode, Liam and Eric bring their friend Donovan on board to discuss Sengoku Basara: Samurai Kings. For all the two Shmanime aficionados out there, we hit all the classics: animal penises, US presidents, and James Joyce (again). Click here for the episode. Follow Shmanime on Twitter. Follow Eric on Twitter. Follow Liam on Twitter. Follow… all of the twitters

What if the spirit of Oda Nobunaga, the legendary conqueror of Japan, lent its power to a young schoolgirl? What if Geronimo fought aliens side by side with Antonio Gaudí? What if Jack the Ripper was secretly… Florence Nightingale??

If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions, then boy howdy are you ready to hear Liam and Eric discuss Nobunagun. In this week’s episode, we talk about linguistics, Liam’s orgy island, and drafting the perfect RPG team from history’s most prominent figures.