This Just Anime!

In case you hadn't heard, Demon Slayer's back and everyone and their mother is hyped to death for it. But that's only one of the many things we're covering in this week's episode. First up we're trying a rapid fire version of our usual banter giving our first impressions on the new Blade Runner series as well as Super Crooks on Netflix. We're also speculating a bit on the anime awards as the season nears its closing. From there we make a case for Ranking of Kings, will it cement its legacy as a classic, or be overlooked because it's less traditional than other anime. Lastly we dig up a little time capsule from the year 2012, which is almost 10 years ago as well as 2021 with the number rearranged. Something important happened that year, can you remember? If not don't worry, we got you covered plus some bonus info to really help the nostalgia set in. 

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We managed to make it through Thanksgiving while only wrecking our digestive system a little, and we even had time to catch up on this weeks new episodes so all in all we'd say it was a productive holiday weekend. This week on the cast we've got a couple morsels of new that might be of interest, but we're spending the bulk of the episode giving out a mid season report card and reexamining a couple of titles we talked about earlier in the season to see if they're holding up. Sepcifically Platinum End, Faraway Paladin, the assassin show with the absurdly long title, and My Senpai is Annoying, we really run the gamut from death to isekai to romcom. Then in an episode of either the week or weak, we'll let you decide, Cory tells us all about the absurdity that is Episode 8 of Visual Prison which  you will not want to miss, spoiler alert: it involves ketchup, mayonnaise, and ghosts? If you're curious about the overall power ranking you can take a look at the list form over on the site! 

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We're back, work was a little crazy for Cory last week so we took a week off in preparation to talk about something big. Or two something bigs really because we of course have the launch of the live action Cowboy Bebop from Netflix, but they also gave us the surprise gift that is Arcane which we felt we needed to cover as well. Despite neither of us being big fans of League of Legends, we both found ourselves really enjoying Arcane so we try to pinpoint what makes it successful. For Bebop on the other hand, we'll go over what worked and what didn't land for us and how we feel about the adaptation overall, we could spend literally hours covering it, but this is a condensed version of our thoughts, and yes we do stray into spoiler territory. And to round out the episode we have a couple of "facts" Nick found online to remind us all how anime works I guess. It's a big week so we hope you enjoy. 

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This week is a very special episode of the podcast for a couple of reasons. First and probably most importantly you'll notice we have some special guests on the cast this week, our Partners Madeline and Rose decided it was finally time for them to make an appearance and guest host an episode for us. We're finally talking about Star Wars Visions (only like a month late) and we asked each of them to prepare a topic respectively. We get to hear a bit about how they got into anime as well as hear how each of us would take on the Visual Prison as we plan our hypothetical vampire boy bands. We're very grateful to have them on this episode and finally bring an end to the patriarchy of this podcast.  

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This week is the long awaited return of the Cory Cast! It's been a hot minute, but we decided to switch it up a bit and Cory will take the lead for hosting for the week, it also means he picked the topics so it's sure to be chaotic and weird but in a good way. We're first highlighting Irina: Vampire Cosmonaut specifically talking about how predicable isn't necessarily bad and why this show stands out so much to us. We've also spent a lot of time talking about how fresh and exciting this season feels to us, so we're going to try and define just why we're so hyped and see if we can notice any patterns in successful titles this season. Lastly our conversation shifts to why we became anime fans in the first place, how we got started watching anime and maybe most importantly why we keep coming back to it.  It gives you a little bit of insight as to why we decided to even do this podcast in the first place so we hope you enjoy.

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FALL IS HERE!!! and it deserves all three of those exclamation points because it is not messing around. We've got a whole slew of new titles to go through and it may be a surprise to all of us, but most of them are actually pretty dang good. In fact really dang good. We're running the list starting in the S tier and working our way down to F, as usual we're doing a one sentence explanation of each show and highlighting a couple titles in  each tier to go into a little more detail about. It's a stacked season so there's sure to be something everyone can enjoy, and if you want to read along as we go through the list you can hop over to our site and see where you need to start watching this season, because you won't want to miss anything.  

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We're another week into the new season and we fee like we've been behind on news so let's start with that. We've got a Zombieland Saga feature film, some Disney Plus Anime announcements, as well as a fascinating article taken from an interview with Minako Fujiyoshi who is one of the few female producers in the anime industry. She works for TMS Entertainment and was recently a producer of season 2 of Megalobox. The Article we found is linked and details her perspective as a producer in a largely male dominated profession so definitely worth a read. The bulk of this episode will be an Isekai Roundup, mostly anyway there's one title that isn't technically an Isekai, of a season that continues to surprise us by having multiple decent to good Isekai titles instead of the generic stuff we're used to. We've also got a little look at the Batman Ninja stage play costumes which are a surreal delight and makes us wish more cartoons and anime got adapted to stage plays here instead of more bad real life filmed adaptations of classic shows. Powercast drops next week y'all!

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Fall is here gang and it boy howdy are we pretty damn excited about it. We've gone back and forth but both of us agree that we were feeling a little bit burnt out after the Summer season but Fall has really reminded us why we started this podcast in the first place, to watch some good stuff. We're doing our first impressions of the season, we're highlighting our outright favorites of the premiers so far as well as some potential sleeper hits that might go under the radar. We've also got a healthy number of weird titles that are so bizarre they're at least worth watching one episode. Also if you're into vampires this season has you covered big time. In the last bit of the episode we circle back to last season's buy it or deny it to see how wrong we really were and then make some bold new predictions about this season so we'll see how we do at a later date. Summer's rankings are still up and the Fall Powercast is only a little ways away so get all that ranking goodness over at the site.

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It's time for what is without a doubt one of the stupidest episodes we have ever done. This week since we're in a little bit of a lull between season we decided to put our ignorance on full display and rank all of the Hololive VTuber characters we could find. We know very little about VTubers but decided to give you our opinion all the same based on character design and the profiles that the Hololive site provides. This is meant to be a fun way for us to delve into the weird world that is VTubers so please take our opinions with a grain of salt since again, we know nothing. If you want a visual to follow along with what we're talking about it can be found at the Hololive site under talents which I'll also link in this episode. We'll be back to our normal content next week, but let us know if you liked this or if you found it really stupid.  

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Yet another season has come to an end and so we must continue our time honored tradition of celebrating the highs, poking fun at the lows, and most importantly giving out This Just Trophies to all who deserve them. As always we'll be recapping the end of the season rankings and justifying our choices as to where things landed before moving on to the more fun part of the episode. We've got our normal categories you might expect form any awards show as well as a few you have probably never even thought of. And as always we'll find out who this season's BGBFG is! Power rankings for this season will still be up for a little bit, and we've got an extra special episode planned for next week as we eagerly await new titles for Fall 2021. 

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