This Just Anime!

While the title of this episode seems to be in reference to the global climate crisis causing temperatures to rise, it's actually about anime. (shocking I know) This week we've got a bit of news as always, all of which is actually pretty good which is a nice change of pace. We're taking a look at the ova for Wonder Egg Priority that just dropped and then it's straight into summer content. Lots of shows  have already dropped their first episodes, so we're talking the good, the bad, and the trash for Summer 2021. We're also continuing our trend of making some bold predictions about the fate of the season, so we take a look at our buy it or deny its from Spring to see how wrong we were before making some outrageous new claims about this summer. Spring power rankings are live for a little bit longer on the site if you want to see them before they go.

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Another season comes to a close and thus we've got to dole out some This Just Trophies to some of the best and maybe not so best of the Spring 2021 season. We dive right in with the categories everyone expects, best new and returning series, our favorite lead and supporting characters, the usual, and then slowly make our way down the list to the more out there categories. We see who loved and lost, who had a big old noggin, and perhaps most importantly who shall take home the coveted title of best girl's best friend girl for Spring 2021. Final rankings are up on the site along with the episode so go check those out if you prefer and we'll see you all in summer 2021! 

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We're doing things in a slightly atypical format this week so it's a kind of hybrid casualcast. We've got some bullet points to get to, but it's mostly just us kind of going off on a variety of mini topics before the end of the season. We've got some Tokyo Olympic news, yet another Mugen Train update, and a couple of end of the season bits worth mentioning prior to the awardscast next week. We're also taking a look at The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent which by all accounts should've been near the top of our list but never really was. We've mostly given it a miss, but it's time to touch on what it does well or not so well and why we did or didn't appreciate it. Then in a final but important point at the end of the episode we go into detail about what pride means to us both personally as well as anime fans and how inclusivity and acceptance should be the default for the anime community. We've really enjoyed taking time to focus on pride this month, so hopefully you all did too! 

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This week is all, or at least mostly, about everyone's favorite OG magical girls who recently put out a new 2 part movie for all of us to enjoy. As per usual we start the episode off with some news then go right into our first impressions of Sailor Moon Eternal: The Dead Moon Circus which recently debuted on Netflix and has the most metal title of any Sailor Moon film. We're not going into spoiler territory on this one, but it does lead us into a solid discussion on how Sailor Moon became an icon within the queer community and led to wider representation and acceptance of LGBTQIA folks within the world of anime. If that wasn't obvious, Sailor Moon and its impact is the focus of our pride segment this week. And for our final segment we take a look how some titles this season are being rated by the community on MyAnimeList.com and how that stacks up to where we think they deserve to be. 

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We didn't just change the logo to the pride flag and move on, this week the meat of our episode is 5 maybe lesser known (and some pretty well known) more recent titles that delve into LGBTQIA+ themes and issues. While there's a lot of different interests within that acronym, we tried to suggest shows that represent a number of groups be it homosexual, trans, asexual, or nonbinary and most importantly we tried to stay away from shows that fetishize or stereotype queer characters. With that being said there's always room for improvement, and we address that as well and talk a tiny bit about what we'd like to see improve in the genre as far as representation goes. And that's not the only pride segment we'll run, in fact we've got at least one planned for every episode this month. But before we get to all that goodness, we've got a little news like usual and we've also got a review on the new Netflix title Eden, what we thought of it, who it might appeal to, and how it is or isn't setting itself apart from other shows with cute robots. Power Rankings have recently been updated over on the site so go check it out if you haven't paid a visit in a while. 

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It's official, the time has come. This episode is all about season 5 of My Hero Academia but before we deep dive we have a little bit of serious news to get to coming out of Japan. We touch on the current Olympic situation as well as a thwarted arson attempt of a couple major animation studios, and we have a couple of other articles as well. Then it's finally time, we're talking Class A vs. Class B, we're talking our new favorites, we're talking Endeavor, and much much more as we see how season 5 measures up to past season of My Hero. We also do a bit of speculating as to what's coming down the pipeline since neither of us has read the manga. Lastly we talk a moment to highlight some stellar non My Hero related animation from a couple of titles this season. 

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Well we've got a hell of a show for you this week, but if you're subscribed then you already knew that. First up we've got a bit of news some good and some not so good. As many of you know by now the creator of Berserk, Kentaro Miura, recently passed so we pay tribute to him and the fantastic dark fantasy legacy he left behind. After that we vibe check three titles that we couldn't quite get a good read on during the start of the season. We go over Shadow's House, Osamake, and Pretty Boy Detective Club and decide once and for all whether we can in good conscience recommend these shows. And lastly for our one big thing of the week we've got a heartwarming equestrian headline that is sure to make you smile (or not, we just thought it was neat). 

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Oh man you need to stick around for the end of the episode, because our one big thing this week is too crazy to be believed. It has something to do with Evangelion inspiring an interesting new life saving treatment for Covid patients' but we don't want to spoil it here. We've got a lot of other great stuff this episode before that though, we're giving you a mid season check in as by the time this episode airs we'll officially be past the halfway point of the season. We're also looking Fruits Basket episode 7 as the episode of the week. Some crazy stuff happens there so if you're wanting to avoid spoilers then make sure you watch it before you listen to the second half of this episode. 

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This week we've got all kinds of weird stuff to offer you. First up we've got some news about a new Dragon Ball Super movie being led by none other than Akira Toriyama himself. If that wasn't big enough news, we've also got word that a much demanded manga is finally receiving an anime adaptation, and if that's not enough we've recently learned the United States Military is jumping into the anime game... sort of anyway. Our main topic however is going to be the 2017 film/series The Dragon Dentist. We're calling it a hidden gem because it's fantastic, but never really got the fanfare it maybe deserved on launch. We've got a review and a mostly spoiler free synopsis to see if it might be up your alley. We're almost halfway through the season so peep those power rankings over at thisjustanimepodcast.com

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It's out, it's been hyped, we were certainly excited for it, but now that it's finally here is Yasuke all we hoped it would be. We're going to spend most of the episode going over to highs and lows of the six episode series that just dropped on Netflix. Fair warning we're going deep on this one, so if you haven's seen it for yourself and don't want it spoiled then watch it first, I mean it's only six episodes. In this episode we also revisit some past comments on Tokyo Revengers because maybe we judged it a little hastily. And as always we've got our one big thing from the past week to end on a high note. Power rankings will now  be updated every Wednesday over at thisjustanimepodcast.com  

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