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It's finally here, the Spring 2021 PowerCast. As always we'll be dividing the entire season's worth of titles into categories and putting them all in order based on the first three episodes. We'll also be continuing to use our world famous one sentence summaries of each show so you've got an idea if it's something you might be into or not. As the season goes on the rankings will be sure to fluctuate as we find out more about each title. We also highlight a couple shows from each category that may or may not stand out and do a more in depth look on those. If you prefer a written list to follow along with while we talk your ear off, it's over at thisjustanimepodcst.com and will be updated every Monday. 

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Despite this Episode having a Prince title, and airing on the 5 year anniversary of his death, we actually only talk about him briefly, but rest in peace to the legend. This episode is actually almost entirely about Zombieland Saga Revenge. In our opinion it's one of the best most original anime to come out in a while, but does that give it all time classic status or not? We've also seen some comments writing off the show completely because of the use of the use of CG animation, so we're gonna hit the talking points of hos CG can be an effective animating choice, and why you shouldn't write off a just just because of it. Finally we're talking about the top five premiere episodes of the last few years and seeing how some new titles stack up. Powercast next week, and rankings will go live on the site as well! 

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We're officially into the Spring 2021 season, but not far enough in to do a Powercast yet. So instead we're highlighting a wide array of shows that all have at least one episode by the time of recording and giving our first impressions on each. We're talking World Ends With You, Odd Taxi, xxxx Dynazenon, Don't Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro, and last but not least Tokyo Revengers. We've got our first impressions formed, but we'll see how things shake out. We've also got some bold predictions for the season in general, and of course our one big thing of the week. 

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Well we're officially done with the Winter 2021 Season, and while we wait for all of the Spring shows to be released we thought we'd do another casual cast. Like the last couple times we've done this the format is a little different. We'll still talk about anime, but with less structure and more rambling. In this particular episode we cover Cory's career as a new amateur skater, Nick's newfound interest in camping, and spend a good deal of time talking about some strange anime videogames that may or may not exist. Power rankings for Winter will still be live on the site for another couple of weeks until we've got enough episodes of the Spring season to publish them, but next week we'll give you some first impressions on some upcoming titles as we return to our regular episode structure.

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We're still waiting on one or two more episode to drop before the Winter 2021 Season is officially complete, but we have enough to go on for another round of seasonal awards. We'll be giving out even more This Just Trophies to some of our favorite and maybe least favorite titles from the winter season. As always we've got a couple of serious categories and a good few no so serious ones as well. Find out which quintuplet reigned supreme, which show had the best artistic vision, and most importantly who will take home the coveted best girl's best friend girl award for this season. We also devote a little time to looking back on our predictions from the beginning of the season to find out who was right and who is a total idiot. It's a hell of an episode and if you want to see it in words instead of hear it then head over to thisjustanimepodcast.com to get the final rankings

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We're Back! We took a week off so Nick could turn 27, so Happy Birthday to his old ass, and now we're just in time to start looking ahead at the next season. Our first segment is new, followed by a wish list of things we hope the new season will do, not all of our requests are necessarily realistic, but a man can dream right? After that we play a game of watchamacallit, not the mediocre candy bar, but we make Cory try to guess what some of the new shows are based on their description alone. And on a final but important note given the ongoing racism and violence against the AAPI community and in particular response to the hate crime committed in Atlanta last week we thought it necessary to use our platform to support the AAPI community and do the little bit we can to help spread awareness. Here is an article listing several organizations geared toward providing aid and justice for Asian Americans around the country. https://www.gq.com/gallery/ways-to-support-the-asian-american-community-right-now

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We've got some long awaited news about Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid and even longer awaited news about The Devil Is a Part Timer  finally getting new seasons after waiting almost forever. After that we hit on some other shows that could use a new season before ultimately moving into the episode of the weak and week for this... week. And finally in this week's one big thing we're already revisiting a previously mentioned title.   

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We're switching things up this week and giving you a mid-season(ish) update on how the power rankings are faring for Winter 2021. We go through all the shows again and talk about what's new and why. We also pay special attention to Mushoku Tensei as it is perhaps unsurprisingly as controversial as ever this week. We're keeping up with our promise and ending on a high point for the last week of shows as well, as this episode we feature Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki and talk about why it has turned us both into fans. If you want a handy visual aide for this episode head over to thisjustanimepodcast.com for the rankings in list form that you can read with your eyeholes. 

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Crunchyroll has finally announced their 2020 Anime Awards winners and naturally we've decided to see how they stacked up against the titles we chose to win. Will we mostly agree, or was this year a total upset? After that we spend some time in the world of BL, as we gave Given the Movie a watch and are now prepared to tell you how we truly feel about it. We end on a high note of the week with a pivotal plot point from none other than this past week's episode of Quintuplets and the impact it had on the series as a whole. Power rankings are up to date to include RWBY and Vlad Love now so check them out as we hit the midpoint of the season.

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We're closing in on the midway point of the season and we thought it might be worth taking a look at some of the shows we maybe didn't have the strongest of feelings about to see if we've changed our opinion in any way. We'll be going in depth on I'm A Spider So What, Otherside Picnic, and Yashahime Princess Half Demon each in turn to see if they've managed to pull us in or done something noteworthy to deserve a second look, or if they've been forever relegated to the "just okay" tier of anime. Before that, as always, we've got a couple tidbits of anime news, and after that we'll be speculating more on Dantai, Idris and Sabrina Elba's new show being produced by Crunchyroll. We'll take a stab at what the show might be about as well. As always get your power rankings over at thisjustanimepodcast.com and we've change our handle on social media to TJAPod on instagram and twitter so there's that!  

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