This Just Anime!

We're doing this thing, another episode right here and guess what? It's more first impressions! This week Nick decided to try and watch all the shows that looked halfway decent, and Cory picked all the titles that seemed like terrible fanservicey garbage. So we've got a pretty good smattering of new shows to pick from this week, some of them good and some of them maybe not as much. So sit back and maybe you'll find your next favorite show for the season. 

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Hey everyone, we're still doing this thing! If you stuck around we probably owe you an explanation, but essentially life took a larger focus and Cory was fortunate enough to get married recently which is also pretty cool. We're still planning on making this happen from time to time though, so here's a new episode choc full of new first impressions for the currently happening summer season. If you're worried about how spring ended up... don't be probably, though we may retroactively crown a bgbfg. In the meantime here's summer in all of its weird horniness here to stay. 

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This week we're testing our new short format and talking about two things that do prominently feature shirtless people. First up is Nick's favorite, a new season of Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba is out and the hashira training arc is well underway. Will this be the season that brings Nick back into the fold or is it too little too late? Next up we're talking the most recent live action adaptation of a beloved anime. This time it's Golden Kamuy who get's its meatspace debut. This adaptation was full of surprises, a number of them pleasant even. Covering live action anime seems to be the main focus of our episodes these days, but all the same we've got a full deep dive if you're into that sort of thing.   

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This week in our newly streamlined formula we're just talking about one thing, Blue Giant. It's an anime film about you guessed it, jazz, which came out a while ago but is finally available to stream this month. With the director of Mob Pschyo 100  at the helm and music by Hiromi Uehara, we were pretty excited to see this one. But did it live up to the hype? Sort of... it's complicated which is why we did a whole review for you to enjoy. We'll be back to more seasonal focused content soon, but for now let us know what you thought of Blue Giant.  

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Maybe, It's hard to say. With life changing in somewhat significant ways as well as a series of other things we've decided to reexamine our format a little bit and change things up. We'll be going into more detail in a future episode, but we wanted to give an abbreviated powercast a shot, one with less structure and tiers and more of a top 10 new and top 5 returning respectively. We're trying things out, we're keeping things a little briefer than usual, and honestly we cover a lot of things in first impressions anyway so bare with us as we try stuff out to find our new vibe a little bit. 

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It is, and it's called Tadiama, Okaeri. Spring continues to drop a whole bunch of new  shows and we're doing our level best to try and see all of them. This episode is another batch of first impressions for Spring 2024. The season continues to deliver a pretty mixed bag of titles, but we each found at least one show we're pretty hyped for in this episode as well as plenty of other shows that left us scratching our heads like the previously mentioned Tadaima, Okaeri. If you're looking for a place to start this season then as always we've got you covered, no matter what you're looking for I guess.

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Spring is officially here and in addition to seasonal allergies we also get new seasonal anime releases! Much like allergies, some of these titles may bring tears to your eyes, but whether they're from laughter, boredom, or sadness remain to be seen. We checked out the first 14 or so new titles that dropped this season and barring a few exceptions were largely skeptical of most of what we saw. But nevertheless we've got our first batch of first impressions. We've got our first couple of romcoms, some goblin themed isekai, and a show about really attractive old people so things are off to a weird start if we ever saw one. 

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Winter has come to an end and with is we've got another awardscast to get to. That being said this one is a little trimmed down compared to awardscasts in the past. Due to a combination of life things mostly we decided to trim down the categories for this particular season, but don't worry we still crown a BGBFG for the season. Honestly Winter 2024 was a pretty solid season for a variety of genres so if you're looking to see how your favorites stack up, or maybe which shows to go back to and finish that you dropped mid season, we've got you covered. 

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Maybe a little later than we planned, but between a couple of shows that had to wrap up their season late, a few delays, and our own personal live we managed to put out our definitive 2023 Awardscast. This is for the whole year, so all four season of anime.  As per usual we start with the more recognizable categories you might see on other awards shows before devolving into our own weird subjective stuff. Overall 2023 had a lot of heavy hitters both in new and returning titles, it was a year for bucking trends and established genres and had a couple of instant classics to boot. If you like our takes feel free to let us know, and as always if you've got a different idea of how the rankings should have gone we'd love to hear from you!

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This title could be a reference to a lot of things in this episode? Why did we abruptly not record for almost a month? What was the plot of Maboroshi, Mari Okada's new film on Netflix about? What did we think of the latest risky live action adaptation that was of a beloved story that was Netflix Avatar the Last Airbender? Also I thought this was an anime podcast with a focus on seasonal titles, where did that content go? Fortunately for you dear listener we have all the answers to those questions as well as maybe a few more, so thank you for your patience and now back to your regularly scheduled weirdness from us two nerds on the internet.  

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