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It's the second episode of a new year and that can only mean one thing: a whole shit ton more first impressions of all the titles that have dropped recently. There's a lot on offer this season, and a lot of it happens to be high fantasy, so we've gathered all those first impressions to make a mostly fantasy themed first impressions next week. But this week its all the stuff that's not fantasy. We've got weird android idol boy bands, magic playing cards that give you fancy skills, and even a few good old slice of life comedies to keep things light and fun. If you're trying to figure out what might tickle your fancy this season this one's for you. 

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Congratulations we've all survived another revolution of this big blue marble and the universe has seen fit to reward us with a new season of anime to momentarily distract us from questioning our existence. We've got another jam packed season full of new titles, everything from Nier, to the Trigun Remake, and a whole slew of fantasy titles with names so long you won't even be able to keep them straight. Naturally we're starting off with our first impressions of a good chunk of what premiered this week with even more to come next. We've also got our nailed it and buy it or deny it from last season to get to so let's see how wrong we were in the past!

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Fall 2022, and 2022 in general, has come and gone barring a few delayed titles in the anime world, and oh man was it a pretty great season overall. Maybe even the best of the year, but who can say really? Regardless we've got our final power rankings for the season as well as our usual blend of a few recognizable awards categories and some that are maybe more... unique. We had a whole slew of amazing titles both new and returning this season, so if you wanted to know how your favorites stack up, or which shows you need to catch up on before the new year starts, then this is the episode to listen to.  

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We're a little past the holiday, but who's really listening to podcasts on Christmas anyway? We're of course finally bringing an end to our Kill La Kill  advent calendar, and giving you our blow by blow of the action packed completely ludicrous last four episodes of the show. They pack a ton into the conclusion of what is ultimately a classic for a reason, and we've got our coverage of the whole thing as well as our final impressions of that. But before we get into that we're taking a look back at the year in general, our favorite titles, some major news, unexpected gems, and even a couple of disappointments. 2022 was a pretty stacked year for anime on the whole, but what were your favorite parts? We also have kind of an odd last week's one big thing you'll have to tune in to find out about. We'll be doing the awardscast next week at our normal time.  

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We're almost done with 2022 so we're already taking a look ahead at the upcoming season, and holy crap is there a lot of fantasy titles on offer. We've got previews for a few shows, but we're mostly going off the synopsis on myanimelist and the visuals so we'll see what happens. We've also got three wishes each that will hopefully make the season good if not at least watchable. And finally we've got episodes 13-19 of Kill La Kill, shit is popping off in a major way and we've officially hit the moment where things get weird...er than they already have been. The end of the year is fast approaching so we'll have our awardscast and year end show coming up soon!

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This week we're back on our romcom bullshit and discussing why we think More Than a Married Couple But Not Lovers isn't nearly as good as it maybe could've been. We are the self proclaimed romcom experts, so maybe we're extra critical of this series, we're gonna get into it so you can be the judge. From there we got some exciting news that Crucnhyroll is getting a whole slew of anime films added to their library on December 15th so Nick has put together his own list of fantastic anime films that aren't made by Hayao Miyazaki, some of which will soon be available to stream. And finally it continues to be a Kill La Kill Christmas! We're through episode 12 of our anime advent calendar so we're going in depth on the battle between the Honnouji Acadamy Elite four and the surprise appearance of a girl with twin tails and a scissor blade to match. 

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The Quintessential Quintuplets has officially concluded and we were there in person to see how it ends! We had a lovely time seeing the end to Cory's favorite series, but our journey  to the theater was maybe not as smooth as it could've been. We've got our take one how everything concluded as well as our somewhat amusing attempt at making it to a 2pm showing of the film. From there we're talking everything from new movies on Crunchyroll to trading card games before rounding out the episode with our Kill La Kill advent calendar. This week we're looking at the first 8 episodes of the series that made everyone aware of how dangerous clothes can really be. Apologies for the weird schedule this week, we'll be back to normal soon we promise!

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It's a little after the mid point in the season so we're going through ten titles and doing a little vibe check on em to see if we're still feeling some kinda way about them, and yes we are talking about Chainsaw Man. Along with that we're covering The Raven of the Inner Palace, Arknights: Prelude to Dawn, Urusei Yatsura, My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho 100, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Shinobi no Ittoki, I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss, and finally Do it Yourself! There's a whole ton of shows this season, and these are a pretty good sample size we'd say. If you're curious about any of these titles we've got you covered, but if there's one we missed let us know!

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Tatami Time Machine Blues dropped last week on Hulu, and being big fans of Tatami Galaxy we were naturally pretty excited to cover it. Shingo Natsume took over the helm from Masaaki Yuasa for this series so we're pretty curious about how this new entry to the universe stacks up. Does if feel like the original? Are we happy with the direction the story took? Can you watch it without having seen the original? We'll let you know here! We're also talking the future of HiDive as a streaming platform, and discussing whether it is worth the subscription cost/what you get that you can't find anywhere else. Lastly we have some rapid fire hot takes on a variety of topics pertaining to this season, we're talking everything from Spy Family to the World Cup in a segment we call  Quick Hitters. 

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THA ONE PIECE IS REAL! And it's relevant this time! We watched the new film, One Piece Film: Red  and despite not being One Piece experts by any stretch of the word, we're going to talk about it. We're giving you our thoughts on the story, how crazy visual impressive it was, the fact that is was an idol concert in a movie, and whether we could follow it or not despite knowing very little about the lore. From there we're talking Star Wars.  If you didn't see Studio Ghibli released a short with Grogu and some soot sprites and it's got us talking about the inevitable release of a whole bunch of anime set in a galaxy far far away. Lastly we're bringing back a game that Cory totally loves. Nick has created some alternate universe anime based on titles this season, is Cory able to decipher the puns? Probably not but it's worth a shot anyway.  

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