Merry Christmas! This year we're joined by Olivia for our Christmas Special, now less Christmas Themed than ever! We're talking the 1998 Gainax anime adaptation of the classic manga, Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances. It's a bumpy ride, but Yukino is so good she can anchor us all.

We've finished Akira! Thank you to Rick for joining us for this incredible journey, it's been a great time and I'm glad we split it out like this. The comic truly deserved it.

Rick's back to take us through the penultimate Volume of Akira and what a volume it is. This comic is pretty damn good. See you in a couple weeks for the grand finale.

We're joined again by Liv to take a look at the the beating heart of anime, for everything good and bad that may mean, the classic 80s OVA Megazone 23.

We're joined agin by Rick to fully diverge from the movie's plot and reach uncharted territory as we experience the wild Akira Volume 4.

We are joined again by Rick to continue our journey through Akira! Episode 50 ended up being a particularly short episode because not a lot of meaty stuff happens in this volume but it sure ends on some incredible panels to remind us just how good Otomo is at this shit.

We're joined by Rick again to read volume 2 of Akira! Less dense this time but we still have some truly incredible action scenes to read. Last time went long but this is the range you should expect the Akira episodes to be in. Quick check ins on fantastic manga.

We are joind again by Austin Ramsay to talk about the second half of Gurren Lagann! We jump off from a show we didn't like much at all to talk about the limits of anime storytelling generally, the things we're looking for from these stories, and the way we approach stories in the problematised genre of shonen anime without just turning into joyless communists yelling at cartoons. I mean like more so. Okay don't be rude.

Today we are joined by Hannah to talk about Makoto Shinkai's Weathering With You, a fascinatingly awful movie about one of the nastiest little freaks anime has ever seen. And we're here to pour over every ideologically loaded second of it. It's truly wild.

We're joined by Red today to watch the recent cult classic to a tragically small cult made up of about fifteen of people I am friends with on twitter. It's Granbelm, the Mecha/Magical Girl show from a couple years ago, which turns out to be a delightful surprise!