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Re: Con Report: Zenkaikon 2012

Michael — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:08:55 -0000

OMG that's me with the portal gun! After all these years I stumbled on a picture of me. :)

Re: Seasonal Sampler Hiatus Announcement

Ink — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:07:41 -0000

Had a lot of fun talking with you during the eps. Looking forward to your full reviews!

Re: Seasonal Sampler Hiatus Announcement

TheRomaduce — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:14:39 -0000

AMAZING GOOD NEWS YOU GUYS

Re: JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World Author Ko Hiratori Discusses World-Building and Realism

Ozzy Oz — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:46:47 -0000

why?

Re: JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World Author Ko Hiratori Discusses World-Building and Realism

SZ — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:25:44 -0000

This manga is total shit.

Re: Pink Heart Jam

Ree — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:38:56 -0000

Serious question, does this have a strong plot or is it just fan service smut stuff? Thanks.

Re: Staff Picks: The Best Anime of 2022

Animeholik — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:27:30 -0000

Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu no Ougonkyou and Spy x Family have brought me immense joy and entertainment as I followed their respective stories. Made in Abyss offers a breathtaking and immersive experience with its beautifully crafted world and intriguing plot, while Spy x Family delivers a perfect blend of action, comedy, and heartwarming moments that keeps me hooked from beginning to end. These two anime series showcase the vast potential and creativity in the world of animation, and I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate them.

Re: Staff Picks: The Best Anime of 2022

Ink — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 07:12:28 -0000

Thank you, Evan, for remembering Ranking of Kings! Thanks also for including Birdie Wing. That was appointment anime for me, too, but sadly and surprisingly did not make my top 3, because its swing in focus putt it off course (not in a bad way, just one that replaced the thing I loved initially about the series) in the latter episodes.

And I was thinking about including Love After World Domination in my top 3, Inaki, as I, too, not only watched but remember and love the genuine sweetness of that show. But I think, since it was against so many other great titles and ultimately had its protagonists not be the adults they were drawn as, I decided against doing so. But my love for the show is real.

David, damned straight! Agree 1,000% on every single point.

Pat, I was also a sucker for the creative use of art styles and animation in Bocchi. Easily my favorite thing about the show from a critical standpoint. They also, like you said, just did a fantastic job of making you root for this girl, which is exactly what the show needed to do to accomplish its goal.

Buuuuuut, no Inu-Oh?! From anyone? Sheesh. I'm just gonna assume no-one at AG saw it to soothe now my wounded heart.

My top three:
2) Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
1) Inu-Oh
1) The Girl from the Other Side

Re: Review: Code Geass – Lelouch of the Rebellion (Hyb)

Adina — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:21:11 -0000

Code Geass is a great basic concept and I still broadly love the show, but there's way too much domestic filler stuff, it's not just a waste of time, it's also really jarring with the main political plot, and detracts a lot from the realistic character dynamics (characters miss major geopolitical events because they can't think of another reason to skip class).

Despite the themes of the show, it has a real reluctance to delve into the really morally grey stuff. It never really considers whether any of the characters presented as morally sympathetic are actually bad people or at least complicit. Milly Ashford for example runs an elite school whose student body is almost entirely made up of colonial settlers. Gino Weinberg is one of the senior soldiers of what is explicitly shown to be a brutal imperialist army. Yet both are played straight as nice people who you should like.

Them ofc there's the rabbit hole of Suzaku. We’re supposed to see Suzaku and Lelouch as two people fighting for their own ideals of justice, just in different ways, but in the context of world history, Suzaku is a guy who collaborates with a ruthless racist authoritarian regime which occupies his native country by military force. It's like both-sidsing the Nazis: when I first watched Code Geass, I assumed it was in part a reductio ad absurdum intended to deconstruct simplistic conceptions about "terrorism". I assumed that both the scale of Britannia's crimes against humanity, and Suzaku's gradually increasing collaboration, were supposed to demonstrate that he had been naively wrong from the start. Near the end of the series, I realized that it was really meant to be a genuine moral dilemma and a 'both sides are right' conflict. But I still just don't see it myself.

Re: Choosing Her: Houshou Marine and the Healing Power of Art

OneZ — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 23:10:50 -0000

That last bit in the end, couldn't you just buy and download it? Or did I misenterpret?

Re: Ani-Gamers Podcast #152 – Be Gay Do Akudama Crimes with Paul Chapman ...

Alexander Case — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:47:43 -0000

Apparently I'm the only person who watched the show last year - and even wrote a review about it on my blog, and did a video of how it was one of my favorite shows of the year.

Or maybe I'm just not anybody (walks away as The Lonely Man plays).

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #052 – Speed Grapher

TheRomaduce — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:23:10 -0000

about time you guys reviewed a true classic masterpiece anime hahahahaha. now will i ever be able to understand the ending?

Re: Staff Picks: Our Favorite Manga of 2020

Ink — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:37:01 -0000

Since I only read 1 volume of a manga released in 2020, I didn't wanna use a default as "the best." (The two volumes of Oshimi's Blood on the Tracks and Vol. 6 of Kino's Journey didn't reach my doorstep until too late in 2020 to read.) However, I wanted to make sure to give a shout out to Kino's Journey Vol. 5, which continues to offer excellent retellings of stories as well as tales that supplement those that can be seen in the anime adaptations. Vol. 5 includes "The Land of Kindness," which appears in the original Kino's anime and is rendered with devastating effectiveness here; illustrations truly capture the desperate happiness the townspeople harbor in being able to leave a legacy of kindness via an impression upon a traveler. "The Land of Masks" in the same volume is equally masterful but this time in its portrayal of an unsettling atmosphere. If you loved the original Kino's anime adaptation, every single volume of the manga follows in the same tone (as compared to the disappointing later adaptation). So jump on these volumes for more Kino goodness.

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #051 – Tokyo Godfathers

TheRomaduce — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:29:57 -0000

haahhahaah yeah right, keep dreaming

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #051 – Tokyo Godfathers

Ink — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 07:47:41 -0000

But where's Batman Returns?

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #051 – Tokyo Godfathers

TheRomaduce — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 06:34:42 -0000

Die hard 1,the lord of the rings movies and tokyo godgathers, the best christmas movies!!!

Re: Folktales from Japan

YumDeku Sempai — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:25:14 -0000

Really?

Re: Uncovering the Guest Designers of Crusher Joe

Arioch — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:04:23 -0000

I'd wondered why there were so many wacky designs that didn't look much like YAS's typical work in the background.

I can't help much with the identifications, but I think the yellow-haired girl behind Bird there is a nod to YAS' own Sayla Mass from Gundam. And while I can't say for sure, Big Murphy's yellow pet feels like a YAS design rather than a guest.

Re: Folktales from Japan

Ink — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:31:22 -0000

Great to hear! It's a long haul if you're a completionist, but since there's no through-plot, it's super easy just to throw a dart at an episode and walk away.

Re: (Analog) Preservation in the Age of (Digital) Decay

YumDeku Sempai — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 12:20:12 -0000

A Chargeman Ken remake would be good.

Re: Folktales from Japan

YumDeku Sempai — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 12:06:37 -0000

Definitely have to find time to watch this.

Re: Ani-Gamers Podcast #142 – BNA: Brand New Anime with Kyle Cardine ...

YumDeku Sempai — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 12:05:07 -0000

Interesting podcast

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #043 – Dennou Coil

Ink — Thu, 14 May 2020 18:05:44 -0000

Thanks so much for listening! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. (Sympathies to your backlog, heh.) You can follow oldtakunoradio on twitter. If you're a discord user, you can check out the Oldtaku no Radio channel (https://discord.gg/fbNh5G) in the Ani-Gamers Discord. And as alast-minute heads-up, we're reviewing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on 05/16/20 in the morning if you wanna get something in before then.

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #043 – Dennou Coil

TheRomaduce — Wed, 13 May 2020 14:47:17 -0000

good podcast really enjoyed it, now i have a big anime to add to my even bigger anime backlog. thanks hahhahahaha. by the way which is the twitter that i have to follow to find out what the next otaku no radio anime you will be reviewing? I would like to beat you guys to the punch and make a twitter question

Re: Oldtaku no Radio #022 – Robot Carnival

Adam Kadmon — Wed, 13 May 2020 14:09:33 -0000

I know I should appreciate the art and animation more. I might just need more time to grow into that :)