As the Fall 2025 anime season approaches, we talk about our favorites of Summer 2025 before Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, the 3-part sequel to 2025-09-26 23:10:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Malady and illness caused us to miss last month, but Gerald attended Otakon 2025 and Daryl reviews what he considers a landmark of "post-Evangelion TV anime," the mecha comedy-drama Martian Success...
2025-08-27 01:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We've changed our RSS back-end to hopefully be compliant with the modern podcast directory standards ("modern" meaning "since 2019"...), so if you have any odd behaviors in your subscription such a...
2025-05-10 00:24:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that it's been a year since the untimely passing of Akira Toriyama, Clarissa reviews his greatest work released in the US...namely, the first five Dr. Slump movies! These were released on DVD f...
2025-03-30 19:15:37 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Gerald jazzes up the proceedings by reviewing the 2023 theatrical film Blue Giant, released in theaters, home video, and streaming by GKIDS. Visit 2025-02-28 22:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
2025 is off to a terrible start, not just in terms of current world events but because in this episode Daryl follows up on his previous review of the 1997 Berserk TV series with this review of the ...
2025-01-30 18:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
As we mark our 19th year of anime podcasting, it's time for our annual holiday roundup of Christmas episodes! But first, we take a moment to pay our respects to the recently departed Jan Scott-Fraz...
2024-12-23 23:33:44 +0000 UTC View Post
For the tenth time, it's our annual trivia episode! We are joined by Basil, head honcho of the OSMcast as well as The Carbuncle Chronicle and OSMquest podcasts who's been doing this for just about ...
2024-11-25 00:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Although we're posting this on Halloween, there's not much especially spooky about this episode since after having seen Uzumaki, Daryl has instead elected to review the theatrical film adaptation o...
2024-11-01 01:31:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite a grievous tech failure, we're back to discuss the upcoming Fall 2024 anime season before Daryl reviews the 1997 anime adaptation of Berserk, recently back in print in the US due to a Blu-R...
2024-10-01 00:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
No review this time around, but Gerald and Clarissa went to Otakon 2024 so here's their convention report. Despite another record breaking attendance figure, they did NOT catch COVID! They did howe...
2024-08-17 23:07:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This time around, Clarissa "pulls a Gerald" by reviewing something that we thought was still readily available via streaming and home video but is in fact totally out of print: 1993's four-part OVA...
2024-07-30 21:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Even though TimeHealsAllWoundsButWeSTILLAskWHYYYY, through a combination of its thirty year anniversary as well as upcoming new announcements, Daryl is reviewing the Patient Zero of fighting game a...
2024-06-29 22:13:47 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s finally time. As a result of us reaching over 250 Patrons, we’re reviewing what you’ve voted “the worst anime of all time”: Hand Shakers from 2017. But maybe it’s NOT actually the ...
2024-06-01 03:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In a feeble attempt to delay the inevitable even if by just another month or so, Daryl elects to talk about what is only one of the most popular anime currently running, as he reviews SPY x FAMILY ...
2024-04-30 03:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
After talking about the Crunchyroll Anime Awards presentation held in Japan, we touch upon the death of the legendary artist Akira Toriyama for a bit before Clarissa reviews the 2022 12-episode ser...
2024-03-29 23:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In a last-ditch effort to not review Hand Shakers, we decide to make a bunch of anger-inducing statements about anime, mecha, and conventions before reviewing the latest--and perhaps actually final...
2024-02-09 06:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post
For our first episode of 2024 we are joined by the two cohosts of the Shoujo Sundae podcast, Giana Luna and Chika Supreme, as we review the manga ION by Arina Tanemura. Apologies are in order, for ...
2024-01-23 01:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostWe notice that all of a sudden we are getting several new Patrons, though a look at the accounts suggest they very well might all just be one enterprising person quite invested in getting us to 250...
2024-01-04 18:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're finally legal, for this episode of AWO marks the start of our 18th year of anime podcasting! Let's celebrate with another holiday roundup of anime Christmas episodes, organized fr...
2023-12-22 02:48:27 +0000 UTC View Post
After vanishing--NINJA vanishing--for nearly a decade to start raising a family in NYC, we're reunited with Erin and Noah of the long-defunct Ninja Consultant podcast (and Livejournal!) for the ann...
2023-11-22 01:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike Toole returns to the show for this MONSTER CHILLER HORROR edition of AWO released on Halloween, in which Gerald reviews the polar opposite of The Poe Clan: Go Nagai’s Shuten Doji! Now that w...
2023-10-31 23:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This is perhaps our most tragic episode ever, for not only have we lost our sole sponsor Right Stuf due to Crunchyroll shutting it down, but Clarissa is reviewing The Poe Clan, one of the great sho...
2023-09-29 22:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Daryl reviews a title suggested by our top Patreon backers as he reviews the now beloved super robot OVA series from 1998, Shin Getter Robo, which for the sake of avoiding confusio...
2023-08-31 22:36:34 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by longtime mecha enthusiast Rob Lantz as we offer up a MOSTLY SPOILER-FREE review of Gerald's favorite OVA series of all time: 1988's Aim for the Top! Gunbuster, the pro directorial d...
2023-07-09 22:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This was originally the intro of Show 219, but it took a little longer to edit. So, PRESTO! In Show 220 Gerald shares his thoughts on Knights of the Zodiac, the 2023 live-action film adaptation of ...
2023-06-03 23:36:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The intro ended up running long, but fret not as we'll release that audio next time! For now, Clarissa reviews 1987's Zillion, the coolest 80s Saturday morning cartoon / toy advertisement we never ...
2023-05-19 06:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It took us a while--okay, it took 17 years since the last one--but we finally get around to completing our coverage of the 1980s Yoshikazu Yasuhiko post-Gundam film trilogy as Gerald reviews 1986's...
2023-03-29 23:38:39 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we bring Dave Merrill back on to talk about his favorite movie (and a Patreon request): 1969's The Flying Phantom Ship, adapted from a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. DID YOU KNOW HAYA...
2023-03-01 23:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post