You sure look lively today, listener. Did something good happen? Plot twists, Kaiki praise, and timeline confusion are abound in this week's episode where we (after three years) talk about the next Monogatari in our Journey-gatari, Monogatari Second Season! Listen like a regular person or skip around the episode to get the full Monogatari style experience!

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Opening and ending song is "koishii" by Deoxys Beats

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As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special thanks to Boomslank for sponsoring the episode! You can get 10% off your total order by using our coupon code OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST on their website by going to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to have it automatically applied at checkout!]

Opening and ending song is koishii by Deoxys Beats
Cover art is by SinfulScientist

Made in Abyss got a sequel movie. We watched Made in Abyss. We watched the sequel movie thusly. I'm in the middle of my journey of self introspection so this is your description for this one. Go pour yourself a bowl of Chex Mix and milk. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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We're taking just three words that we get from a random word generator and trying to think up and make the hottest of seasonal anime with just those phrases! Why? Cause it felt like a good idea and we couldn't watch Dawn of the Deep Soul due to personal issues! Anyways, it's late and I'm tired. No long description this week. Be the description you want to see in this world! Imagine your own sarcastic description! Be free! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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You would think that the shorter the anime then the quicker the suffering would be, right? Well, Bikini Warriors, an animated ad for a figure line that feels relentlessly bloated at 4 minute long per episode, would beg to differ and it is VERY good at begging. This started as a gag of a bet to watch on a previous episode and now it's here and no one is happy. We probably only really watched maybe two episodes of an anime all in all with Bikini Warriors but it's about the quality of time spent not the quantity and that quality of time is nonexistent. Listen in to this episode and find out why Bikini Warrior  is more powerful than your average pharmaceutical at stopping boners and all those other episode description things I usually put. If Bikini Warriors isn't going to give me a good time then no one is getting a good description. Good bye. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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Hi! How are you? That's great. I'm glad to hear that. So before we start, Ro also has a podcast called The One True Podcast and I was originally gonna say this was "feat. Ro of The One True Podcast and Storm" but that felt a little insulting to Storm so go check out The One True Podcast's links here before you even listen to this episode cause it's probably like two billion times better than our stuff but that's generally true of every podcast that collabs with us so... yeah! Anyways, anime conventions! They're happening again! With Otacon setting off the first domino for many other anime conventions to fall over and return, we thought we'd talk about that and paneling at conventions! Why? Cause... we wanted to do that, I guess. I mean, I definitely want to get on stage and talk about the top 10 siscons in anime in front of strangers for them to ridicule me and judge me in an almost biblical sense but I'm also kind of into that just hurting myself over and over thing. And little sister characters. I'm a big supporter of family. And family relationships. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Basically one thing led to another and we have Ro (of The One True Podcast) and Storm (of being alive or something) on to talk about their paneling experiences and anime conventions and all that deep junk! Think of it like Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee or whatever except it's Weebs in a Discord Channel Getting Dehydrated. Maybe we'll do more? Maybe we won't? Go check out the link above to see all of Ro's stuff and check out her podcast and if you see Storm on the street then say hey or something. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

The final Rebuild of Evangelion film finally decided to come out so we're gonna talk about the whole film series because we like Evangelion well enough. Some of us like it more than others but we think it's pretty cool and it's an anime that Audrey actually kind of wanted to watch so whatever gets her to watch something, you know? I have a wicked headache right now so I'm kind of at a loss for how to proceed with this. Did you know that an estimated 26% of people on this Earth have never experienced a headache? I don't know where I'm getting that number but I think all those people who haven't had a headache are probably babies. Not like in an insulting derogatory way of "WHAT A BABY" but more of that they are probably actual infants and or children. Prove me wrong, science. Anyways, we reviewed the first two Rebuild films in this episode and next week we'll do the rest! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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Yeah, I totally used you title idea, Audrey. As we watch more and more anime in quick succession (be it willingly or not) we realize that burnout is ever looming overhead as we press on into the anime abyss. What can we do to avoid it? Can we avoid it? In this episode we break down just what you can do to dodge the bullet to the head of your anime watching hobby by not watching anime! I mean, sometimes the poison is the cure? We break down just what we do to avoid burnout and the things that just really exhaust us with anime while we also break down our thoughts on the Crunchyroll buyout. It's a discussion heavy episode! That's what the kids like, right? As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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The summer is hot but the summer anime is even hotter! Yeah, not really. It's just a Matt and Amelia episode this week as they talk all about the first big chunk of seasonal anime in this episode including Remake Our Life,Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom X, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Night Head 2041, Aquatope on White Sand, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S, and Life Lessons with Uramichi Onii-san! It's wild tangent night at the podcast bar and we hope you'll order drinks for this round or something (I haven't had very much sleep so I hope that makes sense or whatever I don't care) and chill out with this episode! You can catch more of Amelia on her Youtube and you can listen to her podcast Otaku Host Club! Click the linky links if you want to just fast travel there or something. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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It's like the annual sportsball draft but with seasonal anime! In this week's episode, we read off a bunch of anime and their synopsis and then say "ay imma watch that" or "ay imma not watch that and pretend I did if anyone asks" for the sake of entertainment. Hopefully it's entertaining for you because then it's just going to be a whole lot of "oH i ReAd ThE LiGhT nOvEl oF tHaT" which is, frankly, not the best kind of podcast in the world but we have to make due with the cards we're dealt and I was dealt a hand of Yu-Gi-Oh cards when all I wanted to do was play Uno. Just kidding, I hate Uno. Listen in and hear what we have to say about the Fall 2023 anime we plan to watch and more! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special thanks to Boomslank for sponsoring the episode! You can get 10% off your total order by using our coupon code OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST on their website by going to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to have it automatically applied at checkout!]

Opening and ending song is koishii by Deoxys Beats
Cover art is by SinfulScientist

We were actually in the same room together this week so of course we had to just go ahead and jump the actual anime podcast shark and talk hentai. Why? Because the only way an episode of this much importance could be recorded was if we were hanging out in the same room and our previous plan for this special episode would take too long and we're both impatient people. Enjoy this special one-of-a-kind episode as we discuss the triumphs, the tragedies, and obviously the tiddies that come with making anime that caters to a more adult audience. Thank you for your support as always and we hope this episode doesn't disappoint you too much or that it will at least meet your expectations for our content.

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Opening song is "MTC" by S3RL

We're back on that furry shit! SEASON TWO, BABY! LET'S GO! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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Opening song is "Kaibutsu" by YOASOBI
Ending song is "Yasashii Suisei" by YAOSOBI

WOAH. This season came and went! Caught all of us off guard! ...or, well, maybe not you, but it caught us at the Otaku Melancholy Podcast off guard! ...okay, maybe not everyone, but it caught *someone* off guard! But I'll never tell who, you'll just have to guess, but you won't figure it out. Not in a million years!!! .........I really try my best, but it's hard sometimes. Life gets in the way, ya know? I know you know. You're understanding. You really get me, like a true friend. And you know what else true friends do? Watch a butt-ton of anime and then talk about it! We go over some of the hits and misses of this past season, like how a giant monster show that is too big brained for a simple monke, the wholesomeness and camaraderie of a zombie idol group, and how the real hype-master iss a show about a taxi driver vrooming around and letting the meter run. And while you're here, enjoy some life lessons on how wi-fi connection is our true overlord, and the irony of 86 getting 86'd.

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're celebrating pride month the only way we know how! By reviewing an LGBTQ+ positive  visual novel all about loving yourself and being good to other people! And also rehashing content. That's like what we do at this point, I think. We're talking all about A Year of Springs, a collection of three visual novels by NPCKC that include One Night, Hot Springs which we covered last year because we were very unsure of what to do to help celebrate pride month! Listen in to hear all about our experiences with the tiny adventures of Hair, Erika, and Manami and what we can learn and reflect on from this visual novel and our own experiences! We also have a very special announcement right at the beginning so you know this episode is going to be solid. Thank you for your continued support and we hope you'll continue to support our lovely host in the future as she becomes the person she's meant to be. <3

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

A Year of Springs can be found here at the developer website:

https://npckc.site/

https://npckc.itch.io/

You know we have guests but have we ever had a guest who broke their foot shortly before record and STILL came on? No, we haven't. This has basically set the standard for all future guests on the show and we now require a two broken bone minimum to be on (this is a joke please don't hurt yourself we love you). We recently got to sit down and talk with Natalie London and Taylor Plecity of the LGBTQ duo Hey, King! and talk anime and growing up with anime and what gives us the energy to keep going. Did you think we would talk music or something? Because we did and it was kind of weird because Matt doesn't know how to do interviews but it was super fun regardless! This interview, while brief because we didn't want to keep Taylor from the hospital, was great and we'll hope you'll enjoy it and give Hey, King! a listen. They're two great singer songwriters and we're both super fans after getting to talk to them! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

LINKS:

Hey, King! Official Website

Hey, King! Feature FM (quick links to where you can listen to their music on Spotify and such)

Hey, King! on Twitter

Hey, King! on Instagram

Hey, King! on Facebook

What do you do when you have some masterful example of manga with a mangaka who has talents almost insurmountable in artistic quality in vision? Why you make an anime adaptation that completely butchers his work and vision while bringing his name to shame! Studio Deen sure thinks that's the way to make an anime adaptation as we celebrate the last (functioning) week of June-ji Ito Month by reviewing Junji Ito Collection! With a pedigree of such high standards (and plus since Brad couldn't be in this week), we got some help for this with some of our best podcast boys and girls: the Otaku Host Club! We talk hard about what is actual spooky, popping zits, and if Junji Ito hit the bong a little bit to write his works among a few other things but I can't really spoil that cause I have to entice you to listen to the episode and all. I really wasn't ready to have to host an episode all by myself. I don't like being mean. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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We're wrapping up our Junji Ito manga coverage (hint hint for what's coming next if you care, I guess) this week with the first of his works: Tomie! We're cut Tomie to pieces to find out what parts we like and what parts we don't and all the filler meat in between and we have some feelings. Are they good? Are they bad? I guess you'll have to listen in to find out in the episode itself. Wait. Did I do this bit already? It all blurs together. You know what doesn't blur together? Junji Ito's magnificent work! AY YO! Always leave them with a fairly weak zinger. Anyways here we go, I'm wrapping this up. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

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Get your leaf village headbands and shuriken ready as we cover this Naruto spin-off, Uzumaki! I'm really looking forward into seeing how Junji Ito handles such a beloved character especially with his unique brand of horr- oh wait. I just checked the Wikipedia page and apparently this is not about ninjas and talking people to death. It's about scary spirals??? That's weird. Well, I guess we're spiraling into a special sort of madness with the next week of June-ji Ito month as we cover Uzumaki! One of Ito's three seminal works, this is the tale of a town and how a mysterious plague of spirals affects the people who live within. Sounds kind of lame, huh? Couldn't be any lamer than that "I didn't know this wasn't a Naruto spin-off hurrdeedurr" joke I lead in with but hey! This is actually pretty good so don't let the description fool you. It's not like you didn't know this was going to be scary anyways. Maybe you don't know much about Junji Ito and this will all be new to you? I don't know your life. You never returned my letters. I gaze out at the sea everyday hoping for the mail carrier to send me word of your exploits in the war. It's been three seasons of grief since I last held a page containing pieces of your heart. This cruel war has taken so much from me. Anyways, spirals. They're scary, yo. That's the episode. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Opening song is "Among the Sef" by Colin Stetson.

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The puns keeping coming as we celebrate another venerable creator in the world of weebdom and that's Junji Ito in this month of June-ji Ito! I can hear you saying it now: "but Person Who Writes These Descriptions, it's not time for spooky at all!" and that's gonna be where you're wrong. It's always a good time for puns and that means it's time for spooky cause June-ji Ito Month is such a great pun and it would be fishy of us if we didn't celebrate. Speaking of fishy (due to how the mail and our local book retailers choose to operate), we're kicking off June-ji Ito Month with Gyo! Is it a good starting point for two absolute noobs at horror in general or is it just the stench of something awful to come? We discuss Gyo, horror, and Doki Doki Literature Club all in this episode so, you know, check it out. If you want, I guess. I'm not gonna force you. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Just Monika.

What is there to say about Sword Art Online that thousands of AniTubers and wannabe AniTubers haven't already said? What plot hole hasn't already been poked holes in to death and how many times can you discuss how boring certain characters are? Is there even a point to talking about it at this point? We're gonna find out in this episode as we FULL DIVE in to talk about 2012's Sword Art Online and see if we actually have anything new to say but honestly we aren't. It's kind of just done to death yet here we are to plop one more turd of a discussion on the already heaping pile of crap that is the Sword Art Online discourse. Just like what you like, you know? Listen in and hear us point out the same flaws someone else with a better mic and a far more handsome face and better editing skills already has! At least we have spirit, I guess. I'm too tired to have spirit right now. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

I took a vacation (again) and didn't watch anime (again) but I did do some other weeaboo activities (again) and I'm here to talk about them this week including the joys of Tearmoon Empire and The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really Really Love you and the pains of Jujutsu Kaisen's 236th chapter. There's also a small rant at Crunchyroll for killing RightStuf (like they said they wouldn't) and discussing the agony of becoming a Disney adult. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special thanks to Boomslank for sponsoring the episode! You can get 10% off your total order by using our coupon code OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST on their website by going to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to have it automatically applied at checkout!]

Opening and ending song is koishii by Deoxys Beats
Cover art is by SinfulScientist

Another episode! Another batch of shows! Another bunch of first impressions and thoughts! In this episode we're covering Higehiro, To Your Eternity, Osamake, Shadows House, Zombie Land Saga Revenge, Godzilla S.P., Koikimo, Vivy: Flourite Eye's Song, SSSS Dynazenon, Pretty Detective Club, and Combatants Will Be Dispatched! There's a lot of "meh" feelings in this episode but that's why we have first impressions cause we don't know what a lot of these shows will end up like, you know? It doesn't mean that Amelia isn't wrong about To Your Eternity though cause she is. Speaking of Amelia, you can catch her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/c/MOESODA and on her podcast Otaku Host Club with her co-hosts Geoff and Dan! Be sure to check out her new line of hentai inspired apparel at www.lewddriip.com as well! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

It's our review of Spirited Away. What more could I possibly tell you, my dude? As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're doing Friday episodes for a minute cause we just had so much content we wanted to pump out but just didn't have the Tuesdays in the month for it. When Brad says you can do seasonal previews, you do seasonal previews! After the banging season that was Winter 2021, how do you come back from that? What can you possibly throw out that means anything compared to what we just got? Well, Spring 2021 is here to try and hook us with the shamisen, tan bully waifus, and even more slime! We watched all we could and we're talking about it in this (first) episode including 86, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Dragon Goes House Hunting, The Slime Diaries, Tokyo Revengers, Mars Red, Don’t Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro, Those Snow White Notes, Full Dive: The Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!, and Odd Taxi! Is any of this crap actually good are is it all just aimless fluff to distract you from the fact that you're going to die some day? It can be both! It can be good yet also keep the creeping thoughts that soon the grip of death will coil its hand tightly around your life and remove you from this mortal coil! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Time stamps for if you just want to skip around or something:

7:10 - 86
23:32 - 300 Slime
32:49 - Dragon Goes House Hunting
40:30 - The Slime Diaries
48:04 - Tokyo Revengers
1:04:36 - Mars Red
1:13:43 - Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro
1:27:39 - Those Snow White Notes
1:37:05 - Full Dive
1:45:40 - Odd Taxi

We're dedicating this whole month to anime's most well known (and possibly greatest) auteur: Hayao Miyazaki! In this merry month of May-azaki, we're going to be seeing where Mr. Miyazaki started from and where he ended up as we review four of his movies from his very first (this very episode you're about to be listening to or might be listening to already, I dunno) to his latest! In this episode, we're discussing his feature length film debut: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro! We break down all the fun things that Miyazaki brought to the Lupin lore and what this movie brings out in us as well as all the little things we enjoyed including clock towers, Wikipedia articles, and whimsical castles! Does this film stack up against Lupin III: The First or is it just an overhyped piece of adventure cinema that has been overblown by time because of the name attached to it? I mean, it's Miyazaki so you know it's not gonna be the latter option but I have to raise the stakes or why would you listen? This description business is rough. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Imagine this: some crazy CGI god has the audacity to force you to fight for his job (which he isn't really that great at) with your future predicting cell phone while this kinda crazy kinda hot girl that you casually said at one point that you might marry murders anyone who would make the foolish mistake of even breathing the same air as you? If you can imagine that then congrats! You can kind of imagine this week's episode (and also you have a great imagination, I'm so proud of you) of WAS IT THAT HYPE (name subject to change) where we talk all about Mirai Nikki (or The Future Diary if you wanna call it that). We're talking all about how much we love Yuno Gasai, how much we don't love Yukiteru Amano, and Brad comes to the revelations that he might be the very thing he despises. Is Mirai Nikki an actual classic or is it just coasting on its pure edge? We'll probably find out all about that and more in this week's episode! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Netflix dropped a new "anime" so you know we had to talk about it especially since it's an adaptation of a manga which means that the fact it isn't like the manga is basically the only thing Matt talks about. Don't you get tired of hearing "well, in the manga" all the time? Yeah, there's like five episodes and they're all basically ten minutes long but we can stretch this out content! We're discuss all of Tatsu's hilarious antics and what makes a good adaptation and a little bit about Eragon too! I'm super tired so I'm wrapping this up. Have a great time or something! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're back at it again with the seasonal reviews and we have 11 shows to discuss and talk about this time which I guess is an okay number for doing this seasonal watching thing. We also have time stamps so you can skip all the useless stuff like us talking about our day and lives and favorite things and our actual thoughts and all our hopes, dreams, and fleeting ambitions. You know. All the stuff that no one cares about. We also have our seasonal correspondent Amelia from the Otaku Host Club podcast and her soon to be hit YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/MOESODA) back so it's an extra fun episode too! Listen in and find out what in this packed season was actually worth watching according to Matt and Amelia while Brad interjects every now and then! Can you believe that he watched like 7 shows this time last year but only 2 this one? The competitive sport of seasonal anime watching really does destroy the most promising athletes. It's tragic. He can barely walk now. I see him gazing out the windows of his room every now and then. His face echoes a sentiment he has long since abandoned of chasing waifus and love that he will never be able to grasp now that he's confined to his wheelchair. He was so young and full of promise but it was ripped away from him in just the blink of an eye. Anime truly is hell. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!


10:46 - Sk8: The Infinity

30:48 - The Promised Neverland S2

40:48 - Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

1:00:12 - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S2

1:08:28 - Redo of Healer

1:29:57 - Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki-kun

1:44:58 - Dr. Stone: Stone Wars

1:54:14 - Jujutsu Kaisen

2:07:25 - Wonder Egg Priority

2:33:30 - Horimiya

2:52:10 - Cells at Work: Black

We're back at it again with the siscon anime so you know we had to get someone else involved to suffer with us! If we just covered these shows by ourselves then it would be just two guys creepily discussing all the ways that incest is cool (or not cool, I GUESS) or something but if we get other people involved then we're not absolutely culpable for all the weirdness that happens and we can totally deviate all blame onto them or something. We got Courtney and Karl from the Strictly Series (that includes the Strictly Anime and Strictly JoJo podcasts which you should totally go check out right now don't even finish reading this sentence do it now k thanks) to check out 2018's prestigiously bad siscon anime My Sister, My Writer and it was a ride. Or maybe it wasn't? I have to leave like a hook or a line or something that will make you curious and check out the episode, yeah? That's what being a good showman is all about and the circus has definitely come to town in this anime as we see and talk all about characters with eyes that pop right out of their head and girls who have just the kind of oppai that make just the kind of noises that make you question the physical world around you. Listen in and see if this show is just enough bad to be good or if it's just too good at being bad!

Be sure to check out the Strictly Series network of shows and see all of their info by visiting their website at www.thestrictlyseries.com and follow them on Instagram at @thestrictlyseries and Twitter at @strictlyseries. You can find both of their podcasts, Strictly Anime and Strictly JoJo, wherever you get your podcasts including Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon!

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Netflix's One Piece is a thing but is it a good thing? We find out in this week's episode! Spoilers within!

As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special thanks to Boomslank for sponsoring the episode! You can get 10% off your total order by using our coupon code OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST on their website by going to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to have it automatically applied at checkout!]

Opening and ending song is koishii by Deoxys Beats Cover art is by SinfulScientist

It is finished (for now)! No more double episodes! We had a lot of fun but all good things have to be put on hold as we conclude the first part of Attack on Titan's final season and think a little bit about just how we got here but it's mostly more Pieck discussion. Does she lose points for saving Gabi? Yeah but she's still best girl. It was a ride up to this point, though it had some ups and downs, and we enjoyed getting to hang out with you each weekWe.  can't wait for when Attack on Titan returns so we can talk about it with you folk again! Until , check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Does a show being sad actually make it hype? From a literal standpoint, no. It's very hard to rave with tears in your eyes. That said, we already picked a terrible name for this series of episodes and we have to keep to it so... Here's our episode on Angel Beats! Is it a trip to anime hell, anime heaven, or anime purgatory? Technically, it's the last one but I'm tired. Listen in, hear us talk about the meaning of life or something, and just hang out or something, I guess. I'm tired. I can fix this description later, right? Does anyone actually read this? Secret pro play tip in the show notes: crack a raw egg in your fresh and hot steamed rice to make it super creamy and delicious! It's really good! I don't even like egg and I do it! Bet you're really psyched that you read the description now, right? Come back next week for more cooking tips in the next Otaku Melancholy episode description section!

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

It's Attack on Zeke-tan (that sounds better out loud) as we get double episodes both kinda focusing on the Monke Titan's bearded boi. The gears are really moving in this double feature with friends and foes breaking their ties with one another and even breaking a few bones in the process too. With one more episode due, this final season of Attack on Titan is burning it's plot fast as we see all the pieces fall into place for Paradis to change... And maybe not for the better. Listen in to this episode and fill your ears with out thoughts of what these episodes mean and how we think the story might wrap up for AoT. Also included is a rant on Zack Snyder's Justice League for free too!

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Now That's What I Call Weeb Music! 20 classic OPs discussed all in one podcast episode including such hits like "Inferno" by Mrs. Green Apple and "Colors" by Flow! All your favorites are now collected in one convenient pod that you can listen to in the car, at the house, in the morgue, and wherever else good times are had! Order your episode in the next 24 hours from our 1-800 number and we'll also include Now That's What I Call Otaku Melancholy Podcast Banter that packs all the oldies but goodies like "What Have You Been Doing This Week?", "Unnecessary Screaming Into the Mic", "Unwanted Political Opinion", and "Weirdly Horny Discussion Over Something Inappropriate"! Supplies are not limited but download yours now! And remember, we don't claim to own the rights to any of the songs featured in the episode but only have them here as samples to show you how great our taste might be!

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website  at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social  media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the  conversation! Ganbatte!

We go 1v1 with the creative process in this episode as we figure out just what characters we'd put in our version of anime Smash Bros! It's in the title but also I'm just clarifying for any mild confusion. We decide who is "classic" and "iconic" enough to be put in the illustrious roster of this imaginary game that we concoct and one of us also throws a character from 2020 just because. So who is really Smash-worthy and who is assist trophy worthy? We answer part of this question as we wavedash ourselves right into a corner and jump off the map as we try to pick characters, move sets, stages, and even a little bit of taunts in this episode! It's fun. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation and share with us who you would put in your roster for Anime Smash! Ganbatte!

Heaven got a new angel in this episode... right? I mean, someone got something. I don't know if you get rejected from going to heaven just because you made someone eat their own "stuff". It doesn't say that you can't not do that in any religion, yeah? Anyways, stuff actually kinda happened in this episode and we actually kinda talk about it. I think a lot of this episode is us sincerely praising Attack on Titan though. Pull up your special chair for this episode and don't blow up if we miss the point in this episode of Attalk on Titan! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Since the dawn of time, man has asked: "if it's completely CG, does that still make it anime?" Many wars have been fought and so much blood has been shed seeking for the final answer to this cursed question. You cannot convince me that The War of the Roses wasn't about anything else. Anyways, Lupin the Third pops his head out and says "I'm gonna refuel the fires of war once again" and now here we are watching a CG anime(?) all about the latest exploits of the master thief and SWEET LITTLE BABY JESUS WITH HIS BABY EINSTEIN EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS AND GERBER'S BABY FOOD MADE WITH REAL ORGANIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. This movie is absolutely gorgeous. But is it good? Looks can only get you so far because you have to have a personality too if you actually want to make anything of yourself. Unfortunately I don't have either but does Lupin the Third: The First have what it takes to be a modern masterpiece or is it just all thrill with no kill? We talk all about this and a lot more including Fujiko Mine's ara~ and what series we think could have another solid CG adaptation. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

I'm not doing spoiler buffer for this one. I'm about to drop some real truth that you need to hear. THAT HORSE IS 2021'S BEST ANIME CHARACTER, YO. Calling it right now so just go ahead and check on me in a year when that horse wins my best boy/girl in the OtaMel Aniwards or whatever. Anyways, in this episode, we get a lot of Falco and Gabi and that's okay, I guess. We talk about the obvious lessons that we've already learned (like not to be racist), we defend season two of Attack on Titan for some reason, and we discuss the creativity bankrupted nature of a certain "wizarding world" author. It just kind of descends into that. I'm tired. I got this new tea and it tastes really good but it just relaxes me too much so now I can't even finish these descriptions without yawning. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

I'm gonna be King of the Getting Podcast Episodes Out on Time! It'll be a long journey and I might never get there but I'm going to try with my loyal crew of my cat and producer Craig. Anyways, first impressions of Netflix's One Piece. Final review will be next week! Stay tuned. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte![Special thanks to Boomslank for sponsoring the episode! You can get 10% off your total order by using our coupon code OTAKUMELANCHOLYPODCAST on their website by going to www.boomslank.com/otakumelancholypodcast to have it automatically applied at checkout!]

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Opening and ending song is koishii by Deoxys Beats

Cover art is by Sinful Scientist

Joined by our friend SilentKitten from our Discord (and real life too, I suppose), we join the light music club and rock out to some of our favorite moements (it's a combination of moe and moments!) and ask if 2009's K-on! really is worth being one of the popular anime of that year and maybe in general. Which girl is best? Which girl is worst? Which girl is most mediocre? Why does Ritsu's forehead make me feel weird things? We dive into a discussion on what makes moe and what makes for some great cute comfort as we talk all about the beloved KyoAni's past works and compare them to each other just to see what works and just what doesn't. Is this anime really worth the time or a vast majority of weebs just suckers for moe blobs? You should definitely listen in and find out although I don't think we really answer it but I'm trying to wrap up this episode description so hey. The bottom text is where nothing interesting happens. I doubt anyone really ever reads it anyways. As per usual, you check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Moe moe kyuun~!

Why, hello. I see you're here ready to listen to another episode of Attalk on Titan. Specifically, you're here to listen specifically to our discussion on episode 69. How do you feel? Are you ready for our long and hard discussion on (episode) 69? I bet you are, you naughty weeb. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Anyways, that's enough immature spoiler buffer. Badly timed flashbacks, bandage revelation, and pregnancy reveals galore in this episode of AoT! That's all the ingredients for an awful soap opera and we're gonna break that down as we dive into another rousing talk on one more massive lore dump episode of Attack on Titan! Well, it's as rousing as any other talk that involves 69, I guess. Hey yo! Ba dum tss. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're talking all about therapy dogs, why you need to just shut your kids down and tell them they aren't princesses and that Santa is a corporate lie, and what it means to be the loneliest number 66 in this episode! Joined by the very big wrinkly brained hosts of The Weebology Podcast, we also talk about 2017's Scum's Wish but you know that's just a pretense for us to talk about anime dicks or something. It's all just a segue into having a conversation about anime butts at this point. It's also a Valentine's episode so maybe go listen with your partner or something? I'd do it. The sultry tones of Ethan and Rick will be the perfect thing to have in the background as you hold hands in front of the fire, you sick degenerates. I bet you don't even wear gloves when you do it. You're just asking for an anime pregnancy at that rate. So join us as we dive into another "interesting" romance anime with some of our fellow anime podcasters and go to https://weebology.buzzsprout.com to check out all of The Weebology Podcast's links to their awesome and thought provoking content! And also maybe after that go check all our links out at www.otakumelancholy.com like the ones to our socials and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Happy Valentine's Day! Even though that was like two days ago! I'm still waiting on the chocolate you sent me! I'm sure it's just lost in the mail! Right???

The big info dump episodes return as we get another episode of people talking about people and how those people treat other people that they don't really see as people and how those people (who aren't considered people) feel about those people. Alright, now that the spoiler buffer is out of the way, in this episode we see the origin of the Marley heist (it's not really a heist but hey I think it sounds cool) and we see a little bit of the fallout of the loss of our dearly beloved. Also Brad was totally right about them just throwing crystal Annie in jail. That was weird. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

The Journeymonogatari continues (after like 2 months or something, huh?) as we dive into the series of Kizumonogatari films that feature the real hottest vampire "dommy mommy", Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade! And there's a lot of Tsubasa here too! But... something is definitely off about her which you'll find out all about in this episode! Hop all aboard the waifu train with us as we talk wicked cool fight scenes, awkward watch parties, and confusing time lines in this episode! I don't really know what to type for this description. I hope you'll listen to this episode even if you know nothing about Monogatari cause I think it's pretty good. Like it's a solid episode. Probably a 7.5/10 one. Definitely not an 8. Well, maybe if you crank up the speed to like 1.5x speed? Maybe it's an 8 that way. I don't know. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

All these other podcasts that are doing weekly Attack on Titan episodes just immediately put THE BIG EPISODE SPOILER in the first part of their episodes description but I respect you, my dear listener, and how you're waiting for all of the last season of Attack on Titan to come out so you can binge it. Thusly, I'm gonna stall for time so this first line you see when you see this episode is posted isn't THE BIG EPISODE SPOILER. So let's chitchat. How are you? Is work going well? Is your favorite sports team winning their matches? How about those sport teams? I think this is enough buffer, yeah? You shouldn't be able to see the fact that I HATE GABI SO MUCH SHE KILLED POTATO QUEEN AND I WANT HER TO DIE AND IN THIS EPISODE WE TALK TOP TEN WAYS TO PUNCH GABI IN THE FACE I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S A KID SHE KILLED MY BAETATO AND SHE MUST SUFFER. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS IN THIS EPISODE BUT HOW MUCH I DON'T LIKE GABI. GOODBYE. SEE YOU LATER. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're talking an incest anime (that isn't really incest) this time so we brought on two brothers (who aren't really brothers) to come on and talk all about the forbidden fruit of familial love (that isn't really the forbidden fruit of familiar love). We're talking all about 2019's Domestic Girlfriend (or Domestic na Kanojo if you wanna be THAT guy) in this episode in a brazen attempt to just straight up turn off one of the brothers on romance anime completely. Does it work? Spoilers: not really. This episode is still worth checking out to see the very lax Hina vs. Rui fight and to learn all about the "pedophile clique" that this show has. We also talk about our awkward first sexual experiences and we even feature like 10 seconds of a very Nickelback song (that we VERY OBVIOUSLY don't own the rights to so please don't kill me RIAA or whoever does the suing for this kind of thing) that is very special to one of the brothers and his romantic conquest of a mattress. We talk a little bit less about anime than normal in this episode but it's probably still fun, yeah? Probably. Craig laughed at part of it so you know it has to be a little good. Or maybe it isn't. I don't know what Craig likes. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Just like how the Scout Corps assaulted the Marleyans, MAPPA decided to assault our opinions on their CG skills. Not only do we get to see some hype beast Titan vs Titan vs Human vs Human battles, but we also get a nice B-story on some Titan cuisine, like BBQ and jawbreakers. Even Armin shows up to show us MLG level Alabama fishing. Oh and we talk about some CG techniques and behind the scenes production shenanigans or something. Yawn. JUST GET TO THE FOIGHTIN'! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Is it good? Is it bad? Whatever it is, it's Toradorable! We're starting a new series where we review the most popular show of each year (according to MAL numbers so we might easily make us look stupid in a few years or something) and reviewing them to ask the question: is this show actually that good or is it just overhyped? We're starting with 2008's Toradora which is basically just tsundere central with Taiga and other characters who are just there, I guess. Do you really care about anyone else but Taiga? Like for real? I remember the bird and the mom but I don't know if that's exactly something I SHOULD remember. I also remember that Ami is best so don't @ me, guys. We were both really tired today from a bunch of work stuff but at least we put out an episode though! Check out every month as we review the most popular show of whatever year we decide to do and, as always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We finally get to see the War Hammer Titan in this episode! And some other things too but they're not as important as the War Hammer Titan! Some CG was on display in this episode and maybe it wasn't the best? Just maybe? I'm not judging. Well, I am but that's what this thing is, right? Like we have to judge and talk about the episodes or there wouldn't be content. Anyways, new Attalk on Titan episode! We talk about if the CG was actually THAT bad, what we think could happen in the future, and you know. More stuff. Doing this Attalk on Titan descriptions every week is exhausting. like what do I say about the show? How many more times do I have to do this? At least ten, I think. I can't wait to be done with double records EVERY week. Anyways! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!