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We talk about anime. Lots of anime.

Oh God, so much anime.

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Otakusphere (not) Weekly Episode 29

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Look, it’s another new episode of the podcast just a week after the last one! If we can keep this up, the name of the podcast is going to become “Otakusphere (kinda?) Weekly.”

This week, we were really busy discussing the first episodes of the Fall 2018 shows. Key questions that occupied us: Should Sword Art Online really be talking about the nature of the human soul? What did English-speaking peoples do to A Certain Magical Index III to piss it off? Should Crunchyroll have some kind of a content warning for Goblin Slayer? (Spoiler: YES). And does Studio Trigger forever deserve it’s reputation for jerky animation after Kill La Kill, even something like 5 years later? All this, and more, on this episode of Otakusphere (Occasionally) Weekly!

Note: The director of Uzamaid! is Masahiko Oota, director of Himouto! Umaru-chan and like half of all comedy anime.

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Otakusphere (not) Weekly: Episode 28

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After a slew of technical difficulties, thanks to Youtube Livestreaming, the podcast is back! LB was busy having a life this week (don’t know what’s up with that), but that leaves Karen, Sal and Lifesong to go through the Fall 2018 Anichart and pick out what we’re watching. Topics covered include Space Fishing vs. Soul Fishing, feline urban planning, and how we’ve become absolute anime studio partisans after swearing we would never, ever do that.

This is a different format for us, but one that’s probably going to be more workable long-term than posting the edited shows we were doing before. If you absolutely loved the edited shows, where I made an effort to remove some of the dumb nonsense that comes out of my mouth and most gratuitous “UM” sounds, speak now or forever hold your peace.

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Otakusphere (not) Weekly 27: DARLING in the FRANXX Discussion

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Here it is, the return of the podcast! Is it biweekly now? Is it monthly? Is it whenever the heck we darn well feel like it? Honestly we haven’t decided yet, but we knew had to pick up our mics again because we needed to discuss DARLING in the FRANXX right now.

Is Franxx a good mecha show? Is Franxx a good dystopia? Will watching Franxx compel you to slap a decal of a confederate flag on the back of your vehicle, because it’s somehow about weird American politics? All this, and more, in our exciting return episode!

Not up to date on all the DarliFra commentary we’ve published thus far? Well then let’s make life easy for you:

Darling in the Franxx: Episodes 1-5

Darling in the Franxx: Episodes 6-10

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 11-15

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 16-19

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 20

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 21

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 22

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 23

Darling in the Franxx: Episode 24

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Otakusphere Weekly #26: No One Ever Expects Drill Boobs

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Karen’s great “please God let me catch up on the podcast backlog” project continues, with this episode covering the first of the Fall 2016 anime finales and plenty of the other usual nonsense. Personally, I think this episode’s greatest contribution to the human race is our well-reasoned decision to pick Bakuon!! Jesus over Drifters Jesus as the flagship Anime Jesus, but we’ll let posterity be the final judge of that.

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Otakusphere Weekly #25: Cleanse Your Palette With Death Parade

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Guess who got behind on her podcast editing HAHAHAHAHAHA *cries* yeah I’m really behind.

On the plus side, this was a pretty good episode, where we discussed a lot of stuff and not just the current simulcasts, including some shoujo manga, the Sword Art Online Vita and PS4 games, older anime like Death Parade and Ristorante Paradiso, and so on and so forth. We also learn that Evangelion was Lifesong’s Gateway anime, and there’s something more than a little disturbing about that. Like, everybody else got into anime with Sailor Moon or DBZ or something normal like that, and Lifesong watches Shinji slowly turn into a vegetable from trauma, but then somehow thinks “hmm, this is a pleasant art form that I now plan to engage with at some length.”

In other news, I would know how intense Izetta: The Last Witch  had gotten if I hadn’t dropped it, Magical Girl Raising Project kills more magical girls before 9 AM than most people do all day, and we may be the only people on earth concerned about the animation quality in Yuri on Ice!!! and not just dissolving into a puddle of mush over Victor and Yuri. Oh, and we want actual Christians to give us their take on Drifters Jesus, since he’s a lot like real Jesus when you get right down to it.

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Otakusphere Weekly #24: Finally, Anime Hitler

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In this slightly disturbing episode, we discuss Moe Magical Girl decapitations, evil witches put into stasis as part of a Nazi plot, and the fact that Drifters has given us the anime version of Adolf Hitler that we never knew we wanted. Err, we also discuss some lighter stuff, like funny shipping wars in Kiss Him, Not Me, love between figure skaters and ice dancers, and the fact that Kaiju Girls portrays neither kaiju nor girls with any real enthusiasm.

In other news, LB is reading Welcome to the Ballroom, which he’s not that keen on, but we all need to buy it to prove that a market for ballroom dancing manga exists. I’m just still stuck on the fact that someone made a ballroom dancing manga and tried to make it all shonen-y; now I want a shonen manga all about home redecorating or something.

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Otakusphere Weekly #23: I Want You, Main Character Girl!

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This week Kae gets fat again and then unfat really quickly, Ren temporarily jazzes up Uta Pri by declaring his inexplicable feelings for evil succubus Nanami, Izetta handles it’s spying plot in perhaps the most obnoxious way possible yet somehow makes up for it by giving us the visual of Fine eating pie, and uh…something something gay figure skating? Look, I’ll give you a better synopsis next time, I think the Tofu Turkey I ate might have temporarily broke the thing in my brain that allows me to summarize podcasts. The yams though? Those yams were DYNAMITE!

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Otakusphere Weekly #22: There Are No Admins

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This time around, Keijo!!!!!!!! and Yuri on Ice!!! continue to earn their exclamation points, Izetta: The Last Witch and Magical Girl Raising Project leave us with some doubts, and this season of Uta Pri continues to be stultifyingly boring. In other news, we have now confirmed that Drifters‘ Jesus is a bad guy (what?) and none of the monsters in Kaiju Girls are ever going to have a cool fight (WHAT?)

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Otakusphere Weekly #21: The World Revolves Around Tonkatsu, Once Again

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This time around, we discuss March Comes in Like A Lion and how we would all like to either a)Have an Akari-figure in our lives or b) Be Akari. In other news, Magical Girl Raising Project surprises everyone, Keijo!!!!!!!! treats the Vacuum Butt Cannon issue with the seriousness it deserves, and Gakuen Handsome is…there is no describing what Gakuen Handsome is.

Oh, and Drifters featured the Second Coming of Christ and apparently only 1/3 of the audience even noticed. Maybe religious people should be concerned?

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Otakusphere Weekly #20: Monologues from Cats

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This time around, we jump down the rabbit hole with Flip Flappers, discuss the hidden meaning of the cats’ dialogue in March Comes in Like a Lion, and ponder the proper diet for a modern Keijo player. Additionally, is Girlish Number annoying, or is it just so brilliant in its recreation of workplace incompetence that it’s just painful for anyone who has ever held a job to watch? These questions, and more, answered* on this week’s** episode!

*To be perfectly candid, we don’t really answer these questions. But they are posed, and that should count for something, right?

**Our podcast timing has gotten weird and I have no idea if saying “this week’s episode” makes any sense, but whatever, I’m not getting into “fortnight” or what have you.