For this Father’s Day episode, we tried to do a full Bullets episode. But one small thing nicely bloomed into a big thing The first couple bullets worked on a common thread again. This time…Demon Slayer(2:23) 4:21 – Matt Alt’s article on the Demon Slayer phenomenon in the New Yorker becomes a cannonball of a…More
Monthly Archives: June 2021
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #44 – June 12 2021: The Anime North Hangover
The return episode from Anime North begins by looking back on The Stay At Home Edition. Mainly the things Mike missed, like current references, and the fact that familiar people were watching in the Twitch stream Then we start our episode with music as a common thread. First with the On Mike’s Mind story from…More
On Mike’s Mind: June 9 2021 – The Odd Anisong Legacy of Kōzō Murashita
Mike makes a guarantee that by the end of this, he’ll make you sick of one specific song. This time he tells the story of that song, its appearance in multiple anime titles (and how it got him to watch one of them), its original artist from almost 40 years ago, and how another song…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #43 – May 29 2021: The Anime North Stay at Home Edition
We did the historic first live streamed episode of the Roundtable as part of the Anime North Stay at Home Edition. So we started off by talking with AN host Kaidaj by dropping some links between the pandemic and AN’s past and present And then we got serious by talking about the passing of Berserk…More
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