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
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #42 – May 15 2021
We start this week with doing a COVID update first in Toronto and then in Tokyo and how that has affected planned events to come in the summer with Mike doing his best to connect various places in the pandemic to Toronto’s local fandom Then we get takes from Kevin, Moh, and Geoff from last…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 Space Heater Chat: May Edition – May 8 2021
Mike and James return in another unvarnished and unedited talk. We tried to rush this in mainly because Mike wanted to get back to watching the final of the first Overwatch League tournament of the season. But you know that’s wishful thinking We come back to the Sony and their backtrack on their decision to…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #41 – May 5 2021
We start by asking for Moh and Geoff’s opinions from the last episode and it intially starts with conventions (2:25) 2:53 – Geoff states a hope for the long term of the fan run style convention and how its solutions will be quite different from industry conventions 6:35 – Moh gives a thought as to…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #40 – The Lockdown Return: April 18 2021
We catch up with JP, the man behind Anime Lockdown with some thoughts one year later on the online convention 4:08 – Anime Lockdown’s Twitter hasn’t been too active because JP feels there hasn’t been anything interesting to tweet 6:28 – JP answers the question on a second edition of Lockdown. And how that would…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #39 – April 10 2021
We begin this episode of the Offical Podcast of Anime North…by acting like it, and talking with its Social Media Coordinator. In a sit down chat with Mike, Chris Nebelsky gives us a look behind the scenes of AN, in terms of the decisions to cancel its last two in person editions, and the move…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 Space Heater Chat: Easter Edition – April 3 2021
Mike and James go unvarnished and unedited again, with the thinking that this will now be a regular feature We start by talking the latest in the local COVID fight (spoiler: on the ropes, with a possible TKO coming), which leads into Canadian movie theatre plans for things like the upcoming Violet Evergarden and Demon…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #38 – March 27 2021
We start this week with some thoughts on recent current events. Which leads nicely into… 14:29 – Cineplex opens a website for the Violet Evergarden and Demon Slayer movies with tickets going on sale March 30th 17:29 – Mike gives his thoughts after finsihing the Demon Slayer anime on Netflix, with a brief look back…More
