So how do we spend the 50th recording of the Pandemic Series?…well it isn’t a proper Roundtable SPOILER WARNING!! We do talk a fair amount about the plot of the movie. So if you haven’t seen it yet and don’t want to be surprised… Yup we saw Shang Chi. Yup we have thoughts on it.…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 Space Heater Chat – August 27 2021: The Return of the Industry Observer
James returns to the table for the first time in almost a month for a chat. So we talk video game stores, COVID, Olympics and Paralympics and scandals, Sony ruling the world, EVA ruling the world, an industry thought with Comic Con and Sentai, before finally talking about what’s presently in our queues with a…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #49 – August 15 2021: Crunchyroll Closes…All is Right With the World
We start this week by looking back as on last week’s manga Space Heater Chat with Geoff’s thoughts leading to a discussion of the merits of the media mix and the same title and premise being told in different forms 16:04 – We talk about Tokyo’s post Olympic letdown in the pandemic era with all…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 Space Heater Chat – August 7 2021: We’re Talking Manga
Mike, Moh, and Kevin decided to sit around the space heater and give their takes on what the manga industry said at their Comic Con Panel a few weeks ago. Really they tried to tie in what was said at the panel with many of the other stories and themes that have already been talked…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #48 – July 31 2021: Let the Games Continue
We start this week by going back to last week’s Space Heater Chat and get the thoughts of the others on pop culture usage in the Olympics. A little political talk on how Japan has handled COVID in the lead up to the Olympics. James pushes the Tomorrow’s Leaves animated short done for the Olympics.…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 Space Heater Chat – July 25 2021: Let the Games Begin
Mike and Moh shoot the breeze and talk Olympics and some of the Japanese and Pop Cultural reference noticed as its first weekend winds down in this very tangental, unvarnished, and unedited chat Corrections: Mike gave the wrong name of CBC’s Japanese Cultural contributor, author and lawyer Mark Sakamoto. He apologizes for the error, and…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #47 – July 16 2021: Trust Before Betrayal
Note: We had a few lag issues with Kevin this week. Mike apologizes if this is an issue for both of our listeners We start this week with some thoughts as convention season continues. But then focus on the one we actually paid attention to 4:58 – We look back on Anime Lockdown and how…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #46 – July 4 2021: The second annual COVID convention season cometh
We start this week with the obligatory COVID update, and Mike having a mic issue…again. This time with the update though, this one is personal since the regulars have now been fully vaccinated in this PSA. Then we actually get down to business Promo: Skeleton House Podcast 21:27 – We look at the unofficial start…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #45 – June 20 2021: Demon Slayer Partaaaay!
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
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
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