Honestly, we spend the entire first segment of the show on some sombre and reflective notes…And arguably unrelated too We’ll start the episode looking back on the Great East Japan Earthquake ten years on 2:05 – Mike recalls the first notices he got on it through DJCity on FB, watching the news the following morning,…More
The Space Heater Chats: Fifteen Years Later – March 6 2021
There have been many people who have been in and out sitting around the Anime Roundtable throught the years, but two guys have remained a constant Mike Nicolas and James Austin sit down and reminisce on the Roundtable’s fifteen year journey. From its beginnings at a university anime club, to the highs of Official Status…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #36 – February 27 2021
With the realization that this will be the last episode before the Roundtable’s 15th anniversary, we begin the episode with some talk about Gamestop’s late week resurgence on the stock market. And how that covers up the issues with Gamestop’s retail operations, notably in Canada (1:52). Then we take a deep dive and go to…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #35 – February 13 2021
We begin the Lunar New Year and Valentines Day edition with some thoughts on the earthquake that had hit Eastern Japan earlier in the day. Then we get around to talking about the Canadian leg of the Japan Film Festival Plus put on by the Japan Foundation Toronto (8:20). With some talk on the following…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #34 – January 30 2021
Perhaps it’s appropriate that this episode is coming out in time for Groundhog Day. Mainly because the episode is being presented in the reverse order in which it was recorded 3:24 – Mike gives a quick podcasting lesson and explains why the first half of the episode had to be re-recorded. The moral of the…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #33 – January 23 2021
We went five around the virtual table for the first time in a few years. And we start off with the COVID update and remember Larry King and Hank Aaron before getting down to business (2:30) 15:31 – Mike and James look back on the Matt Alt interview. Most notably the preparation and how Mike…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #32 – January 9 2021
We get a New Year’s surprise as Geoff rejoins the Roundtable for the first time in almost three years (and second time in version two). And in his return, he and Kevin give their extensive thoughts on the Matt Alt appearance (4:20): 7:20 – Kevin pitches his feelings of Demon Slayer’s success in North America…More
Anime Roundtable Special Edition: A conversation with Matt Alt – December 28 2020
Translator and Writer Matt Alt stops by with the intention of promoting his latest book “Pure Invention: How Japan’s Pop Culture Conquered the World”. But we ended up talking about many other topics concerning his work, and Japanese Pop Culture in general 2:29 – Matt talks about his TV work having been a co-host on…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #31 – December 27 2020
The final episode of 2020 begins with our White Christmas with the usual COVID updates and confessions with a nice anime link to the first vaccine shots in Canada 12:20 – Moh gives his thoughts as we follow up on the Crunchyroll/Funimation Sony situation 26:17 – Kent State University and Ohio State lawmakers clash over…More
Anime Roundtable v2.0 #30 – December 12 2020
On the week of the perhaps the single biggest industry story of 2020, we decide to start with looking back on things we recommended in previous episodes 3:02 – Mike and James looks back on the Japan Foundation New York’s conversation between Fred Schodt and Matt Alt on Japanese Robots 17:22 – Looking back on…More
