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We're back on that furry shit! SEASON TWO, BABY! LET'S GO! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! We do not own or claim to own the songs used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use. Opening song is "Kaibutsu" by YOASOBI Ending song is "Yasashii Suisei" by YAOSOBI

WOAH. This season came and went! Caught all of us off guard! ...or, well, maybe not you, but it caught us at the Otaku Melancholy Podcast off guard! ...okay, maybe not everyone, but it caught *someone* off guard! But I'll never tell who, you'll just have to guess, but you won't figure it out. Not in a million years!!! .........I really try my best, but it's hard sometimes. Life gets in the way, ya know? I know you know. You're understanding. You really get me, like a true friend. And you know what else true friends do? Watch a butt-ton of anime and then talk about it! We go over some of the hits and misses of this past season, like how a giant monster show that is too big brained for a simple monke, the wholesomeness and camaraderie of a zombie idol group, and how the real hype-master iss a show about a taxi driver vrooming around and letting the meter run. And while you're here, enjoy some life lessons on how wi-fi connection is our true overlord, and the irony of 86 getting 86'd. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're celebrating pride month the only way we know how! By reviewing an LGBTQ+ positive  visual novel all about loving yourself and being good to other people! And also rehashing content. That's like what we do at this point, I think. We're talking all about A Year of Springs, a collection of three visual novels by NPCKC that include One Night, Hot Springs which we covered last year because we were very unsure of what to do to help celebrate pride month! Listen in to hear all about our experiences with the tiny adventures of Hair, Erika, and Manami and what we can learn and reflect on from this visual novel and our own experiences! We also have a very special announcement right at the beginning so you know this episode is going to be solid. Thank you for your continued support and we hope you'll continue to support our lovely host in the future as she becomes the person she's meant to be. <3 As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! A Year of Springs can be found here at the developer website: https://npckc.site/ https://npckc.itch.io/

You know we have guests but have we ever had a guest who broke their foot shortly before record and STILL came on? No, we haven't. This has basically set the standard for all future guests on the show and we now require a two broken bone minimum to be on (this is a joke please don't hurt yourself we love you). We recently got to sit down and talk with Natalie London and Taylor Plecity of the LGBTQ duo Hey, King! and talk anime and growing up with anime and what gives us the energy to keep going. Did you think we would talk music or something? Because we did and it was kind of weird because Matt doesn't know how to do interviews but it was super fun regardless! This interview, while brief because we didn't want to keep Taylor from the hospital, was great and we'll hope you'll enjoy it and give Hey, King! a listen. They're two great singer songwriters and we're both super fans after getting to talk to them! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! LINKS: Hey, King! Official Website Hey, King! Feature FM (quick links to where you can listen to their music on Spotify and such) Hey, King! on Twitter Hey, King! on Instagram Hey, King! on Facebook

What do you do when you have some masterful example of manga with a mangaka who has talents almost insurmountable in artistic quality in vision? Why you make an anime adaptation that completely butchers his work and vision while bringing his name to shame! Studio Deen sure thinks that's the way to make an anime adaptation as we celebrate the last (functioning) week of June-ji Ito Month by reviewing Junji Ito Collection! With a pedigree of such high standards (and plus since Brad couldn't be in this week), we got some help for this with some of our best podcast boys and girls: the Otaku Host Club! We talk hard about what is actual spooky, popping zits, and if Junji Ito hit the bong a little bit to write his works among a few other things but I can't really spoil that cause I have to entice you to listen to the episode and all. I really wasn't ready to have to host an episode all by myself. I don't like being mean. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! We do not own or claim to own the songs used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use. Check out the Otaku Host Club! Check out Amelia's YouTube! Check out Dan's punk distro!

We're wrapping up our Junji Ito manga coverage (hint hint for what's coming next if you care, I guess) this week with the first of his works: Tomie! We're cut Tomie to pieces to find out what parts we like and what parts we don't and all the filler meat in between and we have some feelings. Are they good? Are they bad? I guess you'll have to listen in to find out in the episode itself. Wait. Did I do this bit already? It all blurs together. You know what doesn't blur together? Junji Ito's magnificent work! AY YO! Always leave them with a fairly weak zinger. Anyways here we go, I'm wrapping this up. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! We do not own or claim to own the songs used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

Get your leaf village headbands and shuriken ready as we cover this Naruto spin-off, Uzumaki! I'm really looking forward into seeing how Junji Ito handles such a beloved character especially with his unique brand of horr- oh wait. I just checked the Wikipedia page and apparently this is not about ninjas and talking people to death. It's about scary spirals??? That's weird. Well, I guess we're spiraling into a special sort of madness with the next week of June-ji Ito month as we cover Uzumaki! One of Ito's three seminal works, this is the tale of a town and how a mysterious plague of spirals affects the people who live within. Sounds kind of lame, huh? Couldn't be any lamer than that "I didn't know this wasn't a Naruto spin-off hurrdeedurr" joke I lead in with but hey! This is actually pretty good so don't let the description fool you. It's not like you didn't know this was going to be scary anyways. Maybe you don't know much about Junji Ito and this will all be new to you? I don't know your life. You never returned my letters. I gaze out at the sea everyday hoping for the mail carrier to send me word of your exploits in the war. It's been three seasons of grief since I last held a page containing pieces of your heart. This cruel war has taken so much from me. Anyways, spirals. They're scary, yo. That's the episode. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Opening song is "Among the Sef" by Colin Stetson. We do not own or claim to own the songs used in this podcast. All rights belong to their respective owners. All songs used in this podcast are applied for critical analysis and reflect a usage that pertains to fair use.

The puns keeping coming as we celebrate another venerable creator in the world of weebdom and that's Junji Ito in this month of June-ji Ito! I can hear you saying it now: "but Person Who Writes These Descriptions, it's not time for spooky at all!" and that's gonna be where you're wrong. It's always a good time for puns and that means it's time for spooky cause June-ji Ito Month is such a great pun and it would be fishy of us if we didn't celebrate. Speaking of fishy (due to how the mail and our local book retailers choose to operate), we're kicking off June-ji Ito Month with Gyo! Is it a good starting point for two absolute noobs at horror in general or is it just the stench of something awful to come? We discuss Gyo, horror, and Doki Doki Literature Club all in this episode so, you know, check it out. If you want, I guess. I'm not gonna force you. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Just Monika.

What is there to say about Sword Art Online that thousands of AniTubers and wannabe AniTubers haven't already said? What plot hole hasn't already been poked holes in to death and how many times can you discuss how boring certain characters are? Is there even a point to talking about it at this point? We're gonna find out in this episode as we FULL DIVE in to talk about 2012's Sword Art Online and see if we actually have anything new to say but honestly we aren't. It's kind of just done to death yet here we are to plop one more turd of a discussion on the already heaping pile of crap that is the Sword Art Online discourse. Just like what you like, you know? Listen in and hear us point out the same flaws someone else with a better mic and a far more handsome face and better editing skills already has! At least we have spirit, I guess. I'm too tired to have spirit right now. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're wrapping up the merry month of May-azaki with his latest (but maybe not so greatest) movie: The Wind Rises! It's all about planes and the inventor of the legendary Zero aerocraft Jiro Horikoshi but does this movie soar above the clouds with the rest or does it fall right out of the sky right into the pits of mediocrity? Well, it's Miyazaki so you know it's not going to be bad but hey! I have to entice you to listen by raising the stakes so here are you stakes as you like them: medium rare and slightly raised! Would you like some stake sauce with that? These are good puns, Matt. Remember to use them in the show where people actually care later. You're right, Matt. I will. Have I filled in enough space yet? Eh. It's good enough for now. I'll fill in with more description if someone says something. Probably. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

If there was every truly a "most handsome boy in all of anime" then it would surely be Howl from this film. Miyazaki is at it again with the sheer whimsy in his 2004 creation which we're talking all about in this episode! Cubby holes for your boots, the best way to eat eggs, and the origin of chicken and waffles are all discussed as well as a little bit about this movie (I guess if that's why you're actually here for some reason) so sit down, listen in, and let us help carry the heavy burden of your heart by interjecting a little bit of WHIMSY in your life for like an hour or so. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Another episode! Another batch of shows! Another bunch of first impressions and thoughts! In this episode we're covering Higehiro, To Your Eternity, Osamake, Shadows House, Zombie Land Saga Revenge, Godzilla S.P., Koikimo, Vivy: Flourite Eye's Song, SSSS Dynazenon, Pretty Detective Club, and Combatants Will Be Dispatched! There's a lot of "meh" feelings in this episode but that's why we have first impressions cause we don't know what a lot of these shows will end up like, you know? It doesn't mean that Amelia isn't wrong about To Your Eternity though cause she is. Speaking of Amelia, you can catch her on YouTube at www.youtube.com/c/MOESODA and on her podcast Otaku Host Club with her co-hosts Geoff and Dan! Be sure to check out her new line of hentai inspired apparel at www.lewddriip.com as well! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

It's our review of Spirited Away. What more could I possibly tell you, my dude? As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're doing Friday episodes for a minute cause we just had so much content we wanted to pump out but just didn't have the Tuesdays in the month for it. When Brad says you can do seasonal previews, you do seasonal previews! After the banging season that was Winter 2021, how do you come back from that? What can you possibly throw out that means anything compared to what we just got? Well, Spring 2021 is here to try and hook us with the shamisen, tan bully waifus, and even more slime! We watched all we could and we're talking about it in this (first) episode including 86, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Dragon Goes House Hunting, The Slime Diaries, Tokyo Revengers, Mars Red, Don’t Toy With Me Miss Nagatoro, Those Snow White Notes, Full Dive: The Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life!, and Odd Taxi! Is any of this crap actually good are is it all just aimless fluff to distract you from the fact that you're going to die some day? It can be both! It can be good yet also keep the creeping thoughts that soon the grip of death will coil its hand tightly around your life and remove you from this mortal coil! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! Time stamps for if you just want to skip around or something: 7:10 - 86 23:32 - 300 Slime 32:49 - Dragon Goes House Hunting 40:30 - The Slime Diaries 48:04 - Tokyo Revengers 1:04:36 - Mars Red 1:13:43 - Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro 1:27:39 - Those Snow White Notes 1:37:05 - Full Dive 1:45:40 - Odd Taxi

We're dedicating this whole month to anime's most well known (and possibly greatest) auteur: Hayao Miyazaki! In this merry month of May-azaki, we're going to be seeing where Mr. Miyazaki started from and where he ended up as we review four of his movies from his very first (this very episode you're about to be listening to or might be listening to already, I dunno) to his latest! In this episode, we're discussing his feature length film debut: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro! We break down all the fun things that Miyazaki brought to the Lupin lore and what this movie brings out in us as well as all the little things we enjoyed including clock towers, Wikipedia articles, and whimsical castles! Does this film stack up against Lupin III: The First or is it just an overhyped piece of adventure cinema that has been overblown by time because of the name attached to it? I mean, it's Miyazaki so you know it's not gonna be the latter option but I have to raise the stakes or why would you listen? This description business is rough. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Imagine this: some crazy CGI god has the audacity to force you to fight for his job (which he isn't really that great at) with your future predicting cell phone while this kinda crazy kinda hot girl that you casually said at one point that you might marry murders anyone who would make the foolish mistake of even breathing the same air as you? If you can imagine that then congrats! You can kind of imagine this week's episode (and also you have a great imagination, I'm so proud of you) of WAS IT THAT HYPE (name subject to change) where we talk all about Mirai Nikki (or The Future Diary if you wanna call it that). We're talking all about how much we love Yuno Gasai, how much we don't love Yukiteru Amano, and Brad comes to the revelations that he might be the very thing he despises. Is Mirai Nikki an actual classic or is it just coasting on its pure edge? We'll probably find out all about that and more in this week's episode! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

Netflix dropped a new "anime" so you know we had to talk about it especially since it's an adaptation of a manga which means that the fact it isn't like the manga is basically the only thing Matt talks about. Don't you get tired of hearing "well, in the manga" all the time? Yeah, there's like five episodes and they're all basically ten minutes long but we can stretch this out content! We're discuss all of Tatsu's hilarious antics and what makes a good adaptation and a little bit about Eragon too! I'm super tired so I'm wrapping this up. Have a great time or something! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

We're back at it again with the seasonal reviews and we have 11 shows to discuss and talk about this time which I guess is an okay number for doing this seasonal watching thing. We also have time stamps so you can skip all the useless stuff like us talking about our day and lives and favorite things and our actual thoughts and all our hopes, dreams, and fleeting ambitions. You know. All the stuff that no one cares about. We also have our seasonal correspondent Amelia from the Otaku Host Club podcast and her soon to be hit YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/MOESODA) back so it's an extra fun episode too! Listen in and find out what in this packed season was actually worth watching according to Matt and Amelia while Brad interjects every now and then! Can you believe that he watched like 7 shows this time last year but only 2 this one? The competitive sport of seasonal anime watching really does destroy the most promising athletes. It's tragic. He can barely walk now. I see him gazing out the windows of his room every now and then. His face echoes a sentiment he has long since abandoned of chasing waifus and love that he will never be able to grasp now that he's confined to his wheelchair. He was so young and full of promise but it was ripped away from him in just the blink of an eye. Anime truly is hell. As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte! 10:46 - Sk8: The Infinity 30:48 - The Promised Neverland S2 40:48 - Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 1:00:12 - That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime S2 1:08:28 - Redo of Healer 1:29:57 - Bottom Tier Character Tomozaki-kun 1:44:58 - Dr. Stone: Stone Wars 1:54:14 - Jujutsu Kaisen 2:07:25 - Wonder Egg Priority 2:33:30 - Horimiya 2:52:10 - Cells at Work: Black

We're back at it again with the siscon anime so you know we had to get someone else involved to suffer with us! If we just covered these shows by ourselves then it would be just two guys creepily discussing all the ways that incest is cool (or not cool, I GUESS) or something but if we get other people involved then we're not absolutely culpable for all the weirdness that happens and we can totally deviate all blame onto them or something. We got Courtney and Karl from the Strictly Series (that includes the Strictly Anime and Strictly JoJo podcasts which you should totally go check out right now don't even finish reading this sentence do it now k thanks) to check out 2018's prestigiously bad siscon anime My Sister, My Writer and it was a ride. Or maybe it wasn't? I have to leave like a hook or a line or something that will make you curious and check out the episode, yeah? That's what being a good showman is all about and the circus has definitely come to town in this anime as we see and talk all about characters with eyes that pop right out of their head and girls who have just the kind of oppai that make just the kind of noises that make you question the physical world around you. Listen in and see if this show is just enough bad to be good or if it's just too good at being bad! Be sure to check out the Strictly Series network of shows and see all of their info by visiting their website at www.thestrictlyseries.com and follow them on Instagram at @thestrictlyseries and Twitter at @strictlyseries. You can find both of their podcasts, Strictly Anime and Strictly JoJo, wherever you get your podcasts including Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon! As always, check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!

It is finished (for now)! No more double episodes! We had a lot of fun but all good things have to be put on hold as we conclude the first part of Attack on Titan's final season and think a little bit about just how we got here but it's mostly more Pieck discussion. Does she lose points for saving Gabi? Yeah but she's still best girl. It was a ride up to this point, though it had some ups and downs, and we enjoyed getting to hang out with you each weekWe.  can't wait for when Attack on Titan returns so we can talk about it with you folk again! Until , check out new episodes every Tuesday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to continue the conversation! Ganbatte!