No Country for Otakus

High school student Yuuichi Katagiri cherishes his close circle of friends, composed of four classmates:  Yutori Kokorogi, Shiho Sawaragi, Makoto Shibe, and Tenji Mikasa. However, when the funds for the upcoming school trip are stolen,  the incident causes Shiho and Makoto—who had been tasked with collecting the money—to distance themselves from the rest of their class.  Soon after, Yuuichi and his friends are deceived into meeting up and knocked unconscious by unknown assailants. After waking, the group find themselves confined in a white room with controversial figure Manabu-kun, who reveals that one of the five  has gathered them together to clear their personal debt of twenty million yen. To pay off the amount, they must participate in a variety of  psychological games that will test the true nature of their friendship and humanity.  Distressed and isolated from the outside world, Yuuichi and his friends need to cooperate to complete the games.  But as their concealed feelings and problematic pasts begin to surface, their seemingly unbreakable bond may soon shatter into irreparable  pieces.

Gen Kudou, a koto maker, believes that his delinquent grandson Chika would never understand the profoundness of the traditional musical instrument.  In an attempt to make up for his naivety and understand the words of his late grandfather, Chika tries to join the Tokise High School Koto Club.  Even though the club is in dire need of members, new club president Takezou Kurata is unwilling to easily accept Chika's application due to his bad reputation.  Nonetheless, after seeing Chika's seriousness and enthusiasm, Takezou allows the problem child to join, along with koto prodigy Satowa Houzuki and three of Chika's energetic friends.  Kono Oto Tomare! follows the merry band of musicians as they aspire to play at the national competition.

While alchemist Edward Elric searches for a way to restore his brother Al's body, the military government and mysterious monsters are watching closely.  The Elric brothers meet their toughest opponent yet -- a lone serial killer with a large scar on his forehead. As they attempt to catch him, they learn a series of dark secrets about some of their fellow alchemists.  The Elric brothers meet their toughest opponent yet, a lone serial killer. Hidden state secrets, Ed and Al's father's past, and truths are revealed as the adventure builds to an epic finale. Podcast

Once upon a time, the world was ruled by Chaos. Chaos is one of many features of this mysterious world. Its concentration distorts the laws of nature, which leads to the emergence of demons and natural disasters, which people call "the scourge of Chaos."  Then came "a man with a holy seal" and "returned the order." He was called the Lord. He was the only one who could use the seal and therefore protected people from Chaos. As a result of his actions, the territories occupied by people expanded instantly.  So the Lord must be. But, everything has its own good and bad side. When the level of Chaos has gone down, the Crests have become instruments used in power struggles. At the moment, all people are divided between the Fantasia Union and the Factory Alliance.  Over time, the two power blocs' rulers decided to arrange the wedding of their heirs to unite and complete the creation of the Great Seal - a symbol of order for the eternal peace. However, both dukes were eliminated, and wars were unleashed on their territories with new forces.  At the center of this battle was a student from the Magical Academy named Siluca, on which the earl named Lord Villar laid his eyes. The purpose of Siluca was to conclude an agreement with Villar, and on the way to Altirk (where Villar ruled),  she was surrounded by hostile soldiers, but Lord Theo came to her aid. And they begin their adventures.

Momokichi Momoi, the mob boss owner of a professional baseball team known as "the Peach Twisters",  has a unique way of dealing with ineffective players: killing them. His daughter, Momomi,  is twice as twisted as her father. Mikura and the Danger Service Agency are hired by a mysterious  old man to kidnap Momokichi. But during that attempt they run afoul of Momomi. Before the resulting  firefight, Momokichi dies when his head falls on a ventilation pipe. Now Mikura and the D.S.A. have  to come up with a new plan before they end up as Momomi's next target.  Mikura, Kurokawa, and Harada are the three members of the Danger Service Agency (DSA).  Mikura is the brawn of the group, Harada is the brains, and Kurokawa is just a bitter  ex-cop who likes to think he's in charge. They'll take on any job as long as it involves  much danger and, of course, money. Their biggest case, however, could prove to be finding  out why someone wants Kurokawa assassinated.  The DSA's headquarters is an old red British double-decker bus that has been converted into living  quarters for the three main characters. It has been placed on the rooftop of a two-story building  which houses Mugiyama's barber shop on the ground floor. They drive an old-style pink Volkswagen Beetle.

The Republic of San Magnolia has been at war with the Giadian Empire for nine years.  Though it initially suffered devastating losses to the Empire's autonomous mechanized Legions,  The Republic has since developed its own autonomous units—Juggernauts—which are directed remotely  by a Handler. While on the surface the public believes the war is being fought between machines,  in reality, the Juggernauts are being piloted by humans and all of them are the Eighty-Six, the  designation given to the sub-humans of the Eighty-Sixth Sector who are persecuted and stripped of  their rights by the racist-led Alba government.  Major Vladilena "Lena" Milizé is an Alba noble and military officer in the Republic's Military  who is assigned as a Handler of the Spearhead Squadron of the Eastern Front, an elite unit composed  entirely of Eighty-Sixer veterans who have earned names led by their squad leader,  Shinei "Undertaker" Nouzen. As Lena gets to know Shinei and the rest of the Spearhead Squadron,  she becomes sympathetic to his people's plight and tries to help them. At same time, Lena and  Shinei learn a dark secret: the Republic and the war with the Empire is not what it seems.

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, also known as Re:CONSTRUCTION -  The Elfrieden Kingdom Tales of Realistic Brave,[a] is a Japanese light novel series written by Dojyomaru and illustrated by Fuyuyuki.  The story follows Kazuya Souma, a humanities-student-turned-hero as he pulls on his knowledge of realism and machiavellianism in order to rebuild the kingdom.  A manga adaptation by Satoshi Ueda began serialization online in Overlap's Comic Gardo manga website in July 2017. Digital publisher J-Novel Club has licensed both the light novel and manga for an English release. An anime television series adaptation by J.C.Staff aired from July 2021 to April 2022.

Japan cryo-preserves a select group of patients to save humanity when a virus turns people into stone. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, wakes up after years of being frozen in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.

The narrative of Buso Renkin follows Kazuki Muto, who saves Tokiko Tsumura and is killed by an alchemical monster known as a homunculus.  Tokiko, an alchemist warrior, feels responsible and revives him by replacing his destroyed heart with a kakugane (核鉄).  The kakugane is an alchemical device which, when activated, takes a weapon form based on its user's personality, forming a buso renkin—the only thing that can destroy a homunculus.

Tsukiko Sagi, a shy character designer who created the immensely popular pink dog Maromi, finds herself under pressure to repeat her success. As she walks home one night, she is attacked by an elementary school boy on inline skates. Two police detectives, Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa, are assigned to the case. They suspect that Tsukiko is lying about the attack, until they receive word of a second victim.  

Soon the attacker, dubbed Lil' Slugger (Shōnen Batto in Japanese, meaning "Bat Boy"), is blamed for a series of street assaults in Tokyo. None of the victims can recall the boy's face and only three distinct details are left in their memories: golden inline skates, a baseball cap, and the weapon: a bent golden baseball bat. Ikari and Maniwa set out to track down the perpetrator and put an end to his crimes.

To Your Eternity (Japanese: 不滅のあなたへ, Hepburn: Fumetsu no Anata e, lit. "To You, the Immortal") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since November 2016, with individual chapters collected by Kodansha into sixteen tankōbon volumes as of August 2021. The story is about an immortal being, Fushi, who takes on multiple forms, including that of an abandoned white-haired village boy and his white wolf in order to stimulate as it learns what it is to be truly human.

Ōima, inspired by her own grandmother's death, aimed to write about survival and the character Fushi, who initially is an emotionless stone but gradually develops a self and personality as a result of interacting with humans, young and old alike. In contrast to her previous work, A Silent Voice, To Your Eternity puts little focus on the cast's past but instead, upon the future.

To Your Eternity has been well received in Japan, earning many awards and major sales. Critical response to the series debut was positive, based on the emotional focus on the villagers and Fushi to the point of often earning perfect scores. Despite some skeptical commentary on subsequent chapters lacking the same impact, Fushi's continuous character arc was praised while Ōima's artistry enjoyed positive reviews due to its detailed facial expressions and environments. An anime television series adaptation of the manga, produced by Brain's Base, aired from April to August 2021 on Japan's NHK Educational TV; a second season produced by Drive will premiere in October 2022. In North America, the manga is licensed by Kodansha USA for a digital and printed English release.

The story is about a little prince named Bojji who is deaf but above all naive, because despite many criticisms from his people about his accession to the throne, he does his best and dreams of becoming the greatest of kings. One day, he meets Kage (Shadow), a survivor of a wiped out assassin clan, who understands his words despite Bojji being unable to speak due to his disability. The story follows the pair as they navigate the world and all of its adventures and darkness.

The series begins in 12th century Japan and centers on Kuro, a character based loosely on the legendary Japanese swordsman Minamoto no Yoshitsune. Kuro and his servant, Benkei, meet a beautiful and mysterious woman named Kuromitsu while on the run from Kuro's elder brother, who seeks his life. Kuromitsu and Kuro fall in love, but he soon discovers that she harbors a terrible secret: she is a vampiric immortal. Following an attack by his pursuers, Kuro is badly injured and must imbibe Kuromitsu's blood to save his own life. Kuro is then betrayed and attacked by Benkei, who has been subverted by a shadowy organization called the Red Army, and Kuro's head is severed, which interferes with his transformation into a fully immortal being. 

 Kuro loses consciousness and wakes up centuries later in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian Japan with his memories of the past century missing. The surviving citizens have fallen under constant oppression by the Red Army, and Kuro is quickly found and recruited by an underground revolutionary movement called Haniwa. The remaining episodes follow Kuro's fight with the Red Army and its host of elite warriors, who have been hunting Kuromitsu for her blood, believing it contains the secret to eternal life; focusing on Kuro's quest to find his inexplicably lost love.

In the near future, mysterious monsters known as the "Enemies of Humanity" begin to appear,  and with it so do children with supernatural powers called the "Talented".  To prepare them for the upcoming battle against these Enemies, all the Talented are sent to a school  located on a deserted island, where they have all their daily needs provided for until they graduate  and communication with the outside world is forbidden. One day, a new student named Nana Hiiragi arrives  at the school. Her friendly and cheerful personality lets her quickly make friends with the class.  In reality, however, Nana is a Talentless government assassin who has been dispatched to kill the Talented,  whom the government deems to be the true Enemies of Humanity.   

Directed by Shinji Ishihira 

Written by Fumihiko Shimo 

Music by Yasuharu Takanashi (Team-MAX) 

Studio         Bridge 

Licensed by Funimation Original network AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, TVA 

Original run October 4, 2020 – December 27, 2020 Episodes 13 (List of episodes)

The story follows the life of Tomoya Okazaki, from adolescence to adulthood. As an average high school student, he meets many people in his last year at school, including five girls whose individual problems he helps resolve,  and his life is further detailed after graduating from high school. The gameplay of Clannad follows a plot that branches into different scenarios based on various courses of interaction by the player character.  The game was ranked as the best-selling PC game sold in Japan for the time of its release, and charted in the national top 50 several more times afterwards. Key went on to produce an adult spin-off titled Tomoyo After:  It's a Wonderful Life in November 2005, which expanded on the scenario of Tomoyo Sakagami, one of the five heroines from Clannad.

Clannad: After Story, the sequel to the critically acclaimed slice-of-life series Clannad, begins after Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa graduate from high school.  Together, they experience the emotional rollercoaster of growing up. Unable to decide on a course for his future, Tomoya learns the value of a strong work ethic and discovers the strength of Nagisa's support.  Through the couple's dedication and unity of purpose, they push forward to confront their personal problems, deepen their old relationships, and create new bonds.

Directed by Tatsuya Ishihara

Written by Fumihiko Shimo

Music by Jun Maeda - Magome Togoshi - Shinji Orito

Studio Kyoto Animation

Original run October 4, 2007 – March 26, 2009 Episodes 47 + 2 OVA (List of episode

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1:17:49 - Shooting the Shit

1:56:58 - Wrap/up Outro

We go over our top 5 reviewed anime of 2021 , mixed with some honorable mentions and 2022 anticipated anime.  

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1 - Vivy Florite Eye's Song

 2 - Violet Evergarden 

3 - Arcane 

4 - Your Lie in April 

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Amidst the escalating unrest between the advanced, utopian city of Piltover and the squalid, repressed undercity of Zaun,  sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a war over twisted ideologies and arcane technology.  

Original network Netflix 

Picture format 1080p HDR widescreen 

Audio format 5.1 surround sound 

Original release November 6, 2021 – present  

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Cowboy Bebop is an American science fiction streaming television series. It is a live action series based on the 1998 Japanese anime series of the same name and the 2001 Japanese anime film of the same name.[2] The series is developed by Christopher Yost, and stars John Cho, Mustafa Shakir, Daniella Pineda, Elena Satine, and Alex Hassell. The 10-episode series was released on November 19, 2021, on Netflix, and was criticized for its writing, special effects, editing and action scenes, but was praised for its cast.

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Your Lie in April is a Japanese romantic drama manga series written  and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. It has been adapted into an anime television series and multiple stage productions.  The manga was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Magazine from  April 2011 to May 2015. The story follows a young pianist named Kо̄sei Arima, who loses the ability to hear the piano after  his mother's death and his experiences after he meets violinist Kaori Miyazono.

The series originated from a one-shot Arakawa entered in a competition. After serializing another manga series, Arakawa  used it as a base for the series, as well as taking some inspiration from other similar works, like Beck and Nodame Cantabile.  An anime television series adaptation by A-1 Pictures aired from October 2014 to March 2015 on Fuji TV's  Noitamina block and an original video animation (OVA) episode was released in May 2015.  A live-action film adaptation of the same name was released in September 2016.  The series has also been adapted into a stage play, a light novel, and a musical, which is set to premiere in May 2022.

Manga Original run April 6, 2011 – February 6, 2015  Volumes 11 (List of volumes)

Anime Series Original run October 9, 2014 – March 19, 2015    Episodes 22 (List of episodes)

Light Novel Published November 17, 2014      Volumes 1

OVA Released May 15, 2015    Runtime 23 minutes

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Three warriors battle the forces of darkness when an archaeological expedition unleashes an ancient prophecy.

OVA Directed by Shoichi Masuo 

Studio         A.P.P.P. (animation)  

Released August 21, 1995 Runtime 60 minutes (each) 

 Anime Film 

Crimson Wolf 

Studio Streamline Pictures 

Released 1995 Runtime 100 minutes

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Set in late 21st century Japan where boxers wear exoskeletons to fight, the narrative focuses on an underground fighter  only known by his ring name Junk Dog, who decides to enter into a boxing competition called Megalonia, in order to defeat the champion, Yūri.

The series was broadcast in Japan from April 6 to June 29, 2018, and was simulcast on Crunchyroll.[3]  The series was licensed by Viz Media for an English release and began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block  in the United States in December 2018. A second season, titled Megalobox 2: Nomad, aired from April 4 to June 27, 2021.

Manga - Original run February 17, 2018 – August 17, 2018 Volumes 2

TV Anime - Original run April 6, 2018 – June 29, 2018 Episodes 13 (List of episodes) (S1)

Original run - April 4, 2021 – June 27, 2021 Episodes 13 (List of episodes) (S2)

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Violet Evergarden (Japanese: ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン, Hepburn: Vaioretto Evāgāden) is a Japanese light novel series written by  Kana Akatsuki and illustrated by Akiko Takase. It won the grand prize in the fifth Kyoto Animation Award's novel category in  2014, the first ever work to win a grand prize in any of the three categories (novel, scenario, and manga). Kyoto Animation published the first light novel on December 25, 2015, under their KA Esuma Bunko imprint.

A 13-episode anime television series adaptation by Kyoto Animation aired between January and April 2018 with  several advance screenings taking place in 2017. The series was awarded Best Animation at the 2019 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.  An original video animation episode was released in July 2018, and a spin-off film premiered in Japan in September 2019.  A second anime film, Violet Evergarden: The Movie, was released on September 18, 2020.

Light Novels - Original run December 25, 2015 – March 28, 2020 Volumes 4 (List of volumes)

TV Anime - Original run January 11, 2018 – April 5, 2018 Episodes 13 + OVA (List of episodes)

Movies: Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll September 6, 2019 / Violet Evergarden: The Movie September 18, 2020

ReLIFE (リライフ, Riraifu) is a Japanese manga series in webtoon format written and illustrated by Yayoiso. The individual chapters were released by NHN Japan on the Comico  website from October 12, 2013, to March 16, 2018  The story revolves around 27-year-old Arata Kaizaki, a NEET who has been unemployed for several years; only working part-time at a convenience store.  One day, a mysterious man named Ryō Yoake offers him a job opportunity; but first, Kaizaki needs to become a tester for ReLife: a scientific experiment  to make him appear 10 years younger and send him back to high school as a student. The experiment is supposed to provide a chance to experience youth  once again and, in the process, fix whatever is wrong with the subject's life.

Manga Original run October 12, 2013 – March 16, 2018 Volumes 15 (List of volumes)  

TV Anime Original run July 2, 2016 – September 24, 2016 Episodes 13 (List of episodes)  

OVA Released March 21, 2018 Episodes 4 (List of episodes)

Artist: PENGUIN RESEARCH Song: Button  

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Re:Creators (stylized as Re:CREATORS) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Troyca. The series is about a high school student who becomes involved in a battle  between several characters from manga, anime, and video games who somehow appear in the real world. It aired from April to September 2017, and was exclusively streamed by  Amazon on their Amazon Video service. A manga adaptation by Daiki Kase was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X from April 2017 to November 2019.

Sōta Mizushino is a young high school student and anime fan who dreams of writing his own light novel. While watching the anime adaptation of the mecha light novel Elemental  Symphony of Vogelchevalier to look for inspiration, the tablet computer he is watching it on sputters and drags him into the anime's world, where he witnesses a battle between  the anime's character Selesia and a mysterious girl wearing a military uniform. After returning with Selesia, Sōta discovers that other characters from different stories and forms of media were also brought to the real world, with some of them aligned with the military uniform princess, who promised them the ways to end the strife in their worlds  and a way back home, unaware of her true intentions. To stop her, Sōta and Selesia agree to find the other characters and bring them home; lest the military uniform princess  will bring untold destruction to every world that exists.

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Original run April 8, 2017 – September 16, 2017 

Episodes 22 (List of episodes)

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A pair of high school students, Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, are hit by a subway train in an attempt to save the life of a drunk homeless man who had fallen onto the tracks.  Following their deaths, Kurono and Kato find themselves transported to the interior of an unfurnished Tokyo apartment, where they meet Joichiro Nishi, a Gantz veteran,  and other clueless participants. The pair soon realizes that they are not allowed to leave the apartment. At one end of the room there is a large black sphere known as "Gantz".

Manga Original run -  June 29, 2000 – June 20, 2013 Volumes 37 (List of volumes)

Anime Original run - April 12, 2004 – November 18, 2004 Episodes 26 (List of episodes)

Movies - Live-action films (2011) Gantz: O (2016)

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Inuyashiki (いぬやしき) is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Hiroya Oku. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Evening from  January 2014 to July 2017,  with its chapters compiled in ten tankōbon volumes.
An anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA aired on Fuji TV's late night programming block Noitamina from October to December 2017.  A live-action film adaptation premiered in Japan in April 2018.

Inuyashiki Ichiro is an older, friendless man with an uncaring family. One fateful evening in a nearly empty public park, he is struck by an explosion of extraterrestrial  origin, and his body is replaced by an incredibly powerful, but still outwardly human, mechanical body. He quickly realizes the extent of his body's powers,  and after saving a homeless man being beaten by a pack of teenagers, he decides to dedicate himself to doing good, using his powers to heal those with incurable diseases  and fight crime.

However, a teenager who was with him at the time of the explosion, Shishigami Hiro, had the same fate as Ichiro, but unlike Inuyashiki,  Shishigami becomes a psychopath who goes about using his newfound abilities to murder various people, from classmates that annoy him to innocent families,  including young children, just for amusement. His acts of merciless cruelty bring him the attention of the police,  who can do nothing to stop him. Hiro becomes the most wanted criminal in the country.

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R.O.D the TV is a 26-episode anime television series, animated by J.C.Staff and Studio Deen and produced by Aniplex, directed by Koji Masunari and scripted by Hideyuki Kurata, about the adventures of three paper-manipulating sisters, Michelle, Maggie and Anita, who become the bodyguards of Nenene Sumiregawa, a famous Japanese writer. Featuring music by Taku Iwasaki, the series is a sequel to the Read or Die OVA.

The series begins in 2006, five years after the "I-Jin" incident detailed in the Read or Die OVA. Yomiko Readman (a.k.a. "The Paper", agent of British Library Task Force) has supposedly gone missing, and Nenene Sumiregawa, her former student and best friend, is still in Tokyo after her parents moved to the United States. Nenene has not written a book since Yomiko disappeared, as she has become lonely and frustrated that her sensei has never read her last book, and she feels she can't write again until she hears Yomiko's reaction to the book, so Nenene often disappears for long periods of time searching for Yomiko, and has been periodically doing so ever since her "disappearance".

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Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song is an anime television series produced by Wit Studio and created by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara. It aired from April 3 to June 19, 2021.

In the year 2056, advances in technology have resulted in the creation of autonomous artificial intelligence and android bodies that can mimic human appearance. However, in order to overcome programming constraints, all AIs are programmed to fulfill one specific "mission".

A songstress AI named Vivy is given the mission of making people happy with her songs, and works to one day take the main stage of the amusement park where she works. However, she encounters another AI named Matsumoto who claims to have been sent from 100 years in the future in order to prevent a destructive war between humans and AIs, starting Vivy's 100-year journey to save the world.

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Movie 1

 In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

Movie 2 

Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno (2014) Kenshin Himura goes up against pure evil Makoto Shishio who is attempting to overthrow the Meiji government.  The fate of the country hangs in the balance as Kenshin Himura takes up the sword that he vowed to never draw again

Movie 3 

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique.

Movie 4 

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.

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In Bastard!!, the Kingdom of Metallicana is attacked by the Four Lords of Havoc. This prompts the high priest to ask his daughter to awaken Dark Schneider, a wizard and  former leader of the Riders, from within the body of 14-year-old Luche Renren.  Bastard!!'s history is about sorcery, revenge, and other power struggles in a Dungeons & Dragons–like world.  It is a dystopian world, where people need magic to survive against wild beasts, and evil monsters. There are four kingdoms, each one the protector of one of the  four seals that keep the God of Destruction in stasis.  While the first half of the manga follows most a theme similar to Dungeons & Dragons scenarios, it later also focuses on aspects such as beliefs, morals and religions.

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A mysterious tree known as Yggdrasil would often appear in the world of the humans, releasing many small orbs into the human world. A small proportion of the orbs are special  ones known as "Time Fruits". If a Time Fruit enters a female, she becomes Immortal. If a Time Fruit enters a male, he becomes a crazed winged being known as an "Angel".  Rin Asougi is an immortal who runs a private investigation agency in Tokyo's Shinjuku district alongside her assistant, Mimi who is also immortal. Rin often converses with  a mysterious unknown individual on the phone. She is often being hunted down by an assassin named Laura who was hired by Apos, an angel who persecutes immortals and is the  current guardian of the Yggdrasil.

Original run February 3, 2008 – July 6, 2008 

Episodes 6 (List of episodes)

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Castlevania is an American anime-style adult animated streaming television series on Netflix produced by Frederator Studios. Based on the Japanese video game series of the same name by Konami, the first two seasons adapt the 1989 entry Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and follow Trevor Belmont, Alucard and Sypha Belnades as they defend the nation of Wallachia from Dracula and his minions. Characters and elements from the 2005 entry Castlevania: Curse of Darkness are also featured beginning in the second season.

The series was originally planned as a film, developed by producer Kevin Kolde and his company Project 51. Kolde had a contract for a script with writer Warren Ellis in 2007; the project entered development hell until about 2015, when Adi Shankar boarded the project and it was picked up by streaming service Netflix. Powerhouse Animation Studios joined the team and production commenced. Its art style is heavily influenced by Japanese anime and Ayami Kojima's artwork in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with the production team including staff members who worked in the Japanese anime industry.

The series premiered on Netflix on July 7, 2017, and was renewed for an expanded second season of eight episodes on the same day; the second season premiered on October 26, 2018. A ten-episode third season was greenlit by Netflix and released on March 5, 2020. The series ended with the release of its fourth season on May 13, 2021. A new series set in the Castlevania universe is in the works at Netflix.

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In feudal Japan, a samurai warrior of African descent must return to his life of sword and violence in order to protect a mysterious girl from dark forces.

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Science Ninja Team Gatchaman is a Japanese animated franchise about a five-member superhero team created by Tatsuo Yoshida and produced by Tatsunoko Productions. The original anime series, which debuted in 1972, was eponymously entitled Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman and is best known in the English-speaking world as the adaptation entitled Battle of the Planets (1978). The series had additional English adaptations with G-Force: Guardians of Space (1986) and ADV Films' uncut 2005 release. Tatsunoko also uses the official translation Science Commando Gatchaman in related products and media.

The original Kagaku Ninja Tai Gatchaman series was followed by an animated film and two direct sequel series, Gatchaman II (1978) and Gatchaman Fighter (1979).

Gatchaman  is a three-part original video animation (OVA) based on the popular 1970s anime Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. It was released in Japan and the United States during the mid-1990s. This version of Gatchaman is set in the year 2066 where the evil leader of the nation of Hontwall is threatening to take over the planet. Scientists from the International Science Organization are disappearing and only five teenage heroes, the Science Ninja team, can stop the disaster. The OVAs were licensed by Urban Vision through Harmony Gold USA and were released on VHS and DVD. At Anime Boston 2013, Sentai Filmworks had announced that they have rescued the OVA series along with the original 1970s series for a DVD re-release in October. The series was made available for streaming through Crunchyroll.

Time Stamps

0:00 Intro

0:46 Gatchaman Discussion

33:00 Jujitsu

48:42 Thor Ragnarok

52:56 Random topics

1:11:50 Mortal Kombat

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Claymore (stylized as CLAYMORE) is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi.  It premiered in the May 2001 issue of Monthly Shōnen Jump, where it continued until the magazine was shut down in June 2007.

The series is set on a fictional medieval island where humans are plagued by Yoma, humanoid shape-shifters that feed on humans. A mysterious group, known as The Organization, creates human-Yoma hybrids to kill Yoma for a fee. These female warriors wear armored uniforms. The public refer to them as "Claymores", alluding to their claymore swords, or "Silver-eyed Witches", due to their silver eyes.

Yoma and Claymore warriors alike are powered by a demonic energy, Yoki, which allows shape-shifting and extreme strength. When warriors use too much Yoki, they "awaken", becoming a super-Yoma called an Awakened Being. The act of awakening is likened to the feeling of sexual climax, so while both male and female warriors existed in the past only the women proved to be successful warriors and so the creation of male Claymores stopped altogether.

The island world is divided into 47 districts, with one warrior assigned to each. Claymore warriors No. 1 through 47 are ranked on their baseline Yoki potential, strength, agility, intelligence, sensing and leadership. A warrior's rank rises and falls according to the warrior's strength in relation to other warriors. It is unclear whether the warriors strength comes from training/experience or if the potential lies within the warriors themselves.

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Aldnoah Zero

In 1972, an ancient alien hypergate was discovered on the surface of the moon. Using this technology, humanity began migrating to Mars and living there and created the Vers Empire. Now, in 2014, war is brewing between Mars and the Earth.

Berserk: Golden Age Arc

Berserk is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura. Set in a medieval Europe-inspired dark fantasy world, the story centers on the characters of Guts, a lone mercenary, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the "Band of the Hawk". Miura premiered a prototype of Berserk in 1988.

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Me and Dwayne discuss and review the recently released Zack Snyder's Justice league.

Zack Snyder's Justice League, often referred to as the "Snyder Cut," is the 2021 director's cut of the 2017 American superhero film Justice League. It presents Justice League—the fifth film of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), the follow-up to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name.

Starring Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams, Ray Fisher, Jared Leto, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Irons, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Ciarán Hinds.

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Toua Tokuchi is an athlete by profession, but a reckless gambler at heart. On the streets of Okinawa, he uses nothing but his wits and a "fastball" peaking at a mere 134 kmph to  somehow achieve 499 wins in the game of "One Outs," a simplified version of baseball between the pitcher and one batter. Amazed by Toua's unique prowess on the mound, veteran  slugger Hiromichi Kojima artfully scouts the pitcher for his long unsuccessful team, the Saikyou Saitama Lycaons. Kojima desperately hopes Toua will lead them to the  championship; however, Tsuneo Saikawa, the mercenary owner of the Lycaons, sees the vastly talented pitcher as a threat to the income generated by the team. Rising to the challenge of swaying the owner,

Toua suggests a one-of-a-kind "One Outs" contract: every out Toua pitches will earn him five million yen, but with every run he gives up, he will lose fifty million yen.

Directed by Yūzō Satō

Produced by Toshio Nakatani Manabu Tamura

Studio                                  Madhouse

Original run                    October 7, 2008 – March 31, 2009 

Episodes                          25 (List of episodes)

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About  

Monster (stylized as MONSTER; sometimes referred to as "Naoki Urasawa's Monster") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa.  It was published by Shogakukan in their Big Comic Original magazine between 1994 and 2001, with the chapters collected and reprinted into 18 tankōbon volumes.  The story revolves around Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese surgeon living in Germany whose life enters turmoil after getting himself involved with Johan Liebert,  one of his former patients, who is revealed to be a dangerous serial killer.

Plot  

Dr. Kenzo Tenma is a young Japanese brain surgeon, working at Eisler Memorial Hospital in Düsseldorf, West Germany. Tenma is dissatisfied with the political bias of the  hospital in treating patients, and seizes the chance to change things after a massacre brings fraternal twins Johan and Anna Liebert into the hospital. Johan has a gunshot  wound to his head, and Anna mutters about killing; Tenma operates on Johan instead of the mayor, who arrived later. Johan is saved, but Mayor Roedecker dies; Tenma loses  his social standing. Director Heinemann and the other doctors in Tenma's way are mysteriously murdered, and both children disappear from the hospital. The police suspect  Tenma, but they have no evidence and can only question him.  

Nine years later, Tenma is Chief of Surgery at Eisler Memorial. After saving a criminal named Adolf Junkers, Junkers mutters about a "monster."  Tenma returns with a clock for Junkers, he finds the guard in front of Junkers' room dead and Junkers gone. Following the trail to the construction site of a  half-finished building near the hospital, Tenma finds Junkers held at gunpoint. Junkers warns him against coming closer and pleads with him to run away.  Tenma refuses, and the man holding the gun is revealed to be Johan Liebert. Despite Tenma's attempts to reason with him, Johan shoots Junkers.  Telling Tenma he could never kill the man who saved his life, he walks off into the night, with Tenma too shocked to stop him.

Tenma is suspected by the police, particularly BKA Inspector Lunge, and he tries to find more information about Johan. He soon discovers that the boy's sister is living a happy  life as an adopted daughter; the only traces of her terrible past are a few nightmares. Tenma finds Anna, who was subsequently named Nina by her foster parents, on her birthday;  he keeps her from Johan, but is too late to stop him from murdering her foster parents. Tenma eventually learns the origins of this "monster": from the former East Germany's  attempt to use a secret orphanage known as "511 Kinderheim" to create perfect soldiers through psychological reprogramming, to the author of children's books used in a eugenics  experiment in the former Czechoslovakia. Tenma learns the scope of the atrocities committed by this "monster", and vows to fix the mistake he made by saving Johan's life.

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An entire high school class of 32 people receive a message on their cellphones from a person known only as the "King." The messages contain orders that the students must obey, 

or they risk the punishment of death. With their lives on the line, the students soon find out that the orders are getting more and more extreme as time goes on. But one student,

Nobuaki Kanazawa, is determined to put a stop to the murderous King's Game, once and for all.

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Akagi

The story revolves around the mahjong gambling exploits of Shigeru Akagi  After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a yakuza mahjong parlor to shake the police's trail. Although he is unfamiliar with the  rules of mahjong, his gambling intuition saves a small-time gambler, Nangō, and grants him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses , the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of the local policeman, Yasuoka. However, Akagi manages  to defeat Keiji Yagi —despite Yagi's cheating during the game—and impresses the members of the gambling house.

Kaiji

Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Fukumoto.  It has been published by Kodansha in Weekly Young Magazine since February 1996. The story centers on Kaiji Itō, a consummate gambler and his misadventures around gambling.  The series has currently been divided into six parts. The current part, Tobaku Datenroku Kaiji: 24 Oku Dasshutsu-hen, started in 2017.

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Corpse Party: Tortured Souls – The Curse of Tortured Souls) is a four-episode anime OVA based on the Japanese video game Corpse Party  Nine students gather in their high school at night to bid farewell to a friend. 

As is customary among many high school students, they perform a sort of ritual  for them to remain friends forever, using small paper charms shaped like dolls.  

However, the students do not realize that these charms are connected to Heavenly Host Academy—an elementary school that was destroyed years ago after a series of  gruesome murders took place, a school that rests under the foundation of their very own Kisaragi Academy. 

Now, trapped in an alternate dimension with vengeful ghosts of the past, the students must work together to escape—or join the spirits of the damned forever.  A feast for mystery fanatics, gore-hounds, and horror fans alike, 

Corpse Party: Tortured Souls - Bougyakusareta Tamashii no Jukyou shows a sobering look at redemption,  sacrifice, and how the past is always right behind, sometimes a little too close for comfort.  

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The story of My Bride Is a Mermaid revolves around a young teenage boy named Nagasumi Michishio.  

One day during his summer vacation at the Seto Inland Sea, Nagasumi is saved from drowning by a mermaid named Sun Seto.  Under mermaid law however, either the mermaid whose identity was revealed or the human who saw the mermaid must be executed.  

In an attempt to save both Nagasumi and Sun's lives, Sun's family (which is the head of a mermaid Yakuza group) reluctantly decides that the two are to be married.  Sun's father Gōzaburō is enraged about his daughter's sudden marriage. Between Gōzaburō's constant attempts on his life and the madcap antics of a slew of antagonists,  Nagasumi has a hard time transitioning into his new married lifestyle.   

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We go over our top 5 favorite anime, mixed with some honorable mentions and 2021 anticipated anime.

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1. Cowboy bebop 

2. FMA Brotherhood 

3. Gundam Wing 

4. Death Note 

5. Bleach  

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1. Cowboy bebop 

2. FMA Brotherhood 

3. The Dark Knight Returns 

4. Gintama 

5. Death Note  

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The story follows Satoru Fujinuma, a young man living in Chiba who somehow possesses an ability known as "Revival", which sends him back in time moments before  a life-threatening incident, enabling him to prevent it from happening again. When his mother is murdered by an unknown assailant in his own home, Satoru's ability  suddenly sends him back eighteen years into the past.  Now an elementary schooler in Hokkaido again, Satoru is given the opportunity to not only save his mother but also prevent a kidnapping incident that took the lives of  three of his childhood friends: two classmates and one young girl studying at a different school nearby.   

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An orphaned girl named Riko lives in the Belchero Orphanage in the town of Orth. The town surrounds a strange,  giant hole going deep into the earth, which is commonly called the Abyss. The Abyss harbors artifacts and remnants of a civilization long gone, and is therefore the popular hunting spot for so-called Cave Raiders, who undertake arduous and  dangerous descents into the mist-filled pit to recover whatever relics they can find. Returning from the Abyss can be dangerous as "the Curse of the Abyss," a mysterious and potentially fatal malady, manifests upon ascension.  The deeper one goes, the more acute the effects of the curse; few who have descended into the lower regions have returned to tell of their experiences. Some legendary Cave Raiders earn the title of White Whistle, one of them being Riko's mother, Lyza. 

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The intros, the scores, the voice overs, the animation, the story. You couldnt ask for a better remake production of the 1969 anime Dororo. In today's anime review we look at the 2019 version of Dororo anime, how it compares to the older  version Dororo 1969 and why you must watch this anime. No You need to watch this anime.   

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In this episode me and Dwayne have the time of our lives as we cover one of the best six episode arcs ever. Join us! Laugh and enjoy as we dive into the classic Golden Boy!!!  

Golden Boy is a Japanese comedy manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Egawa about a 25-year-old freeter, pervert, and "travelling student" named Kintaro Oe. Kintaro has done various jobs as he quests around Japan in pursuit of knowledge.  

His ventures include computer programming, housekeeping, teaching, the culinary arts, and most of all, studying.  Kintaro is also often seen demonstrating the skills he's learned in previous chapters to overcome challenges faced in the current one.  

He's also adept in martial arts, but does not fight unless he's angered, and ordinarily just takes a beating.  

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Happy Halloween!! Me and Dwayne talk a stroll down a horrifying road of the anime Shiki, a deep psychological thriller. We discuss the lines crossed in this story.   

We also cover the Netflix series Blood of Zeus!  

Fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu dreamed of a glamorous life in the big city; however, her unexpected death in the quiet village of Sotoba marks the beginning of what appears to be a ferocious epidemic that turns the hot summer into a season of blood and terror. A young doctor named Toshio Ozaki begins to doubt the nature of the disease and comes to understand  that to discover the truth, he must abandon his humanity. Meanwhile, Natsuno Yuuki, an antisocial youth from the city, is haunted by the sudden death of Megumi and must realize the pain of friendship in the face of his own tragedy. Toshio and Natsuno form an unlikely pair as they work together to save Sotoba before it transforms into a ghost town of vampires. Shiki,  adapted from the horror novel written by Fuyumi Ono, goes beyond the average vampire story. It tells the tragic tale of survival in a world where one cannot easily distinguish between good and evil. Abandoned by God, the Shiki, as the vampires call themselves, have only their will to live as they clash with the fear of the paranoid/unbelieving villagers. Shiki explores the boundary that separates man from monster.  

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Dwayne returns and we discuss the Two Hellsing animes. Break them down and compare and have some fun while we are at it.  

Hellsing (2001) 

Hellsing is named after and centered around the Royal Order of Protestant Knights originally led by Abraham Van Helsing. The mission of Hellsing is to search for and destroy the undead and other supernatural forces of evil that threaten the queen and the country. 

Hellsing Ultimate(2006) 

The mission of Hellsing is to search for and destroy the undead and other supernatural forces of evil that threaten the queen and the country. This organization is currently led by Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, who inherited the leadership of Hellsing as a child after the death of her father.  

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