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We're wrapping up 2025 with a long episode going over the highlights of the year. Mike has his top ten list, Scott talks about the shows he watched, Matt is... along for the ride.

This episode we review the 2022 fantasy anime Management of a Novice Alchemist. Also we're on that Fortnite high like a bunch of nine year olds, Mike reviews a few classic RPGs, and Matt is still holding onto hope for Linux on the desktop like it's 2006.

You know the drill, Tons of shows, two brave souls Lets gooo Shows discussed Quick Hits A Gatherer's Adventure in Isekai A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace GNOSIA Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Dusk Beyond The End of the World This Monster Wants to Eat Me Hands off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun! Inexpressive Kashiwada and Expressive Oota Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?! Wandance The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest Mechanical Marie Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator Pass the Monster Meat Milady! My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess Alma-chan Wants to Be a Family! My Awkward Senpai Full Discussion My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider Lil' Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right Cat's Eye My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's With You, Our Love Will Make it Through Touring After the Apocalypse A Wild Last Boss Appears SANDA May I Ask For One Final Thing?

Matt, Mike, and Scott discuss their time at the at Otakon 2025 now that the summer is drawing to an end. In our main segment we review the 2005 anime Kami-Chu.

Mike and Matt are back to let us know what shows we should be watching and which to avoid. They review 23 shows in this massive two hour episode! Quick Thoughts Dekin No Mogura: The Earthbound Mole New Saga See You Tomorrow at the Food Court The Water Magician Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl Bad Girl Watari-kun's ** Is about to Collapse The Shy Hero and the Assassin Princesses Ruri Rocks Uglymug, Epicfighter Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter Welcome to the Outcast's Restaurant! Solo Camping For Two Full Discussion Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra Clevatess Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... Turkey! -Time to Strike- Secrets of the Silent Witch Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze CITY THE ANIMATION Detectives These Days Are Crazy!

This week we play catch up after a long hiatus. Giving some final thoughts on the Winter 2025 anime season and Scott gives his trip report from his honeymoon in Japan. 

This month Matt, Mike, and Scott talk about Otakon's policy changes, the preview for the new Gundam series, and in our main segment the 2007 classic anime Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei.

The world around us is burning to the ground and there is nothing we can do about it. So we take a short vacation into another world where gorgeous looking food solves all your problem. God I wish I had problems that can be solved by a pork cutlet bowl. Most of the problems in my life are caused by pork cutlet bowls.

QUICK HITS Momentary Lily Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! I'm Living with an Otaku NEET Kunoichi!? I Left my A-Rank Party to Help My Former Students Reach the Dungeon Depths! I'm A Noble On The Brink Of Ruin, So I Might As Well Try Mastering Magic OKITSURA: The Girl I Fell in Love With in Okinawa Speaks in a Heavy Dialect and It's Too Much of a Pain SAKAMOTO DAYS Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time Bogus Skill > I Have a Crush at Work Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World Ubel Blatt FULL DISCUSSION THE RED RANGER Becomes an Adventurer in Another World Tasokare Hotel I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class Welcome To Japan, Ms. Elf! ZENSHU I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time Beheneko: The Elf-Girl's Cat is Secretly an S-Ranked Monster! From Bureaucrat to Villainess: Dad's Been Reincarnated!

This week we go over our favorite shows from 2024, complain about ads in streaming services (Jesus Christ not again), and march into 2025 with some high hopes. (fear and dread)

Another season and another super long episode where we talk about ALL THE GODDAMN THINGS Quick Hits The Most Notorious "Talker" Runs the World's Greatest Clan Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister Goodbye, Dragon Life Acro Trip I'll Become a Villainess That Will Go Down in History The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor You Are Ms. Servant The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest Orb: On The Movements Of The Earth Full Discussion Loner Life In Another World If My Wife Becomes An Elementary School Student (TsumaSho) Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. Puniru is a cute slime A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School DAN DA DAN Let This Grieving Soul Retire DEMON LORD 2099 Ranma 1/2

We're joined by StationDOOD to talk about Otakon 2024, the 30th anniversary of the legendary convention as well as It's past, present, and future. Also some cartoon stuff.

Mike and Scott discuss their hype for the upcoming Otakon and the end of the Spring season. The main review is the classic 1981 anime epic, Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie.

Mike and I discuss Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki Season 2, and the classic film The Girl who Leapt Through Time.

We discuss Anime Boston 2024, the Dugout at Peabody Heights, and the death of the Funimation brand. In our main segment we review the classic 2010s comedy Mitsudomoe.