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If you've ever heard the joke "this is my comfort show" only to be confronted with tragedy, this is the topic we're exploring today! All 3 of us have different ideas of comfort, and we explain what they are and why they're comforting to us! Anime Discussed: Today's Menu for the Emiya Family, Buddy Daddies, Frieren, Akebi's Sailor Uniform, Sasaki and Miyano, Spy x Family, Sakamoto Days

The villainess trope has become very popular in the last couple of years, but like every trope, there are good and bad examples. We explore what makes the villainess trope work and when it fails. Anime Discussed: The Inept Villainess, Saga of Tanya the Evil, The Holy Grail of Eris, May I Ask For One Final Thing, and The Heretical Last Boss Queen

If you're not watching Goodbye, Lara, then you need to go watch it now. This entire episode is dedicated to us fanning over the show.

Isabelle is out this week, but we invited a special guest! Momo is a translator, who often helps out at anime conventions, and today we ask her all sorts of questions on the ins and outs of translating for anime guests.

Part 2 of Summer anime where Gracie just talks about all the other anime she's watching this season

After a season where there were some hits but a little more misses, we really began this season with a bang. It does seem to be the season of yuri, and we're not complaining!

We went to AX 2026, so we talk about EVERYTHING we enjoyed and didn't enjoy

Requested by one of our listeners, we discuss the anime whose deaths either personally impacted us or we thought did excellent to the narrative. Or both! Anime Discussed: Agents of the Four Seasons, Vinland Saga, Orange, Food Wars, Demon Slayer, Tokyo Revengers

It's not just the movie world obsessed with remakes - the anime world has also seen an uptick. In this week's episode, we discuss what we feel about these remakes.

We check in our watchlist - sorry for skipping an episode! A couple of us got sick. One anime it turns out is our favorite - and none of us were expecting it to be.

They're almost a requirement if there's an anime that takes place in present day Japan!

What's on your watchlist this season? Here's ours!

When you're posting from large social media groups, you start to notice certain patterns after the group reaches a certain size of followers. We discuss how that entails with the community, throughout Japanese history, and in the anime itself.

Some of the most popular anime characters have this personality type, and we discuss why.

Either this year is going to be insane or we're already doomed b/c we've reached too high