Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #044 - Spring 2018 Preview Extravaganza

Bcom, Kat, and Leo are joined by Brains from the Trash Pandas Watch Anime podcast to break down the upcoming Spring 2018 anime season. We go show by show through almost 60 TV anime, and give you the rundown on whether we think they’ll be worth a watch, or at least worth a drunken hate-watch. In doing so, I think we all learned a lot about everyone who took part in this cast. Leo is clearly a manga snob. Kat just wants pretty boys to be healthy and drink more milk. Brains, who has watched over 1,000 anime in his time, has happily accepted moe into his heart as the one truly great genre. And as for Bcom, well, it gets clearer every podcast that he has impeccable taste in anime, and in having that, he’s already won the pretty derby of life.

Make sure to stick around for the last part of the episode, where we made some predictions that will likely be very embarrassing for us in a couple months, if not a few weeks. As always, the timestamps are below, but I recommend pouring yourself a nice cold drink, maybe grabbin’ some snacks, and settling in for the long run, because it’s a good one.

Or, if you don’t have a lot of time, just skip to Comic Girls. Because man, that was some shit.

Recorded March 24, 2018.

Timestamps:

2:46 - My Hero Academia 3rd Season (minor spoilers)
7:08 - Steins;Gate 0
12:49 - Tokyo Ghoul:re
19:03 - Food Wars!: The Third Plate – Part 2
24:37 - Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
29:01 - High School DxD Hero
31:05 - Persona 5 the Animation
33:46 - Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzakashii
37:37 - Devil’s Line
40:34 - Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory
44:35 - Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These
50:23 - Dances with the Dragons
51:57 - Golden Kamuy
55:44 - Tada Never Falls in Love
57:35 - Mahou Shoujo Site
1:00:14 - 3D Kanojo: Real Girl
1:04:08 - Hinamatsuri
1:07:15 - Piano no Mori
1:10:05 - Caligula
1:11:55 - Captain Tsubasa (2018)
1:13:57 - Megalo Box
1:17:53 - Dorei-ku the Animation
1:25:56 - Shiyan Pin Jiating
1:30:05 - Amanchu! Advance
1:33:07 - Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi
1:35:23 - Mahou Shoujo Ore
1:39:37 - Juushinki Pandora
1:43:07 - Comic Girls
1:48:59 - Lostorage Conflated WIXOSS
1:53:04 - Tachibanakan Triangle (Love To-LIE Angle)
1:55:12 - Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari
1:56:39 - Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Teito Genwaku Kitan
1:58:06 - Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin
2:00:32 - Uma Musume: Pretty Derby
2:04:45 - Alice to Alice: Siscon Niisan to Futago no Imouto
2:07:50 - Hoozuki no Reitetsu 2nd Season - Part 2
2:10:14 - Hisone to Maso-tan
2:13:16 - Akkun and His Girlfriend (My Sweet Tyrant)
2:15:01 - Major 2nd
2:17:07 - Cutie Honey Universe
2:19:55 - Lupin III: Part V
2:21:26 - Souten no Ken Re:Genesis
2:25:00 - Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katri no Nazotoki File
2:28:36 - GeGeGe no Kitarou (2018)
2:30:12 - Uchuu Senkan Tiramisu
2:31:45 - Amai Choubatsu: Watashi wa Kanshu Senyou Pet
2:35:34 - Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori
2:37:09 - Gundam Build Divers
2:41:03 - Fumikiri Jikan
2:42:08 - Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari
2:42:54 - Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Happy Kiss!!
2:44:15 - Omae wa Mada Gunma wo Shiranai
2:42:11 - Gurazeni: Money Pitch
2:46:46 - Aikatsu Friends!
2:48:03 - Wakaokami wa Shougakusei!
2:50:15 - Ladyspo
2:51:10 - Beyblade Burst Bouzetsu
2:51:30 - Kiratto Prichan

PREDICTIONS!
2:51:50 - Most viewed sequel show of the season?
2:54:51 - Least viewed sequel show of the season?
2:55:33 - Most viewed original show of the season?
2:56:42 - Least viewed original show of the season?
2:57:21 - Best boy of the season?
2:58:33 - Best girl of the season?
2:59:30 - Most trashed-on show of the season?
3:00:31 - Most memed show of the season?
3:01:40 - Breakout hit of the season?
3:03:34 - Show you think you will hate the most this season?
3:06:03 - Show you will personally enjoy the most this season?