Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #087 - Breathing in the Fumes of Chevy Tahoumaru

Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back to discuss week 11 of the Winter 2019 anime season. Mob continues to preach philosophy to villains we don’t really care about as we struggle to care about anything outside the brilliantly animated fights of Mob Psycho II’s 11th episode. Run With the Wind sprints forward with King passing the sash onto Kakeru who enters another running dimension, which Kat think just sounds painful. Bcom is blown away by just how well Kemurikusa brought all of the threads of its sci-fi narrative together, while raising even more interesting questions. The Promised Neverland pulls off a big surprise in its penultimate episode, but we get bogged down in the psychological logistics of cutting off your own appendages. Jojo episode 24 prompts us to talk about airplane depressurization and respecting Notorious B.I.G.’s legacy, as only JoJo can. Domestic Girlfriend adds an unlikely member to Natsuo’s harem and finally hits at making Hina and Natsuo face consequences for their reckless public displays of affection. Bcom enjoyed the fanservice in this week’s episode and Chika’s ramen adventures, but Leo felt the last skit represented too much of a tone-shift from the normal comedic shenanigans of the show. We also finish off with the first of a two-part arc of Dororo, which will finish off the season by re-uniting Hyakkimaru with his family and Chevy Tahoumaru.

Recorded April 19, 2019.

Timestamps:

2:00 - Nonsense (Star Wars Celebration and Clone Wars, Leo’s friends love Shield Hero, Kat rants about fancy tacos and her drunken battle with a tall stool)
14:14 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 11)
23:33 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 22)
37:13 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 11)
52:41 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 11)
1:09:20 - Commercial Break
1:10:49 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 24)
1:23:03 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 11)
1:38:25 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 11)
1:49:50 - Dororo (Ep. 11)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #086 - Dororo and the Lakebed of Doom

Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back for week 10 of the Winter 2019 anime season. We weren’t that pleased with this week’s episode of Mob Psycho, but we did get some great advice from Kat to the youth of the world, and learned about Chinese Hopping Vampires. Run With the Wind focused on Yuki and Nico’s sections of the final race, and we had some handy advice for Yuki’s mom and Leo asks which guy of the group Kat would bang if given the opportunity. This of course transitions into Kat asking which of the Kemurikusa girls Leo and Bcom would pick. Bcom and Leo also introduce Kat to the glory of the movie Demolition Man, when explaining the scene where Wakaba touches Rin’s memory leaf. Bcom has some thoughts about the timeline that The Promised Neverland takes place in and we have some interesting ideas about Norman’s fate after leaving the orphanage. Jojo gave us an epic battle between The Clash and Aerosmith this week, but Kat just got lost in Tiziano’s eyes and hair. Domestic Girlfriend gets us on the topic of the trope of girls who can’t cook in anime, and we collectively roll our eyes at the way in which even Natsuo’s misfortunate injury turns into more opportunities for sexy times with his sisters. We break down the many, many issues we had with this week’s episode of Kaguya-sama, and detail some ways we wish they had been clearer about Kaguya’s desires. We finish off with an episode of Dororo that had us craving for crab meat and butter, and Leo tells us about how he almost got sucked into a drained lakebed.

Recorded April 4, 2019.

Timestamps:

1:23 - Nonsense (Leo’s tracheotomy buddy, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, The Dirt, Borderlands 3, live-action Cowboy Bebop, One Punch Kat)
16:09 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 10)
29:03 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 21)
43:43 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 10)
55:50 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 10)
1:09:21 - Commercial Break
1:15:02 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 23)
1:27:02 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 10)
1:46:25 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 10)
2:01:39 - Dororo (Ep. 10)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #085 - Thnks Fts Mmrs

Leo, Bcom, and Kat are back to talk about week 9 of the Winter 2019 anime season. Bcom raves about his early experiences with Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Kat went to see Us and encourages people to go see it. Leo saw Captain Marvel, and felt pretty meh about it. Kat is disappointed that Mob Psycho II episode 9 didn’t stick to its guns and walked back the dramatic climax of last week’s episode. Instead it introduced a variety of new elements that had us feeling a little narrative whiplash.  We argue a bit over whether Run With the Wind’s latest episode was too overdramatic, and come to several different verdicts. We meet “two” new sisters in Kemurikusa who start to complete the puzzle about the mysterious past of the show, and Kat begins to lose her mind over the disparity between her opinion on the show and Leo’s. We watched The Promised Neverland and…Ray has fetus memories, which Kat brilliantly refers to as plot spackle. Yeah. Moving on, Kat’s cat takes issue with her making blatantly racist requests of Bcom during our JoJo Part 5 discussion and viciously attacks her on Bcom’s behalf. Kat calls Narancia a hick, and Leo engages in some serious hick gate-keeping and gives us a lesson in true hickness. We finally reach the point of Domestic Girlfriend where Leo began to lose faith in the manga, and when Bcom starts to get a sense that this anime is reaching for heights even stupider than he expected. Kaguya has its first truly connected three-part episode, which impresses us on the one hand, but the content of the main gag leaves us questioning if the same jokes couldn’t have been executed in a smarter way. Finally, Leo gets to reveal an important fact about Dororo that he’s known since last podcast, and wishes we had known this information from the beginning of the show.

Recorded March 25, 2019.

Timestamps:

2:35 - Nonsense (Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Jordan Peele’s Us, Captain Marvel, Mysteria Friends)
13:25 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 9)
27:35 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 20)
41:45 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 9)
50:10 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 9)
1:01:02 - Commercial Break
1:03:41 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 22)
1:23:12 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 9)
1:39:00 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 9)
1:52:34 - Dororo (Ep. 9)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #084 - Mob Runs With the Wind

Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back to talk about week 8 of the Winter 2019 anime season. Bcom tells all about the near-riot at his screening of Heaven’s Feel Part II. Kat and Leo met up with Brains and had a drunken good time. Leo breaks down an episode of Mob Runs With the Wind that turned very dark towards the end in a way that Kat is really into, and which Bcom compares to Avenger’s: Infinity War. We move onto the actual Run With the Wind where Prince and Musa learn about their own personal reasons for running, and where we maybe finally learn who Hanako likes. Kat gets triggered by a cat noise the eldest Kemurikusa sister made, and we talk about the inevitability of lewding the kemurikusas, and some fox-eared merchandise we need to exist. We move on to Krone’s endgame in The Promised Neverland and begin to see the truly horrifying depths of Isabella’s control. We finally are introduced to the meme that is King Crimson in JoJo Part 5, and we honestly can’t remember large sections of the episode…weird. We learn some important advice for dating your sisters in Domestic Girlfriend episode 8, as Natsuo continues to navigate these stormy waters. We’re finally introduced to Miyuki’s imouto in Kaguya only to find out Chika ALSO has sisters. Can Kaguya possibly pander any more to Bcom? We end with an episode of where Dororo tries to show that kids can fight demons just as well as Hyakkimaru.

Recorded March 20, 2019.

Timestamps:

1:38 - Nonsense (Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel II: lost butterfly, Anime Radicals meetup)
12:58 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 8)
22:15 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 19)
33:26 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 8)
43:12 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 8)
1:00:01 - Commercial Break
1:03:10 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 21)
1:14:44 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 8)
1:31:47 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 8)
1:47:00 - Dororo (Ep. 8)

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