Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #128 - Winter 2020 Wrap-up and Final Scores

Leo, Kat, and Bcom are back to finish off the Winter 2020 anime season with reviews of episodes from weeks 12 and 13. We have a lot of nonsense to talk about since we haven’t recorded for a few weeks and we’ve seen a lot of good, and bad, things in the meantime. We review the final episodes of all the anime we followed, and also talk briefly about some shows we watched outside of the podcast. Finally, we give our final scores and thoughts on the shows we watched in Winter season, and look forward to the Spring 2020 season…or what’s left of it.

Recorded April 28, 2020.

Timestamps:
0:50 - Nonsense (Bcom jokes a little about the great battle of Aerith vs. Tifa with Final Fantasy VII Remake having come out before then jumping all over Ghost in the Shell SAC_2045 on Netflix for its terrible quality. Leo ran up against a cheater in Call of Duty: Warzone but also raves about the Travis Scott Fortnite in-game concert. Bcom has been loving ESPN’s The Last Dance documentary focused on the 1990s Chicago Bulls basketball dynasty. Kat, and apparently everyone else in her home state, has started walking trails to escape from the boredom of their houses. She’s also introducing her boyfriend to anime through Attack on Titan.)
20:08 - Chihayafuru 3 (Ep. 24)
28:01 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Ep. 12)
37:49 - ID: INVADED (Eps. 12-13)
58:41 - Dorohedoro (Ep. 12)
1:07:21 - Commercial Break
1:10:19 - Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (Ep. 12)
1:18:27 - BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (Ep. 12)
1:25:14 - Haikyu!!: To the Top (Eps. 12-13)
1:40:28 - Interspecies Reviewers (Ep. 12)
1:58:51 - Other Shows we Watched
2:04:46 - Final Scores

Social media and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/nerdomandothernonsense

Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #127 - Taichi's Rudderless Ship

Bcom, Leo and Kat are back to break down the 11th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. Bcom breaks down an enormously impactful episode of Chihayafuru 3 where Chihaya and Taichi finally hash out their feelings. Hearing the buzzing sound of a drone in Eizouken gave Leo traumatic flashbacks of drone attacks in Call of Duty. We finally discover the identity of John Walker in an information-packed episode of ID: Invaded. Dorohedoro gives us key character backstory with En’s own hype movie, but also derails into a weird food contest than leaves Bcom annoyed by the show’s proclivity for wasting time. The Seton Academy girls continue their long-established tradition of enjoying gourmet animal poop. It seems like BOFURI is saving its remaining animation budget for the final episode as episode 11 looked pretty lackluster. Besides the revelation that male Incubi have two hearts (one for their body, and one for their dick), the penultimate episode of Interspecies Reviewers was a bit of a letdown.

Recorded April 8, 2020.

Timestamps:
5:17 - Nonsense (Bcom watches Kimi ni Todoke to remember what living in a nice world is like, Kat and Leo debate their favorite characters from Netflix’ Tiger King, Leo updates us on season 3 of Call of Duty: Warzone and some bugs they still need to work out)
17:59 - Chihayafuru 3 (Ep. 23)
33:05 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Ep. 11)
47:19 - ID: INVADED (Ep. 11)
1:00:21 - Dorohedoro (Ep. 11)
1:11:20 - Commercial Break
1:12:29 - Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (Ep. 11)
1:24:43 - BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (Ep. 11)
1:32:09 - Haikyu!!: To the Top (Ep. 11)
1:41:29 - Interspecies Reviewers (Ep. 11)

Social media and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/nerdomandothernonsense

Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #126 - An I.D. Crisis Within an Id Well

Kat, Bcom, and Leo return to talk about the 10th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. After watching Chihayafuru, Leo suggests that anime girls could just microwave chocolates for Valentine’s Day, and it’s not even that hard. The Eizouken girls channel their Studio Ghibli counterparts as they close in on finishing their final animation project. Narihisago tries to determine his true reality in the id well within an id well that he inhabits for over a year in ID: Invaded. Kat proposes the question whether you would choose to sign a piece of flesh paper from within your chest in order to get “married” like partner sorcerers in Dorohedoro have to do. Ranka has gone into heat and as you would expect, all hell breaks loose at Seton Academy. Bcom gets really upset when opposing guild members attack Syrup the turtle in the latest episode of BOFURI. Kiyoko’s backstory in Haikyuu reminds us of another track injury backstory from the anime After the Rain. The Reviewers go to Disney’s Magical Kingdom of Sex and bang happily ever after.

Recorded March 31, 2020.

Timestamps:
3:13 - Nonsense (Leo helps his friend spy on his own family with a surveillance cam system, Kat endangers the public in order to drink some beer, Bcom finds the peak Trigger anime by finally watching Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and talks a little bit about IGN’s Retrocrush)
12:34 - Bcom summarizes My Teen Romcom SNAFU for Leo since he’s lazy, and Leo pays absolutely no attention because he was still looking up Panty and Stocking character names
15:58 - Chihayafuru 3 (Ep. 22)
25:10 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Ep. 10)
39:27 - ID: INVADED (Ep. 10)
54:50 - Dorohedoro (Ep. 10)
1:07:42 - Commercial Break
1:08:50 - Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (Ep. 10)
1:20:26 - BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (Ep. 10)
1:30:25 - Haikyu!!: To the Top (Ep. 10)
1:39:05 - Interspecies Reviewers (Ep. 10)

Social media and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/nerdomandothernonsense

Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #125 - Perpetually Stuck in Class B Yaoi

Leo, Kat, and Bcom are back to discuss the 9th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. An intense showdown between Taichi and Arata triggers Kat’s yaoi alarms. It turns out the Eizouken club is just as underpaid as real-life animators are for the extreme amount of work they do. We begin to piece together the endgame of ID: Invaded as several revelations come to light. Bcom re-watches Dorohedoro several times to make sense of the latest info-packed episode. He also bangs his head against a wall as Kat believes the breast size comparison scenes in anime are not only realistic, but that guys compare dick sizes in locker rooms on a regular basis as well. We discuss whether Maple’s guild in BOFURI could’ve utilized a better strategy in their capture-the-orb event, before we devolve into debating the fanservice in the show. Leo gets insanely triggered by Daichi’s cell-phone alarm tone being the sound of dogs barking, while Bcom otherwise enjoys some good character-building in the latest episode of Haikyu. Since we’ve inevitably come to the necrophilia portion of Interspecies Reviewers, we discuss the various downsides of the practice, whether it be smell, temperature, or general creepiness.

Recorded March 24, 2020.

Note: Leo’s audio had a strange issue this episode, which we couldn’t isolate in audio editing, but has been fixed going forward. We're sorry for the drop in quality.

Timestamps:
2:19 - Nonsense (Bcom plays his first game of D&D as a very special character, Kat finds Good Girls on Netflix to be weirdly fun and considers buying Animal Crossing, Leo stresses over 5v5’s in Call of Duty: Warzone)
19:07 - Chihayafuru 3 (Ep. 21)
28:26 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Ep. 9)
39:26 - ID: INVADED (Ep. 9)
54:09 - Dorohedoro (Ep. 9)
1:08:59 - Commercial Break
1:11:21 - Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (Ep. 9)
1:28:18 - BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (Ep. 9)
1:37:34 - Haikyu!!: To the Top (Ep. 9)
1:51:13 - Interspecies Reviewers (Ep. 9)

Social media and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/nerdomandothernonsense

Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #124 - Become as Machine Gods

Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back to break down the 8th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. We admonish Arata for not practicing social distancing in the latest episode of Chihayafuru. Leo has some unique issues with Tsubame’s manta ray costume for the cultural festival, in what is otherwise one of Eizouken’s best episodes yet. If ID: Invaded wasn’t already similar enough to Inception, they find an id well within an id well this episode. Kat makes sense of the convoluted series of events leading up to the Blue Night in Dorohedoro. The Seton Academy characters have a whale of a time becoming aquatic performers. If you thought the power creep was out of control for Maple in Bofuri before this episode…you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. We might finally be done with practice matches in this season of Haikyuu. The Interspecies Reviewers hit up the Build-A-Bear workshop of brothels, and choose their own adventure.

Recorded March 20, 2020.

Timestamps:
2:34 - Nonsense (Leo breaks down Xbox Series X specs, Bcom talks about the unlikely synergy between launches of Doom: Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Kat discusses the “new normal” during the Covid-19 outbreak)
16:20 - Chihayafuru 3 (Ep. 20)
25:02 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Ep. 8)
38:54 - ID: INVADED (Ep. 8)
46:42 - Dorohedoro (Ep. 8)
57:35 - Commercial Break
59:56 - Seton Academy: Join the Pack! (Ep. 8)
1:10:56 - BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (Ep. 8)
1:22:04 - Haikyu!!: To the Top (Ep. 8)
1:31:18 - Interspecies Reviewers (Ep. 8)

Social media and podcast links: https://linktr.ee/nerdomandothernonsense