Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #090 - Leo's Chives Casket

Kat, Leo and Bcom return to break down the 3rd week of the Spring 2019 anime season! After an intro where Kat channels her perfect impression of Laura Bailey’s Tohru Honda, Bcom kicks off the nonsense section by warning people off SAO: Alicization, and raving about Nichijou. Kat gives her spoiler-filled thoughts on the 3rd and 4th episodes of the final season of Game of Thrones. She then somehow traumatizes herself by comparing Kyou’s “dud” rice balls with Bertie Bott’s booger-flavored beans in our discussion of this week’s Fruits Basket. Kat also predicts that Leo will die due to a lack of chives in his diet. Leo can’t get over Doppio’s bizarre name and Kat fact-checks the amount of iron that would be available in the human body to pull off some of Risotto’s stand powers. Nezuko catches up on some much-needed sleep while Tanjiro spends 2 years on an epic shounen training arc in Demon Slayer. Bcom feels like Dororo’s latest episode covered some of the same ground unnecessarily, but Kat was more focused on the viability of sexing up a ghoul. Attack on Titan started a few weeks late, so we finally get a chance to dive into the first episode of season 3’s second half. Let’s be honest, it’s just season 4. Kat has some Tank Top Trouble telling characters apart in One Punch Man and her inner gyaru girl leaks out. We have a butt suckin’ good time talking about Enta’s hallucinations in the latest episode of Sarazanmai. Bcom is pissed that everyone ordered the same exact pizza at Carole and Tuesday’s meeting with their new manager, and Kat explains that no girl in their right mind goes swimming in full make-up. We also debate the realism of New Yorkers joining in with the Dancing Laundry musical scene, rather than yelling at the girls to shut up.

Recorded May 6, 2019.

Timestamps:
1:49 - Nonsense (Sword Art Online: Alicization, Nichijou, Game of Thrones S8 eps. 3 and 4 SPOILER discussion)
11:47 - Fruits Basket (2019) (Ep. 3)
27:06 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 27)
34:23 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Ep. 3)
42:43 - Dororo (Ep. 15)
58:31 - Commercial Break
1:01:19 - Attack on Titan season 3 Part 2 (Ep. 1)
1:14:02 - One Punch Man season 2 (Ep. 3)
1:28:25 - Sarazanmai (Ep. 3)
1:41:03 - Carole and Tuesday (Ep. 3)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #089 - Spring 2019 First Impressions

Bcom, Leo and Kat are back with their first impressions of the Spring 2019 anime season! We kick things off with a short spoiler discussion of Avengers: Endgame, which we were all dying to chat about. Then we dive into this anime season, which despite having fewer shows airing overall than in Winter, still has some major standouts that we’re excited about. Of course, it also contains some absolute steaming piles of trash, which we take great pleasure in ripping to pieces. Stick around to the end where we vote on the eight shows we’ll be following!

Recorded May 3, 2019.

Timestamps:
1:33 - Nonsense (Avengers: Endgame SPOILER discussion)
10:11 - Hitoribocchi (Eps. 1-3)
14:13 - Fruits Basket (2019) (Eps 1-2)
19:17 - Ao-chan Can’t Study (Eps. 1-2)
25:49 - Senryu Girl (Eps. 1-2)
28:59 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Eps. 25-26)
35:46 - Bungo Stray Dogs season 3 (Eps. 26-27)
37:50 - Mix: Meisei Story (Eps. 1-2)
41:45 - We Never Learn: Bokuben (Eps. 1-2)
45:27 - Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (Eps. 1-2)
50:30 - Fairy gone (Eps. 1-2)
55:36 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Eps. 1-2)
1:00:41 - Commercial Break
1:03:29 - AFTERLOST (Eps. 1-2)
1:08:23 - Why the Hell are You Here, Teacher? (Eps. 1-2)
1:11:08 - Cinderella Nine (Eps. 1-2)
1:14:41 - Midnight occult civil servants (Eps. 1-2)
1:17:39 - Dororo (Eps. 13-14) (and ragging on Karakuri Circus)
1:27:06 - YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world (Eps. 1-2)
1:29:25 - RobiHachi (Eps. 1-2)
1:34:41 - Namuamidabutsu -Utena- (Eps. 1-2)
1:37:56 - Nobunaga teacher’s young bride (Eps. 1-2)
1:42:48 - Gunjou no Magmel (Eps. 1-2)
1:46:16 - Isekai Quartet (Eps. 1-2)
1:50:24 - One Punch Man season 2 (Eps. 1-2)
1:56:58 - The Helpful Fox Senko-san (Eps. 1-2)
2:00:46 - Wise Man’s Grandchild (Eps. 1-2)
2:03:55 - Sarazanmai (Eps. 1-2)
2:10:56 - Carole & Tuesday (Eps. 1-2)
2:21:47- Commercial Break
2:23:42 - The VOTE

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #088 - Winter 2019 Wrap-up and Final Scores

Leo, Kat and Bcom close out Winter 2019 with reviews of the 12th and final week of the anime season. We finished off the last two episodes of Mob Psycho II, which left us wishing the show had kept the tone of the first half of the season, rather than switching half-way through. Run With the Wind defied our expectations and gave us a very satisfying ending to the running boys’ journey. Kemurikusa hinted at a potential sequel while also wrapping up the emotional arc of the narrative in a neat way. Domestic Girlfriend got dumber than ever before, and had us all wigging out. The first half of the Kaguya finale had Bcom squeeing over both the romantic fireworks and the fantastic direction and cinematography. Dororo finishes off its first half by giving us more plot development with Hyakkimaru’s family than we had expected to get at the half-way point. We move on to some quick reviews of the shows we watched outside of the podcast, before finishing off the season with our final reviews and scores!

Recorded April 20, 2019.

Timestamps:

1:41 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Eps. 12 & 13)
28:10 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 23)
44:37 - Kemurikusa (Eps. 12 and 12.1)
53:38 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 12)
1:06:06 - Commercial Break
1:08:58 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 12)
1:28:30 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 12)
1:37:54 - Dororo (Ep. 12)
1:47:48 - Reviews for shows we watched outside of the podcast (Rising of the Shield Hero, Mysteria Friends, Girly Air Force, The Magnificent Kotobuki, Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Quintessential Quintuplets, W’z, Wataten)
1:57:22 - Final Reviews and Scores

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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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