Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #083 - Sock Puppet Seduction

Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back to talk about week 7 of the Winter 2019 anime season. In this week’s episode of Mob Psycho, Reigen’s psychic abilities are put to the test on a live variety show which clarifies how important Reigen’s partnership with Mob is in defining his future. Our favorite running boys make their final preparations for the Hakone Ekiden, and we make some not-so-bold predictions after learning the section assignments for each leg of the race. Kat feels Kemurikusa has become too much like a video game, and Bcom and Leo are just looking for a controller to grab. In The Promised Neverland, Sister Krone opens our eyes with some new information about the relationship between the humans and demons in the world outside the orphanage, but Isabella appears to be two steps ahead of everyone. After an impromptu karaoke session, we jump back into JoJo where we get our first glimpse of the infamous King Crimson, but we lose track of time chatting about squid ink pasta, fishing, and double-tapping your enemies. At some point we move onto Domestic Girlfriend, which continues to cement itself as the greatest anime in existence, and also teaches Leo and Bcom an invaluable lesson about the role sock puppets can play in winning over a woman’s heart. After we complain about Kaguya’s boring episode titles, we learn that it’s essential to get a part-time job and a boat license before even considering holding your crush’s hand. We finish off with an episode of Dororo that raises questions about the true nature of demons, and whether Hyakkimaru must actually slay them all, or if some can be saved.

Recorded March 6, 2019.

Timestamps:

1:48 - Nonsense (Risk podcast live, Destiny 2 Gambit Prime, Avatar: The Last AirBcom)
8:48 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 7)
22:47 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 18)
38:18 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 7)
46:01 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 7)
59:19 - Commercial Break
1:00:28 - Impromptu Winter 2019 OP karaoke section
1:03:21 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 20)
1:20:13 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 7)
1:28:17 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 7)
1:44:05 - Dororo (Ep. 7)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #082 - DiGiorno Giovanna and Midseason Cuts

Leo, Bcom, and Kat return to discuss week 6 of the Winter 2019 Anime season. It’s the halfway point of the season, which means we need to evaluate where we’re at, and make any midseason cuts if necessary. At the halfway point of Mob Psycho, Reigen finally has to try to find his way in the spirit-cleansing world without Mob’s assistance, and gets in over his head. Meanwhile, on Run With the Wind, the guys scope out the Hakone race, and also try to quell Jota and Joji’s doubts about Haiji’s true reasons for aiming for the top. A new sister shows up out of the blue in Kemurikusa and shows Wakaba how to harness the power of the leaves to protect the others and uncover the world’s secrets. Kat says the show makes her feel dumb…Leo has a theory about why that is. The Promised Neverland kids continue exhibit completely ridiculous knowledge, like understanding Morse code, and we discuss the apparent differences between Krone’s characterization in the manga and anime adaptation. Kat discovers Giorno sounds like DiGiorno and the podcast is off the rails again, before we get back on the rails by learning the correct pronunciation of bruschetta. Domestic Girlfriend expands its harem criteria to allow for male teacher in addition to female teachers, as it continues to layer taboos on top of each other in an effort to create the most ridiculous parody of romance drama ever made. Bcom’s a bit underwhelmed by the newest member of Kaguya’s student council. Dororo finishes off its first two-episode arc with a depressing, but touching finale demonstrating the nobility of trying to survive and rebuild in the tumult of endless war.

Recorded March 3, 2019.   

Timestamps:

1:42 - Nonsense (Anthem makes Bcom sick, Katheed and Kambria, Leo’s incendiary work week)   
12:13 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 6)
23:48 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 17)
37:34 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 6)
46:17 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 6)
58:24 - Commercial Break
1:00:40 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 19)
1:18:26 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 6)
1:31:31 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 6)
1:47:25 - Dororo (Ep. 6)
1:59:03 - Midseason Cuts debate

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #081 - Suppositions and Suppositories

Kat, Leo, and Bcom return to discuss week 5 of the Winter 2019 Anime season. We kick off the podcast with some brief thoughts about the results of the Crunchyroll anime awards, which we obviously don’t agree with. Afterwards we chat about some of the nonsense we’ve been up to before jumping into Mob Psycho 100 II. Episode 5 was a showcase for some of the most spectacular animation in a TV anime in quite some time. The Run With the Wind boys take one step closer to the Hakone Ekiden, which took Kakeru turning into a glowing blue god of running to accomplish. It’s a fairly uneventful week in Kemurikusa so we breeze past that and jump into The Promised Neverland where we re-evaluate our suppositions regarding future developments of the show, and poke some fun at Norman and Ray in the process. The Golden Experience boys struggle to avoid frostbite when they face off with Ghiaccio on the road to Venezia. Leo can’t believe Giorno didn’t think of transforming them into Water Bears. But, everything up until this point was just an appetizer. The main course is Domestic Girlfriend episode 5. Bcom believes it’s possibly the greatest episode of anime yet envisioned. Mob Psycho tried, but it was like administering your medicine orally. Sure, it’ll do the trick eventually, but if you want fast-acting anime relief, you need to go to the source. Natsuo needs only support Rui by supplying supreme suppositories superbly to suppress his stepsister’s supplication. It’s a super good episode. We move onto Kaguya where Chika’s love advice involves reaffirming that they do indeed live in a society, and she will raise these boys to become respectable men. We finish off with the depressing first half of a two-part Dororo episode where Hyakkimaru finds his first love in the soothing presence of Mio, the protector of an orphanage ravaged by the ongoing wars.

Recorded February 18, 2019.

Timestamps:

2:30 - Crunchyroll anime awards discussion
7:38 - Nonsense (From the Earth to the Moon, Apex Legends, Battle Angel Alita, Weird City)
15:08 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 5)
26:02 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 16)
37:18 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 5)
43:45 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 5)
1:00:44 - Commercial Break
1:03:10 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 18)
1:15:51 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 5)
1:30:17 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 5)
1:44:43 - Dororo (Ep. 5)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #080 - The Promised neVRland

Bcom, Kat, and Leo plunge into week 4 of the Winter 2019 Anime season. We recorded this episode on Valentine’s Day, and apparently Kat was so love drunk that she totally watched the wrong episode of Mob Psycho 100. To be fair, she was only off by an entire season. Luckily, Bcom and Leo rattle a synopsis off the top of their heads with surprising accuracy. Run With the Wind’s latest episode exhibits some incredibly unsafe hydration practices, which lead to predictable disaster. We continue to try to make sense of Kemurikusa as they battle a giant bug with some smart strategy. We also discover that the only true way to experience The Promised Neverland is wearing a VR headset. JoJo teaches us that laptops can kill more than just your bank account. Leo coins a new name for the sisters from Domestic Girlfriend, which fits them just…perfectly. Kat finally comes around on Chika in the latest episode of Kaguya-sama. Crunchyroll unfortunately has a stroke trying to translate the first few lines of the episode. Finally we cover JoJoJo, I mean Dororo, which turned in another really strong episode this week, with some incredible sound design in particular.

Recorded February 14, 2019.

Timestamps:

2:54 - Nonsense (Kat’s Valentine’s Day disaster, Leo Loves Apex: Legends, Bcom’s Reddit Anime Awards)
14:01 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 4)
25:23 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 15)
35:43 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 4)
46:19 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 4)
59:35 - Commercial Break
1:02:34 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 17)
1:17:13 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 4)
1:26:31 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 4)
1:45:52 - Dororo (Ep. 4)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #079 - Chika-sama: Love is Chika

Leo, Bcom, and Kat are finally starting their weekly reviews again! It’s week 3 of the Winter 2018 Anime season and we have a lot to be excited about. Kat gives us a whole new way to think about Mob’s progress to explosion…we’re very sorry if you can’t get this out of your head. Leo finally found a way to relate to Run With the Wind in its 14th episode. Kemurikusa starts to unravel some of its many mysteries, but still keeps us guessing at where everything is heading. We move on to the menacing 10-year-olds of The Promised Neverland and their new caretaker Krone, which is providing another entertaining puzzle box to solve. Bcom suffers through Kat and Leo’s outlandishly poor pronunciation of Italian names in JoJo Golden Wind, and Bcom and Kat gleefully rejoice when Leo’s memory is actually wrong for once. Leo struggles to understand why Bcom and Kat actually love watching Domestic Girlfriend for the podcast, given its taboo themes and incredibly dumb overarching plot. Bcom breaks down the production of the greatest ED of 2019, with Chika Fujiwara’s love detective dance at the end of Kaguya episode 3. Kat also breaks down U.S. vs. Japanese statistics for high schoolers’ rates of sexual activity, with U.S. numbers that would make Chika blush. We finish off the week with Dororo giving us the epic backstory of the creation of Hyakkimaru’s prosthetic appendages and the journey that brought him to his current state.

Recorded February 5, 2019.

Timestamps:

2:05 - Nonsense (Bcom is Sorry to Bother You, Leo is the Apex Legend, Kat has a Super Dog)
9:40 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Ep. 3)
24:37 - Run With the Wind (Ep. 14)
37:29 - Kemurikusa (Ep. 3)
45:15 - The Promised Neverland (Ep. 3)
1:03:52 - Commercial Break
1:07:13 - JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind (Ep. 16)
1:24:11 - Domestic Girlfriend (Ep. 3)
1:35:32 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Ep. 3)
1:51:03 - Dororo (Ep. 3)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #078 - Winter 2019 First Impressions - Part 2

Kat, Leo and Bcom have returned to close out the second half of their Winter 2019 first impressions and pick the top 8 shows that we’ll be following this season. After Leo and Kat cry about work and the freezing cold weather, Bcom cries about the Kristaps Porzingis trade. Once we get into anime, Bcom has some special Swedish intelligence to help understand the main love interest of Girly Air Force. We felt Quintessential Quintuplets offered a surprisingly inoffensive ecchi harem setup, when compared with typical genre offerings from the past couple of years. Our review of Grimms notes was…well, grim. Boogiepop and Others might work better as a light novel than an anime, in our opinion, as it left us wanting more context. The Price of Smiles was a bit too expensive for us, apparently. Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka is another in a long line of underwhelming post-Madoka dark magical girl shows, but this one at least made us laugh. Domestic Kanojo’s hentai-esque premise with high quality art and direction caught Bcom’s attention. Kat was pleased that actual sex took place in the first episode of an anime, for once. We caught up on the first half of JoJo Part 5 and attempted to explain the insane escapades the boys are currently getting up to in Italy. Bcom reports in from the frontlines of W’z where nothing makes sense and DJ Juice has captured the hearts and minds of Osaka with his absolutely terrible music. Our review of Kaguya-sama: Love is War devolves into Kat offering up a $50 gift certificate for the “Bride of Bcom” prize contest if listeners recreate Chika’s dance from the episode 3 ED. We move to a somewhat clever cute girls show called Endro, before continuing with a not very clever comedy in Miss Ueno. Bcom loved the incredible CGI aerial dogfights in The Magnificent Kotobuki, while Kat was more focused on how they made their pancakes so damn fluffy. Leo discovers he wants to ride the dragon as we review the first few episodes of Mysteria Friends. After everything has been reviewed, you know what time it is! We end our impressions with the VOTE, which determines the top 8 shows we’ll follow this season.

Recorded February 2, 2019.

Timestamps:

4:13 - Nonsense (Leo’s work woes, Kat’s Polar Vortex, Bcom’s Knicks nightmare)
10:01 - Girly Air Force (Eps. 1-2)
23:34 - The Quintessential Quintuplets (Eps. 1-2)
28:37 - Grimms Notes the Animation (Eps. 1-2)
31:38 - Karakuri Circus (Ep. whoops we forgot)
33:41 - Boogiepop and Others (Eps. 1-3)
42:13 - The Price of Smiles (Eps. 1-2)
48:16 - Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka (Eps. 1-2)
54:30 - Domestic Girlfriend (Eps. 1-2)
1:01:02 - Commercial Break
1:03:17 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Eps. 14-15)
1:14:02 - W’z (Eps. 1-2)
1:18:20 - Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Eps. 1-2)
1:27:07 - Endro! (Eps. 1-2)
1:34:40 - How Clumsy You Are, Miss Ueno (Eps. 1-2)
1:37:22 - The Magnificent Kotobuki (Eps. 1-2)
1:45:49 - Mysteria Friends (Eps. 1-2)
1:52:58 - THE VOTE (we pick our top 8 shows of the season)

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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #077 - Winter 2019 First Impressions - Part 1

Bcom, Kat, Leo are back for a brand new year of anime ripe with possibilities! Winter 2019 is upon us and it’s time to dig straight down until we find some diamonds in the rough. We start out raving about Dororo and Mob Psycho II, which both showcased fantastic art style and animation. The new Kemono Friends aren’t as fun or educational as the old ones, which disappoints Bcom. Leo winces as Kat and Bcom get pumped up by the return of Run With the Wind. Kat holds an intervention with Japan about its now well-established trend of adult female child molester anime, which continues with WATATEN. After the break, we start on a much more hopeful note with one of the better thriller shows we’ve seen in quite some time, in The Promised Neverland. Kat teaches Bcom how to correctly pronounce Sasuke. Bcom teaches Kat about Dutch Angles. Leo, the cat whisperer, teaches us how to recognize what your cat wants at any given moment. We learn a lot from each other this episode, honestly. Kat can’t imagine why her co-hosts would like a mysterious show involving a girl with fox ears, but Leo and Bcom are way too into Kemurikusa to stop the hype train. We continue to put off talking about Shield Hero for as long as possible by chatting about our favorite JoJo characters. Finally, when there’s no way left to stall, and when Kat’s attack power has reached maximum, we unleash our wrath on the puny Shield Hero and his piece of shit anime.

Recorded January 28, 2019.

Timestamps:

2:10 - Nonsense (Leo survives Anthem, Bandersnatch, Tropico 5)
7:37 - That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime (Eps. 13-15)
14:22 - Dororo (Eps. 1-2)
23:24 - Mob Psycho 100 II (Eps. 1-2)
31:14 - Kemono Friends 2 (Eps. 1-2)
35:31 - Pastel Memories (Eps. 1-2)
40:23 - Run With the Wind (Eps. 12-13)
47:15 - WATATEN! An Angel Flew Down to Me (Eps. 1-2)
51:08 - Real Girl: Season 2 (Ep. 3 only)
52:50 - Commercial Break
54:25 - The Promised Neverland (Eps. 1-2)
1:04:36 - Meiji Tokyo Renka (Eps. 1-2)
1:08:01 - My Roommate is a Cat (Eps. 1-2)
1:13:34 - Kemurikusa (Eps. 1-2)
1:22:42 - The Rising of the Shield Hero (Eps. 1-2)

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