Evan and David continue their coverage of anime con and TV series cancellations due to COVID-19 (including some positive news about the online convention Anime Lockdown ), then talk about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sound! Euphonium. Then David reviews the manga series The Dungeon of Black Company, a transported-to-another-world story that’s surprisingly anticapitalist. Topics include: Cute Girls Actually Doing Things, foot manga, and Ant Socialism. NOTE: Otakon 2020 cancelled a day...
Apr 30, 2020
As the song goes, “You always hurt the one you love,” and our takes on Dennou Coil (alt. Den-Noh Coil) are definitely not sparing. Scott Spaziani rejoins our humble ‘cast as we break down what endears this much-overlooked darling of a Sci-Fi series to us and explore some of its weaker points. This original story from Mitsuo Iso began production in 1997 and features tech that wouldn’t be made publicly available until nearly 20 years later! There are no spoilers discussed in the first half, so fee...
Apr 24, 2020
Apr 22, 2020
Evan and David check out some anime from the Spring 2020 season, including Gal & Dino , Listeners , Hi Score Girl Season 2 (technically not this season but … Netflix), and Sing “Yesterday” for Me . Then Evan reviews the unhinged, hyper-violent Weekly Shonen Jump manga Chainsaw Man ! Topics include: playing video games to lose weight, air horns, and being allegedly horny for Zero Two. Special thanks to Patrick Sutton from The Cockpit for editing this episode! Runtime: 1 hour, 14 minutes Direc...
Apr 15, 2020
Since so many of our listeners are stuck at home (or working extra hours if they’re at an essential job!) due to COVID-19, we’re providing a bit of bonus content on the main feed. In this short episode, Evan and David run through their usual “Queue” segment, discussing some games they’ve been playing — specifically Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Granblue Fantasy Versus. Thanks to Patrick Sutton for editing the episode! Runtime: 34 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Spotify Stitcher Googl...
Apr 10, 2020
Apr 07, 2020
Evan and David cover the latest COVID-19 news, including the cancellation of Comiket 98, then sit down with dakazu from the Manga Machinations Podcast to review Studio Orange’s 2019 anime adaptation of Paru Itagaki’s anthropomorphic animal manga Beastars. Topics include: “Anime Cons Cancel Your Damn Conventions” challenge, Animal Crossing is better than Slack, and the return of The Violence and the Banging. Note: AnimeNEXT cancelled about a day after we recorded. Special thanks to Patrick Sutton...
Apr 01, 2020
Grab some canned goods and hunker down, it’s time for a COVID-19-centric episode of the Ani-Gamers Podcast. Evan and David discuss the impacts of the global pandemic on the anime, manga, and video game industries and answer some listener questions about the virus. Keep in mind, this episode was recorded a week ago, before many of the more visible impacts of the virus such as Italy’s health system breakdown and the cancellations of the NBA season, E3, and Anime Boston. Then we take a break from p...
Mar 15, 2020
Evan and David catch up on the news and their queues this episode, including the What the Font?! manga license, the launch of Pokémon Home, and Masaaki Yuasa’s new anime Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Then David digs up his 3DS to review The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (the sequel to A Link to the Past), and talk about its influence on more recent Nintendo games. Topics include: Kemono Fonts, “when they go Lorule we go Hyrule,” and the capitalism Zelda game. Runtime: 1 hour, 2 minutes ...
Mar 02, 2020
Golden Deer vs. Blue Lions! Evan and David have both finished Fire Emblem: Three Houses, so it’s time to dig into this tactical RPG behemoth. In this in-depth review, the hosts cover the game’s balance of turn-based strategy combat and social sim elements, its extremely anime story, and the many amazing, memorable characters. Plus: some news about Byleth’s appearance in Super Smash Bros! Topics include: Felix hates everyone, Smash paypigs, and Rhea’s butt. Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes Direct Down...
Feb 14, 2020
Feb 13, 2020
Finally, a Shinkai film that makes Children Who Chase Lost Voices look good! How does Makoto Shinkai twist “boy meets girl” this time? How do Jared and Ink tweak their takes on the auteur’s output this time? The answers are as predictable as weathermen are accurate in our most recent episode, and you have a front row seat to Gallagher-style hot takes. (Pro-tip: bring an umbrella for saline showers and vitriol-whipped saliva.) Warning: this episode is pretty much a spoiler-cast from the get-go (f...
Feb 11, 2020
It’s our annual roundup of the best anime, manga, and video games of the past year! This time Evan and David are joined by Gerald (@Gerald_AWO), one-third of the Anime World Order Podcast. We cover the stuff you’d expect — Pokémon, Fire Emblem, Promare — as well as some picks that haven’t gotten any airtime on the show before, including Baba Is You, Vinland Saga, and… Miru Tights. Plus a discussion of a few big news stories from 2019 at the end of the show. Topics include: podcast hostages, Love...
Jan 29, 2020
This episode of Oldtaku no Radio welcomes Erica Friedman for a review of “a story of survival,” Kase-san and Morning Glories – both the anime adaptation and the manga! The anime’s a short affair about a developing relationship, but there’s a lot to learn and love about choices made in its adaptation as well as its source material’s publication. Lend us an hour, we’ll sell you a love story. Buy the BD on Rightstuf , Amazon , Sentai Buy the Seven Seas release of the manga via Rightstuf , Amazon Di...
Jan 20, 2020
Evan and David are joined by Pokémon superfan and GameSpot reviews editor Kallie Plagge for a deep dive into the latest Pokémon games: Sword and Shield. This is a long episode, covering the ins and outs of the new Pokédex, the introduction of the Wild Area and Dynamaxing, various quality-of-life improvements over previous games, and the new battling and breeding meta. We recorded this before the Pokémon Direct, so some of our speculation is a little out of date! Topics include: playing Pokémon i...
Jan 15, 2020
It’s time again for Anime Secret Santa, and a certain special someone left us one heck of a present to unpack: Patlabor! While we were given the OVAs and movies to review, we had more than enough to talk about with just the OVAs, so we’ll get around to the movies on a bonus episode or three. We talk about the OVAs as a collection in general and then get into specifics about each of the six OVAs (counting the two-parter as a single OVA), and the results, knowing the inclinations of the two hosts,...
Dec 25, 2019
Evan and David had to postpone the Pokémon episode until January, so in the last AGP episode of 2019 the hosts check in for some news and anime/video game discussion. We cover GKids’ license of Tokyo Godfathers, the state of animator pay in Japan, the new Xbox with the silly name, and the complete revamp of Amazon’s colonialism simulator New World. In the queue segment, David is watching the 1990 Moomin anime series and Evan is working his way through Death Stranding. Topics include: Xbox Zero, ...
Dec 23, 2019
Evan and David check in on the anime and Japanese TV they’re watching, including Carole & Tuesday and Game Center CX, touching on Ani-Gamers’ Best of the Decade lists, algorithms, and Elon Musk along the way. Then, in this episode’s review, David delves into the Sword Art Online light novels. Topics include: moé war veterans, gamer wife guys, and ragging on Ernest Kline. Runtime: 1 hour, 16 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Stitcher Google Music Send us Feedback! Support us on Patreon!...
Dec 01, 2019
The works of Satoshi Kon are few but powerful, and his directorial debut, Perfect Blue, is no exception. This adaptation of Yoshikazu Takeuchi’s novel, Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis , is a psychological thriller that follows the career of pop star and aspiring actress Kirigoe Mima. It’s biting commentary on idol culture and the ugly dangers therein. Join Jared and Ink and special guest Phillip as they dance around spoilers to bring you a deep dive into a deep film. Stream Perfect Blue on ...
Nov 29, 2019
It’s the holiday season, so Evan and David convene to celebrate the most important holiday of all: Gundam Day. Then Evan talks about his slow progress through the first season of Psycho-Pass, David checks in with first impressions of Pokémon Sword, and Evan reviews the three volumes of the Saint Young Men manga that are currently out in English. It’s a sitcom about Jesus and Buddha living together as roommates in Tokyo! Topics include: too many video games, mobile suit veterans, and pulling an E...
Nov 17, 2019
Evan and David team up to review the anime movie Blackfox from Studio 3Hz (Dimension W, Flip Flappers, Princess Principal), which is ostensibly a sci-fi ninja revenge story. Plus, Fortnite and HBO Max anime news (go figure), the Dororo anime, Super Mario World, and a quest to discover which animal ears are the scariest on an anime character. Topics incude: drones are evil, Brad City, and tradwife-bots. Reminder: the Metal Gear Solid stream is back on November 9th! Runtime: 1 hour, 26 minutes Dir...
Nov 02, 2019
There are several reasons why Higurashi When They Cry consistently finds itself on so many must-watch series when October rolls around, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a show for everyone. Listen in as Jared and Ink are joined by AGP’s @QX20XX and Reverse Thieves’ Alain Mendez to dig into the origin and makeup of this iconic series about a series of gruesome murders and mysterious disappearances in the small village of Hinamizawa. If you’ve yet to see the series, there’s a spoiler-free section, ...
Oct 31, 2019
The Fall 2019 anime season has started and Evan and David are feeling the seasonal anime itch again. This episode, the hosts discuss some gaming news, including the big Blizzard/Hong Kong debacle, and talk about four shows they’re sampling from the current anime season. Topics include: normie pop culture, and incel turtles, and the mind-bogglingly weird tagline for No Guns Life (used as the title of this episode). Runtime: 57 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Stitcher Google Music Send us ...
Oct 19, 2019
After a brief break due to our two-part Evangelion podcast, Evan and David check back in on anime industry news, Rie Kugimiya’s ticketed AnimeNYC appearance, Super Nintendo games on Switch, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses. And in this episode’s Mini-Review, Evan discusses Control, the new supernatural action game from Remedy Entertainment. Topics include: gacha guest signings, turning into a tree, and getting hired and instantly promoted. Runtime: 1 hour, 17 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes...
Oct 03, 2019
If you don’t remember MTV back in the ’90s, when it was 98% music and 1% Kurt Loder, then you definitely don’t remember the other 1% – the ballsy, experimental animated shorts of Liquid Television and the longer, more serial (but not any less weird) shorts of the Oddities animation programming block. Join Jared and Ink as they reflect upon their teenage cartoon obsessions by talking about Liquid Television’s Aeon Flux as well as The Head and The Maxx from MTV’s Oddities after a fresh rewatch of ...
Oct 01, 2019
Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast returns to wrap up our extended discussion of the legendary 1995 anime TV series Neon Genesis Evangelion. In this half, we answer audience questions and get into the spoiler portion of the show, covering the end of the TV series and the mind-bending finale that is End of Evangelion. Topics include: Evangelion presented by Tesla, “Both of You, TikTok Like You Want to Win,” and Shinji says fuck. Runtime: 59 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Stitcher Goog...
Sep 16, 2019
To celebrate Neon Genesis Evangelion being available legally in the US for the first time in about a decade, Evan and David sit down with Dawn (a.k.a. Usamimi) of the Anime Nostalgia Podcast for an in-depth discussion of the legendary 1995 anime series and movies, covering the show’s themes, some of their favorite episodes, the new translation, and more. The episode ran so long that we had to split it in two. This one has most of the main (spoiler-free) discussion, while the second episode has t...
Sep 06, 2019
Evan and David discuss the news around Kizuna Ai’s body swap and the rumored SNES Switch Online offering, finally get back into seasonal anime with JoJo’s and Lord El-Melloi (aka “Detective Waver”), and try out a new segment: a short “Mini-Review” of the josei manga Maiden Railways by Asumiko Nakamura. Topics include: bad Kiznaiver jokes, the Odakyu Bitter Singles Car, and gymnastics. Runtime: 1 hour, 7 minutes Direct Download RSS Feed iTunes Stitcher Google Music Send us Feedback! Support us on...
Aug 18, 2019
Looking for one of the cutest stories about a tortured artist? Look no further than Barakamon, which focuses on a professional calligrapher (who knew?) who butts heads with the Tokyo art crowd and is sent to live on a remote island to cool his head and refine his art. Doesn’t sound cute? Just wait until you meet the village brat Naru … not to mention an entire cast of characters so charming of course you’ll only find them in fiction. Jared and Ink discus the values of fluff, how they relate to s...
Aug 11, 2019
Aug 04, 2019
