On tonight's show, Neon Genesis Evangelion bullet train is immortalized, Shonen Jump crossover puzzle game, and who are the seven deadly maids? Also, Aggretsuko anime premieres soon, Voltron: Legendary Defender new season, and a director of the show has a Kickstarter! Plus, return of Back To the Future as a manga? Also, in Strange News From Japan... What happens to unsold manga? Unemployed man and teen steal manga, and boob implants for hug pillows?!
Feb 08, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 345
On tonight's show, crackdown on virtual currency and idols! Also, new peeps in Boku no Hero Academia, new Yu Yu Hakusho mobile game, and a new idol group to appear in new Sailor Moon musicals! The return of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards! The Love Live! μ's fandomw is getting out of hand, and a retro Sanrio cafe! In strange News From Japan, get paid to stress test stress, groping teenage test takers on social media, and a store is open for 2 weeks with no merch or employees?
Feb 01, 2018•1 hr 27 min
On tonight's show, we find out the dubbed cast for Card Captor Sakura: The Clear Card Arc! Also, brand new Digimon mobile game, and we get season two of Castlevania! Cute High Earth Defense Club Love! gets another show, Hollywood actor Ken Watanabe joins the cast of Detective Pikachu, and manga legend Rumiko Takahashi is nominated for the Will Eisner Hall of Fame! Then over in Strange News From Japan, man grabs a boob, buys food, and runs, Japanese movie theater with kotatsus, and Japan's newest...
Jan 25, 2018•1 hr 1 min
And we're back from our holiday break! Tonight, check out the missed stories we deemed import, such as Amazon.com's Anime Strike is gone, new Tiger & Bunny, and Detective Pikachu movie release! Also, a member of Momoiro Clover Z retires, Love Live！Sunshine Project film update! And the hosts take a minute to take a moment to discuss the Logan Paul debacle. And in Strange News From Japan, a new bleaching trend, manager arrested for shooting toothpicks, and another guy arrested for touching a m...
Jan 18, 2018•1 hr 32 min
On tonight's show, you've waited all year for it, and now wait no more! The 2017 Drunken Christmas Special is tonight! Join the cast and crew of this podcast, along with special guests as they talk about they favorite 2017 anime and game! Also, holiday horror stories, and the best and worst gifts ever received! Plus the return of the Skypeline! And the final Strange News from Japan, a stuck train gets a tent potty, 50th anniversarry Peanuts exhibit, low smell KFC chicken, and the bullet train th...
Dec 20, 2017•2 hr 9 min
On tonight's show, we have Pokémon GO updates! And what's going with the Detective Pikachu movie? Thoughts on the live action Alita: Battle Angel film, and Boku No Hero Academia original film! A death metal loving panda gets an anime, and an 8-bit themed FullMetal Alchemist trailer? And in Strange News From Japan, a man tries to woo a woman buy cutting her brakes, neighbor attacks a tv through the floor, and the Tokyo Metro app tells you which stalls are free?
Dec 14, 2017•1 hr 21 min
On tonight's show... Anime Boston VS Boston South Coast Comic Con & Anime Fest! Cosplay Deviants drops trademark, AnimEigo crowdfunds Gunsmith Cats, and the list of Bad Santas! Precure and Hatsune Miku collaborates on outfits, and anime voice actors and actresses turning 50, and signs of a DOOMED convention... Also in Strange News From Japan, k-pop and j-pop artists wow the critics, diner sets a restaurant on fire, and a very expensive meat filled bento box!
Dec 07, 2017•1 hr 53 min
On tonight's show, Sera Myu performance to hit France! New Ranma ½ inspired clothing, and what went down with the first voice actor rap battle? We find out what happened with the Ultraman international licensing, new Tamagotchi smartphone game, and the start of season 3 of My Hero Academia! In Strange News From Japan... A man turns himself into police even after restaurant manager excuses him not having money to pay for meal, KFC escape pod, and perks for a 2D marriage?
Nov 30, 2017•1 hr 21 min
On tonight's show, IchigoGami tells us about her adventures to RuffleCon! Also, That DJ Ranma S Guy talks about the newly formed con, Anime NYC! Plus breaking news on Ruroni Kenshin, Dragon Ball Super, and more! Then on Strange News From Japan, and epic Final Fantasy collaboration is coming, a train company apologizes for leaving early, and Mister Donut 統一多拿滋官方粉絲團 has very new interesting breakfast sandwiches...
Nov 24, 2017•1 hr 53 min
On tonight's show, Free: Iwatobi Swim Club fans are upset over planted trees, the fifth annual Love Live! School Idol Project ( ラブライブ！) general election, and the Shingeki no Kyojin museum collaboration. Also, cosplayers clean up Ikebukuro after an event, and changes with idol shows? And five anime films on the list for the Oscars! Also in Strange News From Japan, a TV cameraman secretly records newspaper reporter film upskirt shots, all you can drink for 24 hours for $3, motivation poster that d...
Nov 16, 2017•1 hr 30 min
On tonight's show, sad news about a Pokémon GO player, and how you can help! Also, TV Tokyo Network celebrates 1,000 episodes of Pokémon, plus an Alexa app! What happened with Crunchyroll, and how you can protect yourself! Virtual reality coming to a cafe, change your voice to any anime girl, and Sazae-san loses a major sponsor... And in Strange News From Japan... Kitty balls, Kentucky Fried Chicken bath salts, and a moaning competition on a airline flight?!
Nov 09, 2017•1 hr 10 min
On tonight's Halloween themed episode... We discuss a list of Halloween themed anime from J-List! Also, the latest Sailor Moon collaboration, Shingeki no Kyojin season 3, new Free: Iwatobi Swim Club, and what's up a with a girl from Osaka suing to government? Also, Ranma talks about the JAPANFes J-ANIME NIGHT(Halloween x Anime). And in Strange News From Japan, a man arrested for using black magic, Halloween cat marshmallows, best time to pick up women, and what happened at that Halloween party?!...
Nov 02, 2017•1 hr 40 min
On tonight's show, Boku No Hero Academia gets a 3rd season! Also, crossover with Pacific Rim and Godzilla? New Ranma ½ cafe, massive Neon Genesis Evangelion crossover, and Team Rocket recruiting? And why did Hayao Miyazaki unretire? In Strange News From Japan... 74 year old ninja is caught, dumb thief caught reselling goods, and a Tokyo school helps transgenders and cross dressers act feminine?
Oct 26, 2017•1 hr 18 min
On tonight's show, we find out that AnimeNYC is hosting live action Fullmetal Alchmist film! Also, the Love Live Sunshine Real Escape game gets theme song! Media company Broccoli not doing well, and what's up with Detective Conan / Kaito Kid? And the return of Tamagotchi! And in Strange News from Japan, fortune telling with breasts, pocky and red wine, and on a sad note, we take a moment to honor the passing of Grape-kun.
Oct 19, 2017•1 hr 4 min
On tonight's show, we talk about life with otaku parents... Then what happened with VICE and Yaoi-Con? New Professor Layton series, become a Fullmetal Alchemist character, and what's this about a male idol stripper game? Also, how Neon Genesis Evangelion prints money, Sailor Moon for president, and why does a Japanese idol singer miss Girl Scout Cookies? Also, in Strange News From Japan, a thigh high cafe, cat themed underclothes, a buttload of gold from China, some dude jumps out of a comic boo...
Oct 11, 2017•1 hr 48 min
On tonight's show, Anime Punch is no more, and we tell you why! Also, Bain Capital buys 株式会社アサツー ディ・ケイ(ADK), Tokyo governor tries to balance Comiket with the Olympics. Voice actors have a rap battle, season three of Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma, and a live action version of Your Name? And in Strange News from Japan... Piko Taro made how much?! JAV actresses fart in your general direction, and tattoos are illegal unless you're a doctor?
Oct 05, 2017•1 hr 40 min
On tonight's show, what's up with CUP NOODLES and Detective Conan? Magical Girl Pretty Sammy is back and needs our help! Yu Yu Hakusho is back with a new cell phone game, Love Live! School Idol Project ( ラブライブ！) drops a new mobile game on us! Anthropomorphic scarecrows, Fist of the North Star " Hokuto No Ken "on bluray, and another Dragon Ball Z mobile game? In Strange News from Japan, an enhanced otaku dating site, a cat cafe train, and edible origami?
Sep 27, 2017•1 hr 20 min
On tonight's back to school show, Digimon is coming to US cell phones! Also, Universal Studios Japan (USJ) has new anime and game attractions, Cowboy Bebop director to do Blade Runner 2049 short, and what DVDs are Sentai Filmworks phasing out? The director of Fullmetal Alchemist has some mighty strong words about the live action film, Tokyo Ghoul film hits US shores, and the top ten well endowed anime ladies that changed men! Also in strange news from Japan, man plucking pubes and puts them on a...
Sep 20, 2017•1 hr 29 min
On tonight's show, follow up with Funimation's hurricane reliefe efforts! Also, what's the brouhaha with the Rurouni Kenshin (Live Action) film? The return of Galaxy Express 999, your favorite hero/heroine by era, Sanrio mashups with Godzilla and Yu Yu Hakusho, The Rose of Versailles screen adaptation, and Love Live！Sunshine Project's Love Live Sunshine!Aqours 2nd Love Live! Happy Party Train Tour! and locations! Also in Strange News From Japan, car rental places handing out stickers for foreign...
Sep 13, 2017•1 hr 37 min
On tonight's show we're going to try it again! We're doing a Town Hall Podcast! Join That DJ Ranma S Guy, along with moderators IchigoGami and Yunie, as they sit down with our special guests as they talk to them about some of the controversial issues in cosplay. Join out special guests Miss. Erisaka Blu and Nerdee as they tell us about what it's like begin the non-typical cosplayer!
Sep 07, 2017•1 hr 58 min
Tonight we will have the gang talking about Love Live！Sunshine Project escape game, news about Pokémon, handing out deodorant at an SKE48 event, and Yoshitaka Amano art book from Dark Horse Comics! Also Otakon's final numbers and possible sequel to Netflix's Death Note? And in Strange News in Japan, new Japanese dessert craze, five worse smelling bathrooms in all of Japan, and is it a sushi roll or burrito... But does Starbucks know?
Aug 30, 2017•1 hr 19 min
On tonight's show, it's a 2 for 1 special! We're talking PopCult Anime Convention [NECG Meet-Up] AND SaikouCon with WildSpice Cosplay! And if time permits, news about Yuri on ICE and an anthropomorphic mobile game?! Wrapping it up in Strange News From Japan, Hokkaido and weed, woman wants justice in counterfeit money, Idols tells all the wear deodorant, and meet the dead with Augmented Reality?!
Aug 25, 2017•1 hr 36 min
On tonight's show, we're talking Otakon! Join IchigoGami, WildSpice Cosplay, Ari Rockefeller, and That DJ Ranma S Guy, and they break down all four days of their Otakon 2017 - Official adventures! Then in Strange News From Japan, crowdfunding via begging your friends, noodles gone from cup ramen, and a guy is living in an arcade?!
Aug 17, 2017•1 hr 49 min
On tonight's show we talk about the fallout of the METROCON 2017 **Official** Milady panel, holy crap! Then a lawsuit against Niantic, new season of Love Live！Sunshine Project, and a Macross Delta theatre project! A sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas? Crunchyroll releases ピコ太郎 - PIKOTARO's anime, and Netflix bring over Saint Seiya! In strange news from Japan, Japan's newest mascot is a douche, Yahoo! JAPAN offers funeral services online, and poop town?
Aug 10, 2017•1 hr 27 min
On tonight's show, Sony Pictures does the fusion dance with Funimation! Hear our thoughts on the acquisition! Also Persona 5 goes anime, Digimon gets a stage play, a brand new Revolutionary Girl Utena manga chapter is coming, with a cafe! 2020 Olympics could get an anime/manga parade, and a Guinness World Records with Detective Conan! And on Strange News From Japan, former cop arrested for drug possession, who was once connected to this, man moves by doing it naked, and capsule machine to choose...
Aug 03, 2017•1 hr 34 min
On tonight's show... Thoughts about Linkin Park, and what's been going on at San Diego Comic Con! Also, Akira celebrates 35 years, live action One Piece, and G4 Tech TV Canada says farewell. Learn a Love Live！Sunshine Project dance, and more info on Voltron Legendary Defender! Also under Strange News From Japan, bike stolen and returned with food, a karaoke ferris wheel, and poop, nothing but poop, at a zoo exhibit and food menu?
Jul 28, 2017•1 hr 44 min
On tonight's show, we're celebrating anime! First it's thirty years of Ranma ½ and fifty years of Lupin the 3rd! Otakon warns fans of a scam hotel site, a balloon crowdfunding for Mazinger Z, and 4DX screening of Yuri on ICE in Japan. Anime film festival in LA, live action City Hunter in the works, and a place in Tokyo to eat and rink in cosplay! And in Strange News From Japan, adult shaved ice, ramen flavored Pringles, and sushi robots?
Jul 19, 2017•1 hr 39 min
On tonight's show, has the Pokémon continuity ret-coned? Live action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険) film gets awards, and Wonder Woman gets the anime treatment! Also, another season of Castlevania on Netflix and Artland Animation Studio closes. Wrapping things up in Strange News From Japan, a woman strips down at a train station, police under fire for not taking a confession seriously, and a Japanese company gives the best way to go home from work!
Jul 12, 2017•1 hr 31 min
On tonight's 'Murica themed show, Cartoon Network's Uncle Grandpa teaches English, Studio Ghibli fest in select US theaters, and did Disney & Pixar steal Inside Out? Over in anime news, Anime Expo® explain linecon fiasco, new shows coming to Toonami, and Comic-Con International hosts Voltron Season 3! Also, the "news" about Sailor Moon Crystal Season 4, and Gundam inspires science! And over in Strange News From Japan, new ramen brach has endless line of customers, old woman grounds flight ov...
Jul 05, 2017•1 hr 33 min
On tonight's show, we talk about weapon sales and policies at Denver ComicCon and Anime Expo®, brand new Shokugeki no Soma, and a brand new ballroom dance anime! Anime Network Online closes up shop, and Magic Knight Rayearth cosmetics hit the stores. Also, the story of an animator paying a fee to quit, and a Dragon Ball Z jogging event! And on Strange News from Japan, assault and cork hunting, foreign girls needed for a maid cafe, and the scent of a sumo wrestler?!
Jun 29, 2017•1 hr 28 min
