Episode 252: Finally a spotlight on an older romance! Nick and Dannie pop off on this romance anime that led them to be...disappointed? The class rep Yukino might be hiding some secrets from Soichiro, the male rep in her class. Love secrets? Sexy time secrets? Listen to Nick and Dannie yell about the manga and the ending to this 90s romance. 05:45 RIP Zac Bertschy 09:00 Listener Question of the Week 14:30 Waifu and Husbando 16:00 Main Topic: His and Her Circumstances 1:00:30 Final Thoughts and S...
May 28, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 252
Already at the end of May yall. This ep I talk about Kingdom Hearts Dark Road, Borderlands 3 DLC, Overwatch Anniversary Event, Zack Snyder cut of Justice League, and a potentially new film in the Sony Marvel Movie Universe. In anime news we got some hype in the form of a Fire Force Season 2 trailer and the trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen!
May 23, 2020•49 min•Ep. 73
Episode 251: Thank you to all the patrons for getting us a new batch of topics for us to do and we decided to go with our Patron Mitch's topic on overpowered characters! We discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to overpowered characters. They can be a big flop or a success in driving the story; or just be so ridiculous you just love it. 08:45 Listener Question of the Week 15:45 Waifu and Husbando 16:15 Main Topic: OP characters...
May 21, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 5Ep. 251
In this newscast we have a lot of updates on games, a release date for The New Mutants, Summer Game Fest, Comic Con, EVO, and new Paper Mario game trailer for The Origami King. In Anime news we have an update on the Inu-Yasha spin off, some upcoming anime hype, and more!
May 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Episode 250: You ever hate a villain so much you hate them? Or rather you ever love a villain so much because you hate them? This episode each of the hosts give a list of their top 5 favorite villains in anime. Who are your favorites? 07:00 Listener Question of the Week 10:45 Waifu and Husbando 13:00 Top 5 Anime Villains 16:30 Number 5 29:30 Number 4 41:00 Number 3 54:40 Number 2 1:03:45 Number 1 1:19:00 Honorable Mentions...
May 14, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 5Ep. 250
Long news ep this week! We talk about the Xbox Series X presentation and the list of games that will be available! A lot of movie news regarding updates on production is going for Guardians of the Galaxy and Suicide Squad as well as a whole bunch of Star Wars titles. Some video game updates on Dragon Ball FighterZ and Samurai Shodown and more! A lot of Summer and Fall anime hype as well! Some cons going virtual, Slime beginning its final arc, Inu Yasha sequel movie and some details about some vi...
May 09, 2020•58 min•Ep. 71
Episode 249: We finally did a Nick appreciation episode. After everyone else already got one we finally decide to peak inside the mind of Too Slick Nick. Just having fun and poking at the mindset of how Nick consumes anime and how he hates food. Show Nick some love! 05:30 Listener Question of the Week 10:45 Waifu and Husbando 14:15 What Nick disklikes in a show 16:05 Podcast origins 22:25 Early anime years 38:00 Nick's tastes...
May 07, 2020•57 min•Season 5Ep. 249
Some anime hype this week! Also some upcoming ALL DIGITAL events happening! Pretty exciting as cons and events are getting cancelled, creators are collaborating with one another to curate digital only events to help keep people at home and give them something to look forward too while at home! We got some game news for Assassins Creed Valhalla, Xbox Series X and more. Some upcoming anime hype and manga hype too! At the end I also give a small spoiler free review of Streets of Rage 4!
May 02, 2020•57 min•Ep. 70
Episode 248: Part TWO of our 1st Impressions of the Spring season. At the end we do mention sequels such as" Ascendance of a Bookworm, Food Wars, and others. Also at the end we give a small list of shows this season that are delayed due to the pandemic. This part we talk about : Gleipnir, Sing "Yesterday" For Me, My Next Life as a Villainess! All Routes Lead to Doom!, The 8th Son? Are you kidding me?, Arte, Wave, Listen to me!, Shironeko Project: Chronicle Zero, Diary of our Days at the Breakwat...
Apr 30, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 5Ep. 248
Lots of movie news on the upcoming Spider Man movie, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and more! XBox Series X to reveal new details soon about the games library, and Elijah Wood playing Animal Crossing. In Anime news we have some more delays and some updates on what is being worked on still such as the Yuri On Ice movie, and more!
Apr 25, 2020•49 min•Ep. 69
AOQ2: I honestly cannot believe I got one of my childhood heroes to guest on this podcast. What the fuck. Tsunami Bomb has been a punk band since the late 90s. My taste in music mostly started out with anime music and Tsunami Bomb brought out the counter culture in me and brought me into my rebellious stage and my taste in music transitioned into that smoothly going from anime to Tsunami Bomb. Punk and anime go hand in hand when talking about Tsunami Bomb and I was happy to not even just talk ab...
Apr 24, 2020•1 hr 25 min
Episode 247: Spring is here and we are diving right into our 1st Impressions already. With the pandemic going on some shows are already delayed but at least we can dip our feet into the first few episodes this season. This is part 1 and on this part we give our 1st impressions on the following shows: Tower of God, BNA, Kakushigoto, Balance Unlimited, Appare-Ranman!, Listeners, Princess Connect: ReDive, and Tamayomi. 08:20 Listener Question of the Week 12:15 Waifu and Husbando 14:00 Tower of God ...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 247
Streets of Rage 4 released date! Some more movie news and release dates for Matrix 4, Captain Marvel 2, and Dr Strange! In anime news we have some delays for shows like Appare-Ranman! and others, and con cancellations, and Kondansha halting 10 of their magazines for awhile. Also details on the final Evangelion movie! Pay attention to which shows you are watching and what manga you are reading for delays and cancellations!
Apr 18, 2020•47 min•Ep. 68
Episode 246: Nick is absent this week and with that Som and Dannie get to dust off and review one of their old favorites: Escaflowne. The movie from 2000 which retells the story of Hitomi the Wing Goddess and The King of Dragons, Van. With us from Vindicated Entertainment is Zach! Find Vindicated Entertainment here! https://vindicatedentertainment.com/ Find their Youtube here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEd2uBG9E1zkv6-CnnwTz5A
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 246
Lots of video game news! We talk about Sea of Stars, Streets of Rage 4, Cyberpunk 2077, the new DualSense controller for PS5, and FF7 Remake! In anime news we talk about SAO being delayed, Shonen jump weekly, US Manga publishers delay, and more!
Apr 11, 2020•56 min•Ep. 67
AOQ1: This is the first of AOQ eps where we record AO eps while being quarantined. In this ep Som and Dannie decide to have another girls night with ShaKing! Just hanging out talking about comics, movies, anime, and manga. Hopefully this effort to give you extra content while in isolation helps pass the time. We hope to do more to give you extra content!
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Episode 245: HUZZAH back at it again to our normal episodes and just in time for our review of the winter season for 2020. We do our best after recovering from our Decade eps to complete and review the shows we enjoyed this season. Let us know what you liked this season! 09:30 Listener Question of the Week 12:45 Waifu and Husbando 13:45 Haikyuu!!: to the Top 17:45 Darwin's Game 21:40 In/Spectre 26:30 Bofuri 32:00 Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 46:15 Somali and the Forest Spirit 57:10 Toilet-bound...
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Season 5Ep. 245
We got some news on FFVII Remake, Last of Us 2, some new games coming to the Switch including Treachery in Beatdown City, Megadimension Neptunia, and some remasters of awesome Mario games such as Mario Sunshine, Mario Galaxy and many others. Some updates on movies being delayed due to the pandemic and some announced dates for some MCU films. For anime news we have some Idol boy hype, Hidive updates, Saudi Arabian anime Folktale anime, Masaaki Yuasa stepping down from Science SARU, and a look at ...
Apr 04, 2020•44 min•Ep. 66
DA DEE DUPDIDDA DUP DA DA--- THE SECOND PART of our Top 50 anime of the decade!. We have been working on this since the beginning of 2019. Nick himself has been working on it since towards the end of 2018. He curated most of this project by himself, from the shows we watched all the way through to the Decade eps themselves. We hope you guys enjoyed this as much as we loved doing it. Thank you to everyone who participated in Discords participation channel for these eps! Please use the link below ...
Apr 02, 2020•4 hr 54 min•Season 5Ep. 244
Lots of game hype! Gears Tactics, Borderlands 3 DLC, Bleeding Edge, and some talk of Nintedo's Mini Direct! As well as some movie news! For anime we have some summer hype, Tamayomi Baseball, Masaaki Yuasa's new series based on the 1970s novel Japan Sinks, some more con cancellations, and other movie hype. At the end I speak a bit about what I (Som) have been doing to pass the time while we are all hunkerin down in isolation.
Mar 28, 2020•59 min•Ep. 65
THE TIME IS NOW. FOR ANIME SUMMITS TOP 50 ANIME OF THE DECADE. This is a biggun folks. In this part we talk about our bottom 25 of the 50. (50-26). For part 2 we will cover the top 25! Enjoy! Below you can find a public google doc! 04:30 Trends of the decade 14:00 Anime of the Decade lists 16:30 Number 50 26:30 Number 49 34:00 Number 48 43:20 Number 47 54:45 Number 46 1:04:00 Number 45 1:12:45 Number 44 1:20:00 Number 43 1:28:15 Number 42 1:40:00 Number 41 1:47:50 Number 40 1:55:15 Number 39 2:0...
Mar 26, 2020•3 hr 33 min•Season 5Ep. 243
LONG ONE TODAY HOMIES. We talk about some game news such as Sea of Stars, Doom Eternal, some new console news, and Overwatch's new character ECHO! In anime news we have a lot of anime hype reminders, some scheduling changes for airing simuldubbed shows, and some BIG Con cancellations due to the current state of the world with the pandemic. PLEASE PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITES of Anime Boston and Anime Central for news on the cancellations and what you can do if you want a refund.
Mar 21, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 64
Episode 242: Your favorite Vampire Hunters are back in Season 3 of Netflix's Castlevania. In this review we talk about the unique four stories being told simultaneously throughout this season and how its executed. With Dracula gone how does Wallachia and the country fair now? 06:30 Listener Question of the Week 10:15 Waifu and Husbando 11:15 Castlevania season 3 52:00 Final Thoughts
Mar 19, 2020•58 min•Season 5Ep. 242
Disclaimer: In the beginning of this newscast i talk a little bit about the COVID-19 virus or the Corona Virus. I did so at the behest of Nick because he was going to shit himself if I didn't. Although I dont want to use our platform to talk about current events like this as this platform is a place for yall to get away from that stuff, I did want to mention it also to maybe be a helping voice in such concerning time. That being said if you want to skip it because you are well informed on the su...
Mar 14, 2020•46 min•Ep. 63
Episode 241: Our spotlight of Gundam Thuderbolt. In Dannies absence we finally do our FIRST review of a Gundam show. During the One Year War battles continue in the Thunderbolt Sector, with the Federation hoping to reclaim a part of Colony territory that was once their from the forces of Zeon. Nick and Som review this awesome show and dive a bit into the lore of the Universal Century! 10:00 Listener Question of the Week 11:55 Waifu and Husbando 16:00 Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt 1:01:30 Final ...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 241
In this weeks newscast we talk about Suicide Squad, Spawn in MK11, Half Life ALYX, Overwatch Comp hero bans and more. For anime news we have some more upcoming seasonal hype, movie hype, Weathering with you winning a Japanese Academy Award, the new Digimon reboot, Hideo Kojima watching Made in Abyss, and at the end..a special report on the Playstation 2 turning 20 years old!
Mar 07, 2020•47 min•Ep. 62
Episode 240: FINALLY our review of the feature film by Studio Trigger: Promare. Promepolis, a thriving city is threatened by the Mad Burnish: a terrorist group made up of the Burnish, humans who are blessed or cursed with special flames that command them to burn everything to the ground. We give our burning review with our burning souls after yelling about our burning review with our burning souls while we burn this burning review down.....while burning. 07:00 Listener Question of the Week 14:00...
Mar 05, 2020•55 min•Season 5Ep. 240
BIG one today. We dive into the latest on The Invisible Man, The Dark Cinematic Universe, Tom Hollands speaks on Sonys Spider-Man, new Mythical Pokemon Zarude, new Shovel Knight puzzle game, more details about the XBox Series X and the PS5. For anime we have some Spring seasons HYPE! SAO Alicization, new films, new Pokemon movie, new manga by the creator of Crows, middle eastern Manga The Journey film adaptation is done being animated, and MUCH more.
Feb 29, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 61
Episode 239: Remember when we said in the beginning of the year we were gonna read more manga? Well we decided to call in a professional and we called NOXI from the Project M.A.N.G.A. Podcast! Noxi comes in and presents his resume and Phd. in Manga and schools us on the ways of the black and white art form and then recommends each Anime Summit host on what to read to get us popping more in the manga scene. You can follow Noxi and the rest of the Project M.A.N.G.A. fam with the links below! https...
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Season 5Ep. 239
This week we talk about upcoming Batman film with new set photos, a petition for JJ Abrams to release a longer cut of Rise of Skywalker, a set photo from Venom 2 of Woody Harrelson as Cletus Kassady AKA CARNAGE, and video game movies are the next big thing? In anime news we got some Spring hype, Beastars hype, Sakura Con hosting Beastars staff, and live action anime films.
Feb 22, 2020•42 min•Ep. 60
