With Turner and Warner Bros. teaming up for a new Boomerang streaming service for classic cartoons, Roadrunner and Tweety Pie marathons are on the cards. Our featured anime are DRAMAtical Murder and Busou Shinki: Armored War Goddess. #DRAMAticalMurder #BusouShinki #ArmoredWarGoddess #Nitroplus #Manga #VisualNovel #NAZ #8bit #YasuhitoKikuchi #KazuyaMiura #Animation #Anime #Cartoons #Keyframe #News #Podcasts #Reviews #TheGeekShow
May 09, 2017•51 min
Aside from the return of Duck Tales, Devilman and Hayao Miyazaki, it’s the 100th anniversary of Japanese animation. Hooray! Our featured anime and live-action movie are Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, The Guyver (a.k.a. Mutronics), and One Piece volume 15. #MobileSuitZetaGundam #TheGuyver #Mutronics #OnePiece #MarkHamill #Animation #Anime #Cartoons #Keyframe #News #Podcasts #Reviews #TheGeekShow
May 05, 2017•1 hr 14 min
This week we've got export restrictions, dragon dentists, same faces, strange mousemats and all sorts of other paraphernalia that make animation such an odd place to visit. Our featured anime are Berserk (1997), and Death Note. #Animation #Anime #Berserk #Cartoons #DeathNote #Horror #KentaroMiura #Keyframe #Manga #NaohitoTakahashi #News #OLM #Podcasts #Reviews #TakeshiObata #TetsuroAraki #TheGeekShow #TsugumiOhba #Madhouse #TheGeekShow
Apr 27, 2017•1 hr 12 min
It's a shorter show than normal this week, partly because it's awards season. Normal service will resume shortly (I've always wanted to say that). Our featured anime is One Piece: Gold. . #Animation #Anime #Cartoons #Films #HiroakiMiyamoto #Keyframe #Movies #News #OnePiece #OnePieceGold #Podcasts #Reviews #TheGeekShow #ToeiAnimation
Apr 24, 2017•32 min
This week we've got Antarctic Doraemon, Gintama Valentine's statues, and an odd choice for a cybersecurity officer. Our featured anime are Metropolis and Psycho Pass part 1. . #Animation #Anime #Cartoons #FritzLang #GenUrobuchi #HikaruMiyoshi #InspectorAkaneTsunemori #KanshikanTsunemoriAkane, #KatsuhiroOtomo #KatsuyukiMotohiro #Keyframe #Madhouse #Metropolis #News #OsamuTezuka #Podcasts #ProductionIG #PsychoPass #Reviews #Rintaro #TheGeekShow
Apr 21, 2017•59 min
Aside from another bunch of trailers we complain about public polls to find the “best” anime. Our featured anime are Punch Line and Transformers: The Movie (the original, not the Michael Bay one - and before you ask, yes, it is an anime). . #Animation #Anime #Cartoons #Keyframe #MAPPA #NelsonShin #News #Podcasts #PunchLine #Reviews #ShojiKawamori #ShouzoTajima #TheGeekShow #ToeiAnimation #Transformers #TransformersTheMovie #YutakaUemura
Apr 15, 2017•1 hr
Things take a turn for the strange with a mess of trailers and some anthropomorphic technology jargon. Our featured anime are When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace (Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de), and Mirai Nikki (The Future Diary), part 2. . #Animation #Anime #Asread #Cartoons #Inou Battle wa Nichijoukei no Naka de #Keyframe #Manga #MangaEntertainment #MasahikoOtsuka #MasanoriTakahashi, #MiraiNikki #MiraiNikki FutureDiary #NaotoHosoda #News, #Podcasts #Reviews #SakaeEsuno #Studi...
Jan 22, 2017•1 hr 5 min
This week we’ve got trailers for robot boys and little blue people, Kung Fu Panda fraud, and some tear-jerking anime titles (according to some Japanese fans). Our featured anime are Pokemon: The Movie 2000 and Nobunaga the Fool.
Jan 18, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Happy Godzilla day!!! (Well, belated greetings anyway.) In other news, The Dam Keeper is getting a series, and we look at the trailers for Akiba’s Trip: The Animation, the fourth Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki OVA, and the Japanese/Saudi Arabian collaboration Desert Knight. Our featured anime are Soul Eater Not! and Pokemon: The Movie.
Jan 06, 2017•52 min
It’s been a strange week with Stan Lee working on another anime series, the return of Muppet Babies, Klonoa getting a movie and some less-than-flattering anime statues. Our featured anime are One Piece Season 13 (#300 to #324), Digimon Season 1 and Inner Sanctums – Quay Brothers: Collected Works 1979 to 2013.
Jan 06, 2017•59 min
Godzilla is getting a feature-length anime movie! Aside from that, Akiba’s Trip is also getting a series and Babymetal is getting their own short-form live-action/animated hybrid series. Our featured anime and live-action movies are Log Horizon season 2 and Attack on Titan: The Movie part 2.
Dec 03, 2016•59 min
This week an amorous skunk and a very fast mouse are getting their own movies, and the trailers prove that sometimes anime is just plain weird.Our featured anime are Samurai Bride (Hyakka Ryouran), and Diebuster: Top Wo Nerae 2.
Dec 03, 2016•1 hr
The sarcasm meter is off the scale this week with arguments about violence in animation and a live-action, CG animated feature film of Woody Woodpecker … for Brazil! Our featured anime are Samurai Harem (Asu no Yoichi!), Haikyuu Season 1 Part 2 and Top Wo Nerae: Gunbuster (Aim for the Top! Gunbuster).
Dec 03, 2016•1 hr 16 min
This week we find out what happens when you don’t ban certain plot devices from a short story competition, and a “shrine” to anime and manga is being rebuilt. Our featured anime are Durarara!!x2 Shou, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works part 2 and Anomalisa (from Curzon Artificial Eye).
Dec 03, 2016•1 hr 2 min
This week we find a gender-swapped “sexy” version of Monkey D. Luffy, a ban on plots about reincarnation or transport to other worlds, and a few trailers. Our featured anime is Parasyte: The Maxim part 1 (and technically the manga series Midori Days).
Dec 03, 2016•1 hr 9 min
It’s another trailer fest filled with ballet, idol dances, bishounen prison breaks, and possibly the nerdiest anime concept for a while. Our featured anime are Kuroko’s Basketball and Attack on Titan: The Movie (part 1).
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 22 min
This week we fight our way through all of the trailers and teasers to find that single, shining piece of good news – Junko’s comedy manga “Kiss Him, Not Me” is getting an anime adaptation! Our featured anime are Love Live Season 1 and Aldnoah Zero.
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 26 min
It’s a trailerfest this week so we take a look at the ones for Sweetness and Lightning, 91 Days, RS Project: Rebirth Storage and Voltron: Legendary Defender. Our featured anime is Assassination Classroom Season 1 part 1.
Dec 02, 2016•41 min
It’s time for another dive into the world of animation with trailers for Bill Plimpton’s Revengeance and Violet Evergarden. We also discuss a new Megaman anime series and a reboot of Cardcaptor Sakura. Our featured anime (and live-action movie), are Love Live season 2 and Parasyte: The Movie part 2.
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 19 min
The live–action adaptations of popular anime continue and next up is Full Metal Alchemist. We also take a look at animated shoot-em-ups, Kung Fu Panda rip-offs and the trailer for the Iranian animated epic The Last Fiction. Our featured anime are A Letter to Momo and Blade Dance of the Elementalers
Dec 02, 2016•1 hr 9 min
An Egyptian ambassador has blamed the rise of extremism on, amongst other things, Tom & Jerry cartoons. We’re not sure what he’s going to make of Onara Gorou – the Japanese animated short about sentient … gas. Oh, and Eddie Redmayne will star in Aardman’s new feature Early Man. Our featured anime are The Princess […]
Jul 26, 2016•48 min
Big changes are happening in the animation world as NBC Universal buys Dreamworks. We also discuss the remake of Watership Down, a fourth OVA series of Tenchi Muyo and the trailer for The Killing Joke. Our featured anime are Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie, Golden Time Part 2 and RWBY volume 3.
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Disney make some major announcements this week, and not all of them seem to make sense. We also discuss the trailer for ”Big Fish & Begonia” and the new 3D CG version of Chi’s Sweet Home. Our featured anime are Patlabor: The New Files (OVA Season 2), and Another.
Jul 26, 2016•57 min
This week we take a look at the trailers for Moom and Kaze no Yoni before diving into Sailor Moon exhibits, Jump Summers with Universal Studios, and some unfortunately placed Pikachus. Our featured anime are Arcana Famiglia and Infinite Stratos Season 2. #ArcanaFamiglia #InfiniteStratos #Animation #Anime #Cartoons #Keyframe #News #Podcasts #Reviews #TheGeekShow
Jul 26, 2016•1 hr 12 min
We kick off the show with trailers for Scaȑed Rider Xechs, Berserk, A Silent Voice and Infini-T Force. We also discuss Kadokawa’s purchase of a majority stake in YenPress, The Powerpuff Girls reboot and more. Our featured anime are Amnesia and Kämpfer.
Jun 07, 2016•1 hr 7 min
The big news this week is that Blue Sky Studios are the first to settle a wage-fixing and anti-poaching lawsuit filed against them and several other major animation companies. We also take a look at the teaser for Luger Code 1951 and the trailers for football anime Days and the English dub of Hunter x […]
Jun 07, 2016•1 hr 28 min
It’s a trailer-fest this week with Dreamworks’ Voltron: Legendary Defender, Show by Rock season 2, Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul, D-Gray Man: HALLOW and TWO for Lego Batman. We also discuss the prospect of more FLCL. Otaku A.I.s and potential waifus for Bojack Horseman. Our featured anime is Humanity Has Declined.
May 09, 2016•57 min
Animation is a strange medium and it’s only going to get weirder when the free open-source version of Toonz comes out. We also take a look at the trailer for “Drifters” , try to work out why anyone would want to make an animated movie about Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee and more. Our featured anime […]
May 09, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Tis the season for strange animation tidings as we take a look at the trailers for “Sausage Party” and “Sakamoto desu-ga?”, Paramount say no to The Little Prince’s money and more. Our featured anime are Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, Kill Me Baby and FUSE: Memoirs of a Hunter Girl.
May 09, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Chairman Meow’s Little Red Bowl This week we dive right in to a heap of trailers including Ice Age, April and the Extraordinary World, and Rudolf the Black Cat. In other news, Kadokawa are planning an 88-stop anime-themed “pilgrimage” for tourists and Oxford University release a Vocaloid textbook (of sorts). Our featured anime are Mobile Suit Gundam Part 1, My Neighbor Seki (The Master of Killing Time), and OreImo Season 2. If you've enjoyed this podcast then please share us with your friends or...
Apr 26, 2016•1 hr
