Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!This little Fall 2017 season of anime has turned into a much bigger success than expected. We’ve been so jam-packed with interesting shows that we’re still continuing to dish out the recommendations! We’ll also consider this our Halloween episode too, I guess, seeing as we’ve got some spooky costume stuff to talk about and a whole bunch of other cool stuff.Join Jonstar, Evan, and Victoria as they talk about what’s happening in ...
Oct 31, 2017•1 hr 46 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!As the new Fall 2017 season of anime is upon us, Wicked Anime strives to once again sift through the many releases in order to find the gold that lies within the piles of dirt that we call Japanese animation.Join Jonstar, Evan, and Derek as they talk about what’s happening in anime and a really promising season of shows! PLUS – AARP hates micro transactions, Pride Goku, and the Flowers of Shame!Links and more on the episode's m...
Oct 18, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Another season of anime gone and one more is now on it’s way! This episode, Wicked Anime previews the upcoming Fall 2017 season of anime and all of the shows they’ll be watching. The outlook is more hopeful than last season, I’ll give it that! We also take some time to spotlight the life of Japanese Idol groups and their not-so-glamorous lifestyles behind the stage, and by “spotlight,” I mean spin wildly out of control with tan...
Oct 04, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Come join us for Andrew’s departing podcast. He will be in Japan for the next two months making a film and we’ll be stuck here still making dumb weeaboo jokes until his return. So, as a favor to Andrew, we are setting forth some travel plans for him when he gets some free time and are compiling a list of all of the strangest things to see while he is in the land of the rising sun!Join Jonstar, Andrew, Victoria and Jeff as they ...
Sep 20, 2017•1 hr 14 min
Have you heard what Netflix has done recently? If you haven’t been in the loop, we’re going to catch you up real quick on the newly released live-action American remake of Death Note! Don’t let that scare you off if you haven’t seen it yet - we've also got a ton of new shows and movies from Japan to talk about. Plus: we take on survival Japanese as Andrew will be needing it very soon!Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Evan as they talk about what’s happening in anime and how Willem Dafoe was born to pla...
Sep 04, 2017•1 hr 16 min
We were on site at Boston Comic Con - there to witness all the madness go down! Along for the ride is one of our best pals, Rob, but little did he know what he was getting himself into: fetishes, strange news, and all kinds of other Wicked Anime hijinks!Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Rob as they talk about what’s happening in anime and Boston Comic Con! PLUS – Song of the South, boob heart, and get wet . . . for coats!Links and more on the episode's main page:https://nerdyshow.com/2017/08/wicked-ani...
Aug 22, 2017•1 hr 11 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Business is scary, the last thing we ever want is a money grubbing corporation putting their greedy hands on a medium built up and loved by a fandom and a community. Well, that’s exactly what we are currently facing as we look to the future of Funimation being bought out by Sony. While we have no clue as to what the future may hold for this, we know it’s either going to be really good or really bad. Let’s discuss!Join Jonathan,...
Aug 09, 2017•1 hr 14 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!The summer 2017 season of anime is upon us and . . . we’re less than enthused. While this chart may be the least exciting we’ve come across in quite a few seasons, we are still determined to watch for all of you to find that diamond in the rough!Join Jonathan and Andrew as they talk about what’s happening in anime and the miniscule picks from the summer 2017 anime season! PLUS – Ballroom Kung-Fu, birds and the bees, and audio m...
Jul 12, 2017•29 min
We’ve got two major things going on in this week’s podcast. The first thing is E3; it just happened and there is a ton of games from all around the world that we want to talk about. The second, we’re talking about the anime that we keep watching despite it’s taboos and possibly because it’s straight up terrible. And yes, we mean different shows than the ones we talk about on a weekly basis.Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan, and Wicked Fan Gerardo as we talk about what’s happening in anime and how expa...
Jun 29, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Creating a world is one of the most important unseen aspects of bringing an idea to life. Creators have to think about the world that their characters live in, even though the audience may never see them. Today, we’re here to uncover the expansive worlds of some of our favorite anime and find out just how big these shows really are!Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Evan as we talk about what’s happening in anime and how expansive it’s...
Jun 14, 2017•1 hr 29 min
Look, we don't care how funny you think Goku and Piccolo getting their driver’s license is - the Androids are about to attack! They might be great, they might be legendary, but even the best, most beloved series have points that drag on. "Drag ON." Get it?This week, we have a fan-requested topic and discuss which anime we want to see get the Dragon Ball Z Kai treatment.Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Evan as we talk about what’s happening in anime and how to get shorter anime! PLUS – HIFLs, Attack on...
May 30, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!We all love fluffy animals! Some love them so much, they anthropomorphize them and . . . well, I'll stop there. But today, Wicked Anime is going to talk about all those little furry bundles of kawaii that always bring us back for more!Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan, and Victoria as we talk about what’s happening in anime and our fuzzy little familiars! PLUS – Animal waifus, Ploo, and DNA-WHAT?!Apologies in advance for the audio is...
May 17, 2017•1 hr 33 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Wicked Anime turned 5 this month, and so because of that, you all have to sit back and suffer through the crew’s favorite memories that you’ve all already suffered through it the first time! There are also extensive talks about metal music and festivals. What is this podcast even turning into after all this time? Happy Animeversary!Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Evan as we talk about what’s happening in anime and 5 years of Wicked ...
May 04, 2017•1 hr 50 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Now that Con Month is over, we’re diving right into the new stuff! It’s the beginning of the new Spring 2017 season of anime and we cannot contain how excited we are for the mess of sequels and the original content that is coming out! Get ready to geek out with us as we get back into the swing and talking about some Japanese cartoons, yo!Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Evan as we talk about what’s happening in anime and Spring Seaso...
Apr 20, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!This is Part 2 of our Anime Boston 2017 review, Part 1 can be found here!Once again, Con Month must come to a close. Anime Boston 2017 is over and we have some thoughts on it. It was a great year, we’ve met some great people, and we got some great stuff. This episode, we talk about all of our experiences at Anime Boston and then we go home and sleep for a decade.Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan, Victoria, Christine, Sarah, Derek, Da...
Apr 03, 2017•29 min
Lucky you... it’s still Con Month! Anime Boston is weeks away, and as we do every year, we celebrate everything that is conventions and the special events that take place during them. This episode, we’re anticipating and speculating on all the awesomeness we can expect to see come out of our hometown con and how we’ll be enjoying our time!Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan, and a spotlight portion with Victoria as they talk about what’s happening in anime and Con Month 2017! PLUS – No Face, Harrison Fo...
Mar 14, 2017•1 hr 12 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It's, once again, that most wonderful time of year! It's Con Month! While this wonderful holiday season doesn't bear any gifts, you can most certainly find yourself walking away with a metric ton of unnecessary crap. We're here to give you our little rundown of what we personally would never buy at conventions, apparently the all out blood bath that has us at odds with one another at times. Will we see you at our conventions th...
Mar 01, 2017•1 hr 31 min
We've noticed a common factor in our reviews of recent series: we're saying "it's cute" a lot. And sure, there's been a lot of cute anime over the years, but has something changed? Over the last two decades has anime has evolved into something different? It's not necessarily a bad thing (or is it for some?), but we've seen our shows go through these noticeable design changes that alter the way that we look at the medium of anime as a whole. Honestly, we're just glad that the same amount of tenta...
Feb 13, 2017•1 hr 33 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It's that time of the season again where we buckle down and sift through all of the crap so that you all don't have to. There is so much content for Winter 2017, that we've even recruited some help from Jessica from Nerdy Show! We dive deep into so many shows that you should be checking out, and most certainly some that you need to avoid like the plague!Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan, and Jessica as they talk about what’s happenin...
Feb 01, 2017•2 hr 2 min
It's Winter 2017 - so you know what that means? That's right! It's cold, snowing, and ruining Evan's birthday. It's a good thing we got a whole slew of new anime to binge! We go through the few that we've seen, plus the many that we're highly anticipating this season. What anime are you looking forward to?Join Jonathan, Andrew, and Evan as they talk about what’s happening in anime and the anime to watch while you’re snowed in! PLUS – Snow, Ken Doll Porn, and booga-booga language!Links and more o...
Jan 18, 2017•58 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It's the second annual Wickies, where we are counting down the best and absolute worst anime of 2016! Did your anime top our charts? Will we disgust you once again with our opinions? Most likely the latter, but you've been here this long, so why not stick around anyways!Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan and Sarah as they talk about what’s happening in anime and the best there ever was! PLUS – Catgirl statues, Fetish of the Year, and ...
Jan 05, 2017•2 hr 26 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It’s that most wonderful time of year once again, where we’re dreaming of an extra crispy Christmas! That’s right, we’re having ourselves an authentic Japanese Christmas celebration with KFC buckets and a whole lot more surprises in store, imported straight from Japan! If you feel like too much of this episode needs to be seen to believe, you’re in luck! We filmed this episode and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube linked...
Dec 19, 2016•1 hr 19 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!We’re back to normal... We think! It’s been a while since we presented you with a regular episode of good old-fashioned Wicked Anime awfulness, so here we are, back in the saddle. With all of our specials and whatnot, there's been a wealth of recent anime we haven't discussed. And lo, it's time for us to resume telling you what you should be watching!Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan and Sarah as they talk about what’s happening in a...
Dec 06, 2016•1 hr 32 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It’s finally time for turkey and to talk about what we’re all thankful for! This year, I am thankful for Rhode Island Comic Con. We spent the weekend in the littlest state attending their biggest con and we loved every second of it. There were interviews, swag, and all kinds of nerdery! Listen to us blabber on about what made this con so great and what made us so sick!Join Jonathan, Christine, Victoria, and James as they talk a...
Nov 22, 2016•31 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week... but this time, we're bringing you outrageous, improvised anime adventure!For our 100th episode we're doing something drastically different. We're celebrating our podcasting centennial by returning to anime tabletop. Once before the Wicked Anime hosts transformed into cliche anime personas for a massive RPG adventure in B.E.S.M. (Big Eyes, Small Mouth), but this time we're switching genres and going kawaii; this time we're pl...
Nov 07, 2016•2 hr 28 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Part 1 of the AAC Post-Con coverage on Boston Bastard Brigade can be found here:http://www.bostonbastardbrigade.com/2016/10/aac-2016-post-show-part-1/We all just finished up at a great little convention in New Hampshire, Another Anime Convention! As per usual with our post-con wrap-ups, we talk about all kinds of experiences and stories we got from the weekend! In this part (which if you haven’t heard Part 1 on Boston Bastard B...
Oct 25, 2016•51 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It’s time for that quarterly-annual episode you all probably love to skip! That’s right there’s a new Fall 2016 season of anime brewing, and we’re all tirelessly sifting through our options to see what there will be to watch! So sit back and concentrate on your new semester of college, we'll do the heavy lifting for you. We go through shows, shorts, movies, British swear words . . . wait, what was that last one?Join Jonathan, A...
Oct 12, 2016•1 hr 27 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!This episode is jam-packed with the most absurd content from the most obscure country, along with a healthy portion of content from around the rest of the world too. We bring up a ton of underrated content - like hidden gems in American animation and classic Hollywood films that take place in Japan. We also have the most important discussion on waifus you've ever heard on this show. Prepare to have your brain matter dug into de...
Sep 27, 2016•1 hr 15 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!Join us half way through a technical difficulty. This episode, we lost all of our news due to a computer crash, but fear not! We push through the pain to bring you the most high quality nonsense we could muster! Our topic today is a fan suggested discussion about old anime blocks on TV we may have grown up with in our adolescence, which is appropriate, seeing as a computer crash would make anyone want to just curl up on the cou...
Sep 13, 2016•1 hr 23 min
Wicked Anime brings you awesome animated commentary every other week!It’s our birthday! And to celebrate, we’ve brought on some good friends to talk about some new and exciting stuff that’s happening in the anime world! You know what else is fun? Finding out what anime characters were born the same day as you!Join Jonathan, Andrew, Evan, Jared and Kagami of Scarlett Rhapsody as they talk about what’s happening in anime and who they’re blowing out the candles with, yo! PLUS – Squeezing the orange...
Aug 31, 2016•1 hr 42 min
