Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 117 – Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, and Tomo-chan is a Girl!

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:48 Sugar Apple Fairy Tale
• 12:40 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
• 21:50 Tomo-chan is a Girl!
• 29:40 Outro

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Music Credits:

• “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain
• The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten OP: “Gift” by Masayoshi Ouishi
• “Seasons” by roljui

Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 116 – Winter 2023 Season First Impressions

Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 115 – Fall 2022 Season Wrap

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:35 Beast Tamer
• 06:12 Bibliophile Princess
• 08:00 Encouragement of Climb: Next Summit
• 11:20 Futoku no Guild
• 12:30 I’ve Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farming-Related Skills
• 15:12 Muv Luv Alternative
• 17:00 Raven of the Inner Palace
• 18:41 Reincarnated as a Sword
• 21:05 Shinobi no Ittoki
• 22:10 Urusei Yatsura
• 24:05 BLUELOCK
• 25:44 BOCCHI THE ROCK!
• 26:56 Do It Yourself!!
• 29:21 I’m the Villainess so I’m Taming the Final Boss
• 30:55 Love Flops
• 32:47 Mob Psycho 100 III
• 35:10 SPY x FAMILY Cour 2
• 36:44 The Eminence in Shadow
• 38:11 To Your Eternity Season 2
• 39:38 Welcome to the Demon School! Iruma-kun
• 40:53 Akiba Maid War
• 44:05 Chainsaw Man
• 47:13 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
• 48:42 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
• 49:52 BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War
• 51:22 Golden Kamuy Season 4
• 52:41 Outro

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You can find Kaiseki Anime Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Play. Subscribe to us now! Please also take a moment to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts—these reviews increase our visibility to new viewers, as well as gives us the feedback we need to improve.

If you have any questions or comments, let us know by commenting below, through Twitter with #KaisekiAnimePodcast, or on our personal Twitter accounts.

Music Credits:

• “Clover 3” by Vibe Mountain
• BLUELOCK OP: “Chaos ga Kiwamaru” by Unison Square Garden
• “Seasons” by roljui

[Review] Akiba Maid War is AOTS

I’ve written more about this show this season than any other on both this blog, Twitter, and even on Discord, simultaneously praising, recommending, and freaking out about it. I can no longer imagine the fall season without Akiba Maid War charging right up the center and standing at the forefront. From start to finish, the characters and this ridiculous setting demanded my attentions, easily competing for both anime of the season and the overall year.

[12 Days of Anime] Day 12: Pandemic Blogging is Actually a Thing

I never would have thought that something as world-altering as a pandemic would halt my day-to-day life, kicking me back to a way of life I hadn’t experienced since my college days. Back then, I felt like I had all the free time in the world to explore hobbies, and it’s back then in 2011 when I first started this blog. It’s fitting then, in our forced quarantine where I returned once more to writing about anime, even though it was nothing like the academic style of the start.

[12 Days of Anime] Day 11: Akiba Maid War

What is old can be new again, a lesson I’ve learned repeatedly over the years and is once again proven this recent fall season with Akiba Maid War, a single-cours show that combines familiar styles into one hell of a unique premise that will be talked about for years to come. From the initial idea to the execution, to the variety of cast members both regular and passing, to the catchy opening song and the follow up ending, I was surprised over and over again. No other fall anime competed for my attentions as much as this one; no other anime hyped me up only to cast me down as violently.

[12 Days of Anime] Day 10: Lycoris Recoil

While there have been a number of fantastic shows over this past year, summer’s anime-original show, Lycoris Recoil, still outshines almost all of them with the force of its unparalleled main character. Together with the cafe setting, there was no other show I waited for more as each week passed.

[12 Days of Anime] Day 9: SPY x FAMILY

It is with shock looking over the 2022 season that I realized SPY x FAMILY only began airing this year, with its two seasons spanning across multiple seasons and ending out this fall just as great as when it started in the spring. Back when it first aired, I remember the hype surrounding the anime adaptation, the love manga fans had for this unconventional family and the hope that the transition would treat the material with respect and care. As an anime-only fan, I didn’t have any particular expectations other than my usual for quality writing and characterization. SPY x FAMILY over delivers on the character writing, giving us a large cast of characters who each exhibit their own quirks, both public and private.

[12 Days of Anime] Day 8: Mergers and Acquisitions for Days

2022 was a pretty huge year for anime communities, starting with Sony-owned Crunchyroll and Funimation merge in March and the follow-up purchase of Right Stuf in August. While reactions to the Funimation rebranding seemed mixed, there was an almost universal outcry at the loss of Right Stuf.

An ongoing crisis is Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. Concerns abound across many communities, including my immediate AniTwitter circle, and I’ve seen plenty of friends migrate to other platforms or quit social media entirely.

[12 Days of Anime] Day 7: Call of the Night and Creepy Nuts Nights

I can’t think of summer show Call of the Night without hearing Creepy Nuts playing in my brain, accompanying the warm summer night and purple lighting. Achingly atmospheric, this anime worked its way deep into my psyche and almost convinced me of the romanticism of city streets after dark. Main character, vampire Nazua Nanakusa, perfectly conveyed that sense of play and taboo. All together, this 13-episode series presented a complete work of art with the most effortless air of cool possible.