Episode by Episode - Engage Kiss - A Loser and a Demon and a Man and a Woman
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Episode by Episode - Engage Kiss - A Loser and a Demon and a Man and a Woman

By Dustin Cabeal

With a story that is borderline depressing it still comes as a surprise to me that Engage Kiss has already had one of the best action sequences of the summer anime cour. Its weaknesses in the first episode are addressed in the second episode but that is not to say that the first episode does not stand out or entertain or bring you back for another episode.

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Let's Anime 164 - Believe In Love Again
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Let's Anime 164 - Believe In Love Again

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Youkoso, Youkoso!! Its the awkward pick up episode of the summer cour! We're talking about some brand new stuff, some kind still new stuff and wrapping Komi because we can! We hope you like Idols, dolls and three different shows about being Isekai'd because that's the episode!

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Review: Deal Breaker #1
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Review: Deal Breaker #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Sometimes when a creator has a high concept, they focus too much on the concept and leave their characters severely lacking. That seems to be the case with Deal Breaker a story that has a main character that is forgettable, but also not very believable given their setting.

The gist of the story is easy to sum up, a man makes a wish with a coin in the fountain and gets a better life. Suddenly he’s not at a dead-end job being a security guard at a high school working with a pedophile. He has a successful career, a beautiful wife and two kids. He receives a random message saying it’s time to pay his debt which he promptly ignores because who answers messages from unknown callers? The next day his family disappears from existence one after the other until we arrive at the stereotypical scene of the husband filing a missing person’s report for his three missing family members.

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Let's Anime 163 - When They Cry - Last Two Arcs
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Let's Anime 163 - When They Cry - Last Two Arcs

Dustin Cabeal & Lindsay Mallard

Can you hear it? The sound of them crying? No, not Lindsay and Dustin for once, but the cicadas that the show is known for.... we hope it's engrained in your brains as it is in ours. This is the final episode of the original first season of When They Cry. It is up to you as the listener to decide if we do more or not... leave a comment, send a friend our way, hell send us a bad joke or a poop emoji.

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Let's Anime 162 - Signature Move
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Let's Anime 162 - Signature Move

Dustin Cabeal & Lindsay Mallard

It's summer! Global warming is in full effect and we all refuse to revolt against the corporations that cause 70% of the pollution in the world so we may as well talk about new summer anime! It's a long ass episode and totally Dustin's fault. How many episodes did he watch, oh I'm sure he'll count on air, why? Because it's his...

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Let's Anime 159 - Love Genre Guy
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Let's Anime 159 - Love Genre Guy

Youkoso, Youkoso!! Today on the show, which I posted late, we're talking about the second part of season 1 of Komi Can't Communicate! We're going to refer to is as season 2, but whatever. Also, after teasing it last episode I'm Quitting Heroing: Next Gig Is at the Demon Queen's Castle. There are a lot of spoilers for that show so catch up first. Dustin covers Ya Boy Kongming along with The World of Otome Game is Tough for Mobs. Wait! Also a quick check in on Aharen-san wa Hakarenai.

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Let's Movie - X
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Let's Movie - X

One of us loves Ti West, the other just learned who Ti West is on this podcast... you will figure out rather quickly who is who as we dive into this 1979 porn horror mash up. Get lubed up and put some headphones on.

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Let's Movie - Uncharted
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Let's Movie - Uncharted

Won't someone crack the code on video game movies and make them as unwatchable as the Marvel movies? Wait, did Uncharted just do that? Well when you have Spider-Man on retainer I guess it's not too hard to slam him into another franchise. Anyway, this movie is everything you'd want from a movie you'd never want to see twice.

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Let's Anime 158 - Minority Reporty
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Let's Anime 158 - Minority Reporty

Youkoso, Youkoso!! Break out the new system it's time for some anime! Lindsay covers Tokyo 24th Ward and Tomodachi Game. While Dustin covers The Greatest Demon Lord Is Reborn as a Typical Nobody after pivoting from another show and Love After World Domination. Then they both cover Love and War season 3! Let's Anime 158!

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Review: Ghost Reaper Girl vol. 1
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Review: Ghost Reaper Girl vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

Someone turns off the power to the containment chamber and now there’s a bunch of ghosts loose in Japan! I wish, but instead we just have a bunch of demon’s that have escaped the bowels of hell and need to be collected and returned to hell. Enter our demon hunter looking for a human host to make himself a better tool for fighting demons!

Then we immediately go to a woman trying to get casted in a leading role by meeting with a creepy producer. Chloe Love introduces herself as TV star with one late night horror show under wings… Ghost Reaper Girl! A high school girl that murders monsters in a swimsuit. Thus begins the running gag of Chloe looking incredibly young and being nearly 30 years old. The producer begins to force himself upon Chloe and I can hear you reader going, “Oh no” and you’d be right but for the wrong reason. A demon pops out of the producer and says, “let me inside your body.” That’s when you should say “Oh no.”

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Review: Blood Stained Teeth #1
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Review: Blood Stained Teeth #1

By Dustin Cabeal

There’s a lot of vampire books coming out from Image Comics lately. Maybe I’ll like one of them in the future, but Blood Stained Teeth which is a grammar error that I cannot unsee or correct, is not the vampire book for me.

The entire first issue is used to create a situation for the main character to be forced to go through with the plot of the comic. Which does not make it a particularly strong first issue. Especially since it reveals its emotional lynch pin within its pages. You might be wondering to what I’m referring. It’s the plot device that’s been set up with a timer waiting to go off and emotionally manipulated the audience. It’s vampire Pixar moment and it could very well work. Emotional bombs are successful based on the amount of fuse given to them, so if Christian Ward writes a slow burn, it may be successful regardless of the rest of the story.

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Review: The Ballad of Ronan #1
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Review: The Ballad of Ronan #1

By Dustin Cabeal

I’ve never been an orphan, but I cannot imagine that 16 in the age in which you wash out of any orphanage program. If so, we really need to come together with our city leaders and correct this wrong. How do we expect 16-year-olds to go out into the world and support themselves when they’re not even legal adults? And yet our main character has turned 16 and is taking what little money she has to visit her dead mother’s grave and stay at a B&B… after getting a tattoo that she’s not of legal age to get.

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Review: Not All Robots #1
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Review: Not All Robots #1

By Dustin Cabeal

This is my first comic from AWA. I have little interest in where the company came from and all the backstory. I just know that more comic book companies are a good thing especially as legacy companies continue to be bought by corporate entities. Though I’m fairly certain that AWA is likely owned by a corporation. At any rate, this issue does not make me want to further explore their line of books. That’s fucked up right? Well, that’s how it goes. Every book has the potential to be someone’s first or first book with your company and when you’re a new company every issue potentially decides a reader’s interest in your entire line. That said, I’m not an asshole and will give them further chances, but Not All Robots is a book that I would like to never think about again.

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Review: Kaiju No. 8 vol. 2
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Review: Kaiju No. 8 vol. 2

By Dustin Cabeal

I’m happy to say that the second volume of Kaiju no. 8 continued the entertainment from the first volume. The instantly charming thing about the story is the balance between embarrassing situations that Kafka creates for himself and the bad ass action.

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Review: The White Lady
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Review: The White Lady

By Dustin Cabeal

Death! It’s coming for us all. Of if it was that easy to sum up The White Lady with just that statement. Instead, we find a complex look at how we care for our elderly. Is there kindness we can provide at the end of one’s life be it a simple gesture of pretending to be someone’s granddaughter after they begin pulling back from them. Quite frankly, I do not think anyone has the answer and there are all sorts of legal gray areas when it comes to end of someone’s life.

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Review: The Joneses #1
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Review: The Joneses #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Unfortunately, we’re going to spend a lot of time talking about this cover. What, the holy fuck is going on here? Who thought this photoshopped monstrosity was a good idea and that people would see it on the shelves and want to pick it up and buy it? For starters, the heads don’t match the bodies. The hair for the women are so poorly lasso’d around that it looks tragically bad. What is the dad looking at? What are the children looking at? Why is the mom so goddamn happy to be squatting awkwardly to put those leaves in the bag? I’m not done. Why do they have a wheelbarrow and garbage bags and why do none of the proportions exist on the same planet? Is scale not a thing we can do in photoshop? That wheelbarrow is fucking floating on that grass because it’s sure as shit not interacting with it. Here’s the biggest question, where did all these leaves come from? There’s not a goddamn tree in the yard to produce even a fraction of these leaves. Last one, who buys two different sizes of trash bags? The cover is enough for you to walk away from this issue. It’s front runner for the worst cover I’ve ever seen in my life. I wish that it got better from here, but it doesn’t really.

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Review: Ghost Cage #2
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Review: Ghost Cage #2

By Dustin Cabeal

I wanted to start off with a joke about my interest in this comic being used up like natural resources, but I’m afraid the quality hits too close to home for this comic. Nick Dragotta is a talented artist. I could stare at the pages of this comic all day as they are wonderful. The visuals of the mecha/monster versions of energy resources are still a wonderful idea on paper, but the story execution has delved into predictable and erratic.

Predictable you say? Yes, it was not even remotely a surprise that it was crazy old guy’s daughter. Less surprising was the fact that crazy old guy is alive and looks shittier than his hologram self. I saw Prometheus as well, this isn’t new. It doesn’t have to be new, but the story does very little to make it relevant. We’ve had a handful of panels with the daughter, but I’m supposed to care about her reveal? Why? I don’t. I barely like Doyle and she won’t stop talking so would I care about a daughter character?

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