Dustin Cabeal and Lindsay Mallard
Youkoso, Youkoso!! We've got all the nip slips you can handle on this episode of Let's Anime! No we don't... that's a lie... we just have anime. Fall anime to be exact because there's new shows out. Find out what we're giving a watch or a pass to.
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Dustin Cabeal and Lindsay Mallard
Youkoso, Youkoso!! You know what it is, it's our wrap show for summer 2022. It's not as long or as crazy as previous seasons, but we got a lot of content and shows to cover including #CalloftheNight #ClassroomoftheElite #TheDevilisaPartTimer #HaremintheLabyrinthofAnotherWorld #LycorisRecoil #MyStepmomsDaughterIsMyEx #ParallelWorldPharmacy #PrimaDoll #RentaGirlfriend #ShinePost #WhenWillAyumuMakeHisMove #TheYakuzasGuideToBabysitting
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Youkoso, Youkoso!! We're nearing our wrap episode and it's going to be a mad dash to the finish line. Today Lindsay catches up on Classroom of the Elite season 2 aka Breaker High the Anime. Dustin runs a theme including Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World, Call of the Night (which Lindsay also covers), and Prince of Tennis II! Now, let's get soft and sensual with that subscribe button and enjoy this episode of Let's Anime!
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By Dustin Cabeal and Lindsay Mallard
Welcome, welcome! We're going to talk about Rent-A-Girlfriend today! Also, Prima Dolls makes its return to the show. Did anyone ask for Extreme Hearts? No, well you're getting it along with some more Prince of Tennis and then finally the second season of The Devil is a Part-Timer.
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Dustin Cabeal and Lindsay Mallard
Youkoso, Youkoso!! We've got a thrilling episode for you today full of conversations and reviews about currently airing anime. We've got new anime like The Maid I Recently Hired is Mysterious. Returning favorites like Uncle from Another World and a check in on RWBY: Ice Queendom and Lycoris Recoil. What's with the French Horses you ask? That would be a brief stop over to The Prince of Tennis II: U-17 World Cup. Now let's get our shine post on with this episode of Let's Anime!
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Anime is enjoyable for numerous reasons. From the constant chase of love to the fantastic abilities of magic, mech suits and the best fighter in the universe. They have relatable character moments; seldom do they have relatable plot lines. At its core, Uncle from Another World is about a man that’s been in a comma for 17 years. He’s woken up after the internet ruined everything cool and fun but now middle aged, he wants to connect to the familiar things that he knew from his more youthful days. Yes, there is magic and fantasy, but that core element of being middle aged and wanting youthful connections is the most relatable anime plot line I’ve ever seen. I’m speaking on a personal level because not everyone is middle aged and has fond memories of pre-internet days in which video game information came from magazines and actually needed to be fact checked and approved before printing.
The plus and minus here is that Netflix is adapting to more of a traditional release schedule with its anime and much like Komi Can’t Communicate, Uncle from Another World is being released weekly. I didn’t have this knowledge prior to going in and so I sat down expecting a binge session like with Bastard and was meet with disappointment (Note this review was written before the second episode released). I would also encourage you to listen to this week’s episode of Let’s Anime as I talk about the episode there which has a laugh track provided by me… laughing about the show as I talk about it.
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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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Dustin Cabeal/Lindsay Mallard
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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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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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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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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We learn a lot this episode, that Lindsay has never played proper dodgeball, that there are different types of fanny packs. So much, just so much is learned this episode. We're wrapping the spring, just in time for a heat wave because the planet is dying. Let's talk about Anime!
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It's still June and while we had every intention of covering all of this damn show this month, life had other plans and so we'll be back... as long as you listen and comment... do something. I can't waste anymore of my life covering this show without some kind of feedback! Anyway, time for Dustin to cry.
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Breathe with me now, but we're talking about the Blumhouse straight to Peacock remake of Firestarter. twisted Firestarter. Taste the pain and fall intoxicated with us as we suffer through the Hallmark of Horror's latest release.
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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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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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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.
Read MoreYoukoso, 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!
Read MoreSomeone 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.”
Read MoreThere’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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