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Best of 2024 - Anime

Well this year was long and really, I spent too much time watching anime so this will probably be the only list this year, but if you want to hear the joy and further explanations for why Lindsay and I picked what we did, please listen to the episode on Spotify. I won’t be posting all the categories so if you want our special categories we do, you’ll have to listen to the episode.

Otherwise, here’s our list counting down and remember there’s two picks because we’re two people!

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Let's Anime 223 - The Time You Plowed Me At The Shrine - Spring Wrap 2024 - Part 2

Welcome, welcome! To part two of our spring 2024 wrap. First and foremost, I promised a story at the beginning of the episode and towards the end of the story I realized I would definitely get fired for telling it so I awkwardly kept the part that I could keep. Anyway, for anime we talk about the rest of the shows that wrapped including one that started towards the end of the winter season!

Shows covered: Black Butler, Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers, Blue Archive the Animation, Go! Go! Loser Ranger!, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again, Kaiju No. 8, Mysterious Disappearances, The New Gate, Ninja Kamui, Vampire Dormitory, Wind Breaker and Jobless Reincarnation.

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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: Kaiju No. 8 vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

The quick and straightforward way to describe this is a Kaiju take on Marvel’s Damage Control. Damage Control asked the question of “who fixes the city after a superhero battle” and has varying degrees of seriousness and success of the years. Kaiju no. 8 begins by asking the question, who cleans up after a giant Kaiju is defeated? Certainly not the people that put the monster down, that is for damn sure.

The story follows Kafka Hibino who works for a cleanup crew that hacks up and gets rid of defeated Kaiju. He is assigned a new part-timer to train, and they share an awkward exchange when it comes out that Kafka wanted to join the defense corps before setting into his role as a cleaner. The new kid, Reno Ichikawa, is interested in why Kafka gave up and at first, they do not particularly like each other. Eventually, they find themselves a ground zero for a new Kaiju appearance and Kafka saves Reno and vice versa. The two men end up in a hospital and talk about joining the Defense Corps together as Reno and reignited Kafka’s interest. Which is all great until a bug looking Kaiju flies into Kafka’s gaping mouth and turns him into a Kaiju.

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