Gaijin Animation Appreciation Hour

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Elden Ring DLC announced, new Grendizer game, some streaming news, a new RPG maker gets a release date, an intriguing anime project, 86 gets a bizarre spin-off, more salt for haters, get in shape or you’re already dead, take a shower you filthy degenerates, and the final nail in E3’s coffin • Discuss recent watches from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Review the new crossover movie between 80’s pink jacket Lupin and cat burglars in skin tight body suits, LUPIN III VS. CAT’S EYE • Review the final four episodes of the surprising collaboration between AKIRA’s Otomo and CUP NOODLE, the actually decent 2006 OVA FREEDOM Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, RIP to the godfather of Japanese space opera, another old franchise revives, Crayon Shin-Chan gets a 3D CG anime, another giant Pokemon plush, a recreation of a burning mummy sword, last chance to see the life sized moving Gundam, Bandai Namco picking up where Sega left off, weebs will rule the world, learn how to do city shots over cool music from the master, and Crunchyroll totally not hurting financially • Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Review the first season of THE VENTURE BROS., a cynical take on a classic cartoon done out of love instead of malice (and one of the funniest cartoons ever made to boot) • Review the first three episodes of the surprising collaboration between AKIRA’s Otomo and CUP NOODLE, the actually decent 2006 OVA FREEDOM Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Nintendo with some surprise drops (some well received, some not so much), more Katamari, a tiny sliver of hope for the next Transformers movie, Shin Kamen Rider looks great, a dope backpack, game pricing in perspective, and Gundam in some hot water for a little of the old ultra violence, • Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Review the final four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE • Review a non-Japanese animation, with the return of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force in AQUA TEEN FOREVER : PLANTASM Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, E3 may have finally given up the ghost, awesome Jackie Chan collection featuring City Hunter, Discotek brining the heat, Star Wars Visions Wallace and Gromit edition, a Kickstarter failure, another End of Evangelion, WOTC is dragging Hasbro into the abyss, some ridiculous Spanish luxury anime goods, Japan decides they do indeed need tourist money, Shinichiro Watanabe has no chill for NETFLIX Cowboy Bebop, and anime VAs acting like brain damaged children again • Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Review the middle four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE • Review Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic movie, based on his own manga, and one of the holy trinity of hand drawn animation, 1988’s AKIRA Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, some more manga get live action adaptations that may actually be good, NHK Worldwide with some must see TV, another statue for men of culture, the right way and the wrong way to handle translation, and a Bandai heist worthy of Goodfellas • Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Review the first four episodes of Netflix’s JUNJI ITO MANIAC : JAPANESE TALES OF THE MACABRE • Finish a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the fourth and final film in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 3.0 + 1.01 THRICE UPON A TIME Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, really milking it featuring Attack on Titan, some new Eva animation, Lupin gets his own channel, everyone’s favorite German soldier as DLC, some really cool and sometimes obscure mecha get models, spicy JoJo’s merch, and AI already getting into trouble over on Twitch (no hot tubs involved) • Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Review the near forgotten movie that ties into the 2000’s anime TETSUJIN 28-GO, TETSUJIN 28 MORNING MOON OF MIDDAY, from GIANT ROBO and G GUNDAM’s Yasahiro Imagawa • Continue a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the third in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 3.33 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, one of the best Tales games gets a remake, more heavy metal dark fantasy, more sorcerer stabbing, a new AAA gaming property that just doesn’t seem all that exciting, PS5s may actually get easier to find (don’t hold your breath), manga continues to dunk on mainstream western comics, another anime convention update, and Belarus making pirates into privateers • Preview some shows from the new winter season, including Giant Beasts of Ars, Revenger, Handyman Saito, and Trigun Stampede • Opine about the season finale of Gundam the Witch from Mercury and where the series might go from here • Review the second season of NETFLIX’s live action adaptation of ALICE IN BORDERLAND • Continue a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the first movie in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 2.22 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, the least surprising manga hiatus, a cool Patlabor event, an interesting assignment for a Fist of the North Star legend, a trailer for a crazy project from the Philippines, and Hideo Kojima saying the obvious • Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Gundam the Witch from Mercury, and Chainsaw Man • Review one of the highest grossing anime movies of last year, JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 • Review the first season of NETFLIX’s live action adaptation of ALICE IN BORDERLAND • Kick off a series of reviews looking at the final form of Hideaki Anno’s anime masterpiece NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, today looking at the first movie in the Rebuild of EVANGELION, EVANGELION 1.11 YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, release dates for the continuation of the hottest anime around, the continuation of the more and more bizarre JoJo’s, a hidden gem from Akira Toriyama gets an anime adaptation, a strange but excellent anime with the strangest name possible gets a Kickstarter, Junji Ito draws a Magic card, more Seven Seas drama, and the most metal (literally) giant robot statue exists in one of the most inexplicable of places • Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, the new season of Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Review most of KAMEN RIDER BLACK SUN (there’s a reason it’s only most) • Review the stop motion animation classic Tim Burton’s THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Armored Core returns, how much Death Stranding can one man need?, you’re going to be waiting a while for that Kaiju Number 8 anime, a Netflix live action City Hunter (pray for this one to not be terrible), the last performance of an stone cold legend, Elden Ring is the best (you already knew this), creepy Gundam AI, and Nintendo them park attractions come stateside • Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new season of Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Review the third season of the NETFLIX animated series DOTA: DRAGON’S BLOOD • Review the Korean high school zombie drama ALL OF US ARE DEAD • Review the retro modern tokusatsu spectacular from EVANGELION and SHIN GODZILLA’s HIDEAKI ANNO, SHIN ULTRAMAN Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Fate/Grand Order director has a new indie game, Yakuza: Samurai, more info on a strange but awesome Lupin crossover, concerns about the future of Right Stuf, lost western Saint Seiya animation resurfaces, a Gundam doujin from a surprising source gets a reprint, cautious optimism for new Godzilla merch, more censorship from Crunchyroll, and what is the real reason for another delay to Japan’s biggest cosplay event again? • Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new season of Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Review the recent Norwegian monster movie released on Netflix, TROLL • Review the strange 80’s OVA that’s rife with gorgeous visuals and interesting symbolism, from GHOST IN THE SHELL’S Mamoru Oshii and legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano, ANGEL’S EGG Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, RIP to a true legend, Gamera returns, Ghibli x Baby Yoda, Toei giving people what they want and raking in the yen, first images from the potential Netflix One Piece disaster surface, Kamehameha energy drink has what plants crave, censorship rears its ugly head again, and an unhinged man threatens a fecal apocalypse • Opine about recent watches, including the new seasons of Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Review the first half of the new season of DOTA: DRAGON’S BLOOD and the first four episodes of KAMEN RIDER BLACK SUN • Review another MACROSS OVA, this time the 20th anniversary project and prequel to SUPER DIMENSION FORTRESS MACROSS, MACROSS ZERO Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, RIP to an American Sentai Legend, Dallos gets a Blu Ray release in the west, a new Mario trailer drops, live action Transformers actually looks kind of cool again, some cool vinyl to add to your collection, Trigger has an art exhibit you can see in the US this winter, Shin Ultraman to get a limited release in theaters for the US, the NHK is not amused with Netflix, and some strange Olympics corruption shenanigans, and a live action Thomas the Tank Engine as Japanese salaryman (no, this isn’t a joke) • Opine about recent watches, including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new season of Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Review the DR STONE OVA RYUSUI • Marvel at the strangeness of MAD GOD, from stop motion animation legend Phil Tippett • Review the 90s classic OVA from NINJA SCROLL’s Yoshiaki Kawajiri and legendary studio MADHOUSE, CYBER CITY OEDO 808 Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, a tragedy in the Golden Kamuy staff, and intriguing new anime, a Mazinger stage play, some cool new Gundam and Urusei Yatsura apparel, real life Sword Art Online, proof that Slaanesh is real, and yet another virtue signaling jackhole • Opine about recent watches, including Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new seasons of Golden Kamuy and Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Review the first season of BASTARD!! and all of 86 • Review one of the best anime OVAs of the 90s, MACROSS PLUS, which bridges the gap between SUPER DIMENSION FORTRESS MACROSS AND MACROSS 7 Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, new Toho Godzilla, the continuation of a classic Gundam manga, some spooky apparel, a Chainsaw Man oppai figure, ANN gets bought, and a really bad take on manga adaptations • Opine about recent watches, including Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new seasons of Golden Kamuy and Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Discuss one of the latest #Comicsgate release, Shane Davis’ INGLORIOUS REX • Review one of the most revered, though not sure why, anime movies, 1987’s ROYAL SPACE FORCE: THE WINGS OF HONNÊAMISE Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, a questionable Lupin series, Dragonball the Orchestral Experience, some hype Urusei Yatsura shoes, some interesting burgers (not eaten by Dracula), a hype Eva release, and stans being stans • Opine about recent watches, including Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new seasons of Golden Kamuy and Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Discuss their favorite, and not so favorite, horror animation • Review one of the worst, yet most entertaining, animations ever produced in the non-sensical DRACULA: SOVEREIGN OF THE DAMNED Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, some free anime, a remake of the best Silent Hill, a dope Yu Yu Hakusho western release, don’t hold your breath for the end of Thunderbolt, Gundam snacks, a strange Elden Ring event, the most boring group has an anime, Satanic panic 2.0, and the not so strange death of G4 • Opine about recent watches, including Gundam the Witch from Mercury, the new seasons of Golden Kamuy and Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Discuss Aaron Lopresti’s recent work, including Garbage Man and Wraith of God • Review one of the best looking and most entertaining horror anime movies VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Silent Hill rising from the grave, a Persona card game, some old school family photo time with an anime twist, one of the OGs of Gundam gets an award, Valve perhaps becoming less censorious, Gundam is for old people (or so thinks a Gundam producer), and the creator of Golden Kamuy answers one of the most important questions of our time • Preview this ridiculously stacked season of anime, including Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, the new seasons of Golden Kamuy and Mob Psycho, the re-adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, and Chainsaw Man • Discuss ISOM #1, the auspicious start to the RIPPAVERSE • Review the stone cold classic 80s OVA VAMPIRE HUNTER D Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, Chris Pratt as Mario is weird, some cool One Piece merch, hype Yu-Gi-Oh kicks, Gundam hits the museum, another unlikely anime crossover, Bandai Namco upping their game while Kadokawa deals with corruption, and the anime convention scene continues to sink into the virtue signaling abyss • Discuss recent watches including the season finale of Call of the Night • Provide a public service announcement about the arrival of the RIPPAVERSE • Give their thoughts on the last 4 episodes of Netflix’s CYPERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS • Review the ultra dank early 90’s OVA THE CURSE OF KAZUO UMEZU Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, perhaps the game with the most fetish fan art gets an anime, a legendary director working on an anime based on a game everyone forgot existed, the unholy union of EA and KOEI/TECMO yields interesting results, E3 returns (but does anyone care?), Lupin visits a McDonald’s, giant Pokemon plushies, and the most unlikely thing to ever happen on Fox news (and yes, it’s anime related) • Discuss recent watches including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Call of the Night, and Black Summoner • Give their thoughts on episodes 4 through 6 of Netflix’s CYPERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS • Review the intriguing mid 90’s anime film MEMORIES by KATSUHIRO OTOMO, creator of AKIRA Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, an unexpected crossover, unexpected Oshii, interesting American comics publishing news, a gym that could make you the king of the pirates, dubious VA recasting, and Japan’s slow crawl to normality (or whatever passes for normal in glorious Nippon) • Discuss recent watches including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Call of the Night, and Black Summoner • Gush over the finale of the second season (and perhaps the series) of Genndy Tartakovsky’s masterpiece PRIMAL • Give their thoughts on the first three episodes of Netflix’s CYPERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS from • Review yet another excellent 80s movie DEMON CITY SHINJUKU, also based on the book by VAMPIRE HUNTER D author Hideyuki Kikuchi Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover recent anime news, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, I mean, a ton of games, fitness boxing that will ensure your enemies are already dead, the official western release of the excellent Gundam Cucuruz Doan’s Island, some really expensive Attack on Titan sake, and the largest book in history and it’s not even finished yet • Discuss recent watches including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Call of the Night, and Black Summoner • Gush over episodes 8 and 9 of the second season of Genndy Tartakovsky’s masterpiece PRIMAL • Give their thoughts on the prequel to the latest Gundam show GUNDAM THE WITCH FROM MERCURY • Review the excellent 80s movie WICKED CITY, based on the book by VAMPIRE HUNTER D author Hideyuki Kikuchi Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Join the Gaijin as they: • Cover Recent Anime News, including new releases in anime, manga, and games, yet another Netflix disaster bites the dust, scary times for Soulsborne fans, GRENDIZER PUNCH, a hype crossover movie, a must listen to podcast, Japan creating an anti-piracy army, minority rule censorship, and the slow opening of glorious Nippon • Discuss recent watches including Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer, Call of the Night, and Black Summoner • Gush over episode 7 of the second season of Genndy Tartakovsky’s masterpiece PRIMAL • Give their thoughts on the new TEKKEN series from NETFLIX, TEKKEN: BLOODLINE • Review the completely derivative, but still awesome, 80s OVA LILY C.A.T. Music: Tears of Joy Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/