Otaku Melancholy

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1. When TV Anime Series Get Movies and Assorted Ramblings + [Spoiler Free] That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond Mini Review

   6 Feb 2023 · 57 min · Explicit

   Scheduling is hard. Audrey is out this week so it's another solo session as Matt talks about when anime series get movies because That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime got a movie and someone wasn't particularly…

2. The Obligatory Chainsaw Man Discussion Episode

   29 Jan 2023 · 1 h 33 min · Explicit

   I mean, the description is in the title, right? And just so you know there is a spoiler section so don't worry about, you know, random spoilers or something. We talk Chainsaw Man which is practically like the anime…

3. Reflecting on Another Year of Doing This: 3rd Year's the Charm, Right? (It Wasn't But Thanks For Listening and Supporting Anyways)

   15 Jan 2023 · 1 h 20 min · Explicit

   We're back! To talk about ourselves! It was another year of OtaMel and what a year it was between two hiatus and infinite solocast episodes but WE PERSISTED and that's all that matters, right? A D is a passing grade…

4. Announcement! We're Going on Hiatus Until January 15th! (More Details Within)

   19 Dec 2022 · 2:17

   Thank you all for always supporting us! We'll see you soon! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join…

5. Anime Motivation! Some Anime Quotes To Charge the Spirit and Heat the Soul

   4 Dec 2022 · 55 min · Explicit

   We all need motivation some times and so I chose some select anime quote that get me feeling pretty okay and just decided to read them out loud and talk about them! It's been a hard few weeks for us and the motivation…

6. I Think Maison Ikkoku and Rumiko Takahashi Are Neat

   27 Nov 2022 · 1 h 01 min

   It's another week of just me, myself, and I as hosts of the podcast so I really struggled to just come up with something to talk about but I've recently started reading Ranma 1/2 and thought to myself that I really…

7. "Spooktober" Special: Another

   22 Nov 2022 · 1 h 24 min · Explicit

   Spooky anime! Japanese curses! Umbrellas! Is Another even really that scary? We talk all that and more (but mostly more) in this episode! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at…

8. The Fall 2022 Seasonal Anime We're Watching (With An Extended Check In)

   13 Nov 2022 · 1 h 51 min

   It might be kind of late to give some impressions but we're talking about the Fall 2022 seasonals that we're checking out anyways! Audrey is watching THREE WHOLE SHOWS! It's like a high score among high scores! We also…

9. Are Light Novels Literature?

   6 Nov 2022 · 1 h 11 min · Explicit

   It's a trashed episode that was turned into a Patreon exclusive that's been turned into a regular episode again! It's a wonderful butterfly of a piece of podcast content! We couldn't record this week but we had to have…

10. A Con-versation: Anime Weekend Atlanta 2022

    1 Nov 2022 · 50 min · Explicit

    This Atlanta sure has a lot of anime weekend, huh? I said AWA so much this weekend that it started to sound wrong and I had to doubt that I had a grasp of the English vernacular and language. One of us went to AWA and…

11. Watchlist Roulette: My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex

    23 Oct 2022 · 1 h 29 min

    The wheel giveth and the wheel taketh. The wheel be taketh-ing an awful lot lately as we discuss the recently finished anime My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex! It's not quite Domestic Girlfriend and it's not quite Scum's…

12. Some Discourse on Visual Novels (and How Steam Hates Them)

    16 Oct 2022 · 1 h 26 min · Explicit

    Visual novels! They exist and we play them. Sometimes. With the recent (well recent when we recorded this) rejection and then reacceptance of Chaos;Head Noah on Steam, we thought maybe we'd talk about that! What does…

13. Cyberpunk Edgerunners

    10 Oct 2022 · 1 h 52 min · Explicit

    [Spoiler Warning Included in the Episode!] It's a Cyberpunk Edgerunners review and discussion, chooms! I don't got much else to tell ya unless you got the eddies for it. As you can tell by my hip lingo, I'm kind of a…

14. Watchlist Roulette: High School of the Dead

    3 Oct 2022 · 1 h 42 min · Explicit

    "If the anime boobies be floppin' then you know the show is probably not gonna be rockin'" is the old saying and we're out to see if that's true with our review of High School of the Dead! Is this zombie show really a…

15. Growing Up With Anime: A Mild (Self) Discussion on Affirmation, Acceptance, and Cringe

    25 Sep 2022 · 1 h 15 min · Explicit

    I'm not saying we have filler episodes or anything but this? It's kinda filler-ish. Filler-esque even. Audrey's on a personal break this week due to being a very good supportive partner so we couldn't cover High School…

16. Tsuki ga Kirei

    18 Sep 2022 · 1 h 24 min · Explicit

    We get in touch with our romantic side in this week's episode as we discuss the coming of age middle school romance anime: Tsuki ga Kirei! One of us has a VERY high opinion of this series but does that actually mean…

17. The Tatami Galaxy

    11 Sep 2022 · 1 h 49 min · Explicit

    Bruh, how do I even describe the Tatami Galaxy??? I'm getting super bad at doing these descriptions lately. Go watch the Tatami Galaxy! As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at…

18. Sonic X - New World Saga [Episodes 1 - 13]

    4 Sep 2022 · 1 h 33 min · Explicit

    GOTTA GO FAST As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the Discord at https://discord.gg/rUHYUyW to…

19. Mob Psycho 100 [Season One]

    21 Aug 2022 · 1 h 19 min · Explicit

    Fun fact: we both have colds during this episode! It's a Mob Psycho 100 review. You're going to listen in or you're not going to listen in. I don't know how to sell this to you in the episode description. Maybe listen…

20. The "Lost" Episode: Yosuga no Sora (feat. Amelia and Dan from the Otaku Host Club Podcast)

    14 Aug 2022 · 2 h 14 min

    Flash back to 2020. What were you doing back then? Trying to bake bread or grow some beans or some other superfluous plant in your house while you waited the pandemic out like the rest of us? I know what we were doing.…

21. One Punch Man

    7 Aug 2022 · 1 h 38 min · Explicit

    Audrey's back after a THREE MONTH HIATUS (wow) and so she got to pick all our content this month in a celebration I am definitely calling Audgust! It's a combination of Audrey and August. Do you get why that's great?…

22. Snacks, Sports, and Swoleness: The Hobbies We Picked Up From Anime

    26 Jul 2022 · 59 min

    WHAT EVEN ARE DEADLINES I DON'T CARE THIS EPISODE CAME OUT ON TIME YOU CAN'T PROVE ME WRONG. Anime is a hobby in itself but it's a hobby that can create other hobbies as you watch other people do hobbies that make you…

23. Spring 2022 Season Review

    18 Jul 2022 · 2 h 59 min · Explicit

    My audio sounds off cause we had to use the Discord Craig's recording of my audio so it's not going to sound super fantastic but it could be nonexistent! It's already late to release and all. The fresh spring breeze…

24. Anime Video Games: The Good, The Bad, and the Naruto Ninja Destiny for Nintendo DS

    10 Jul 2022 · 2 h 05 min · Explicit

    I thought that making a podcast into three acts so I could focus on everything appropriately was a good idea and then the episode became 2 hours long so, uh, enjoy. Anime video games! Since the dawn of man, man has…

25. The VHS Ventures - Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal

    3 Jul 2022 · 46 min

    New style of opening! It's SUPPOSED to sound like that! It's art! Yep, I mispronounce "rurouni" a lot in this episode so get ready for that. We explore the classics of anime OVAs in this new series: The VHS Ventures!…

26. Our Anime Pleasant Surprises (Vol. 1)

    28 Jun 2022 · 1 h 23 min · Explicit

    You ever say "oh man this anime is gonna be MID" and then lo and behold the anime was not, in fact, mid? It turns out that it was actually something revolutionary and life changing for you in such a way that it became…

27. Wandering Son [Hourou Musuko] (feat. Sinful Scientist)

    19 Jun 2022 · 1 h 22 min

    We like to make a special episode each June for our listeners who celebrate Pride Month by focusing our critical lens on a piece of media (be it anime, manga, or game) that puts LGBTQIA+ groups in the spotlight and…

28. Anime Disappointments (Vol. 1)

    12 Jun 2022 · 1 h 02 min · Explicit

    We're back! It's so good to see you again here in the episode description part of your favorite podcasting app. I missed you. After a month long hiatus full of mental rest and repair, we thought the first thing we…

29. Winter 2022 Season Review

    25 Apr 2022 · 2 h 05 min

    Introducing in this episode: rampant violence! The winter months may be cold but the anime is (supposedly) fire enough to keep warm, right? We break down and discuss (in this order!) Akebi's Sailor Uniform, Sasaki and…

30. Sony Done Took My Anime! A Discussion on Censorship, Piracy, and Streaming

    17 Apr 2022 · 1 h 35 min · Explicit

    I was gonna call this episode a rehash on the old streaming episode but that would be too funny because, uh, someone showed up to record... hashed up? Is that what the cool kids say? The only drug I get high on is life…

31. TRADE YA!: The Devil is a Part Timer & Kaguya-sama: Love is War (Season One)

    10 Apr 2022 · 1 h 43 min · Explicit

    Remember when we did this with Himouto! Umaru-chan and Neo Yokio back in 2020? Of course you don't because we had only two listeners at the time and one of them was me making sure Craig didn't screw up our audio. Well,…

32. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 87 - "Dawn of Humanity"

    6 Apr 2022 · 51 min

    Attack on Titan finally ends... except it doesn't again cause Final Season Part Three is on it's way in a year. At least it's not a movie, I guess. We talk the "final" episode of this part and give our tentative scores…

33. One Piece: East Blue Saga (Ep. 1 - 53)

    4 Apr 2022 · 1 h 13 min · Explicit

    It's the start of APRIL and we're kicking off a series covering a very underground anime and manga series. You might've heard of it before but I don't know. It's kind of indie. Anyways we were FOOLS not to start this…

34. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 86 - "Retrospective"

    30 Mar 2022 · 43 min · Explicit

    A'ight, I know this is a week late and everyone has already talked this episode out but we're just so sensitive and hurt by all the events in this episode and we just needed some time to really process everything like…

35. Yu Yu Hakusho: Chapter Black Saga (Ep. 67 - 94) [feat. the Anime Brothers Podcast and Alex from the AniBuddies Podcast]

    28 Mar 2022 · 1 h 57 min · Explicit

    You send out a distress beacon for peeps to talk Yu Yu Hakusho and you do, as it turns out, get peeps. This week we're joined with three special guests including two shonen specialists and a Chapter Black advocator so…

36. REWIND REVIEW: Gunbuster

    21 Mar 2022 · 2 h 00 min · Explicit

    Break out your VHS player and finally get that old tape of Disney's The Jungle Book unstuck from it's vice grip because we're rewinding the clock to review an anime classic! We're breaking down a marvelous major marvel…

37. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 85 - "Traitor"

    16 Mar 2022 · 36 min · Explicit

    You know, now that we're almost at the end of the Attack on Titan journey (at least, I THINK we are) it really dawns on me that we probably should've just called this episode series something else. You can't Google…

38. The Shipping Episode

    13 Mar 2022 · 1 h 45 min · Explicit

    [Warning: mild spoilers for the ending of Bleach if you care who Ichigo ends up with but you'll know it's coming] It's cannon vs. canon in this episode as we talk love... fictional anime love between fictional anime…

39. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 84 - "Night of the End"

    9 Mar 2022 · 46 min · Explicit

    We talk about an episode with a lot of talking this week on ATTALK ON TITAN! Do we have as much to say as the characters in Attack on Titan had to say about each other? Not really. There was an awful lot of talking but…

40. Listener Request: Barakamon + Patreon Q&A

    6 Mar 2022 · 2 h 00 min · Explicit

    Special thanks to animeoftheweak for requesting this week's show! One of us certainly enjoyed it a lot more than the other but who was it!? Anyways, we're talking calligraphy, iyashikei, and Barack Obama impersonation…

41. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 82 + 83 - "Sunset" and "Pride"

    2 Mar 2022 · 45 min · Explicit

    Oh boy, it's another double feature due to poor planning and anxiety attacks! We're discussing two episodes this week and both are a part of the Connie villain arc! Truthfully, I don't really know what to put here. I'm…

42. Yu Yu Hakusho: The Dark Tournament Saga (Ep. 26 - 66)

    27 Feb 2022 · 1 h 27 min · Explicit

    You got characters. You make them fight. This is the essence of the tournament arc and also little kids playing with their action figures but in this instance we're talking about the swole super veiny beefy muscles of…

43. Attack on Titan OVA: Lost Girls

    20 Feb 2022 · 1 h 14 min · Explicit

    WE'RE COVERING MORE ATTACK ON TITAN DO YOU LIKE US YET OR DO YOU DESPISE US SO MUCH NOW BECAUSE WE WON'T SHUT UP ABOUT AOT THAT WE'RE YOUR FAVORITE HATE LISTEN BECAUSE WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TITANS TO ATTACK AND WE MIGHT…

44. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 81 - "Thaw"

    16 Feb 2022 · 38 min · Explicit

    Attack on Titan went back to basics in this episode as we saw plenty of Tighty Fighty and "we gotta make some bad decisions" just like in the days of yore and Connie gets his own personal villain arc as he goes to help…

45. Yu Yu Hakusho: The Spirit Detective Saga (Ep. 1 - 25)

    13 Feb 2022 · 1 h 05 min · Explicit

    I was originally gonna call this New New to Yu Yu but that sounded really dumb so I'm not going to do that (for now unless someone tells me it a good idea then I'll totally double down forever on it). Alright so you…

46. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 80 - "From You, 2,000 Years Ago"

    9 Feb 2022 · 47 min · Explicit

    The OP told me it would be coming. I should've believed it. As always, check out new episodes every Sunday by going to our website at www.otakumelancholy.com to see all our links including our social media and join the…

47. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 78 + 79 - "Two Brothers" and "Memories of the Future"

    6 Feb 2022 · 52 min · Explicit

    Man, I would hate to be an enjoyer of this podcast and someone who doesn't enjoy Attack on Titan because it seems like that's the only content you've been getting lately, huh? We missed two weeks so here's a breakdown…

48. Attack on Titan OVA: No Regrets

    6 Feb 2022 · 58 min · Explicit

    We show we have NO RAGERTS in this episode where we cover one of the most enticing Attack on Titan OVAs: No Regrets! Can an OVA that features the origin story of notorious best boy Levi be an absolute winner or is it…

49. Another Year of Otaku Melancholy

    4 Feb 2022 · 1 h 05 min

    It's two years of OtaMel now, weeabros! We survived another year! Not that you would know it from listening to this episode because both of us are sick in this episode. Once again, we take an entire episode to reflect…

50. ATTALK ON TITAN: Episode 77 - "Sneak Attack"

    19 Jan 2022 · 32 min · Explicit

    There's a lot to talk about in this episode including how Attack on Titan once again delivers a delicious meme in this episode with the introduction of mad as hell Yelena and whatever the hell that scary thing is in…