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Anime! Watch it get made, listen to it get discussed and… find your place in the world? Shirobako is an anime about anime that passes the Be...
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Discussions of animation both great and terrible. By taking things apart we can learn some valuable lessons, even if it's an autopsy of the worst cartoons ever!

Anime! Watch it get made, listen to it get discussed and… find your place in the world? Shirobako is an anime about anime that passes the Be...

Is sarcasm dead or just hibernating? We examine Daria and whether or not its iconic protagonist is still relevant in our increasingly wary a...

Who's the real monster, the serial killer that is going to become the next Hitler or the horrifying social experiments that made him that wa...

In 1970s future-Japan there is only one person that is able to or apparently seems remotely interested in stopping a genocidal alien invasio...

We discuss whether or not anime was a mistake after all in Studio Ghibli's (but also not really) first film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wi...

Let's get political – in space! We discuss the 1980s classic anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Witness the folly of human endeavor in the...

After some technical issues involving expensive computer equipment and a scented candle, we're finally back with Disney's latest film Moana....

In this episode we marvel at how good things can come from even the most deplorable of places, namely that of Scott Adams' Dilbert as adapte...

We're back! No, not the movie about hotdog-loving dinosaurs, I'm talking about this podcast. We discuss DeviantArt and disaffected teen favo...

Summary Smears, smears, and more smears! We discuss the Warner Bros. classic short "The Dover Boys" and just why it still holds up after all...

Summary Meet the Flintstones, they're your modern-but-stuck-in-the-American-1950s-but-somehow-also stone-age family. Next Case: The Dover Bo...

Summary Today we discuss the manic, wild, funny, and strange FLCL. Is it a case of style over substance? Does it still hold up? Will these r...

Summary What a horrible goddamn mess this film is, from the production background to the animation to the disturbingly sexualized cartoon ma...

Summary Disney's nefarious plans to create a new generation of cartoon animal-loving kids has succeeded in more ways than one with their new...

Summary After a bit of a delay we're back! We look at Neeksy's absolute favorite anime Satoshi Kon's "Paranoia Agent", a dark look at the co...
Summary Joined by special guest Dicktron who requested the series, we look at a dystopian future of cyborgs, philosophy of the mind, and aut...

Summary You thought you were getting an episode about Ghost in the Shell, but it was I — HE-MAN! Enjoy a post-mortem of a weird, campy...

Summary In one of the most NPR-style of our episodes to date, we have a roundtable discussion about fandom: the dangers of epistemic closure...

Summary Remember when Steven Spielberg had funny cartoons on TV? We sure do! Join Zorak and Neeksy as we go back to the 90s and rediscover F...
Summary Jem! It's truly outrageous! Neeksy and Zorak come back from a brief hiatus to scratch their heads trying to make sense of the nonsen...

Summary Zorak's most favoritest, bestest anime ever about a nameless college student pursuing the perfect rose-colored life goes under the k...

Summary We explore the style-mashed world of Gumball. Does metahumor preclude emotional sincerity? Let's find out! Next Episode: Tatami Gala...

Summary Hideaki Anno's girls-tennis-parody-turned-robot-space-epoch gets analyzed. Newtonian Physics and freaky deep-sea-looking aliens get...

Summary Today we discuss Sylvain Chomet's well-made but perhaps fundamentally flawed film about the world's most depressed cycler and his ph...

Summary Let's conserve our energy resources and solve the world's most inane, low-stakes mysteries in Kyoto Animation's Hyouka . Marvel at Z...

Summary Five children from around the world are given magical rings to save the environment in the most confusing and ass-backwards ways pos...

Summary What the hell did I just watch. Why are the ninja exploding into grape jelly and is that a time-traveling feudal lord?! WHAT IS HAPP...

Summary Pixar is back, everybody! Inside Out , one the most emotionally nuanced children's film in a long time, successfully relays its them...

Summary People summoning spiritual representations of themselves to fight enemies replete with imagery sourced from the major arcana of the...

Summary Jerry Seinfeld unleashes his horrible, nightmarish id upon an innocent and unsuspecting public. Racism, absolute nonsense, and cross...

Summary Let it go! Let it go! Let all the inconsistencies flow! Disney's hit pop-album movie Frozen gets dissected and burning ire is direct...

Summary It's just us, Rick and Morty, forever! The Adventures of Rick and Morty! Rickandmortyadventures.com, Morty! Also reboots reboots reb...

Summary Beheadings, flowers, and gender politics! It's Rose of Versailles, the romantic anime set in the most romantic time possible: The Fr...

Summary Miyazaki movies were gonna show up here sooner or later, so here's Kiki's Delivery Service: the heartwarming story of a witch who ha...

Summary A Seth MacFarlane show that's… good ? Well, not quite. Neeksy and Zorak argue over whether it's worth watching for the moment...

Summary What happens when a generation of artists raised on shojo anime, nintendo games, and western cartoons gets to make their own show? S...

Summary The Critic delighted audiences with sharp parodies and crazy jokes, just not enough to keep it on the air longer than two seasons or...

Summary Joined by special guest Bob "Bobservo" Mackey, we suffered through four episodes of the inexplicable Nintendo-adaptation Captain N:...

Summary The duo discuss Marvel's foray into TV-animation with the often hilariously-inept Thor, Hulk, and Spiderman adaptations. Hokey plots...

Summary Zorak and Neeksy cover animation news and discuss Satoshi Kon's first feature-length film Perfect Blue and why it's so amazing. The...
Summary We're back! In this episode we talk about Disney's new Mickey Mouse YouTube shorts, copyright law, and discuss recent animation news...

Summary Neeksy, Zorak, and special guest Tyrs discuss the terror from The North Johnny Test -WHIPCRACK- Canadian animation subsidies -WHIPCR...

Summary We're back and better(?) than ever(?) with a discussion on Masaaki Yuasa's Ping Pong: The Animation . We talk Flash animation, sport...

Summary Neeksy and Zorak point at laugh at the utterly nonsensical 1960s Japanese animated series Speed Racer, the car-driving cad who stops...

Summary Ever heard a show that starts off well, plods along at an okay pace before it suddenly has a narrative seizure, vomiting on itself a...

Summary Remember the 90s? Well it's over, and it ended with shows like Mission Hill: a portrait of Generation X before the tech bubble burst...

Summary We suffered through it so you didn't have to: Neeksy and Zorak watched the epitome of marketing cynicism and overall bad idea Loonat...

Summary We discuss Fox's animated sitcom Bob's Burgers, and explore why it is an example of good character development. We also discuss impr...

Neeksy and Zorak discuss the highly-anticipated and controversial "Kill la Kill" from Trigger. Surgeon General's Warning: Discussion contain...

Why did something that seemed so prime to be an awful cash-in end up being so good? Neeksy and Zorak take a look at Warner Bros' brick-build...