
Oldtaku no Radio #062 – Planetes
Reuniting for the annual Anime Secret Santa project , Jared and Ink stuff your stocking with opinions about 2004’s Planetes via a spec...
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In each episode of Oldtaku no Radio, Ink and Jared Nelson don a new lens to delve into a specific cartoon series, animated movie, or game that's affected one or both of them and pull it apar...

Reuniting for the annual Anime Secret Santa project , Jared and Ink stuff your stocking with opinions about 2004’s Planetes via a spec...

Jared, Ink, and Phillip continue their dive into Satoshi Kon’s anime career with Millennium Actress. Joined by the movie’s numbe...

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We're going way, way, way back to live in the present by talking about something set in the future: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 . Leading u...

What better to follow our episode about a formative sitcom than a genre satire? This month, Jared and Ink focus on Monthly Girls’ Noza...

Oldtaku’s digging into an ’80s classic with the Kimagure Orange Road TV series, which stars an incredible array of talent across...

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After an economic bubble burst in Japan, the Tennouzu Group buys a city and a nation by catering to its leaders' perversions. The undergroun...

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Space Brothers #0 tells the tale of two aspiring astronauts who just happen to be siblings. Mutta, the older brother, has fallen behind his...

Memories is a 1995 anthology movie (one feature comprised of multiple vignettes) that showcases directorial efforts of Koji Morimoto ( Magne...

Talk about a deep dive ! This episode, Jared and Ink talk about Science Saru ‘s original animated movie, Masaaki Yuasa’s Lu Over...

Take to the animated skies (and bars and secret beach hideouts and so much more) with Jared and Ink as they talk about Ghibli’s 1992 f...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a gelling of past and present; an awakening; a transition (multiple transitions, really); and a handoff...

As the song goes, “You always hurt the one you love,” and our takes on Dennou Coil (alt. Den-Noh Coil ) are definitely not spari...

Finally, a Shinkai film that makes Children Who Chase Lost Voices look good! How does Makoto Shinkai twist "boy meets girl" this time? How d...

This episode of Oldtaku no Radio welcomes Erica Friedman for a review of “a story of survival,” Kase-san and Morning Glories &nd...

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If you don’t remember MTV back in the ’90s, when it was 98% music and 1% Kurt Loder, then you definitely don’t remember th...

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Originally meant to accompany our PEZ episode for a grand, post-apocalyptically themed episode, we’re talking about the whimsical desp...

We’re talking this episode about Hiroyuki Asada’s PEZ – a small, full-color manga with big heart, impact, and presentation...

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With this witch-driven fantasy feature, does Studio Gah-jibly offshoot Studio Ponoc merely ape its mentor’s style? Is there more? Does...

We’re doing a Type Moon thing! And who better to help us on our exploration of this very memorable eight-plus-part OVA series about a...

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There are some pretty high expectations for The Dragon Prince given that it is the brain-child of Aaron Ehasz (head writer for Avatar: The L...

Imaishi Gone Wild! After all the mentions on previously published podcasts, we’re finally, on this first day of Autumn 2018, releasing...

There’s no denying Rumiko Takahashi’s Urusei Yatsura — a school-set, shounen rom-com that leverages a love for mythology a...

You don’t have to be a furry to get a warm fuzzy or burst into tears from Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children . This two-hour movie fo...

Anthology films — feature-length presentations comprised of multiple, stand-alone stories — afford their contributors great arti...

Airing wayyyyyyyyy back in 2006, Ergo Proxy is the story of a bored, privileged goth girl (Re-l) and her flamboyant autoreiv companion, Iggy...

Kids on the Slope sees Cowboy Bebop ‘s Shinichiro Watanabe (director) and Yoko Kanno (music) adapt Yuki Kodama’s manga about you...

Not a lot is known about O-ei, Katsushika Hokusai’s third daughter, and that’s what makes Miss Hokusai less an interesting biopi...

The Eccentric Family , which adapts the novels of Tomohiko Morimi, is directed by Masayuki Yoshihara and features animation production via P...

Adapting the novel by Shion Miura, The Great Passage tells the story of an editorial crew assembling a dictionary. Exciting stuff, right? We...

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Welcome to Anime Secret Santa , a gift exchange run by our friends at Reverse Thieves where the gifts are anime review recommendations! For...

Released in 2003, the first Kino's Journey anime is an episodic affair that centers around an AI-imbued motorad named Hermes and its rider,...