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Here we are- Game of the Year. The big finale. We've had quite enough preamble- let's get to it. The Nominees Are: Aotenjo: Infinite Hands o...
With multiple anime and manga podcasts, it's clear we love this medium a lot. And in 2025 we saw so many cool things. In this penultimate ca...
Time concerns (that proved a bit unnecessary) forced us to compress Minor Character and Major character into one pod, so Minor Character get...
In contrast to Emergent Moment, you don't have to do anything special to experience these. These scripted moments are part of the media belo...
The phrasing on this category was tricky. What is an Emergent Moment? Basically, it's to distinguish from a Narrative Moment- our category t...
We used to call this category "That's My Jam" which is a long forgotten in-joke from our personal Discord server, but unfortunately it was j...
There are bad surprises in this world. A lot of them. We are not celebrating those! They don't get their own category, at least this year. L...
We may have had to combine Best Action Toolkit and Best Fighting Toolkit this year out of time concerns, but that just means a staggering ro...
Systems are such a special part of games. Sets of rules and features that turn into engines to produce unique outcomes as they crash togethe...
In honor of the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask , we have a real treat. Originally for the $5 Patrons, we have unlock...
EPISODES COVERED: Futari wa Pretty Cure 5-6, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger 5-6, Kamen Rider Blade 5-6 Pretty Cure has a new villain for us. Deka...
EPISODES COVERED: Futari wa Pretty Cure 3-4, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger 3-4, Kamen Rider Blade 3-4 Big explosive openings are out of the way,...
EPISODES COVERED: Futari wa Pretty Cure 1-2, Tokosou Sentai Dekaranger 1-2, Kamen Rider Blade 1-2 Here comes a new story. Or three, to be mo...
Here we are, folks. Game of the Year- the capper to the Gimmick Awards. We've said a lot over the course of this month, so no big preamble:...
Games. Turns out, you tend to play them. In years past, we have often tried to talk about the elegance of particular systems and mechanics b...
Sometimes, a singular moment shines through and is so bright, you can't help but take notice. This may be the last year this category takes...
You know, despite our ambitions of being a gaming coverage site, we talk about a lot of anime. Our most frequent and consistent shows are ab...
...And here are the Instrumental songs, which is to say, the ones that aren't lyrically focused- the human voice is still allowed as an inst...
Music is a weird category for us, or rather pair of categories thanks to it being split in twain. We aren't music crits, and we don't cover...
2024 was full of surprises. Not all of them good! 2024 was a rough year, y'all. But sometimes surprises can be wonderful, and in this catego...
From Best Character, two phantoms were born. The spotlight-haver and the supporting act shouldn't be fighting with each other. It's not righ...
This was a category separation we felt very good about when it occurred to us: why are we having leading characters going up against backgro...
"Action Toolkit" is the best phrasing we could come up with, but it's like... you know when you play a game, and you push buttons, and it fe...
It would be wonderful if all that was necessary to make a great work of art was a good idea. Unfortunately, this isn't so, and the road to m...
We're starting the Gimmick Awards with one of our most passionate, intensely discussed categories every year: Best Fighting Toolkit. We love...
This is the latest sampler for Novel Not New, our patron-only show! Want more like this? For just $5/month over at patreon.com/scanlinemedia...
And yet? The Netflix Gundam is still gonna be better than the Legendary Gundam. ...Ah, I really dug myself a hole with this one. I am not ta...
And so we come to the close, at least for now. Six expansions in one go?! Yeah... there isn't much to say about most of them, from a lore pe...
Our journey into WoW Lore continues! With Vanilla behind us, Six and Allen guide Jen on to the early expansions: The Burning Crusade, Wrath...
The latest expansion to World of Warcraft , titled The War Within , is getting rave reviews with critics and fans alike. And yet, in some wa...
At Otakon 2024, I spoke with Justin Leach, Katrina Minett, and Christophe Ferreira of Qubic Pictures. We spoke about work in animation and p...
At Otakon 2024, I sat down with Akihiko Orikasa and Kensuke Yamamoto of Studio Orange. We spoke about the uniqueness, challenges, and miscon...
At Otakon 2024, I had the opportunity to speak with Uki Satake. We spoke about her role in crafting anime openings, interest in voice acting...
Well, we always knew this was possible... last week was a disappointing downbeat, with a series of pretty rough episodes. We all knew GT had...
It's not all sunshine and rainbows for our viewing. Quite early in, in spite of some refreshing episodes, we have hit our first bump in the...
Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise is one of the most beloved in the world. Three great shows, a lot of video games of varying quality b...
The unknown journey ends, and reveals that there wasn't much mystery there at all, really. Jen, Kyrie, and Six slump in their chairs and mar...
The penultimate episode is here, and things just keep turning for the worse for our hosts. We deal with some very contrived plots, ponder ov...
After a slight upturn in quality at Gongaga, Chapter 10 breaks everyone's spirits as the gang makes their way into Cosmo Canyon. It also hap...
We tackle only one chapter in this episode, but boy is it a DOOZY. We travel to Gongaga, encounter too many bosses, and Tifa finds herself i...
Our podcasters finally arrive in chapter 6. Jen and Six call for some time off for some fun in the sun. Kyrie disapproves, but is outvoted....
After defeating a giant snake, the gang finds themselves deep in some mines, spilling out into the Junon area. We face off with some Turks,...
Six and Kyrie are back to settle it. One number was never enough, so we have come back to scour the Dragonball Xenoverse 2 cast to try and s...
One of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the year, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth cast a long shadow over the release schedule. Not only t...
Six took some time to go to the movies! Attending the LA Premiere, Six was able to see the US release of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom! Ky...
Take a breath, y'all! Dragon's Dogma 2 released a few hours ago, so we're good! No more big video game releases for 2024, we can all go home...
It all comes down to this: Best Game. Game of the Year. Call it what you like. We play a lot of games, and every year we make ourselves pick...
When Scanline Media started, we wanted to focus on games. But over the years, from doing weekly anime podcasts and where our general interes...
In our longest category, we decided to let 2023 sing it's heart out. These tracks, be them anime OP or standalone songs, struck a chord with...