Gateway to Anime

Episode 40 - Magical Girl Anime with Ross Chisari

For our final episode of season 4 we are joined again by Ross Chisari to talk through Magical Girl Anime. This is one of the most famous and iconic genres in all of animanga. Sam gives a brief history of the genre while Ross talks through Sailor Moon. Charlie and Ross both recount their love for another classic in Cardcaptor Sakura, then Sam brings it home with the genre subverting Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

Bonus Episode - Spring 2022 Round-up

We're back for a bonus episode in between seasons! The gang round-up all their favorite (and least favorite) shows of the spring 2022 anime season.
Graeme talks about the cold war inspired mega hit of the season, Spy X Family and a Squid Game styled show where its all about the money.
Sam talks about the second season of one of the bigger Isekai shows going around and fans out over a soccer anime.
Charlie breaks down a ballet anime and a trashy rom-com, as is tradition.

We're going to be taking a little break before we return with season 5. Thanks for joining us on the journey so far. 

Bonus Episode - I choose you, Veronica Taylor!

We were so lucky to catch Veronica Taylor for an interview while she was in the country for Supanova.

Veronica is a classically trained theatre actor from the United States and has had an extensive career as a voice-over actor in anime, video games and audio books.

Veronica is perhaps most famous for voicing Ash Ketchum in the original Pokemon series, movies and video games but she has had an incredibly rich and diverse career, which we speak about in depth in this episode.

We had such a great time talking to Veronica and we hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 41 - Summer 2022 Season Round-up

A bit of a delay in getting this one out, but, we are back for Season 5 with our Summer 2022 anime season round up!

 

Charlie talks about anime hair in her preview of Shine on! Bakumatsu Bad Boys! Amongst others.

Graeme gets arty with Yurei Deco and Uncle from Another World, while Sam talks through two of the bigger sequels airing this season in Made in Abyss and The Devil is a Part Timer.

Episode 42 - Historical Fiction Anime

The gang gets historical, with Sammy on his crusade to prove "history is fun" to Charlie and Graeme.  

Sammy starts by differentiating between what constitutes Historical Fiction as a genre as opposed to a period piece, which leads to the new game: "historical fiction or not!?"

Graeme breaks down the legendary samurai manga Vagabond. Sam gets edgy with the under watched war story Golden Kamuy while Charlie talks through the much revered Viking epic Vinland Saga. 

Episode 43 - An Australian anime you say? Tell me more.

Sammy interviews Ty Hanson, the creator of the Australian anime project Millennium Exile.

 

Sam and Ty talk about the origin of the project, his ambitions moving forward and some of the influences which inspired the project.

 

We of course talk about Ty's initial gateway to anime along with how he came to love the medium and Sam and Ty bond over their mutual love of JRPG's.

 

We have an interesting conversation about what the term anime means in a modern context, the continual progression of cross cultural collaboration and why the future of the animation industry is so bright.

Episode 44 - Horror Anime

The gang get together to talk about all things Horror in the anime/manga world.

Sam gives a brief history of the Japanese horror genre. Graeme tackles one of the most revered horror mangakas of all time, the legendary Junji Ito. Charlie gets obscure with Ghost Hunt and Sam reveals his scaredy cat nature (not a horror fan) but talks through one of his favorites in Parasyte: The Maxim. 

Episode 45 - Fall 2022 Season Hype-Up

The gang get together to talk through the STACKED Fall 2022 anime season. There are so many shows this season we can barely keep up.

Sam talks about some returning old favorites, one of which is part of the original big three and man does it look good. Nostalgia firing on all cylinders. He also goes through Mob Psycho 100 S3 as well as the weird and original in Golden Kamuy S4 and To You Eternity S2.

Graeme talks about two of the big original shows to be airing, Chainsaw Man and Blue Lock as well as a fresh take on the Gundam series.

Charlie talks through some more returning favorites in Spy X Family and My Hero Academia S6 and she also talks briefly with the gang about the unexpected surprise Netflix hit Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

 

Episode 46 - Besto Friendos

We happened to bump into another Sydney based anime podcast at Smash Con (Besto Friendo's Podcast) back in August and we figured we simply had to have a chat. 

We talk about our anime backstories, as well as our gateway anime (of course). However we also get amongst the lifestyle aspect of the Besto Friendo podcast and talk about why we do what we do and how we came to be doing it.

Episode 47 - JRPG’s (Japanese role playing games) with Lachlan McAllister

This is a special episode we recorded in Melbourne!

We were down for Crunchyroll Expo and got to catch up with Sam's old friend Lachlan McAllister who owns Australia's first ever dedicated Esports bar, GGEZ (where this podcast was recorded).

Sam and Lachlan started their anime journey together after Lachlan managed to track down a huge supply of VCD's containing the first 100+ episodes of Naruto back in high school (which Charlie also watched). However they started out playing JRPG's together in primary school. This episode is all about the deep connection between JRPG's and anime, how much crossover there is between the fandoms and how much they influenced our lives. 

 

We talk through the Suikoden series, Final Fantasy 7 (and Final Fantasy in general), the Persona series, Dragon Quest and many, many more.