Episode 165 – The Year In Review

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It’s the DITB Year in Review. Or more accurately The Year in Ten Broad Topics.

Joining us to summarise 12 months worth of cartoons in less than two hours are Niall Flanagan and Bradley Meek. What is the best robot of 2014? The greatest animal? Or even the best bottom? (R.I.P. Elliot Page).

Find out the inconclusive answers to these questions and seven more, on a bumper blow out episode of Dynamite In The Brain.

Episode 164 – Xmas Specials Special

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This week we take a look at six different anime shows’ Christmas episodes. And joining us to this are Bradley C. Meek, Elliot Page and Niall Flanagan. Featuring the seasonal romantic pitfalls of URUSEI YATSURA, a vengeful mad Santa in THE BIG O, barely anything seasonal in DIGIMON ADVENTURE 02, Christmas invasion plots in SGT. FROG, a rampaging snow man in HEARTCATCH PRETTY CURE and a banned episode of POKEMON.

PLUS: we play the traditional Xmas game of HOHOHO or NONONO?

Episode 163 – 1994

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It’s a FINAL RETRO RECAP BLOWOUT as we finish up with the feature with one last look at NINJA NONSENSE, before we go back to 1994 and look at the opening episodes of six anime shows from that year.

There are killer plants in BLUE SEED. Rock and roll vs. space vampires in MACROSS 7. Schoolgirls get teleported to a magical kingdom in MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH. A hero rises to save the world in MAHOUJIN GURU GURU. Wife swapping parents in MARMALADE BOY. And finally it’s Japan vs Italy in the first round of MOBILE FIGHTER G GUNDAM.

Let’s Go JoJo! – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure OAVs (2000)

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We’re back with a special episode of Let’s Go JoJo, the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Podcast from Secret of the Sailor Madness and Dynamite In The Brain. In this episode we take a look at the OAV series from 2000-2002 that adapted the first half of Stardust Crusaders. Plus, the last two and a half months in JoJo’s news!

Episode 162 – Leeds Film Anime Day

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Once again, Anthony, Brian and Greg headed to Leeds Film’s Fanomenom Anime Day. Only this time Lewis came with us too! We saw 6 animated films in 11 hours. Appleseed Alpha, Dragon Ball Battle Of Gods, Short Peace, Giovanni’s Island, Ghost In The Shell and Grave of the Fireflies were on the bill and you will hear what we thought about them on this podcast.

PLUS: Anthony and Greg went to the Day of the Dead so they will also tell you about a whole pile of horror movies too.

Episode 161 – 1984

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It’s a special ALL RETRO RECAP episode as we go back to 1984 and look at the opening episodes of five anime shows from that year. There are giant pink chickens with GU-GU GANMO. 1984’s answer to Space Dandy shows up in HEAVY METAL L-GAIM. There are more giant chickens in PANZER WORLD GALIENT. The concept of car tuning gets its very own show with YOROSHIKU MECHADOCK. And finally we visit 80’s New York in GIANT GORG.

Plus our regular Weekly Retro Recap too.

Better late than never, it’s Dynamite in the Brain!

Episode 160 – Judge

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It’s Halloween and for a change we aren’t talking about a vampire anime. Instead we take a look at the 1991 supernatural law OAV, Judge with guests Niall Flanagan and Leon Everertt. Maybe we should have stuck to the vampires.

On a less spooky note, Ninja Nonsense episode 2 is our Weekly Retro Recap and we play a game of MEGA CITY ONE or MEGA CITY NONE?

Boo!

Episode 159 – Space Dandy Season 2

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We are joined by Ebbie from OKKO Anime Club and Niall from SOTSM to talk the best anime of all time, Space Dandy Season 2. All thirteen episodes, episode by episode.

Plus, Brian has the flu and wouldn’t realise until five days after recording this that it wasn’t his turn to do the Weekly Retro Recap on Ninja Nonsense. So who knows what other fever inspired delusions he might spout this episode. He doesn’t know, because he didn’t listen back to it. So find out for yourself and let him know in the comments.

And as it was a week or so into the new season of anime when we recorded this, we do a WATCHUWATCH as well.

ENJOY!

Episode 158 – Silver Fang

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Greg Driver joins us as we follow up our ALL-DOG EPISODE with a look at our favourite show from that episode, SILVER FANG or GINGA NAGAREBOSHI GIN. Do you like dogs? Do you like bloody 80s shonen violence? Do you want to see that violence performed by realistically drawn dogs? On bears? Then this is the show for you!

Also contains some MOBY DICK and JAWS for good measure.

Plus, our Weekly Retro Recap is My-HiME and WATCHUWATCH weturns!

It’s a week late, but it’s always great, it’s DITB.

Episode 157 – Autumn Anime Preview

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All you really need to know about this Autumn’s anime is that the duck above is wearing a crown, and it appears in Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis. But should you need to know more about what guest Bradley C. Meek and ourselves thought about the Summer anime that we checked out and the upcoming Autumn anime that catches our fancy, then here is nigh on two hours of chat about that very subject!