Ace Comicals’ Leon Everett returns for the third part of the FLCL trilogy – FLCL Alternative. Plus the Anime Ranking Game appears for the first time in ages.
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DITB #321 – Winter Anime 2020
It’s that time of the season when we run through 47 new anime and pick about 2 to watch. From animal people to VR MMOs and then back to animal people, with precious little isekai in between. Plus, Brian forgets that Masaaki Yuasa’s Ping Pong adaptation exists, so don’t @ us.
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The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #12 – Dorvack, Montana Jones, Dokkiri Doctor
Dwayne finally takes the second chair as we welcome Sublo & Tangy Mustard creator Aaron Long to pick from the list of anime we never got see in our formative years.
Special Armored Battalion Dorvack – from 1983, it’s Battlestar Galactica for jackasses.
Montana Jones – from 1994, it’s Duck Tales for Italian Furries.
Dokkiri Doctor – from 1999, it’s Dr Slump with more Doctor and no Arale.
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The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #11 – GeGeGe no Kitaro, Metal Fighter Miku & Hell Teacher Nube
Heroic third chair Dwayne Moloney helps little red hens Brian & Anthony bake their podcast bread, and now you, the grateful woodland animals get to feast on it.
GeGeGe no Kitaro – the third outing for the iconic yokai gang, this time from 1985.
Metal Fighter Miku – Future sports from a past time. That time being 1994.
Hell Teacher Nube – yet more school bound spooky hijinks with this 1996 Shonen Jump adaptation.
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The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #10 – Oh Family!, Haunted Junction
It’s an Anthony & Brian-only episode of The Anime That Didn’t Make Us this time out. And one I should have posted about a month ago. Whoops.
Oh Family! – heartwarming orphantainment with a distinctly American flavour from 1986.
Haunted Junction – another late-night anime from 1997 that Anthony would have definitely not been allowed to watch.
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DITB #320 – Promare
Elliot Page from screentone.club and Lewis Smith from Car & Mechanical join us to discuss Studio Trigger’s 2019 movie, Promare!
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DITB #319 – Darkstalkers
It’s part two of our double Halloween podcasts with Bradley Meek. This time we delve back to 1997 for a look at Madhouse’s OVA series Night Warriors The Animation, AKA Darkstalkers.
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DITB #318 – Yokai Watch Shadowside the Movie
The first of a Halloween double bill this week with Bradley Meek. In this episode we leap 30 years into the future to learn about what happened to all our Yokai Watch favourites. Well, two of them.
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The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #9 – KATRI, J-DECKER, VIRTUA FIGHTER
TATDMU All-Star Dwayne Moloney joins us today talk about three more anime that geography denied us during our formative years.
Katri, Girl of the Meadows – a Finnish World Masterpiece Theatre outing from 1984.
Brave Police J-Decker – another in the Brave Series, this time sentient transforming robots fight crime in 1994.
Virtua Fighter – Sega’s groundbreaking fighting game comes to anime in 1995.
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DITB #317 – Autumn Anime Preview
In which Anthony makes a prediction that proves to be wholly false. We run down 54 new TV anime you could be skipping over the next 3 months. From tiny monsters to monster condoms and everything in between, as long as that everything is mainly isekai shows.
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