The 2024 Winter Anime season has come to a close. If you’ve been paying attention then you’ll know what shows the crew have placed at the top of their lists. Kestrel, Cain, Brandon, and Kate are gonna tell you again, anyway, because that’s what we do! Plus some news and recommendations. What was your favorite anime of Winter 2024?…

We have a full house for a rather depressing episode of the podcast. It’s an all-news special cumulating in the marking of the passing of two figures, one lesser known and one an absolute giant. We tip our hats to Tales Of illustrator Mutsumi Inomata before we dedicate the majority of the run time to Akira Toriyama. We go over the impact that Toriy…

The groundhog didn’t see his shadow, and for a brief moment this episode features all of the regular podcasters! The winter season is in full swing so we catch up on impressions of the current slate of shows. We check in on our favorite girls, Maomao and Frieren. I (Kate) am ready to throw hands in support of Dungeon Meshi. Kestrel is about to flee…

Winter 2024 Anime! It’s a season of.... isekai... and isekai... and Dungeons! Cain, Kestrel, Brandon, and Kate are gonna talk about it! Delicious is Dungeon, Solo Leveling, Metallic Rouge, BUCCHIGIRI?! and much, much more! Plus, what Chris and DJ are watching via words on paper... but read out loud. PLUS, some SHOCKING news and recommendations.…

As is tradition, the votes have been tabulated and a consensus has been reached! If you are like DJ and hid under an anime rock for most of 2023, then this is the episode for you! Kestrel, Cain, Brandon, and DJ break down their top ten lists of anime from the 2023 anime year. PLUS, we have reader-submitted lists and even a list from our fearless le…

The Holidays are here but we have time for one last newscast before the season and year wrap up! And that news is one whopper of an announcement that we spend the majority of this episode discussing. That’s how crazy it is! Plus a few last minute gift ideas for yourself or a loved one. Have a safe and happy Holiday everyone!…

We might be short on people this week, but we aren’t short on discussion! Cain, Kestrel, and Kate are here to talk about this season’s shows now that we’re a few more episodes in. Spoiler: It’s a pretty great season of anime. Plus we have some recommendations and the news. Remember when Crunchyroll had manga? Yeah, me neither.…

STOP THE PRESSES! DJ is HERE! So is everyone else. The Fall 2023 anime season is so stacked that we barely scratch the surface of what is out there, but we think we’re hitting most of the bangers. Frieren, Pluto, Spy x Family, 100 Girlfriends, Apothecary Diaries, and more! Plus we have the usual news and recommendations. What are you watching this …

Fall is here but we have to wrap up these summer shows before we can dig into the early entries for the fall anime course. Kestrel, Cain, and Kate have a ton of news to run through including the end of Right Stuf because we can’t have nice things. DJ sends us his regards from his mansion by way of list of what he’s been watching. Plus we have recom…

WE ARE checking out the live-action One Piece! Years in the making, did this series do the impossible and break the live-action to anime curse? Kestrel, Brandon, Skyler, and Kate bring their collective decades of fan knowledge to the table to break down what we liked, what we didn’t like, and where everything can go from here. We front-load the pod…

The sleepy days of summer are drawing to a close. Kestrel, Kate, Cain, and Brandon are on board. We have a tiny bit of catching up to do with the summer season news and shows, but our focus is starting to shift towards thoughts of fall. We cover some of the news that came out over the last month before catching up on what folks are watching. Plus s…

The summer doldrums have arrived, and with it a slew of shows which are mostly sequels or otherwise known entities. Cain, Kestrel, and Brandon tackle what they have been watching while pondering the list DJ submitted and the glut of average or below-average scores. It is a thin buffet table folks. HOWEVER, we have a ton of news to cover from recent…

How big is too big? Well, Kestrel, Skyler, and Darius might have the answer for that as they get together for a massive recap of Anime Expo 2023. From reports of the conditions of the venue to the panels, wild announcements, and just the general vibe, they have a lot of ground to cover. Battle scars and all.…

One final check of the Spring 2023 season is at hand. We wrap up the season with some final thoughts on all the bangers and ponder the mystery of how taste works. Be prepared for more Vinland Saga, Oshi no Ko, Demon Slayer, Hell’s Paradise, and the rest. Plus we cover some of the news and recommendations, which are heavy on the games this time arou…

Ah, Summer is just around the corner but we are checking in with the Spring season of anime to see how things are shaking out. That means we get to dive back into Gundam: Witch from Mercury, Vinland Saga, Hell’s Paradise, Skip & Loafer, and more! Plus news and recommendations! Also, I (the engineer) put in timestamps now so you can skip discussions…

Ahoy! It’s a list episode, and this time it’s Kestrel, Cain, DJ, and Darius breaking down their and your favorite anime studios! Who do we love? Animators! Who puts their blood sweat and tears into every production to make us smile and cry? We shall tell you! There’s a whole lot of love an appreciation to spread around as the guys make their cases …

SPRING! It’s HERE! The usual gang of five arrives to discuss all things anime airing (well, streaming really) to your watching device of choice! Oshi no Ko, Mashle, Gundam, Hell’s Paradise, Skip and Loafer, and more! So much more! Which is good because we’re light on news this week but there are a few recommendations. Plus you get to find out what …

The winter season has come and gone and we are going to talk about it! Where does the gang rank the Winter 2023 season anime? Well, you’re just gonna have to listen and find out. Plus we have the news and some view, and recommendations, of course! Drop in and listen.

It’s that time of year! AWARDS SEASON! Kestrel took one for the team and actually watched the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. We go over the nominees, winners, and ultimately try to decide where this award show lands on the spectrum of legitimacy and prestige. (spoiler: not very high) Plus we have some news and some recommendations.…

Is it the winter mid-season already? Well, this season is anything but mid! Cain, Kestrel, Brandon, and Kate catch up on what they’ve been watching and we get some last minute input from DJ as well. Find out who is thinking outside the penalty box, who’s a Trigun Stan-pede, and Thorkell’s live reactions to Vinland Saga Season 2. Plus licensing news…

After ending 2022 with a bang, 2023 starts off feeling like 2020 with one COVID hiatus after another. With half of the winter season missing, half of our hosts are missing as well, but that doesn't stop DJ from loving his most packed season yet. Kestrel is close in numbers if not enthusiasm, and even with a relatively small slate Brandon still has …

It's a quiet new year around here but we aren't neglecting our duty to our listeners to go over the best of the best of last year, anime style. Kestrel, DJ, Cain, and Brandon sit down to discuss a lengthy and detailed set of lists covering damn near everything worth watching. Plus the submitted lists we got from listeners like you! Perhaps even one…

The end of 2022 and the end of the Fall 2022 anime season is upon us. Kestrel, Brandon, DJ, and Kate are here to discuss the shows of the fall and how they stacked up. Turns out there was a lot to like this season! We talk about Blue Lock, Chainsaw Man, To Your Eternity, Gundam Witch, BLEACH, Spy x Family, and more! Which old favorites are way bett…

As the first flakes fall here in the northern hemisphere, the 2022 convention season is drawing to a close and the fall shows are creeping toward a quiet close. Kestrel and Darius touch upon AnimeNYC, while Brandon, Cain, and DJ have thoughts and feelings about the fall anime season. Plus we have some news and the usual banter and recommendations a…

The regular crew is here to talk about the Fall 2022 anime season! Chainsaw Man! Spy X Family is back! A new Urusei Yatsura! Mobile Suit Utena! BLEACH IS BACK! Insanity! Plus some other stuff that is also great! What a season, what a season! So much season I don’t think we even scratch the surface, but hey, it’s a start! Plus some news and recommen…

One Piece is an unstoppable juggernaut that just keeps getting bigger and bigger. After a quarter century and over 1000 installments of the manga and anime each, it's about time we spend a few hours on it. Kestrel is joined by our top One Piece fan Skyler, a sea-worn Brandon fresh off of a six-month thousand-chapter binge, and special guests Zach a…

The boys are back, in podcast form, to discuss the Summer 2022 anime season! Kestrel, Cain, Brandon, and DJ dig through their lists to separate the wheat from the chaff. (That means the good from the bad, I haven’t forgotten you, non-US and under 30 listeners! - Editor Kate) Made in Abyss, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, Lycoris Recoil, Overlord IV, Prince …

Dust off the cobwebs, and fire up the potatoes, we are back baby! Yes, after an unexpected, unanticipated, and uninspired break in which at least two hosts were down for the count with plagues of various sorts we have returned with TWO MONTHS OF NEWS. From industry head-spinning purchases to somber stories of industry legends passing, we have the f…

Hot enough for you out there? Well, it’s about to get hot in here! (Eh, not really.) We’re here to talk about the summer 2022 anime season! Shows like Funslinger girl, Made in Abyss New Jersey, CVS in Another World, My Step Sister is my Rent-A-Girlfriend... wait.... wait... something isn’t right here. How about some real shows like Teppen!!!!!!. Th…

Aye captain, off the starboard bow, we have ourselves a white whale of anime licensing! Quick, grab your harpoons, as we’ve got a big ‘ol licensing round-up from Anime Expo 2022! Plus a con wrap-up from the gentlemen who attended and what the future holds for crowded events with no room clears! Plus a tragic tale of a life lost at sea and the retur…

The end of the spring anime season has come and gone. Kestrel, DJ, and Brandon get together to discuss the shows they watched and the thoughts they had about them. Spy x Family, Kaguya-sama, Komi, Ya Boy, and many more go under the microscope. Which shows passed their scrutiny, and which shows dropped off? You’ll have to listen to find out! Plus so…

We have a full podcast to take on the news before the big spring wrap-up next week. Brandon, Cain, DJ, Kestrel, and Kate come with a full slate of announcements. News of the untimely passings of voice actors from the anime industry. News of the return of series that we know and love. And news of the passing of a torch to continue on in the face of …

Hello everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Spy x Podcast! I'm your .... wait, we already spoofed this title last week? Well... crap. This week we have a midseason update on the spring shows, a short news segment, and the usual recommendations. Kestrel is about to ship himself to another dimension (please excuse the natural echo), while t…

STACKED CAST. We have the usual crew plus Brandon here to talk about the spring 2022 season of anime! Do you like espionage? Golf? Other upper-class pursuits of recreation? What about romance and sweets? How about some good, old-fashioned space opera? How about a superhero show sequel to a show from during the recession? We have all of that, plus s…

The end of the winter season is here, and so are we! Cain, Kestrel, and DJ are here to share final or near-final thoughts on the winter anime season as our eyes already turn towards spring. Demon Slayer, My Dress-up Darling, Ranking of Kings, Akebi Sailor Uniform, Attack on Titan, Platinum End, and more. Which shows pass the test, which are tests, …

The news waits for nobody, and while we’ve been dealing with Real Adult Life things have been happening! Sometimes long lost anime and manga titles get licensed, courtesy of two of our favorite publishers. Sometimes the party on top in a merger or acquisition isn’t who you’d expect! We have a long list of fun things, sad things, and just things to …

YouTube | Discord | Twitter So y'all probably noticed that PANR (podcast edition) has been off the air for over a year! That's because both Seamus and Izze have had very full plates. This episode's audio talks about Seamus' struggles this past year. Izze has been dealing with their day job and pretty severe burnout as well, so PANR on the whole too…

The Winter 21-22 season is in full effect and Kestrel, Cain, DJ, and Kate are inching across its frozen wastes. Yes, it’s a slow season, or so the lads tell me. Titans still rampage and Kings still need Ranking. Cain catches up just in time to participate while Kestrel schools us about invoking Holocaust imagery and DJ has very DJ-esk thoughts abou…

Kestrel, Cain, DJ, and Brandon have weighed and measured their watched anime of 2021. There will be drama, rankings, anecdotes, old jokes, and most importantly, beef. Find out which shows came out on top and which shows got pushed out of the top ten. It turns out that, at least anime-wise 2021 was alright.…

We have reached the end, the final episode of Fandom Post Radio.... for 2021! Good riddance! The usual crew is here just prior to the New Year to break down the fall 2021 season and see how everything turned out. Ranking of Kings, Demon Slayer, 86, Jobless Reincarnation, Blue Period, and more! Plus updates on what everyone’s been up to, news, and r…

Kestrel and Darius are holding down the fort while the rest of the regulars are off doing god-knows-what. Back from a convention that turned into ground 0 for omicron, they have a full report of news, views, announcements, and more news! Not just con news either, but of short-lived live action series and the woes of industry figures passing. It's b…

Before we get buried under a pile of AnimeNYC impressions we get the latest news out of the way in this here podcast. Kestrel and Kate sit Cain down (or is it the other way around?) for a live-action debriefing after his binge on as many anime to Hollywood live-action adaptations as he could stomach. This is all in preparation for the questionable …

If you've made it through our massive Episode 100, it's time to return to our regularly scheduled programming with another month of news to catch up on as well as a packed Fall 2021 season. After covering much tragedy and many new announcements, we dig into Ranking of Kings as it climbs up our own rankings, touch on the (kind of) new season of Demo…

Episode 100 is here, and to celebrate, we have by far our longest episode ever, over 5 hours featuring 5 of us (including all of the regulars) finally counting down our top 10 anime of all time! Throughout the show, we also read over 75 top 10 lists submitted by all of you, and then aggregate them all together at the end for some final countdowns o…

Summer 2021 is over and the regular crew is here to go over all that was. My Hero, Higurashi, Slime, Uramichi-Oniisan, Tokyo Revengers, Love Live, Vanitas. Sonny Boy. Were they stunners or did they just leave the audience cold? We shall tell you! Plus the news and recommendations. Also, in the next episode we’re doing the big TOP TEN podcast! Send …

The regular crew is back and we are sooooo behind! Summer slacking has us scrambling to cover all the news we’ve made note of over the last two months. The real end of EVA, the Real Folk Blues, anime with too many dubs, acquisitions, and so much more! Plus some extremely brief thoughts on a summer season that is grabbing no one's attention and reco…

Otakon 2021 was the first major anime convention since 2019, and it brought our three main boys together for the first time in person. Meanwhile, Kestrel got the opportunity to talk with several guests, each with a main role in the English dub of the biggest anime of the past year, Jujutsu Kaisen. Our late-night ramblings in the intro have some sau…

The usual crew gets together this week to wrap up the Spring 2021 anime season. Cain, DJ, Kestrel, and Kate Tackle the news before we get to the heart of the matter, and this certainly was a season with plenty of heart! My Dear Cramer, Fruits Basket, Meglobox, Zombie Land Saga, Tokyo Revengers, Moriarty, and more! Plus some recommendations and bant…

No news is good news. Cain, DJ, and Kestrel have a month of news to cover and while some of it is welcome, much of it isn’t. Demon Slayer continues to slay, while more Madoka, Made in Abyss, and Lupin the 3rd are on the horizon. Vinland Saga and a slew of others finally get a home release and a bunch of Dragon Quest stuff is coming as well! Yet the…

A year of being trapped away from other people has not had a detrimental effect on us, nope! And we have anime to thank for that! It’s spring, and a new crop of anime is budding. It looks to be a hell of an anime season and the gang is all here with our thoughts! To Your Eternity, Moriarty Season 2, Vivy, Nomad, Super Cub, Zombie Land SAGA Revenge,…