Encounter #23: Yankee Swap
Spice Girls, grey beards, and chopstick abuse.
Show Notes
Spice Girls, grey beards, and chopstick abuse.
With special guest Casey.
Show opening theme: It's called Hentai and it's ART
Light saber chopsticks
None of these people know how to hold 'em.
Amazon.com | Chop Sabers Light Up LightSaber Chopsticks, Blue Pair: Chopsticks & Chopstick Holders
And people buy this crap!
Anime
Next season's picks
AniChart: Winter 2021 Seasonal Chart
coldacid's picks
Horimiya
CloverWorks is animating this adaptation of the manga.
Episode one airs on .
Hortensia Saga
Interesting sounding fantasy. Don't know anything about the game that serves as the source material, though.
Episode one airs on .
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation
Been following the manga for some time now, although the original source is a light novel series. Interested to see how it turns out on the screen.
Episode one airs on .
AbleKirby's picks
Bungou Stray Dogs Wan!
Cute looking spin-off of Bungou Stray Dogs.
Episode one airs on .
Kai Byoui Ramune (Dr. Ramune -Mysterious Disease Specialist-)
The anime Dr. House.
Episode one airs on .
Casey's picks
Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season (The Promised Neverland Season 2)
She's never seen the original show, but there's 20 days in which to watch it all!
Episode one airs on .
Sequels
Winter 2021 is the season of sequels.
Attack on Titan: The Final Season
Another season of Shingeki no Kyojin with a non-standard number of episodes (16 in this case). There's no way that they're going to cover the remainder of the manga in this.
Already airing; episode one aired on .
Re:Zero 2nd Season Part 2
Wouldn't that normally be called "season 3"?
Episode one airs on .
The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement
The manga is complete, but the anime has a few seasons to go. Here's season four; think they'll stretch it out to season seven?
Reincarnated as a Slime 2nd Season
Let's continue seeing isekai from the monster perspective.
Episode one airs on .
Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table
Maybe now we'll also get some new volumes of the light novel already?
Episode one airs on .
Otona no Bouguya-san II
Lewd armour shop returns for another cour of short episodes.
Episode one airs on .
Yami Shibai 8
Long-running supernatural horror shorts. Started off pretty spooky, last few seasons have been more like spoopy.
Episode one air date has yet to be announced.
Yuru Camp△: SEASON 2
Also known as Yuri Camp. Cute girls going cute camping.
Films
Space Battleship Yamato 2202
Movie compilation of the "Ai no Senshi-tachi" OVA.
Arrives in theatres in Japan on .
Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time
End of Evangelion. Again.
Arrives in theatres in Japan on .
Higurashi Gou
No, Rika! Blue lives matter!
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou (Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU) · AniList
Prisma Illya
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya · AniList
The Day I Became A God
The show has become too sad. Have some fried chicken instead.
Kamisama ni Natta Hi (The Day I Became a God) · AniList
Journey of Elaina
Is Elaina's hero Niké really her mom? The show keeps hinting, but doesn't offer any proof. Meanwhile, trouble's afoot after last week's backstory.
Majo no Tabitabi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) · AniList
Strike Witches: Road to Berlin
Strike Witches: Dai-501 Tougou Sentou Koukuudan ROAD to BERLIN (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin) · AniList
Crunchyroll now owned by Sony
As if Crunchyroll wasn't bad enough already, now it's going to be a Soyny service.
AT&T to Sell Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.2 Billion | Hollywood Reporter
SuperRT
A ray-tracing coprocessor for the Super Nintendo. Pretty neat hardware project.
