The After Show from Anime News Network
56 episodes - French - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 253 ratingsThe ANN After Show is a weekly podcast from Anime News Network, the internet's most trusted anime news source since 1998. Hosted by executive editor Lynzee Loveridge and video producer Jacki Jing, each week we talk in-depth about the season's hottest shows with special guests and deliver the trending stories you need to know. Geek out with us each week, gain new perspectives, and discover the details you might have missed.
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Episodes
ANNCast (Final) - Zac Bertschy Memorial
May 30, 2020 03:00 - 76.2 MBOur friend and colleague Zac Bertschy, the host of ANNCast, passed away last week. Over 30 of Zac's friends and colleagues contributed their thoughts and memories for this special final episode.
ANNCast - Come On And Slam
April 11, 2020 17:18 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBZac and Lynzee plow through a whole bunch of the Spring 2020 anime season premieres, discuss the latest news, and in a fit of quarantine madness, revisit the 1996 classic Space Jam!
ANNCast - BERSERK vs. BERSERK vs. BERSERK
April 01, 2020 15:00 - 57.4 MBZac and Lynzee make the terrible decision to put themselves through all three animated versions of Kentaro Miura's classic, screaming, bloody, sexually violent BERSERK! Plus some other stuff.
ANNCast - Beastar Trek
March 20, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBZac and Lynzee take on Orange and Netflix's smash hit animal drama BEASTARS - plus our recommendations for the best TV shows to watch while you're quarantined!
ANNCast - Breezin' Down The Runway
March 14, 2020 21:37 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBZac and Lynzee go in-depth some of this season's biggest shows - Smile Down the Runway and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Plus: Onward and our top 5 Pixar flicks, this week's news and more!
ANNCast - Worked To Death For Art's Sake
February 22, 2020 21:45 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBSpecial guest from The Canpia Effect Callum May drops by the show for a discussion about the anime industry's serious problem with animator overwork - plus the Crunchyroll Awards and more.
ANNCast - Let's Go Beyond Plus Ultra Chili Dog Farts
February 14, 2020 22:42 - 1 hour - 49 MBIt's movie time! Zac makes Lynzee watch sneak previews of My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, Masaaki Yuasa's gorgeous Ride Your Wave, and, naturally, Sonic the Hedgehog.
ANNCast - It's The Puppet Show
February 08, 2020 18:19 - 1 hour - 62.7 MBIt's an All-Puppets episode of ANNCast! Zac and a very special guest dive into The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance before going on a journey with Gen Urobuchi's phenomenal Thunderbolt Fantasy!
ANNCast - Do You Mean "Anime" Anime or like, Actual Anime?
February 01, 2020 18:47 - 1 hour - 86 MBZac, Lynzee and special guest Evan Minto drop themselves into the abyss in an in-depth discussion over what the term "anime" actually even means anymore in an era of aggressive rebranding.
ANNCast - Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Weathering Over Here
January 18, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBZac and Lynzee tackle Makoto Shinkai's two biggest films - Your Name and Weathering With You, plus our favorite premieres of the Winter 2020 season and more!
ANNCast - Ascending to the Stars
January 10, 2020 20:09 - 1 hour - 52.3 MBZac and Lynzee catch up on the news, dive deep on Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! and Stars Align - and also suffer through Tom Hooper's CATS, because of course they did.
The ANNCast Holiday Special
December 21, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 75 MBZac and Lynzee dig deep on The Rise of Skywalker - and then dive in to our top 5 anime and movies of 2019!
ANNCast - Revenge Of The 2010s
December 13, 2019 23:37 - 4 hours - 198 MBZac, Lynzee and special guests Mike Toole and Daryl Surat go on an intense journey counting down their top 10 anime of the last 10 years - along with yours! It's the biggest show in ANNCast history!
ANNCast - Sailor Moon Sailor Stars
December 07, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBZac, Lynzee and special guest Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast transform and power up for a rowdy conversation about the long-awaited official release of Sailor Moon Sailor Stars!
ANNCast - Zac & Shawne's Excellent Adventure
November 26, 2019 21:13 - 46 minutes - 37 MBOur special guest and returning champion, CEO of Right Stuf Shawne Kleckner comes back to the show to talk bestsellers, give us his insider take on the anime industry and much more!
ANNCast - Revolutionary Girl Erica
November 20, 2019 18:00 - 57 minutes - 42.2 MBTwo queers - Zac Bertschy and the legendary yuri anime and manga expert Erica Friedman - together celebrate 100 years of yuri!
ANNCast - Fond Of Me Lobster
November 02, 2019 21:16 - 50 minutes - 38.9 MBZac and Lynzee strap in for a double feature of The Lighthouse and The VVitch, plus Tomino vs. Shinkai, Taika Waititi's Akira, Blackfox and No Guns Life!
ANNCast - Our Top 5 Anime Of All Time
October 18, 2019 22:02 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBIt's another Halloween Movie Swap, followed by the big Ghibli news this week and then Zac and Lynzee count down their top five favorite anime of all time!
ANNCast - The Spooky Season
October 11, 2019 19:03 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBZac and Lynzee swap some horror movies for the official start of the Halloween season - plus this week's Masaaki Yuasa news, and a bunch of Fall 2019 anime premiere chat!
ANNCast - Let's Put A Smile On That Face
October 05, 2019 14:57 - 51 minutes - 39.2 MBZac and Lynzee tackle Todd Phillips' controversial new Joker movie, plus their favorite Batman movies, this week's hot news and the Fall 2019 Anime season so far!
ANNCast - Are You Not Entertained?
September 30, 2019 23:27 - 59 minutes - 44.6 MBZac and Lynzee ready their broadswords and passionately scream at the heavens for a double feature of historical fiction - Ridley Scott's Gladiator and the brutal Viking epic Vinland Saga!
ANNCast - Lost In Space
September 21, 2019 13:50 - 42 minutes - 52.1 MBZac and Lynzee burn up and confront the enormous Studio Trigger movie Promare, and then eject themselves into the galaxy for this summer's strongest show, Astra Lost in Space!
ANNCast - To Make A Long Story Short
September 14, 2019 19:32 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBZac and Lynzee discuss The Steven Universe Movie, investigate the classic 1985 comedy Clue, and dive right in to the legendary Mari Okada's emotionally brutal O Maidens In Your Savage Season!
ANNCast - Hey Everybody It's Tuesday
September 07, 2019 17:46 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBZac, Lynzee and special guest Jacki Jing sing their hearts out for Cowboy Bebop director Shinichiro Watanabe's Carole & Tuesday. PLUS: Stephen King's Clown Movie Part 2, and much much more!
ANNCast Series Review: Yuu Watase's Fushigi Yugi
August 30, 2019 19:51 - 2 hours - 90.2 MBZac, Lynzee and two special guests - Anime Feminist's Caitlin Moore and the unstoppable Bamboo Dong - drop by to inhale and recontextualize Yuu Watase's early 90s shojo magnum opus, Fushigi Yugi.
Rebuild of ANNCast: Busting Surfboards
August 23, 2019 18:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBZac and Lynzee stuff enough movies, news and anime down their throats to kill a horse - including Invader Zim Enter the Florpus and LeSean Thomas' magnum opus, the Netflix Original Anime Cannon Busters!
Rebuild of ANNCast: You Are Not Alone
August 16, 2019 21:44 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBZac and Lynzee subject themselves to the screaming, crying, blood-vomiting sex apocalypse of Rebuild of Evangelion just in time for this podcast's 10th anniversary.
ANNCast - The Soothing Sounds of Summertime
July 12, 2019 19:49 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBZac and Lynzee briefly reconstitute themselves to wrap up the highs and lows of both Anime Expo 2019 AND the Summer 2019 anime season!
ANNCast - Relaxing in Terminal Dogma
June 28, 2019 20:39 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBZac and Lynzee hang out with the enormous crucified torso of Lilith for a super chill discussion about Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion, which you may have heard is available on Netflix now. Join us, won't you?
ANNCast - Otter Pops
June 21, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBZac and Lynzee chime in on an entire ocean of pop cultural artifacts, including Shin Godzilla, Attack on Titan, Demon Slayer, Sailor Moon, and the ending of Sarazanmai!
ANNCast - Bursting the Bubble with Lance Heiskell
April 19, 2019 19:33 - 1 hour - 53.2 MBIndustry veteran and former Funimation Director of Marketing Lance Heiskell takes a magical and occasionally terrifying journey through his storied career during the American anime DVD bubble of the mid-2000s. Strap in!
ANNCast - Bringing Up The Rear
April 12, 2019 18:16 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBZac and Jacob devour the Spring 2019 Season whole, from Fruits Basket to Isekai Quartet to the absolutely bugnuts Sarazanmai! Plus: movie chat, Penguin Highway and much more.
ANNCast - Discoteknocracy
April 05, 2019 17:30 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBDiscotek production guru, Answerman and erstwhile ANNCast host Justin Sevakis returns to tell some terrifying behind-the-scenes stories from the wild world of anime bluray production.
ANNCast - Jaeger Meisters
March 22, 2019 19:19 - 47 minutes - 22.1 MBZac and returning guest Lynzee Loveridge suck all the life out of P.A. Works' original vampire anime Sirius the Jaeger, wade through the giant catalog of vampire anime and ponder the fleeting nature of Netflix anime.
ANNCast - The Neverland Band
March 15, 2019 19:24 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBZac and special guest Managing Editor Lynzee Loveridge get trapped inside The Promised Neverland and calculate how long it would take to watch all of One Piece. Plus: most anticipated Spring anime, Captain Marvel and much more!
ANNCast - Brains In A Jar
February 08, 2019 22:31 - 1 hourZac and Jacob have a full report from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez' ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, and it's time once again for videogame chat with Dave and Graziella!
ANNCast Returns
February 01, 2019 21:11 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MBZac and Jacob return from beyond the grave to talk Winter 2019 anime, from Dororo to The Promised Neverland to Hand Shakers 2. PLUS: just a little Alita: Battle Angel and Kingdom Hearts III!
ANNCast - A Monster's Holiday featuring Shawne Kleckner
December 21, 2018 19:15 - 1 hour - 32.3 MBRight Stuf CEO Shawne Kleckner drops by for a fun, in-depth holiday update from the trenches of the anime retail business and THEN Zac and Jacob break down the latest NHK Ghibli documentary, Dragon Ball Super: Broly and much more!
ANNCast - Just Froobin' Over Here
December 08, 2018 00:07 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBZac and Jacob return from beyond the grave to catch up on a big pile of Fall 2018 anime, plus Broly, new Fruits Basket, Evangelion on Netflix and live-action Cowboy Bebop!
ANNCast - The Thing About My Dokes
November 09, 2018 19:19 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBZac and Jacob dive back in to the controversial sequel Madoka Magica: Rebellion for its 5th anniversary and embark on a tour of the writing evolution of Gen Urobuchi through Madoka, Psycho-Pass and Thunderbolt Fantasy!
ANNCast - My Glamorous Vampire Dad
November 02, 2018 19:00 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBZac and Jacob frantically chew their way through Mamoru Hosoda's latest movie Mirai and the second season of Netflix's ambitious and unrelenting Castlevania!
ANNCast - Casually Spooky
October 26, 2018 18:59 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MBJacob's out this week, so Interest editor and monster enthusiast Lynzee Loveridge stops by for a spell to ask: what makes a truly memorable spooky anime? Plus a Fall season update, scary movie breakdown and more!
ANNCast - The Fall of Man
October 12, 2018 21:40 - 1 hour - 33.2 MBZac and Jacob chew their way through a monstrous pile of Fall 2018 anime premieres, from Double Decker to Sword Art Online to Thunderbolt Fantasy and yeah, even some of the bad ones.
ANNCast - We Just Klecked
September 28, 2018 18:49 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBRight Stuf co-founder and president Shawne Kleckner stops by the show to chat up his latest big kickstarter, Emma: A Victorian Romance, plus plenty of fun details about the anime retail landscape in 2018.
ANNCast - Your Eternal Reward
September 21, 2018 18:00 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBKodansha Comics is releasing the Sailor Moon manga all over again, so Manga Answerman Deb Aoki joins the show for a chat with Kodansha editor Lauren Scanlan and superstar translation team Alethea and Athena Nibley for a chat about what it took to put this giant book together.
ANNCast - The Crunchiest Exposition
September 07, 2018 21:46 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBZac and Jacob recap their long weekend at Crunchyroll Expo 2018, digging in to Alita: Battle Angel, Ulysses, Crunchyroll Originals, Yoshitoshi ABe , and even our old pal DARLING in the FRANXX !
ANNCast - Mail's Here
August 31, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBZac and Jacob uncork the mailbox for another round of listener questions - this fall's big anime movies, the third season of Free! , Rumiko Takahashi , live idol events and much more!
ANNCast - Final Franxxtasy
August 24, 2018 17:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBZac and Jacob claw their way out of the center of the earth just in time to finally talk about the Darling in the Franxx finale. PLUS: Planet With, Otakon 2018, Star Blazers 2199 and a whole lot more!
ANNCast Live at Otakon 2018
August 17, 2018 17:40 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBANNCast is back with the audio from our panel at Otakon 2018, featuring special guest Mike Toole! Zac and Mike take a quick tour of 20 years of ANN history, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
ANNCast - A Quick One While He's Away
June 29, 2018 20:33 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBWe're losing our minds preparing for AX and the Summer 2018 Preview Guide, but we still had time to talk about the last couple weeks of Franxx, Full Metal Panic, a couple summer movies and more!