Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast
157 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBcom, Leo, and Kat break down the best anime of the current season week-to-week.
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Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #135 - Angry Goth Horses in Your Neighborhood
July 21, 2020 21:19Kat, Leo, and Bcom return to cover the anime that aired during Week 8 of the Spring 2020 season. In the latest episode of Wave, Listen to Me, we learn the hilarious story behind Minare’s strange name. Shinako is finally starting to confront her true feelings for Rikuo, while Rikuo wonders why he’s relieved that they haven’t take things to the next level, in the latest episode of Sing Yesterday. My Next Life as a Villainness engages in some isekai-ception, which has us wondering how deep the l...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #134 - Truck-kun Has Retroactively Isekai'd You
July 10, 2020 16:00Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back to chat about anime that aired during Week 7 of the Spring 2020 season. Our discussion of Wave, Listen to Me notes the reference to the movie In the Realm of the Senses, but Bcom forgets to mention that this was based on the real-life story of murderous Japanese geisha Sada Abe. We don’t necessarily love the way Yesterday wo Utatte keeps treading water, but we do love the new shmup-styled ED. We learn retroactively that truck-kun claimed another victim – the villai...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #133 - Flying With Your Balls and Midseason Cuts
June 08, 2020 18:47Leo, Kat and Bcom are back to chat about anime that aired during Week 6 of the Spring 2020 season. It’s midseason again, and that means it’s time to decide which shows to keep, and which shows to drop as we move forward. Things are getting awfully fishy in the latest episode of Wave, Listen to Me, and we pitch the idea for a new product called “gamer girl kuchikamizake.” We rave about Rikuo’s ex-girlfriend, Chika, in Sing “Yesterday” and wonder how we’d react if our ex-partners forced their w...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #132 - Bakarina's Harem is Basically a Pokédex
June 06, 2020 16:59Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back to talk about anime that aired during Week 5 of the Spring 2020 season. The latest episode of Wave, Listen to Me was ruined by turtle poop. A romantic rival for Haru appears in Sing Yesterday, and Bcom grows somewhat more irritated by both Shinako and Haru for falling into the same unproductive patterns. Bakarina wins over the main heroine’s mother with some farming and kindness. Gleipnir continues to depict the sweatiest legs in anime. Arisa meets a new Souma, and...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #131 - 90s Windows Were Weaker
June 01, 2020 16:40Bcom, Leo, and Kat are back to chat about anime that aired during Week 4 of the Spring 2020 season. Minare continues to fend off Nakahara’s romantic advances until a strange, opportunistic woman shows up at the curry restaurant in Wave, Listen to Me. Bcom was very confused about a Rikuo doppelganger in the latest episode of Sing Yesterday. Bakarina continues to be oblivious to the effect she’s having on the people around her, and continues to strategize to avoid being exiled from the magical ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #130 - You Don't Deserve That Umbrella
May 24, 2020 22:53Leo, Kat and Bcom are back to chat about anime that aired during Week 3 of the Spring 2020 season. Minare discovers she isn’t the high-functioning drunk she always believed she was in the latest episode of Wave, Listen to Me. Episode 3 of Sing Yesterday convinces Bcom that Haru is a more multi-dimensional character than he had initially thought, and we all have a lot to say about this developing love quadrangle. The “Villainess” Katarina adds another girl to her growing harem before jumping i...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #129 - Spring 2020 First Impressions
May 09, 2020 01:21Kat, Bcom, and Leo kick off the Spring 2020 anime season with a discussion of the way the Coronavirus pandemic has affected the anime industry, and then move on to discuss the best shows still airing this season. While the season has been significantly reduced in size by delays, there is still plenty to get excited about! Stay tuned to the end of the episode where we vote on the top eight shows that we’ll be following throughout Spring. Recorded May 4, 2020. Timestamps: 1:51 - Nonsense (Bc...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #128 - Winter 2020 Wrap-up and Final Scores
April 29, 2020 13:30Leo, Kat, and Bcom are back to finish off the Winter 2020 anime season with reviews of episodes from weeks 12 and 13. We have a lot of nonsense to talk about since we haven’t recorded for a few weeks and we’ve seen a lot of good, and bad, things in the meantime. We review the final episodes of all the anime we followed, and also talk briefly about some shows we watched outside of the podcast. Finally, we give our final scores and thoughts on the shows we watched in Winter season, and look for...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #127 - Taichi's Rudderless Ship
April 26, 2020 15:30Bcom, Leo and Kat are back to break down the 11th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. Bcom breaks down an enormously impactful episode of Chihayafuru 3 where Chihaya and Taichi finally hash out their feelings. Hearing the buzzing sound of a drone in Eizouken gave Leo traumatic flashbacks of drone attacks in Call of Duty. We finally discover the identity of John Walker in an information-packed episode of ID: Invaded. Dorohedoro gives us key character backstory with En’s own hype movie, but a...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #126 - An I.D. Crisis Within an Id Well
April 25, 2020 17:49Kat, Bcom, and Leo return to talk about the 10th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. After watching Chihayafuru, Leo suggests that anime girls could just microwave chocolates for Valentine’s Day, and it’s not even that hard. The Eizouken girls channel their Studio Ghibli counterparts as they close in on finishing their final animation project. Narihisago tries to determine his true reality in the id well within an id well that he inhabits for over a year in ID: Invaded. Kat proposes the que...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #125 - Perpetually Stuck in Class B Yaoi
April 24, 2020 19:55Leo, Kat, and Bcom are back to discuss the 9th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. An intense showdown between Taichi and Arata triggers Kat’s yaoi alarms. It turns out the Eizouken club is just as underpaid as real-life animators are for the extreme amount of work they do. We begin to piece together the endgame of ID: Invaded as several revelations come to light. Bcom re-watches Dorohedoro several times to make sense of the latest info-packed episode. He also bangs his head against a wall ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #124 - Become as Machine Gods
April 23, 2020 17:11Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back to break down the 8th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. We admonish Arata for not practicing social distancing in the latest episode of Chihayafuru. Leo has some unique issues with Tsubame’s manta ray costume for the cultural festival, in what is otherwise one of Eizouken’s best episodes yet. If ID: Invaded wasn’t already similar enough to Inception, they find an id well within an id well this episode. Kat makes sense of the convoluted series of events leading ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #123 - The Peace Sharks' Shocking Victory
March 28, 2020 15:34Kat, Bcom, and Leo are back to break down the 7th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. This episode contains some hilariously outdated takes on Coronavirus. We were all so optimistic back in early March. Bcom is disappointed that the Queen match doesn’t get enough focus in the latest episode of Chihayafuru. We learn about Tsubame’s long history of studying human movements and how it informs her animation in Eizouken. ID: Invaded reveals the identity of the main villain, John Walker, but we g...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #122 - Magical Muffholes and Midseason Cuts
March 21, 2020 02:25Leo, Bcom, and Kat are back to break down the 6th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. It’s midseason, so after our normal reviews we also talk about other shows we’ve been keeping up with this season, as we decide on any midseason cuts we want to make. Recorded March 2-3, 2020. Timestamps: 1:28 - Nonsense (No Leo’s Sky runs into technical issues but he also learns how to break the game’s economy wide open, Bcom watches the second Girls und Panzer das Finale movie, Kat does battle with h...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #121 - The Mystery of the Ball State Larping Disaster
March 14, 2020 07:17Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back to break down the 5th week of the Winter 2020 anime season. Bcom talks about Chihayafuru, but his voice floats into a soundless void where no one but Shinobu can hear him. We get into a discussion about the safety concerns at the Eizouken girls’ school, which leads Leo to debunk a myth about Kat’s university. During our conversation about ID: Invaded, we figure out what the results of drilling holes in your head has in common with the plots of Beastars and American...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #120 - Unrealistic Wolf Licking
March 08, 2020 01:27Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back to talk about the 4th week of the Winter 2020 anime season! Bcom recaps the lead-up to the Meijin and Queen match in the latest episode of Chihayafuru. We argue over whether Eizouken’s imagination sequences are worthwhile or whether the show would be more effective in a documentary format. Bcom breaks down how ID: Invaded references an early 20th century detective story this episode. Dorohedoro goes balls to the wall with some of its craziest plot developments and ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #119 - Children of the Porn
February 22, 2020 20:16Leo, Bcom, and Kat are back to talk about the 3rd week of the Winter 2020 anime season! We chat about the Heian period practice of “morning after” poems, stemming from the latest episode of Chihayafuru. Bcom loved the Eizouken club’s conflict over prioritizing rule-of-cool or sakuga animation for their first project, although Sayaka’s steel chompers distracted Leo. ID:INVADED still has us arguing over how to pronounce the title. The cast of Dorohedoro basically find themselves in a George Ro...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #118 - Winter 2020 First Impressions - Part 2
February 18, 2020 15:18Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back with the second half of their first impressions of the Winter 2020 anime season! There are a lot of trashy shows to be covered among the anime that premiered a bit later in the season, but we do our best to find some hidden gems hiding beneath Funimation’s rejection pile. Certain shows always manage to rise To The Top, and The Wall commands you to stay tuned until the end of the podcast when we vote for our 8 favorite shows this season! Recorded February 16, 2020....
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #117 - Winter 2020 First Impressions - Part 1
February 12, 2020 22:01Bcom, Kat and Leo break down their first impressions of the Winter 2020 anime season! We start off by providing updates on longer running shows like Chihayafuru, Black Clover, and My Hero Academia. Then we dive into the first half of Winter anime, with some stand-outs being the Madoka Magica spin-off, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, ID:INVADED, and BOFURI. We’ll be back soon with the second half of Winter impressions, and our final picks for shows to follow this season! Recorded February 5, 20...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #116 - Fall 2019 Wrap-up and Final Scores
February 11, 2020 02:33Leo, Bcom, and Kat are back to finish off the Fall 2019 anime season and give you their final scores. This episode serves as a recap for the entire second half of the Fall 2019 season, as we were forced to skip several podcasts in December 2019. That means we have A LOT to say in this episode, so kick back and enjoy! Recorded January 7, 2020. Timestamps: 1:00 - All Apologies 4:14 - Nonsense (Kat pounds mochi, Bcom and Kat bitch about The Rise of Skywalker, Bcom raves about Parasite, Leo’...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #115 - Oberstein's Expired Dairy Milk
February 11, 2020 01:39Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back…from the future…with a review of weeks 3 and 4 of the Fall 2019 anime season. As you’ll hear Leo say at the beginning of this episode, we were “trying to catch up,” but we totally didn’t. This episode was delayed for various reasons, but mostly because Bcom had a lot on his plate towards the end of 2019 and couldn’t get the episode edited. Despite the tardiness of the episode, we hope our listeners will still enjoy our early thoughts on the shows we chose to follow...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #114 - Fall 2019 First Impressions - Part 2
November 27, 2019 21:25Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back with the second half of their first impressions of the Fall 2019 anime season! Bcom kicks off the podcast by dishing out info on all of the anime screenings he saw in or around AnimeNYC. These included Konosuba – Legend of Crimson, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Fragtime, and Weathering With You. Then we cover the second half of new premieres for the season. Bcom explains why Kandagawa Jet Girls is the greatest anime of our generation. The Stars have aligned, wheth...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #113 - Fall 2019 First Impressions - Part 1
November 26, 2019 23:36Bcom, Kat and Leo give their first impressions on the Fall 2019 anime season! In the first half of the episode we cover shows that we’re continuing from last season – Dr. STONE and Vinland Saga – as well as Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These, which we have covered previously. Then we move on to break down the first two episodes of about half of the new shows that have aired. If you don’t see a show from the new season covered here, check out part 2 of our Fall impressions in the ne...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #112 - Summer 2019 Wrap-up and Final Scores
November 13, 2019 22:10Leo, Bcom, and Kat are back to finish up the Summer 2019 anime season! We break down the finales of all the shows we’ve covered this season and give our thoughts on a few other shows we watched outside of the podcast. Stay tuned for the end where we give out final scores and recommendations for the best anime of the season. Also, please excuse Kat’s new kitten who makes his presence KNOWN throughout the podcast. Recorded October 28, 2019. Timestamps: 1:04 - Nonsense (Bcom play...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #111 - There Were Elevens
November 04, 2019 20:59Kat, Leo, and Bcom discuss the 11th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! Bcom compares the 1986 anime They Were Eleven with its modern counterpart, Astra Lost in Space. The Dumbbell girls celebrate New Years by walking up and ungodly number of steps. The Maidens decide it’s time to protest the oppressive regime at their school, so they can let their freak flags fly! Tanjirou gets the help of some little butterfly girls who help him stretch, train, and breathe in an effort to level up to be a...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #110 - Japan's Gay Barista Conspiracy
November 01, 2019 15:46Bcom, Kat, and Leo discuss the 10th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! Bcom kicks things off by reviewing Studio 3Hz’s latest project, Blackfox: a totally decent movie. We propose ethical solutions to Japan’s birthrate issues during Kat’s recap of Dumbbell episode 10, and otherwise generally complain about some dumb developments. The Maidens start pushing the sexual tension to the max as emotions reach their peak in all of their relationships, and they find the confidence to make their mov...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #109 - Thorkell the Log Dropper
October 21, 2019 20:19Leo, Bcom, and Kat discuss the 9th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! During our Dumbbell discussion, Kat tells us what her bodybuilder friend thought about the episode, and we also talk about how impossible it is to open jars. The Maidens are getting all lovey-dovey and it seems like everything is going well with their Little Princes, but rest assured, these girls aren’t alright. This week’s episode of Demon Slayer was a gigantic info dump introducing the Hashira, and putting poor little ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #108 - Shrinking Girls are Anime's Hot New Trend
October 14, 2019 23:12Kat, Leo and Bcom discuss the 8th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! This week the Dumbbell girls climb a haunted mountain and, like meat, it went bad. The Maidens explore how many confessions they can pack into just one episode. Nezuko’s cute shrinking powers beg the question of whether she can grow to the size of a Gundam and stomp all the demons underneath her giant feet. This week’s episode of Astra turns into that one comic panel of Spider-Man pointing at other Spider-Man, as the show...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #107 - Our Stone Future is Shiny and Chrome
September 26, 2019 21:32Bcom, Kat, and Leo are here to break down the 7th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! We kick off the podcast with some thoughts from Bcom and Kat about Trigger’s latest film, PROMARE. In this week’s anime, Dumbbell has become an idol show, and Kat is not amused. The Maidens have a very jiggly pillow fight to express their growing frustration with each other. After Tanjiro’s huge battle with Rui, Demon Slayer starts delving into the tragic backstory of the pretend spider family that Rui has...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #106 - The Time Hath Come for Russian Girls and Midseason Cuts
September 20, 2019 08:27Leo, Bcom and Kat are back to review the 6th week of the Summer 2019 anime season and to make their midseason cuts! We kick off our nonsense with Kat’s cautionary tale of partying so hard in Montreal that she gave herself a fever of 103 with a side of strep throat. Leo continues to experience multiplayer issues with Remnant from the Ashes. Bcom beat Control and had a great time with it, with some minor drawbacks. When we finally around to talking about anime, Dumbbell’s arm-wrestling episode ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #105 - A Savage Season of Unfortunate Locks
September 08, 2019 12:19Kat, Leo and Bcom are back to review the 5th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! We kick things off with Kat ranting about her hilariously awful experience with Groupon customer service. Leo updates us on his continuing trouble with Remnant of the Ashes, and Bcom reviews then 1979 anime adaptation of Anne of Green Gables. Once we get into weekly anime, it’s time to get in running shape for the Dumbbell girls, which means working hamstrings and abdominal muscles, to embrace their inner Flo-J...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #104 - A 50-page Essay Raining Down Cute
September 03, 2019 16:53Bcom, Kat and Leo are back to discuss the 4th week of the Summer 2019 anime season! We kick it off with a bunch of gaming nonsense, and Bcom and Kat both ask listeners for gaming recommendations in a packed late August game release calendar. Once we move onto anime, in Dumbbell, we are puzzled by how different Silverman’s Gym’s operation is from the gyms we know and frequent in the United States. Leo’s not sure if he knows enough words to fill 50 pages like Rika’s love interest in O Maidens. ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #103 - Given's Singing Shakes Us to Our Core
August 27, 2019 12:14Leo, Bcom, and Kat are back to chat about the 3rd week of the Summer 2019 anime season! A cosplaying teacher joins the dumbbell squad in the latest episode, and we talk a lot about your biceps brachii muscle. In the latest Episode of O Maidens, Kazusa realizes that Izumi watches porn, but is at least reassured that it’s porn related to his transportation otaku hobbies. Kat launches her “Demon Slayer is actually a BL” political campaign, and to be fair she has some strong evidence. The latest ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #102 - Summer 2019 First Impressions
August 16, 2019 11:23Kat, Bcom, and Leo are here with their first impressions of the Summer 2019 anime season! Stick around to the end where we vote on the eight shows we’ll be following for at least the first half of the season, and listen to the mayhem that ensues when all three of us go rogue with our locks. Recorded August 10-13, 2019. Timestamps: Continuing shows: 1:19 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Eps. 14-15) 11:39 - Fruits Basket (2019) (Eps. 13-14) 21:02 - Carole & Tuesday (Eps. 13-14) New sho...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #101 - Golden Experience Gets Rolling Stoned
August 04, 2019 22:56Bcom, Kat and Leo are back with a mini-episode to finish off the final three episodes of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5: Golden Wind. This last trio of episodes was certainly experience, but it wasn’t quite golden. We also discuss Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Destiny 2, The Banner Saga, and Gencon. Recorded August 4, 2019. Timestamps: 2:12 - Nonsense (Bcom has been playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Leo updates us on the Destiny 2 Shadowkeep DLC delay and why it’s a positive thing and how ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #100 - One Hundred Episodes of Nonsense
August 02, 2019 23:43ONE HUNDRED EPISODES! The Nerdom cast celebrates making it to their first major podcast milestone with an episode that is ALL NONSENSE! Bcom talks about his new deep dive into Marvel comic books. Kat breaks down her experience at the biggest anime con of the year, Anime Expo, and the premieres of Promare and No Longer Human. Leo updates us on some of the weirder things going on in his life and in his neighborhood. Then, in the second half of the podcast we answer a whole bunch of listener-sub...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #099 - Spring 2019 Wrap-up and Final Scores
July 27, 2019 07:39Kat, Leo and Bcom finish up the Spring 2019 anime season with our thoughts on each finale individually, as well as the season as a whole. After the initial recording, news of the Kyoto Animation fire hit, which Bcom takes some time to address at the beginning of the episode. As a heads up, during our review of the final episode of Dororo, there is some discussion of death by fire and/or smoke inhalation, which you may want to skip. The Dororo segment runs from 1:04:37 to 1:25:20 if you would ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #098 - I Want to Connect, but I am an Abstract Concept
July 19, 2019 11:27Bcom, Kat, and Leo discuss week 11 of the Spring 2019 anime season. Bcom leads off the podcast with a rave retro review of the first season of Sailor Moon while Kat details her plans for Anime Expo. We jump into a debate about how much Fruits Basket’s Tohru can give of herself to others before it becomes self-harming. It’s about that time in JoJo to start getting really confused about what’s going on, but we do our best to make sense of Chariot Requiem and his arrow of doom. Demon Slayer intr...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #097 - Shingeki no Origin Story
July 04, 2019 05:08Leo, Bcom, and Kat discuss week 10 of the Spring 2019 anime season. Bcom kicks things off by poking some fun at Netflix’ new translation of Evangelion. Kat strategizes the best way to give a boy Valentine’s Day chocolates in our discussion of Fruits Basket. The cast of JoJo have an out of body experience in the latest episode and Mista learns the pain of wearing cute panties. We debate whether the crow or a soon-to-be-introduced character from Demon Slayer is the most annoying character of th...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #096 - Kat Unleashes the Lion's Roar
July 01, 2019 23:00Kat, Leo, and Bcom discuss week 9 of the Spring 2019 anime season. In the latest episode of Fruits Basket, the zodiac cow is able to hide in plain sight to the annoyance of Kat. Jojo’s Polnareff apologizes for assuming a character’s gender, which is quite progressive for when this manga was actually written. Bcom breaks down temari and kemari in an action-packed episode of Demon Slayer. Dororo has gone a lot of weird places, but now it has pokemon apparently too. And finally, in Attack on Tit...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #095 - Hange Zoe Goggles Off
June 20, 2019 02:25Bcom, Kat, and Leo discuss week 8 of the Spring 2019 anime season. We kick things off with a bit of an E3 wrap-up and our thoughts about the current state of the console wars. Kat then chats about her convention coffee nightmare, and how she whipped her co-worker into shape, both of which are certainly related acts. Once we get into anime, Leo is growing a bit bored of Fruits Basket, which continues to be somewhat directionless. An old JoJo character shows up in Golden Wind in a Silver Chario...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #094 - Muda Muda Muda Muda Rockin' Everywhere
June 09, 2019 15:47Leo, Bcom and Kat discuss week 7 of the Spring 2019 anime season. This week we break down the double announcement of Google Stadia and a Destiny 2 expansion, which left us with polar opposite impressions. We jump into Fruits Basket episode 7, where Spring comes, Winter melts, and Kat can’t handle any of it. The latest episode of JoJo delivers on a fan-favorite moment from the manga with the help of the Muda Muda Staff. Bcom nitpicks the living hell out of the latest episode of Demon Slayer, w...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #093 - Sneks in the City
June 05, 2019 17:12Kat, Leo, and Bcom discuss week 6 of the Spring 2019 anime season. It’s the halfway point of the season, which means it’s time to debate midseason cuts, which you can find towards the end of the podcast. Before we jump into anime, Leo talks about how he literally couldn’t see the monsters in the latest Godzilla movie. Kat is more concerned about the anatomical intricacies of a Mothra-Godzilla pairing. We also chat about a pair of Russia-centric TV shows in The Americans and Chernobyl that Bco...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #092 - Wa ha ha!
May 28, 2019 00:31Bcom, Kat and Leo discuss week 5 of the Spring 2019 anime season. It turns out we all saw John Wick 3 this week, so we start out by raving about how fun the third installment of the franchise was. We move on to Fruits Basket, where Tohru is away from the Souma household for much less time than we initially expected. Bcom is annoyed that JoJo’s part 5 has basically given us the equivalent of “Stand midichlorians,” in a completely unnecessary explanation of the origin of Stand powers. Demon Sla...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #091 - Dororo Does the Baby Shark Dance
May 27, 2019 01:43Leo, Kat and Bcom discuss week 4 of the Spring 2019 anime season. Fruits Basket introduces us to the newest member of the zodiac family, the boar, whose tsundere antics annoyed Bcom. Kat imagines what it would be like having her mouth sewn shut as we discuss the latest episode of JoJo, where we lost one of our heroes. Tanjiro learns how to use his water vaping techniques to defeat his first major demon. While Bcom was horrified by the carnage of the pet sharks in episode 16 of Dororo, Kat, an...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #090 - Leo's Chives Casket
May 16, 2019 21:31Kat, Leo and Bcom return to break down the 3rd week of the Spring 2019 anime season! After an intro where Kat channels her perfect impression of Laura Bailey’s Tohru Honda, Bcom kicks off the nonsense section by warning people off SAO: Alicization, and raving about Nichijou. Kat gives her spoiler-filled thoughts on the 3rd and 4th episodes of the final season of Game of Thrones. She then somehow traumatizes herself by comparing Kyou’s “dud” rice balls with Bertie Bott’s booger-flavored beans ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #089 - Spring 2019 First Impressions
May 12, 2019 02:54Bcom, Leo and Kat are back with their first impressions of the Spring 2019 anime season! We kick things off with a short spoiler discussion of Avengers: Endgame, which we were all dying to chat about. Then we dive into this anime season, which despite having fewer shows airing overall than in Winter, still has some major standouts that we’re excited about. Of course, it also contains some absolute steaming piles of trash, which we take great pleasure in ripping to pieces. Stick around to the ...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #088 - Winter 2019 Wrap-up and Final Scores
May 06, 2019 01:19Leo, Kat and Bcom close out Winter 2019 with reviews of the 12th and final week of the anime season. We finished off the last two episodes of Mob Psycho II, which left us wishing the show had kept the tone of the first half of the season, rather than switching half-way through. Run With the Wind defied our expectations and gave us a very satisfying ending to the running boys’ journey. Kemurikusa hinted at a potential sequel while also wrapping up the emotional arc of the narrative in a neat w...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #087 - Breathing in the Fumes of Chevy Tahoumaru
April 26, 2019 18:00Kat, Leo, and Bcom are back to discuss week 11 of the Winter 2019 anime season. Mob continues to preach philosophy to villains we don’t really care about as we struggle to care about anything outside the brilliantly animated fights of Mob Psycho II’s 11th episode. Run With the Wind sprints forward with King passing the sash onto Kakeru who enters another running dimension, which Kat think just sounds painful. Bcom is blown away by just how well Kemurikusa brought all of the threads of its sci...
Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #086 - Dororo and the Lakebed of Doom
April 25, 2019 21:32Bcom, Kat, and Leo are back for week 10 of the Winter 2019 anime season. We weren’t that pleased with this week’s episode of Mob Psycho, but we did get some great advice from Kat to the youth of the world, and learned about Chinese Hopping Vampires. Run With the Wind focused on Yuki and Nico’s sections of the final race, and we had some handy advice for Yuki’s mom and Leo asks which guy of the group Kat would bang if given the opportunity. This of course transitions into Kat asking which of t...