Heya AvoGamers! We want to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this coming weekend (the 7th or 8th of April, with a slight preference for the 8th) and we’d love to have you contribute. The date/time we record … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #35
I think this thread is supposed to go up on Wednesdays. Or Tuesdays. Who knows? But since no one else stepped in to make it this week, you all have to suffer through an onslaught of Canadian news. Deal with … Continue reading The Leftorium Heads North
Sword Gai: The Animation, the fourth and final series* in Netflix’s March anime deluge, premiered last week, and by all appearances, it’s a shitshow. It might be good for a laugh (or future Rabbiting), though. So instead let’s talk about … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 28th, 2018)
Hey folks! In this installment of the AVoCADo GamesCast, Wolfman Jew, Andy Tuttle, and I play a game where we come up with challenges for video game characters to complete and then decide which character would be the best at … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast Episode #34: The Video Game Olympics
ジェニーハイ (Genie High) is a J-rock supergroup composed of members from Wild Bomb, Tricot, Gesu no Kiwami Otome, and indigo La End. Their debut single,「片目で異常に恋してる」, which Google Translate tells me means “I Fall in Love Abnormally with One Eye,” was … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 21st, 2018)
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- is a science-fiction anime series produced by Studio Bones that premiered on Netflix last week. It tells the story of Aiko Tachibana, a high school student who lost her family in a biological experiment gone awry. I’ve watched … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 14th, 2018)
A new original anime series from Production I.G., the famed studio behind Ghost in the Shell and Psycho-Pass, premiered on Netflix last week. It’s called B: The Beginning, and it’s very much in the vein of the aforementioned two works. … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 7th, 2018)
Heya AvoGamers! We want to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this coming weekend (the 10th or 11th of March) and we’d love to have you contribute. We’re going to record either on Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #34
Hey Avocadoans! Here’s episode #33 of the AVoCADo GamesCast. Join me, Pulprobot, Lord Stoneheart, and podcast newcomer SingingBrakeman as we explore RPGs and their combat systems. You can listen to the podcast with the embedded player above, or you can … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast Episode #33: Battle Condom Anime
Split End is an indie rock band from Nara, Japan. They released their second EP, Night, earlier this month. Here’s the music video for “Siren,” one of the songs from that EP. What have you been watching/reading/eating/playing/listening to lately? Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 28th, 2018)
Darling in the FRANXX is an anime series about kids who love to buttfuck teenagers raised in near-isolation from the outside world to pilot giant anthropomorphic mechs called FRANXX in a seemingly never-ending fight against a race of monsters called … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 21st, 2018)
Shirobako (シロバコ, lit. White Box) is a 2014 24-episode (two 12-episode cours) workplace dramedy produced by P.A. Works, written by Michiko Yokote and directed by Tsutomu Mizushima. Synopsis Shirobako tells the story of five young women who were in the … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Shirobako
Japanese all-woman pop-rock band Scandal released their eighth album, Honey, today. They’ve somehow maintained their popularity from their days as a highly manufactured teenage musical unit handpicked from Osaka vocal and dance school CALESS and given guitars and drums they … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 14th, 2018)
Heya AvoGamers! We want to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this coming weekend (the 17th or 18th of February) and we’d love to have you contribute. On this episode, we’ll be discussing one of the following two … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #33
Hey Avocadoans! Episode 32 of your favourite podcast on the Internet is here for your listening pleasure. Join me, The Kappa, PT, Ben/eternalflesh, and podcast newcomer gwahir as we discuss Nintendo Labo, Assassin’s Creed Origins, platform cross-play, our predictions for … Continue reading Episode #32: The Aussiecast
It seems that every anime season has one utterly trashy series that is somehow worth watching. Past series of this nature have included Keijo!!!!!!!! and Love Tyrant. This season’s surprisingly good trash is Citrus, based on a yuri manga about … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 7th, 2018)
Kakegurui is a serialized manga about a school for children of the elite, where the social hierarchy is determined by the results of gambling games. It was adapted into an anime series by Studio MAPPA last year, and after months … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 31st, 2018)
Based on Go Nagai’s Devilman manga and directed by Masaaki Yuasa, DEVILMAN crybaby premiered on Netflix earlier this month. It tells the story of a high schooler who attends a bacchanalian party that transforms him into a half-man/half-devil. He then … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 24th, 2018)
After a long delay and many technical difficulties (seriously, give The Kappa a round of applause for editing it all together), the 2017 Year-in-Review Community Extravaganza is finally here! Join me, The Kappa, The Radio Cat, Ben, Otakunomike, Pulprobot, Wolfman … Continue reading Episode #31: 2017 Year-in-Review Community Extravaganza
Welcome to another edition of the Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread! This week, we’re spotlighting A Place Further Than The Universe, the story of a teenage girl who recruits three friends to go with her on a journey to Antarctica … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 17th, 2018)
Hey folks! We want to record the next episode the AVoCADo GamesCast next weekend (the 20th or 21st of January), and we’d love to have you contribute. On this episode, we’ll be discussing the games we’re anticipating this year. If … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #32
