After 10,000 years I'm freeeeeeeeee! Time to return to the CoryCast. We haven't done one of these in a minute, but we're excited to bring it back. Cory wrote the entire outline on this episode and is steering the show. This week we've got a bunch of news Cory handpicked that everyone else is sure to be excited about. We've got some news on the Deathnote musical which as of the time of recording has made its London debut. We also find ourselves in the fortunate position to get Nick's...

This week is a single topic for once, we're talking all things Ooku The Inner Chambers. This is a new title coming to us in Netflix based pretty faithfully on the popular manga by the same name. It's a historical drama but with a pretty major caveat that really asks a lot of great questions. With 10 episodes covering roughly half the manga's story we've got a solid look at what if gender roles were reversed in feudal Japan. It's a really interesting idea that's presented pretty beautifully,...

Long titles are the trend now in case you didn't know. This is our normal powercast though, you probably know how it goes by now. We're gonna rank all the new and returning titles this season, we're gonna put them in a less than arbitrary tier system, and then we're gonna pick one or two  from each tier to talk about in a little more detail and maybe figure out why they landed where they are. As always these rankings are pretty likely to change over the course of the season, so you can stay...

We actually mean it this time we do have a slightly shorter episode for y'all this week. We're still in awe of the most recent episode of Jujutsu Kaisen so we wanted to dig into it a little bit. Does the show deserve the hype? Is season two stacking up how we want it to? Some shit went down this week so you bet we gotta talk about it. We're getting all up in there and unpacking it for the first of probably many times over this 24 episode run. From there we're taking a look back at last...

No for real though, it's actually not bad. The Summer season can be kind of a mixed bag aside from big flashy shonen titles, but we're pleased to report there's a little bit of something for everybody this season. We're not going to  be able to hit every new show this season for first impressions, but we've highlighted a couple that might be worth your time for good or maybe more nefarious reasons. No matter how you slice it there's plenty to watch this summer whether your jam is lovesick...

All jokes aside, Oshi No Ko was really damn good, but so were a bunch of other shows this season so we're gonna tell you about em. You probably know how it works at this point, we're gonna go through our rankings for the season, highlight the top 5 new and returning series and then give you the bullet points for the rest of them. From there we've got our awards to hand out, some recognizable categories you might see in another awards thing, and then a bunch of categories we made up because we...

As you may or may not know Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village arc just concluded with its hour long epic finale episode for the season. We've talked a lot about it this season, but we're summarizing our thoughts here as well as getting into some good details about the finale itself, so spoilers are inbound you have been warned. Before we can get to that though, we've got a sneak preview at the summer season. We've got a whole bunch of really great looking returning series, cough cough Jujutsu...

Hey We've got a whole bunch of news dropping this week and  Cory is particularly excited for both personal and podcast related things, so listen in to find out what. We got new Persona news, Misfit of Demon Kin Academy, Rascal Boy Does Not Dream of Various Things, as well as a whole slew of new premieres announced and feature length finales to boot. From there we're diving into anime villains and what makes them good. We've had kind of an ongoing discussion about shonen action series so we...

Spring is pretty rapidly drawing to a close and we've been eating pretty good this season. We've had a lot of solid shows to keep up on, but this episode is largely dedicated to shows that maybe still had the jury out on them or maybe didn't get the hype they deserved. We're still talking about some of the big names this season like Hell's Paradise and Demon Slayer but we're also revisiting some of those titles that may have slipped under the radar or quietly faded into obscurity as the...

We have sort of a Yuri double feature for you this week as we'll be talking about Yuri is My Job which definitely counts and Mobile Suit Gundam Witch From Mercury which in our opinions should also kind of count at least for the purposes of naming this episode. Both of  these titles have left quite an impression on us this season so we're doing a deep dive to figure out just why GWitch is so appealing to us. From there rather than just talk about Yuri is My Job we're taking a look at Studio...

Power Rankings are done and we can breathe a brief sigh of relief. This week on the show we're going in depth on Oshi No Ko, the new idol show that is taking the internet by storm and demanding a great deal of our attention. A lot of people are pretty hype on this show, but we're particularly interested in its portrayal of the idol and entertainment industry in general as well as what separates it from all of the other idol type shows that have come before it. From there we get into Nick's...

It may seem weird to jump straight from first impressions into the Powercast, but whatever we're doing it and there's nothing stopping us. This season has some absolute banger new titles, and enough heat in the returning section to really demand all of our free time. There are a ton of shows to watch this season and at least half of them are pretty good. With the likes of Oshi no Ko and Demon Slayer there's truly something for every kind of anime fan and we are all eating good this spring. It...

That's right not only are we giving you our review of Makoto Shinkai's newest work, Suzume, we're also covering the Kaguya-Sama movie that dropped a couple of weeks ago. I think it's pretty obvious we were enthused about both Suzume and Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War- The First Kiss That Never Ends, but did they live up to the hype? We'll let you know. We also have the remainder of first impressions for everything for this season except the two titles that haven't dropped yet in this episode....

We've got a pretty stellar season shaping up this Spring, and we've got a boatload of titles already hitting our queues. This episode brings you our first impressions of the first episode of another 12 new titles as well as 6 of the returning titles for the season. This is part 2 of 3 for this season's first impressions before we culminate in the eventual powercast. There are plenty of new fantasy and romance titles as well as some pretty crazy idol shows, so there's plenty for everyone...

Spring has sprung it would seem and we already have a metric shit ton of new and returning titles eagerly vying to monopolize all of our free time. It's the start of a new season so as is tradition we're catching the premiers of everything we can and giving you the elevator pitch on a selection of them before attempting to put them all into one glorious ranking. There's a lot of hype going into this season already, and we've immediately got a few pretty great shows, and one or two that maybe...

Two Awardscasts in a row! Another season has come and gone, and new shows are already threatening to eclipse the titles we just finished watching. All jokes aside Winter was a pretty solid season, and maybe the first time ever we had an isekai show in the top five which feels like personal growth on our end. As always we'll run through our tier list telling you where all your favorites shows new and returning ended up before moving on to the awards part of the show. We've got a couple of...

Finally it's here. 2022 is over and done for real, and we were this close to beating Crunchyroll to the punch and proving our awards show to be the coolest one. In all seriousness due to a couple of titles still finishing their runs and us wanting to include as much as we could we waited until we were good and ready to put this one out. There were a lot of standout titles from 2022 and overall we'd call it a solid year for anime as a whole. This episode is a look back on some of our favorite...

Jim and Pam ain't got nothin on this episode, because we're ranking the top 5, plus a few extra, of the best office romance in anime. Ok real talk this is a somewhat specific genre with only like ten shows that fit the category, but hear us out, there's some good shit in the land of office romances and we want to talk about it. We're also talking the bizarre and potentially frustrating release schedule for Attack on Titan The final part part three the first once removed on its mother's side...

What can we say? February kind of got away from us and between dog health problems, people health problems and some other stuff we took a couple more weeks off than we planned. But we're excited to be back and talking about more anime! This episode we're starting off with a Vibe Check for a bunch of titles we were maybe unsure about in the beginning of the season. We're talking Tomo-chan, Angle Next Door, Tokyo Revengers, and Trigun-Stampede just to name a few. We're a good ways through the...

It's still the middle of winter for us here in the midwest, but a ray of warmth and sunshine has finally arrived it seems. Summertime Rendering has been out for almost a year in Japan and finally Disney has decided to get its act together and release it in the west. We're both pretty stoked on the show and feel it was well worth the wait, but if you need convincing we've got an in depth spoiler free review to get you to watch it. We also had the release of Junji Ito Mainiac: Japanese Tales of...

It's here! Winter 2023 is in full swing and there are 37 new titles and another 18 returning. If you're bad at math that's 55 shows that we watched at least 3 episodes of  and are now ranking based on our own personal preference with a questionable degree of objectivity. If you want to know what we're watching this season as well as a little bit about every new title out right now then this massive episode is a great place to start. Since it's the new year  we'll remind you how this goes,...

Holy crap we actually remembered this title. We've had isekai roundups before, but this is our first annual fantasy jamboree! This is just like any other episode of our first impressions for a new season except it is almost exclusively dedicated to fantasy themed titles this time. We've previewed a couple of fantasy titles in our past two episodes, but we have 10 brand new titles and 5 returning fantasy shows to get into this week so we have you thoroughly covered. It's a surprisingly strong...

It's the second episode of a new year and that can only mean one thing: a whole shit ton more first impressions of all the titles that have dropped recently. There's a lot on offer this season, and a lot of it happens to be high fantasy, so we've gathered all those first impressions to make a mostly fantasy themed first impressions next week. But this week its all the stuff that's not fantasy. We've got weird android idol boy bands, magic playing cards that give you fancy skills, and even a...

Congratulations we've all survived another revolution of this big blue marble and the universe has seen fit to reward us with a new season of anime to momentarily distract us from questioning our existence. We've got another jam packed season full of new titles, everything from Nier, to the Trigun Remake, and a whole slew of fantasy titles with names so long you won't even be able to keep them straight. Naturally we're starting off with our first impressions of a good chunk of what premiered...

Fall 2022, and 2022 in general, has come and gone barring a few delayed titles in the anime world, and oh man was it a pretty great season overall. Maybe even the best of the year, but who can say really? Regardless we've got our final power rankings for the season as well as our usual blend of a few recognizable awards categories and some that are maybe more... unique. We had a whole slew of amazing titles both new and returning this season, so if you wanted to know how your favorites stack...