Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast #093 - Sneks in the City

Nerdom and Other Nonsense Anime Podcast

Kat, 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 Bcom and Kat recommend checking out. In episode 6 of Fruits Basket, Kat is absolutely livid with Tohru for being a [very naïve person]. Yeah, let’s go with that censoring. It also introduces the trope of the mysterious childhood love interest, which has us all rolling our eyes. Kat continues to demand an explanation for Bruno’s zombie-like state in JoJo, and also questions the Roman police’s lackadaisical response to an apocalypse breaking out in the middle of their city. Demon Slayer’s sound director went a little overboard with the grinding teeth noises of this episode’s multiple personality disordered demon. Kat is shocked at Tanjiro’s incredible acrobatic moves with his big hoop earrings getting in the way. We get distracted by the demon “frog” shark in the latest episode of Dororo, and we complain about taxonomy for a bit. We also manage to disagree on multiple tiny, insignificant aspects of the episode. Bcom is very excited at the confirmation that baseball exists in the Attack on Titan universe. Kat decries the horrible existence of Cockroach Man in the latest episode of One Punch Man, and wonders how deep the psychic connection between Tatsumaki and Hellish Blizzard really goes. She also loses it over the introduction of our latest eponymous hero, Snek. Keppi shows off his pole dancing skills in this week’s Sarazanmai, and the emotional wound between Kazuki and Haruka is finally mended. Carole & Tuesday get the opportunity to perform in front of a huge crowd, but it doesn’t go exactly as planned. As for us, we fell in love with the newly introduced characters of Skip and Crystal who have subtle, but well-established chemistry. Finally, we move into our discussion of potential midseason cuts, and discuss several other shows that we’ve been keeping up with as potential replacements.
Recorded June 3, 2019.
Timestamps:
2:13 - Nonsense (Dauntless, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Americans, HBO’s Chernobyl)
17:17 - Fruits Basket (2019) (Ep. 6)
28:54 - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Ep. 30)
39:08 - Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Ep. 6)
52:54 - Dororo (Ep. 18)
1:11:26 - Commercial Break
1:14:34 - Attack on Titan season 3 Part 2 (Ep. 4 (53))
1:24:44 - One Punch Man season 2 (Ep. 6)
1:42:35 - Sarazanmai (Ep. 6)
1:59:33 - Carole & Tuesday (Ep. 6)
2:15:09 - Potential replacement shows (Hitoribocchi, Ao-chan Can’t Study, Senko-san, Isekai Quartet, Miru Tights, Kono oto Tomare, We Never Learn Bokuben, Wise Man’s Grandchild, Fairy gone, Black Clover, RobiHachi,
2:29:04 - Midseason Cuts
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