Spring 2026 - First Episodes!

Welcome, welcome! We're back with more new shows from this season and let's just say that a lot of them take place in high school. Also, your favorite segment, "Is it porn" is back... though this is an anime podcast so I probably should have called it "Is it hentrai". Please forgive the error. Shows covered on this episode: The Classroom of a Black Cat and a Witch, Even a Replica Can Fall in Love, Fist of the Northstar: Hokuto No Ken, Haibara's Teenage New Game+, I Want To End This Love Game, Ingoku Danchi: Deviant's Apartment Complex, Kill Blue, Killed Again Mr. Detective, Kirio Fanclub, Mao, Marika's Love Meter Malfunction and Yowayowa Sensei.

Welcome, welcome!! Spring is in the air, allergies are in the air, anime is in the air... we cover a ton of first episodes for you to enjoy, so many that I didn't feel like typing it and I'm hoping Spotify's goddamn AI will help with that.

It is time for the winter 2026 anime cour wrap. I think any season with JJK is bound to leave us feeling wiped out and make it hard to even remotely care about all the first episodes we began, but we finish with 17 shows collectively. Also, the return of the poll! Please fill it out it's a dozy with multiple, muliple options!Shows covered on this episode: Oshi No Ko, An Adventurer's Grind at age 29, Anyway I'm Falling In Love With You, The Case Book of Arne, Chained Soilder, The Daily Life of the Immortal King, Does It Cound If YOu Lose Your Innocence to an Android, Hana-Kimi, Jack-of-all-Trades Party of One, Journal with Witch, Jujutsu Kaisen, Kunon the Sorcerer Can See, A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans, Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games To Put Food on teh Table, You Can't Be In A Rom-Com with Your Childhood Friends

Welcome, welcome! We're getting back to our bi-weekly ways and man do we have a theme for you... bad romance and lust, and men confused about their sexual identity. That's the theme, its a weird week!Shows covered on this episode include: Anyway I'm Falling IN Love With You, Baki-Dou: The Invincible Samurai, Chained Soldier, Does It Count If You Lose Your Innocence to an Android? Hana-Kimi, Jujutsu Kaisen, The discussion began with a brief mention of Diet Cherry Coke or Coke Zero before transitioning to an energy drink called Coke Energy, Cherry Coke Energy, which the speaker lamented was being discontinued. The conversation then shifted to a recent staycation where the speaker completed 28 tasks around the house, including reorganizing a closet and a storage room and getting rid of many items through donation. The one task the speaker did not accomplish was dealing with their children's artwork and school papers, as a scanning service they planned to use changed its business model to exclude school paperwork, prompting the speaker to plan on buying their own scanner. This led to a brief story about one of the speaker's children who tries to avoid wearing socks to school because socks are associated with attending school. The speakers then began their anime show, Let's Anime, with a discussion about changing the opening format because the host is "tired of telling everyone [their] personal stuff" and teased drama at work. They then discussed the anime Hanakimi, about a girl pretending to be a boy in an all-boys school, and Chain Soldier season two, which was characterized by a "lust or something" theme and frequent sexual content, including a scene involving a "forced reward system" where the main male character is treated like a dog by the Supreme Commander. The reward system later featured French kissing with a topless girl and her mother "sandwiching" the protagonist, all while the mother insisted her reluctant daughter properly perform the reward.

Welcome, welcome! We're back with our second round of first episodes and really we talk about more than the first episodes unless they sucked. Anyway, we're back on schedule and thank you for waiting!

Welcome, welcome! The year... 26, the anime... plenty. We have a bunch of first episode for you from this insanely loaded winter cour. Second seasons, third seasons, things that should exist, things that shouldn't. Sex with androids, laundry, children in dumb hats, everything and more is covered on this part 1 of the culling game, wait part 1 of the winter first episodes.

Welcome, welcome! 2026 has already started, but we're here to recap the best and the worst of 2025 before we start a very strong winter season of anime. You can find our full list at ComicBastards.com after you've listened to the episode or if you would just prefer to read it and miss out on all the antics and jokes.

Welcome, welcome! It's our wrap show in which we talk about and score the shows we finished during the fall cour. In a rare occurance, Lindsay came in first with a solid ten shows, with Dustin lagging behind with seven. What a terrible season of anime. If you wait for the end you'll hear some of the shows we're already looking forward to for the winter!Shows covered on this episode: Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Forget That Night, Your Majesty, Hands off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun, Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?!, May I Ask for One Final Thing?, My Status as an Assassin Obviously Exceeds the Hero's, One-Punch Man, Plus-sized Misadventures in Love!, Spy Family, Ranma 1/2, Style of Hiroshi Nohara's Lunch, Tales of Wedding Rings, This Monster Wants to Eat Me, Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider, With You, Our Love Will Make It Through, Yano-kun's Ordinary Days

Welcome, welcome! It's that awkward week in which shows haven't wrapped, holidays are upon us and we need to figure out our best and worst list of the year... so what better time to cover the recently home released Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc! Granted, one of us already saw it, but now we both have and that's twice as good. Lots of spoilers, like seriously we don't care if you haven't seen the movie so don't pass gas our way if you listen to this episode before watching the movie for some damn reason.

Welcome, welcome... we don't talk about Thanksgiving. If you heard otherwise, then just listen to the previous episode. What we actually talk about is May I Ask For One Final Thing?, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Hero Without a Class: Who Even Needs Skills?!, Yano-kun's Ordinary Days, One-Punch Man, Hands off: Sawaranaide Kotesashi-kun