Manga Moments – Kaikisen

Today we here at Animetics begin a new (and hopefully regular) podcast consisting of us hanging out and discussing manga. First up is Kaikisen, a single volume story by Satoshi Kon before he became the legendary director he is known as today. Did his talent extend beyond anime? Find out here!

Anime OVA Slaparound: Baldr Force EXE Resolution

This time on the ongoing “Animetics watches whatever” saga, we decided to open BaldrForce.exe on an isolated computer to see what would happen. Short answer: ever been to brick city?

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Pictured: Said computer’s reaction

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Anime Movie Slaparound: Dirty Pair: Project Eden

Dirty Pair was a wildly popular 1980s sci-fi franchise centered around a pair of destructive bounty hunters. In this “whatever-we-just-watched” segment, we’ll be talking about the Lovely Angels’ pulpy, funny franchise movie, Dirty Pair: Project Eden.

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Don’t let the looks fool you, they’ve blown up more planets than you’ve lived on

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Anime Movie Slaparound: They Were Eleven

It’s the triumphant return of the column where we, the Animetics crew, trade lowbrow thoughts on whatever’s currently on our minds! In this installment, we discuss a 1986 movie adaptation of a 1975 short short sci-fi/mystery manga, They Were Eleven, which we all recently watched.

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Although, frankly, the fashion makes the decade fairly obvious

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