Episode 57 - The Enigmatic Ecology of Anime North

Ashley Hakker joins me to talk about the remarkable, unstoppable life-form that is Anime North. All of the planning in the world could never have prepared me to properly absorb this convention in one go, and together we talk about its history and the exact ingredients that caused it to become the giant glorious mess that it is today. 

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Ashley's Twitter: @AshleyUncia

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Theme song by Karl Olson. Check out Packet Flood, the album all of this show's music is taken from, on his Bandcamp.

Guest Spot: Anime Roundtable v2.0 #11

The folks at the Anime Roundtable Podcast (Mike Nicolas, Kevin Ng, with James Austin) were nice enough to have me on as a guest at one of their live recordings at Anime North 2019. Also featuring an appearance from Anime North's Assistant Head of Programming, the inimitable Norm McEvoy. (I say this after having tried to imitate him.)

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Episode 56 - Cat's Eye: The Anime Inspector Gadget

Not to be confused with the Margaret Atwood novel, Cat's Eye (or "Signé Cat's Eyes") aired in French on Radio-Canada in the late 80s and early 90s, and oh boy did it stick out like a sore thumb on that line-up. Chris joins me once again to share his own experiences watching the show. Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast also appears to give her own perspective on how well this show really holds up. We touch on many important points such as Club Dorothée, the connections to Nicky Larson (sometimes referred to as "City Hunter") and what it must be like to discover classic anime through Citypop and Vaporwave videos as opposed to just being old.

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Chris's Twitter: @kurotsuki
Dawn's Twitter: @bunnycartoon
Dawn's Podcast: The Anime Nostalgia Podcast

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Theme song by Karl Olson. Check out Packet Flood, the album all of this show's music is taken from, on his Bandcamp.

Episode 55 - Adult Swim Canada: I Think They're Finally Getting It

With little notice, Corus launched the world's first ever 24/7 Adult Swim network, and the good certainly seems to outweigh the bad... at least if you ignore the lack of streaming options! Sketch from the Toonami Faithful Podcast, as well as Karl, help me take a close look at what this new channel does right, what it does wrong, and what it still needs to do to truly capture the Adult Swim voice. The channel's launch also raises many questions, such as: will this stuff ever appear online again? What is the future of CanCon on this station? WILL WE EVER SEE TOONAMI? We do not have answers to these questions, but we certainly have plenty of speculation. You like speculation, right?

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Theme song by Karl Olson. Check out Packet Flood, the album all of this show's music is taken from, on his Bandcamp.

Episode 54 - The Canadian Dragon Ball Experience

With nine different voice actors for Goku and a lot of bad theme songs, the Dragon Ball franchise has been an odd patchwork in Canada, but not one that has derailed its success in any way. Geoff and Yazy join me to talk about discovering and following Dragon Ball/Z/GT through all its different dubs, and try our best to clear up some misconceptions on why so may different versions hit the airwaves. We have so much fun that we completely forgot to mention that Dragon Ball Evolution aired on YTV at one point.

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Geoff's Twitter: @G0ffThew
Yazy's Twitter: @Tenleid
Geoff's channel: Mother's Basement
Tenleid's site: tenleid.moe

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Theme song by Karl Olson. Check out Packet Flood, the album all of this show's music is taken from, on his Bandcamp.

Episode 53 - Caitlyn Bairstow Needs Primo TV

Known as both a rising Vancouver voice talent and major anime fan, Caitlyn Bairstow has recently made a name for herself with major roles in Dragalia Lost, World Trigger, Beyblade Burst, Megaman Fully Charged and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Caitlyn joins me to talk about working in Vancouver, mobile gatcha games and her inspirations.

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Theme song by Karl Olson. Check out Packet Flood, the album all of this show's music is taken from, on his Bandcamp.

Episode 52 - Theatrical Anime Apocalypse

Lots of amazing theatrical anime release happened in 2018... but you may have noticed that very few of them came to Canada, especially compared to the previous two years. Randy joins me to try and explain the many factors that may have led to this somewhat sorry state of affairs. We also talk about all of the great anime films we did manage to see, despite these setbacks.

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Theme song by Karl Olson. Check out Packet Flood, the album all of this show's music is taken from, on his Bandcamp.