About this episode

The hosts discuss the concept of Dark Cute in anime while meandering through various tangential subjects.

The Only Anime Podcast self indulgent enough to ramble for an hour about various tangential subjects they have a loose grasp on and release it as entertainment returns to accidentally skips over everything they were actually going to talk about and instead discuss Dark Cute at the turn of the century. If you hate the impromptu pseudo intellectualizing, feel free to skip this one. Note: Toru Honda wrote the short essay

People in this episode

Hosts: Nate, Remy

Topics covered

• Dark Cute
• anime
• self-indulgence
• pseudo intellectualizing
• turn of the century

Keywords

• anime podcast
• Dark Cute
• Toru Honda
• self-indulgent
• pseudo intellectualizing

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