Third Impact Anime Podcast

Happy New Year, I say through gritted teeth. 2025 is certainly off to a, well, ya know what. No comment. Let's talk about anime. 2024 had some pretty good anime! Austin and Bill take a Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back at the year to talk about some of our favorites that we finished, a couple things we sampled and enjoyed but didn't complete, and a couple things that didn't quite make it into the favorites list. Grab a box of shika senbei, sit back, and enjoy! Time stamps: 00:00:00 - Intro and cold open 00:10:12 - Honorable mentions (shows we watched some of and liked but didn't finish) Metallic Rouge Uzumaki Mayonaka Punch A Condition Called Love Dandadan Magilumiere Co. Ltd. Girls Band Cry 00:58:28 - Our Best Anime of 2024 (and some others) The Idolm@ster Shiny Colors My Deer Friend Nokotan A Sign of Affection The Colors Within Delicious in Dungeon Look Back Brave Bang Bravern Dead Dead Demon's DeDeDeDe Destruction If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or elsewhere! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon

Honey Flash! Sully and returning guest Salvatore (@RetroSofa) sit down with VA and dub director David Wald and OG Cutie Honey dub actress Jessica Calvello to discuss their work on the recent English dub for the 2004 OVA Re: Cutie Honey from Discotek! Topics include how Go Nagai chose Jessica for the role of Honey, how dubbing has changed since Jessica first took the role in the 90s for New Cutie Honey, and what makes Honey so special all these years later. An important note: This was recorded a few months ago, prior to David's statement on Crunchyroll opening his fan mail without his knowledge and dispersing the contents to their staff. Upon David's request, we didn't go back and add any additional mention of this in the episode, but we did want to state here in text that we are deeply disappointed in Crunchyroll's behavior and we encourage anyone listening or reading this to support David and call upon Crunchyroll to do better. Time stamps: 00:00:00 - Intro and Jessica's long history with the character 00:12:59 - Bringing back returning cast members from previous Cutie Honey and Go Nagai anime projects 00:15:49 - David's thoughts on directing dubs for "archival anime" as opposed to newly airing anime 00:18:04 - Salvatore on being a Cutie Honey super-fan, archivist, and working with Discotek Media 00:27:07 - Jessica and David on the nuances and differences across the various Cutie Honey series' 00:40:21 - How does Jessica approach the work of acting within the limitations of anime 00:46:04 - Jessica and David on dub script adaptation and directing 00:53:26 - A brief aside about Excel Saga and Jessica's "Excel Saga Journal" 01:03:49 - Knowing that Cutie Honey is a very fanservice heavy show, how do you approach that with pathos? 01:15:45 - David's approach to the lesbian text of Cutie Honey 01:27:39 - Casting Kayleigh McKee as Black Claw 01:34:46 - What's Cutie Honey's appeal for Salvatore? 01:50:49 - Salvatore asks about the mythical Cutie Honey CGI project that never materialized 02:01:24 - Jessica has a crucial question for Salvatore: Is Cutie Honey an android or a magical girl? 02:07:36 - Would Jessica and David return to dub Cutie Honey Flash if given the chance? 02:10:27 - Outro If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or elsewhere! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon

We went to our biggest anime convention yet and what better way to celebrate than having our longest Con-versations episode yet. This time, Austin and Tori review Otakon 2024 which was held in Washington, DC from August 2-4th, 2024. This episode would have been out earlier, but between life stuff and us recording for over three and a half hours, it was a lot to get through. Totally worth it though, if you ask me, due in large part to our very special guests, Coop and Maddy! Coop you may know from their work at Discotek Media, Anime News Network, AnimEigo, J-Novel Club, and their own podcast, Dude, You Remember Macross? and Maddy you may have heard appear on shows like Giant Robot FM and Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast. Both of them are very cool, kind folks who yapped with us for way too long about an awesome convention weekend. 00:00:00 - Introduction and everyone's history with Otakon (or lack-thereof) 00:24:40 - Venue talk, including artist's alley and dealer's room 00:40:53 - Fan panels, and a tangent about Gundam 01:05:58 - Industry panels, with tangents about EGL fashion, gas stations, and more 02:08:04 - The Great and the Terrible of autograph sessions 02:24:04 - Cosplay talk! And an aside about places to eat around the con 02:51:12 - Most iconic moment(s) 02:56:41 - Social medias and outro If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or elsewhere! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TI_Anime Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon

Fantasy, finances, and fickle gods! A wise wolf has descended upon the podcast for our review of the 2008 anime series Spice and Wolf, which is currently getting a remake at the time of this recording. Bill hosts with returning special guest Will to talk about both original seasons of the show and speculate on the wheat and apple markets. Enjoy! If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or elsewhere! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TI_Anime Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon

150 episodes! How about that? For this special milestone, we decided to do something a little different than our usual fair; Bill put together a really fun TRIVIA episode to delight listeners and stump his contestants (Austin, Tori, and Sully). Of course this is heavily influenced by the annual trivia episodes produced by our podcasting senseis over at Anime World Order and we hope they don't mind us lovingly ripping them off. With three rounds of three categories, Bill stumps us with questions about superheroes, idols, school clubs, Letterboxd reviews, McDonalds, and much more. We hope you enjoy. And to everyone who has been listening to us since the beginning, or are just now jumping in, thanks for being here! Here's to the next 150 episodes. If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or elsewhere! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TI_Anime Listen & Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon

Here's the perfect podcast episode to listen to while you clean your abandoned castle. Austin, Tori, and Ryan are here to discuss tall women and even taller trees in our review of the second half of Attack on Titan Season 1. Please enjoy. 00:00:00 - Intro and Austin talks about seeing The End of Evangelion in theaters 00:06:07 - Briefly remembering Akira Toriyama 00:09:38 - We will once again be at Animazement 2024 as Featured Panelists! 00:16:05 - Opening song discussion and Attack on Titan memes we remember 00:22:31 - Cast breakdown 00:26:30 - Season 1 Part 2 discussion 01:08:56 - Complaining about how long it took for a second season to come out and Ryan complaining about "The Plan" arc in the manga 01:14:29 - Final thoughts, most iconic scene, and outro What do you think of Attack on Titan Season 1 Part 2? What were your favorite scenes? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll discuss it on the show. If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or elsewhere! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TI_Anime Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon

On that day, this podcast feed received a grim reminder. Humanity lives in fear of yet another episode of the Third Impact Anime Podcast. Not only is this our first proper episode of 2024, it's the beginning of a retrospective looking back at the one and only Attack on Titan, a series that defined the 2010s and finally wrapped up last year. How well does that first season hold up? What do we think of the parts we have and haven't seen yet? Is this series legitimately good or a bunch of hot titan smoke? Austin, Tori, and Ryan venture outside the walls to tell you just that. This episode is our review of the first 13 episodes with subsequent parts releasing over the course of the next few months. Please enjoy! What do you think of Attack on Titan? What are some of your memories associated with it? Did you stick it out to the end? Did you drop off? Why? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll discuss it on the show. If you enjoy this or any other episode, leave us a Rating and Review on Apple Podcasts! Show notes are available on our website: www.thirdimpactanime.com More helpful links: https://beacons.ai/thirdimpactanime Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/ThirdImpactAnime Follow us on Bluesky at thirdimpactanime.bsky.social Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/TI_Anime Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | YouTube | Podbean Support us on Ko-Fi | Patreon