About this episode

The hosts discuss their experiences at Animazement 2025 with five special guests.

Another great year of Animazement has come and gone and Bill, Austin, and Tori are here to tell you all about it. Pay no mind that the convention ended almost a month and a half ago! This episode was a beast to edit, and for good reason! Not only do we talk about our panels, the cool sights and sounds we experienced, the good food we ate, and merch we bought, but we also had not one or two, but FIVE special guests join us for various segments throughout this episode to talk about some of the cool things they saw and did over the weekend. Going through them in appearance order, you may know a few of them from being on the show before or encountering their work on the internet in various places; we have returning friends Coop (@RiderStrike) and Maddy (@hyakushiki0087) back on the show but also Megan (@brainchild129), Cody (@codyanskaya), and Kurt (@GreatSG) join us for the first time! Coop, Megan, and Maddy travelled from far off lands (the Midwest and the west coast) to see if the rumors about Animazement being "good" were true. Listen to find out! Coop regularly writes for Anime News Network, contributes to releases from Discotek and AnimEigo, and does some podcasty stuff from…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bill, Austin, Tori

Guests: Coop, Maddy, Megan, Cody, Kurt

Topics covered

• Animazement
• convention recap
• guest interviews
• panels
• anime culture

Keywords

• Animazement
• anime convention
• guest interviews
• panels
• merchandise

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Anime News Network, Discotek, AnimEigo, Giant Robot FM, Anime Feminist

Books & works: The Manga Test Drive

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