About this episode

The hosts celebrate their 5th anniversary by discussing the anime film Akira and ranking the anime they've watched over the past five years.

It's our 5th anniversary! We're celebrating the occasion by talking about a seminal anime film: Akira. We're also continuing our annual tradition of personally ranking all of the anime we've watched over the last 5 years. Turns out we've watched a lot, so the lists are long, but some of us might finally have something different at the number one spot. Tune in to find out!Anime Discussed: Akira + our 5 year rankingsNext time: Bokurano 1-6Send us your questions! You can email us at underthekotatsu.anime@gmail.com or DM us on twitter @underthekotatsu and on bluesky @underthekotatsu.bsky.social

People in this episode

Hosts: Daniel, Austin, Danielle

Topics covered

• anime film
• Akira
• 5 year rankings
• anime
• celebration

Keywords

• Akira
• anime
• 5th anniversary
• rankings
• anime film

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Akira

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