Emotional Damage: The Anime Podcast
Two grown guys. Dangerously late to the anime party. Very opinionated. On Emotional Damage, Zach and Ron dive into the shows they love, the medium they came to appreciate as adults, and the anime nonsense that makes them want to break the remote. From peak storytelling to infuriating tropes, join us for hot takes, honest recommendations, and secondhand embarrassment. Contact: emotionaldamagecast@gmail.com
Episodes
This week on Emotional Damage!
Shinji refuses to get in the robot! Zach arrives armed with a manifesto of notes to unravel the metaphysical dread of the Third Impact. Meanwhile, "smart anime" scholar Ron goes looking for cancer cures in Kaguya-sama—only to get completely broken by Chika Fujiwara.
Can humanity survive dissolving into a giant bowl of orange soup? What is the dark anatomical truth behind the anime nosebleed? And w...
What starts as an innocent check-in on defrosted snake dinners and neighborhood cat territory disputes quickly spirals into full anime chaos. Zach is seven episodes deep into Neon Genesis Evangelion, discovering the legendary 90s Texas dub where Misato speaks fluent Tex-Mex street slang and giant geometric shapes scream Japan into a blackout. Meanwhile, Ron issues a harsh "DNF out of 10" to Toradora!, sparking a debate over high-sc...
This week, we trade homework assignments, question the train scheduling efficiency of fictional Japan, and try to understand how a 40-year-old salaryman can't recognize a pair of glasses.
The Damage Report: We put our emotional stability on the line across three wildly different titles this week. First up is Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters per Second, where we debate whether tragic romantic longing is high art or if someone sim...
We're back after years of silence, to catch up, complain about failing joints, and accidentally start an anime podcast.
In this pilot episode, Zach confesses he gets emotionally wrecked by high school rom-coms just to feel something, Ron dodges construction workers and tracks down a runaway cat in Nicaragua, and we both try to understand why anime student councils possess the sovereign authority to overthrow governments.
Plus: ghost ...
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