Anime World Order Podcast
An anime podcast all about Japanese cartoons and comics as discussed by three self-proclaimed experts in the world of anime and manga! Plus anime news / reviews, coverage of classic anime, hentai / yaoi, and much, much more. Updated every week. We hope.
Episodes
In this episode, by popular request Daryl reviews the 1998 sci-fi Western Outlaw Star, which we all remember so little about it's almost like we're seeing it for the first time. The original Toonami Generation is now middle-aged, after all. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
Now that it's been a year since the untimely passing of Akira Toriyama, Clarissa reviews his greatest work released in the US...namely, the first five Dr. Slump movies! These were released on DVD from Discotek, but are now long out of print. Gerald approves of this maneuver. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
In this episode, Gerald jazzes up the proceedings by reviewing the 2023 theatrical film Blue Giant, released in theaters, home video, and streaming by GKIDS. Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
2025 is off to a terrible start, not just in terms of current world events but because in this episode Daryl follows up on his previous review of the 1997 Berserk TV series with this review of the decades-anticipated 2016 Berserk TV series. Oh boy. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
As we mark our 19th year of anime podcasting, it's time for our annual holiday roundup of Christmas episodes! But first, we take a moment to pay our respects to the recently departed Jan Scott-Frazier, not by pressing F but by talking about her influence on us and this podcast. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
Anime World Order Show # 237 - Triv-ia! Don't Give It Up, Ba-sil! Triv-ia! Don't Give It Up Ger-ald!
For the tenth time, it's our annual trivia episode! We are joined by Basil, head honcho of the OSMcast as well as The Carbuncle Chronicle and OSMquest podcasts who's been doing this for just about as long as we have. Basil has been doing this for about as long as us and is from our same fandom generation, though he's got more experience on camera as our Patreon supporters at the $5 and up tiers were able to see during the live reco...
Although we're posting this on Halloween, there's not much especially spooky about this episode since after having seen Uzumaki, Daryl has instead elected to review the theatrical film adaptation of Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Be forewarned that we do spoil it all in the event you didn't already read or watch it first. Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
Despite a grievous tech failure, we're back to discuss the upcoming Fall 2024 anime season before Daryl reviews the 1997 anime adaptation of Berserk, recently back in print in the US due to a Blu-Ray release. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
No review this time around, but Gerald and Clarissa went to Otakon 2024 so here's their convention report. Despite another record breaking attendance figure, they did NOT catch COVID! They did however, barely manage to avoid getting heat stroke/exhaustion. Curse you, climate change! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
This time around, Clarissa "pulls a Gerald" by reviewing something that we thought was still readily available via streaming and home video but is in fact totally out of print: 1993's four-part OVA, 8 Man After. This gives us a good excuse to talk about the original 8 Man from the 1960s, its American localization, and of course Streamline Pictures and "Uncle" Carl Macek. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplem...
Even though TimeHealsAllWoundsButWeSTILLAskWHYYYY, through a combination of its thirty year anniversary as well as upcoming new announcements, Daryl is reviewing the Patient Zero of fighting game anime that is the original Fatal Fury anime trilogy: the OVAs and the 1994 motion picture. In an age of scientific wonders, the human body is still the world's most dangerous machine. Especially when it can fire ki bullets. Unless the scie...
It's finally time. As a result of us reaching over 250 Patrons, we're reviewing what you've voted "the worst anime of all time": Hand Shakers from 2017. But maybe it's NOT actually the worst, since we can name at least one show that was much worse than it... Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
In a feeble attempt to delay the inevitable even if by just another month or so, Daryl elects to talk about what is only one of the most popular anime currently running, as he reviews SPY x FAMILY CODE: White, the standalone theatrical installment of the mega-hit Shonen Jump sitcom SPY x FAMILY, which is about as mainstream a title as anime gets in America. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
After talking about the Crunchyroll Anime Awards presentation held in Japan, we touch upon the death of the legendary artist Akira Toriyama for a bit before Clarissa reviews the 2022 12-episode series Akiba Maid War without really delving into spoiler territory. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
In a last-ditch effort to not review Hand Shakers, we decide to make a bunch of anger-inducing statements about anime, mecha, and conventions before reviewing the latest--and perhaps actually final this time--Hayao Miyazaki film, the critically acclaimed The Boy and the Heron. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
For our first episode of 2024 we are joined by the two cohosts of the Shoujo Sundae podcast, Giana Luna and Chika Supreme, as we review the manga ION by Arina Tanemura. Apologies are in order, for despite the episode number, this podcast does not contain Jackée. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
We're finally legal, for this episode of AWO marks the start of our 18th year of anime podcasting! Let's celebrate with another holiday roundup of anime Christmas episodes, organized from "least evocative of Wham's Last Christmas" to...MOST EVOCATIVE~! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
After vanishing--NINJA vanishing--for nearly a decade to start raising a family in NYC, we're reunited with Erin and Noah of the long-defunct Ninja Consultant podcast (and Livejournal!) for the annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition that is THE TRIVIA EPISODE~!. Lots of new gimmicks this time around, be it game types or the fact that our Patreon supporters at the $5 and up tiers were able to watch this carnage unfold live on video court...
Mike Toole returns to the show for this MONSTER CHILLER HORROR edition of AWO released on Halloween, in which Gerald reviews the polar opposite of The Poe Clan: Go Nagai's Shuten Doji! Now that we've done this, the YouTubers can follow in our wake and make this one a meme darling. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
This is perhaps our most tragic episode ever, for not only have we lost our sole sponsor Right Stuf due to Crunchyroll shutting it down, but Clarissa is reviewing The Poe Clan, one of the great shojo manga masterworks by Moto Hagio. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.
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