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Episode 18 – Eva's Bad, It's Super Bad Oct 31, 2015

Show notes

Evan and Victoria return to the orange couch to catch up on the biggest anime news out of Hollywood, New York Comic Con, and White Base. Show Notes

Evan and Victoria are excited about the confirmation of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable's anime adaptation.
Victoria is bummed that Akiko Higashimura's Himozairu manga about men seeking to be better househusbands was suspended due to complaints from men.
Fans held a "Naruto Pride Parade" (as Victoria calls it) at New York Comic Con
Ron Howard and Imagine Entertainment are turning Tiger & Bunny into a live-action movie!
Both Evan and Victoria are enjoying the slow burn of The Perfect Insider.
One-Punch Man is a bit like Inferno Cop, so naturally Evan is in love with it.
RWBY Volume 3 just launched on Crunchyroll, and Victoria is impressed with the improved animation.

You can find more episode of Crunchycast on Crunchyroll, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page.

The Crunchycast is hosted by Victoria Holden and Evan Minto and produced by Miles Thomas and Bill Zoeker. If you have any questions for our hosts, you can reach us at crunchycast@crunchyroll.com, or on Twitter at @SailorBee and @VamptVo respectively.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 17 - Restricted Rock-Paper-Scissors Sep 11, 2015

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Our hosts Evan and Victoria take over CreativeBug studios to talk about high-stakes gambling adventures in Kaiji and whether or not it's ok to like Monster Musume. Show Notes:

Both Victoria and Evan are pleased to see that Nozomi's bringing more of Dirty Pair to YouTube
Evan begins the wild Jojo-esque gambling anime, Kaiji
Victoria's torn about recent revelations on Rokka
Miki Yoshikawa's seemingly incapable of making a character Evan doesn't love in the latest chapters of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Correction: Yen Press has ramped up its light novel imprint in 2015, having released six new light novels in the last month alone.

You can find more episode of Crunchycast on Crunchyroll, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page. We're now on YouTube as well!

The CrunchyCast is hosted by Victoria Holden and Evan Minto and produced by Miles Thomas. A special thanks to Creativebug Studios for production this episode! If you have any questions for our hosts, you can reach us at CrunchyCast@crunchyroll.com, or on Twitter at @SailorBee and @VamptVo respectively.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 16 - Isn't Everybody Talking About Kojima's Pants? Sep 04, 2015

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Crunchyroll Brand Manager Danika Harrod joins Crunchycast hosts Evan and Victoria to consider a potential FLCL remake, Metal Gear Solid References in Monster Musume, and take a look back on Rayearth and Akira. Show Notes:

Male High School Student Arrested for Threatening to Kill "Love Live!" Fans
Danika shares Gangsta author Kohske's foray into English-language social media
Evan considers Production IG's move to purchase rights for FLCL with an option to remake
On its 25th anniversary, Evan re-watches the anime classic Akira
Victoria delves into the Rayeath OVA
Danika tries out the new Crunchyroll release of Cerres, Celestial Legend
Monster Musume pays homage to a different kind of Snake

You can find more episode of Crunchycast on Crunchyroll, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page. We're now on YouTube as well! Check out our latest episode there - old episodes will be uploaded shortly.

The CrunchyCast is hosted by Victoria Holden and Evan Minto and produced by Miles Thomas. If you have any questions for our hosts, you can reach us at CrunchyCast@crunchyroll.com, or on Twitter at @SailorBee and @VamptVo respectively.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 15 - Actually, I Am... a Video! Aug 28, 2015

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Evan and Victoria host the Crunchycast's video debut! Two cameras join the podcast to capture our hosts' excitement about the upcoming releases of Takahata's "Only Yesterday" and the Devilman vs Cyborg 009 crossover, and Evan and Victoria imagine the perfect anime that they would trap each other inside.

News

Anime

Victoria Actually is in love with Actually, I Am
Evan's thrilled with the genre-breaking harem fun in Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches manga
Victoria's returns to Rokka after getting spoiled and is glad she did
Evan appreciates the finer points of Gangsta

Check out some sakuga MADs here: Sushio, Norio Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Imaishi, You Yoshinari
Note: Shoji Kawamori did work on a Gundam after all all - he is credited for "Mechanical Styling" on Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 14 - No One Could Make That Shot with Nate Ming Aug 20, 2015

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Crunchyroll Features Editor and Customer Support Lead Nate Ming joins Evan and Victoria to talk about anime devils and the differences between selfie sticks and M16s. Sorry for the earlier audio quality on this episode! We've fixed it up so it will be better for your listening pleasure.

News

Anime

Evan starts the endless Case Closed manga
Victoria realizes why Shimoneta isn't for her
Nate's blown away by SCHOOL-LIVE! and is also keeping up with Monster Musume, Ushio and Tora, and Gangsta
Evan manages to visit the screening of Shunji Iwai's The Case of Hana and Alice
Victoria loves everything about Akame ga Kill except the main two characters
Nate picks up the Japanese volumes of Kongou Banchou

You can reach Nate with every support ticket you make on Crunchyroll or on his Twitter account.

You can find more episode of Crunchycast on Crunchyroll, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page.

The CrunchyCast is hosted by Victoria Holden and Evan Minto and produced by Miles Thomas and the Crunchyroll Brand team. If you have any questions for our hosts, you can reach us at CrunchyCast@crunchyroll.com, or on Twitter at @SailorBee and @VamptVo respectively.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 13: Harem Anime is Exactly Like Football Aug 13, 2015

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Coil up with your favorite monster girl for the long-awaited return of Crunchycast! Evan and Victoria grace the mics once more to chat about everything from Sherlock Hound to Frieza's new color. This episode:

News

Evan visits San Francisco's J-POP SUMMIT, and is once more reunited with Chicchai-ossan #FoundOssan
Victoria dreams about the new snake cafe in Japan
The Crunchycast hosts contemplate a seven-meter hug pillow of everyone's favorite monster girl, Miia
Tezuka's Black Jack gets bishounen treatment in an upcoming anime

Anime

You can find more episodes of CrunchyCast on Crunchyroll, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 12 - Putting the "Dom" in Fandom with Max Scoville May 30, 2015

Show notes

Welcome to the twelth episode of the official Crunchyroll Podcast, CrunchyCast! Each week, we'll be bringing you the hottest news and perspectives on the world of anime. Join hosts Evan and Victoria as they delve into the best programming the web has to offer, explore pressing questions, and interview the anime community and industry's most compelling personalities.

This week, our hosts are joined by Max Scoville of IGN and The Comedy Button. You can find him on Twitter at @MaxScoville.

Show Notes:

News

Victoria Prison School Announcement
Evan: 2015 Animator Dormitory Crowdfunding Campaign Launches
Max: Dragonball Super excitement is building up

Anime

Evan’s pleased to share his experiences with Gall Force
Victoria cooking up excitement for Food Wars

Questions

Jace Summers (‏@Colamancer)

I always watch the entire intro/outro to anime, probably a habit from the VHS rental days. Do ya'll do this too?

♡ 위니 린 ♡ (‏@WinnieLin21)

Favorite school romance anime?

Brett (@thetruebrett)

What genre of anime or manga do you like the least? I least like mech and samurai.

This is the season finale of CrunchyCast season 1! Keep an eye out for news and announcements related to season 2 on Crunchyroll.com.

You can find more episodes of CrunchyCast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 11 - This is What Doujins are For with Lauren Orsini May 16, 2015

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Welcome to the eleventh episode of the official Crunchyroll Podcast, CrunchyCast! Each week, we'll be bringing you the hottest news and perspectives on the world of anime. Join hosts Evan and Victoria as they delve into the best programming the web has to offer, explore pressing questions, and interview the anime community and industry's most compelling personalities. Show Notes:

News

Victoria: Dragon Quest VIII makes its way to the 3DS
Lauren: Yowamushi Pedal character rankings come in!
Evan: Dallos is now on Crunchyroll!
Build Your Anime Blog is now available!

Anime

Questions from #CrunchyCast

Horo ‏@TrickedOutHoro @Crunchyroll Is there an anime that you really like a lot, but can't stand one of the protagonists in it? #CrunchyCast
Assuming parasyte the maximum was a huge sucess and inspires more old never animated old Manga to be adapted what are Ur picks? - Cyrus
Best anime soundtrack ever. Go! - Erik Cheeser
Anime Maru ‏@AnimeMaru #crunchycast @laureninspace Will there be a sequel to BYAB on how to transform your anime blog into a sinister worldwide media empire?

You can find more episodes of CrunchyCast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page.

CrunchyCast is hosted by Victoria Holden and Evan Minto and produced by Miles Thomas and the Crunchyroll Brand team. If you have any questions for our hosts, you can reach us at CrunchyCast@crunchyroll.com, or on Twitter at @SailorBee and @VamptVo respectively.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

Episode 10 - Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Tom Zoth in a Dungeon? May 09, 2015

Show notes

Welcome to the tenth episode of the official Crunchyroll Podcast, CrunchyCast! Each week, we'll be bringing you the hottest news and perspectives on the world of anime. Join hosts Evan and Victoria as they delve into the best programming the web has to offer, explore pressing questions, and interview the anime community and industry's most compelling personalities. This week, our hosts are joined by Thomas Zoth, also known as ABCBTom online. His work can be found on his blog, Hungry Bug Diner, The Fandom Post, Infinite Rainy Day, O-Talk Podcast, and The Anime Now Podcast. You can reach him via his Twitter account. Show Notes:

News

Evan chats about anime birthdays
Tom is thrilled about the stateside release of Franken Fran, as well as Monster Musume’s unfairly talented staff
Victoria’s impressed with Agumon’s gains in Digimon tri.

Anime

Tom talks Punchline and explores some interesting multi-media assets in the show, as well as Yamada-kun, which challenges the Shirobako writing staff to adapt a long series into a 12-episode anime - and succeeds!
Victoria: Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? The answer may surprise you!
Evan: Ninja Slayer from Animation is the absolutely true story by authors Bradley Bond and Philip Ninj@ Morzez warning about the ninja menace.

Questions from #CrunchyCast

Why did you choose to name Case Closed instead of Detective Conan? (Nicholas “Picky33”)
Emperor J ‏@emperorj How far can each of you punt a football?
If you had to choose, would you want a few really well animated shows, but to minimize risks, the companies only produced idol, harem and loli-shows; or would you want a lot of different shows, but with lower animation quality and a lot of copy/paste looking (and acting) characters? - From Anton in Sweden
all talk of anime by film buffs is limited to Mamoru oshi, Otomo, Miyazaki, Takahata, Shinchiro Watanabe and Satoshi Kon, What other anime directors deserve to be know outside the anime circle?

Discussed here is I Can Friday by Day from Animator’s Expo

You can find more episodes of CrunchyCast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page. CrunchyCast is hosted by Victoria Holden and Evan Minto and produced by Miles Thomas and the Crunchyroll Brand team. If you have any questions for our hosts, you can reach us at CrunchyCast@crunchyroll.com, or on Twitter at @SailorBee and @VamptVo respectively. The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud. The insert song is "Hungaria" by Latche Swing, used under Creative Commons.

Episode 9 - "Meme Risk" with Deb Aoki May 01, 2015

Show notes

Welcome to the ninth episode of the official Crunchyroll Podcast, CrunchyCast! Each week, we'll be bringing you the hottest news and perspectives on the world of anime. Join hosts Evan and Victoria as they delve into the best programming the web has to offer, explore pressing questions, and interview the anime community and industry's most compelling personalities.

Show Notes:

This week, Evan and Victoria are joined by Publisher's Weekly writer and manga industry expert Deb Aoki! You can read her work on Publisher's Weekly, on her website Manga Comics Manga, and on her Twitter account.

You can find more episodes of CrunchyCast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and our Libsyn page.

The opening and ending music in CrunchyCast are produced by Noah Hafford, who can be found at his SoundCloud.

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