Anime Fans Against Anime

In this week's episode, we finish the (non-movie) series of Hanasaku Iroha! Will it take a turn for the tragic? Will we agree on best girls? Are YOU a hot-vit-lon???

We inn the next set of episode for Ohana's inn-ward experience as I run out of hotel jokes.

This week we finish WWW.Working and usher in a new era of joblessness! Also, does anyone else think it's weird how much the AFAA guys know about poisons?

We go back to the restaurant! Well, a different restaurant. This is Working: Sister Location, and there's a whole new cast of unique individuals running it. Will they all pair up and fall in love?

AFAA listens to all the customers' requests and watch episodes 7 through 13 to appease them.

This show is kind of like Working... because she's working.... GET IT!?

We finish up the first series of Last Exile, and try to figure out the ending...and things get a little heated on Best Girls! The fantastic, high-flying and stylish world now comes to a close, until we roll the sequel that is.

AFAA comes close to finishing the Last Exile as we return and talk about episodes 14-20 of the Last Exile.

This week we take Phryne to Elysium! Is that the right thing to do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This show brings always-online to a whole new level! And there's some extreme people in it, even if they're silly most of the time.

Apparently Nessa has purple hair in all the art and figures, but red hair in the show itself.

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AFAA discusses the new anime they watched this season.

00:00 Witch Hat Atelier

15:50 Nippon Sangoku

26:21 Even a Replica Can Fall in Love

39:39 Needy Girl Overdose

This week we we continue Last Exile, and learn that pieces of a riddle are somehow even more useless than a full riddle!

Amazing vibes and as Richard detected: GONZO! Let's deliver some letters on a plane! And deliver a child? To an edgelord?

Louise is the the best tsundere in the existence of the anime medium, and we finish the last couple of episodes for the first season of the familiar of zero.

This week we revisit a prime AFAA anime, and relearn everything we've forgotten (which is a lot).

This week we finish Kado: The Right Answer, a show about negotiation. It's about negotiation, guys!

A Giant Cube is that the right answer or are there no wrong answers, either way that was a stupid question we're watching KADO: The Right Answer this week episode 0 through 6.

This week we finish GANTZ! Well... we finish the fake anime-only ending of Gantz. Why are we back in the subway?

We're into the 2nd Stage of Gantz, getting towards the end of the show. What'll happen? Why? What's going on? Richard knows. He does.

This week Michael makes some wrong choice as we finish the last 6 episodes of iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls.

We are back again with ANIME ROULETTE! This year was a bit kinder than usual as far as episode count, but we still ended up with a wild grab bag of content!

Shows Discussed:

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics - 0:01:24

Our Dating Story - 0:15:20

Deep Insanity: The Lost Child - 0:32:24

Charger Girl Ju-den Chan- 0:48:25

Level E- 1:01:19

Blue Exorcist: Beyond the Snow Saga- 1:11:55

Witchy Pretty Cure!- 1:22:06

Bokura ga Ita- 1:45:38

Orient - 1:58:16

You look like you have a good smile...join my production company!!!!!!!!

AFAA finishes up the last couple of episodes of the second season of Index as we accelerate (slowly) to catching up on this series.

This week we see the return of the nuns! But this time on a boat? And in Italy? Touma is really going places!

2026 is off to an amazing start with this seasonal anime! Tune in to hear all about it!

The week climb the ranks to start and finish the first season of Encouragement of Climb. Tune in as Richard get disappointed as his rock climbing experience becomes null and void.

Hey everybody, it's Touma. So recently Misaka has been cloned, and those clones have been used for bloodsport around the city. Really messed up stuff. And it's not just a few clones either, it's like 20,000. And now this red-head is trying to start it all up again. It's like if I smacked your home room teacher, and you came in a said, "Yeah, let's giver her another!" But anyway, that's about it, see ya.

We are back into the To Aru world, this time with A Certain Magical Index 2! What new adventures await Touma and his friends, and how can those problems be punched?

You're fired, just kidding. Your a Wake Up girl you can't be fired its your show and AFAA is watching tell us how your story ends this week.

This week we finally get WOKE (up by the Wake Up, Girls!)

We think we've figured out who Muginami is now... and there's an OVA too! Tune in as we discover the truth behind spacemen and who they work for. And bully Michael for watching the dub again.

AFAA discuss the first 6 episodes of Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne as we try to determine who Muginami is.

This week we discuss the ending and the second, secret ending of Buddy Complex! Which one makes more sense? That's the funny part, neither of them!

What do you get when you put a bunch of other Sunrise mech shows in a blender, and add time travel and buddy synchronization? You get Aoba's Bizarre Adventure! Dio's a friend in this one!

AFAA closes up Ghibli Ganuary for this year with Ponyo come listen in as we discuss marine biology or something like that.

On this, our 4th week of Ghibli Ganuary, we watch From up on Poppy Hill! A movie all about saving the old clubhouse!... or is it about their relationship? There's no way the movie is about TWO things right!?

It's Week 3 of Ghibli Ganuary, and we've rolled a beloved classic: Howl's Moving Castle! Dodge the goomen, climb the stairs, and learn to clean. We're getting whimsical.

Join us as we squeeze out that last bit of anime that 2025 had to offer!

Welcome to week two of Ghibli Ganuary 2026, we dive in the tanuki hive and battle for another over priced housing development. Will we be beaten by these terrorist or will we bypass all EPA bylaws and get one more house down?

Ghibli Ganuary is BACK! And this week, we're reviewing a more obscure Ghibli movie: Ocean Waves. An auspicious start to 2026, or a bad omen? Tune in to find out!

This week we finish up the last couple of episodes of "Bang Dream It's MyGo" as we get lost in the sauce.

Tis the season for watching anime! But you know, only a bit more than we normally do.

Shows Discussed

Lunar Legend Tsukihime - 00:03:53

Kyousougiga - 00:18:12

Kemurikusa - 00:31:30

Magical Girl Site - 00:55:05

Akebi-chan's Sailor Uniform (again) - 01:12:18

Nier Automata - 01:27:08

You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of anime and girls but of music, and drama. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. A detour from the shiny, happy world of Traditional Bang Dream. A world where girls can cry. A world where school is good for one thing: meeting bandmates and getting into drama with them. You've just entered...the MyGO zone.

We've made it we're finally in Antarctica and we finish up the last couple of episodes of A Place Further than the Universe.

This week we watch an anime about girls getting ready to go to Antarctica. Hopefully next week we will be watching an anime about girls actually going to Antarctica.

The girls of baseball have trained up and it's time to see the finale! Join us in this journey to the past, to a faraway land where baseball is newfangled and magic pitches are all the rage...

This week AFAA watches the changing nation of 1920's japan take on the slowest sport ever made.

The Year is 2015. Anime is still good (kind of).

It's time for Homeroom! The second half of season one of Kiniro Mosaic awaits. Dye your hair blond and talk British!

This week Michael tells us that his schools was a high class and explains how he is on the know in the elite golfing scene. Also we watched the first 6 episodes of Kiniro Mosaic.

We are thrilled to ring in our podcast's 8 year anniversary! It's been an exciting year, and we are going to tell you all about it!

The main anime portion of Gargantia is complete! Many mysteries are revealed, and more remain to discuss. But there's still adventures awaiting our cast...

We also check out the two special episodes labeled as 14 and 15!

This season we discuss The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity 2:00, Turkey! Time to Strike 17:00, Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl 30:49, Summer Pockets 47:47, and Takopi's Original Sin 1:15:40

This week we see what happens when a squid-squashing savant from deep space squares up against terrestrial sea terrorists. Ledo is just lucky none of these pirates ate the Gum-Gum fruit!

This week: the final chapter of Derrida's adventure, RErideING through time or what have you. Be sure to pay attention! You want to remember this episode really well so you can travel back and listen to it again! And remember: YOU ARE NOT A ROBOT

This week we watch Terminator Salvation or something similar to for some reason it's spelled RErideD: Derrida, who leaps through time, anyway AFAA looks at the first 6 episodes of this Terminator movie.

Just like how Violet now understands what "I love you" means, we now understand what "THE Movie" means. Sorry other movie-lengthed OVA!

This week, we watch the first of the Violet Evergarden movie-type things. This one isn't called The Movie, but it is a movie. And it's full of orphans! Will they learn to dance?

This week the AFAA crew hop on deck and Sail along with the Straw Hat crew as we decipher the near entirety of One Piece.

This week we learn about bullying, Gantz, and bulling durring Gantz!

We follow the ball to dive into the world of GANTZ this week! There's edge and intrigue, and we also learn a little bit about tram safety in subway systems.

This week AFAA finishes up the last couple of episodes of Robotics;Notes as we save the world and discuss how to save it.

This week Richard gets to flex his Company of Heroes skills to save Tokyo from Wild Robots! Not to be confused with the DreamWorks hit movie, "The Wild Robot."

This one's an AFAA movie! In the far future, trees are a liiiitle different than they are today...what they do may shock you. Tune in to hear all about this not-Miyazaki environmental epic.

This season was packed with crazy shows! Take some Hapna and strap in!

The AFAA machine isn't finished yet, so you just have to listen to us talk about the next 6 episodes of Robotics;Notes.

It's time to go on a Science Adventure! Robots are scientific, but what about boat disasters?

This week we finish up the bug war and we discuss the last couple of episodes and OVA for Terra Formars.

Join us this week for a foray into the legendary anime adaptation of Terra Formars, and learn what it truly means to stomp on a cockroach, and why it always pays to juice first and ask questions later...

THEY DRIVE NOW

Do you know what to do if you find yourself in qucksand? What if that quicksand is inside an ID Well? What about quicksand in an ID Well in North Carolina?

This week AFAA dives deep into the mind of a serial killers as we watch the first 7 episodes of I.D. Invaded.

There is no character in the show who can dislike Honoka TheThirdTheGirlWithTheBlueEye, and the AFAA podcast is no exception! Join us down in the depths of the gorge as we explore the final pages of this forgotten anime...

This week we watched the 3rd 4th of The Third! If that makes any sense at all...

This week we wrap up the last set of episodes for The Day I became God as we discuss the AFAA classics of child abuse and sad backstories.

Is she a lost child, or Odin himself? One thing's for sure, zany antics abound, and lightheartedness...or it would, looking at you RICHARD! (sad trombone noise)

The long awaited part 2 to our yearly event, Anime Roulette! Our last three shows were all childhood classics, so naturally we had a lot to say about them!

Timestaps:

Pokemon Horizons - 00:00:16

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V - 00:28:24

Tamagotchi! - 01:10:40

Discussed in Part 1:

Fujilog

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax!

Blade of the Immortal

Shakugan no Shana

Wizard Barristers

Gakuen Babysitters

It's time for our anual Anime Roulette event! We each watched 3 randomly selected anime out of ALL ANIME, and now after a very long month, we are here to discuss them. And once again, we discussed these shows for SO LONG that we need to split our discussion into two episodes.

Timestaps:

Fujilog - 00:02:40

My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Climax! - 00:12:50

Blade of the Immortal - 00:30:24

Shakugan no Shana - 00:42:59

Wizard Barristers - 00:57:43

Gakuen Babysitters - 01:11:32

Discussed in Part 2:

Pokemon Horizons

Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V

Tamagotchi!

AFAA finishes up the second part of the first half of The Third or 2/1/3rd.

Join us in an adventure of the mysterious and futuristic desert, a place of mutants, aliens, bugs, and maybe magic? Also remember to send us photos of your favorite worms and recommendations of PSP games for Michael.

MFW the greatest prize isn't marrying into royalty, but a plastic shopping mall participation medal.

AFAA seasonal shows are here for the Winter 2025 anime season this time around we watch Solo Leveling Season 2, I'm Getting Married to a Girl I Hate in My Class (Kurakon), Sakamoto Days, and Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective. Tune in as we discuss them in that order.

AFAA invades the Japanese shopping district as we discuss the first 6 episodes of Tamako market.

It's time to fly the weird-looking planes again! This time, it's the past, and a princess needs delivering to the mainland! That's right, we're back in the world of love and hydrogen-fueled airplanes. Tune in for our thoughts on this tale of oceans, war, and romance(?)...

AFAA finishes up the last couple of episode for Muv-Luv Alternative. Tune in as we discuss the end of this series.

Back to Muv-Luv. One world with too much Luv. One world with too much Muv. Only one man can use his mech skill to bring balance to the multiverse. But at what cost.......

This is a show made just for us! But shouldn't there be more of it? Why are the 6 girls in some of the promotional material and 3 in others? Why do these other girls have such detailed designs? WHATS GOING ON HERE!?

This week AFAA watched the first six episodes of Seiren as we discuss the weirdness that is Shuichi.

This is it- the final Zetsubou Sensei animated content... Shaft, if you're listening, it'd be pretty cool if you made more...

This week we discuss difficulty sliders, Dwane "The Actor" Johnson, and CSGO loot boxes.

Oh, we talk a little bit about Zetsubou Sensei too!

This week we finish off the Nanoha movie series and wrap up on the newer Nanoha media as we talk about the most recent Nanoha movie Detonation.

Nanoha and her buds are back, and it's time to fight in the streets! Because there's an aquarium crystal, and a crappy planet, and.. RICHARD! NO! RICHAAAARDDDDD

Our final Ghibli film of 2025, Porco Rosso, shows us more of the aviation side of Miyazaki's mind! Does he know planes burn fossil fuels?

It's the third week of our special Ganuary and we are here to deliver Princess Mononoke for your enjoyment.

This season we watched:

Negative Positive Angler

Kimi wa Meido-sama

Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online 2

Dandadan

Ghibli Ganuary 2 is here! This week, we delve into the film that started it all: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Strap on your glider, put on your tan pants, and befriend an Ohmu as we see what this undiluted early Miyazaki has to offer!

We step into a new realm: the Ghibliverse. Every January, we take a break from our normal anime selections to work our way through the Ghibli repertoire. It's mostly new for us!

This time, we look at Whisper of the Heart, and learn all about books and cats and music! And love.

AFAA finishes up the last couple of episodes for the first part of the original Spice and Wolf.

This week we travel back to a simpler time for anime, and watch the classic Spice and Wolf!

AFAA Christmas is here and we're here to celebrate!!!