Anime Summit Podcast

Episode 565: The squad teams up with Rick to play a fun Anime edition of WOULD YOU RATHER? Deciding on some hard hitting scenarios from the world of anime.

Episode 564: Nick with special guest Kai take a dive into Gooseworks online animated series The Amazing Digital Circus and talk about its phenomenon as an online indy animated series.

Episode 562: This week the bitches watch the 11 POKÉTOON Shorts on the Official Pokemon Youtube channel and talk about each one! Playlist to the shorts below! Tell us which one was your favorite!https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQWzKIaERirwncYt1cpPIhIGKnJ1h17_1

EX52: The summit network is back to review two of the summer's hottest films, Obsessions and Backrooms! This time, we have King and Nick leading a discussion with Discord movie buffs Starling and Nosferatu and sharing our thoughts on both films. Warning: WE LOVED THEM!!! Tune in to find out some of our favorite scenes and how scared everyone got

Episode 561: This week Dannie and Som talk about some of their favorite LGBTQIA+ characters in anime and also recommend some anime with good Queer/Trans representation!

Episode 560: This week the hosts review Ouran High School Host Club as it turns 20 years old this year! Haruhi enrolls in the prestigious Ouran High School and stumbles upon the host club where she ends up having to join the club for breaking an expensive vase. The club is full of cute boys and she has to pretend to be a boy to help pay off her debt!

Episode 559: This week we are playing another game of Homie and the Bitch but THIS TIME the host is our old friend Weebologist Ricky! He has picked some Anime villains and ranked them on a tierlist to see which one of us can match it and see who is Rick's Homie and who is the BITCH. His template is below!https://tiermaker.com/create/homie-and-the-bh---anime-villains-19540335?hide=true

Episode 558: This week Nick and Som go through a list of popular shows from the 2000s decade to see which ones we want to watch and review to gear up for our 2000s Decade Spotlight Special that we have been planning for 20 years.

Episode 557: For a lot of people, the ending of anime and stories in general, can fuck up the whole thing. We take a look at CBRs list of endings that made the anime crash and burn. SPOILERS. Time stamps below just in case you dont want to spoil the endings of shows we talk about!0:00 - Intro3:56 - Nick’s Emoji Quiz Results5:00 - Waifu of the Week/Husbando of the Hour6:01 - Main Topic Start10:27 - The Promised Neverland16:18 - Neon Genesis Evangelion22:37 - Wonder Egg Priority31:19 - Darling in the Franxx36:06 - Platinum End37:40 - Akame Ga Kill40:28 - Naruto Shippuden41:55 - Death Note45:29 - Erased46:51 - Tenjho Tenge47:35 - Attack On Titan48:17 - Black Butler51:25 - Digimon Adventure 02 / Medabots52:29 - KumaMiko

Episode 556: This week Nick and Som are joined by Kai clearandsweet to review the Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc !! Now streaming on crunchy roll we take a dive in to the MAPPA funded film that covers volume 5 and 6 of Tatsuki Fujimoto's hit manga.

Episode 555: This week we are taking a look at what the Spring Season for 2026 of anime has to offer! We cover Witch Hat Atelier, Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Go For It Nakamura Kun, and more!

Episode 554: This week we rank all of the Ghibli and Ponoc films on a tierlist. Let's see if you agree with how the Summit Team ranked them!

EX52: Dannie and King conclude their Brat Pack series by talking about the 2024 documentary BRATS. This doc covers the era of movies reviewed in this series!

Episode 553: Som is back and can finally talk about her Winter shows but more importantly Nick and Dannie cover the shows they missed last week on our Winter Review!

Episode 552: This week Dannie and Nick review the Winter season of anime for 2026! Shows mentioned are Frieren, Tamon's B-Side, Jujutsu Kaisen, and more!

Episode 551: This week we are reviewing season 2 of Netflix's One Piece! INTO THE GRAND LINE WE GO! The crew is back and in this season we cover most of the Alabasta Saga! CHOPPER BEST BOI!

Episode 550: This week Nick and Dannie by using a tier list made by Gia Huyn on TierlistMaker! Link below!https://tiermaker.com/create/best-anime-world-to-live-in-16436487?presentationMode=true

Episode 549: The time of the year where Anime Summit does their Annual Summies. Each hosts top 10 anime of 2025. Unfortunately we are minus a Dannie but she has provided her list for us. Top 10 list below!Dannie:The Apothecary Diaries s2 (winter)Secrets of the Silent Witch (summer) My Dress-Up Darling s2 (summer) DanDaDan s2 (summer) The Summer Hikaru Died (summer) With You, Our Love Will Make it Through (fall)The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity (summer)Spy x Family s3 (fall)Ranma ½ (2024) s2 (fall)Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc (spring)-----Nick:Takopi's Original Sin 🐙To Be Hero X 🫰Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray 🐴Orb: On the Movements of the Earth 🪐City the Animation 🏘️Apocalypse Hotel 🛎️Dandadan 2nd Season 👽The Summer Hikaru Died 🌄Medalist ⛸️Gachiakuta 🚮-----Som:Yaiba: Samurai Legend (Spring)Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (Spring)Ruri Rocks (Summer)CITY: The Animation (Summer)Medalist (Spring)SANDA (Fall)With You And The Rain (Summer)Takopi’s Original SinRanma ½ S2 (Fall)With You Our Love Will Make It Through (Fall)

Welcome to the 69th Annual Plumma Summa Rumma Dumma! The awards shoe that is somehow worse and better than other naime awards show! Thank you for all of the sext summit and plummet squad who voted!

Episode 548: This week Dannie and Som go into the training arc, than the tournament arc, and basically all of the arcs to talk about their favorite tropes in anime.

Episode 547: To start off our celebration of Pokemon turning 30 this year we bring you another edition of HOMIE AND THE BITCH. Time for Dannie and Nick to see who matches Som's tier list the best for her top 10 pokemon. Template below to play along!https://tiermaker.com/create/soms-top-10-pokemon-17334201

Episode 546: This week we review the third film in Studio Colorido's Netflix deal, the directorial debut of Shingo Yamashita which is a reimagining of a classic Japanese folk tale: Cosmic Princess Kaguya! Based on the folk tale "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter", this modern day take follows a girl who finds a baby in a utility pole who turns out to be Princess Kaguya!

Episode 545: To end the month of love and romance we take a look at what we THOUGHT was a Boys love romance: it turns out its just some weird show as an excuse for BAD steamy gay kissing action with no direction. Everyone yell at Dannie.

EX50: This week Som and her cousin Mario catch up on everything Mario is working on. From his second book in the Nevertold series to a comic in the future and his podcast Bards & Balladeers. Links below to everything you can do to support Mario and his work with Lovely Woods Publishing and podcast!KICKSTARTER FOR AUDIO BOOKhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lovelywoods/nevertold-ascend-book-1-audiobookLOVELY WOODS PUBLISHINGhttps://lovelywoods.co/BARDS AND BALLADEERShttps://www.youtube.com/@BardsandBalladeers

Episode 544: Let's have fun with love and romance and pair up some likely and unlikely characters from different franchises and see if their romance will hold up!

EX49: Call of Cthulhu a table top D&D adjacent game Earthworm from The Anime Brothers as the DM brought other podcast creators together; Dannie, Matt (AniBros), and Ricky (Weebology Podcast) join together in solving the mystery of Black Water Creek. In this episode we come together and give you a recap of the campaign: We break down our favorite moments, the emotional highs and lows, and give you a sneak peek at the next chapter of our Call of Cthulhu adventure. Step into the madness with us!

Episode 543: Som and Dannie talk about our favorite anime couples. What is it about certain anime couples that make the show better? What are some of your favorite anime couples?

Episode 542: This week the gang talks about their first impressions of the anime this Winter season has to offer. We talk about Jujutsu Kaisen S3, My Hero Academia Vigilantes S2, Hell's Paradise S2, Sentenced To Be A Hero, You And I Are Polar Opposites, and more!

Episode 541: Sometimes when you are at work, writing, drawing, cooking, sleeping, or even straight up just chilling; it's nice to have some background noise. In this ep we talk about some of our favorite anime to put on as background noise.

Episode 540: Som and Dannie have a chill episode and talk about how they want to get better at being weebs and what we want to watch and read this year.

Episode 539: This week we are getting our last seasonal review of 2025 done! We talk about One Punch Man S3, Spy X Family S2, My Hero Academia, Ranma 1/2, SANDA, With You Our Love Will Make It Through, and more!

Episode 538: WE BACK WE BACK HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are back to recording and for our first episode back for the Year we are starting off by bringing you a review of the film 100 Meters, based on the manga by Uoto. This anime film offers a unique presentation in animation to power a great story about self discovery of two characters with different life goals at the same finish line.

Episode 537: This week Dannie and Som are joined by Matt to talk about what they are excited for in 2026 for Anime. (This episode was pre-recorded before Christmas.)

Episode 536: Another joint effort joining the Plummet to do an Anime draft on a website coded by Kai clear/sweet. With video! Please vote on who had the best draft with the link below!https://anime-draft-lime.vercel.app/lobby/34/vote

Episode 535: The 30th Anniversary for Gundam Wing is this year and we need to end this year with one more anime review. We look into the 1995 and 1997 gundam classics: Gundam Wing and Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. Do these still hold up for Toonamillenials? Or is it all just nostalgia?

Episode 534: This week Dannie and Som share some of the ways you can shop for your weeb friends for the holidays!

Episode 533: This week the bitches have returned as Jedi and Sith Lord to bring you the latest from Disney+: Star Wars Visions 3. With the return from many of the directors and studios from the first Volume of Star Wars Visions, we get some new stories and a few sequels to shorts we saw previously.

Episode 532: This week Som is joined by Earthworm and Matt from The Anime Brothers Podcast to just hang out and shoot the poop. We talk about Pokemon cards, Digimon, board games, anime, and more!

Episode 531: This week the bitches are joined by Kaiclearandsweet once again to review the latest in the Netflix Castlevania Netflix series, the second season of Castlevania Nocturne. Alucard has now joined the ranks to stop the coming of Sekhmet and hes also hot.

Episode 530: This week we are joined by the one and only King to share some 1st impressions of Fall anime. It seems this season is a little light compared to this past year. What do you think?

Episode 529: This week we take a look at one of Satoshi Kon's last works: Paranoia Agent. His only TV series that explores the intricacies of how human nature deals with the negative realities of life.

Episode 528: Dannie and Nick are joined by Mike and Kai to talk about the best creatures of the night from Anime. Good thing Som wasnt on it because she would just pick the ones she'd bone. Which is all of them.

EX: For this EX edition some of the Summit Network Manga Club regulars review the recent adaptation of one of their top mangas: The Summer Hikaru Died.

Episode 527: This scary season you should be reading the manga we talk about in this ep. Seriously. You can only read Uzamaki so many times okay?

Episode 526: This week for another creepy review for the season, we take a look at Nagahama's controversial "The Flowers of Evil" .. The first anime to be animated entirely in live rotoscope, this adaptation was widely hated for it's take on the beloved manga.

Episode 525: To start of the Scary Season we sit down with Opera singer and composer Chris Drago Fistonich, who one day was speaking with Librettist and friend Robert Feng and came up with the idea to write and compose an Opera rendition of Junji Ito's one shot horror manga The Enigma of Amigara Fault!Follow Chris here on Instagram!https://www.instagram.com/chrisfistonich/

Episode 524: This week we are looking at what we finished and loved for anime of the Summer season. We go over Takopi's Original Sin, Ruri Rocks, Kaiju No.8 S2, Dandadan S2, My Dress Up Darling S2, and so so so much more. This Summer was PACKED! What were your favorite shows from Summer 2025?

Episode 523: You might have heard of these anime but most likely you forgot about it, that is until we bring light to them once again! We go around the table and mention some anime that most likely went under the radar on your plan to watch list!

WARNING FULL SPOILERS AHEADEpisode 522: Thank you to Sony Pictures and Crunchyroll for providing are own screenings to view the adaptation of the latest arc from Demon Slayer! THE INFINITY CASTLE! The Hashira have been brought to Muzan's stronghold, the Infinity Castle, there along with other members of the Demon Slayer corps, they must fight the Upper Kizuki demons and being searching for Muzan to end his plot to destroy the Sun!

Episode 521: We are back watching Pokemon Concierge for the release of part 2 of season 1 on Netflix! Last time we left Haru she was realizing that she was more capable than she thought and that she loved being in the service position of Concierge at the Pokemon Resort! This time she is faced with new challenges at the Resort and her past!