Anime Doubleplay

The Crunchyroll Anime awards are just around the corner! Mary and Thomas go over the categories and nominations and their picks for anime of the year!

Mary and Thomas return to discuss the upcoming season of anime! Is Spring 2026 one for the record books or is it time to catch up on your back log?

We finally stay true to ourselves and only talk about manga the whole time. We read more than you guys think!

Golden Kamuy, folks. Watch Golden Kamuy. Also, we try to make our own Anime Olympics. It goes okay.

We are very happy with the anime we are watching this season! So many very, very good shows! And, Thomas has a question. Let's see if we can answer it!

We totally remember to watch anime. And it's Thomas' turn in the hot seat for quiz night!

Thomas fulfills everyone's dreams by catching up in Golden Kamuy...and then takes Mary through the ringer of manga rankings and more. Play along at home!

The three of us try to figure out Jujutsu Kaisen, Mary tries to name the top 6 shoujo manga on MAL and we talk about our favorite anime parents. Are there any good ones?

We simultaneously look back on 2025 and full speed ahead to 2026. What are your favorites from last year? What are you watching now?

We look to the future to an AWESOME incoming season of anime! What are you gonna watch? Is it easier to ask what you aren't??

Thomas and our good friend Bazzy break down the Jujutsu Kaisen Culling Game preview. What IS the culling game? Will someone ever truly understand it?

Thomas and Liam dive into everything they like and hate and like and like and love about Hunter x Hunter!

We catch up on some card games and manga and finally get the chance to talk about the Chainsaw Man movie...while we rag on each other the whole time.

Gaming updates, sports updates and more! Also, we're giving up anime, just read the manga people!

Thomas is back from Japan and tells us all about his trip! Also, what is up with Crunchyroll?

The leaves are falling and so some sick anime! Here's what you should watch this season. Also, did you know the scariest anime of all time is Scooby-Doo?

Who is the best glasses wearing anime character? And what is going on in To Be Hero X?

We travel back in time and look at the popular Shonen Jump series from 30 and 20 years ago. Have we heard of them? Are they bangers?

Thomas finally dives into his GOAT mangaka...hopefully. And we start, as we will call it, the "late" summer season of anime.

We have opened the SteinsGate! Do we like what's inside?

If you could only save one SteinsGate girl, who would you pick?

We talk about our time at Connecticon, catch up on SteinsGate and finally jump into the new summer anime season! What are you watching?

We are mad scientists being driven crazy by mad scientist stuck in the walled city of Kowloon. Seriously though, I think something is actually wrong with my husband. Maybe too much Dr. Pepper?

We kick-start our Discord Anime-Watchalong of Stein's Gate...and find out how intelligent Thomas truly is. Spoilers: He drinks Dr. Pepper.

We give our summer season picks! And, if you had to pick one, what's an anime you would watch with your mom?

There's a lot of things to talk about. We (Mary) watched some new anime, the Solo Leveling Awards happened, Kaijuu no 8 soon WON'T happen and Thomas has entered his villain arc. What could possibly go wrong?

Back with more anime and manga than you can imagine! Actually only 10 as we review someone's top ten anime of all time. We do take some time to remember what we lost in Mangadex...and the end of Bleach. How do we always end up talking about Bleach?

Thomas and Ganon11 give us their thoughts on Monster. Is it one of the greatest anime/manga stories ever told?

With the new season in full swing, we talk our favorites, our not so favorites and stuff we are absolutely not watching. What do you think should be on our list?

We touch on the "character writing" in Solo Leveling and finally finish discussing the manga masterclass Oyasumi Punpun. Is it a masterpiece?

The trendy, current events episode of the pod! We walk Switch 2 and our picks for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards!

Spring is here (or at least it's starting to feel like it) so we run through the new season of anime and see what's up! We're not...super impressed so please tell us what you think we should be watching next season. Also, Punpun remains Punpun as we ramp up to the climax! How is this manga going to end?

GUEST HOST ALERT! Welcome DarkFox as we dive into his anime biography, find out his favorite shows, what made him an anime fan and, honestly, just hang for an hour with a super cool guy!

Thomas actually watches anime and we talk about everyone's favorite color-- blue! Speaking of blue, is Punpun finally experiencing the joys of his youth?

Apothecary Diaries finally decides to show up! We get drama, we get secrets, and we get a riddle that is actually possible to figure out in an anime. Also, Punpun is the same. We want off this ride.

What's anime? Does it even exist? Nah, that crap is fake. Let's talk about manga instead...again...for the second week in a row.

We begin our deep dive into Inio Asano's Oyasumi Punpun. We also talk old and new manga, and some new games that are on our lists for the coming weeks!

We kick off our manga readalong, Oysami PunPun and discuss other miserable manga. Yay!!

Finally reunited, the twins go over their top 5 anime of 2024! And the emphasis here is on twins....because oh boy, are they twinning this entire episode...

We talk A Place Further than the Universe, Pokémon Soul Silver, Christmas gifts and allllll the anime we are excited for this coming winter season. There aren't many we're pumped about...

Can you believe we're here?! Join us for episode 300 as we reminisce through almost 8 years of podcasting together and review Reddit's Top 100 Anime of all time. We talk about everything single anime on this list...it's a three-hour episode, fam!

Get in the holiday spirit with us by going through some of the most well-loved Christmas/Winter/Holiday episodes of anime according to the internet! Will Tokyo Godfathers justly win the top spot? Will we know any of the others? Will YOUR fave be represented. Listen and find out!

Anime is drowning in impactful and depressing backstories, but which ones are the best? We talk about our top five...and a bunch of other ones because how can you only pick five? Some of these are really dang good!

We get an absolutely beautiful episode of Dandadan this week, and dig into our first listener MAL roast. You're in for it, Bazzy!

Mary and Thomas go over the manga chapters that have stuck with them through out the years, while Mary slowly, slowly, slowly, convinces Thomas to read Yona of the Dawn.

Finally back and here to talk about the new season of anime! Dandadan is great! Ranma 1/2 is great! And others things are also pretty darn good too (but not the new Bleach opening). What should we be watching?

Mary and Thomas revisit one of their favorite podcast episodes as they recreate their Manga Mount Rushmore's, showcasing what they think are the best and most influential titles in the business.

Thomas powwows with his semi-non-anime friends and they discuss the ending to Attack on Titan a year later. Even for non-anime fans, the show still maintains a legacy.

We are so excited about the Fall season, we are jumping the gun and talking about it early because BLUE LOCK? NATSUME YUUJINCHOU? DANDADAN? What will you be watching?

Our good friend Murph joins us on the pod to give some us his recent manga recommendations! And Mary watches slice of life...and has opinions.