Episode 148 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. It's just Ben and Duncan holding down the fort this time, chatting on the ramparts as the horde of shows from the fall 2025 anime season approach. Just the two of us might not seem like enough for this fight, but fear not! Duncan has watched enough of them to count for ten podcast hosts, and Ben... Well, Ben's doing his Ben thing, as usual. Tune in to hear them discuss whether the third season of Spy x Family is bad or just disappointing, if a noblewoman rebelling against the constraints of high society is enough to make an isekai feel fresh, and how Duncan could fall off of Digimon Beatbreak within the space of a single episode!
Discussed:
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray Part 2 (2:24)
Ranma ½ 2nd Season (14:23)
This Monster Wants to Eat Me (25:20)
May I Ask for One Final Thing? (30:44)
Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider (39:51)
Spy x Family Season 3 (43:16)
Touring After the Apocalypse (1:00:00)
Shabake (1:15:59)
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (1:30:39)
A Wild Last Boss Appeared! (1:36:29)
SANDA (1:37:43)
Wandance (1:39:54)
Isekai Quartet 3 (1:46:41)
Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right (1:47:57)
A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace (1:50:07)
A Star Brighter than the Sun (1:51:09)
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days (1:52:11)
Digimon Beatbreak (1:53:11)
Pokémon Concierge Part 2 (1:54:17)
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Lady Emily's observation that the Ranma ½ reboot changes the emphasis of gender-based jokes
For instance, making Akane's stalker hate Ranma because he gets in the way of taking creepy photos
The show even changes how Ranma's gender-switching is revealed, to make it less humiliating for him
In some cases it even deepens the characters, like showing the shallowness of Shampoo's crush on Ranma
A lot of mythology surrounds Worcestershire sauce, but curry indeed seems to have inspired it
On some level, I enjoy interviews with Bill Nighy because he just seems so relentlessly kind and decent
