Episode 137 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. Isn't it kind of amazing to think about how many foods are the result of essentially being left to spoil or mold? Yeast gives us bread and beer, other types of alcohol use fermented cultures of microorganisms, cheese is coagulated and curdled with enzymes from bacteria (or, more incredibly, mammal stomachs), and you can pickle all sorts of things. What sort of superior being could have the thought in the first place to eat food or drink gone bad, though? He'd have to be a genius straight out of a shounen anime: a person with exceptional strength and even more exceptional vision, someone who could bring peace at last to our broken world... Anyway, Ben, Andy, Duncan, and Jeff go over the results of the summer 2024 season, with juicy results. Dig in!
Discussed:
YATAGARASU: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master (1:09)
Oshi no Ko 2nd Season (10:03)
The Fable (19:28)
Spice & Wolf: merchant meets the wise wolf (28:40)
That Time I Got Reincarnated by a Slime Season 3 (37:13)
Kimi ni Todoke 3rd Season (48:02)
Plus-Sized Elf (58:15)
2.5 Dimensional Seduction (1:00:48)
Senpai Is an Otokonoko (1:04:50)
Quality Assurance in Another World (1:10:21)
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! (1:12:07)
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian (1:36:16)
Shikanoko Nokonoko Koshitantan (1:38:44)
Narenare -Cheer for You!- (1:48:47)
The Elusive Samurai (1:53:15)
VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral After Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream (2:01:01)
Mayonaka Punch (2:10:49)
Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary (2:14:14)
The Magical Girl and The Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies (2:22:19)
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