Episode 144 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. The thing about podcasting is that you get very, very accustomed to listening to yourself speak in a way that I don't think the average individual ever does. For most people, hearing their own voice coming back to them elicits feelings of confusion and dislocation—think of the instant chaos that a feedback echo on a Zoom call causes—but for me, at this point, it has almost become a conversation with myself across time. I remember when I first started listening back to our earliest episodes, having forgotten most of what we talked about long ago, and found myself making the same observations, the same emendations, even the same jokes, usually milliseconds before the recorded me did the same. Do I just have that consistent of a sense of self? Or am I merely too boring to change, even after so many years and dozens more anime watched in that time? Anyway, Ben, Duncan, and Jon talk about spring 2025 anime and Jon makes a remarkably anatid noise while Duncan's dumping all over Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX. Enjoy!
Discussed:
Apocalypse Hotel (0:59)
Kowloon Generic Romance (20:46)
After the Rain (33:04)
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX (37:33)
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn (41:37)
mono (49:29)
Catch Me at the Ballpark! (54:18)
The Gorilla God's Go-To Girl (1:00:01)
Witch Watch (1:01:20)
My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (1:02:52)
To Be Hero X (1:04:53)
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (1:13:31)
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray (1:17:47)
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 (1:27:35)
Shoshimin: How to Become Ordinary Season 2 (1:37:13)
Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show (1:51:03)
Bullet/Bullet (1:52:54)
Wizard Barristers: Benmashi Cecil (1:56:49)
Related Links:
The "best of spring 2025" list on ANN makes some... choices
On the other hand, their interview with lead staff on Apocalypse Hotel is very insightful
Who is Yoshiaki Fujisawa, composer for Apocalypse Hotel?
Who is Kohei Honda, art director for Apocalypse Hotel?
If GQuuuuuuX had to make its ending meta, it should have made it really meta
EVirus being lukewarm on mono, just like Duncan
EVirus being charmed by Catch Me at the Ballpark!, just like Jon
