Episode 573: Alice in the Jaeger

Anime Pulse is back again with another episode, this time with a host who is a year older. Indeed Joseph talks about his recent birthday events, and Andrew actually mentions that he’s in Scotland to eat Haggis and talk to Nessy. Industry news comes in with a follow up to Melonpan’s doujin fiasco, and Crunchyroll trying their hand at the animation industry. And finally we leave off one another hybrid show, as Andrew is all about those sparkly vampires and Joseph closes his eyes can embraces a bunch of girls calling him Oniichan.

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Manga Pulse 385: King Stalker

I think it may be time once more for a couple of manga. Handpicked by our inexpert staff who can barely manage to punch manga titles into the mighty oracle itself. At least they actually remember to prepare and be read by this episode. Instead of desperately attempting to catch up on the chapters required while the other mumbles their way through a review.

Tim has a request, The King’s Avatar. It’s a manhua where a man stumbles into a gaming cafe and takes over for the manager and demonstrates how awesome he is by making her win the match in a few minutes. It’s revealed he played pro in an MMO but, for reasons we have yet to see, was forced to give it up and leave. The interesting part is him trying to work his way back up while going over meta strategy of gaming. The dull part is seeing him “in the game” as his character which drops it to a Borders.

Weltall’s review, Ijousha no Ai, begins innocently enough when our main character is in elementary school receiving a confession. Elated, he offers to walk her home later. Shortly after, another girl confesses. Main finds her creepy and says he would but there’s this other girl see. So she goes off to kill the other girl. Main is still troubled seven years later when another girl becomes interested in him after he starts seeing his crazy stalker out of the corner of his eye. As with so many psychological slashers we review, it gets a Read It Now.

After Dark 30: Convoluted Non-con Corner

Ryo and Blonde are here again dear listeners. This time they bring speed lines during sex and a bunch of other things that you probably don’t want. But we’re giving it to you anyways. Practice your evil laughter with us on this episode of Anime Pulse After Dark! Continue reading “After Dark 30: Convoluted Non-con Corner”

Popcorn Pulse 89: The Light

Let’s say you managed to make a horror movie using a, then, relatively unknown paranormal phenomenon. You’ve managed to recoup your costs and make a tidy profit to the surprise of everyone. A sane person would pick up their chips and head to the cashiers window, turn it in for a check, then head up to their now comped room for a nice rest before celebrating with a nice dinner. Someone with a gambling problem would say to let it ride and be surprised when the roulette wheel doesn’t land on thirty six a second time.

Which is how we got White Noise 2[2007]. Nathon Fillion replaces Keaton as our dad figure. When he wife and son react to their diner breakfast like they had just sampled from the desert bar at Golden Coral, they get shot to death by a passerby who turns the gun on himself. When Nate tries to kill himself and fails, he can now see auras of people who are about to die. What in the grand hell this has to do with EVP is beyond anyone’s guess.

Tim’s movie is Swiss Army Man[2016]. Daniel Radcliffe plays a corpse who befriends Paul Dano. Which makes it sounds like the autobiographical tale of Michael Cera meeting John Mcain. Dano plays a loser who may or may not get lost on an island who escapes because Radcliffe’s corpse saves him and has odd abilities like being able to snap his fingers and start fires. And the boner compass. Can’t forget the boner compass.

Weltall goes back to Youtube and finds something amazing in that it’s completely politically neutral and awesome. Ants Canada is a channel by a man who own ant colonies that put those silly farms to shame. Episodes are done with a focus on topics like trying to protect them from outsiders, finding them proper food. Getting rid of rogue escaped ants. All done with nature channel quality and enough science to keep the nature minded happy.

Episode 572: Shokugeki no Holmes

This week on Anime Pulse a groggy Andrew keeps on keeping on to bring us his part of the show, and Joseph gets a bit heated about officials in Switzerland denying a man his hentai. IRL news sees Joseph talk about his upcoming birthday, and Andrew rolls over into a discussion on how we Otaku feel about Moe. Industry news is jam packed this week, with Andrew hitting us with a broken Torii gate from Lucky Star and Joseph requesting a refund from a figurine maker. And with the fusion review over we jump into hybrid shows, as Joseph reviews season 3.5 of Food Wars and Andrew inspects antiques and runs a shop full of living toys.

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VG Pulse 311: Jacksonville Landing

This week on VG Pulse, we have a strangely somber and rant-heavy show all at the same time! Wee start out with side notes of work, before diving into the regular news where we discuss Spyro: Reignited Trilogy being delayed until November, Bethesda putting more pressure on Sony over cross-platform play, the sad passing of Unsho Ishizuka (voice of Professor Oak in the Japanese Pokemon series, as well as the voice of several other anime characters), and of course we have a lengthy discussion about the horrible tragedy that took place in Jacksonville on August 26th. After the news, we dive into the forums, and then finish off with talk of food and anime! All this and more up next on VGP 311!! -Aki Continue reading “VG Pulse 311: Jacksonville Landing”

Episode 571: Office Romance

This week on Anime Pulse Joseph tells us how to deal with an active shooter and Andrew asks us what crossover in anime we’d like to see, and industry news come at us with the most anticipated light novels and the top anime of 2018. This week we also have a special with our review, as Joseph and Andrew perform a fusion and tackle office romance and why it is great.

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Episode 570: Summer 2018 Previews #4

Another week, another episode of Anime Pulse. On this show Joseph has gone full Shokugeki on some chicken breast, and Andrew went skiing into some big burley men. Industry news sees topics like anime previews on YouTube being too risqué, and a top politician in Japan dressing up like Kirito. This is also our fourth and final week of full-on previews with Joseph talking about a gamer girl, and Andrew lining up and knocking down several anime about cute girls doing funny things.

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VG Pulse 310: We Unhappy Few

This week on VG Pulse, we talk about work a bunch! We start off with side-notes of my new job and Mil’s endless overtime, before heading off into the regular news where we discuss the IGN plagiarism scandal, before discussing Discord becoming a games store and the very confusing case of Bethesda throwing a fuss over an amazon private seller! After the news we head on off into my first look of the story mode of We Happy Few, and finish off with talk of anime and food! All this and more up next on VGP 310! -Aki Continue reading “VG Pulse 310: We Unhappy Few”

Episode 569: Summer 2018 Previews #3

This week on Anime Pulse Joseph and Andrew are taking a second stab at recording, because Joseph forgot to charge his headphones. After not making a big deal of losing 10 minutes of recording, the two jump into IRL news where Joseph talks about getting lucky in Fire Emblem Heroes and Andrew asks us what anime character we’d like to meet IRL. Industry news brings us topics like a manga about trolling being canned and an anime film about Made in the Abyss being announced. And finally the previews roll in with Joseph talking about demon lords, and Andrew glosses over Idols and Music.

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