Anime Was (Not) A Mistake

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An Anime/Animated Retrospective Podcast ranging from the realms of Ghibli to Godzilla and beyond. Join resident nerd co-hosts Jonathan Kwiatkowski and Dan Ryan as they travel through spirit realms, new, fascinating worlds, and fly through the skies in order to prove that Anime Was (Not) A Mistake.

  1. Episode 372: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 4)

    3d ago

    Episode 372: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 4)

    Set three years after the first season, Digimon Adventure 02 begins with the Digital World under siege once again. A human calling himself the Digimon Emperor is enslaving Digimon using Dark Rings. He’s also been constructing Control Spires that prevent Digimon from evolving past rookie level. With our original heroes unable to fight at full power, a new generation of DigiDestined is chosen. We have the hot-headed Davis, the tech-savvy Yolei, and the reserved Cody paired with Veemon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon, respectively. T.K. and Kari return to round out the 02 team, and the older DigiDestined remain ready to provide wisdom (and muscle) as needed. The DigiDestined gain access to Armor Evolution, an ancient technique that lets their Digimon bypass the Emperor’s power. After the DigiDetined foil his plans one too many times, the Digimon Emperor resolves to create a Digimon capable of untold destruction. Facing an enemy that views the Digital World as nothing more than a game, will the new DigiDestined prevail and make the Digimon Emperor see the light? Warm yourself with the fires of courage, ride the wings of love, and drill…into some knowledge (just go with it) as Anime Was (Not) A Mistake: Prodigious Summer continues! Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided: “Digimon Are The Champions” – Shuki Levy and Paul Gordon – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Previously on Digimon” Takanori Arisawa  – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Digimon's Heroic Theme” – Project Trinity Covers - Digimon: Adventure - 2012

    3h 7m
  2. Episode 371: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 3)

    Jun 21

    Episode 371: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 3)

    Our Prodigious Summer's first half boards a train car to bid a tearful farewell (but, not a goodbye) to the partners we grew to love along the way. On this episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake the Numemon choose Jonathan as their new savior and Dan battles and defeats anxiety/depression while inside a cave. Haven't we all been there? With the Digidestined slowly defeating each of the Dark Masters, we see where each of our protagonist's true power lies. With some dedicated to teamwork and bringing the battle to our enemies and others less inclined to fight and more prone to gather up past friends to form an army. When the dust finally settles and we all claim our shiny new keepsake keychains only one thing lays between us and an era of peace...the digital personification of the apocalypse?!?!? Well, at least we know if we can take it on the chin and view everything as a bit of a joke we will be alright in the end. With that all said and done, it's just a quick train ride back home. There will be tears, lost cowboy hats in the wind, and plenty of fond memories. Yet, we have a feeling this ending is just the beginning of a new digital adventure!     Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided: “Digimon Are The Champions” – Shuki Levy and Paul Gordon – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Previously on Digimon” Takanori Arisawa  – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Digimon's Heroic Theme” – Project Trinity Covers - Digimon: Adventure - 2012

    1h 54m
  3. Episode 370: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 2)

    Jun 14

    Episode 370: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 2)

    Our Prodigious Summer continues to go strong on this episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake. After battling a batty, yet sinister evil that we may see again, our Digidestined friends (plus) one extra, head back to the Digital World to face off against a malicious pantheon dubbing themselves “The Dark Masters.” The future of this world and our own is at stake and only friendship, and constantly making jokes can save us. Dan and Jonathan have some pivotal moments that will test their friendship and may even see strong aspects of themselves, and those they hold dear, in the villains present here. Will our strength falter when we are apart or will this time away from each other to discover and build a digital army? Of course we want you to read this blurb with your best Marlon Brando impression, let's continue Digimon Adventure! Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided: “Digimon Are The Champions” – Shuki Levy and Paul Gordon – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Previously on Digimon” Takanori Arisawa  – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Digimon's Heroic Theme” – Project Trinity Covers - Digimon: Adventure - 2012

    1h 59m
  4. Episode 369: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 1)

    Jun 7

    Episode 369: Prodigious Summer Volume 1| Digimon Adventure (Part 1)

    Anime Was (Not) A Mistake is the champions! It's another summer and you know what that means, chilling with friends and taking in a well-deserved vacation...or does it? Dan and Jonathan are suddenly flung into a digital world in an unprecedented event we like to call Prodigious Summer: Volume I. Join us for the summer of digivolution as we examine EVERY episode of Digimon Adventure 01 and 02. (Skipping around but discussing them all) As the newly dubbed "Digi Destined" Tai, Matt, Izzy, Sora, Joe, Mimi and T.K. befriend partner Digimon and seek to destroy the forces of evil through friendship we will be there with them every step of the way.  With new bonds created with their Digimon friends watch as Digivices, tags, and crests work together to ascend to higher levels. We go from fighting a digidevil on File Island, taking down an Elvis impersonator ape, and finally return to the real world to confront a vampiric threat! Relive the excitement of a well-timed Pepper Breath. Mourn the loss of some close allies... Wizardmon, here's looking at you. And most importantly know that the power to digivolve lives inside your heart! Jonathan definitely misses his shopping and social life, but Dan seems to be fitting right in... wait...where did he get those goggles from?  Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided: “Digimon Are The Champions” – Shuki Levy and Paul Gordon – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Previously on Digimon” Takanori Arisawa  – Saban Entertainment – Digimon: Adventure - Digimon: Adventure OST - 1999 “Digimon's Heroic Theme” – Project Trinity Covers - Digimon: Adventure - 2012

    2h 43m

  5. May 31

    Episode 368: Lupin III: Voyage to Danger (1993)

    Our course is set for certain doom as we spotlight the 1993 OVA Lupin III: Voyage to Danger. After years of failing to catch the master thief, Inspector Zenigata is unceremoniously removed from the Lupin case. Determined to help the old man get his groove back, Lupin decides to bring down the notorious arms smugglers “Shot Shell” and give Zenigata all the credit. The first step in Lupin’s plan involves stealing a nuclear submarine to serve as bait, but that ends up being the easy part. Complicating things is a nuclear scientist named Karen, who seems to have history with Jigen. Lupin and his crew are also being targeted by Keith Hayden, a merciless Interpol agent with a license to kill. When Shot Shell finally enters the scene, Lupin and Zenigata realize that the group’s ambitions go far beyond smuggling weapons. Fake-outs, double-crosses, and intrigue abound on today’s explosive episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake! Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided: “Stardust Crusaders” – Yugo Kanno– Warner Bros. Home Entertainment – JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OST - 2014 “Koigokoro/In Love” - CLAMP –Victor Entertainment - Cardcaptor Sakura - Cardcaptor Sakura Original Soundtrack 4 - 2000 “Rest” – Yugo Kanno– Warner Bros. Home Entertainment – JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders OST - 2014

    1h 55m
  6. Episode 367: Good Movie Podcast?: Episode 15: Sunday in the Park with George (1984)

    May 24

    Episode 367: Good Movie Podcast?: Episode 15: Sunday in the Park with George (1984)

    Well, there are worse things than recording a theater/anime podcast on a Sunday? On this glorious Sunday's episode of Anime Was (Not) a Mistake presents Good Movie Podcast?  Jonathan hopes to inspire Dan's artistic sensibilities with Stephen Sondheim and James Lapines' proshot of Sunday in the Park with George (1984). In a fictional, yet powerful examination of Georges Seurat's life in painting life around him on a series of Sundays, laughs, tears, and humanity will be discovered. Relationships and emotions that will hit home harder than the smell of baked goods, fresh from a waffle stove. You will be dazzled by the color and life around you with budding romances, the nature of art, and the progress of the medium over the turn on a century. Yes, its not technically a "movie" and yes we are wheeling out the VHS/TV combo like we are back in art school, but Jonathan is dead set on being a model who can concentrate there's no stopping him. Dan on the other hand struggles to make a hat, but I feel through the the tenants of balance, order, design, composition, and harmony he will let whatever comes from him will be new and teach the world to see...  Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided by: Cab Calloway, Irving Mills and Clarence Gaskill – “Minnie the Moocher” – RCA Instrumental/Karaoke Version Dave Flesischer – “Let’s All Go to the Lobby”- National Film Registry/Library of Congress Kansas Joe McCoy, Herb Morand– “Why Don’t You Do Right” – Claudia Santoro Instrumental/Karaoke Version

    2h 45m
  7. Episode 366 - AWNAM: Animasterpiece Theater (Double Feature): Belladonna of Sadness (1973) & Angel's Egg (1985)

    May 17

    Episode 366 - AWNAM: Animasterpiece Theater (Double Feature): Belladonna of Sadness (1973) & Angel's Egg (1985)

    Animasterpiece Double Feature sexy witches and waterlogged creatures... Tonight, Anime Was (Not) A Mistake gets classy as we focus on two highly lauded anime feature length classics from time gone by. First, we are off to the pastel water colors of France in Eiichi Yamamoto's morality tale Belladonna of Sadness (1973). When the young innocent Jeanne is beset by every man, devil, and facet of the human race, she has no choice but to become a witch. Will her loveliness succumb to dark desires or is she but a mirror that will inspire all of humanity to follow suit? Next, we are off to the past or the future, in a silent, wet, dark world with Mamoru Oshii's seminal Angel's Egg (1985). In a world where people are scarce and all is passed down through biblical lore, will we discover what lies just under the shell of this egg? One girl potentially holds the world's inner workings close to her chest, but is she or we the true dreamer? Make sure to don your gowns and jewels and oh yes, bring your opera glasses! Bet you never thought that this silly little anime podcast could revel in the medium that is cinema.  Rate, Review, Subscribe, and Listen to Us on Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided by: “Quizás, quizás, quizás” & “Te Quiero Dijiste (Magic is Moonlight)” – Nat King Cole – In the Mood for Love Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “California Dreamin’” – The Mamas & The Papas – Chungking Express Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    2h 7m
  8. Episode 365: Sinister Six - LIV: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    May 10

    Episode 365: Sinister Six - LIV: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    All the stars are out (and looking a little dimmer than usual) for today’s Sinister Selection. The episode begins with a special presentation of the Sinisties, where Jonathan and Dan recount their favorite Sinister Six picks of the year. Then, we journey across time and space to suffer through 2017’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. United Human Federation dispatches police partners Valerian and Laureline to Alpha, a space-traveling city made up of species from all over the galaxy. Alpha’s existence is threatened by an irradiated anomaly spreading from its core. Our heroes are uncertain who to trust, as this crisis exposes a larger conspiracy within the federation. Valerian and Laureline must make their way to Alpha’s core to uncover these secrets for themselves, meeting new allies (such as Rhianna) and enemies along the way. We can’t promise this adventure will end with a bang (besides it being the biggest bomb in the history of France), nor can we promise that you’ll learn anything. But maybe, just maybe, you’ll come away knowing the true meaning of love. Or something. We’re not sure. This one really got away from us. Either way, remember to pack your pearls and properly program your Cake-Pops for today’s inter-dimensional (shopping centre) episode of Anime Was (Not) A Mistake! Podbean/iTunes/Stitcher/Spotify Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided by: "Danse Macabre" Saint-Saëns - Rock/Metal Version Cover – EXMORTUS TV “Live and Learn” – Crush 40 - Main Theme of Sonic: Adventure 2 “Chromaggia” – Repo! The Genetic Opera: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    2h 32m
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An Anime/Animated Retrospective Podcast ranging from the realms of Ghibli to Godzilla and beyond. Join resident nerd co-hosts Jonathan Kwiatkowski and Dan Ryan as they travel through spirit realms, new, fascinating worlds, and fly through the skies in order to prove that Anime Was (Not) A Mistake.

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  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
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