47 episodes

Join Cass (@prophet_goddess) and Alex (@dunndunndunn) as they try to find out once and for all if anime is good or bad.
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Anime Is For Jerks Cass & Alex

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings

Join Cass (@prophet_goddess) and Alex (@dunndunndunn) as they try to find out once and for all if anime is good or bad.
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    EP47: Paranoia Agent

    EP47: Paranoia Agent

    In which Cass & Alex discuss Paranoia Agent, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.
    Next month(?) we will be discussing FLCL, directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki and produced by Gainax and Production I.G.
    Discussed: deciding whether satoshi kon is good or bad, bat boy, slow dial-up loading of a pornographic image, increasing lasciviousness, a young up and coming republican, the spike lee film 25th hour, your split personalities merging into the joker, a regular ass cop, content warning for the worst shit, whether satoshi kon is a tradcath, memes, too many cooks, what satoshi kon thinks about hello kitty, el problemo es el capitalismo, the two things you can do when faced with capitalism, self-loathing anime, abolishing the nine delights
    Alex's Book Recommendation: When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill
    Cass's Album Recommendation: Runnings as fast as I can by william crooks
    Social:
    Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks
    Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool
    Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks
    Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com
    Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess
    Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool
    Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess
    Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn
    Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army
    Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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    • 2 hr 12 min
    EP46: ODDTAXI

    EP46: ODDTAXI

    In which Cass & Alex discuss ODDTAXI, directed by Baku Kinoshita and produced by OLM and P.I.C.S.
    Next month we will be discussing Paranoia Agent, directed by Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse.
    Discussed: zootopia or beastars but good, tokyo godfathers but good, the windows snipping tool, vlc, mpv, birdie wing, chekhov's bricks, dog police by dog police, meerkat police, bojack horseman, a criminal monkey, who has the most drip in this show, bruce springsteen, chekhov's closet, a 41 year old monkey, the thing that made the least sense to me in this show, it's a mad mad mad mad world, 428: shibuya scramble, in bruges, leon the professional, getting out of the taxi without closing the door, manzai, rakugo, limited run 1 of 1 type of guy, badger game, capoeira, the capoeira music, eraser collecing, the monk joke, god closing a door, god opening a window, losers, the JLPT N1, type of guy who raps all the time, we both skipped episode 8, polar bear in a tracksuit, the foundation for orphans whose parents died in traffic accidents, "You Successfully Stalked Us, Please Don't Do It Again" by matt and tom, full dirty harry, ranma 1/2, why does odokawa the largest character not simply eat the other nine, racing lagoon, alex being drafted in as the new my brother my brother and me
    FINAL SCORES:
    Walking Around: 5/5
    Fellowship: 5/5
    Deliciousness: 3/5
    Transcendence: 4/5
    Goofing: 5/5
    Amelioration: 5/5
    Coitus: 1/5
    Enthrallment: 4/5
    Meerkats: 1/5
    Style: 4/5
    Alex's Book Recommendation: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
    Cass's Album Recommendation: I Didn't Mean To Haunt You by Quadeca
    Social:
    Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks
    Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool
    Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks
    Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com
    Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess
    Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool
    Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess
    Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn
    Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army
    Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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    • 3 hr 3 min
    EP45: Spirited Away

    EP45: Spirited Away

    In which Cass & Alex discuss Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.
    Next month we will be discussing Odd Taxi, directed by Baku Kinoshita and produced by OLM and P.I.C.S.
    Discussed: ghibli english dubs, kiki's delivery service, classic americans, americans loving weird japanese stuff, clumsiness, who framed roger rabbit, the truly absurd number of abandoned theme parks in japan, porco rosso, trains across the sea by silver jews, coelacanth stomach, maro yonebayashi tweet about coelacanth stomach, akira toriyama eating coelacanth, the book of disquiet, the trouble with being born, oyasumi punpun, largeprimenumbers.com
    FINAL SCORES:
    Walking Around 4/5
    Fellowship 5/5
    Deliciousness 5/5
    Transcendence 4/5
    Goofing 4/5
    Amelioration 5/5
    Coitus 0/5
    Enthrallment 5/5
    Green Disembodied Heads: 3/5
    Trains: 5/5
    Alex's Book Recommendation: What We Do In The Dark by Michelle Hart
    Cass's Book Recommendation: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
    Social:
    Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks
    Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool
    Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks
    Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com
    Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess
    Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool
    Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess
    Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn
    Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army
    Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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    • 1 hr 48 min
    EP44: Night on the Galactic Railroad

    EP44: Night on the Galactic Railroad

    In which Cass & Alex discuss Night on the Galactic Railroad directed by Gisaburo Sugii and produced by Group TAC.
    Next month we will be discussing Spirited Away, directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.
    Discussed: a pure vibes performance, normal winnie the pooh: stuff happens, fancy winnie the pooh: events occur, esperanto, yellow magic orchestra, cats with dogs, the onceler (NOT HORNY), gerry, gus van sant, the polar express, spirited away, the secret of nimh, the black cauldron, the last unicorn, the neverending story, walnuts, flattened herons, inside birdcatcher baseball, dreamfeel, witnessing corn, mode 7, a scorpion who's a menace to society, the true heaven, the coalsack nebula, the discovery that the milky way was but one of many galaxies was made by hubble in 1929 (right around the time this book was published)
    FINAL SCORES:
    Walking Around 5/5
    Fellowship 5/5
    Deliciousness 3/5
    Transcendence 5/5
    Goofing 1/5
    Amelioration -5/-5
    Coitus 0/5
    Enthrallment 5/5
    Walnuts: 1.2 million/5
    Trains: 5/5
    Alex's Book Recommendation: Kindred by Octavia E Butler
    Cass's Book Recommendation: SORRY
    Social:
    Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks
    Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool
    Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks
    Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com
    Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess
    Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool
    Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess
    Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn
    Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army
    Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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    • 1 hr 29 min
    EP43: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

    EP43: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

    In which Cass & Alex discuss Puella Magi Madoka Magica, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Yukihiro Miyamoto and produced by Shaft.
    Next month we will be discussing Night on the Galactic Railroad directed by Gisaburo Sugii and produced by Group TAC.
    Discussed: we fucked up, a subtle textural difference, yu gi oh beds, getting genied, She entered the Home of Phobia and wasn't even scared, saya no uta, "Madoka Magica Writer Urobochi Compares Plot to Al-Quaeda", the visceral horror of discovering that your soul is in an egg, the gospel according to dad, the free marketplace of ideas, inductive reasoning, the last refuge of the scoundrel, straight women tiktok, the most powerful energy source in the universe: teen girls, dying for the sake of the universe, livestock, what's really going on, foreshadowing, a song about cake and fruit
    FINAL SCORES:
    Walking Around 3/5
    Fellowship 5/5
    Deliciousness 3/5
    Transcendence 5/5
    Goofing 3/5
    Amelioration 5/5
    Coitus 2/5
    Enthrallment 5/5
    Evil Cats: infinity/5
    Homosexuality: 5/5
    Alex's Book Recommendation: Kindred by Octavia E Butler
    Cass's Book Recommendation: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
    Social:
    Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks
    Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool
    Show Cohost: @animeisforjerks
    Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com
    Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess
    Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool
    Cass's Cohost: @prophet-goddess
    Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn
    Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army
    Alex's Cohost: @catalina

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    • 2 hr 51 min
    EP42: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (1st Gig)

    EP42: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (1st Gig)

    In which Cass & Alex discuss Ghost in The Shell: Stand Alone Complex 1st Gig, directed by Kenji Kamiyama and produced by Production I.G.
    Next month we will be discussing Puella Magi Madoka Magica, directed by Akiyuki Shinbo and Yukihiro Miyamoto and produced by Shaft.
    Discussed: what production i.g. stands for, trying to make cass like your show by mentioning frederic jameson at the last second, copaganda, that f****n swedish show alex likes, surveillance, the experience machine, cyberbrain autistic mode, genderswapped karl marx, wine fraud, being a hot lady with huge boobs
    FINAL SCORES:
    Walking Around 3/5
    Fellowship 4/5
    Deliciousness 1/5
    Transcendence 1/5
    Goofing 2/5
    Ameliorate 2/5
    Coitus 0/5
    Enthrallment 2/5
    Genderswapped Karl Marx: 4/5
    Postmodernism: 3/5
    Alex's Book Recommendation: Martin Beck Police Mystery series by Maj Sjöwall
    Cass's Book Recommendation: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
    Social:
    Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks
    Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool
    Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com
    Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess
    Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool
    Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn
    Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

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    • 1 hr 48 min

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