Anime Addicts Anonymous Podcast

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 19 Alternate Titles: None Original Japanese Release Date: 2006 Episode Length/Run-time: 47 Summary: Nana begins with two girls named Nana who meet on a train.  The light haired Nana Komatsu, later nicknamed “Hatchi” (which will be her name here on out) is headed to Tokyo with little vision or goal other than going out to be with her boyfriend.  The dark, short haired rocker Nana Osaki is going to Tokyo with her band the Black Stones, [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 49 Alternate Titles:Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun (ホーホケキョとなりの山田くん) Original Japanese Release Date: 1999 Episode Length/Run-time: 104 minutes Summary: The movie tells the story of the real life interactions of the Yamada family in short arcs throughout the film.  They are real life situations from a wife not knowing what to cook for dinner, to children having problems with how “boring” their parents are.  A slice of life with morals and a character-driven story. Review: When this film [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 58 Alternate Titles: None Original Japanese Release Date: 2010 Episode Length/Run-time: 13 Summary: There is one thing that no teacher in Japan ever wants, and that is to be the homeroom elementary teacher of the dreaded Marui triplets: Futaba, Mitsuba, and Hitoha.  Futaba is the youngest, a tomboy, stronger than most grown men, clueless and obsessed with boobs.  Mitsuba the middle child is quiet but filled with quirks such as her obsession with the Gachi Rangers [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 35 Alternate Titles: From Me to You, Reaching Out to You, 君に届け Original Japanese Release Date: 2008 Episode Length/Run-time: 25 Episodes Summary: Kuronuma Sawako (whose name means “happy child”) is a well meaning high-school girl.  She is kind, and often looks to give others the benefit of the doubt, perhaps out of her nature or out of naivety.  However, she is awkward in social situations, often giving off a creepy, brooding, nature.  Which earns her the [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 56 Alternate Titles: Gakuen Mokushiroku – Highschool of the Dead Original Japanese Release Date: July 5th, 2010 Episode Length/Run-time: 12 Episodes Summary: The zombie apocalypse has broken out in Tokyo and the city has been overrun.  After the infection spreads to a local high school,  a handful of students escape and together and fight for survival. Review: This is the kind of show that is going to exist forever as a classic.  As maybe the first [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 32 Alternate Titles: Cobra the Animation: Rokunin no Yuushi Original Japanese Release Date: January 2nd, 2010 Episode Length/Run-time: 13 Episodes Summary: Legendary space pirate Cobra, the man with the psychogun on his left arm, decides he wants to quit the life of pirating and so he erases his memories and changes his identity in an attemt to live a normal life.  This unfortunately doesn’t work out for him as the life of a pirate finds him [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 11 Alternate Titles: Ōkami to Kōshinryō II Original Japanese Release Date: July 8th, 2009 Episode Length/Run-time: 13 Episodes Summary: The journey between Laurence Craft and Horo continues as the pair live the life of a merchant on their way to returning Horo to her home village. Review: This season of Spice and Wolf is largely the same as the last.  It’s a nice “love story” between Laurence Craft, a merchant, and Horo, a wolf girl deity.  [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 38 Alternate Titles: Cosmic Stellvia, Stellvia in Space, Stellvia Original Japanese Release Date: April 2nd, 2003 Episode Length/Run-time: 26 Episodes Summary: In the distant future, a supernova erupts and the heat and light burns the Earth, nearly wiping out mankind.  However, mankind survived and in order to keep an eye on the happenings in the solar system they have built these space stations called “foundations”.  Shima Katase has passed her prelim tests to go to the [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 11 Alternate Titles: 東京マグニチュード8.0 Original Japanese Release Date: July 9th, 2009 Episode Length/Run-time: 11 Episodes Summary: It was a normal day until Tokyo was struck by a devastating 8.0 earthquake.  The destruction is extreme and in the rubble and brother and sister make their way home. Review: Mirai and Yuuki were off having a nice weekend in Tokyo when an earthquake of rare power hits Tokyo, leaving the city in large part destroyed.  These two children [...]

Episode Reviewed In: Episode 65 Alternate Titles: None Original Japanese Release Date: October 4th, 1996 Episode Length/Run-time: 24 Episodes Summary: Some people of mixed occupations somehow get transported to a magical world filled with elves.  An elf priestess is going to send them home with a spell, however, the spell gets screwed up and as she casts it, it gets scattered across the world and imprinted onto the skin of different elves.  The travelers must go about and find these [...]