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Join Kate and Alain as they discuss everything from what they just watched to what is going on in fandom.

The Speakeasy: The main podcast where we discuss what we’ve been watching, reading, and playing, plus occasional other topics.

Feb 21, 2015

This is a bonus podcast recorded after Kate got the chance to visit the Shojo Manga: Mirrors of Girls' Desires exhibit at Baruch College.

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Feb 3, 2015

First impressions of Go! Princess PreCure from Toei Animation.

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a new anime series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so...


Feb 1, 2015

Final impressions of Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! from Toei Animation. It is streaming on Hulu and Funimation.

First impressions are great but what about our thoughts after we've watched an entire series week to week? We figured our listeners might want to hear our final impressions as well so we've created the Case...