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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.

Nov 4, 2012

Kate/Narutaki is a guest on Ani-Gamers.

Just before New York Comic Con, Evan asked me about being on a special episode of Ani-Gamers to talk about American comics that might appeal to anime and manga fans. I’ve always been interested in doing something like this, have actually thought about a panel at conventions in...


Oct 23, 2012

Episode 1 of Aoi Sekai no Chuushin de from 5th Avenue with the opening "retrospective world" by Hiro Shimono and Nobuhiko Okamoto and is streaming on Crunchyroll.

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are...


Oct 23, 2012

Episode 1 of PSYCHO-PASS from Production I.G with the opening "abnormalize" by Ling Tosite Sigure and is streaming on Funimation.

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long...


Oct 22, 2012

All Hallows' Eve is when the most dreaded monsters stalk the Earth as the veil between this world and the next is thinned by the autumnal equinox (and we're not talking about girls in trollopy versions of traditional costumes). In honor of this, we are looking at the monsters, ghouls, ghosts, goblins, demons, and yokai...


Oct 21, 2012

Episode 1 of Robotics;Notes from Production I.G with the opening "Junjo Spectra" by Zwei and is streaming on Funimation.

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off...