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

Aug 25, 2013

This year's Otakon was a mega-blowout of guests, music, and friends. To discuss the highs and lows of the weekend with us we have Patz from The Cockpit and Ed Sizemore of the defunct Manga Out Loud.

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Aug 3, 2013

20 Years of Otakon? As if it wasn't exciting enough every year anyway! They've pulled out all the stops to bring as many guests as they could pack in. There are also a load of concerts, screenings, and events that aren't to be missed. 

As always, we'll be covering as much as we can running around the convention center...


Jul 26, 2013

We've often wondered, just what is it that keeps manga fans from reading the wealth of American comics? In this podcast, we along with our guest Ken from Comics Should Be Good! try to figure that out. We also tackle some of the misconceptions about American comics as well as exploring the genres and discussing the...


The Cockpit: Pacific Rim

Jul 24, 2013

We are guests on The Cockpit.

When Guillermo del Toro does an American super robot movie where huge mecha battle equally huge monsters, a single website cannot cover it effectively. Therefore it takes the combined might of The Cockpit, Ogiue Maniax, and us at the Reverse Thieves to handle the Category 5 Kaiju that is


Jul 14, 2013

The Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Border: 1 Ghost Pain from Production I.G. with the commercial preview.

This is a special bonus S.W.A.T. review for the new Ghost in the Shell series because we were just that excited.

The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit...