Bradley Meek joins the show to discuss the 2013 television anime from Toei Animation and director Rie Matsumoto (Blood Blockade Battlefront, Pokémon Special Music Video「「GOTCHA！」), Kyousougiga. It’s cartoon ride through Buddhist thought and comparative religion. Are our minds up to the task? Listen and find out! The post Kyousougiga appeared first …

Vinnie from All Geeks Considered joins Brian & Gary to consider three more anime that geography prevented them from seeing in their youth! On this week’s show: God Mazinger (1984) – Everyone’s least favourite outing for Go Nagai’s giant robot franchise. Transformers Victory (1989) – The final Japanese TV outing for the Generation 1 toy … Continue r…

Anthony Askew & Marvyn Lafayette are back to wrap up our romp through Shinichiro Watanabe’s hip hop ahistorical anime Samurai Champloo. Plus a brand new game show – “Who’s On First!” The post Samurai Champloo Part 4 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Brian, Gary and trusty third chair Dwayne are back with another ride in the TATDMU time machine to watch anime that didn’t get a chance to shape our childhoods. This week it’s animal antics, smart cars and rebooted mecha with Maple Town Stories (1986), Future GPX Cyber Formula (1991) and Tekkaman Blade (1992) . The post The Anime That Didn’t Make U…

Brian is joined by Bradley Meek to discuss the 2012 anime television series, Girls Und Panzer. And you know what? The 2015 Girls Und Panzer film too! It’s the most unexpected DITB topic of all time! The post Girls Und Panzer appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Anthony & Marvyn return to the podcast as we continue our leisurely stroll through 2004’s Samurai Champloo. On this episode we cover episodes 13-20 of the series. Mugen, Jin & Fuu encounter betrayal, graffiti, fake Christians and more. The post Samurai Champloo Part 3 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Brian & Gary are joined by Sheena Duffy to discuss three more TV anime that geography prevented them from seeing in their childhoods. On today’s show we discuss: 1986’s sci-fi sports comedy, Battle Ball Boy Wonder Ikkiman. 1992’s mecha sequel, Tetsujin 28-go FX. And 1997’s surreal high school melodrama Revolutionary Girl Utena. Originally recorded:…

Just in time for Hayao Miyazaki’s 80th Birthday, it’s the Laputa podcast I’ve been sitting on for months! Joining Brian this episode are Aaron Long of Sublo & Tangy Mustard and Leon Everett of Ace Comicals. We are gathered to discuss Studio Ghibli’s debut film Laputa: Castle In The Sky, that you can find on … Continue reading "Laputa – Castle In Th…

Marvyn and Anthony are back to squeeze a podcast into Brian’s lunch break as we look at episodes 7 to 12 of Samurai Champloo. The post Samurai Champloo appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

The show everyone is calling TATDMU returns with new co-host Gary Hedges! This week our trip down someone else’s memory lane takes us the 1984 car tuning anime Mecha Doc and the 1991 robot police anime Armoured Police Metal Jack. Plus: Brian gets the lead of dreadful sitcom Bottle Boys wrong, something he realised immediately … Continue reading "Th…

Brian invites Bradley Meek onto the show to discuss the first 3 episodes of each of the Tiger Mask anime. Plus in a total give away of when we recorded the show, we review a now 6 week old New Japan show. The post Tiger Mask I, II & W appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Dynamite In The Brain Season 2 begins! Brian is joined on the Mayhem Moon by Bradley Meek and Dwayne Moloney (Let’s Go!, Secret of the Sailor Madness). Together, they discuss the celebration of 20 years of One Piece anime that is One Piece Stampede. The post One Piece Stampede appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

In the final episode of Dynamite In The Brain Season 1, Brian and Anthony discuss Sion Sono’s adaptation of Santa Inoue’s manga. Anthony is spending more time with his digital son, Sekiro over at twitch.tv/antaskew. Next week: DITB returns with ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE. The post DITB #330 – Tokyo Tribe appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Marvyn Lafayette joins us to discuss the Edo “arc” of Samurai Champloo (episodes 1-6). The post DITB #329 – Samurai Champloo (Part 1) appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Greg Driver from Ace Comicals is here to hop into the TATDMU time machine and find out whether we missed out on three more anime as children. This week’s picks: Zillion (1987) DT Eightron (1998) Super YoYo (1998) The post The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #20 – Zillion, DT Eightron, Super YoYo appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

We span the random topic wheel and up came Haikyu! Which means we finally finish off season 1 of the popular Shonen Jump volleyball adaptation. The post DITB #328 – Haikyu appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Gary Hedges returns to join us in another trip through time to find the anime that geography denied us. This week’s picks: Anmitsu Hime (1986) Transformer Super God Masterforce (1988) Goldran (1995) The post The Anime That Didn’t Make Us # 19 – Anmitsu Hime, Transformers Masterforce, Goldran appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Gary Hedges joins us to discuss the 1989 OAV based on the manga by Kenichi Sonoda, it’s Riding Bean! And hey, in the time since we recorded this you can now watch in on Amazon Prime. The post DITB #327 – Riding Bean appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Coming in under the wire, it’s another Summer Anime Preview. With half as many anime as usual. Join Brian as he tries to solve the mystery of what show Anthony finds the perviest. The post DITB Summer Anime Preview appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Bradley Meek returns to record a decidedly different edition of The Anime That Didn’t Make Us, this time with NO ANIME! Instead we picked three shows from the Toei Tokusatsu Channel on Youtube to discuss. JASPION (1986) MAGICAL GIRL CHUKANA IPANEMA (1989) ROBOTACK (1998) The post The Toku That Didn’t Make Us appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

As punishment for lying about her age on the last podcast, Sheena Duffy returns to help us take a look at 2006’s Animal Crossing feature film. The post DITB #326 – Animal Crossing appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Sheena Duffy joins us to discuss three more anime that we were unable to watch growing up due to the curse of geography. Lensman (1984) – EE ‘Doc’ Smith’s creation gets a second anime outing in the same year! Boys Over Flowers (1996) – Yoko Kamio’s oft adapted manga of awful rich boys and the … Continue reading "The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #17 – …

Niall Flanagan from Secret of the Sailor Madness and Let’s Go! joins us to climb into the TATDMU time machine and watch 3 more anime that geography denied our childhoods. The Story of Pollyanna, Girl of Love (1986) – a World Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Eleanor H Porter’s novels. Violinist of Hamelin (1996) – based … Continue reading "The Anim…

Lewis Smith returns to hop in the Toei Time Machine and head to the cinema on July 18, 1987 and see the following films! Superhuman Machine MetalderHikari Sentai MaskmanSaint SeiyaDragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil’s Castle The post DITB #325 – Toei Manga Matsuri July 1987 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Originally broadcast on twitch.tv/letsgobrian it’s Brian & Anthony’s preview of the upcoming anime season. Towers, Dinosaurs, Foxes and more (that more being: sequels) await us in another bumper batch of anime. The post DITB Spring Anime Preview 2020 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Lewis Smith is back to join us in a journey through anime history to watch more anime from the childhood’s we never had. This week Choriki Robo Galatt (1984), Street Fighter II V (1995) and Flame of Recca (1997). The post The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #15 – Galatt, Street Fighter II V, Flame of Recca appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Gary Hedges joins us to discuss three more anime that aired in our youth that geography kept from us. This week: Saint Seiya (1986), Ranma 1/2 (1989) and Berserk (1997) The post The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #14 – Saint Seiya, Ranma ½, Berserk appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Sublo & Tangy Mustard’s creator Aaron Long returns to the podcast to help us take a look at another Crayon Shin-chan theatrical outing. This time it’s 1996’s Great Adventure in Henderland. The post DITB #324 – Crayon Shin-chan: Great Adventure in Henderland appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Bradley Meek & Gary Hedges are here to help us wrap up the remaining elements of the core Dirty Pair anime, the OAV series Dirty Pair 2 AKA The Original Dirty Pair. The post DITB #323 – Dirty Pair 2 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Elliot Page of Screentone Club joins Brian to talk about 1985 mecha anime Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God, The Big O’s Big Brother The Brave Express Might Gaine from 1993 and Absent Anthony’s pick, 1997’s Virus Buster Serge. The post The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #13 – Dancougar, Might Gaine, Virus appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Ace Comicals’ Leon Everett returns for the third part of the FLCL trilogy – FLCL Alternative. Plus the Anime Ranking Game appears for the first time in ages. The post FLCL Alternative appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

It’s that time of the season when we run through 47 new anime and pick about 2 to watch. From animal people to VR MMOs and then back to animal people, with precious little isekai in between. Plus, Brian forgets that Masaaki Yuasa’s Ping Pong adaptation exists, so don’t @ us. The post DITB #321 – Winter Anime 2020 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE B…

Dwayne finally takes the second chair as we welcome Sublo & Tangy Mustard creator Aaron Long to pick from the list of anime we never got see in our formative years. Special Armored Battalion Dorvack – from 1983, it’s Battlestar Galactica for jackasses. Montana Jones – from 1994, it’s Duck Tales for Italian Furries. Dokkiri … Continue reading "The A…

Heroic third chair Dwayne Moloney helps little red hens Brian & Anthony bake their podcast bread, and now you, the grateful woodland animals get to feast on it. GeGeGe no Kitaro – the third outing for the iconic yokai gang, this time from 1985. Metal Fighter Miku – Future sports from a past time. That … Continue reading "The Anime That Didn’t Make …

It’s an Anthony & Brian-only episode of The Anime That Didn’t Make Us this time out. And one I should have posted about a month ago. Whoops. Oh Family! – heartwarming orphantainment with a distinctly American flavour from 1986. Haunted Junction – another late-night anime from 1997 that Anthony would have definitely not been allowed … Continue readi…

Elliot Page from screentone.club and Lewis Smith from Car & Mechanical join us to discuss Studio Trigger’s 2019 movie, Promare! The post DITB #320 – Promare appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

It’s part two of our double Halloween podcasts with Bradley Meek. This time we delve back to 1997 for a look at Madhouse’s OVA series Night Warriors The Animation, AKA Darkstalkers. The post DITB #319 – Darkstalkers appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

The first of a Halloween double bill this week with Bradley Meek. In this episode we leap 30 years into the future to learn about what happened to all our Yokai Watch favourites. Well, two of them. The post DITB #318 – Yokai Watch Shadowside the Movie appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

TATDMU All-Star Dwayne Moloney joins us today talk about three more anime that geography denied us during our formative years. Katri, Girl of the Meadows – a Finnish World Masterpiece Theatre outing from 1984. Brave Police J-Decker – another in the Brave Series, this time sentient transforming robots fight crime in 1994. Virtua Fighter – … Continue…

In which Anthony makes a prediction that proves to be wholly false. We run down 54 new TV anime you could be skipping over the next 3 months. From tiny monsters to monster condoms and everything in between, as long as that everything is mainly isekai shows. The post DITB #317 – Autumn Anime Preview appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.…

Ace Comical’s very own Greg Driver is here to clamber into the DITB time machine and send cartoons back to our childhood selves that they never got to see. This week we have Toriyama’s all-time classic, the show that marked dawn of modern anime, and the finale of Takara’s Brave series. The post The Anime That Didn’t Make Us #8 – Dragon Ball, Those …

Lewis Smith returns to discuss three quarters of the second Toei Manga Matsuri of 1989. We’re talking: The Mobile Cop Jiban: Great Explosion at the Monster Factory of Fear, Akko-chan’s Secret: The Sea! The Monster!! Summer Holiday and Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone aka Return My Gohan! This time it’s Brian’s turn to completely misread a … Continue readin…

Anthony and Brian check back in after a busy August and check out the third in Takeshi Koike’s Lupin The Third saga, Fujiko Mine’s Lie. The post DITB #315 – Lupin III: Fujiko Mine’s Lie appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Dwayne Moloney from Secret of the Sailor Madness and Let’s Go JoJo joins us to look back at the first episodes of three more anime that geography denied us childhood nostalgia for. This week we look at the third TV outing for Monkey Punch’s iconic thief, Mitsuteru Yokoyama’s adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms … Continue reading "The Anime …

If Let’s Go JoJo isn’t sufficient JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure podcasts with Brian’s voice in them, here’s Anthony and Brian’s discussion of Part 5. Plus discussion of the DITB google calendar! The post DITB #314 – JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5 : Golden Wind appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Grace Chan joins us today as we once again look back at three anime we never got to see during our childhoods. Brian’s pick is children get lost in space mecha show Vifam (1983). Grace picks light novel adaptation Irresponsible Captain Tylor (1993). And finally little baby Anthony picks fantasy mecha show, Vision of Escaflowne … Continue reading "T…

Anthony & Brian check in on Jun Kawagoe’s Lupin III TV movie from this very year to find what exactly could have gone down between Lupin and Jigen to make our gentleman thief bid farewell to his best bud. The post DITB #313 – Lupin III: Goodbye Partner appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Marvyn Lafayette joins us to dip into the the historical anime back catalogue that we never had access to at the time. This week, a gang of school boys let their freak flag fly, a time traveller tries to stop a one-man population apocalypse and Anthony finally gets to see some Sabre Marionette J! Plus: … Continue reading "The Anime That Didn’t Make…

Brian & Anthony travel to another world where 38 new anime are starting. Can they use their podcasting skills to take advantage of this situation? The post DITB #312 – Summer Anime Preview 2019 appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain

Leon Everett of Ace Comicals returns to follow up our original FLCL podcast, as we discuss the belated sequel FLCL Progressive. The post DITB #311 – FLCL Progressive appeared first on DYNAMITE IN THE BRAIN.Av Dynamite In The Brain