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Third Impact Anime is a bi-weekly podcast exploring the history, artistry, and community of anime, hosted by a group of fan con panelists that like to talk too much. Expect reviews of anime new and old, convention coverage, and special guest interviews. Learn more at www.thirdimpactanime.com
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Monday Mar 10, 2025
Monday Mar 10, 2025
On January 16th, 2025, the world lost one of the greats; American filmmaker David Lynch passed away at the age of 78, leaving behind a decades-long career of truly unique films and television series' including Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Inland Empire, and many more. Many of us at Third Impact are big fans of Lynch's work, and Sully wanted to take some time to reflect on his life, his art, and his influence on various anime and Japanese video games over the years. Joining us are two returning friends, Drew and Emma of Sideburns and Cigarettes: A Lupin the Third Podcast who are also big Lynch fans.
We dedicate this episode of David's life and his work.
Remember; one day, the sadness will end.
Time Stamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro and everyone's history with David Lynch's work
- 00:10:53 - General chatting about David Lynch's works and their influence (whether explicitly or only speculatively) on many Japanese works including:
- Paranoia Agent
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Ghost in the Shell
- Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
- Revolutionary Girl Utena
- Silent Hill
- Persona
- Soul Eater
- P.T.
- Perfect Blue
- Paprika
- 00:56:52 - Final thoughts and wrap up
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Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
Happy New Year, I say through gritted teeth. 2025 is certainly off to a, well, ya know what. No comment. Let's talk about anime. 2024 had some pretty good anime! Austin and Bill take a Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back at the year to talk about some of our favorites that we finished, a couple things we sampled and enjoyed but didn't complete, and a couple things that didn't quite make it into the favorites list. Grab a box of shika senbei, sit back, and enjoy!
Time stamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro and cold open
- 00:10:12 - Honorable mentions (shows we watched some of and liked but didn't finish)
- Metallic Rouge
- Uzumaki
- Mayonaka Punch
- A Condition Called Love
- Dandadan
- Magilumiere Co. Ltd.
- Girls Band Cry
- 00:58:28 - Our Best Anime of 2024 (and some others)
- The Idolm@ster Shiny Colors
- My Deer Friend Nokotan
- A Sign of Affection
- The Colors Within
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Look Back
- Brave Bang Bravern
- Dead Dead Demon's DeDeDeDe Destruction
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Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
Tuesday Dec 24, 2024
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Anime Secret Santa-san has once again performed his annual B&E and left us with an interesting array of anime series, movies, and OVAs under our tree. Austin and Bill and are joined by Tori and Sarah, two first-timers to the Anime Secret Santa festivities! Bill reviews three of his picks because he likes being extra (Roujin Z, Tsuritama, and Mai Mai Miracle), Austin reviews Chihayafuru (Season 1), Tori reviews Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, and Sarah reviews Gunbuster! As our holiday gift to you, I hope you enjoy the lively conversation. A huge special thanks to everyone who participates in this fun project every year, especially the folks at the Taiiku Podcast who have kept it going the last few years. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and may God save your little broken body.
Time Stamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro
- 00:04:50 - Our history with Anime Secret Santa and welcoming Tori and Sarah to it for the first time!
- 00:10:25 - The shows we were suggested that we didn't watch
- 00:18:45 - Bill's review of Roujin Z
- 00:30:16 - Tori's review of Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
- 00:47:27 - Austin's review of Chihayafuru (Season 1)
- 01:11:34 - Bill's review of Tsuritama
- 01:26:46 - Sarah's review of Gunbuster
- 01:41:56 - Bill's review of Mai Mai Miracle
- 01:55:16 - Wrap up and social media plugs
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Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Honey Flash! Sully and returning guest Salvatore (@RetroSofa) sit down with VA and dub director David Wald and OG Cutie Honey dub actress Jessica Calvello to discuss their work on the recent English dub for the 2004 OVA Re: Cutie Honey from Discotek! Topics include how Go Nagai chose Jessica for the role of Honey, how dubbing has changed since Jessica first took the role in the 90s for New Cutie Honey, and what makes Honey so special all these years later.
An important note: This was recorded a few months ago, prior to David's statement on Crunchyroll opening his fan mail without his knowledge and dispersing the contents to their staff. Upon David's request, we didn't go back and add any additional mention of this in the episode, but we did want to state here in text that we are deeply disappointed in Crunchyroll's behavior and we encourage anyone listening or reading this to support David and call upon Crunchyroll to do better.
Time stamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro and Jessica's long history with the character
- 00:12:59 - Bringing back returning cast members from previous Cutie Honey and Go Nagai anime projects
- 00:15:49 - David's thoughts on directing dubs for "archival anime" as opposed to newly airing anime
- 00:18:04 - Salvatore on being a Cutie Honey super-fan, archivist, and working with Discotek Media
- 00:27:07 - Jessica and David on the nuances and differences across the various Cutie Honey series'
- 00:40:21 - How does Jessica approach the work of acting within the limitations of anime
- 00:46:04 - Jessica and David on dub script adaptation and directing
- 00:53:26 - A brief aside about Excel Saga and Jessica's "Excel Saga Journal"
- 01:03:49 - Knowing that Cutie Honey is a very fanservice heavy show, how do you approach that with pathos?
- 01:15:45 - David's approach to the lesbian text of Cutie Honey
- 01:27:39 - Casting Kayleigh McKee as Black Claw
- 01:34:46 - What's Cutie Honey's appeal for Salvatore?
- 01:50:49 - Salvatore asks about the mythical Cutie Honey CGI project that never materialized
- 02:01:24 - Jessica has a crucial question for Salvatore: Is Cutie Honey an android or a magical girl?
- 02:07:36 - Would Jessica and David return to dub Cutie Honey Flash if given the chance?
- 02:10:27 - Outro
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Monday Oct 28, 2024
Monday Oct 28, 2024
When the hollow boats creak and the noh masks quake, mononoke come out for a swinging wake! Welcome to our 2024 Halloween special where Austin, Tori, and Sully review the 2007 TV anime Mononoke, a spooky series of ghost stories following the enigmatic Medicine Peddler as he exorcises troublesome spirits wreaking havoc on the world and the people in it. Tricks, treats, truths, forms, reasons, we've got it all in this one. Please enjoy and have a happy Halloween!
Time stamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro and general talk about our Halloween season
- 00:18:17 - Mononoke history and production notes
- 00:40:33 - Our review of Mononoke, primarily focusing on our favorite segments
- 01:28:02 - Most iconic moments and closing
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Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
We went to our biggest anime convention yet and what better way to celebrate than having our longest Con-versations episode yet. This time, Austin and Tori review Otakon 2024 which was held in Washington, DC from August 2-4th, 2024. This episode would have been out earlier, but between life stuff and us recording for over three and a half hours, it was a lot to get through. Totally worth it though, if you ask me, due in large part to our very special guests, Coop and Maddy! Coop you may know from their work at Discotek Media, Anime News Network, AnimEigo, J-Novel Club, and their own podcast, Dude, You Remember Macross? and Maddy you may have heard appear on shows like Giant Robot FM and Chatty AF: The Anime Feminist Podcast. Both of them are very cool, kind folks who yapped with us for way too long about an awesome convention weekend.
- 00:00:00 - Introduction and everyone's history with Otakon (or lack-thereof)
- 00:24:40 - Venue talk, including artist's alley and dealer's room
- 00:40:53 - Fan panels, and a tangent about Gundam
- 01:05:58 - Industry panels, with tangents about EGL fashion, gas stations, and more
- 02:08:04 - The Great and the Terrible of autograph sessions
- 02:24:04 - Cosplay talk! And an aside about places to eat around the con
- 02:51:12 - Most iconic moment(s)
- 02:56:41 - Social medias and outro
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Monday Aug 26, 2024
Monday Aug 26, 2024
Beware, this podcast might be a mimic! Or maybe it melts clothing? Either way, Himmel the hero would have loved it. Austin forms a party with three adventurers, Sarah, Ryan, and Will, to hunt for grimoires and help old ladies in our review of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
00:00:00 - Introduction and brief pre-show yapping
00:19:03 - Frieren manga/anime background and creative staff
00:31:59 - Japanese/English cast breakdown and sub/dub discussion
00:44:09 - Frieren series discussion and review
01:44:03 - Wrap up and "most iconic scene" discussion
01:55:04 - Social media plugs and outro
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Monday Aug 12, 2024
Monday Aug 12, 2024
Fantasy, finances, and fickle gods! A wise wolf has descended upon the podcast for our review of the 2008 anime series Spice and Wolf, which is currently getting a remake at the time of this recording. Bill hosts with returning special guest Will to talk about both original seasons of the show and speculate on the wheat and apple markets. Enjoy!
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Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Back in May, we once again attended Animazement in Raleigh, NC because of course we did! Austin hosts this week, joined by Sully and Tori to recap the fun weekend full of panels, cosplay, autographed Funko Pop scalping, and spending too much money. If you were one of the extremely cool people who attended any of our panels, thanks for coming out! If you'd be inclined to let us know what you thought of them, feel free to shoot us an email and we'll discuss it on the show (link below).
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Monday Jul 15, 2024
Monday Jul 15, 2024
150 episodes! How about that? For this special milestone, we decided to do something a little different than our usual fair; Bill put together a really fun TRIVIA episode to delight listeners and stump his contestants (Austin, Tori, and Sully). Of course this is heavily influenced by the annual trivia episodes produced by our podcasting senseis over at Anime World Order and we hope they don't mind us lovingly ripping them off.
With three rounds of three categories, Bill stumps us with questions about superheroes, idols, school clubs, Letterboxd reviews, McDonalds, and much more. We hope you enjoy.
And to everyone who has been listening to us since the beginning, or are just now jumping in, thanks for being here! Here's to the next 150 episodes.
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