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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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Friday Nov 21, 2025
Friday Nov 21, 2025
Coming soon to a newsstand (meaning your mailbox or email inbox) near you; Anime Herald Magazine!
Sully and Austin sit down with Samantha Ferreira, the founder and editor-in-chief of Anime Herald, to talk about her journey towards creating a brand-new anime print publication in an era where anime magazines aren't exactly plentiful anymore. Samantha tells us how she came to found Anime Herald 15 years ago, how bringing the website to print has been a long-held dream of hers, how she assembled an amazing team of writers, artists, and editors to collaborate with, and what readers can expect from this exciting new era of anime commentary in printed form.
You can pre-order (or maybe even order by the time you're reading this) a copy of the magazine here.
Thanks to Samantha for being on the show! You can connect with her on Bluesky and on her website AnimeHerald.com.
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Monday Oct 20, 2025
Monday Oct 20, 2025
Make sure to only give water and vegetables to all your trick or treaters this Halloween or terrible things could happen! Sully, Tori, and Austin present our 2025 Halloween episode with a review of the 4-episode anime series Pet Shop of Horrors based on the manga by Matsuri Akino. We are also completely serious about reviewing all of Hetalia: Axis Powers if we reach over $1,000 per month on Patreon. Only you can make that happen, listener! Inflict upon us the greatest conceivable horror this Halloween.
Time stamps
- 00:00:00 - Introduction and opening question chat
- 00:09:45 - Pet Shop of Horrors discussion
- 00:33:23 - Pet Shop of Horrors background and history
- 00:48:28 - Pet Shop of Horrors discussion (cont.)
- 01:22:31 - Final thoughts and the English dub discussion (it's dated!)
- 01:30:12 - Outro
Have you seen Pet Shop of Horrors? Which episode was your favorite? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll discuss it on the show.
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Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
At long last, after podcasting for 8 years and counting (wow...), we have finally gone and done it; we're reviewing some Mobile Suit Gundam. Since we are very sensible and reasonable folk at TIA, we thought we would start at the very beginning. Just kidding, we picked an entry that sounded interesting to us after Austin and Bill had independently been dabbling in various Gundam entries for the past several years. Although to be fair, some people claim that the OVA we're reviewing in this episode, Mobile Suit Gundam: 08th MS Team, is a solid entry point into the franchise for beginners, but is that actually true? Let's test that theory!
We're happy to welcome Coop back to the show! Coop has been on the show a number of times to talk about anime conventions, but never to actually review a series with us before. As a giant robot aficionado, we could think of no better friend of the show to have on for our first leap into the world of Gundam. Coop regularly writes for Anime News Network, including the weekly This Week in Anime Column, and contributes to releases from Discotek and AnimEigo. Check out Coop's work, social media, and podcasts here!
Have you seen 08th MS Team? What do you think of it? Does it live up to the hype? Do you think it's a good entry point to Gundam or not? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll discuss it on the show.
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Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the return of our chronically neglected sub show, Kotatsu Corner! Join us as we gather around a tiny table to chat about not-anime. Okay, maybe a little anime. Austin, Bill, and returning special guest Drew from Sideburns & Cigarettes: A Lupin III Podcast join together to chat about Superman (2025) but not before Bill and Drew talk about one of their other favorite TMS anime, Detective Conan, and its recent brand-new English dub.
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Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Another great year of Animazement has come and gone and Bill, Austin, and Tori are here to tell you all about it. Pay no mind that the convention ended almost a month and a half ago! This episode was a beast to edit, and for good reason! Not only do we talk about our panels, the cool sights and sounds we experienced, the good food we ate, and merch we bought, but we also had not one or two, but FIVE special guests join us for various segments throughout this episode to talk about some of the cool things they saw and did over the weekend.
Going through them in appearance order, you may know a few of them from being on the show before or encountering their work on the internet in various places; we have returning friends Coop (@RiderStrike) and Maddy (@hyakushiki0087) back on the show but also Megan (@brainchild129), Cody (@codyanskaya), and Kurt (@GreatSG) join us for the first time!
Coop, Megan, and Maddy travelled from far off lands (the Midwest and the west coast) to see if the rumors about Animazement being "good" were true. Listen to find out! Coop regularly writes for Anime News Network, contributes to releases from Discotek and AnimEigo, and does some podcasty stuff from time to time. Maddy appears as a regular contributor to Giant Robot FM. Megan is a frequent panelist and writes for Anime Feminist as well as her own blog, The Manga Test Drive!
Cody is a long-time Animazement head but joins us to talk about their debut panel Rotund Mecha Gentleman, something we really got a kick out of and I'm sure you all will too.
Kurt is the mastermind behind panels such as the Awesomely Bad Japanese Music Videos and Ugly Giant Robots Arbitrarily Ranked but we had him on specifically to talk about his brand new endeavor The Anime Home Video Museum, a audio visual odyssey through the history of anime on home video. It's a heck of a thing and I know you guys will love to hear Kurt talk about it.
Did you attend Animazement this year? If not, did you attend one of the other 900 conventions happening over Memorial Day weekend? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we'll discuss it on the show.
- 00:00:00 - Live from the hotel room on Sunday afternoon, it's The Nagahomies! (Austin, Tori, Coop, Maddy, and Megan!)
- 00:19:23 - The actual con-versation starts! (Lots of autograph and panel talk)
- 00:39:48 - Cody joins us to talk about Rotund Mecha Gentlemen and their general thoughts about the con
- 00:59:39 - The con-versation continues! (Mostly on the Aimi concert)
- 01:04:38 - Kurt joins us to talk about the origins and the madness of The Anime Home Video Museum!
- 01:35:59 - Extra talking about the AHVM, Tori's horrors in the horror panel, most notable cosplays, Austin talks about his panels (10 Anime Movies You May Have Missed and Road of Resistance: 15 Years of BABYMETAL), Bill and Austin talk about being invited onto a Trivia Knights game show, reflecting on the Masao Maruyama panel, Bill playing Mario Golf, and talking about what we did (and didn't) buy.
- 02:19:00 - Wrap up, recommendations, and social media plugs!
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Saturday May 10, 2025
Saturday May 10, 2025
The podcast finally returns with a look at a few of the anime we are watching during the Spring 2025 anime season! Austin and Bill discuss Yaiba: Samurai Legend, Austin and Sully discuss Witch Watch, and Austin reviews Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing. David Letterman makes an appearance (archival audio only. We asked, but he was busy).
Austin, Tori, and Bill will be at Animazement in Raleigh, NC at the end of May and we hope to see you there!
Time stamps:
- 00:00:00 - Intro and explanation of the slightly new format
- 00:02:28 - Austin and Bill's first impressions of Yaiba: Samurai Legend
- 00:23:12 - Sully's first impressions of Witch Watch (Austin is there too because he read some of the manga)
- 00:49:30 - Austin reviews Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing and Bill provides some color commentary
- 01:13:12 - Outro where we tell you to come see us at Animazement at the end of May!
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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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