AGP#132 – Wash Your Hands Edition

Grab some canned goods and hunker down, it’s time for a
COVID-19-centric episode of the Ani-Gamers Podcast. Evan and
David discuss the impacts of the global pandemic on the anime,
manga, and video game industries and answer some listener
questions about the virus. Keep in mind, this episode was
recorded a week ago, before many of the more visible impacts of
the virus such as Italy’s health system breakdown and the
cancellations of the NBA season, E3, and Anime Boston. Then we
take a break from pandemic news with Death Stranding, Final
Fantasy VIII, and Evan’s review of His and Her Circumstances
(Kare Kano), Hideaki Anno’s post-Evangelion shojo romance anime
adaptation. Topics include: Face-touching privilege, buying Cat
Planet Cuties at Albany Comic Con, and using COVID-19 to fight
aliens.



Runtime: 1 hour, 17 minutes


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Show Notes

Opening/Ending Song: “Blues Machine” by Scott Gratton

News:

Genericon is cancelled.

SXSW is cancelled.

Some Shonen Jump issues are available online for free.

Doraemon and Shimajiro films are postponed.

GDC is postponed.

Anime Japan is cancelled.

A Certain Scientific Railgun T and Infinite Dendogram
postponed episodes.

The Ghibli Museum is closed for a few weeks.



The Queue

Evan is playing more Death Stranding.

Name drops: Hideo Kojima



David is playing Final Fantasy VIII.

Name drops: Final Fantasy VII





Review: His and Her Circumstances (a.k.a. Kare Kano)

Name drops: Gainax, Hideaki Anno, Masami Tsuda, Hiroyuki
Imaishi, Yoh Yoshinari, Masahiko Otsuka, Sushio, Mayumi
Shintani, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, Tengen Toppa Gurren
Lagann, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.



Twitter: Evan, David, Ani-Gamers

Mastodon: Evan, David

Evan was a guest on an episode of the ANNCast to talk about
the definition of anime.

Evan and David write for Otaku USA Magazine.

Evan sometimes updates his side blog Anime Burger Time.

David is streaming every weekend on his Twitch channel!