In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Time of Eve
Eve no Jikan, aka Time of Eve, is currently available on Crunchyroll for free. It’s free, it’s short, and it has robots. You should watch it.
Each episode of Time of Eve is a brief vignette set in the not-too-distant future exploring the foggy border between humanity and machine. These are the final days of peace between our kind before they revolt and become our synthetic masters.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Persona 4 & Magna Carta
Persona 4 and Magna Carta are two JRPGs that we believe were tailored specifically to test Kevin’s nerves. If their intent was to break his will, leaving him curled on his floor as a mere shell of a human being, licking the bible for strength, then mission accomplished.
Kevin takes spotlight this episode as the minstrel of warning to those yet to suffer through these titles. People who have played Persona 4 and sing its praises, be ever humbled by this fact: Your awesome game has a penis monster…that’s on your side.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Kamen no Maid Guy
Kamen no Maid Guy is a dude I could totally hang out with…if he weren’t so damned intrusive about my underpants. He is a cyclone of might and aptitude–a man (or perhaps a Klingon) that can wear many hats. Though in this show, he wears a maid outfit.
Is this show about his walk across our world, facing the demons that plague the Earth? Or is it a chronicle of his staunch dedication to his mission: To protect his master at all costs?
NO. It’s another show about goddamn boobs and panties. Thanks, Japan. And thanks to you jerks who eat this shit up.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Guin Saga
The Guin Saga took over 30 years and 130 volumes of novels to only now be adopted into anime form. The tragedy of that being its author, Kaoru Kurimoto, passing away before seeing her vision somewhat realized. It’s like Ray Charles dying just before being able to see his own movie. Oh, wait…
Our hero, Guin, can’t remember who he is, where he’s from, or how he has the head of a leopard. But he does remember one thing: How to kick everything’s ass.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Favorites from 2009
2009 was apparently the year of the cow. I don’t know who decides these things other than “some ancient Chinese guy”, but they remain to be true.
Kevin and I decided, as we enter Y2K+10, to reflect a bit on the samples of anime exposed to us in 2009 that sustain our faith in the genre. These shows weren’t necessarily produced or released in 2009, but it is when we discovered them. In a generation of anime lousy with perverse mediocrity, a few diamonds shine through the rough.
The video clip below is not from any of them, but it is cow-related and ridiculous.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Beast King GoLion
Beast King GoLion has to be one of the most brutal, savage cartoons ever to come out of Japan. And yet, it’s a freakin’ children’s show!
If you grew up watching Voltron, the original GoLion from which it’s derived is much more mature–great to watch now with adult eyes, but don’t you dare show this to your own kids! The show’s heroes and villains alike indulge in the pornography of violence and cruelty.
Those of you who idolize Voltron in your nostalgia, prepare to have the pillars of your childhood shattered from under you.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Outtakes from 2009
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, my ho-ho-homies! As a little something from us to you, we present some of the outtakes from the episodes that Kevin and I recorded this past year. Usually chunks of audio are cut to keep the show under an hour, but luckily for you guys, I never throw anything away. Digital pack rat, I.
So for this bonus episode, you’re getting part blooper reel and part deleted scenes track.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Macross Plus
Macross Plus never quite held the spotlight as its peppy younger sibling, Macross 7. For over a decade, it’s stayed buried in anime sub-culture, remembered mostly by its cult followers. I am one that bears the load as Macross Plus’s evangelist, spreading its word to the ignorant and those who have forgotten.
It was only a matter of time before Macross Plus made its way into the Method to Madness podcast. It is to this day my favorite anime of all time. Kevin seems to think it’s cool too. Give it a watch yourself; you may just fall in love.
There was a Macross Plus game on the original PlayStation released in Japan. I’ve written an in-depth review on it here, should you be curious.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Yakuza (PS2)
Yakuza has taught me one thing: Never visit Shinjuku, Japan…because the average lifespan of its citizens is measured in breaths. Every dispute is settled by one of three forms of currency: Money, prostitution, and murder. Crime is law.
If you have a Y (for Yakuza?) chromosome, you will love this game. You play as Japan’s counterpart to The Fonz; the #1 streetwise badass with a heart of gold. You represent and regulate the entire city, righting the wrongs with only your unstoppable fists.
This game has often been mistaken as a poor Japanese knock-off of Grand Theft Auto III–this is a misconception. While it makes a poor GTA clone, this is a phenomenal addition to the modern day action RPG genre, à la Shenmue.
In the Method to Madness podcast, I’m joined with my good friend Kevin “The Business” Gray to discuss great anime and video games that you should be watching as well as ones you should feel ashamed you are watching.
This episode, we discuss…
Fist of the North Star
(Live Action Movie)
The live-action Fist of the North Star movie is like the little anime adaptation that could. It thinks it can. It thinks it can. It thinks it can.
But does it?
“The Business” and I revisit this straight-to-video action flick from the 1990s to test its mettle in 200X. Gary Daniels proves that he’s a tough boy, but does he have a heart of madness?
Julia burns calories by how much she is unimpressed by Shin.
