The Anime Limited Podcast

SPOILER WARNING - we talk through the four films in competition at Scotland Loves Anime 2023, so expect some in-depth discussion of specific elements of these films. In this episode, Andy Hanley is joined by Scotland Loves Anime jury chairman Jonathan Clements, as well as three of the four jury members: - Donna McAvoy - Animator/Illustrator - Ana Songel - Director/Animator - Sean Mulvenna - Illustrator/Art director - Gordon Howie - Director/Animator (not present for this recording) The jury talk about their thoughts on the following films - listen in to find out how they picked their winner! - Lonely Castle in the Mirror - PHOENIX: Remembrance of Flower - The Concierge - Blue Giant

Let's talk films... but beware, spoilers lurk! Andy Hanley is joined by Scotland Loves Anime festival jury chairman, and juror Kambole Campbell, to talk about the films in competition for this year's prestigious jury award. Does Blue Thermal soar? Does the Tunner to Summer take a U-turn? Will you want to say Goodbye to Don Glees or watch it until the Break of Dawn? All is revealed here!

With the Edinburgh leg of Scotland Loves Anime over, Andy Hanley is joined by festival director Andrew Partridge and jury chairman Jonathan Clements to look back over the festival in what has been a very different year from the norm for the event.

Join us for a special edition of the AllTheAnime podcast, brought to you courtesy of Scotland Loves Anime and the power of remote meetings! For this episode of the show we’re joined by the jury of Scotland Loves Anime 2021, as they discuss the films in competition at this year’s festival and their voting choices, overseen by jury chairman Jonathan Clements and festival director Andrew Partridge. Expect spoilers as we discuss BELLE, Sing a Bit of Harmony, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko and Over the Sky. 0:00:00 – Introductions 0:05:55 – Sing a Bit of Harmony 0:32:10 – Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko 0:48:47 – Over the Sky 1:01:24 – BELLE 1:25:30 – Closedown

CLOUD MATSURI PREVIEW! It's been a few weeks since our last podcast, but for very good reason as this weekend we'll be having our own virtual convention featuring special guests from Japan and more at CloudMatsuri.com Join Jeremy and Andy in this special episode originally broadcast live on YouTube, where they run down what to expect from Cloud Matsuri, the new Screen Anime streaming service we (AllTheAnime) launched this week and more!

"Climb inside and control him" Jeremy and Andy bring some anime related chatter including discussion Gleipnir, Wave, Listen to Me! and BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defence. ----- Jeremy and Andy return for some anime related discussion to take you through the week! But before they get to anime talk, they talk about podcasts. And more specifically their habits when it comes to consuming podcasts and ultimately storing them. After that unexpected tangent, they get back to anime related business by talking about the latest addition to the "anime production delayed" list, and then discussing the show Gleipnir; you might remember Andy talking about this on a previous episode. He's watched some more now and give some thoughts on this! Then we talk about the series BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defence. Andy has previously brought this up, but now Jeremy has been able to check out the first couple of episodes, so there's some thoughts on those. And to conclude we h

"Do you take jam with your tea?" Jeremy and Andy conclude the week with talk on our home video release of PROMARE, and discussion on watching Sakura Wars and Gundam 00. ----- Jeremy and Andy are back to bring some anime related discussion to take you into the weekend! After some unplanned talk about bubbles, they fire straight into giving you the full lowdown on what to expect with our stacked home video release of Studio Trigger's first full length feature film, PROMARE! Which you can pre-order right now at our AllTheAnime online shop! After gushing over all the details of that upcoming release of ours, Jeremy talks about his viewing experience of episodes 2-5 of the currently airing series, Sakura Wars - he spoke about the first episode on a previous episode. Following on from that, Andy brings Mobile Suit Gundam 00 into the conversation, but perhaps not in the way expect as he talks about his viewing experience with the first of the "Special Edition" recap films that will be included in future release

"Super Dragon" Jeremy and Andy are back to discuss the Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond" OVA on Crunchyroll, plus talk about anime productions this season announced as completed and more. ------ Jeremy and Andy are back with the first show of the week! Today, after some brief discussion on Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo as well as an update on our release of Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, they go into detail on the anime series from the current season that are confirmed as having completed production and not being impacted due to COVID-19, plus some talk on other productions and companies that may completed certain elements of their productions. After that discussion switches to what they've been watching. The primary focus of today if the Re:ZERO "The Frozen Bond" OVA that debuted on Crunchyroll last week and we get onto that in quite some detail, but not before we also talk about the third episode of My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom. So we get into detail with thoughts on that episo

"Scotland loves... London?" Jeremy and Andy are back to conclude the week with discussion on the new AKIRA 4K UHD release in Japan, Fate/EXTRA Last Encore, Tower of God and first impressions of Ascendance of a Bookworm. ----- To take you through the weekend Jeremy and Andy return to chat about some of what they've been watching and to tell you about a new product in the Anime Ltd. catalogue! That product being a new Collector's Edition Blu-ray set of the series Terror in Resonance, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop). Following on from that they move into discussing some things they've been watching including the brand new UHD Japanese release of the classic, AKIRA, which leads into some discussion on the possibility/state of UHD anime releases in the UK in the future. There's also talk on the recent Fate/EXTRA Last Encore series on Netflix, the third episode of Crunchyroll's Tower of God, and the first impressions on the first three episodes of the currently simulcasting Ascendance of a Bookwo

"Deep Diving" Jeremy and Andy are back to bring you a show with with a heavy focus on the Ghost in the Shell franchise and the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 series on Netflix! ----- Our first podcast of the week see Jeremy and Andy return and end doing a big deep dive into Ghost in the Shell! The original plan was to put the focus on new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 series on Netflix specifically, but with the way things worked out they ended up pretty much making this a Ghost in the Shell special of sorts. The discuss their first experiences with the franchise, delve through the timeline of various projects the franchise (including the original two Stand Alone Complex (SAC) series) has had and their thoughts on those too. Then discussion gets to (in as spoiler-free way as possible) on the new Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex_2045 show. They talk about the setting and world that's established, how the show feels, overall thoughts and perhaps one of the bigger talking points leading up to its rel

"Little Gribbly Mushi - The Dragon Dentist Special" With our home video release of The Dragon Dentist coming soon, join Jeremy, Andy and Keith as they put the focus on this first television anime produced by Studio Khara. With us having just announced the plans for our home video release, we conclude the week with the latest of our watch-a-long themed discussion episodes as the focus is on the first episode of The Dragon Dentist. You join in the conversation and watch it today dubbed on Channel 4's All4 service and subtitled on Crunchyroll. As well as talking about the first episode of this two episode feature in both spoiler-free and spoiler filled terms, we also delve into some background on Studio Khara; the studio formed by the creator of Evangelion, Hideaki Anno. We also discuss how The Dragon Dentist was originally a short film as part of the Japan Anima(tor) Expo and ive you some useful background info on not only those but also the two-part feature as well. And of course, it wouldn't be a watch-

“Basking in the sun like a cat” The David Bowie of Animal Crossing, steam punk boxing, railguns and all routes leading to doom! A random show to being what will no doubt a random week in general! Jeremy and Andy are back to bring you another show filled random chatter and of course talk on anime they’ve been watching! A more laid back show than usual some might say. Today on the show, they look back their respective weekend which on the surface seemed quite different. There’s also talk on anime production started to be impacted before thoughts on the boxing series Levius on Netflix, A Certain Scientific Railgun T on Crunhyroll and Funimation, and My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! on Crunchyroll! And just when you think choices of what we watched and the reason behind them couldn’t get anymore random, Harry Potter is also talked about this podcast. --- WATCH-A-LONG DISCUSSION TOPIC ON FRIDAY: The Dragon Dentist This coming Friday our watch-a-long discussion style of podcast will return

"Why is that giant robot skipping?" Dr. Jonathan Clements returns to bring some fascinating insight on a number of topics that also give him a chance to discuss reindeer herders and his love of Gunbuster! We conclude the week with Jeremy and Andy welcoming Dr. Jonathan Clements back to the show to provide a (what we guess is now a periodic) update on life in lockdown in Finland! (Following on the Jonathan's previous appearance on the show,) this leads onto some unique Finnish historic insight into the reindeer herders and what a political minefield that is. We then get onto some anime related chatter beginning with some follow-up chatter on Gunbuster, following it being mentioned by Jonathan during his last appearance, and more specifically the theatrical condensed version of it, and then why Jonathan isn't a fan the follow-up, Diebuster. Then, after it was first mentioned on the our Escaflowne special last week, we get some fascinating insight into who is(n't) Hajime Yatate. We talk about how this pseudon

"This series starts with a woman fighting a bear" Jeremy and Andy are back to talk about more shows form the Spring anime season including the first episode of P.A.Works' new series, Appare-Ranman! After a well deserved break for Easter, there's lots to talk about both anime related and not! After giving an update on our release of Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki, Jeremy and Andy go on a complete tangent to bring discuss some things they've been indulging in over the Easter weekend including the recent Sonic the Hedgehog film featuring Jim Carrey, fishing in Animal Crossing, football documentaries and maybe even a mention of someone making a garden bench! After that unexpected tangent, they move back onto topic with some more discussion on new shows from the currently airing Spring season! There's talk on the first episodes of Appare-Ranman, Princess Connect! Re: Dive and Wave, Listen to Me. Plus there's talk on the new Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector OVA as well as some follow discussion on episode 2 of

It's the third in our watch-a-long discussion episodes! Join Jeremy Graves, Andy Hanley and Keith Copping as they leap into the world of Escaflowne! A quick note that if you haven't already, be sure watch episodes 1-3 of the series on Channel4's All4 service, or watch our Blu-ray/DVD release that can purchase from our online shop, AllTheAnime.com They discuss their experiences of experiencing the series before this podcast - with some quite varying experiences, then delve into some background information before launching into discussing various elements of the first three episodes of the series! Then, of course, Jeremy is back with the latest of his devilish quizzes. How will Andy and Keith do? You'll have to listen to find out! A fun 62 minutes of anime talk to keep you going over the Easter weekend! NOTE: As we're off on Easter Monday, our next show will be this coming Wednesday (15th April) with our next episode. =-=-=-=-=-= APPROX TIME CODES FOR THIS EPISODE - 00:00 - 02:18, Intro, details on East

Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley are back to give you your midweek dose of anime related discussion for nearly 50 minutes! Today it's very much a focus on what they've been watching once again, with Jeremy kicking things off some thoughts on the remainder of the first season of AJIN: Demi-Human, following him discussing his experience of the first half of that season in a previous episode. Then they turn their attention to the currently airing Spring Season once again, to give thoughts on the first episodes of Arte, Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater, Sing "Yesterday" for Me and Digimon Adventure (2020)! And following from the podcast on Monday, we update some information relating to Joshiraku, and quickly give a preview of that as it's streaming on HiDive. Another fun show to keep you going through the week! Have you been watching any of the Spring Season shows? Let us know what you think! ---- WATCH-A-LONG DISCUSSION EPISODE TOPIC FOR FRIDAY: Escaflowne episodes 1-3! That's right, on the show this Frida

It's the start of a new week, which means Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley are back to bring around 50 minutes or so of fun times in the world of anime! Today on the show, the focus is very much on what they've been watching over the weekend with some first impressions on Mobile Suit Gundam 0083, before heading into the world of new shows that have started simulcasting as part of the Spring Season! There's talk on the first episodes of Tower of God, Gal x Dino, Gleipnir, Sakura Wars: The Animation and Kakushigoto! Then before we wrap up there's time to quickly delve into the questions from the community pot, with the selection today being about credit being translated or not translated on anime releases. ---- WATCH-A-LONG DISCUSSION EPISODE TOPIC FOR FRIDAY: Escaflowne episodes 1-3! That's right, on the show this Friday we'll be talking about the the first three episodes of this classic series that you can stream dubbed completely for free on Channel4's All4 service, and/or purchase on Blu-ray/DVD from our

Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley are back with fellow Team All The Anime colleague, Keith Copping to bring you an episode specifically on the series, Megalo Box in the latest of our watch-a-long discussion episodes - the first one being our Cardcaptor Sakura episode from last week. Today we discuss our experiences of watching the first three episodes of the series commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the franchise Ashita no Joe (aka Tomorrow’s Joe). Following on from the primer that Dr. Jonathan Clements about the franchise on Wednesday (listen to that HERE), we gather to talk about the first three episodes and our impressions of what we watched, our prior experience with the series and a little background on the series too! Plus Jeremy has prepared another surprise for Andy and Keith before the show concludes - you can probably guess what it is if you listened to the Cardcaptor Sakura episode. A fun show to wrap up the week! Join in the fun and watch the first three episode dubbed on All4 and subtitled on C

Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley welcome special guest Dr. Jonathan Clements to the podcast to discuss a boat load of topics to bring new nearly two hours of audio! We've intentionally steered away from talking about the current state of play around the world on recent episodes, but with Jonathan being based in Finland and being on the pulse when it comes to Asian culture, we'd be remiss if we didn't get his experiences and take on things. But during that discussion you'll also discover that during lockdown he has introduced his son to the world of Studio Ghibli for the first-time! If you want to know what he watched, you'll have to listen and find out! From there we move onto discussing some news that has broken since our last episode; first of all is the fact that NEO Magazine announced that due to the current goings on they will be going on hiatus for a while. Then we touch on the breaking news (within an hour or so of us recording) that Masaaki Yuasa is stepping down from his role as president of the stud

It’s the start of a new week, so Jeremy Graves and Andy Hanley are back to bring a new episode of the podcast to ease you into what lies ahead. Today on the show, they look back on the Cardcaptor Sakura special podcast from this past Friday, bring you details on two new products announced before the weekend, the CD version of the FLCL Official Soundtrack and the Blu-ray release of the Persona5: The Day Breakers OVA. We discuss a few things that we’ve been watching over the weekend including (the just finished simulcasting shows) BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defence and ID: Invaded, along with AJIN: Demi-Human. Then before we wrap up delve into a few questions we’ve had submitted via social media touching on topics such as things we like to see have an anime adaptation, the possibilities of us being able to offer bonus posters with particular products in the future and more! A fun show to begin the week! ALSO, we’re happy to confirm that following on from the Cardcaptor Sakura watc