Month: May 2025

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List of Titles Shown at Anime Boston 2025

For those of you who attended Anime Boston 2025, here’s a list of the titles shown during our panels. We did say we’d put this up so you wouldn’t have to write everything down, didn’t we? If you liked what you heard, we’ve done plenty of anime reviews, so take a look at our Review Index and read Otaku USA Magazine. Note: we’ll be updating this post periodically throughout the convention, with a final update to come once the convention is over.

Like what you saw? Consider becoming one of our Patreon backers since that will give you access to our Discord where we will (at some point) do extended versions of these panels which can contain additional titles or longer/different clips than what was shown at the convention. If you’re not sure which title listed corresponds to what you saw, don’t hesitate to ask! We’re all on Bluesky (links on the right-hand side), or you can leave us a comment.

Thirty Years Ago: Anime in 1995
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing aka New Mobile Report Gundam W
Ghost in the Shell
Armitage the Third
Macross Plus
Slayers
Junkers Come Here
El Hazard: The Magnificent World
Fushigi Yuugi aka Mysterious Play
Phantom Thief Saint Tail
Nurse Angel Ririka SOS
Elf Princess Rane
Golden Boy
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Memories (Magnetic Rose)
Whisper of the Heart
On Your Mark
DNA^2
Gunsmith Cats

Anime’s Craziest Deaths
Fist of the North Star: The Movie
High Rise Invasion
Akiba Maid War
Inu-Ou
Midnight Panther
MD Geist
Angel Cop
Cybernetics Guardian
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX
Darkside Blues
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
Another
Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199
Fist of the North Star TV
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 3, Stardust Crusaders
Samurai Champloo
Astro Boy (1980)
Magical Witch Punie-chan
Riding Bean
Lily C.A.T.
Battle Royale High School
Blade of the Phantom Master
Goku: Midnight Eye
Invincible Super Man Zambot 3
Sword of the Stranger
Violence Jack
Mad Bull 34
Spriggan (1998 film)
Dark Myth
Devil Man (OVA)
Berserk
Crystal Triangle
Genocyber
Black Jack: The Movie
Golgo 13: The Professional
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 5, Golden Wind
Shiki
Black Lagoon
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Movie III: Encounters in Space
Cowboy Bebop (well, the tech shut the video off since he heard me say I was done)

A Sophisticatedly Unsophisticated Look at Fan Service

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Ending Preview Episode 1)
Dirty Pair Flash Episode 1
Combattler V
Valkyrie Drive Episode 1
Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01
Lupin III Part 1 Pilot
Cutie Honey Opening
Cutie Honey Episode 1 First Tranformation
Shin Cutie Honey Opening
Re:Cutie Honey Opening
Cutie Honey Universe (Statue)
Daicon IV Opening
Muteking (1980) (Episode 14)
Pattalliro! (1982) Episode 1
Gunbuster Episode 01
Show Montage Macross/Gundam and many shows
Black Magic M-66
Plastic Little
Kekko Kamen Anime
Kekko Kamen Live Action Movie (1991)
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (Back Muscles)
Gundam Wing
Megami Paradise
Agent Aika
Agent Aika Live Action Special
Najica
Granadier
Manyuu Hiken-choo
Queens Blade
Hypnosis Mic
Fairy Ranmaru
Disney Twisted Wonderland
Quaswer of Stigmata
Interspecies Reviewers
Bang Bravern Ending
Bang Bravern Live Action Concert

Openings After Dark

Interspecies Reviewers
Agent Aika
Harenchi Gakuen
Shin Cutey Honey
Gushing over Magical Girls
Lupin the Third: Fujiko Mine
Miss Machiko
Beat Angel Escalayer
Valkyrie Drive Mermaid
Manyuu Hikenchou
Kandagawa Jet Girls
Peter Grill and the Philosopher’s Time
Peter Grill Season 2
Kisaku (Dub Clips)
Eiken
Brain Powerd
Angel Blade Punish
Bang Bravern
Keijo!!!!!!!
Redo of Healer
Taimanin Asagi
Wich of Steel Annerose
Qwaser of Stigmata
Queen’s Blade Season 1 (Opening and Ending)
Papillon Rose
Read or Die OAV Series

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Anime World Order Show # 242 – You CAN Stop the Signal, If You’re a Buff Catgirl

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:29:09 — 68.7MB)

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0In this episode, by popular request Daryl reviews the 1998 sci-fi Western Outlaw Star, which we all remember so little about it’s almost like we’re seeing it for the first time. The original Toonami Generation is now middle-aged, after all.

Introduction (0:00 – 1:03.22)
Anime Boston is just two weeks away; we’d better start working on all those panels we’re doing, huh? For now, it’s another new anime season, and another batch of titles to check out. We talk about what we’re watching, since there’s a fair bit of good stuff airing right now. But also, Gerald saw a movie that displeased him mightily. We spend about 45 minutes discussing this.

But then we also talk about the incredibly short print runs of both manga and anime these days, which means we have no choice but to bring up the fact that the recent policy decisions being undertaken by the government are now having tangible effects on our existences of watching cartoons, playing videogames, and going to fan conventions. This is less than 15 minutes worth of discussion, but we know this is all anyone will pretend we talked about. So look: we’d love to stick to just talking about anime and avoid politics anything, but politics thinks otherwise. If want to argue about this, we will just delete/hide your comments without responding or showing them to anyone.

Rough news all around, and while it’s affecting merchandise right now (model kits, toys, apparel), printed materials are supposed to be exempt from all this tariff junk as are goods from Canada and Mexico that are compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). That should theoretically include most authored anime Blu-Rays and UHDs…except since we recorded this they’re talking about levying tariffs on foreign-produced media. Can that actually happen? Realistically not, but we’ve been saying that about a lot of things lately that are happening in the dumbest possible way. As The Comics Journal succinctly put it, “they might fuck us up at any moment.”

This is a unique time in history, and not in a good way.

Never in our lives have we been unable to preorder otaku goods because of who’s running the government. These are not things that can (or should) ever be shifted to domestic production.

There was no plan of action or implementation period because nobody making these decisions thought them through first.

One day, someone is going to pretend all of this was no big deal and that it was all blown out of proportion. So we’ll take the screenshots now, because who knows if there’ll even still be an Internet Archive of web snapshots in the future.

Review: Outlaw Star (1:03:22 – 2:29:08)
Daryl reviews a series that has been highly requested over the years, presumably because Outlaw Star aired during what people now nostalgically refer to as the “golden age” of Toonami/Adult Swim: that time during their early inceptions where they were first showing anime nationwide, effectively creating a brand new wave of anime fandom that spanned wider than fansubs or retail store rentals/releases had ever done before. Outlaw Star’s hybrid of Eastern mysticism with science fiction and the tropes of the American Western made it reasonably accessible to audiences who did not have prior knowledge of Japan, but the fact that it aired concurrently with two other space Westerns, one of which was Cowboy Bebop (the TV series of which wasn’t technically made by Bones like we said on account of the studio not existing until a few months after Cowboy Bebop TV was made, such that Bebop TV is also by Sunrise albeit by a different team, but the founders of Bones were the same people who made Bebop), means it is forever destined to be thought of as lesser by comparison even 27 years later. Nevertheless, we’ll try to evaluate it separately from that, seeing as how it’s been 27 years and all.

Any similarities between Gene Starwind and Lupin the Third are entirely on purpose.

An example of Hicaru Tanaka’s concept art for the series, which was used for the ending credits.

Aisha Clanclan could definitely manage the Oinky Doink Café.

In 2025, men want what Fred is trying so desperately to rid himself of.

The Outlaw Star figure that Bandai released in the early 2000s along with the two different back covers.