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As the Fall 2025 anime season approaches, we talk about our favorites of Summer 2025 before Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, the 3-part sequel to Bubblegum Crisis which we reviewed roughly 17 years ago.
Introduction (0:00 – 50:50)
We start off by reading an email from a listener who watched Aim for the Top! Gunbuster for the first time as a result of our review from…wait, two years ago?! Incidentally, Discotek’s license for Gunbuster is about to expire, so buy the Blu-Ray now while it’s still available if you haven’t already done so. We mull over the possiblity of setting up some ranked choice polling for listeners to weigh in with their seasonal Top 3, revisiting past titles from the earliest days of the podcast, doing separate YouTube-friendly edits of the reviews, and getting some new merchandise made. The latter is derailed by the same thing that’s derailing more or less every pop culture hobby pursuit in the United States: the elimination of the de minimis exception.
With the Fall 2025 anime season upon us, we’ll be doing a trailer watch-along on 09/27/2025 at 3:00 PM on our Discord. There’s no way to record these to VOD for later viewing, so join us if you can. Hopefully, we didn’t screw up our server boosts and the Discord Stage still has enough slots for everyone. Hopefully also there’s no outlandishness with Discord’s servers the way there was during Otakon. Due to our con reports for Otakon, AFO, and such we never did get to weigh in on the Summer 2025 anime season, so we do so here. Marvel at how few of the most popular titles of the season we saw any of at all! We’ll be sure to add them to the backlog…
Review: Bubblegum Crash! (50:50 – 2:03:06)
After some required convincing of Daryl and Clarissa, Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, which has never exactly held the most sterling of reputations among anime fans. Considering the last time we talked about anything related to Bubblegum Crisis was 15 years ago when we reviewed the AD Police Files OAV, it seems the time was right especially when one considers AnimEigo’s recent release of the series on Blu-Ray. If you order directly from the MediaOCD store, they throw in a slipcover! Remember: only deranged lunatics throw away the slipcover when they buy something on home video!
