Anime World Order Podcast

A podcast all about Japanese cartoons and comics as discussed by three self-proclaimed experts in the world of anime and manga! Plus anime news / reviews, coverage of classic anime, hentai / yaoi, and much, much more. Updated every week. We hope.

AnimeWorldOrder-2025-01-30-239 01/30/2025

AnimeWorldOrder-2025-01-30-239 2025 is off to a terrible start, not just in terms of current world events but because in this episode Daryl follows up on his previous review of the 1997 Berserk TV series with this review of the decades-anticipated 2016 Berserk TV series. You um, already /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/35085020

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-12-23-238 12/23/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-12-23-238 As we mark our 19th year of anime podcasting, it's time for our annual holiday roundup of Christmas episodes! We're taking a look at Martian Successor Nadesico, How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift?, Dr. Slump, Buddy Daddies, Gintama, Food Wars!: The Fifth Plate, and Bartender. We also take a moment to pay our respects to the recently departed Jan Scott-Frazier, not by pressing F but by talking about her influence on us and this podcast. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/34592350

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-11-24-237 11/24/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-11-24-237 For the tenth time, it's our annual trivia episode! We are joined by Basil, head honcho of the OSMcast as well as The Carbuncle Chronicle and OSMquest podcasts who's been doing this for just about as long as we have. Basil has been doing this for about as long as us and is from our same fandom generation, though he's got more experience on camera as our Patreon supporters at the $5 and up tiers were able to see during the live recording which was held about a week ago. Visit for full show notes and supplemental links. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/34129366

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-10-31-236 11/01/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-10-31-236 Although we're posting this on Halloween, there's not much especially spooky about this episode since after having seen Uzumaki, Daryl has instead elected to review the theatrical film adaptation of Look Back by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Be forewarned that we do spoil it all in the event you didn't already read or watch it first. Visit for full show notes and supplemental links. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/33725082

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-09-30-235 10/01/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-09-30-235 Despite a grievous tech failure, we're back to discuss the upcoming Fall 2024 anime season before Daryl reviews the 1997 anime adaptation of Berserk, recently back in print in the US due to a Blu-Ray release. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/33272297

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-08-17-234 08/17/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-08-17-234 No review this time around, but Gerald and Clarissa went to Otakon 2024 so here's their convention report. Despite another record breaking attendance figure, they did NOT catch COVID! They did however, barely manage to avoid getting heat stroke/exhaustion. Curse you, climate change! /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/32622972

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-07-30-233 07/30/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-07-30-233 Clarissa "pulls a Gerald" by reviewing something that we thought was still readily available via streaming and home video but is in fact totally out of print: 1993's four-part OVA 8 Man After. This gives us a good excuse to talk about the original 8 Man, its American localization, and of course Streamline Pictures and "Uncle" Carl Macek. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/32352507

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-06-29-232 06/29/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-06-29-232 Even though TimeHealsAllWoundsButWeSTILLAskWHYYYY, through a combination of its thirty year anniversary as well as upcoming new announcements, Daryl is reviewing the Patient Zero of fighting game anime that is the original Fatal Fury anime trilogy: the OVAs and the 1994 motion picture. In an age of scientific wonders, the human body is still the world's most dangerous machine (especially when it can fire ki bullets). /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/31941502

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-05-31-231 06/01/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-05-31-231 It's finally time. As a result of us reaching 250 Patrons, we're reviewing what you've voted "the worst anime of all time": Hand Shakers from 2017. But maybe it's NOT the worst, since we can name at least one show that was much worse than it... /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/31557302

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-04-29-230 04/30/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-04-29-230 After prattling on about topics we know nothing about, Gerald plugs his ongoing Otaku Archive endeavor and Daryl showcases another Otaku In Memoriam before reviewing the quite popular SPY x FAMILY Code: White, which is still showing in theaters. Look, we're just trying to delay the inevitable here, okay?! /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/31044918

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-03-29-229 03/29/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-03-29-229 After talking about the Crunchyroll Anime Awards presentation held in Japan, we touch upon the death of the legendary artist Akira Toriyama for a bit before Clarissa reviews the 2022 12-episode series Akiba Maid War. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/30600568

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-02-09-228 02/09/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-02-09-228 In a last-ditch effort to not review Hand Shakers, we decide to make a bunch of wacky statements about mecha anime and conventions before reviewing the latest--and perhaps actually final this time--Hayao Miyazaki film, the critically acclaimed The Boy and the Heron. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/29869768

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-01-22-227 01/23/2024

AnimeWorldOrder-2024-01-22-227 For our first episode of the new year, we are joined by Giana Luna and Chika Supreme of the Shoujo Sundae podcast to review the 1997 manga ION by Arina Tanemura. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/29603663

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-12-21-226 12/22/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-12-21-226 We're finally legal! 18 years of anime podcasting! Let's celebrate with another holiday roundup of anime Christmas episodes, organized from "least evocative of Wham's Last Christmas" to...MOST EVOCATIVE~! /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/29195463

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-11-21-225 11/22/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-11-21-225 After vanishing--NINJA vanishing--for nearly a decade to start raising a family in NYC, we're reunited with and Noah of the long-defunct Ninja Consultant podcast (and Livejournal!) for the annual pre-Thanksgiving tradition that is THE TRIVIA EPISODE~!. Lots of new gimmicks this time around, be it game types or the fact that our Patreon supporters at the $5 and up tiers were able to watch this carnage unfold live on video courtesy of our Discord! Just take a gander at what you missed out on. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/28750673

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-10-31-224 10/31/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-10-31-224 Mike Toole returns to the show for this MONSTER CHILLER HORROR edition of AWO, in which Gerald reviews the polar opposite of The Poe Clan: Go Nagai's Shuten Doji! Now that we've done this, the YouTubers can follow in our wake and make this one a meme darling. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/28480085

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-09-29-223 09/29/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-09-29-223 This is perhaps our most tragic episode ever, for not only have we lost our sole sponsor Right Stuf due to Crunchyroll shutting it down, but Clarissa is reviewing The Poe Clan, one of the great shojo manga masterworks by Moto Hagio. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/28182725

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-08-31-222 08/31/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-08-31-222 In this episode, Daryl reviews a title suggested by our top Patreon backers as he reviews the now beloved super robot OVA series from 1998, Shin Getter Robo, which for the sake of avoiding confusion we might just want to call Getter Robo: Armageddon. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/27899220

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-07-09-221 07/09/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-07-09-221 We're joined by longtime mecha enthusiast Rob Lantz as we review Gerald's favorite OVA series of all time: 1988's Aim for the Top! Gunbuster, the pro directorial debut of Hideaki Anno and one of the first subtitled anime ever legally released in the United States which is now available on Blu-Ray. It's uh, kind of a big deal. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/27413049

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-06-03-220 06/03/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-06-03-220 This was originally the intro of Show 219, but it took a little longer to edit. So, PRESTO! In Show 220 Gerald shares his thoughts on Knights of the Zodiac, the 2023 live-action film adaptation of Saint Seiya. Visit for full show notes and supplemental links. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/27035658

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-05-19-219 05/19/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-05-19-219 In this episode Clarissa reviews what is effectively the first anime made by Production IG, 1987's Red Photon Zillion. Our usual intro will be released separately since we went slightly off the rails with it. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/26887683

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-03-29-218 03/29/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-03-29-218 It took us a while--okay, it took 17 years since the last one--but we finally get around to completing our coverage of the 1980s Yoshikazu Yasuhiko post-Gundam film trilogy as Gerald reviews 1986's Neo Heroic Fantasia Arion, which most of us just knew as "Arion." /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/26385783

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-03-01-217 03/01/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-03-01-217 In this episode we bring Dave Merrill back on to talk about his favorite movie (and a Patreon request): 1969's The Flying Phantom Ship, adapted from a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. DID YOU KNOW HAYAO MIYAZAKI DREW A PART OF THIS MOVIE? (Yes. Yes we do know. You can lower your hand and sit down now.) /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/26098365

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-02-04-216 02/04/2023

AnimeWorldOrder-2023-02-04-216 We meant to release this in January but uh, didn't. Anyway, this time around Gerald reviews the latest film from Masaaki Yuasa, Inu-Oh from 2021 (though it didn't come out in Japan/USA until 2022). /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/25831287

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-12-23-215 12/24/2022

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-12-23-215 So begins a new year of podcasting for us! We're trying something new out by not necessarily reviewing one thing, but talking about a selection of Christmas-themed episodes of anime arranged from "least Christmas-y" to "most Christmas-y." Visit for full show notes and supplemental links. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/25422345

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-11-23-214 11/23/2022

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-11-23-214 It's our annual Thanksgiving trivia episode! We're joined this time by the highly versatile writer Kara Dennison (@RubyCosmos), who in addition to writing prose fiction also contributes to Crunchyroll and Otaku USA. As Lupin the Third would say, compared to her we're stumblebums. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/25117362

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-10-24-213 10/24/2022

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-10-24-213 Because we just don't hae enough randos blaming us singlehandedly for American anime fandom's ignorance, we've decided to talk about the theatrical film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, a remake of the "lost episode" of the original Mobile Suit Gundam series. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/24788691

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-09-17-212 09/17/2022

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-09-17-212 It's been a while since Gerald "pulled a Gerald": reviewed something that you can't easily go see. But he's back at it, reviewing the 1992 3-part OAV series Genesis Surviver Gaiarth. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/24405942

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-08-14-211 08/14/2022

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-08-14-211 We're graced by a dangerous duo of mecha/mahjong enthusiasts this time around: Dave (@Sasuraiger) and Carl (@SDShamhel) join us for a convention report of Otakon 2022 in Washington D.C. /episode/index/show/animeworldorder/id/24047859

AnimeWorldOrder-2022-07-25-210 07/25/2022

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