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DO YOU OTAKU? returns with Liam helping Doug dive headfirst into the chaotic, blood-soaked world of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s CHAINSAW MAN! We go arc-by-arc through the show’s first season exploring Denji’s descent into devil hunting from the perspective of an anime novice, before transitioning from the TV series to the big screen with CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC and comparing the approaches to the material and what makes Chainsaw Man stand out. We also explore the fandom, the stage show(!) and so much more. CHECK IT OUT!

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In Delicious in Dungeon an adventuring group tries to track down and kill a dragon that ate one of their members, but can only survive by killing and eating the monsters they find along the way. Sounds simple, right? Well, this comedy-adventure series is anything but, with loads of often odd humor, detailed cooking sequences and some impressive world building.. BUT WILL DOUG LIKE IT? That’s the question on this episode of DO YOU OTAKU? where Liam once again introduces Doug to a full season of a popular anime series and tries to convince him that it’s worthwhile. LISTEN AND SEE HOW IT WORKS!

Check out DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON (aka DUNGEON MESHI) on Netflix.

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Cinema Fantasica

Episode 2 – Cinema Fantastica – Fist of the North Star (1986) vs. Wicked City (1987)

January 26, 2020
Tagged as: Anime, Cinema Fantastica, death, Fantasia Festival, Fantasia International Film Festival, Fist of the North Star, gore, hokuto no ken, legend of the overfiend, martial arts, misogyny, tentacle, Wicked City

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There are dozens of genre film festivals around the world, and we either can’t afford – or don’t have the time – to go to any of them. We’re guessing a lot of you are in the same boat. On Cinema Smorgasbord presents Cinema Fantastica we pick one of those festivals, a year in which it ran, and choose two films that played at that festival to BATTLE against each other.

On the premiere episode we go back to the very first edition of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival to look at two feature length anime favorites. First Doug puts forward the astrological post-apocalyptic madness of 1986’s FIST OF THE NORTH STAR, and then Liam serves up the ultra-violent, ultra-sexy, ultra-misogynistic WICKED CITY from 1987!

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