Vrai, Peter, and Toni belatedly regroup to finally recap the 2025 Spring season’s many triumphs and one, big, blunder.
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:13 A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof!
0:08:04 WITCH WATCH
0:09:13 mono
0:10:40 Food for the Soul
0:12:05 Apocalypse Hotel
0:19:35 TO BE HERO X
0:25:08 LAZARUS
0:30:44 Kowloon Generic Romance
0:42:09 The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl
0:43:00 The Too-Perfect Saint
0:43:32 Rock is a Lady’s Modesty
0:48:21 Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX
0:51:15 Maebashi Witches
0:54:31 Anne Shirley
0:57:50 The Apothecary Diaries S2
1:00:25 Aharen-san ha Hakarenai S2
1:02:06 WIND BREAKER S2
1:12:14 Outro
Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social
Peter: https://bsky.app/profile/peterfobian.bsky.social
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/kuu-hime.bsky.social
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Recorded Sunday 20th July 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Chatty AF 230: Ave Mujica Retrospective
Toni, Cy, and Chiaki get the band back together to look back at the latest in the BanG Dream franchise, Ave Mujica!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:56 What is BanG Dream
0:08:32 The writing
0:13:14 Differences from MyGo!
0:18:29 Songs serving the story
0:22:51 Reasons to create art
0:29:33 Camp
0:33:58 Uika
0:40:34 Intrusive thoughts
0:44:48 Mutsumi
0:47:48 Pluralism
0:55:21 Trauma dumping
1:02:32 Sakiko
1:13:31 Hopes for the sequel
1:15:15 Favorite music
1:18:59 Outro
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/kuu-hime.bsky.social
Cy: https://bsky.app/profile/pixelatedlenses.bsky.social
Chiaki: https://bsky.app/profile/terrible.moe
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Recorded Saturday 11th May 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Chatty AF 229: 2025 Spring Mid-Season Check-In
Vrai, Peter, and Tony gather to check-in on the Spring 2025 season with a lot of nice titles and a few that are perhaps taking on way too many concepts outside of their scope.
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:18 A Ninja and an Assassin Under One Roof
0:07:25 Mono
0:08:33 Food for the Soul
0:11:43 The Beginning After the End
0:12:06 Apocalypse Hotel
0:15:20 TO BE HERO X
0:21:23 Lazarus
0:27:45 Kowloon Generic Romance
0:39:47 The Gorilla God’s Go-To Girl
0:40:25 The Too-Perfect Saint
0:43:17 Rock is a Lady’s Modesty
0:51:43 Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX
0:56:37 Maebashi Witches
1:01:37 Anne Shirley
1:12:08 Outro
Vrai: https://bsky.app/profile/witervrai.bsky.social
Peter: https://bsky.app/profile/peterfobian.bsky.social
Toni: https://bsky.app/profile/kuu-hime.bsky.social
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Recorded Saturday 17th May 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Chatty AF 228: ZENSHU Retrospective
The classic AniFem combo of Dee, Caitlin, and Vrai get together to talk about the standout anime of 2025 Winter and AOTY hopeful, a meta throwback to ‘90s shojo isekai, ZENSHU!
0:00:00 Intro
0:02:25 Background
0:03:38 Production
0:06:51 Personal experiences
0:09:54 Sub and dub
0:12:59 The beginning
0:13:50 ‘90s shojo isekai vibes
0:16:43 Adult isekai
0:18:44 Industry conditions vs individual relationship with art narrative
0:23:18 Destiny and Memmeln
0:36:00 Natsuko drawing from her inspirations
0:37:48 Tsuruyama
0:43:23 Transformative fandom
0:47:08 Justice
0:54:14 Natsuko’s relationships and romance
1:01:58 QJ
1:05:17 Luke
1:09:27 The ending
1:14:58 Letter scores
1:19:55 Outro
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Caitlin: https://bsky.app/profile/alltsunnodere.bsky.social
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Recorded Saturday 26th April 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Chatty AF 227: Monogatari Watchalong Part 4 - Nisemonogatari
Tony, Vrai, and Peter return to conquer the nadir of the Monogatari series so they can enjoy Tony's promised greater pastures in Neko White and Black. Enjoy all our thoughts on the infamous toothbrush scene!
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:52 Why are we doing this?
0:05:55 It’s not good
0:06:46 Vrai and Tony see the egg GIF
0:07:36 Obligatory Senjougahara glazing
0:12:47 Karen’s place in the narrative
0:16:06 What’s Hanakawa up to?
0:19:49 Mayoi’s moments
0:25:18 The toothbrush scene actually isn’t that bad
0:35:12 Kanbaru as a model lesbian
0:36:20 Araragi’s “relationship” with his sisters
0:40:00 The Shinobu bathroom scene
0:44:41 Sexualizing sibling relationships and Shinobu
0:46:14 The “Nisemono” in Nisemonogatari
0:53:45 Itamura’s direction
0:56:47 Falseness and buddhist mental formations
1:05:10 Ononoki
1:06:00 Final thoughts
1:08:16 Next episode
1:08:59 Outro
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Recorded Saturday 29th March 2025
Music: Open Those Bright Eyes by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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