Episode 14 of the Key Frames podcast, a podcast about anime. Ben and Andy resign themselves to Little Witch Academia being more of a Saturday morning cartoon, Jon blasts Sakura Quest for resorting to gags, and everyone almost gets sold on fan service in an OVA a quarter century old. Next episode's spotlight anime is another OVA, this one from 2001: Read or Die!
Discussed:
Little Witch Academia (TV) (1:31)
Sakura Quest (12:02)
March Comes in Like a Lion (18:35)
Mobile Suit Gundam (TV) (23:12)
Gundam Reconguista in G (28:59)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (30:02)
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (OVA) (34:05)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (37:37)
The Eccentric Family 2 (42:33)
Spotlight Pitches (52:35):
Read or Die (OVA)
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (OVA)
The Eccentric Family
Related Links:
The many continuities of the Gundam multiverse
Japanese government report on the history of mecha anime
Excerpts from Hideaki Anno's 1993 interview with Yoshiyuki Tomino about Char's Counterattack
The Eccentric Family, magical realism, and coming-of-age stories
