Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) get very French to check out one of the highest rated games of the year thus far. We see if the praise is warranted and how wild you can get with making these characters look.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) go back to the tumultuous times of the late 1960s in southern America with the third Mafia game that features a different kind of story and one heck of a soundtrack.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of otome where there’s a dude in a sword and a whole lot of fighting.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at the big games announced around the Summer Game Fest festivities to see what’s coming out later this year, 2026, and beyond.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) finally talk about the game where you power wash after the final DLC was released and why it became a big co-op game for us in the last few years.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) see what happens as the Daybreak portion of the Trails series continues and why after 12 games, this might be the series’ first miss.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) head to the deep south to see how much this game embraces various mythologies of the area and aspects of Southern Gothic literature.

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Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out the latest Love Live! game that has the bizarre distinction of being a sequel to a gacha game that is no longer available.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss the final season of Mythic Quest and its controversial ending with regards to its story and changing the ending as well. We also talk about the spinoff series Side Quest that was a welcome surprise.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) see Dynasty Warriors return to its origins by letting you fight more dudes than ever before and also be pursued by more dudes than ever before in more ways than one.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) get back into the otome world with a famous character artist, a found family, and some crimes.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out Hazelight’s latest co-op game where we both became authors traversing through each other’s stories, saw some impressive technical aspects, and saw how subtle the story likes to be.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) get back on the otome wagon as we see a rarity with multiple protagonists and a whole lot of flower talk.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) go over a litany of Nintendo announcements that feature some surprising late console cycle announcements, a bunch of information about the Switch 2, and some less than exciting pricing.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) get mad as our annual March Madness tradition returns with a bracket full of playable characters from the Trails games. Who will survive to the end and be seen as the best of the best?

If you’d like to fill out your own bracket, you can do so by clicking this link!

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take it back to the year 2000 to see what a Kotaro Uchikoshi game is like before he made the Zero Escape trilogy and the Somnium games. Unsurprisingly, there’s sci-fi and a lot of discussions about Schrödinger’s Cat.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Yakuza/Like A Dragon to see what’s going on with Majima and why he’s become a pirate. We discuss the new gameplay elements, how this game is similar to The Man Who Erased His Name, and where the series will go next.

Apologies for Jared’s audio being a bit funky this week. Hopefully we’ll have that fixed soon.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out what’s up with the latest game from Hironobu Sakaguchi and how the expanded version of the game reunited Sakaguchi and Square Enix for the first time in over twenty years, thanks in large part to a video game called Final Fantasy XIV.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of otome to see what happens when you get stuck in an amusement park where if you leave you could die.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) look at two different Ace Attorney games that have finally been bundled together. AL breaks down both games to see if they’re still worth playing and if the second was worth the wait for it to come out officially in English.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss everything announced at Sony’s first State of Play of the year.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) begin the Nijigasaki movie trilogy to see what’s up with the School Idol GPX, new combinations of the girls together, and a new suspicious mom has shown up.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the concept we started last week as this time, we rank AL’s past eight games of the year. There’s only two games that are shared between her list and Jared’s so it’ll be a different set of games this time around.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at the past ten years of Seasonal Anime Checkup Game of the Year and see which game is the best game of the past decade.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out the television adaptation of the Love Live! School Idol Musical stage play. We discuss where we think some of the differences are as we haven’t seen the stage play, how the series was overall in its six-episode run, and how it’s a prequel to the entire Love Live! series.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss another otome from last year that AL got to date dead dudes, really enjoyed, and managed to be pretty high on the Ranking of Otome.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) kick off the new year by taking a look at AL’s Game of the Year in Metaphor: ReFantazio. We see what’s up with Atlus’ new JRPG, whether or not it continues the studio’s problematic elements found in previous games, and why it feels like a natural evolution from the Persona series.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) end the year by taking a look back at their favorite games of 2024. We go through out supplemental awards, induct a new entry into the Seasonal Anime Checkup Hall of Fame, and countdown our top ten games of the year.

You can read AL’s write up here and my write up here.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at some Love Live! holiday episodes with “Melody of the Heart” from Love Live! school idol project and “Awaken the power” from Love Live! Sunshine!!.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at video games and anime that’ll be coming out next year and beyond.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) chit chat about two games they talked about recently. Jared discusses the story mode of the recent WWE 2K game. AL rants about Mario & Luigi: Brothership and why it made her mad.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) go mobile with their otome this time as we dive into Tears of Themis and see how this mobile otome stacks up with others in the genre.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Trails for a new story arc in the 11th game of the series. We talk about the new characters, new story, and how we feel about this opening to the Calvard story.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Life Is Strange to see what’s up with Max Caulfield as she’s had to navigate the aftermath of the first game and all the trauma associated with that.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) watched through the television adaptation of the first Yakuza game and talk about where things went wrong with it.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out the final DLC for Alan Wake 2 that sets up what could be happening in Control 2.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) try to keep some youths alive in the original version of the horror game Until Dawn. We had AL doing all the choices so we see how she managed in trying to keep people alive and how this compares to the Dark Pictures games.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss the latest Legend of Zelda game that finally features Zelda in the main role. We talk about the new style of gameplay, how we did puzzles differently, and just how much fun we had with the game.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss the first SPY x FAMILY film that brings an original story that features a big sub plot about Anya having to poop.

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) kick off the scariest month of the year by talking about an otome game. We discuss how there’s only 3 guys to date and everyone wants to hook up with everyone.

A code for this game was provided by the publisher.