Anime Death Spiral

The bizarre combination of awkward yuri love and Crimean War era wizard battles triggers a fugue state from inside which our brain damaged hosts attempt to examine the funnest and most awesomest long standing trend that we all love about manga and anime.

The Spiral goes hard on One Piece...yet again, before breaking through TWO more indie-ish animation projects that are too legendary to stay hidden in that weird cave.

The Spiral gets weepy about teenage angst and chinese animation before moving on to a series of bizarre incidents around the anime world before breaking down two of Nate's new pickups.

The Spiral spins up on two big seasonal reviews like good little podcasters, and a sneaky trick to backdoor some more Death Game talk for the real ones.

The Only Anime Podcast dissects the comments of legends taking aim at their own peers in a very funny and doomery way, before a smoldering Chainsmoker Cat breakdown leads to a music criticism segment, then finishes out with yet another samurai dunking session

Damn I want a cig...

The Spiral begins the season's reviews with two bangers, one flop, and a very strong digression.

The Spiral does not dwell on its terminus, but looks beneath its own feet at SUMMER ANIME SEASON 2026, the most exciting summer anime season of 2026!

After a long tangent about digi necromancy, The Spiral takes you into the first half of the Summer Anime Deluge. Beat the heat by passing out in front of your melting laptop as anime cat girls shoot up on the screen!

The Only Anime Podcast self indulgent enough to ramble for an hour about various tangential subjects they have a loose grasp on and release it as entertainment returns to accidentally skips over everything they were actually going to talk about and instead discuss Dark Cute at the turn of the century.

If you hate the impromptu pseudo intellectualizing, feel free to skip this one.

Note: Toru Honda wrote the short essay

The Spiral accidentally delayed the podcast and you are all furious for depriving you, many and much apology. It returns with meditations on the meaning of Family, crime and punishment in the cute anime girl world, and class crisis in the world of dope ass sword jumping shonen battles.

The Spiral spend longer than necessary flitting from one inane topic to the next before tiptoeing around a discussion of Oshimi Shizu's work before diving into one new manga and one new summer preview anime. So much psychology.

Fair Use! Fair Use!

Americans have fallen deeply and abusively in love with the yandere all over again, truly a sign of the culture healing. The Spiral examines the phenomenon from different angles. They're not bad, they're just drawn that way.

The Spiral inaugurates its new episode naming scheme by shamelessly engagement baiting using our favorite punching bag, Star-Wars, before desperately squeezing in a few obligatory manga discussions.

The Spiral reaches new depths as we cross the auspicious threshold of 3 years of abyssal podcasting. Anime is changing and so must we. Lets all hold hands and jump down into an uncertain future of Content together.

Oh also this should've been last weeks episode so we sound very dumb, sorry about that.

The Spiral reaches podcast adulthood at 150, but don't except them to make a big deal out of it, instead The Only Ones do a quick catch up on anime lives before taking a very hard stance on a very timely subject.

The Spiral touches on Drifters, Classical Theatre, the Mech Spectrum, and perhaps the final Spring Anime 2026 Season Premier reviews.

The Spiral unravels in its attempt to grapple with the implications of the Chainsaw Man ending while maintaining their tenuous grasp on sanity before breaking down another set of season premiers

The Death Spiral flex their tremendous brains by citing more than 4 different books in a single episode before breaking down two of the most promising and one of the most confusing anime premieres of the season so far.

The Only Anime Podcast wraps up the season previews and even slips in a couple of dismal premieres.

The Spiral begins yet another seasonal look forward, breaking down all the forthcoming shows to look forward to, or alternatively, to pre-emptively despise.

The Spiral descends to relay to you the ultimate One Piece S2 verdict, the good word of cowboy jojo, and a truly shocking confessional

The Spiral engages with even more ONE PIECE US as Nate calls it at three episodes, before touching on the Industry's need for trash.

Anime Death Spiral is temporarily out of office. Be right back!

The Podcast takes a strange diversion into sneaker reviews while Nate recounts his long and weary travels to the homeland.

The Only Anime Podcast finishes off their international anime roundup with some all timers, the conclusive ranking of the least worst foreign setting anime of all time.

The Only Anime Podcast makes a pivot to engagement baiting list format for Nates vacation send off, a well researched and non controversial ranking of Anime that take place -outside- of Japan.

The Only Anime Podcast tackles social realist anime tackling the politics of labor in a very serious and intelligent way.

After an out of character recording mishap, the Only Anime Podcast break down two more highly contrasting season premiers.

The Only Ones spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the new Silent Hill movie before turning their abundance of attention to a true classic.

The Only Anime Podcast brainstorms new and exciting ways to marginalize their own opinions before tackling a returning titan and a new but familiar face in the premier crowd.

The Only Anime Podcast sprint to catch up to the seasons premiers, but first take a quick breather to talk about non horse type running anime.

Breath easy listeners, The Only Anime Podcast pulls through with your much needed winter anime premiere guide. Commence the feeding frenzy.

Our intrepid heroes are once again foiled from talking about anime due to the dreaded holiday season approaching. Stay Tuned for more Anime Death Spiral nextish week!

The Only Anime Podcast rebukes the rising wave of horse degeneracy by examining the anatomy of a horse race

Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era

There is no place far enough, no hole deep enough, no cavern dark enough to protect you from Star Wars opinions. Here we go again.

The Only Anime Podcast have one of those rare and lucky weeks where both shows discussed happen to be not just entertaining, but dare I say....good?

The Only Anime Podcast gets into the biggest Disney anime crossover swing since Kingdom Hearts baffled itself into our hearts all those years ago, before dismantling another season premiere piece by piece.

The Only Ones recount their various halloween defeats before settling in for some pure simulated Japan before quickly breaking down a few more anime finds.

The Only Anime podcast takes you through a truly intellectual manga exploration before tackling the absolute hottest anime phenomenon to ever dazzle these western shores.

The season continues with more premier analysis and concise and enlightening discussion of critical anime topics such as the origin of Doraemon, the adaptational skills of up and coming directors, and Rocky and Bullwinkle.