Bakacast #398 – A Decade in Review

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Hey, folks, this episode is releasing…really late. Even by my standards. We get into what’s going on with Bakacast in the episode itself, but the short version is: I’m totally burned out. I tried various ways to keep the show going, but ultimately after 398 episodes (or more than that, if you include the episodes I lost to my hard drive crashing), it was getting harder and harder for me to watch the shows and actually provide a decent analysis. Even the shows I really liked felt like a chore to watch. Ultimately, the problem was that Bakacast became a thing I felt like I had to do instead of something I wanted to do.

So we’re taking a break. I don’t know for how long, and I’m not sure what Bakacast will even look like, format-wise, if I decide to start recording episodes again. But before we went on hiatus, we decided to record an episode looking back at the last decade of anime—which coincidentally happens to be almost exactly as long as we’ve been doing Bakacast—and giving accolades to some of our favorite shows of each year.

Oh, and also we review the final episodes of some winter season shows. Did I mention I got this edited very late?

Time Stamps

  • 04:46 – Beastars 11 – 12

  • 10:51 – My Hero Academy S4 10 – 13

  • 20:39 – Chihayafuru 12 – 13

  • 27:20 – Anime of the Decade Awards

Bakacast #397 – Please Stop Making Anime

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In a way, having belated season previews is almost better, because it’s much easier to see how very confidently wrong our predictions were, which is much more entertaining than being correct all the time.

  • 00:55 – Dr. Stone 23 – 24
  • 09:11 – Beastars 9 – 10
  • 19:22 – High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World 11 – 12
  • 29:48 – My Hero Academy S4 8 – 9
  • 38:34 – Chihayafuru S3 10 – 11
  • 48:15 – Season Previews

Bakacast #396 – The Saddest Clap

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sees original recording date of audio files is December 6th, 2019

“That’s not a real date. Pretty sure December never happened.”

checks computer time clock, which shows current date as February 4th, 2020

“January is fake, too.”

  • 04:57 – Dr. Stone 21 – 22
  • 17:52 – Beastars 7 – 8
  • 31:28 – High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World 9 – 10
  • 37:05 – My Hero Academy S4 6 – 7
  • 44:09 – Chihayafuru S3 8 – 9
  • 54:08 – Stars Align

Bakacast #395 – Can’t Stop the Signal

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Hey, it’s the first episode we recorded after my hard drive died! Are we gonna cover the anime episodes that we talked about on those lost episodes? Absolutely not. I’m certain that would take a good year off my life if I attempted it. So yeah, we’re just gonna start our Fall 2019 reviews smack dab in the middle of the season.

  • 02:23 – Dr. Stone 18 – 20
  • 14:04 – Beastars 5 – 6
  • 35:46 – High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World 6 – 7
  • 48:26 – Kemono Michi
  • 54:15 – My Hero Academy S4 4 – 5
  • 1:07:37 – No Guns Life 5 – 7
  • 1:14:02 – Chihayafuru S3 4 – 7