Spotty Translation: An Anime Podcast

It's Christmas, and Spotty Translation's gift to you is the final episode of our second season. Bryan did it! He watched an anime, despite Thunderbolt Fantasy ostensibly falling way out of the category of anime. Sure, it's puppets and traditional Chinese martial arts storytelling, but it's anime at heart. There's a demon after all! Speaking of which, Bryan and Zachary dish out

We're almost at the end, folks. After half a year of being on schedule and then a few months of being wildly off schedule, we're gonna finish our journey before the end of the year. Thanks for keeping up with us thus far. Speaking of keeping up, Bryan and Zachary are trying to keep up with all the revelations still dropping here at the end about the true nature of the sword an

On this week's only sort of, kind of late episode of Spotty Translation, Zachary and Bryan are finally nearing the end of their journey. There's not a lot left to reveal, but the character moments are coming fast and hard. On that note, the two extol the virtues of the heroic jester trope and discuss why it's so great. As always, be sure to watch the episode before listening a

Another month, another delayed episode of Spotty Translation. We're very sorry and we really hope to get these to you on time going forward. Hurricanes and health issues are seemingly subsiding, and we can finally get back to the puppets we all love. Moving on, this week's episode of Spotty Translation features Zach gushing over how the truth is only drip fed to the audience a

I promised the wait for this episode wouldn't be as long and I have failed you. Personal health problems, a busy work schedule and Bryan still drying to drink up the remains of Harvey all contributed to this episode coming late as well. The only thing we can hope is that we're on time in two weeks.  In other news, Bryan is finally unraveling the truth and Zachary insinuates Th

We're finally back after a month! We would have been back sooner as Bryan only had a little thing to take care of a while back, but then Hurricane Harvey happened.  Anyways, on this week's episode, Bryan finally understands all of the foreshadowing up until this point, and Zachary laughs at his realizations. In other news, the two discuss plot twists and why so much television

When did Thunderbolt Fantasy become a comedy? Well, it's not really funny for Young, but Zachary and Bryan are wondering why the trials that were built up to be super challenging are almost a joke. Is there a greater purpose to the series speeding right through the supposed journey? Zachary won't tell. In other news, Zachary is sorry there's no such as an N'Sync podcast (as fa

On this week's episode of Spotty Translation, Bryan falls further in love with puppets and achieves a perfect batting average on mentioning Lord of the Rings. Meanwhile, Zachary is just happy that he was able to finally deliver a soliloquy. As always, be sure to watch the episode on Crunchyroll before listening and check out the next episode - Demon Spine Mountains - befo

On this week's Spotty Translation, Zachary and Bryan find that talking is sometimes better than fighting. There's a real war of the words going on here and our hosts are loving it.  Elsewhere, Zachary theorizes that this episode's central conversation was heavily inspired by yakuza films and Bryan somehow manages to bring up The Lord of the Rings... again. Be sure to

On this episode of Spotty Translation, Zachary's favorite character is finally introduced, Bryan isn't sure of Crow's intentions and we get all the action we missed in the last episode.  The pair then spend a few minutes talking about the masterful music of Hiroyuki Sawano and how it perfectly accentuates the action taking place.  As always, be sure to check out the most