Anime Was (Not) A Mistake

Feb 02 2025 100 ep. 97 mins 17
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An Anime/Animated Retrospective Podcast ranging from the realms of Ghibli to Godzilla and beyond. Join resident nerd co-hosts Jonathan Kwiatkowski and Dan Ryan as they travel through spirit realms, new, fascinating worlds, and fly through the skies in order to prove that Anime Was (Not) A Mistake.

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Episode 300: Sinister Six XXXX Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Feb 02 2025 108 mins  
Spectacular! Spectacular! A Sinister Selection? It's in the vernacular! Anime Was (Not) A Mistake pulls back the red curtain and tunes the orchestra to present a 40th sinister film celebration! With plenty of returning actors and a director to this humble podcast we explore the themes of freedom, beauty, truth, and love with Baz Luhrmann's seminal Moulin Rouge! (2001). In this Pari

Episode 299: Sinister Six XXXIX Alien Private Eye (1999)

Jan 26 2025 82 mins  
A new Sinister Selection crash-lands on the scene and vows to dispense cosmic justice…just very slowly and on a budget. In 1987’s Alien Private Eye, Earth is threatened by an odd combination of narcotics and nuclear weapons. Our only hope is Lemro, a super-cool alien who lives among us as a private detective. Aided by a mysterious woman and a pair of rival space cops, Lemro sea

Episode 298: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Part VI: Season I Finale

Jan 19 2025 111 mins  
All voyages must come to an end, and tonight on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake we take the next steps into the future with the Season 1 of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. Frieren, Fern, and the rest of the intrepid mages continue on their path towards first class magedom. What lies before them is a labyrinth filled to the brim with unfeeling clones and even worse than that a one-on-one i

Episode 297: Good Movie Podcast?: Episode 11: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

Jan 12 2025 67 mins  
Today’s Good Movie Podcast marks our third visit to Gotham City, this time for 1993’s Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. Made between the first and second seasons of Batman: The Animated Series, the movie sees Bruce Wayne’s old flame Andrea Beaumont suddenly returning after 10 years. At the same time, a mysterious vigilante known as “The Phantasm” starts eliminating Gotham Cit

Episode 296: Holiday Special V: Part II:Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Jan 05 2025 67 mins  
Rev your engines and be prepared to toot your sweets, Anime Was (Not) A Mistakes' 2024 Holiday Special continues this madcap race with the seminal fleet-footed fender lined film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). When the inventor Caracticus Potts, is commissioned to save a beat-up car from the scrap heap, a magical musical adventure is set into motion. We have a film full of bops, ba

Episode 295: Holiday Special V: Part I: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Jan 01 2025 86 mins  
Ghost and Ghoulies everywhere come to Anime Was (Not) A Mistake for a Yuletide scare?!? That's right, this year's first half of our Holiday Special is devoted to the stop-motion animation classic The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Join your normal hosts Daniel and Jonathan as they tromp through the pumpkin patch...but what's this? Three crafty trick or treaters have stumbled up

Episode 294: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Part V

Dec 29 2024 99 mins  
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, continues once more on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake with the departing of one character and the introduction of man, many more. Stark is given a reprieve as Frieren and Fern are tasked with proving their magical might in a series of tasks. When split into groups, surrounded by talented, unique mages, and challenged in catching a crafty bird, where will t

Episode 293: Delicious in Dungeon X Record of Lodoss War: Part III

Dec 22 2024 116 mins  
Our journey through realms inspired by tabletop RPGs continues with another Delicious in Dungeon and Record of Lodoss War combo episode. In the Mad Mage’s Dungeon, Laios and his party must traverse the watery Fourth Level while learning a few (harsh) lessons from the dungeon’s ecosystem. Then, a surprise encounter with an Undine leaves Marcille drained of her mana. With the hel

Episode 292: Frieren: Beyond Journey's End: Part IV

Dec 15 2024 81 mins  
Our journey continues once more with Frieren: Beyond Journey's End on Anime Was (Not) A Mistake. On this casual batch of four episodes we may get a new priestly party member that's on a voyage of his own for his "Gorilla Warrior." With some liturgical magic, perhaps the party will take down a Refelga infused plant monster, participate in a ball, and help out a stubborn old woman in

Episode 291: Dragon Ball Z: Double Feature: Cooler's Revenge and The Return of Cooler

Dec 08 2024 103 mins  
Its getting a bit chilly on this week's Anime Was (Not) A Mistake with a frosty double feature. With a return to form with some anime, first we have Cooler's Revenge (1991). Goku, Gohan, and the gang are just getting some well-deserved rest when Earth is threated once again by Frieza's evil brother Cooler. Hope that you have packed some extra senzu beans because if our intrepid Z H