Strictly Anime

Mar 21 2025 257 ep. 85 mins 95

Strictly Anime Podcast artwork

Strictly Anime is a podcast bringing you in-depth reviews of your favorite anime and discussions about anime culture. Whether you're a new fan or a full-on weeb, join us every week as we share our love of anime! Website: www.thestrictlyseries.com Discord: www.discord.gg/4Rnq4GTePP Patreon: www.patreon.com/thestrictlyseries

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

227. How Important Is Animation Quality in Anime?

Mar 21 2025 82 mins

We try to answer the question: How important is animation quality in anime? Whether or not we want to admit it, animation quality is becoming more of a selling point for popular anime, and more of a factor in a show’s success. We discuss how important animation quality is when looking at what makes an anime “great,” and how much influence it has over the viewing experience. W

226. Strictly Anime 5 Year Anniversary Q&A

Mar 10 2025 115 mins

We're celebrating 5 years of Strictly Anime by answering your burning questions! To help us reflect on this incredible milestone, we reached out to our Patreon and Discord community to send us their questions about the podcast, about anime, and about everything in between. Thank you to everyone who submitted their questions - and thank you to all our listeners, old and new, for sup

225. Our Favorite Spicy Moments in Anime

Feb 26 2025 68 mins

We share our favorite spicy moments in anime. Sure, a vanilla romance anime is great. But have you ever squealed with excitement while watching two characters turn up the heat? Whether they’re explicitly spicy, or have great underlying tension, we’re sharing our favorite moments that we can’t get out of our heads. While you’re listening to this episode, why not pair it up w

224. Link Click (S1)

Feb 19 2025 112 mins

We review the first season of Link Click. Our first foray into Chinese donghua takes the term “photographic memory” to a whole new level, with a time-travel thriller that’s equal parts exhilarating and heartfelt. We explore the show’s organic world-building, nuanced storytelling, and top-notch cliffhangers - even as its subtitles sometimes get lost in translation. Chinese t

223. Strictly Chatting

Feb 12 2025 102 mins

We’re strictly chatting. We chat about upcoming game releases, anime merch we have our eye on, and what we plan to do with our collectibles when it’s time to pass them on to our children. Plus, Courtney shares another Naruto update, including the origin of the Sasuke choke meme. While you’re listening to this episode, why not pair it up with a delicious snack from a #TokyoTre

222. Sub vs. Dub: Why We Prefer Subbed Anime

Feb 05 2025 89 mins

We discuss why we prefer subbed anime over dubbed anime. One of the most highly debated topics in the anime community is sub vs. dub. Weebs have long fought the battle of which one is superior, but we’re not here to fight. We’re here to explain why we prefer subbed anime, discuss some of the great aspects of dubbed anime, and break out in a sweat in an attempt to not get chewed

221. Winter 2025 Anime First Impressions

Jan 27 2025 90 mins

We discuss our spoiler-free Winter 2025 anime first impressions. It’s the season of romance anime with several on our list, alongside highly anticipated shows like Solo Leveling and Sakamoto Days. Join us as we discuss these anime, as well as a sleeper hit about planetary movement, an isekai Karl is actually watching, and the return of everyone’s favorite apothecary. While you�

220. Our Anime Celebrity Meal Ideas

Jan 22 2025 66 mins

We share our anime celebrity meal ideas. If BTS, Megan Thee Stallion, and Kai Cenat can get fast food meals named after them, who says that someone like Sukuna can't get the same royal culinary treatment? We fight through our insatiable hunger to come up with anime celebrity meals that pay homage to notable anime characters, with the fervent hope that a restaurant chain will pick o

219. Dandadan (S1)

Jan 14 2025 107 mins

We review the first season of Dandadan. What do bananas, golden balls, lewd grannies, and Ken Takakura have in common? This weird anime. We discuss the ballsy premise, the way the show unexpectedly makes you want to cry, and the questionable end to the first season. Use code STRICTLYANIME for $5 off your first #TokyoTreat box: https://team.tokyotreat.com/strictlyanime Join our Disc

218. The Best and Worst of 2024 Anime

Jan 03 2025 136 mins

We close out the year with the best and worst of 2024 anime! This past year was a wild ride, both for anime fans and for us in our personal lives, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We reflect on what anime had to offer us in 2024 by sharing our picks for categories like waifu and husbando, animation, story, and many more! Use code STRICTLYANIME for $5 off your first #TokyoTr