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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 28/03/2026

this season of jojo is a generational fumble from netflix, like genuinely wtf are they thinking. the time between 1st stage teaser and release was six months. if we assume that's the pace going forward, it will literally take them five years to release all of it. how is this acceptable.

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BroganLive @broganlive.howtootaku.com · 19/03/2026

STEEL BALL RUN IS PEAK FICTION AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO WATCH EPISODE ONE (no part skippers, read/watch Jojo)

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BroganLive @broganlive.howtootaku.com · 25/08/2025

I want to apologize for the brief hiatus, I do not have a concrete timeline on when I will be able to finish the episodes we have backlogged, life is happening fast, but HTO is not gone, more episodes soon. Gotta pay my bills if I want to get to keep doing this :/

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 15/08/2025

FELLOW CREATORS: If you have a Patreon page, PLEASE fill out this form! They're trying to justify integrating generative A'I into their service, but if we all show how opposed we are to it they may back off. Patreon is a service for CREATORS, not content scraping. Let's remind them of that!

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 20/07/2025

is today the day i start playing the horse girl gacha game

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 07/06/2025

us when we delay a main feed episode:

Jun Takeuchi, longtime producer of the Resident Evil franchise, teasing: "Bear with us a little longer, just a blink of an eye more, and it'll be ready."

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 04/06/2025

a reminder to the "composer" of the Rohan Kishibe: At a Confessional special that Hirohiko Araki thinks people who make "AI art" are "con artists" and that IP theft (inherent to almost all generative AI) is a "villain" and Rohan, his mangaka stand-in, would mince words less than even that

Shin-on-Gak on Twitter, translated from Japanese:

"This is the first original soundtrack in the history of global entertainment films in which all tracks were composed by Al (not just partially used, but fully composed, excluding pre-existing songs). We at the SHIN-ON-GAK Production Studio have combined all our strength and worked at full throttle to dedicate terrifyingly solemn compositions to this work. To all members of the fandom, please look forward to it!! (Representative Kikuchi, Shaggs FC Member)"

below is a still from Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional, an upcoming live-action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure spinoff special

Hirohiko Araki, "Today's World of 'Con Artists'":

"Speaking about 'societal evils,' I think that as Al continues to spread throughout society, we're going to see an increasingly shady world filled with scammers exploiting it. Recently, I came across a drawing and thought, "This is something I drew, right?" I was shocked to find out it was actually created by Al. When I draw manga, I add subtle, personal elements that make the work uniquely mine. But this Al-generated piece even mimicked details like the way I draw eyelashes, so precisely that it was almost impossible to tell it apart from my work. If it were based on recent drawings, I'd know right away, "No, I didn't draw this." On the other hand, I honestly wouldn't be able to tell the difference if it were done with my art from about ten years ago, when my memory of it would be a little hazy. The more Al advances, the more this kind of thing will happen.

"Art reflects the times, and manga is one example of that. Seeing this world of con artists appear in manga could very well mean that we're headed for a future world dominated by fraudsters. This type of 'evil' in today's age will undoubtedly end up impacting manga down the line.

"Copyright infringement by Al is also a 'villain' that we manga artists must face. The extreme scenario is that Al-generated fakes might start being accepted as the "real thing," and even if we try to protect our work, these counterfeits are becoming so accurate and sophisticated that it's no longer a fight an individual can win. Having some kind of laws would probably be the only way to regulate this. However, because we're dealing with a world of con artists, there's also a very real possibility that laws favoring them will appear before we know it. Personally, I entrust my copyright management to Shueisha, but some manga artists are lax in managing their copyrights, leading to others using their artwork without permission or even leaking original drawings. When I see that," I worry…

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 02/06/2025

happy pride month y'all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ post some of your favorite queer anime representation

F.F. from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Gender identity unclear, but goes by they/them pronouns.

Ranma and Akane from Ranma½. Both queer and trans coding throughout the show, as a result of Ranma's gender-swapping curse.

Gren from Cowboy Bebop. Uses he/him pronouns, implied to be gay, has breasts as a result of hormone imbalance.

Joseph Joestar from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Not textually gay, but dresses in drag and has a strong relationship with Caesar Zeppeli. Perhaps bisexual.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 29/05/2025

Space Dandy & crew: "haha check it out, the plants on this planet talk!" Dr. Gel subplot:

Wolverine chained to a missile launching into the atmosphere

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 17/05/2025

the real Samurai Champloo is the friends we made along the way

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 12/05/2025

Josh said he'd be back in time to record our Samurai Champloo podcast. Fuu's optimistic, but me and Jin are not so sure. So just to be safe we're delaying it till next Monday the 19th. Don't worry though, Space Dandy will still be on time! ...right?

scene from Samurai Champloo ep 9; Jin and Fuu stare at a sunset past the town gate

same scene: Fuu and Jin are kneeling, with two executioners behind them. Jin is sternly quiet as Fuu insists, "Come on, he might be right over the horizon as we speak!"

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 08/05/2025

us ten days after publicly praising bandai:

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 02/05/2025

What happened to their couch?? Will the shoot the next episode standing?? WHERE WILL THEY SIT???? These questions and more will be answered next time on… How-To Otaku

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 01/05/2025

the second worst thing Germany has done in JoJo's lore, apart from... y'know...

a traffic sign in Germany, depicting two stick figures in angular poses walking towards each other across a road with a car heading towards them, and a red line diagonally crossing the entire graphic.

text below reads: "no jojo posing in the road"

the same traffic sign graphic from before, but with Dio Brando and Jotaro Kujo in iconic poses walking towards one another in place of the stick figures.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 01/05/2025

the only way cowboy bebop could've been better:

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 29/04/2025

i think we all know who's behind these bluesky outtages...

Ed from Cowboy Bebop, doing a silly arm dance while hacking a mainframe

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 29/04/2025

I would like to sincerely apologize to all our East Coast listeners, it will TECHNICALLY be Tuesday morning when the Cowboy Bebop episode drops. It’s a big one, over 2 hours, the upload is taking its sweet time but I promise this isn’t like last time. See you space cowboy…

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 25/04/2025

Get everybody and their stuff together… we’re talking about #CowboyBebop

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 15/04/2025

I’m taking this as a lesson that coping and crying and throwing up actually gives me everything I could ever want

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 01/04/2025

New Episodes on the main feed AND on the Patreon today! You can get a 1 week free trial to the Patreon BUT our lowest tier is only $1 a month and we have some pretty cool rewards at higher tiers! patreon.com/howtootaku?u...

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making filler content for the diehards!

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 31/03/2025

do y'all think morgan wallen knows what a one piece is? asking for someone who keeps getting *that* one piece card game ad

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 29/03/2025

The entire Ghibli ethos is tied up in the idea of craftsmanship. It's a textual subject of the films (hand carving violins in Whisper of the Heart, for just one example) and the meta work that goes into the films themselves. Their films feature hard workers, and are animated with sweat and tears.

Amasawa Seiji carves a violin at a workbench in the animated film Whisper of the Heart.

Kiki takes a hot dish out of the oven in the animated film Kiki's Delivery Service.

An old man with bushy mustache and a robe eyes a precarious tower of building blocks in the animated film The Boy and the Heron.

Horikoshi Jiro, seated on a tatami floor in a traditional Japanese room, works at his drawing board by lamp light in the animated film The Wind Rises.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 27/03/2025

it is the professional opinion of the How-to Otaku podcast that Hayao Miyazaki should be given a baseball bat, an appointment with Sam Altman, and 24 hours of legal immunity

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 20/03/2025

You don’t want to know what happens if you disrespect Jotaro’s pronouns

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 20/03/2025

Anybody from Disney wanna tell us how we check our YouTube dislikes? We know you know.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 19/03/2025

Post a picture of a character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard Mode: No villains. #dandadan

Seiko Ayase from Dandadan (2024), holding a harisen.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 09/03/2025

there are three types of anime: anime about how boobs are cool, anime about how the atomic bomb fundamentally reframed our collective understanding of morality, and anime about neurodivergent people cooking monsters. sometimes these overlap. in this essay i will

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 05/03/2025

COWBOY BEBOP SAMURAI CHAMPLOO SPACE DANDY TERROR IN RESONANCE CAROLE & TUESDAY LAZARUS This summer every episode is for Shinichiro Watanabe, icon of the Y2K anime boom. We're covering all of his original shows on main feed, with some bonus goodies for our Patreon! See you there, space cowboys...

A graphic containing the following:

"How-to Otaku presents:
The Works of Shinichiro Watanabe

-April 28... Cowboy Bebop Redux
-May 12... Samurai Champloo
-May 26... Space Dandy
-June 9... Terror in Resonance
-June 23... Carole & Tuesday
-July 7... Lazarus

On Patreon:
-June 1... Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, anthologies and short films"

The graphic also contains characters and iconography from all of the listed shows.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 22/02/2025

just thinking about how Rumiko Takahashi is in her late 60's, having made a half-dozen of the most iconic manga series of all time, and is still releasing new chapters every week. what a legend. 🫶

Rumiko Takahashi, famed mangaka of Inuyasha, Urusei Yatsura, Ranma ½, Rin-ne, and Mao among others, receiving the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres insignia in 2023. Behind her is a background with a black and white drawing of (correct me if I'm wrong) Lum from Urusei Yatsura.

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 29/01/2025

About damn time this got a re-print, thank you GKIDS

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 24/01/2025

listen, 10:30pm EST is technically within the promised window. Without further ado. DanDaDan youtu.be/TaF5pvZGhI0?...

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DanDaDan

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 22/01/2025

Hi friends, Brogan here, I know we were all excited for the DanDaDan episode to be out on Monday but between my little vacation and the mental spiral I have personally been on since Monday it has obviously been delayed. Don’t be scared, the episode will be out tomorrow

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 18/01/2025

maybe this will counteract the ⅔'s of their creators that are leaving (including us!)

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 15/01/2025

we're now on RedNote/Xiaohongshu, check us out there! shorturl.at/GhHIR

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 12/01/2025

We're back! And to kick off 2025, we're returning to #JojosBizarreAdventure and deep-diving into the first half of #GoldenWind! Is Giorno clinically insane? Is Purple Haze overpowered? What's with the Stand that makes you old? WHAT DOES KING CRIMSON DO?!? All that and more at the links below! 👇👇

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 07/01/2025

We don’t plug it very often so if you haven’t made it to the website you might not know but… We have a discord You can like… join it if you want… Idk that was stupid I’m sorry, I’ll just leave this here incase you still want to discord.gg/WWyJQUZV

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Join the How-to Otaku-Chat! Discord Server!

The official Discord server for How-to Otaku, an anime podcast for weebs and newbies alike! | 6 members

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 07/01/2025

JOJ🗿 JOJ♦️ JOJ🤚 JOJ💎 JOJ🐞 JOJ🦋 JOJ🧲 JOJ⚓️ JOJ💓 ⬅️ To Be Continued?

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 07/12/2024

if this happens I Will Actually Do It This Time

SlashFilm: "Can Kraven the Hunter Defeat Lord of the Rings at the Box Office?"

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How-to Otaku! An Anime Podcast @howtootaku.com · 06/12/2024

who needs a workout playlist when you can loop "Warriors in Valour" by Shoji Meguro, Atlus Sound Team, Glory Chorus Tokyo and Keisuke Honryo (Myojoji Temple Chief Priest)? #metaphorrefantazio

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