We have our first return guest! Lil Durt comes on the show to talk about the long-running manga series Berserk. We cover the 1997 anime and the first 8 volumes of the manga. Durt a...

Well, it had to happen eventually. Kelby and I review a film neither of us liked. And it's weird because Tetsuo 1 & 2 are masterpieces. So what went wrong? Did Alejandro Jodoro...

On our season finale of Agitator, Kelby and I talk about the early-'90s cult classic anime compilation Genocyber. We also go into depth about our strict non-hater policy going into...

We talk about Spiderman, the bible as a metaphor for the human brain, Noah's Ark, and the 1985 film Angel's Egg, directed by Ghost in the Shell's Mamoru Oshii. It's deliberate, got...

We bring rapper and writer David Simmons on to talk about The Wire, no rules in writing, writing what you know, the origin of the phrase “whole time,” machine fetishism, gun sex, a...

On this episode, Kelby and I talk about immigration, the moment we noticed our parents were people, and all three Crows Zero movies. The first two are directed by Takashi Miike, an...

On this episode, Kelby and I talk to Lord Bile about 2008's Tokyo Gore Police. The justice system, flavored wrist cutters, Ghost of Tsushima, divine punishment, three tonally diffe...

This episode, we have a special guest: Brian Allen Carr, author of Sip and Opioid, Indiana. We talk about 1964's Kwaidan, a four-part horror film with beautiful sets and creepy gho...

The 2004 sequel to Ghost in the Shell is a surreal blend of animation styles. It’s verbose and philosophical and looks amazing. Also: Relationship ended with the left, animated vio...