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February 14, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Pleiades Description: Ultra Podcast Z took place on Valentine's Day this past week and we're not totally sure if we've ever done that before... There's a first time for everything though! We had previously talked about how Valentine's Day is one of the worst days to go out and do anything since everywhere is crowded, and it was with this mentality that Pleiades rolled up for this episode! It was a lot of fun and we covered less than half of the topics that we had planned to. That wasn't because we went off track, or got lost, but because we had a lot to say about the things we covered and we also might have over planned this one. Anyhow, everyone was on point and there were a lot of funny bits here and there and it doesn't have as much as the ad hoc topics feel that a few recent episodes have. We also revealed at the top of the show that we are planning on ending (more like we're going to rebrand) Ultra Podcast Z and, while we probably won't do that at Episode 200 as we initially planned, that's something you can look forward to in the future as things like that always serve to revitalize things for a bit. Anyhow, check this one out and let us know your thoughts on our takes and maybe about what you'd like to see in a UPZ rebrand. As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 194 (Gaming & Anime w/ Photaku) Hogwart's Legacy, Sally Amaki, Anime Expo, More!2/13/2023 Live Broadcast:
February 7, 2023 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Photaku Description: Ultra Podcast Z is back to Tuesday after two random Wednesday shows! Photaku joined us this week as we tackled some interesting topics that mainly had to do with the Switch (upcoming Nintendo Direct and new sales records) and Hogwart's Legacy. The latter topic doesn't need any introduction as the game's release, and the reaction to it, has taken over just about every corner of the internet. We're not here to change anyone's mind, but we have our views and they were all laid out here. Elsewhere we talked about Sally Amaki voicing in both English & Japanese, the passing of the creator of the first known AMV, Anime Expo selling out of its first line of badges, and even managed to talk a lot about anime, which isn't something we do a lot on the show. There was a lot of randomness in between as well and it was a lot of fun all things considered. A more structured episode where we had a lot of topics lined up unlike the more freeform episodes that kicked off 2023, so let's just carry on from here! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 172 (Ani-May: Anime Ships) Sonic The Hedgehog Pairings, Fav Anime Openings, More!5/22/2022 Live Broadcast:
May 17, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Nyaru Description: Ultra Podcast Z had an interesting episode this time around complete with all sorts of sound issues. We actually lost the first five minutes or so of this show due to our sound not being on and not noticing it until we'd wrapped up some of our warm up topics AND when our audio was turned on we had more issues as Manuel was using the wrong mic and it wasn't caught until the next night's stream, so we apologize for all the audio nonsense in this one. Elsewhere we talked about some of the biggest, and our favorite, anime ships or pairings and went through a couple lists as well as noting some off the top of our head and from the chat. It was a bit of a narrow topic but it offered the chance to spin off into other things like Sonic The Hedgehog ship nonsense and accidentally discovering the "Shipping Wiki". We didn't really have a lot more to say after like thirty minutes and moved onto our other topic, some of our favorite anime openings which was a topic that took a few minutes to get going but when we DID we were rapid firing song titles and even singing along to the Cardcaptor Sakura theme so good time! Ani-May has been a little all over the place but that might be because there are a lot of anime conventions surrounding these shows and we're all a little frazzled. We plan to close out the month with a bang though so be sure to keep checking in! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 171 (Ani-May: Idol Anime) Offkai Recap 2.0, Love Live Invasion, Idol Anime, More!5/15/2022 Live Broadcast:
May 10, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Nyaru Description: Ultra Podcast Z never really left but we've been without JD and Nyaru for a few weeks now. They were both back for this one which is the second episode of "Ani-May" and we tackled the topic of Idol Anime, which is something we'd actually talked about covering before Offkai Expo but it somehow got away from us in the scheduling. There's the usual nonsense at the beginning and we got into a Nyaru-specific version of Offkai Recap which was actually quite interesting in a behind-the-scenes way and we even talked a bit about Maid Day (which it was when we had this episode) before going into the topic proper. We talked about a lot of our favorites like Zombieland Saga, Kirarin Revolution, and AKB0048. We then talked about some of the big idol anime franchises like PriPara, IDOLM@STER, Love Live, and why no one like Aikatsu even though it's one of the best. We then covered a topic we hadn't visited in a while: What Love Live did to the idol scene at large in the US, especially when it comes to anime conventions. An interesting topic that we all had something to get off our chests and we circled back around to more idol anime recs (check out Wake Up Girls!) and more before we closed this one out. A nice continuation into Ani-May so be sure to watch the next two episodes in this special month! Also, Nyaru is stinky, that is all. As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 170 (Ani-May w/ Badman & Dr. Wes) Offkai Expo Recap, Recent & Comfort Anime, More!5/7/2022 Live Broadcast:
May 3, 2022 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Badman Dr. Wes Description: Ultra Podcast Z is launching "Ani-May" and this is an odd episode. We were originally going to have JD and Nyaru back on this one and neither would make it. Warren is once again hosting (hence the look) and Weston joined in as a last minute replacement for Nyaru. We came into this one thinking we'd have trouble filling in the Ani-May parts and only spend a bit of it talking about the couple topics we'd had down (Recent, Fav, and Comfort Anime as well as a recent J-List article that we found weird) and spend most of it brainstorming ideas for the rest of the month. We DID sort of do that at the end but we were more than capable of filling this episode with a lot of talk about Offkai Expo (we'll cover a bit more of that when Nyaru returns too!) and just going on and on about anime. A good episode that was a bit more structured than the last one and we hope that you all agree with us. There IS an amount of randomness here and there though, but would it be a UPZ episode if there wasn't? Also, check out that J-List article below and let us know if you've been pronouncing these anime correctly or not. Ani-May will continue right up until Fanime so be sure to keep an eye out for more as we continue down this month, and be sure to yell at Nyaru for bouncing on this one again! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 165 (March Stuff w/ Photaku) Mario Day, Women's Day, Sailor Moon Anniversary, More!3/13/2022 Live Broadcast:
March 8, 2022 6:00 PM PST Hosts: Manuel Photaku Description: Ultra Podcast Z saw Nyaru cancel at the last minute, guess it WAS International Women's Day so we can say that she took the day off for that. Photaku joined and once again was a replacement for Nyaru rather than an addition but it was a lot of fun talking about his new Homer Simpson-esque job and more. That "more" was a LOT about the Leprechaun movies and how if we ever see a "Leprechaun vs. Chucky" it BETTER be Warwick Davis and Brad Dourif respectively since they've been sort of been replaced recently (though Brad Dourif is still Chucky in everything but the remake). When we finally got it together it was mostly time to talk about all the recent... holidays? We talked about Mario Day and some of our favorite Mario games as well as International Women's Day itself, and lastly the anniversary of the Japanese debut of the Sailor Moon anime. In between was the usual level of randomness and side bits, as well as an update of sorts on the who yaoi paddle situation. Next week we're going to talk MORE about Leprechaun stuff since it'll be a St. Patrick's Day episode so look forward to that! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 150 (Short(er) Anime Series w/ Photaku) Genshin Impact, Promare, Escaflowne, More!10/1/2021 Live Broadcast:
September 28, 2021 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Photaku JD (Off Screen) Description: Ultra Podcast Z hits 150 episodes and Nyaru is nowhere to be found! We hit yet another milestone but rather than make a big deal about it (we've had a LOT of "anniversary"-type episodes recently and have at least one more coming up) we decided to tackle a topic we surprisingly don't cover much: anime, namely shorter anime series. The premise for this started with discussions about how Manuel doesn't watch much anime and how we'd compile lists for people who want to watch anime but probably don't want to invest days into shows like One Piece, Naruto, etc. Photaku joined us again this week in his first proper episode appearance (not a tier list or game night) and after a rather long discussion about Genshin Impact and more, we got into our lists. This episode features a few more edits than one usually sees in a UPZ so this truly is a "YouTube Version" but we touched on a lot of animes and it was probably for the best that there were only three of us on this one as we would've got even less out probably. There's a lot of suggestions here in a lot of different genres so let us know what you think about our choices, give us some of your own, and maybe we'll cover this topic in a future episode as we definitely left a lot of ones we wanted to discuss off the table. Here's to another 150 episodes! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 133 (News & Updates w/ Mystery) | New Pokemon Snap, BABYBEARD, IZ*ONE, Anime, More!5/21/2021 Live Broadcast:
May 11, 2021 6:00 PM PDT Hosts: Manuel Nyaru MysteryOtaku Description: Ultra Podcast Z took a really long break before this one with two weeks with no episode and our return was a LITTLE shaky. Originally we had a co-host lined up and they were forced to cancel earlier on and it was decided that our mod/shadow host JD (AKA MysteryOtaku) would jump on-screen for the first time as an official co-host. The thing was that the internet wasn't really liking this one and we were plagued with problems from the get-go to the point that MysteryOtaku was forced to cut himself out of the show and was basically unable to do much else because of various computer issues. To make matters even quirkier, this YouTube version has a false start at the beginning (Tried to cut it out with YouTube but it wasn't liking the processing of the video afterwards so that was abandoned) and there is a few minutes of a still image (the thumbnail as it were) where the screen recording was lost, the VOD was also lost so this is the only version that exists so we hope that you bear with us. All that nonsense aside, this was a really fun show that featured a livelier Nyaru than we've seen in a while covering a lot of recent news topics including some video game, anime, and music updates and more. Hopefully this is as entertaining to watch as it was live and the quirks of the recording aren't too detrimental to anyone's enjoyment. As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Ultra Podcast Z 126 (Giving Bad Advice w/ Pleiades) | Relationship & Life Advice, Storytime, More!2/26/2021 Live Broadcast:
February 23, 2021 6:00 PM PST Hosts: Manuel Nyaru Pleiades Description: Ultra Podcast Z has had a lot of "weird" themed episodes before but this one is one of the weirdest. It was all based around the theme of "Bad Advice Delivered Badly" (and yes, we know about the odd grammar in that phrase) due to a meeting Manuel had regarding starting a popular podcast. Seeing as we're a pretty home-y, low rent podcast with all sorts of issues (but we're doing our best!) we decided to run with this with some intentional "problems" and many others that popped up during the show that we didn't really intend for but went with the them really well. Basically we relied on our live audience to ask us for advice and we'd give it with an air of satire about it. The problem with that concept was that it required us to have a very large, active audience which isn't something that UPZ consistently has... We soldiered on though and filled in a lot of the dead space with random storytime, talks about anime, and even some examples of "bad advice" we've seen or have been given. If we ever do this style of show again (well, WHEN we do as we definitely will) we might gather up some topics from our audience beforehand to give advice to live, but then again that wouldn't be as much fun as going in completely unsure and cold... We shall see! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! Live Broadcast:
February 9, 2021 6:15 PM PST Hosts: Manuel Nyaru Jasmine Description: Ultra Podcast Z took yet another break as we were off the week before (Making way for the F.A. Podcast's first episode though.) but we came back with a topic that has been pushed so far back that we're already done with a chunk of 2021! This was originally envisioned as the first episode of the year but was pushed back as Melancholiaah's availability changed and we had the random aside to talk amusement parks/roller coasters. So we're nicely into February 2021 and we're choosing now to take a look at all the upcoming media we're looking forward to in the new year. Well, maybe if you factor this as a Lunar New Year thing we can still be considered on top of it! Anyway, we discussed a lot of anime, video games, and movies with a too many titles to name here. Lots of things came to us as we went along and we even discussed lots of randomness at the end. Also, bear with the shaky start to this one as we had some technical difficulties to overcome in the first 15 minutes or so that thankfully don't plague the show proper. Did we mention that this show also means that our Valentine's Day-themed episode is pushed back now? Let's hope we catch up to the schedule before 2021 is over! As always, take care of yourselves and each other in these trying times and stay healthy and safe! If you want to watch Ultra Podcast Z live then check out our twitch channel: twitch.tv/atojplays We are live every Tuesday at 6 PM PST! |
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