In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 23-25 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content warnings: deaths in all shapes and sizes, gaslighting, body horror This week, we wrap our journey into freedom with IBO season one's climax, learn about Canadian politics through Leningrad metaphor, try to calculate the best way to orbita…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 21-22 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content warnings: brutal child death via crushing A hero falls today, but nobody has to like it... and the cast don't! They fucking hate it, actually. Thankfully, your delightful hosts are having a good time as we move into the endgame of IBO: a …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 19-20 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content warning: suicide, copious amounts of blood Here it comes, we're on the road to the finale now, no turning back once we make Earthfall! See our hosts all grapple with the family drama and internal tensions threatening to tear Tekkadan apar…

This week, have another bonus episode of our patreon series Radio Manga (in which Matt and Sibyl alternate deep-dives on single works with shotgun spreads of what each has been reading), but this time with a guest! Grant (of various podcasts across the years) joins the crew to take a look at Masamune Shirow's The Ghost in the Shell manga, a brief l…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! there was a holiday and only two hosts could be arsed to talk about things for you, the listener. Two hosts saw anime films in the theater! One was happier with the decision than the other. If you've ever wanted to hear spirited debate and then suddenly there's discussion of Gundam, video game hoarding, and "oops I …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 17-18 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content warning: gruesome gun violence This week: labor unions versus cops in space, with kids caught in the middle. How well will it turn out? Well, this episode is one of our shortest ever because the fallout comes next week. No, not Fallout. W…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 15-16 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content Warning: EXTREME gun violence, torture We're host-light as we kick off galaxy-wide events in Iron-Blooded Orphans, and learn just how bad inequality gets when you've got a whole set of worlds to colonize. Plus: enough factions in play tha…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 13-14 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content Warning: child death, gun violence Y'all, I cannot put it any other way: this is the episode with deaths, gays, vibes, and a literal Costco in space. We've gone full Gundam, folks, and the ride won't slow down from here to the finale. Com…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 11-12 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Tragedy strikes this week as the Isaribi meet space pirates! No, not Naze and the space mafia. Different sort of thing entirely. Naze doesn't keep slaves. Probably. Look, we'll get into it soon enough, just trust us that nobody who's helping teac…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 9-10 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. This time out, the crew covers all kinds of weebs, from the classy (McMurdo Barriston) to the crass (buying the masturbating Code Geass tee), and in the middle, there's a lot of talks about being family, being Family, and being famiglia. Gundam is…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 7-8 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. This episode was nearly titled "the one with the cheese bones" and I expect all of you are going to prove your humble editor correct. In the meantime, get ready for soup, salad, and sexism as we meet the harem mafia and ask ourselves: is it really …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 5-6 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Good news, folks: Chris and Sibyl have taken the horrors of war up a notch with this episode, and it's only going to keep increasing from here. Come aboard for Mari Okada's Wild Ride once again and get ready. Space is the place that you can buy peo…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss a bunch of random topics between the hosts who weren't indisposed, so you, the listener, have some fun content. Let us know how you like this one, hit us up at contact@pitchdrop.net. We listen. (I listen, anyway.) Support Us: Patreon More Shows: Pitch Drop Network Support Boku No Stop!…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 3-4 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content warning: high amounts of gun-to-head violence. This week is a feast of politics and personages, as we expand the cast, begin namedropping folks who have been around for the whole ride, start arguments about when content is relevant or not, …

This week, the holidays leave our editress with nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so she rambled into a mic about wonderful and terrible media from the year 2023. Don't worry, nothing of worth is spoiled within, and it's got a variety of neat topics to go over. Also I forgot to mention that Furuhata Ninzaburou (a Japanese procedural that's incre…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 1-2 of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. Content warning: child murder, child murderers (both varieties) It's new season time! Much like the latest season of Fortnite, we're introducing you listeners to the Griffon family, except this time they have dumber names than "Peter" and "Meg", be…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss the entirety of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, in an episode that was previously a patron-exclusive bonus. Ryan from LST joins us this week for a post-series discussion of the past year's hit Gundam, Witch from Mercury, and where it let us down and won us over. Consider this previously-vaulte…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episode 25 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. It all returns to nothing with this, "Zero", and the close of the show's first season. Listen to Sibyl and Matt take a few guesses at what comes next as we close out with party games and video games. Support Us: Patreon More Shows: Pitch Drop Network Sup…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 23-24 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Here we go, folks, the last good part of Code Geass S1. It is amazing how hype we are at the end of this knowing that we saved the worst for last. At least you can get some good fun out of the episode in the meantime! Support Us: Patreon More Shows: …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 21-22 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content warnings: mind control-as-rape, massive on-camera gun violence, genocide, attempted genocide Here we are folks, it's the big show! A comedy episode into a crisis episode and the finale begins kicking off as we come in for the landing on Code …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 19-20 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content warnings: suicidal ideation, generalized violence, gratuitous teen nudity (beach episode) That's right, all, we're gonna follow up the giant cliffhanger with a CO-ED BEACH SLUMBER PARTY! Thrill as everyone passes the Bechdel Test for a week! …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 17-18 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content warnings: pulping a dude with a mech, suicidal ideation This week, our hosts investigate court politics, reverse racism, and show that just like Oppenheimer, death can come from the most innocent individuals when uranium is on the line. Plus:…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 15-16 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: every single type of gun violence imaginable, patricide, near-amputation, consent questions, the killing fields of dead children This week, half the hosts are out, and yet somehow we have nearly a double-length episode for this seas…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 13-14 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: suicidal tendencies, in-your-face war crimes, one-on-one gun violence, and blatant mind control/manipulation as rape allegory This week, everyone's back, and so we dig in on the themes of the show so fa- hahahahaha, no, we take the …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 11-12 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: implied torture, weirdly-edited voyeuristic masturbation, death by suffocation Folks, I think this is the new record for shortest episode of Boku no Stop. Look what happens when half of our coverage this week is a battle scene, and …

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 09-10 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: drugs/drug use, gun violence, being buried alive, and a dude getting cooked alive on-screen Folks, I, your humble hostess, have finished season one of this show at this point, and without a doubt the single dumbest episode of the wh…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 7-8 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: ethnic cleansing (again), suicide + imagery, gun violence This week we're off to the races (but not Those Races) with party vans, gilded robots, obvious traps, and a truly worrying amount of pizza parties. Plus, Lelouch gets a new cat…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 5-6 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content warnings: gun violence, casual "comedic" homophobia/fatphobia, and just full-throated racism This week, the show goes all-in on character development for one episode, and comedic madness for the second, and the whiplash lures quite a lot of dis…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 3-4 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: gun violence/murder This week's episode really takes us off to the races (and the racism) as Code Geass decides to introduce us to people who are very, very dedicated to bloodlines, shows us how incredibly stupid one character can be,…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 1-2 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: all-around violence, suicide, racism, ethnic cleansing (those last two are basically just the entire season) We're back! Chris is back! New series! Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion is a wild ride, and our two first-timers are shoc…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss the Lupin III OVA, Fujiko's Lie. Content warnings: child endangerment/kidnapping, a rather brutal car crash scene, many questionable uses of coercive/coerced sexuality, naked kid (PG), brutal gun violence, gaslighting We wind down our (this?) Lupin III season with thus-far the final OVA in this cycle, Fuj…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss the Lupin III OVA, Goemon's Blood Spray. Content warnings: ultraviolence, one particularly brutal car crash, decapitation, gnarly lovingly-rendered injuries, weed We continue our tour of the trio with a Goemon-centric OVA all about lumberjacks who heal abnormally fast, weeb culture a-go-go, copious weed u…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss the Lupin the III OVA, Jigen's Gravestone. Content warnings: on-camera gun violence aplenty (and some gnarly wounds from the aforementioned), sexual menace, uncomfortably detailed eye-touching, and mechanical drill-appendages Surprise! There's more this season, as we cover the trio of OVAs that followed F…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 11-13 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. ** Content warnings: child abuse (everything to do with it), branding/burning alive, holy shit so much gun violence, identity death, child brides?, suicide, gaslighting (EX), extended feet stuff, "problematic queer representation"** Merry Christmas! We decid…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 9-10 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Content warnings: weird rituals with a kid, literal objectification, suicidal ideation, suicide, animal testing, HUMAN testing, and questionable mouth stuff with a snake This week: technically every character is in an episode now! And just in time for the sho…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 7-8 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Content warnings: Thermonuclear war, Alive Kennedys, burning alive, sexual assault This week, our hosts cover a potential end of a potential world, then get very metaphysical and begin unwrapping the show's main story arc! We're almost to the point where you'l…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 5-6 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Content warnings: Scorpions, sexual assault/deception This week, our hosts cover some good old-fashioned grave robbing, complete with booby traps, betrayals, and of course: ironic losses. Then we take a quick trip back to yuri-town for an episode at an all-gir…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 3-4 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Content warnings: Sexual assault/harassment, child endangerment, royals This week, we just take a huge dive off a short pier into the deep end because we're doing some Advanced-Level Anime, with discussions of just what the line is between "femme fatale" and "…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 1-2 of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine. Content Warnings: drugs, drugged sex, sexual assault, cults, murder/beheading, suicide, alcoholism, and a whoooooooole lotta sex New host! New show! We're covering Lupin III prequel/spinoff The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, and it turns out less of the hosts had s…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss the themes of, and works similar to, Flip Flappers. This is a weird one but we also felt that going on a brief season break again SO fast after the last one was silly, so we dug in, did some research, and came up with this... discussion that ended up being longer than some actual episodes of the show. Who…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 10-13 of Flip Flappers. What can we say here at the end? A lot of things, as evidenced by this extra-length episode, and even then we determine halfway in that we should do one bonus recording on thematic analysis next time. Listen to our two hosts try to determine exactly where the scene is that…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 7-9 of Flip Flappers. This week we go beyond the infinite with both 2001: A Space Odyssey AND Kill la Kill inspired sequences, and dig into what makes a character a character, as well as get the tease of one of our bottom-three designs in non-hentai anime. Come along for the ride, the excitements…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 4-6 of Flip Flappers. Content warning: dementia + rough family stuff with a side of questionable fanservice. This week, the show is firing on all cylinders with some heart-wrenching content, questions about the metaphysics of the Flip Flap world, discussions of art itself, a dive into the yuri ge…

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In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss the overall events and how we would 'improve' them regarding Monster. Thrill to hear people go "wait what" as they remember entire characters they forgot. Listen to all of us monday morning quarterback the writer who was doing three series in the process of putting the original work out! Get ready for a g…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 72-74 of Monster, and bring this season to a cl- WAIT, NO, ONE MORE COMING. This is just all sorts of frustration and disappointment bubbling over into a rather spirited discussion of how much this plane didn't land. Come for the ending of Monster, stay for full-on discussion of other anime, sitc…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 68-71 of Monster. It took Naoki Urasawa to ask the question we were all wanting answered as the final arc of Monster: "What if you gave everyone in Twin Peaks a gun and then turned season 2 into a married couple?" Oh, nobody was asking that? Too bad, we're stuck in it now. Support Us: Patreon Mor…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 63-67 of Monster. Content warnings: suicide, child abuse, and basically anything shy of “the holocaust” you can associate with nazis I'm going to be entirely real with you here: this episode was all but named "Eugenics Hypeman" before everyone said it was the worst possible thing we could associa…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 59-62 of Monster. Content Warning: suicide, incredibly dark sex scene This week brings us to the end of Martin the Mook's PI diversion, and reunites all the old lovers the story has given us. Even the pairs you forgot existed! Support Us: Patreon More Shows: Pitch Drop Network Support Boku No Sto…

In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 55-58 of Monster, and also world-famous singer Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray fame. Content Warning: suicide, parental abuse I don't think I need to reveal more than that, but we definitely went down some rabbit holes this time, folks. Support Us: Patreon More Shows: Pitch Drop Network Support Boku No…