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Anime World Order Show # 245 – If Sylia Stingray Can Destroy Evil Boomers, What’s Stopping Victoria’s Secret

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As the Fall 2025 anime season approaches, we talk about our favorites of Summer 2025 before Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, the 3-part sequel to Bubblegum Crisis which we reviewed roughly 17 years ago.

Introduction (0:00 – 50:50)
We start off by reading an email from a listener who watched Aim for the Top! Gunbuster for the first time as a result of our review from…wait, two years ago?! Incidentally, Discotek’s license for Gunbuster is about to expire, so buy the Blu-Ray now while it’s still available if you haven’t already done so. We mull over the possiblity of setting up some ranked choice polling for listeners to weigh in with their seasonal Top 3, revisiting past titles from the earliest days of the podcast, doing separate YouTube-friendly edits of the reviews, and getting some new merchandise made. The latter is derailed by the same thing that’s derailing more or less every pop culture hobby pursuit in the United States: the elimination of the de minimis exception.

With the Fall 2025 anime season upon us, we’ll be doing a trailer watch-along on 09/27/2025 at 3:00 PM on our Discord. There’s no way to record these to VOD for later viewing, so join us if you can. Hopefully, we didn’t screw up our server boosts and the Discord Stage still has enough slots for everyone. Hopefully also there’s no outlandishness with Discord’s servers the way there was during Otakon. Due to our con reports for Otakon, AFO, and such we never did get to weigh in on the Summer 2025 anime season, so we do so here. Marvel at how few of the most popular titles of the season we saw any of at all! We’ll be sure to add them to the backlog…

Review: Bubblegum Crash! (50:50 – 2:03:06)
After some required convincing of Daryl and Clarissa, Gerald reviews Bubblegum Crash!, which has never exactly held the most sterling of reputations among anime fans. Considering the last time we talked about anything related to Bubblegum Crisis was 15 years ago when we reviewed the AD Police Files OAV, it seems the time was right especially when one considers AnimEigo’s recent release of the series on Blu-Ray. If you order directly from the MediaOCD store, they throw in a slipcover! Remember: only deranged lunatics throw away the slipcover when they buy something on home video!

The opening to Bubblegum Crash! is the closest it gets to feeling like Bubblegum Crisis.
For the record, this upgrade to Nene’s hardsuit precedes Tekkaman Blade
It made sense in the AD Police Files prequel, but Boomers looking like obvious robots is weird here. Look, we get that you made this after doing AD Police Files but still
In the grim darkness of the cyberpunk future, copaganda reigns unchecked. Imagine if the real world were like–oh wait
The Turbografx 16 game has an English language patch. But how crazy would it be for such heavily funded and militarized police forces to do nothing in the face of danger–oh wait
As was the style at the time, all of the English readouts consist of random oddities.
Sylia Stingray doesn’t have much to do in Crash!, but at least she still looks good doing it
In 2025, it’s quite likely that more ladies are into Priss than gentlemen
I often think the exact same thing
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Anime World Order Show # 244 – The Seiun Award Lost All Credibility and Prestige in 1999

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Malady and illness caused us to miss last month, but Gerald attended Otakon 2025 and Daryl reviews what he considers a landmark of “post-Evangelion TV anime,” the mecha comedy-drama Martian Successor Nadesico. And also…the movie. But also the Gekiganger 3 OVA.

Introduction (0:00 – 1:14:13)
Gerald was the only one among us well enough to attend Otakon 2025, so he offers this report of a convention attended by roughly 43,000 people. That’s slightly down compared to the previous year, for reasons which we speculate upon. Here are some of the photos Gerald took:

It truly is a Laid Back Camp
The Latin American anime dub panel, run by a suitably costumed host
One part of the Anime Home Video Museum. Be kind, rewind
The highly-coveted Daicon LD, justifiably kept under lock and key
The use of generative AI by anime convention panelists is something cons need to take a stand against. This Princess Ai panel will be done at the virtual Anime Lockdown con in a week or so
Ginguiser is one ugly robot
The live drawing of Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt done at the Trigger panel
They did this one too
This itasha’s theme was perhaps not as focused as what people usually do
Cosplayers for K-Pop Demon Hunters–which as of today is the most-viewed title on Netflix of all time–was prominent at Otakon despite only having come out a few weeks prior

We wrap things up by talking about the Animeigo and Discotek anime licenses that were announced.

Review: Martian Successor Nadesico (1:14:13 – 2:39:31)
After showing the Christmas episode to the group last December, Daryl now revisits this mecha dramedy series from 1996, which he first saw via VHS fansubs at his local anime club. Those were fansubbed off of laserdiscs, such that each disc opened with a different Japanese voice cast member introducing themselves, then after two episodes they’d pop in to ask you to turn your laserdisc over now to continue watching. These segments don’t seem to ever be included on any new Nadesico release “because you’re not watching on laserdisc” or whatever goofy reason abounds. In any case, we watched the entire Nadesico TV series, along with the movie Prince of Darkness and the OVA Gekiganger 3. This results in a wild rollercoaster of quality and reaction, much like Nadesico itself. You can watch Nadesico TV for free on RetroCrush, though it’s only the English dub of the TV series which is listed as “Season 2” when there is no “Season 1” that would presumably be the Japanese subtitled version which we watched.

An autographed illustration of Ruri by Kia Asamiya. There are fans of Nadesico, and there are fans of Ruri. The latter seems to exceed the former.