The Protagonist Seat Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ian and Alex
Join hosts Alex and Ian as they bring you all the anime and otaku culture news right from the comfort of their dumpster! (Fire may or may not be included)
We're back, and with a new show! Alex and Ian return to podcasting to bring you all more anime content. This time around they'll choose a show to watch the first three episodes of and determine if it's good enough to continue watching, or deserves to be left by the wayside. On the pilot episode, the lads discuss Spy X Family with a few brief forays into topics like plagiarizing Hunter X Hunter and comparing themselves to Colonel Sanders.
This week the guys get some answers for Sonny Boy (not nearly enough), watch a woman give birth in Aquatope, and Alex gets scolded for not being up to date on Iruma.
It's the start of a brand new season this week as the guys dive into a whole new season of shows! They even like most of them for once! What a novel idea!
It's that time once again! Everyone's favorite garbage warlocks look back at the Spring time highs and lows to dish out some well-deserved awards. Who was the Best Protagonist? Who will win AOTS? Can the guys stay on track for more than five minutes at a time? Tune in to find out!
On another lunch-sized episode of TPS, the season is wrapping up and the guys finish the last three shows (kinda) before getting ready to have the Seasonal Awards ceremony.
On this episode we learn a shocking truth about Ian, Higehiro haunts us with its crippling mediocrity, and Alex tries to make sense out of Zombieland Saga's ending.
On this week's episode: Ian talks about one of his favorite movies, the guys start a new business venture, and Alex outs the US government for losing a nuke.
On this episode of The Protagonist Seat, the guys discuss the similarities between elephants and cyclopes, fawn over the croniest of cronies, and get shocked by the crazy prophecies in Zombieland Saga.
This week the guys celebrate an excellent lineup of episodes! Well, except for Higehiro...
In a more streamlined episode of the Protagonist Seat the guys talk about a much better Suicide Squad, create a new form of martial arts using bear traps, and discuss the best way to shut down David Cage.
On this week's episode, the guys lament the loss of manga industry titan and mangaka for Berserk Kentaro Miura before getting up to their usual antics.
On yet another episode of The Protagonist Seat our favorite fellas talk about the infectious nature of Battlefield Earth, boat racing super moves, and the fact that we don't have a wiki yet.
On this episode of The Protagonist Seat the guys talk at length about Resident Evil, zombie robot brains, and Shakespearean comedies.
This week on TPSP the guys talk about their kung fu superhero identities, phony corporate PR statements, and the stresses of retail.
On this week's episode the guys talk about ways to circumvent the rise of SKYNET, Shadow the Hedgehog, and the greatest era: the early 2000's.
On an all new season of The Protagonist Seat everyone's favorite lads cover a whole new (kinda) selection of shows and discuss some not-so-subtle racial undertones, relationships in literature, and the best possible way to ride on a car.
Another season wraps up and the lads dole out awards for the best of the best (well, of the shows that they watched). Tune in to see who they deem the best boi, girl, and what their choice for the ANIME OF THE SEASON is!
THERE'S AUDIO ISSUES AGAIN I'M SORRY I DON'T KNOW WHY!! Ahem Anyway...
This week, Everyone's favorite garbage warlocks discuss yuri manga, Neil Breen, and Ian tries to edit around audio issues (again).
On this week's episode, the guys talk about their favorite games of all time, why a stick doesn't beat fists, and the ultimate battle strategy.
On a VERY NORMAL episode of TPSP this week the guys summon Bloody Mary so they can brush their teeth, propose the next Ghost Stories-style dub, and discuss the melee weapon triad.
This week on The Protagonist Seat the guys discuss Kingdom Hearts, the expressiveness of puppets, and how quickly a crossbow would end the Stone Wars.
This week our favorite fellas victimize spiders, discuss the utility of farming equipment in other dimensions, and rip on the winners of the Anime Awards.
This week the fellas discuss a new generation of Hololive, their disappointments with this season, and the most American Japanese cop ever.
This week the guys gush over Power Rangers some more, discuss character assassination, and Alex introduces a new segment.
This week on TPSP the boiz talk about disposable marines, WoW PvP, and the history of war.
This week our favorite fellas discuss AI Dungeon, Bloodborne (again), and the offensive benefits of belts.
This week the Boiz talk about Twitch culture, make EX-ARM rewrites, and reminisce about the Power Rangers.
This week the guys dump on the Makarov, lose their minds over EX-ARM, and discuss the flaws of Tsukasa's plan.
On this episode, the guys talk about the dangers of nostalgia, spoil Jun Maeda's works, and discuss the intricacies of the Japanese language.
This week the guys pick a fight with Walt Disney, discuss alternate versions of themselves, and perform creative idea theft.
This week the guys discuss human anatomy, corporal punishment, and Ian tries desperately to save the audio from the corrupting forces of Skype.
This week the guys come up with a plan to save America's malls, discuss what it means to be human, and a surprising character gets development.
This week everyone's favorite garbage warlocks discuss Jason Bourne, time travel, and the failings of the US educational system.
This week the guys discuss taking down the shogunate, emotional nut punches, and do Tim Curry impressions.
This week the Boiz discuss sick motorcycle stunts, tragic sneaker flashbacks, and Keichi's complete inability to lie.
We get another solo Ian week this time as he struggles to coherently recount the lineup while evading the TPSP's worst enemy: Jason Voorhees!
This week we try to figure out who all of Riri's classmates are, visit NOT Hogwarts, and discuss everyone's favorite crime family.
This week we bring up the crusades a lot for some reason and Alex uses the last portion of the show to give an Umineko sales pitch.
This week being kind turns out to be the worst thing you can do, girls love can defeat anything, and we pick up Higurashi not caring that its a sequel.
The Fall 2020 season comes in hard with super criminals, witches, lesbian high school soldiers, and God.
It's that special time once again where we recount out favorite (and not so favorite) moments of the season, and dish out awards to those deserving of our praise!
In this final week of the Summer 2020 season The God of High School stumbles towards a finally, Anos does not die if he is killed, and Sapphee got back!
This week the new girl in Rent a Girlfriend is pretty cute, Joker is solidified as one of the coolest Fire Force characters, and The Misfit of Demon King Academy finally has a bad episode but at least we found out who Avos really was.
This week we somehow enjoyed Rent a Girlfriend, discuss our problems with The God of High School, and simp for Anos in The Misfit of Demon King Academy.
In a special episode our friend Joe from the Imouri team joins us to talk about the Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown movie!
Mira gets her stand in God of High School this week, Glenn fondles a tumor in Monster Girl Doctor, and Humans are just the worst in The Misfit of Demon King Academy.
This week we find out how down Ian is with various monster girls, theory craft about Anos, and discuss just how low Kazuya can go.
This week we rant about martial arts, discuss why Glenn should date the snake, and why a character's backstory shouldn't be shoved into the credit sequence.
This week it's just Ian desperately holding down the fort until he can successfully raise Alex back from the dead. In the meantime, he rants about Rental Girlfriend, reveals that he's NOT down with spider girls, and gets wicked mad when Best Anime Mom is in danger.
This week we talk about how they don't make enough kung-fu movies anymore, visit a cat cafe with the best girl, and Dr. Glenn shows us that BDSM is apparently the key to good mental health.
On this episode we learn where Ian records, the true key to winning a fight, and REALLY hope that we finish fighting Charon soon.
This week The God of High School gives us what we want and goes straight to the action, we're 50/50 on if its okay to get with a flesh golem, we're pretty sure Inca is going to end up joining the bad guys, and it turns out the concept of time is irrelevant to Anos.
This week we get lost in the sauce trying to figure out how snake girl clothing works, wonder why everyone in Seoul has red ears, and question if simps are the next evolution of humanity.
We're back at it again on that sweet seasonal grind and we've got 5 shows that... well, we may have struggled to pick. It's been hard times for anime this year, but we'll always work our hardest to bring out the gems!
This week we focus on (drum roll please)... Mobile Games! Specifically two of our personal favorites, Arknights and Fate: Grand Order.
This week on TPSP it's all about our thoughts on visual novel backgrounds and fighting games.
This week we spend a lot of time discussing one of our favorite games of the year: Code Vein!
This week we discuss some of our favorites when it comes to gory anime, as well as some future projects and subscriber incentives.
This week we talk about Fire Emblem. Like, a lot. At least we're on topic for once though, right?
This week the bois get slightly sidetracked and may or may not talk about orcs for 20 minutes.
This week: we discuss set decorations, an anime that Alex barely remembers, and our ideas for the next season of football anime. Also, more random rambling because of the news drought.
This week we've got a new format, new intro, and basically no new news content to cover since everything is cancelled. How will we manage? Very poorly...
Intro by Popskyy
Once again we find ourselves saying goodbye to another season. Join everyone's favorite garbage warlocks once again as they dole out the most coveted awards in anime. Who will sit in the protagonist seat this season? Join us and find out!
Also, tune in for an important announcement about a change to the podcast coming next season.
We spend a lot of time talking about Assassins Creed, a franchise neither of us are that into. Also some anime ended too I guess.
This week we bid adieu to Fate: Grand Order and Darwin's game while the rest of our shows set up for their own finales.
A quarantine might be in effect, but that didn't stop our bois from sneaking out and watching anime together! Come stave of stir-craziness for one more night with them as they round up another week in anime.
This week Iruma comes to an end, Yasu works on his solo career, and Maple's guild stomps in guild wars.
This week, Ian is away getting way too intoxicated at PAX East so it's up to Alex to hold down the fort. Can he do it? Or will he fold under the pressure?
This week we the thing we totally predicted would happen to the florist happens, we discuss what missing an eye is probably like, and curling is probably not accurately represented.
This week: the awards ceremony jebaits us, we learn just how useless pandas are, and the main couple in Darwin's Game finally kiss.
This week: best child Somali gets sick, we learn that catching steel beams is harder than it looks, and New World Online jumps on the Pokemon ripoff train.
On this episode, we learn about the most angsty musical bois, a lot of ghost stuff happens, and we reminisce about the best anime: Spongebob
On this episode we learn that Darwin's Game was PUBG after all, New World Online desperately needs patching, and sloths lead surprisingly dangerous lives.
It's time to jump into another season! Bundle up around the fireplace with your favorite kouhai or waifu and join the bois as they delve into a (mostly) new lineup of shows for the Winter season of anime.
It's time once again to take a look back at the season and dole out some tasty, tasty awards! Who wins Best Girl? Which ED did we give the highest possible honor to? Which show did we decide was the ANIME OF THE SEASON?? Tune in to find out!
This week: we get some inconclusive endings, demons are scary, and dragons search for nukes.
This week: Iruma meets a demon just like him, the high school harem get's introduced to the true MC, and Mile dies again.
This week: we bid adieu to Dr. Stone (for now!), we learn about Mile's boundary issues, and salarymen start to wear down on us just a bit.
This week: we learn that Arthur can actually be cool sometimes, demon dodgeball gets pretty serious, and we see if Reina can fly.
Spoiler Alert She can't.
This week on The Protagonist Seat our best bois learn that the real treasure WAS actually friendship, useless goddesses can be bought as long as you throw gems at them, and that cyborg fights are rad as hell.
We got double the trouble this week! Since we were away at Anime NYC we missed a whole week of shows, so join us as we desperately try to catch up on all our stories in a timely manner.
This time we've got a very special edition of TPS where we talk about our thoughts on the premiers for Fragtime, In/Spectre, and Somali and the Forest Spirit that we saw at the Anime NYC convention.
This week on The Protagonist Seat: Cosmos comes back from behind, Mavis reveals her tragic backstory, and Iruma's secret is in danger!
This week, our boys learn that samurai swords are scary to cavemen, salarymen make bad mascots, and that Bench-kun is truly the recurring villain!
This week on The Protagonist Seat: Mile manages to turn her friends into fellow otaku, Iruma is introduced to the B-listers, and someone finds themselves expelled from class!
This week, our favorite Garbage Warlocks discuss a most wholesome father, Mesopotamian slice of life, and joining team Pansy.
It's a new season, and that means a new lineup (except the two hold overs) for our best bois! Enjoy as we play catch-up with everything that's come out while we were giving out awards for last season. I know, that's soooooo Summer 2019 right?
Another season down, and our best bois need to make the truly important decisions. Who is the Best Girl? Who's the Best Boi?
Who will sit in the protagonist seat this season?
And most importantly: What is the anime of the season?
Tune in to find out!
Alex and Ian dive once again into the dumpster fire that is seasonal anime and dole out some tasty, tasty awards. Which show wins Anime of the Season? Is Chika best boi? Who will sit in the protagonist seat this year? Tune in to find out! Also featured: a touching In Memoriam segment for the shows that were cut this season.
The Winter season has wrapped up, and your good friends Alex and Ian are here once again to dole out some tasty, tasty awards. Who will sit in this year's protagonist seat? What is their pick for anime of the season? Will Steven Seagal be mentioned for any reason? Listen in to find out.
The Fall 2018 season of anime is over, and now it's time to gather from our dumpsters and voice our opinions! Who will sit in the protagonist's seat? Who will be sent to the Principal's office? Listen in to find out.