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Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA

A podcast where Jared Clemons and Dr. Anne Ladyem McDivitt discuss their thoughts on video games, anime, and manga.

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00:59:17

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #431 - Trails of...

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2025/03/29

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) get mad as our annual March Madness tradition returns with a bracket full of playable characters from the Trails games. Who will survive to the end and be seen as the best of the best?If you’d like to fill out your own bracket, you can do so by clicking this link!

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00:48:37

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #430 - Never 7:...

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2025/03/22

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take it back to the year 2000 to see what a Kotaro Uchikoshi game is like before he made the Zero Escape trilogy and the Somnium games. Unsurprisingly, there’s sci-fi and a lot of discussions about Schrödinger’s Cat.

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00:55:26

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #429 - Like A...

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2025/03/15

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Yakuza/Like A Dragon to see what’s going on with Majima and why he’s become a pirate. We discuss the new gameplay elements, how this game is similar to The Man Who Erased His Name, and where the series will go next.Apologies for Jared’s audio being a bit funky this week. Hopefully we’ll have that fixed soon.

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01:02:37

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA #428 - Fantasian: Neo...

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2025/03/08

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out what’s up with the latest game from Hironobu Sakaguchi and how the expanded version of the game reunited Sakaguchi and Square Enix for the first time in over twenty years, thanks in large part to a video game called Final Fantasy XIV.

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01:29:15

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #427 - Genso Manège

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2025/03/01

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of otome to see what happens when you get stuck in an amusement park where if you leave you could die.

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01:05:44

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #426 - Ace...

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2025/02/22

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) look at two different Ace Attorney games that have finally been bundled together. AL breaks down both games to see if they’re still worth playing and if the second was worth the wait for it to come out officially in English.

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00:32:18

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #425 - Sony State...

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2025/02/15

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss everything announced at Sony’s first State of Play of the year.

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00:44:27

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #424 - Love Live!...

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2025/02/08

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) begin the Nijigasaki movie trilogy to see what’s up with the School Idol GPX, new combinations of the girls together, and a new suspicious mom has shown up.

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00:33:37

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #423 - Ranking...

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2025/02/01

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the concept we started last week as this time, we rank AL’s past eight games of the year. There’s only two games that are shared between her list and Jared’s so it’ll be a different set of games this time around.

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00:38:44

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #422 - Ranking Ten...

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2025/01/25

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at the past ten years of Seasonal Anime Checkup Game of the Year and see which game is the best game of the past decade.

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00:25:48

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #421 - Love Live!...

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2025/01/18

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) check out the television adaptation of the Love Live! School Idol Musical stage play. We discuss where we think some of the differences are as we haven’t seen the stage play, how the series was overall in its six-episode run, and how it’s a prequel to the entire Love Live! series.

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01:25:56

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #420 - 9 R.I.P.

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2025/01/11

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) discuss another otome from last year that AL got to date dead dudes, really enjoyed, and managed to be pretty high on the Ranking of Otome.

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01:13:22

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #419 - Metaphor:...

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2025/01/04

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) kick off the new year by taking a look at AL’s Game of the Year in Metaphor: ReFantazio. We see what’s up with Atlus’ new JRPG, whether or not it continues the studio’s problematic elements found in previous games, and why it feels like a natural evolution from the Persona series.

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01:24:25

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #418 - 2024 Game...

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2024/12/28

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) end the year by taking a look back at their favorite games of 2024. We go through out supplemental awards, induct a new entry into the Seasonal Anime Checkup Hall of Fame, and countdown our top ten games of the year.You can read AL’s write up here and my write up here.

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00:30:25

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #417 - Love Live!...

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2024/12/21

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at some Love Live! holiday episodes with “Melody of the Heart” from Love Live! school idol project and “Awaken the power” from Love Live! Sunshine!!.

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01:01:51

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #416 - 2025 Preview

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2024/12/14

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) take a look at video games and anime that’ll be coming out next year and beyond.

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00:38:25

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #415 - WWE 2K24...

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2024/12/07

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) chit chat about two games they talked about recently. Jared discusses the story mode of the recent WWE 2K game. AL rants about Mario & Luigi: Brothership and why it made her mad.

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00:44:15

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode 414 - Tears of Themis

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2024/11/30

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) go mobile with their otome this time as we dive into Tears of Themis and see how this mobile otome stacks up with others in the genre.

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01:19:25

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #413 - The Legend...

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2024/11/23

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Trails for a new story arc in the 11th game of the series. We talk about the new characters, new story, and how we feel about this opening to the Calvard story.

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00:45:18

Seasonal Anime Checkup OVA Episode #412 - Life Is...

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2024/11/16

Jared and Anne Ladyem (anneladyem.com) return to the world of Life Is Strange to see what’s up with Max Caulfield as she’s had to navigate the aftermath of the first game and all the trauma associated with that.

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