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Best Seat on the Couch

Alex, Iris, Marcus, and Michael

A podcast where 4 close friends discuss their favorite animated movies and TV shows together. Come for the intelligent discourse, stay for the lighthearted humor, and follow for the hottest takes.

leisure animation & manga

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01:12:50

204 | Transformers One

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2025/10/14

Within the Transformers sphere, the last couple of decades have been owned by Michael Bay's live-action series of Transformers films which are certainly...films. But we don't talk about live-action films on this podcast! Instead, we're talking about 2024's Transformers One, a film that harks back to the G1 days from the 80's and soft reboots the franchise on the silver screen. It's got a star-studded voice cast led by Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry, absolutely gorgeous

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01:15:18

203 | Incredibles 2

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2025/10/07

You'd have to go aaaalllll the way back to Episode 8 of Best Seat on the Couch to catch our thoughts on Disney/Pixar's animated 2004 blockbuster The Incredibles, and after 14 long years of development, the sequel ended up being a commercial and critical success...but did it impress the four of us? Incredibles 2 ends up still being a pretty excellent and entertaining watch, but there are aspects of its story and its villain that feel recycled a bit, and for a film that rides on the success of

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01:03:27

202 | Jackie Chan Adventures

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2025/09/30

Two and a Half Asians returns to the Couch this week to talk about the legend Jackie Chan, the man who brought the Hong Kong action movie to Hollywood while also infusing a level of comedy yet unseen within that genre. This 2000-2005 childhood animated series pays homage to that style of film while adding excellent characters, well-choreographed action scenes, and a unique mystical element to the mythos of this fictional version of Jackie Chan. While it is firmly a Saturday Morning Cartoon™ and does

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01:12:23

201 | Moana

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2025/09/16

Maybe it's surprising that Moana hasn't popped up on the Couch until now, especially considering we've already talked about the more recent Encanto, but the gang agrees that it's a great way to kick off our post-200 slate of episodes with gorgeous and cutting-edge animation, excellent dual protagonists, a penchant for the mythology of the Pacific Islands, and Lin Manuel Miranda's well-crafted post-Hamilton soundtrack. Perhaps the fact that we've already discussed progenitor

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02:16:14

200 | Anniversary Episode: The 2nd Couchcast...

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2025/09/10

Nearly 3 years after recording our milestone 100th episode of Best Seat on the Couch, the gang returns for another round of patting ourselves on the back and laughing at our objectively hilarious jokes with another 100 episodes in the rear-view mirror. This second centennial caps off a much more streamlined podcast than our first, and the four of us agree that we've collectively leveled up our discussions, our analysis, and even our speaking skills as we've fully hit our stride in the

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01:02:03

199 | Love, Death & Robots (Season 4)

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2025/08/26

At long last, the gang arrives in the current day with 2025's fourth and most recent season of Love, Death & Robots ❤️❌🤖, and y'know, maybe it's gonna be the last one. After Marcus's near transcendent experience with season 3's finale Jibaro, for Tim Miller to immediately follow that up with Can't Stop...let me say this: at the very least, we're able to find 4 separate episodes to talk about as unique favorites in this 10-episode season. And the gang does have some

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01:14:25

198 | KPop Demon Hunters

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2025/08/19

In this episode, the gang (who collectively doesn't listen to k-pop) attempts to understand the nuances of ~i d o l c u l t u r e~ as we tackle 2025's KPop Demon Hunters, from the same Sony Animation Studios that brought us the Spider-Verse series and The Mitchells vs. the Machines. Perhaps the most notable aspect of this film is the music, which is currently charting over actual albums from actual musicians (not to say that TWICE ain't a real musical group), and with a number of us

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01:28:10

197 | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

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2025/07/29

As far as slice-of-life animes go, Frieren completely shatters the mold with a brand new premise in the fantasy-DnD-adjacent genre and a level of quality (in terms of adapting a manga) that really hasn't been matched before or since its 2023 release. With the eponymous main character experiencing the passage of time so differently than the peers of her past and of the present, it's incredible how well this show treats flashback scenes, the passage of time within the world and its evolution,

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01:15:23

196 | Hercules

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2025/07/29

Nestled at the tail end of the legendary series of films within the Disney Renaissance, Hercules is both a musical fantasy reimagining and kid-friendly family film that paints the traditional story of Heracles from Greek mythology in a brand new light. It's a bold film that cashes in on some of its bold choices (the Muses are such an excellent edition both tonally and musically) but perhaps encounters missteps on other choices (Zeus is decidedly not a standup dad). And we can't have a discussion

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01:27:00

195 | Love, Death & Robots (Seasons 2-3)

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2025/07/08

As promised in our discussion of Love, Death & Robots ❤️❌🤖 Season 1, the following two seasons received higher critical acclaim but needed to tweak the formula a bit, toning down the nudity and gore from the first season but also having to traverse the difficulties introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic. And while we all have our favorite episodes and notable stinkers like with Season 1, Marcus posits that Season 3 might possibly be the mythical anthology series season where every single episode

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01:08:12

194 | Turning Red

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2025/07/08

Disney/Pixar's slate of films in their "Disney+ streaming era" as it was post-COVID-19 pandemic, to put it shortly, might have been a bit forgettable: the gang has discussed Soul and certainly enjoyed its mellow vibe, but Onward got dumpstered in March 2020 and Luca appears to have completely fallen out of the cultural headspace. 2022's Turning Red, on the other hand, was actually a film brought to our April Fool's special episode that year, and now we get to seriously discuss

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01:41:48

193 | Digimon Adventure + Digimon: The Movie

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2025/06/17

While many kids our age orbited around Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh in the late 90's/early 2000's, a small subset of children—our host Alex included—built their childhood personas around Digimon, starting with 1999's Digimon Adventure and the strange "film" released a year later to cap off the series. And as Alex introduces the show and draws his line in the sand, he braces himself for a nearly relentless onslaught of criticism from the rest of the gang, Iris and Marcus especially. Now

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01:06:30

192 | The Mitchells vs. the Machines

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2025/06/17

This week on the Couch, the gang enshrines some well-received fan mail from the mythical Josh, who provided us with our topic for this discussion this episode, The Mitchells vs. the Machines. Released during the COVID-19 pandemic from a number of the same people who brought us Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, this film definitely feels like it was created in (and marketed around) the cultural sphere of the late 20teens/early 2020's, which is especially evident in the humor and the breakneck

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01:14:31

191 | Love, Death & Robots (Season 1)

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2025/06/03

Earlier this year, the gang discussed Tim Miller's Secret Level on Amazon Prime, an anthology series designed to highlight various animation studios' chops as they created short films centered around a variety of video games. But before Secret Level, Tim Miller fought through 11 years of development hell to create Love, Death & Robots ❤️❌🤖, an anthology series designed to highlight various animation studios' chops as they created short films centered around...a slightly more broad

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01:16:15

190 | The Secret World of Arrietty

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2025/05/27

Though not technically a Miyazaki film, the gang believes that 2010's Arrietty belongs in his pantheon of works with Studio Ghibli nestled in between Ponyo and The Wind Rises, with thematic and artistic similarities to Miyazaki's more carefree films like My Neighbor Totoro. It's a film that leans heavily on Ghibli's masterful work with scenery, colors, and the whimsy of Arrietty's mini-world, but falters somewhat without a strong main (human) character in Shō (or Shawn) or a

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02:17:59

189 | Attack on Titan (Season 4, Part 2 + The Final...

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2025/05/13

Alex, tapping into his memories of the future, assembles the gang one final time and masterfully MC's our discussion on this legendary anime series, Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan. While a couple of us had some doubts coming out of Season 4, Part 1 given its lack of Titan-on-Titan action, more slow-paced and methodical storytelling, and animation studio change, the show sticks its landing and has a couple of moments that feel powerful to the point of being genre-defining. Join us as Iris

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01:12:03

188 | Kung Fu Panda 3

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2025/05/06

Hot off the heels of our discussion on Kung Fu Panda 2, the gang comes to you with the final film in what may be Dreamworks Studios' finest animated trilogy...if you simply pretend 2024's Kung Fu Panda 4 doesn't exist. It's got multiple dads, several more pandas, another villain voiced by another banger voice actor (hi J.K. Simmons!), and yet another really solid character arc for Po which continues to blow us away considering that the name of this film is literally Kung Fu Panda

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01:03:17

187 | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

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2025/04/29

In a film that crosses two very distinct fandoms in a manner like oil and water, Kenji Kamiyama's War of the Rohirrim is the world's first Lord of the Rings content since Amazon's The Rings of Power and perhaps the only LotR media that truly puts a woman at the forefront of the action! That's nice. It also reimagines a story out of J.R.R. Tolkien's own work and feels like it fits very well—maybe too well, considering the callbacks to The Two Towers—in the existing live-action

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01:15:13

186 | Frozen

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2025/04/22

Once the highest-grossing animated film of all time and certainly a cultural phenomenon that revived Disney with a hefty almost "re-renaissance" as Michael puts it, 2013's Frozen is a trope-subverting musical-movie that had the entire world belting "LET IT GOOOOOOOO" in both appropriate and inappropriate social settings...so why did it take us 185 episodes to finally bring it to the couch? The movie is good, and has a pretty wild twist that was novel for its time, but it

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01:39:32

185 | Attack on Titan (Season 4, Part 1)

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2025/04/15

Fear not, dear listeners—we are almost at the finish line. Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan endures a little bit of a shakeup for Season 4, Part 1, with studio MAPPA replacing studio Wit on the animation front while a brand new cast of Marleyan characters take center stage as opposed to the familiar Eren, Armin, and Mikasa. This final season has impressively lofty thematic goals that are powerful and gripping, but definitely changes the vibe from the absolute PEAK high-action scouts-vs-titans

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