It’s probably the most important exercise we’ve ever attempted on the podcast, finding the most cursed animation character! We debate and grade the cursed-ness of these cursed heavyweights: Hooty (The Owl House), Scratch (The Ghost and Molly McGee), Swift Wind (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), KVN (Final Space), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Lemongrab (Adventure Time), Dave (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts), Woodman (Hilda), Pig Baby (Infinity Train), Glossaryck (Star vs. the Forces of Evil), Kyubey (Madoka Magica), Scrappy Doo, Onion & Ronaldo (Steven Universe), Jerry (Rick and Morty).

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & Aly Martin.

See the final grades here (SPOILERS!) https://www.overlyanimated.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/CursedFinalGrades.png

The Owl House is back and we talk all about Season 2’s first two episodes “Separate Tides” & “Escaping Expulsion” after going through a bunch of recent shows & movies that we’ve been watching lately.

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Beatriz Mourad, Sarah Dolman, Alex Bonilla, & April Collins.

Timestamps for the podcast:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 1:15 – Amphibia “True Colors”
• 5:20 – Final Space Season 3
• 12:15 – Together Again – Adventure Time Distant Lands
• 14:30 – Craig of the Creek Week of 6/7 Episodes
• 16:20 – Tuca & Bertie Season 2 Premiere
• 20:15 – Castlevania Season 4
• 23:15 – Love, Death + Robots Season 2
• 26:30 – The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• 28:10 – Wish Dragon
• 29:20 – Fruits Basket Season 3
• 31:20 – Owl House “Separate Tides” & “Escaping Expulsion” Discussion Starts
• 40:00 – Lumity Discussion
• 1:09:00 – The Golden Guard
• 1:18:00 – Odalia & Alador Blight
• 1:36:40 – Luz
• 1:42:00 – Eda & Lilith
• 1:56:45 – Owl House News
• 2:01:40 – Future Episodes/Trailer Breakdown

We talk all about our reactions and thoughts to Book 4 of Infinity Train after diving into a bunch of recent animated releases we’ve been checking out.

Hosts this week: Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, & Alex Bonilla.

Timestamps for the podcast:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 2:10 – Final Space S3 E1-5
• 7:05 – Amphibia S2 E13-18 
• 15:35 – Invincible Ep1-6
• 24:25 – Solar Opposites S2
• 27:40 – Promised Neverland S2
• 30:30 – DOTA: Dragon’s Blood
• 32:15 – Arlo the Alligator Boy
• 38:15 – RWBY V8 last 3 eps
• 39:35 – Infinity Train Book 4 Review

Happy New Year everyone! After years of moving forward with a similar format, we’re switching things up for the podcast.

The headline is: We’re going to stop doing episode recap podcasts, and we’re going to focus on more high-level discussions.

The immediate change you’ll see is no episode recap podcasts which will result in less podcasts. However, we’ll still be covering the same shows, the podcast will still generally be similar, we’ll just be structuring our discussions in different ways. We think this new structure will result in more interesting discussions, and we’ll be better equipped to cover shows with a wide variety of release formats.

Here are the types of podcasts you’ll see instead of episode recaps:

• Season recaps! We’ll still be discussing seasons as a whole when a show we cover wraps up its season. So you’ll see an Infinity Train Season 2 recap podcast but not nightly podcasts this week. When the next season of She-Ra drops we’ll have a podcast on the whole season soon after it comes out like normal (but no proceeding episode recaps).
• Podcasts at regular intervals for certain shows: This is the replacement model for episode recaps for weekly shows (or others) we still want to talk about regularly while they’re airing. We won’t discuss all the shows we cover on a regular basis, but in the short term look out for Miraculous Ladybug every-other-week podcasts starting sometime in the next two months, and Owl House podcasts monthly (after we do a special podcast for the premiere this weekend). These will be high-level discussions on anything about the show. If there are episodes to talk about we’ll talk about them generally, but we can also talk about general topics surrounding the show or any news about the show.
• Show-specific topics: If something is on our mind about a show, even if we’re not podcasting on it regularly, we might do a podcast to discuss a specific topic whenever! Likely something we’re passionate about like Bumbleby with RWBY.
• Cross-show or movie topics: This is the one we’re most excited about and hope to do a lot more: A trend in the industry, a trend in a social issue (we definitely want to do queer rep topics more than once a year), or some theme we notice across a few shows. This could really be anything involving animation.

Some exceptions to no more episode recaps: First, we still could do one if there’s an episode we’re super excited to talk about! Also, Steven Universe Future may or may not continue with episode recaps until its completion (if not we’d have every-other-week podcasts when it comes back). We’ll finish out Volume 7 recaps for RWBY since it’s almost over. We may finish out the She-Ra S4 recaps we almost finished. And we can still do pods on a single movie, whether it’s recently released or not!

We’re excited to continue to talk about a lot of awesome animated shows and movies in a format we think will work better. As always reach out with any feedback you have on the podcast!

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, April Collins, & Alex Bonilla recap the epic Final Space Season 2 finale, “The Sixth Key”.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, April Collins, & Alex Bonilla recap the penultimate episode of Final Space Season 2, “Descent into Darkness”.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, Alex Bonilla, & Sarah Potter recap Episode 11 of Final Space Season 2, “The Set Up”.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, April Collins, & Alex Bonilla recap Episode 10 of Season 2 of Final Space, “The Lost Spy”.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, April Collins, & Alex Bonilla recap the 9th Episode of Season 2 of Final Space, “The Closer You Get”.

Alex Bonilla, Michelle Anderer and April Collins recap the latest episode of Final Space, “The Remembered”.

Dylan Hysen, Michelle Anderer, April Collins, & Alex Bonilla recap Episode 7 of Season 2 of Final Space, “The First Times They Met”!