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2023 March Madness Update 1

🕑 Added 2023-03-20 16:18:41 +0000 UTC

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Matthew Levell

Plus how many of us are just completely ignorant of anime. I had never seen a Miyazaki before they covered him but I knew the names and designs pretty well for years before hand but I had straight up just never heard of Kon or any of his work before they started saying he was one of the most requested directors this year. It was a very odd but I’m excited to check out his stuff someday.

Susan Hill

Yeah that prediction did not track for me haha

Rad Rodge

I think this is a good bet, on a Blankie demography basis I was baffled to hear Kon described as a favorite

Susan Hill

Re: Kon losing, I don’t think you guys overestimated anime fans, but I do think you underestimated just how many people are absolutely, virulently 100% out on anime

Brynndiana Jones

Stephen Chow is MYYYY favorite person in the bracket! Griffin you get it 🥰

ryan mcgrath

All I could think about is a Mortal Engies ep with Emily Yoshida.

Brian Sweeney

It’s an annual college basketball tournament that occurs every year in March. The best* 64 teams face off, there are always great games and wild upsets, it’s a lot of fun even if you’re not a huge basketball fan.

HappyCroc

I posted this before they kind of discussed it in the episode. I'm not American, but I now gather it's a sports TV show and theme song. It was nice of them to anticipate my question in the podcast.

Joshua Ochoa

Hellraiser has too much Ben juice

Joshua Ochoa

Some people don’t sport (me, I don’t sport)

Donald W Pratt

I wish this had come out before the Leone vote so I could wrangle the sadist crowd into voting to force them to do him.

Hunter Steffes

Can’t believe people can listen to this episode and not immediately switch their vote to Jelly

Jason Feffer

Wow, you guys were just not correct when it came to Jelly and Jackson going the distance. It’s a real shame though. They were my 2 favorites!

Matthew O'Reilly

Dost thou jest?

Bob Lemmon

One animator a year

Chris Dobson

Even if Kon doesn't win the whole thing, he's so short you should throw him in between longer minis anyway. Ghibli never clicked for me, but I adore every one of his movies and it stinks there's so little of it!