#935 - Weeb Week Returns to Japan! Japanese Games, Anime Movies & TV shows, and Manga News! Monster Hunter Clones, Maid Cafes, and the Mandela Effect on Gaming?

Video Game Outsiders

Pickaxe

Leisure, News, Tech News, Games, Video Games

4.1 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Monster Hunter type games: God Eater 3, Freedom Wars Remastered, and Toukiden II. Plus Unbeatable, and Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is an ARPG?!?! Anime: Insomniacs After School, Maid-Sama!, Dan Da Dan's missing his member, Gachiakuta's garbage people, and more! Where is Highguard, Sony AI Patent will play games for you, Hello Kitty soda, and the Mandela Effect. Support us and get weekly bonus shows, the 20 year VGO back catalog, and ad free VGO eps on http://videogameoutsiders.supercast.com/ and listen in the player of YOUR choice like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more! Head to our Discord on https://discord.gg/Ab6pxpT to chat, support, or win games weekly from Loaded.com. For show notes and more info visit videogameoutsiders.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pickax.
0:05.8	Five, four, three, two, live from Tokyo, Michelle.
0:12.6	Hello, everybody.
0:13.3	Welcome to episode 935 of the Video Game Outsiders podcast.
0:16.9	I'm on your host, Michelle Madison.
0:18.5	And I, of course, am your John Jacobson and Michelle. This is it. This is it. We get to do a show without Ryan for once, right? Just you and I? What's going on with that guy? No, he'll be back next week. Ryan's got a couple of shows off for the next couple of months. But who are you? Did you introduce yourself? I did, yeah. Oh, okay. Well, John, tonight we're doing a Weeb-themed episode.
0:40.9	Like, we're going to talk about games, though.
0:43.0	It's not just like anime stuff, okay?
0:44.6	It's games from Japan or...
0:47.7	And shows that we watched.
0:49.7	Well, yeah, I said it's not just shows in anime.
0:51.5	So it's still a regular video.
0:52.9	We've got news.
0:53.6	We've got...
0:53.7	Anime, manga. We got some Japanese gaming news and maybe we talk about some whatever. We do these shows mostly as a bonus show, right? Yeah, we've been doing them as bonus shows, but like we still have done ones in the past. People love them. People like them. They always get more place for every reason. And it's also fun for us to do.
1:11.5	So if you're wondering why we're doing it, it's fun for us to do.
1:13.4	And also make sure you guys do like a crunchy roll trial if you're going to like follow
1:16.9	along with us here.
1:17.6	Because I think most of our stuff is there. And it's going to be coming up. because we get people asking us, John, when we mention it,
1:22.0	they're like, what's crunchy role?
1:23.6	Because to our listeners,
1:24.7	the enemy is still very niche.
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