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Underserved

Season 3 Bonus Episode: ANIME! Part 1

Underserved

Andrew Gelina

Society & Culture, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

I was among many folks in Massachusetts who grew up watching Force 5, Star Blazers, and other animated shows from Japan (aka anime). In this bonus episode of Underserved, I talk with Art Sousa, a lifelong friend with a shared nostalgia for these giant fighting robot serials. I then speak with Robert "Swifty" Swift aka Nixon, who takes us much further down the anime rabbit hole to show us how the genre is "as big as all outdoors" and is rapidly going mainstream on Netflix and Hulu.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Hello and welcome to this special bonus edition of Underserve, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. I'm your host Andrew

0:24.2

Jelina. With me in studio today is my friend of 38 years Art Susa. Art,

0:30.9

welcome to the show. Andrew it's great to be here even after 38 years.

0:35.0

Well, thank you for coming out and thank you for bringing that party-sized pizza from Family Pizza in Westfield.

0:42.0

That's two party-sized pizzas from Family Pizza and Westfield. That's two party size pizzas from Family Pizza,

0:45.0

which are almost nothing now.

0:47.0

Those are Dunzo.

0:48.0

So, way back in the day, you were one of the few people that had cable,

0:52.0

and we used to watch creature

0:53.9

double feature and Godzilla movies and stuff on the weekends but then we developed a

0:59.0

ritual every day at 330 watching Force Five.

1:03.4

What do you think it was about that that we just

1:05.8

were absolutely magnetized?

1:08.2

It was available and it was the first option from

1:10.6

I think it was a Boston station where we saw Force Five in these robots

1:15.1

before most of the available shows involved superheroes so this was a whole new

1:20.6

paradigm and so for folks that have never seen this or didn't grow up in New England, Virginia,

1:26.7

Northern California, and a handful of other markets that had this, Force Five was a show.

1:32.0

It was originally in Japan.

1:33.7

There were five different shows all basically about

1:36.6

outer space heroes and usually giant robots fighting one another.

1:40.9

There's a different one each day of the week. Our favorites were Thursdays and Fridays,

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