The forbidden book has been opened and the umpire's eyes are glowing red. That's right, it's time to play ball! Former Crunchyroll host Elliot Trinidad (@nameoftheyear) and game designer Cassandra Lugo (@prophet_goddess) join Evan to plodcast the surrealist virtual splorts betting game-slash-collaborative metafiction project Blaseball. Plus a bunch of Nintendo and anime news, entirely too much Gundam talk for a podcast without Pat on it, and Pathologic 2! Topics include: Zelda battle royale games, dropping an asteroid on the Earth is good actually, and flootball.

Show Notes

• Opening/Ending Song: “Blues Machine” by Scott Gratton
• Episode Edited by: Patrick Sutton
• The News
• Crunchyroll is producing a Shenmue anime adaptation.
• Nintendo is releasing a Breath of the Wild prequel, but unfortunately it’s another Hyrule Warriors.
• A bunch of Mario news, including: Super Mario 3D All Stars, a collection of 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy with a weird limited release window; Super Mario Bros. 35, a Tetris 99-esque battle royale game (also limited availability); and a Switch re-release of Super Mario 3D World.
• RightStuf is releasing a fancy Blu-ray box set for The Irresponsible Captain Tylor with a confusing, Kickstarter-style pre-order scheme.
• The Queue
• Cass is playing Pathologic 2.
• Elliot is watching through all of Universal Century Gundam. We talked about Victory, Zeta, Double Zeta, and Char’s Counterattack.
• Evan is watching Gundam Unicorn.
• The Review: Blaseball
• Name drops: The Commissioner, Thomas Dracaena, Wyatt Mason, Nagomi Mcdaniel.
• Twitter: Evan, Elliot, Cass, Ani-Gamers
• Mastodon: Evan, Cass
• Elliot is a Blaseball Historian (check out the wiki), and Groundskeeper for the Blaseball community Discord. Check out the Crunchyroll Anime Academy video he hosted (written by Evan): Basics of Motion.
• Cass makes video games and co-hosts the Anime Is for Jerks podcast.
• Evan writes for Otaku USA Magazine and Anime News Network.
• Evan sometimes updates his side blog Anime Burger Time.