Kenya Bradford lost about five thousand comics in Hurricane Katrina and turned a bedtime story he told his kids into a universe. Now he runs Pryceless Comics, and BloodBlade: DragonBlood launches January 2027.

Due to unfortunate circumstances on our end, Kenya’s video feed did not record, but the full conversation is here and you can still listen to all of it.

He gets honest about cancelling a Kickstarter that missed its target and why audience comes before crowdfunding, running a business with his wife and kids, a villain who conquered the world out of boredom, and his rule about making you love a character before he kills them. Plus Static and why Jaden Smith is not him, a full Legend of Korra defense, a ranking of fictional dads, and a game called Ride or Slay.

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D’Marcus is back from two weeks in Japan and Jardo wants the full debrief.

The practical stuff nobody tells you, starting with why you should not fly into Narita. Restaurants with ten seats and why you need reservations. Paying a service to book a table he could have booked himself. The shrine stamp books and the shopping he did not expect to love most. Then Put You On, where D’Marcus gets into Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans and Jardo talks through Now and Then, Here and There, the 1999 series that looks like a normal isekai and is about child soldiers. Plus a game D’Marcus swears has no points and Jardo turns into a battle anyway.

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Everybody can name the same five disturbing anime moments. This episode is about the ones that never make the list.

The game is Name That Nightmare, two clues a round, ten rounds, guess the anime from the description. Then Jardo gets into the deep cuts: Now and Then Here and There, a 1999 series that looks like a standard isekai and is actually about child soldiers. Narutaru, which uses a cute art style as a weapon. Barefoot Gen, which animates Hiroshima and was shown to Japanese schoolchildren. Blood-C, whose ending got blacked out on broadcast. And Mononoke, the argument that disturbing can also be gorgeous.

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