#Meet the Hosts of Crunchyroll’s New Crunchycast Podcast!

Today marks the launch of Crunchyroll’s new video podcast, Crunchycast, a bi-weekly show dedicated to discussing everything anime, from current events to whether people still follow the so-called “3-episode rule” and beyond. You can check out Crunchycast right here on Crunchyroll, as well as on YouTube and anywhere else you get podcasts.

The first episode, GIVE ME MY ANIME FILMS, is now live with a look at how the influx of anime films in theaters in English has changed the game, both for accessibility and the industry at large. 

New episodes will debut every other Monday with hosts Tim Lyu, Cristal Marie, and Curtis Richardson, so we thought we’d take a moment to introduce the folks behind the show. 

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Tell us a little bit about your experience with anime!

So I started watching anime as early as I can remember, since I was born in Korea I just naturally had easy access to anime on TV… Watched stuff like Shin-chan, Inuyasha, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, Keroro… All the good stuff… And as kind of a peak moment… I ended up getting this job at Crunchyroll so I guess that’s a pretty good experience with anime if I say so myself.

What are some of your favorite series or movies?

So here are SOME of my favorite series… One Piece is an easy one; Devilman, Kaiji, Samurai Champloo, Berserk REST IN PEACE MIURA… Favorite movie is Akira easily hands down and I have more but the a recent film that pops up into my mind is Sword of the Stranger… OH and Paprika!

What are you into outside of anime? 

Stuff I’m into outside of anime… Reading too much manga, playing games, listening to music, currently listening to a lot of oldie Funk and Disco, and I’m back into making fruit & vegetable juices. 

What’s the least interesting thing about you? Give us the opposite of a Fun Fact! Bad Facts Only.

Ummm… The least interesting thing about me… I think it’s the fact… Not even sure if this is interesting or not BUT I haven’t shaved my face fully in like 7 plus years. I’ve trimmed it of course but like this lil facial hair thing I got going on? It’s been going strong for almost 10 years… Yeah… I would say that is not interesting at all… Maybe it is… Maybe it is interesting that I’m lazy as hell…

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Tell us a little bit about your experience with anime!

I consider myself an anime superfan to the point that I launched the first anime convention in my native country. I published an indie manga, wrote a song called Anime Girl, and I talk about anime on several YouTube channels in both English and Spanish! Everything from “the history of anime in Latin America” to “the evolution of Fanservice” and deep dives on Sailor Moon. I am fascinated by this storytelling medium and the impact it’s had on my life, plus all the amazing people I got to connect with because of it… I just want to share more about it with the world and turn everyone on to their next favorite anime!

What are some of your favorite series or movies?

My favorites are Demon Slayer, Code Geass, Attack On Titan, Food Wars, Kamisama Kiss, Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon (all versions), and Saint Seiya. Favorite films include Tokyo Godfathers, Memories by Katsuhiro Otomo, Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave, and Studio Ghibli’s adaptation of Howl’s Moving Castle.

What are you into outside of anime? 

Making music, performing, playing open-world action-RPG games, watching Chinese animation (donghua), K-Dramas and C-Dramas, reading dark fantasy books, all kinds of BL media, spending way too much money on VTubers, and obsessing over all the food I don’t know how to cook.

What’s the least interesting thing about you? Give us the opposite of a Fun Fact! Bad Facts Only.

I sneeze like a truck. I won’t transport you to another world though.

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Tell us a little bit about your experience with anime!

I’ve been watching anime since before I knew what anime was …or at least since before my Dad knew. He introduced me to anime via Speed Racer, which he thought was just a funny cartoon. Little did he know this would be the catalyst that got me to watch shows about a transforming dragon maid into my 20s. From there, anime inspiration has leaked into my work on all fronts, from making my friends solve hypothetical anime scenarios in videos, to stylizing my own videos after manga panels.

What are some of your favorite series or movies?

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Kuroko’s Basketball, Chainsaw Man (manga), Haikyuu!!, A Silent Voice and Cowboy Bebop, to name a few.

What are you into outside of anime? 

Honestly, I had to really think about this one, because most of the stuff I do is anime-adjacent, which I wasn’t expecting to realize about myself. That aside, I make YouTube videos on a few other channels, such as mine (CurtRichy) where I talk about my regrettable opinions and stories, as well as Recreyo where my friends and I play something similar to an extremely light version of DnD. 

What’s the least interesting thing about you? Give us the opposite of a Fun Fact! Bad Facts Only.

From Ohio, and I’m $20,000 in debt 🙂

You can listen to the chaos that ensues with these three in the (virtual) booth every other week on Crunchycast! 

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his comics at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.