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Geoff Thew

@mothersbasement.bsky.social

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Video Essayist and Anime Critic. he/him ❤️ @yazy.bsky.social YouTube: YouTube.com/MothersBasement BUSINESS: [email protected]

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · Apr 16

There are WAY TOO MANY great anime this spring. Sorry in advance for the length of your Watch List.
youtu.be/Aunnkq7_F9w

The BEST Anime of Spring 2025 - Ones To Watch

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 2h

2025 was a year for the Anime History Books. But how does its last season compare to the past two bangers? youtu.be/cBwBDX_-7PA

The BEST Anime of Fall 2025 - Ones to Watch

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 8d

"There's something different about the subtitles this season. Namely, they're all ass now."

Isn't the problem that they're not .ass now?

Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 9d

It's time to talk about the enshittification of Crunchyroll
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The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 8d

My bad lmao

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 9d

Funimation definitely had plenty of anime fans working there, and those people are great, but the c-suite was never really tapped into the anime community the way crunchyroll used to be.

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 9d

It's time to talk about the enshittification of Crunchyroll
youtu.be/B-DX0Zolr6g

The Enshittification of Crunchyroll

YouTube video by Mother's Basement

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Lynzee Loveridge @annlynzee.bsky.social · 12d

Today is probably the biggest day for the fall anime season/Preview Guide and things are...not looking great on rollout today for Crunchyroll.

Both MHA Final Season's first episode and the new season premiere for Spy Family are both up on Hulu. CR is 9 hrs late on MHA and it lacks EN subtitles

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 18d

Oh thanks that’s a good idea

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 18d

You might get even more obsessed with this one bro! Have fun

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 18d

George Carlin neglected to mention that the Big Club we ain’t in is the Super Adventure Club

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah I don’t think he ever said that. The more I look into him the more he seems like a broadly progressive liberal type without much interest in major societal reform.

Thanks for correcting me

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 20d

A lot of japanese leftists became disillusioned with communism in the late 60s and 70s due to violent clashes with the government and the activities of the Japanese Red Army, on top of general cold war anxieties. It's hard to say how much Tezuka believed in when he was a member.

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 22d

Osamu Tezuka was heavily inspired by the works of Carl Barks, and unfortunately that included his depiction of black people. However that doesn’t reflect his politics. He was a card carrying communist - this is a political cartoon he drew about the Vietnam war for a Japanese communist newspaper.

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 23d

Informed by this idiocy he changes the plot

Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 23d

I think if Shinichiro Watanabe had waited until after the whole Tylenol Autism thing to make Lazarus, it would have turned out as a much better anime

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 24d

the US has internment camps right now that have lasted through democrat and republican administrations. it's the only FDR thing they all like

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 24d

y'all need to understand that "be more like FDR" isn't really an option for modern establishment democrats because their entire political project since FDR has been preventing the rise of the next FDR at any cost

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · 28d

Then they came for the Late Night Hosts, and I did not speak up because Fallon is annoying and Colbert fell off

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · Sep 15

Stop saying “oh so now you guys love cancel culture?” it’s called McCarthyism and the right has been doing it since The War. Proper, respectable free speech repression, from a simpler time.

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · Sep 14

oh damn that looks TASTY!

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Geoff Thew @mothersbasement.bsky.social · Sep 13

With everything going on with YouTube lately, I think you should know about another problem that's particularly bad in the anime space, and getting worse everywhere.
youtu.be/q95m-4Wm1to