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The Incel Hero - Re:Zero as the Ultimate Otaku Horror

Hey! One more video that never made it to Patreon. Hopefully you all enjoy it. When this video was released, the second season of Re:Zero had just started airing, and the comments were full of people telling me how the second season proved my point wrong. Problem is, they were also full of people telling me how the second season proved my point. Trouble is, I -- to this day -- hav...

The Season in Haikus - Spring 2025 (Part 1)

Hello, all! Welcome to another season of rigidly syllabic anime reviews! If you've never seen one of these before, or you generally aren't familiar with my style of reviews, here's the deal: I'm going to watch the first episode of every new anime that comes out this season (no sequels, spinoffs, or co...

The Men of Re:Zero - How Not to Suck [Video]

Hello, all! Here's another video that never made its way to Patreon. I've always felt like Re:Zero is an interesting anime, and one of the things that makes it so unique is the way its protagonist interacts with the world and becomes a better person. So many isekai are built on power fantasies, where men who have nothing going on in the "real world" are given the chance to be a...

The Season in Haikus - Winter 2025 (Part 4)

 Hello, all. It is finally time for us to wrap up our highly-structured, poetic exploration of the Winter 2025 season. We've had laughs. We've had cries. But now, everything is coming to an end. Today, I have a smattering of shows for you that are sure to make you go "Huh, that sure sounds like an anime...

Food Wars and the Secret Ingredient to Good Fights [Video]

Here's another old video that never made its way to the patreon! Food Wars is a great example of a shounen series. It's got its problems, and it practically perfected the art of gratuitous ecchi, but it's filled to the brim with heart and is a great show to just sit back and take in with a group of friends and some beers. That said, as a fight-based anime, I've always thought i...

The Season in Haikus - Winter 2025 (Part 3)

Hello, all! And welcome back to the latest installment of The Season in Haikus. I'm your host, Explanation Point, here to give you the rigidly-syllabic rundown of each of the season's anime, from the stinkers to the win-kers. If you're coming here from Patreon, and you like my work, please feel ...

Can You Ignore a Bad Second Season? [Video]

Here's another one that I forgot to upload to Patreon for a while, so I'm doing it now! Back when The Promised Neverland's second season came out, there was a lot of discussion about second seasons and continuations of stories that were obvious cash-grabs. Personally, I had just gotten done watching the second season of Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions, which was spa...

The Anime Where the Men Watch You Sleep

Another video that never made its way to Patreon! Hope you all enjoy this as much as I didn't. If you're new to the channel and want to stick around, we have a Discord server where we talk about the weird findings that we stumble across in our journey across the mystical land of Japan. We also have a weekly video game hangout, a monthly anime club (like a book club for anime), and lots of ot...

Accessible Feminism: Why Do Men Watch The Apothecary Diaries?

Hey, all! I noticed that a couple of videos never made their way to the Patreon after getting uploaded, so I thought that fixing that would be a great way to interact with the Creator Growth Program! If you're here from that, hello! I make anime analysis videos and reviews and stuff like that. If you want to join me to play video games on weekends, join our monthly anime club discussions, o...

The Season in Haikus - Winter 2025 (Part 2)

Hello, all! We have another week's worth of lovely seasonal haikus with which to entertain you while I work on the next video! Today, we have a heaping helping of mediocre isekai, a couple of romance shows, and one unexpected frontrunner that I'm calling the best show of the season. If you're...

This is Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf

Hello, everyone! Sorry this took so long to come out. Due to the Patreon Creator Growth Program, I prioritized making "The Anime Where the Fart Learns to Love" and wound up putting production of this one on hiatus when I had, like, a minute of video left to edit. Finished it the day after the fart video went up, and now it's here for you all to enjoy! I think it turned out pretty well, and ...

The Season in Haikus - Winter 2025 (Part 1)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to a new series that I'm starting on Patreon! This is The Season in Haikus, a combination of those seasonal first impressions videos that I used to do, and the ancient Japanese art form of rigidly syllabic poetry. If you want to know what I think of the various anime that ...

The Anime Where the Fart Learns to Love

At last, it is done. After originally watching this show almost a year ago, it is time to share it with the public. Thank you all for your patience, and I hope you all enjoy the rapid descent into madness that always comes with finding the worst media that humanity has to offer.

To those of you who are new here thanks to the Patreon growth pilot thing, hello! I'm Explanation Point, and I...

Topic Poll - Fall 2024 Video 1 (Remake)

Hey, all! I didn't realize Orb was twenty-five episodes, so it shouldn't have been on this poll. It'll be on the first winter poll, instead. Since it was gaining traction on Dandadan, I didn't want to keep the poll up and assume Dandadan was going to win. Here's the real Fall 2024 video 1 poll! Enjoy!

Topic Poll - Summer 2024 Video 2

Hello! Now that the Kaiju No. 8 video is done, I can officially announce that Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf has won the first Summer 2024 video topic poll! Now, it's time for the next one! These options will be mostly the same, with Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines replacing Spice and Wolf. Vote with joy!

Kaiju No. 8

Hello, all! Here's the Kaiju No. 8 video! Please let me know how the audio on this one sounds, because it sounds fine on my phone and desktop, but absolutely horrible on my TV. The plan is to release this one to the public over the weekend, so you've got plenty of time to enjoy it before the normies get a hold of it!

"Abyss" - Yungblud (Kaiju No. 8 Opening 1) Acapella Cover

Was super worried about getting this one right, but I kinda think I killed it. Very happy with this. Hope you all enjoy!

Progress Report: Week of 2024/11/03

Hello, all! I don't have a super detailed progress report for you this week, but I do have a progress report for you this week, and that's something! As you might've noticed, "Accessible Feminism: Why Do Men Watch The Apothecary Diaries?" launched near the beginning of last week, and people have been enjoying it quite a bit! Hopefully it was worth the wait. As of now, I'm...

Topic Poll - Summer 2024 Video 1

Hello! It's finally time to vote on the next video topic! I'm making this the first video in December to give myself three weeks to finish the Kaiju No. 8 video. The plan is to finish it in two weeks as usual, then use the third week to work on "The Anime Where the Fart Learns to Love," but if it takes all three weeks, then it does. As always, you can choose between the four m...

"Hana ni Natte" - Ryokuoushoku Shakai (The Apothecary Diaries Opening 1) Acapella Cover

Hello, all! I wasn't completely happy with this cover, so I was going to edit it before uploading/using it, but then the Apothecary Diaries script stopped being a review and started being a hardcore analytic piece (whose script reached five thousand heckin' words!), and I stopped being sure I was going to use it at all, so it just kinda languished in my desktop storage for ages. I...

Progress Report - Week of 2024/09/01

Hello, all!

I go into this progress report knowing two things: That this is a weird time to write a progress report, and that nobody in the world aside from me knows that I usually post progress reports on Sundays. Saturdays would make much more sense, since they're the end of the week, but I take Saturdays off. . . which means I should rightfully do them on Fridays, huh? Maybe ...

Progress Report - Week of 2024/07/28

Hello, all! This one is going to be more of an ADHD/depression report, since both of those things made "progress" pretty. . . nonexistent last week. But it ends with very good news and has good news sprinkled throughout, so here's the rundown!

ADHD SITUATION: So, as I mentioned last week, I'm taking a new medication. Stimulant medication has worked great for me and kept me on t...

Progress Report - Week of 2024/07/28

Hello, all! This progress report is going to be a little less structured and formal than usual, because I frankly just didn't really time things last week and don't know exactly how much time I spent doing different activities, so I'm just going to vaguely get you up to speed on how the new video is coming along and where I'm at when it comes to productivity and such. Here it goes!

ADH...

Progress Report - Week of 2024/07/07

Hello, all! Going to be honest, this was a very bad week for productivity. I'm working on switching ADHD meds from a stimulant to a nonstimulant (because the stimulant meds will eventually make my heart explode if I keep taking them for too long), and it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing. This was the first week where I stopped taking the stimulant meds entirely, and it certainly shows in m...

Progress Report - Week of 2024/06/30

Hello, all! Fourth of July was last week, so I took an additional day off to get unreasonably drunk and explode shit with my friends, and just barely missed out on my typical thirty-hour work week goal as a result. That said, the twenty-nine-hour-forty-five-minute work week that I wound up having instead was very productive! I got a new video finished and released...

Delicious in Dungeon

Hello, all! Here is your preview of the Delicious in Dungeon video! It's going out on Sunday, so you're getting it a couple of days early. Hope you enjoy! I'm pretty happy with it.

Progress Report - Week of 2024/06/23

Hello, all!

You may be asking yourself, "Self, why was there no Explanation Point progress report last week?" And that's a good question! You should ask it to me, not you. The answer? I forgot about it. Just straight-up forgot that that was something I was supposed to be doing. Sorry about it! Here's the progress report for this week, though, and despite a debilitating fever...

"Sleep Walking Orchestra" - Bump of Chicken (Delicious in Dungeon Opening 1) Acapella Cover

This one was murder to get to a point where I was happy with it, but I think I can be satisfied with this! Hope you all enjoy <3