It’s the final episode of our Kyoto Vacation season, an incredibly, unexpectedly long journey that’s lasted almost a full year! For this Season Finale, we thought we’d take stock of all the incredible anime we’ve seen from the incredible artists at Kyoto Animation. We make a Tier List of all the TV series and movies we watched this season, create a KyoAni drinking game based on the most common visuals and tropes we noticed across the studio’s work, and declare our favorite shows, characters, episodes, and more. And at the end of the episode, we announce not one, but two new seasons of Japanimation Station: Season 5, premiering this winter, and Season 6, premiering in 2025. What will they be? You’ll have to listen to find out!

Enjoy, and come back next week for the long-awaited, one-week-only return of Weekly Suit Gundam, as we finally review MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM SEED FREEDOM!

Time Chart:

Theme Song: 0:00:00 – 0:01:30

Reflections: 0:01:30 – 0:31:14

Tier List: 0:31:14 – 1:02:53

Picking Favorites & KyoAni Drinking Game: 1:02:53 – 1:52:50

Season 5 Announcement: 1:52:50 – 2:05:38

Season 6 Announcement: 2:05:38 – 2:07:55

End Theme: 2:07:55 – 2:09:09

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