Kupo Talks!

Hello, kupo~!! It's been a year since we recorded, totally not because I lost the keys to our recording studio. But your lovely hosts Mog and Sommerkurz are back in our dusty cobweb-laden chairs to talk about being 30, the games we played, the media we consumed, and what was the highlight of our foodie journey so far in the year of our lord 2025!!As always, any comments, suggestions, and the likes can go to me @mogknight on twitter, or other places on my personal site (kupo.cafe). You can find Andy @sommerkurz and somewhere on blusky too. Have a good one, kupo~!!00:21 - Podcast Start~!! Introductions of Moguri and Sommerkurz03:21 - Recapping life since the last podcast episode06:54 - First Topic: Eat Anything Good Lately14:28 - Steam Summer Sale24:58- Uma Musume, Gacha, and the Fall of Man30:35 - ROG Ally, Steam Deck, and Handheld Gaming37:54 - Sommerkurz and Fallout London46:34 - Mog's Manga Adventure (Tune In to the Midnight Heart, I'm In Love with the Older Girl Next Door, and Akane-Banashi)57:05 - Seasonal Anime, 10 year gap between CITY to Nichijou1:03:15 - Outro~!!

Mog Knight has been sick, then busy, then sick again - but that didn't stop us from podcasting (at least prepping for an eventual one). But anyways, in this episode we talk about Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not the 2005. The live-action 2024 one on Netflix. And boy did we have thoughts on it, as fans of the original series. Spoiler warning - we do talk about all 8 eight episodes, so maybe watch the live action adaptation first. Or not. Check out the Kupo Writes! Game Awards 2023! : kupo.cafe/game-awards-2023 As always, any comments, suggestions, and the likes can go to me @mogknight on twitter, or other places on my personal site (kupo.cafe). You can find Andy @sommerkurz and somewhere on blusky too. Have a good one, kupo~!!

New year, new game to talk about! This time, it is Square Enix's "PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo" released on March 8th, 2023. Your lovely hosts have been meaning to play this one, so in our downtime after our end-of-the-year writing show - we did!! Warning - Spoilers for this game for probably the last 3/4ths of this episode. Kinda the whole thing. But find out our thoughts on this game and why we love/hate it and why you should play it. Check out the Kupo Writes! Game Awards 2023! : kupo.cafe/game-awards-2023 As always, any comments, suggestions, and the likes can go to me @mogknight on twitter, or other places on my personal site (kupo.cafe). You can find Andy @sommerkurz and somewhere on blusky too. Have a good one, kupo~!!

Hello, kupo~!! In this episode, we talk about the 4th annual Kupo Writes! Game Awards where we celebrate game experiences (and more!) we had throughout 2023. We mostly talk about the games we didn't have time to award or write about, plus wrapping up with some things we're looking forward to next year. Thanks for a year of moderate achievement and lots of fun times, and hope you stick with us for an even better 2024~. Check out the Kupo Writes! Game Awards 2023 from December 28th-30th: kupo.cafe/game-awards-2023 As always, any comments, suggestions, and the likes can go to me @mogknight on twitter, or other places on my personal site (kupo.cafe). You can find Andy @sommerkurz and somewhere on blusky too. Have a good one, kupo~!!

Ray and Andy are here once more this Thanksgiving season to talk about more games (Twofold, Alan Wake, Half Life), what we watched (Korean Drama about a girlboss crash landing in North Korea), and our main topic of this month: "Scott Pilgrim Takes Off". As fans of both the movie and comics, it was a nice and fun in-depth discussion of how we felt about the new "anime rebuild" version. Let us know how you felt about it too! 00:00 White Boy Toronto Rizz 01:00 Start~!! 01:40 Thanksgiving Talk~ 02:08 Turkey Talk 05:18 American Thanksgiving Food Plans 12:20 A Bad Segue to Games Talk 13:20 Twofold Talk 26:26 Half Life and the Documentary 29:53 Indie Game 30 Minute Impressions (Cuisineer, Cobalt Core, and Refind Self) 30:26 Genshin Quick Talks 31:14 Yakuza 6: The Song of Life 36:40 Alan Wake 2 42:42 Andy's Watch List (Twilight, Breaking Bad, Devil's Plan, and Crash Landing on You) 47:10 Ray's Watch List (Frieren Fridays) 49:00 Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Talk! 49:40 Our History with Scott Pilgrim the Comic/Movie, What it Means to Us 56:48 Initial Reactions 01:00:40 In-depth Detail Thoughts 01:09:00 Music Talk and Usage (Beck vs Anamanaguchi + Licensed Music) 01:12:20 "I enjoyed everything... sans Scott Pilgrim" 01:12:35 Ray's Ending Rant (the "big bad" reveal) 01:18:55 Scott's Character Development Down the Drain? 01:20:15 "Can you tell me what went wrong so I don't do it in the future?" 01:21:40 Time Travel and Scott's Character Development + Golden Super Ramona + Ending 01:24:05 What This Show Addresses Well - Rockiness and Faults of Relationship 01:25:00 Ramona's Character Development/Hero's Journey 01:26:18 Scott's Charm 01:30:02 Endling Closing Thoughts 01:30:40 Exes Hanging Out, If I Ever Met Chris Evans... 01:33:12 Andy's Final Score Rating 01:35:17 Ray's Final Score Rating 01:37:55 What is our "Best Scene" and "Best Character"? 01:39:01 Our Love of Young Neil 01:41:45 Closing, kupo~!! As always, any comments, suggestions, and the likes can go to me @mogknight on twitter, or other places on my personal site (kupo.cafe). You can find Andy @sommerkurz and somewhere on blusky too. Have a good one, kupo~!!

The boys are back at it again, talking in-depth about some recent games and how we feel about them, from Project Wingman, Armored Core, Chants of Sennaar to 3 years of Genshin Impact and the hit game Starfield! We closed off by finally doing our Ghibli Films tier list, and we were surprised by the result. 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - Start 2:00 - Andy's Top 100 Resturants in LA Adventures 7:47 - Ray's Week; Working Hard and Hardly Working 9:00 - Pre-game talk 12:48 - Armored Core 6 14:17 - Project Wingman 20:37 - Chants of Sennaar 23:41 - Genshin 3 Year Anniversary Thoughts 29:06 - Trying Redfall, Lies of P 31:44 - Starfield 50:47 - What are we watching? (Andy: Taskmaster, Teen Titans Robin x Raven Fanshipper) 55:09 - Ray: Frieren 58:46 - Frieren's Staff into Dot Hack Design 1:04:50 - Ghibli Tierlist Deliberations 1:20:22 - Final Tierlist Reading 1:21:34 - Closing Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter! You can follow Mog Knight at @MogKnight on Twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work, and Mog's personal site - kupo.cafe

After almost a year and 6 months, the boys are back again! Consider this a "season 2" of Kupo Talks~!! In this episode, we come back home to our virtual podcast studio, de-rusting ourselves and wiping off the cobwebs by just talking about what we've been up to and the games we've been playing as of recent. We have some hot takes, some reasons why we love or dropped some of these games, but ultimately it was just a fun chill talk. Tune in next time for who knows?? 0:00 Hot Take Intro 0:34 Podcast Start! 3:47 Mog's Life Recap 6:10 Andy's Life Recap and Japan Adventures 17:15 Games Recap Start! 17:25 STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor 20:00 Case of the Golden Idol 22:30 Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom 30:00 Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon 36:10 Bomb Rush Cyberfunk 43:32 Saint Row (2022) 52:10 Baldur's Gate 3 58:30 Goodbye Volcano High 1:08:30 One Piece Live Action 1:09:20 Ghibli Films 1:10:30 Frieren: Beyond Journey's End 1:11:45 Wrap Up and Upcoming Ending Song: Sneakman from Jet Set Radio Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks! You can follow Mog Knight at @MogKnight on Twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work! Also consider joining our discord to join in on the discussion or talk about some niche stuff with us!

As a personal milestone of doing something 10 times within a certain timeframe, your host Mog Knight and the forever rotating chair Andrew decided to do things a little different: stream our talk live on the internet! Of course and as promised, the audio-only version is here. In this episode, we rank every single fruit known to humankind (or at least presented to us in this tier list) AND close with ranking all the shows that aired on Cartoon Network. As late 90's/early 2000's kids we aimed to make it the most accurately objective list compared to those... uncultured lists out there made to draw angry reactions. In any case, hope you enjoy! Video link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZJlnx1DTU Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow RJ/Mog Knight at @MogKnight on Twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work! Also consider joining our discord to join in on the discussion or talk about some niche stuff with us!

In this day and age of new TV series or shows coming out every week, it can get overwhelming deciding on what to watch. So what did we decide to do? Head back to the olden days (our olden days) and watch a bunch of Bill Lawrence's "Scrubs" (also available for streaming in places!). In this episode we primarily focus on the 1st season of "Scrubs", looking to see if and how it holds up in today's modern age. We also share some thoughts and memories in general about the show, and why we think even though some episodes and seasons are hit and miss it does offer some really good arcs and experiences that only a show like "Scrubs" can pull off. A personal note from Andrew: "Andrew confused My Screw Up with the plot of My Lunch". Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow RJ/Mog Knight at @MogKnight on Twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work! Also consider joining our discord to join in on the discussion or talk about some niche stuff with us!

Back again with your game updates! In this episode, Mog Knight talks about games that came out recently that he's played (Boyfriend Dungeon, Fuga: Melodies of Steel) while Andrew talks about games he finally got around to playing (Okami, Gravity Rush, A Hat in Time). We also close off this episode by talking about The Great Ace Attorney Case 1, with no spoilers (well, maybe a little spoilers). Hope you enjoy this episode full of game design commentary and a bit of social commentary as well! Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow RJ/Mog Knight at @MogKnight on Twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work! Also consider joining our discord to join in on the discussion or talk about some niche stuff with us!

The boys are back again, and this time their vast circle of interests and media have collided enough to the point where we're able to talk about it and analyze how it affected us. In this episode, we talk about Studio Bones' latest film "Josee the Tiger and the Fish", Fujimoto's latest one-shot manga "Look Back", and the main reason why we recorded this episode is the sleeper hit anime of 2021 "Oddtaxi" by OLM and P.I.C.S. Read "Look Back" for free here: https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/titles/100167 Mog Knight's written thoughts on "Look Back": https://kupothoughts.neocities.org/thoughtsandmusings/lookback.html Oddtaxi full opening MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKMw0hBDBUw Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow RJ/Mog Knight at @MogKnight on twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work! Also consider joining our discord to join in on the discussion or talk about some niche stuff with us!

In this episode, we take a break from our regular programming to bring you an anime beach episode! Wait, what? Oh, just kidding, it's an episode all about our love of food and the places we had fun eating in good ol' Los Angeles. Let hosts RJ and Andrew tell you about what food means to them, and the stories they had because of their love of food and each other. Hope you enjoy! Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow RJ/Mog Knight at @mogkuhnight on twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work!

Being stuck at home won't stop this crew from getting together for a chat, especially if that's the only thing we can do! Welcome (back) our co-hosts Andrew and Amaro for a discussion on various things we've been doing as we're locked in our own homes. Here are the things we covered in our little "show and tell" Amaro:  -Kingdom Hearts 3 -22/7 and If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die -Gatcha Suffering Update Andrew: -Beastars -Interspecies Reviewer -Earthbound Ray: -Amagami SS Tsukasa Ark -Steven Universe Future -Granblue Fantasy VS (and fighting games) Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com. You can follow Ray/Mog Knight at @mogkuhnight on twitter, Andrew at @SommerKurz, and Amaro @amaroray_ .Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written works!

New year, new episodes kupo! This time, we feature a special guest and dear friend of mine Amaro to talk about an anime that has a special place in our lives both good and bad: Oreimo, or "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute"!  In this episode, we talk about the anime in the context of our lives when it aired, our thoughts on it now as we rewatched both seasons, and go in-depth on what made this anime both one to watch AND one to maybe just look at it from afar. Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com. You can follow Ray/Mog Knight at @mogkuhnight on twitter and Amaro @amaroray_ .Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written works!

The boys are back at it again (after a brief hiatus), talking about what we liked from NaNoReNo, about VA11HALLA Kids, and our short time at Anime Expo 2018 in Los Angeles! We also are moving to a once a month format, so tune in next month where we will be talking about some anime movies we like. Have a suggestion of your favorite anime movie? Message us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow Ray/Mog Knight at @mogkuhnight on twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work!

In this episode, we talk about Brianna Lei's visual novel "Butterfly Soup" (our 2017 best VN of the year) and it's profound effects it had in our lives. We talk about what this VN meant to us in terms of representation, our time in high school, our parents' views on education, and many more. We hope you enjoy this episode just as much as we had fun recording and sharing a bit of ourselves! Join us next time as we talk about Va11-Ha11a Kids and NaNoReNo 2018. You can get "Butterfly Soup" here: https://brianna-lei.itch.io/butterfly-soup And follow Brianna Lei @Brii_U You can follow Ray/Mog Knight at @mogkuhnight on twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Also, check out kupowrites.wordpress.com

A little introduction of us, Andrew and RJ, and our goals for this podcast. Take a listen!

Happy New Year from the Kupo Creates Brand Management!! The boys are at it again, here to talk about a set of cases in a collection known as "The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures"! Join us in our discussion about all 5 cases found in the first game of the "The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles", from the case details itself to the blatant (but well-written/localized within the context of this game) racial bias to all the "gotchas" we love to all the characters that touched our heartstrings. Spoiler warning to those who haven't played this game, but we both highly recommend you do both if you're a fan of the series or just someone new too. Timestamps: 0:00 - Introductions, happy new years talk 5:10 - Mog's Personal Goings-on 12:00 - Andrew's Personal Goings-on 20:00 - Ace Attorney Talk - our intro to the series 33:42 - The Great Ace Attorney Case 1 39:09 - Case 2 ("It's Not A Case") 44:34 - Case 3 ("Now we hit good Ace Attorney Again") 58:00 - Case 4 ("Now imagine if there was more racism added") 1:20:55 - Case 5 ("The Climax") 1:48:28 - Closing Thoughts Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks! You can follow Mog Knight at @MogKnight on Twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work! Also consider joining our discord to join in on the discussion or talk about some niche stuff with us!

The mogs are back again, and this time with Aggretsuko Season 2! We start by talking about some current going-ons in our lives, then moving onto our Aggretsuko discussion. In this episode, our main focus is on three of the important characters introduced in this season: Anai, Retsuko's mom, and the handsome lad himself Tadano. Listen to our takes on these three characters, what they mean to us, and how we perceive them in relationship to both Retsuko and the human condition. Have any suggestions, or something you would like us to cover? DM us on twitter @KupoTalks or send us an email at kupowrites@gmail.com You can follow Ray/Mog Knight at @mogkuhnight on twitter, and Andrew at @SommerKurz. Check out kupowrites.wordpress.com for written work!