Summer 2026

Summer 2026, week 0

Our Spring season is over and so is Anime Expo: time to vote on shows and use them to build our Summer schedule. Because we lost a weekend to Anime Expo, we'll only have 11 weeks of showings (in addition to whatever samplers and features we can squeeze in this weekend).

Events this week:

Friday, July 10 at Alan's and on the PCAS Discord server

6:30 - 10:30 Voting on shows and, re-sampling as needed.
As time permits, sampling new shows or watching features
Possible samplers:

Attendance:

  1. Alan
  2. Stevezilla
  3. Brian
  4. David
  5. Adam
  6. Arthur
  7. A.E.
  8. Victor

Notes: We started with voting. That left us with some pretty clear contenders, a push to see the Tanya the Evil movie+OVA (easier to fit into week 0), and a couple shows with significant "?" votes. So we re-sampled episode 1 of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, then went on to Kill Blue episode 1 (for Steve) and 2 (for Brian and David). That seemed enough to get everyone on board.

After that we re-sampled Journal with Witch, watching episode 2 - it was the only other show on the border with a "?" vote that could influence whether it ended up in or out. Then we had a short intermission and watched the Tanya the Evil OVA "Operation Desert Pasta" as well as the 2019 Tanya the Evil movie.

Saturday, July 11 at David's and on the PCAS Discord server

6:30 - 10:30 Schedule-building and as time permits, sampling new shows and watching features (Saturday of week 0 is often the easiest time to schedule longer features)
Possible samplers:

Attendance:

  1. David
  2. Guy
  3. Arthur & Claire
  4. Brian
  5. Adam
  6. Alan
  7. Victor

Notes: We started off discussing the schedule, then eventually moved on to samplers (listed above).

Our Spring planning looked a bit like this:

  1. 7/17 and 7/18
  2. 7/24 and 7/25
  3. 7/31 and 8/1
  4. 8/7 and 8/8
  5. 8/14 and 8/15
  6. 8/21 and 8/22
  7. 8/28 and 8/29
  8. 9/4 and 9/5
  9. 9/11 and 9/12
  10. 9/18 and 9/19
  11. 9/25 and 9/26

Fridays

Daemons of the Shadow Realm (CR)
Friday samplers
Release that Witch (CR) / even more Friday samplers
Journal with Witch (CR) / Clevatess II (CR)
NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun (Amzn) / Saga of Tanya the Evil season 2 (CR)

Saturdays

KILL BLUE (CR, Netflix, Amzn Prime Video, YT: It's Anime powered by REMOW) / Dirty Pair: With Love from the Lovely Angels and Dirty Pair OVAs (BD)
Saturday samplers - usually 2/night
Witch Hat Atelier (CR) / The Ghost in the Shell (Amzn)
Dorohedoro S1 and Dorohedoro S2 (CR, Netflix)
We also voted in a pair of features: on Friday, Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise (CR), and on Saturday Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle 1 (CR, eventually). Both of these will likely have to wait until Fall week 0...

Summer 2026, week 1

We built our Summer schedule last week. The features we vote in will probably have to wait until week 0 of Fall unless we blow through a lot of samplers, but doing that freed up enough time for us to watch all of Daemons of the Shadow Realm on Fridays, and both seasons of Dorohedoro on Saturdays. It also gave us enough time to start 2/3 of our Witch shows from episode 1 for those who weren't around when we sampled Release that Witch and Witch Hat Atelier, or just want to refresh their memories of 1st episodes sampled around 3 months ago.

Events this week:

Friday, July 17 at Alan's and on the PCAS Discord server

6:30 - 7:20 Daemons of the Shadow Realm 2-3 (CR)
7:20 - 8:10 Release that Witch 1-2 (CR)
8:10 - 8:35 Samplers:
8:35 - 8:45 intermission
8:45 - 9:35 Journal with Witch 3-4 (CR)
9:35 - 10:25 NIPPON SANGOKU: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun 2-3 (Amzn)

Attendance:

  1. Alan
  2. Stevezilla
  3. Arthur
  4. David
  5. Brian
  6. Adam
  7. Gene
  8. Victor
  9. A.E.

Notes: Kaiju Girl Caramelise was fun, and the gyaru/paleontologist mother character was a good addition. Apparently she's played by Mitsuishi Kotono (Usagi from Sailor Moon, Misato from Evangelion, Mink from Dragon Half).

Saturday, July 18 at David's and on the PCAS Discord server

6:30 - 7:20 KILL BLUE 3-42-3 (CR, Netflix, Amzn Prime Video, YT: It's Anime powered by REMOW)
7:20 - 8:10 Samplers:
8:10 - 8:30 intermission
8:30 - 9:20 Witch Hat Atelier 1-22-3 (CR)
9:20 - 10:10 Dorohedoro season 1 1-2 (CR, Netflix)

Attendance:

  1. David
  2. Guy
  3. Arthur & Claire
  4. Brian
  5. Adam
  6. Alan

Notes: We started off rewatching episode 2 of Kill Blue because we had watched it on Friday of week 0 and Guy hadn't seen it. However, everyone had seen Witch Hat Atelier episode 1, so we were able to start with episode 2 there and keep from messing up our overall episode counts for Saturdays this season.

Restarting Dorohedoro from the beginning of season 1 was a good idea - only David recalled it well (because he'd rewatched season 1 just a couple weeks prior).

The samplers both came across well enough, though Iron Wok Jan seemed to generate more excitement than Frontier Lord.