📜 Today’s Side Quest ❗
Welcome to 🎙️Side Quests & Save Points💾 – the podcast where ignoring the main quest is half the fun and every great adventure starts with a side quest!
This time, I'm joined by the ever-chaotic Grimsabr – content creator, manga hoarder, professional Pokémon degenerate, and a man whose love for RPGs is only rivalled by his inability to stay on topic.

We cover anime. We cover JRPGs. We (barely) define what even counts as an RPG. It’s a wild ride across multiple media and genres – so grab a drink, double-check your Pokédex, and settle in for a conversation that derails harder than a chocobo on espresso.

🎮 Episode Content Overview
In this full-length tavern ramble, we unpack:

• Whether Pokémon is actually a JRPG (and yes, we have opinions)

• The crossover between anime, manga, and RPGs – and why it's basically inevitable

• Our shared childhood trauma over canceled anime MMOs and bad video game movies

• What makes a JRPG feel like a JRPG, and why instant gratification might be killing nuance

• What games deserve anime adaptations, and which animes deserve proper games (Monster Hunter fans, we’re talking to you)

• Party Make-Up picks, cursed NPC date nights, and the dream of one day fishing up Lovecraftian horrors in Dredge: The Anime

Plus: Zinogre mount fights, Monster Hunter addictions, VR fantasies, and a very firm stance on the sacred status of Gengar.

🔗 My Links
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