Trash Taste
| Trash Taste | ||||
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| Presentation | ||||
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| Developed by | GeeXPlus | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Updates | Weekly | |||
| Length | 2+ hours | |||
| Production | ||||
| Production | Meilyne Tran[1] | |||
| Video format | YouTube | |||
| Audio format | MP3 | |||
| No. of episodes | 65 (as of 10 September 2021) | |||
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| Original release | 2020 – present | |||
| Related shows | Abroad in Japan | |||
| Website | trashtaste | |||
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| Channels | ||||
| Years active | 2020–present | |||
| Subscribers | 1.8 million (combined)[2] | |||
| Total views | 257.4 million (combined)[2] | |||
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Updated: 22 August 2021 | ||||
Trash Taste is a weekly audio and video podcast hosted by Joey Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, and Connor Colquhoun - three Tokyo-based content creators primarily focusing on anime and Japanese pop culture.[3] The podcast generally discusses Japanese culture and life in Japan.
History[]
The podcast was started in February 2020 by GeeXPlus, a subsidiary of BookWalker, who helped the three hosts to relocate to Japan to help them have more access to Japanese culture and to promote their products on their channel. Since the three were brought over in Japan, they decided to start a podcast that was already planned on the back of their minds for some time.[4][5] The first episode of the podcast was uploaded to YouTube on 5 June 2020. Since then, new episodes have been released every Friday, with the exceptions of 30 October 2020 and 26 February 2021, on which YouTube-exclusive specials were released instead.[6]
On 26 May 2021, the hosts moved out of the studio in which they had recorded the first fifty-four episodes, dubbed season one, and relocated to a new studio that officially kicked-off season two.[7] On 17 June 2021, the hosts were invited for a live 'podcast' event about Japan-based YouTubers by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan; discussions range from living in Japan to how Trash Taste got started.[8][9] Trash Taste also appeared in the Foreign Correspondent Club Japan's Number 1 Shimbun Magazine June 2021 volume. [10]
Format[]
Discussions in the podcast are about more than just anime, and delve into various topics, including otaku culture, life in Japan, and topics varying on the episode's theme.
So far, on twelve of the fifty episodes, the podcast has featured several special guests. As of 9 July 2021, these guests have included Chris Broad, who has appeared thrice, Kaho Shibuya, Meilyne Tran (the show's executive producer), Sydsnap, Mori Calliope, Noriyaro, Ken Arto, Nano, Akidearest, Ladybeard, Reina Scully and Shu Uchida.[11][12][13][14][15] The hosts have also expressed interest in featuring PewDiePie, Cr1TiKaL and Kevin Penkin as guests, all of whom have also expressed interest in being featured on the podcast, and claimed that they plan to visit Japan once travel restrictions enacted because of the COVID-19 pandemic permit them to do so.
Generally, each episode is between one and three hours long, and is broken up intermittently with sponsor spots and a list of all Patreon subscribers near the end. The intro and outro title card both feature the copyright-free song "Mama Mười Bảy (instrumental)" by Omen.[16]
The podcast's producer is Meilyne Tran, with video editing by Toomas Lismus (MudanTV).[1][17]
YouTube[]
The Trash Taste podcast utilizes three channels on YouTube. The first and main channel is Trash Taste, which includes all the podcast episodes and specials. The second, Trash Taste Highlights, provides short clips from each podcast episode that are significant or interesting. The third, Trash Taste After Dark, reuploads livestreams from the podcast's Twitch channel.[18]
The Trash Taste channel was created on 14 February 2020, posting its first video on 5 June 2020. The channel has 1,030,000 subscribers as of 13 August 2021.[19] The Trash Taste Highlights channel was also created on 14 February 2020, posting its first video on 6 June 2020. This channel has 508,000 subscribers as of 13 August 2021.[20] The Trash Taste After Dark channel (originally called Trash Taste Streams) was created on 23 August 2019, posting its first video on 28 January 2021. This channel has 281,000 subscribers as of 13 August 2021.[21]
In addition to the three YouTube channels, the podcast also has a Twitch channel, called trashtastepodcast, which has 145,000 followers as of 13 August 2021.
Specials[]
Typically debuting on a week in which no episode of the podcast is released, the specials, available only on YouTube, feature the hosts of Trash Taste outside the studio.
| No. | Title [22] | Original release date | Running time | |
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| S1 | "The Chess Tournament Arc" | 25 August 2020 | 1:17:07 | |
| The hosts participate in a chess tournament with other anime YouTubers, thanks to Chess.com.[23] | ||||
| S2 | "We Tried Real Tokyo Drifting and FAILED" | 30 October 2020 | 0:47:38 | |
| The hosts go to Ebisu Circuit to learn how to drift. This special also featured Abroad in Japan, who was the videographer and driver. | ||||
| S3 | "We Tried Cycling Across Japan and FAILED" | 26 February 2021 | 1:08:20 | |
| The hosts go to Hiroshima Prefecture to cycle the 70-kilometre (43 mi) Nishiseto Expressway. | ||||
| S4 | "Trash Taste PC Building Speedrun" | 28 June 2021 | 0:44:50 | |
| The hosts are each tasked to put together a PC in the fastest time. | ||||
Podcast episodes[]
Season 1 (2020–21)[]
| No. | Title [24] | Original release date | Running time |
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| 1 | "The Worst Anime Podcast Has Arrived" | 5 June 2020 | 1:16:10 |
| 2 | "The Struggles of Life in Japan" | 15 June 2020 | 1:53:50 |
| 3 | "The Anime That Shaped Our Childhoods" | 19 June 2020 | 1:07:49 |
| 4 | "How to NOT Buy Anime Figures" | 26 June 2020 | 1:19:59 |
| 5 | "Don't Be a YouTuber in Japan (ft. Abroad in Japan)" | 3 July 2020 | 2:15:54 |
| 6 | "Don’t Watch Anime to Learn Japanese" | 10 July 2020 | 2:06:29 |
| 7 | "The Internet Kinda Sucks Right Now" | 17 July 2020 | 1:39:13 |
| 8 | "We Don’t Understand Anime Games" | 24 July 2020 | 1:52:32 |
| 9 | "Japan’s Earthquakes Are Terrifying" | 31 July 2020 | 1:47:44 |
| 10 | "Our Dark Past with Anime YouTube" | 7 August 2020 | 2:12:32 |
| 11 | "Sitting Down with a Japanese
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