Greetings Faithful Listeners! Xan and the many other podcast hosts from Spiraken Review Podcasts have returned from our slight Hiatus energized and revitalized. So Since it has been a while, Firstly, we have not podfaded or disappeared. We are still here, still kicking and ready to review Movies, Manga, Video Games, Board Games, Cons and many other cool things. As for other News, Well we cover why we took the hiatus and have not updated the website since Otakon and give you some updates into our lives including the Fact that Xan and Gretta Got married on September 21st (Congratulations to us). Also we discuss, what our plans for the future are, what is going on with our movie review and some of the new releases in manga for October. So worry not, we are hear and ready to get back to work so Hurray and Hope you Enjoy ----more---- Music For Episode: Opening Music -Flyers- by Braido (Death Parade OST), Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spiraken/ Our Email Spiraken@gmail.com Xan's Email xan@spiraken.com Our Twitter Spiraken Xboxlive Gamertag Xan Spiraken Our Amazon Store http://www.amazon.com/shops/spiraken Random Question of the Day: Have you missed us?
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