Show #102a - Anime World Order Show # 102a

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I feel justified in recasting this podcast for a couple of reasons:

1. I was a guest. (Noah makes a brief appearance.)
2. And perhaps more importantly, I edited this show, but the A and B parts.

Daryl then re-edited it, and cut out my awesome Christmas remix of the AWO theme song. He also probably cut out more "ums". In any case, this was ready to go on December 30th, 2011.

Read AWO's full show notes here.

Show #101 - New York Comic Con 2011

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Music Break #1: Adventure Time theme song
Music Break #2: The theme song from China, IL a new Adult Swim show created by internet sensation Brad Neely
ED: "George Washington" also by Brad Neely

With special guests, including @spiraken from Spiraken Manga Review and @VamptVo from Ani-Gamers.

Video - Unusual Manga Genres Otakon 2011 Edition

Unusual Manga Genres Panel Otakon 2011 from Erin Finnegan on Vimeo.

Thanks to @daqdug for the editing!

Show #99 - Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011 Part 2 with AWO and the OSMcast

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OP & ED: "Chase the Light!" by Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the opening song to Kaiji Season 2, which I don't think we talk about in the show at all.

With special guests from the OSMcast and Anime World Order.

Our New York Comic Con 2011 Panel Time is...

Join us this Friday, October 14th at 11 AM on the Anime Main Stage for "Unusual Manga Genres"!

Show #98 - Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011 Part 1 Emily, Dave, and Ko

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OP: "Mamboleo" by Elissa
INT: "Friday" by Matt Mulholland
ED: "Right here right now" by Fatboy Slim - Various

We talk to our friends Emily and Dave about their recent trip to Japan, post-Earthquake, where they watched sumo and visited a Hakone onsen I recommended. They also compare AWA to DragonCon.

Then I talk to @kransomwastaken about what it's like to run the videogame room at AWA for like 11 years, and outsider art from Nosferatu.

Here's a list of the AWA AMVs, which we also talk about. Below, the winning video:

Show #97 - Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011 Preview Guide with Darius

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We talk with @DWashington999 about upcoming events to look forward to at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2011.

Be sure to check out all the Ninja Consultant panels at AWA this weekend:

• Unusual Manga Genres: Friday, 6:00 PM Room 106
• 21 + Manga and Anime: Saturday, 9:00 PM Room 106
• Culinary Manga: Sunday, 2:00 PM, Room 106

Admittedly, there is an annoying buzzing noise on the the line when Darius talks on the phone. I didn't figure out a way to fix it fast enough before the convention, but listeners proficient with Audacity who'd like to take a crack at fixing it are invited to email ninjaconsultant at gmail and I'll send a link to the original files.

Show #96 - Makoto Shinkai Press Conference

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The Makoto Shinkai press conference from Otakon 2011, with the spoiler questions stacked at the end. ANN did a full transcript here. But just reading it you can't here all your favorite anime journalist asking the questions!

I have cut out the translator whispering the questions to Shinkai.

Show #95 - Children Who Chase Lost Voices, Arrietty the Borrower, Civilizational Collapse

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OP:  "マジLOVE1000％" by ST☆RISH, the ending theme of Uta no Prince-sama (here's my review of Uta on Shelf Life)
ED: Opening theme of the 1983 TV series "The Littles"

If this 50mb file is hilariously too large for you, there is a low quality version here.

• Our spoiler free take on Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below aka Hoshi o Ou Kodomo


• That film reminded me of The Journey of Shuna, although I can never remember the title.
  
• Tezuka's Phoenix, Volume 2, Future


• My review of Sound of the Sky, (So-Ra-No-Wo-To)


• Gensis of the Daleks


• Arrietty the Borrower, aka Arrietty. You could buy the [region free] Blu-ray from amazon.jp right now, I'm just saying.


•  My review of Hero Tales.

Show #94 - Yoshiyuki Tomino Q & A at NYAF 2009

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OP: "Fly! Gundam" by Koh Ikeda
ED: "Fly, Gundam" covered by Andrew WK on his album Gundam Rock.

Evan from Ani-Gamers is also on this recording, although briefly. The translator is Mari Morimoto.

Show #93 - Seinen Up!! at Genericon 2011

Show #093 - Direct Download:

ED: "Now You're A Man" by DVDA



@mangacast's Seinen Up!! Panel from Genericon 2011.

Apparently this recording was done by monkeys, and as such I apologize for the popping noises throughout. I tried to also remove many of the more awkward pauses, but not all of them, as I have other things to do today. Despite the poor quality, it's worth toughing this one out for the following reasons:

• There's a mention of the true author of Lone Wolf and Cub
• Ed says shojo is basically dead
• Learn the entire history of manga! (Almost.)
• You can learn about the state of the manga industry in France
• ...and more!

Show #92 - Culinary Manga NYCC 2010

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Here is a recording of our Culinary Manga panel from New York Comic Con last fall. I believe it was recorded by Spiraken originally, on an iphone, so the sound quality isn't great.

@samkusek is also on this panel, and is a major contributor of content.

You can follow along by downloading the PDF of the Powerpoint presentation.

Here is the video played in the middle:

Show #91 - Gantz in Your Pants

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OP: "Dance Epidemic" by Electric Six

Noah talks about Gantz for like, two and a half hours. Are you listening comfortably? Maybe you should get a snack. By the way, here's my Shelf Life review of Gantz.

Show #90 - Ninja Consultant Live Podcast at SITACon 2008 Part II NSFW 18+

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With special guests
Lawrence Eng, plue Gerald and Clarissa from Anime World Order.

NSFW: We use explicit language and talk about sex and dating in Japan.

Show #89 - Ninja Consultant "Live" Podcast at SITACon 2008 Part I NSFW 18+

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With special guests Gerald and Clarissa from Anime World Order.

NSFW: Things get a little "blue" as we talk about the now defunct Happy House of Hentai podcast.

Show #88 - 50 Manga Recommendations in 45 Minutes

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OP: "Rocket" by POLYSICS, the ending theme of Moyasimon; Tales of Agriculture
ED: "Amai Koibito" by Soichi Negishi, the end theme of Detroit Metal City

Our 50 Manga Recommendations in 45 Minutes panel recorded at Genericon 2011.



You can download a PDF of the covers and images in the panel here.

Here are the manga titles, which we cover in alphabetical order in the panel:

20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (Viz)
A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi
A Drifting Life, by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (Drawn & Quarterly)
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo
Astro Boy
Azumanga Daioh
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura (Dark Horse)
Buddha, vols. 1 and 2, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
Children of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi (Viz)
Death Note
Detroit Metal City by Kiminori Wakasugi
Disappearance Diary by Hideo Azuma (Fanfare/Ponent Mon)
Dororo, by Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
Dragon Ball
Emma, CMX
Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima (Del Rey)
Fruits Basket, Natsuki Takaya
Full Metal Alchemist
GoGo Monster by Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz)
Gon by Masahi Tanaka
Happy Happy Clover by Sayuri Tatsuyama (Viz)
High School Debut (Viz)
Hikaru no Go (VIZ)
Honey and Clover, Chika Umino
InuYasha VIZBIG (VIZ)
Kimi ni Todoke, Karuho Shiina
Kitchen Princess, Miyuki Kobayashi and Natsumi Andō
Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (Dark Horse)
Monster
Moyashimon: Tales of Agriculture, Masayuki Ishikawa
Mushishi, Yuki Urushibara
Nabari No Ou (Yen Press)
NANA (Viz)
Naruto (VIZ)
Nausica of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki
Nodame Cantabile, Tomoko Ninomiya
Oishinbo by Tetsu Kariya and Akira Hanasaki (Viz)
One Piece
Ookiku Furikabutte, Asa Higuchi
Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Fumi Yoshinaga VIZ
Parasyte, Hitoshi Iwaaki (Del Rey)
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka by Naoki Urasawa (Viz)
Real (Viz)
Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei, Kōji Kumeta
Seduce Me After the Show (Aurora/Deux)
Slam Dunk! by Takehiko Inoue (Viz)
Sugar Sugar Rune, Moyoco Anno
Summit of the Gods by Yumemakura Baku and Jiro Taniguchi
Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White, by Taiyo Matsumoto (Viz)
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno (Last Gasp)
Vagabond, Eiji Yoshikawa and Takehiko Inoue
Yotsuba&! (Yen Press)

Show #87 - An Interview with Tom Wayland

Show #087 - Direct Download:

OP & ED: Pokemon theme songs in Hindi

An interview with Tom Wayland at Otakon 2011. Tom has worked at Central Park Media and 4Kids, dubbing anime since before DVDs were invented. We talk to him about his recent work on cartoons made (in English) for India.



From the Otakon press release:

Tom has produced and/or directed hundreds of anime programs such as Now & Then, Here & There, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Alien Nine, The World of Narue, Ichi the Killer, Mew Mew Power, Magical Do Re Mi, and GI Joe and currently serves as the voice director on the hit series Pokemon.

Tom is also a very busy voice actor having appeared in hundreds of titles currently airing on Cartoon Network, Fox, WB, Nickelodeon or available on DVD including Yugi-oh 5Ds as Crow, Lester, and Nervin, GI Joe as Stormshadow, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as Jammerhead, Pokemon as Flint, Reggie, Arceus, and numerous creatures, Ikki Tousen as Kakuton, Three Delivery, Yugi-oh GX, Chaotic, One Piece, Mew Mew Power, Knight Hunters, Genshiken, Gokusen, and keep an ear out for his latest work as one of the lead characters - Finn in Tai-Chi Chasers.

Show #86 - Live at Mike Toole's Party Otakon 2011

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Audio from @michaeltoole's party on Thursday night of Otakon, featuring @elliotpage and @DanielBriscoe and sometimes @colonydrop (OK, only one member of Colony Drop).

This is not our greatest show, and it's unedited, but you get the exact verbatim experience of what it is like to talk to Erin at a party.

I'm releasing a bunch of shows to try and beat Anime World Order to episode 100.

This podcast is about:

Show #85 - Unusual Manga Genres Otakon 2011 Edition

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Music:
ED: "Happy Happy Dance" Translated poorly from Japanese Wikipedia: 作詞：森雪之丞／作曲：池毅／編曲：石田勝範／歌：YASU... Lyrics: Yuki Mori this Chengyan / Composer: Takeshi Pond / Arrangement: Katsunori Ishida Song /: YASU

My Unusual Manga Genres Panel from Otakon 2011!!! Hooray! I've been trying for five years to do this panel at Otakon:


Obviously there are a bunch of slides that go with this. You can follow along on a PDF, which I will have uploaded here.

Very ambitious "time rich" listeners are encouraged to cut a movie to the podcast and make it an mp4 that's ipod/iphone compatible. Email me at ninjaconsultant (at) gmail (dot) com and I'll hook you up with the slides as images.

Pro Golfer Saru OP:


Cooking Papa OP:

We are not going to AnimeNext, but Otakon and AWA for sure

Ugh, I haven't podcast in forever! Well, you can at least expect an Otakon podcast coming up.

FYI, we are not going to AnimeNext this year. Since it moved deeper into Jersey it's too much of a commitment.

My "Unusual Manga Genres" panel was finally accepted at Otakon!!! Hooray! I've been trying for five years to do this panel at Otakon:


We'll let you know the time of the panel as soon as we know.

We also have three panels accepted for Anime Weekend Atlanta. They don't seem to have a snappy logo yet.

Show #84 - Walter Amos on Hetalia

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Music:
OP: "Johnny Be Good" as sung by the Sex Pistols on the album The Great Rock and Roll Swindle
ED: Hetalia end theme as sung by America

Recorded at Genericon 2011. Posted with the permission of Walter Amos. Mr. Amos describes how anime has gotten high school girls into one of his favorite historical topics, the Prussian Empire.

We all learned a lot about Frederick the Great, who was totally amazing and probably gay. He had a terraformed garden like Nausicaa's, popularized the potato to help keep German people from starving, composed flute sonatas, and did tons of other great stuff socially and economically which you'll hear about in Amos's amazing lecture.

Genericon 2011 - We're Featured Panelists

Noah and I are featured panelists at RPI's Genericon this weekend. Here's our panel schedule:

• Saturday 9AM-10AM Japanese Commercial Apocalypse


• Saturday 9:30PM-10:30PM Unusual Manga Genres


• Sunday 10AM-11AM 50 Manga Recommendations in 45 minutes

Show #83 - Comiket 79

Show #083 - Direct Download:

Music: "Yume no Naka he" by Enomoto Atsuko and Suzuki Chihiro

With Ed Chavez, Clarissa from Anime World Order, and James of Giant Robot magazine.

I told the Comiket committee I'd post this on January 6th, so I had to hurry!

Show #82 - Scott Pilgrim

scott pilgrim vs ladies by *021 on deviantART Show #082 - Direct Download:

OP: "We Are Sex Bob-Omb" by Sex Bob-Omb from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
ED: "Scott Pilgrim" by Plumtree from the album Predicts the Future

More links to come. Probably.

• Edgar Wright directed Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced, and Scott Pilgrim, all worth watching.
• That Comics Journal Article
• The Day the Universe Changed with James "What's His Dink" Burke
• The "Grups" article
• The NPR "Death of the Hipster" interview
• The blu-ray is available now!
• There's like a 20 minute discussion of Juno
• "At nice the ice weasels come"
• Noah is the only person who likes the movie Hackers
• We both fucking love Napoleon Dynamite
• Noah is upset that that I gave Sekirei Rental Shelf instead of Perishable.
• I love Summer Wars, Gerald didn't - can we trust him about Tron Legacy?
• Our image of the average weekly manga-ka has been making the rounds
• Article: People under (or over) 30 won't understand Scott Pilgrim
• Miracle on 34th Street was originally released in May
• An Open Letter to James Cameron - about visaual effects studios putting themselves out of business.
• Moon is a totally sweet indy sci-fi film

Show #81 - Otakon 2010

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Music: The Yoshida Brothers (who were guests at Otakon 2010, and I really ought to have gone to that concert)

Starring podcast superstars:



Daryl, Clarissa, and Gerald of Anime World Order and Dave and Joel from Fast Karate.

At 23:20, we Erin interviews Ed Chavez of Vertical Inc. (and the MangaCast) about the sales of Chi's Sweet Home.

Also starring:



David Cabrera of Subatomic Brainfreeze and Colony Drop, Evan Minto from Ani-Gamers and Tyler from the Rangercast.

There are two other people in this show, and I've forgotten their names (again).

Part of the show is devoted to discussing a single issue of Ageha magazine (pictured above).