The Ninja Consultant Podcast

Show #74 - Christmas 2009

2009-12-25T00:19:55Z

Show #074 - Direct Download:
OP: "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses
ED: "Welcome Christmas" from the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas

The difference between criticism and reviews.

Hanasakeru Seishonen

The Five Disfunctions of a Team - Manga Edition

Detective Loki Ragnarok
Bastard!
K-9 and Company

The Myth of the Noble Savage and the movie Avatar.

Show #73 - NYAF 2009 Part 2: Caleb

2009-11-30T04:38:54Z

Show #073 - Direct Download:
OP: Kanon 2006 OP, "Last regrets" by Ayana
ED: Clannad After Story ED, "TORCH" by Lia

In this episode we interview Caleb, an Otaku USA writer. Here's his personal blog, Anime wa Bakuhatsu da!

For a better definition of moe, listen to Dr. Weeaboo's 2007 panel recording we did.

Caleb saw Cencoroll at NYAF but we missed it.

You can read more about Caleb's opinions here and also over here:
It's insulting to the entire human race to put someone down because you think the anime they watch is trashy compared to what you watch. It's rude, it's annoying, and it's an embarrassment to any fan community. It's perfectly okay to not like a series; no one's expected to like everything, but insisting, even in jest, that someone who watches Kanon is suffering from severe autism (just like the characters! truly I am a comedy genius!) is just taking the extra step from "having a different opinion" to "being a jerk". it's common Internet behavior, true, but the Internet at large is another huge embarrassment to humanity.

I am the new Bamboo Dong

2009-10-13T17:26:33Z

It's official. Starting next week I'll be taking over Bamboo Dong's¹ "Shelf Life" column on Anime News Network. I'll be reviewing anime on a weekly basis, for "...the #1 English language source for anime and manga news on the Internet".

Five years ago, when I was reading Bamboo's column, I never thought, "Oh, I bet someday I'll be writing this!" I really liked her Nightshift Nurses 2 comic strip - and apparently so did everyone else, it's her "longest viewed" column.

Back in 2004 I also asked the Answerman a question. I couldn't really imagine that there would come a time in 2009 when I would be randomly hanging out with ANN staff over lunch at Tokyo Big Sight.

So next week please look forward to my review of Black Lagoon! Hopefully Noah will get his Black Lagoon podcast ready soon, too.

I'm trying to figure out what this will mean for the podcast. Our pace of shows is already really slow, (averaging once a month) so I can't imagine it getting any worse. We will certainly be watching a lot more anime. Maybe we'll give away DVDs once in a while.

¹ Yes, that is her real name.

Show #72 - NYAF 2009 Part 1: The Rough Guide to Anime

2009-10-05T05:04:31Z

Show #072 - Direct Download:

OP: Only Yesterday clip
ED: Multilanguage version of Ponyo end theme, including the abysmal English language remix.

An interview with Simon Richmond, author of the Rough Guide to Anime (and the very useful Rough Guide to Japan) conducted at NYAF 2009. Here's my Otaku USA NYAF coverage. Here's my PW interview with Simon.

Anime influenced Madonna video, Britany Spears video.
The Anime Encyclopedia by Helen McCarthy
Justin Sevakis's Buried Treasure
Fred Schodt!
Gilles Poitras also writes for Otaku USA magazine.
Seoul Animation Center
Korean Folk Village
Lotte World
Planned Museum Dedicated to the New Arts in Odaiba, in Tokyo
Starcraft Players in Korea
The Last Starfighter
Ame Con in Leicester, U.K.
Smallest U.K. Con: Minami Con, 300 Attendees
"Horses for Courses", an idiom we had never heard before.
Rough Guide to Manga, October 2009, by Jason Yadao

Daryl's comment is worth noting in the show notes:

In my review of the book in Otaku USA, I said that if I had to pick *one* book that every anime fan should read, The Rough Guide to Anime was it. It's not just because I briefly met Simon at Anime Boston thanks to your interviewing him, either. If everyone knew (or at least read through and partially retained) the information contained within it and watched the 50 recommended anime titles (well, you can skip Steamboy. And if you absolutely MUST watch Evangelion, save it for last so you can properly contextualize it), then anime fandom would be substantially better off for it. It's not a big book, it's not expensive, and despite being really information-dense it's got a lot of pictures and sidebars so as not to overwhelm people.
At every con I go to where I do some sort of anime recommendations panel (such as this weekend's upcoming EXPCon in St. Augustine, FL!), I tell people to go out and get this book. My actual success rate is unknown, as I'm still the only person I know to have read it, but it's simultaneously "newbie-friendly" while containing more worthwhile, lasting information worth retaining than pretty much any other anime book on the shelves.
If there ever came a day when 1. I figured out what the heck I'd write a book about, and 2. I managed to actually write said book and get it published, key in my mind would be "does this book I'm writing handle [whatever its subject material would be] as good as if not better than The Rough Guide to Anime?" Were that day to ever come, I'm not fully sure the answer would be "yes."

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2009-08-30T21:39:33Z

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Show #71 - The Webcomic Episode

2009-08-25T03:55:46Z

Show #071Direct Download:
OP and ED: "Theme from Mega Force" by Movie Night: The Band

Hetalia - began as a webcomic, and was collected into manga volumes, then adapted into an anime series which was streamed online for free in Japan.
Tonari No 801-chan was similarly a webcomic, and I think it was adapted into a live action drama series.

At 1 h 9m 35s - we talk about Japanese comics some more, and it's historical and informative.

Guest: Chris from Ego and the Squid

If my hotlinking crashes your server let me know.

Chris's Favs:
Dinosaur Comics
Isotown
Overcompensating
Penny Arcade
New Feelings
Achewood
American Elf
Scene Language
Star Shaped Rock
Daisy Owl
The Ego And The Squid
The Order Of The Stick
Fart Party
Hark! A Vagrant
Cat And Girl
Creased Comics
Buttersafe
Nedroid
Natalie Dee
Married To The Sea
Toothpaste For Dinner

Noah's Favs:
Penny Arcade
Skinhorse (by the author of Narbonic)
Erfworld (dude is cool)
Order of the Stick

Erin's Favs:
A Kick in the Head
XKCD
Perry Bible Fellowship (retired)
Fart Party
Jerk City (NSFW)
Dinosaur Comics

Old-Timey Comics:
Wondermark
Married to the Sea
Edison Hates the Future

Some Other Mentions:
Alien Loves Predator
Idiot Comics
Irregular Comics

Webcomic Cons:
Conneticon
MoCCA
Stumpytown
APE
New England Webcomics Weekend

Goodbye Kim's Video Underground!

Now Syndicated: Diesel Sweeties

Paper Comics:
Ted Rall of Tom the Dancing Bug
Ernie Pook's Comeek by Lynda Barry

Topatocow Store for the coolest shirts

Drama Webcomics:
Voids
Scene Language

Eventually we talk about manga again - around 57-1 hour in.
Viz's IKKI - titles for free
Rin-E - Rumiko Takahashi's bland Bleach rip-off

Garfield Without Garfield
Arbuckle
Lasagna Cat

Flethcher Hanks reprints - Super Wizard Stardust (recommended!)

1 h 9m 35s - Japanese strip comics

A Drifting Life - read it!
My Neighbors the Yamadas - based a newspaper strip - recommended!

4-Koma strips in translation:
Azumanga Daioh (recommended)
Lucky Star
Shoulder a Coffin Kuro
S.S. Astro
Cosplay Kurumi-chan
Sazae-san

Although not a strip comic, High School Girls is recommended!

60 Ways to Leave Your Mother
Star Shaped Rock
American Elf
Creased Comics by Brad Neeley, who did Wizard People Dear Reader, and a hilarious short about George Washington
Overcompensating

e-sheep

Promos:
Gamma Quadrant
Anime Roundtable

Last minute Otakon roommate?

2009-07-15T15:32:00Z

Hey guys, we could use one to three more Otakon roommates. We're staying at the Brookshire, which is not the cheapest, but has free breakfasts and free microbrew beer on Friday night. I arrive Thursday night, we're leaving Sunday afternoon.

Contact: ninjaconsultant (at) gmail (dot) com

And no, we don't want to move to another hotel to stay in your room. We love breakfast.

Otakon 2009 - Booth R12

2009-07-14T15:07:46Z

I only made a few of these. You can get 'em at Booth R12 in Otakon's Artist Alley. I'm making buttons that say the same thing as well.

All our panels got rejected :( but I might be on the "Review Anime the Right Way" panel tentatively scheduled for Saturday at 7 PM, with other Otaku USA writers.

Show #70 - 20th Century Boys

2009-07-07T04:01:31Z

Show #069Direct Download:
OP and ED: "20th Century Boy"" by T. Rex in reference to 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa

We totally saw these two movies. And the Korean Antique Bakery movie.

Check our wedding website for all the videos we're talking about.

Thanks to everyone who donated towards our wedding!!

No, we haven't retired from podcasting!

2009-07-02T17:56:53Z

We've just been too busy, you know, appearing on Adult Swim and stuff:

More info on our wedding website.

News: Ninja Consultants At Anime Boston 2009

2009-05-16T18:49:47Z

Noah and I will be at Anime Boston but we won't have an artist alley table this year. You might be able to find us bumming around ali_wildgoose's table. Erin will be on both of the following panels, but Noah is only on the Manga Genre Madness panel.

Even if you've attended my Manga Genre Panel before at AnimeNext or MangaNext, you should go again this time because I've added new content about political mahjong manga Legend of Koizumi, more manga about cats, more scans from Drops of God, and Chloe will help us translate the weird foods of Kishoku Hunter (Junk Food Hunter).

Please Save My Manga! Friday 10:00:00 AM - 11:00 AM in Panel Room 202

Underloved? Overrated? Or just plain out of print? Join a crack team of PopCultureShock.com reviewers as they discuss everything manga, from classics and favorites to overlooked gems and over-read failures. (Disclaimer: starry-eyed abandon, the occasional mean right hook may ensue.)

Manga Genre Madness 5:00 to 6:30 PM on Saturday in Panel Room 202

Manga covers every genre imaginable - and unimaginable! Thanks to the importing of manga you can read veterinarian manga, salaryman manga, fishing manga, manga about economics, and manga about baking bread! Erin and Noah from the Ninja Consultant podcast and special guest Chloe from PopCultureShock.com present the absolutely most insane manga titles available in English - and a few titles which won't be translated anytime soon (wine connoisseur manga, for example).

Show #69 - The Wedding Episode

2009-04-22T20:10:48Z

Show #069Direct Download:

OP: Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling
ED: Paul Simon sings Scarborough Fair on the muppet show (featuring Miss Piggy), and the relevant excerpt of Scarborough Affair by Scooter

This episode does not have anything to do with:

Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex, Terrorism and Radicalization

Black Lagoon, piracy and the decline of the state.

But those shows are on their way.

Erin went to Japan!
Remember when we got engaged??? That was over a year ago! Well, now we're getting married... in Zero-G.
But it's not like some impossible task, like in the song Scarborough Fair...
We will be the first couple to get married in zero gravity!
- ...or one of two couples if the Canadians go up with us.
Right now it looks as if our wedding will be ~~JUNE 13~~ JUNE 20th, 2009!

Which we have been planning, which is why Erin went to Japan...

to get this dress from Eri Matsui:

Erin also went to Tokyo Anime Fair
Hung out with Anime News Network peeps.
- and, of course, Ed Chavez.
Meanwhile, Erin will NOT work on the TMNT 25th anniversary thing... which will probably be awesome.
Who cares though??? BEAN DOGS!!! Or mameshiba - here's the official site and some of the commercials.
- Neither a bean, nor a dog. Liminal. Kind of like natto.

Noah has no facebook account, although there is a Friends of Noah facebook group.
Soon we will be married in space. Well... Zero gravity... Well... SIMULATED zero gravity.
Erin had a good experience working with Eri Matsui!

How does the zero-g work?
Look at this:

It's like a roller coaster!

As seen here:

We are selling things! But first --

We pitched Whose Wedding is it Anyway? On the Style network. But... they turned us down.

So. We are selling things. Like these things:

iPod Touch
Kindle II
Yaoi
"Disappointing" (non-pornographic) Code Geas dojinshi

Do you want to come to our wedding? If you want to, maybe you can!

Or, if you want to give us a wedding gift -- you can do it here.

There will be receptions in NY and Michigan (and ~~Boston~~ Florida, for that matter).
Horrible Michigan Traditions, some of which are wedding-related:
- Chicken dance
- Dollar dance
- Glumkis
- Punchkis
  - As featured in Deer Hunter.
Hey! Weekly Anime Review People! You are totally invited to our Michigan reception!
Glumki sounds gross. Pierogi sounds delicious.
Goulash... is ok, maybe. Bigos is pretty good.

Wedding stuff email address: noahanderin@gmail.com

...and, in Japan, Erin also bought 24 cologne for Dave Riley.

"Take risk! Be sexy!"

Wrong Number?

2009-03-15T07:34:45Z

Ugh! The wrong voicemail number was listed in our sidebar for months! Our current voicemail is: 206-338-3790.

Also I think skype voicemail is working again. We are "ninjaconsultant" on skype.

Well, I'm off to Tokyo for my wedding dress and to go to TAF. Read about it at noahanderin.com when I get around to blogging.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

Manga Recon Show #009: Schedule of a Weekly MangaKa

2009-03-05T19:13:28Z

Direct Download:

OP & ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, "Blazing Transfer Student" by Toshihiko Seki.

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Manga Adaptations Discussion:
- Haruhi Suzumiya
- InuKami
- .hack//XXXX
- Gurren Lagan

- Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story. Here's my review.

- Peach Pit was hospitalized recently
- Who is Kazuo Koike?

Dai Gaku Manga
Published by: The Osaka Institute of Art

Burning Pen! Screaming Pen! Blue Flame!
by Kazuhiko Shimamoto
http://users.skynet.be/mangaguide/au1729.html

Blog post about the horizontal gutters being wider than the vertical gutters in manga.

I was talking about good and bad paneling examples from One Pound Gospel and S.A.. I can't find the S.A. example, but here's a nice sequence from One Pound Gospel:

Then on the next page:

Mr. X talks about Mampu

Hikaru No Go paneling where the "camera" is placed below the board. In this sequence, Akira is playing Go on the internet.

I mention the School of Visual Arts. (Pratt is also good.)

Unimpressive art in an autobiographical comic that made all the critics' top ten lists:

In Japan, a bad run is a circulation of 50,000. In the U.S. a great circulation for manga is 5,000 - even though we've got four times the population.

The Yasha Craig Ape is from Grappler Baki.

Link to AWO's coverage of Lady Snowblood. It's at 37:28 - 57:52 in their show.

Kochikame has been around forever!

What are ikimen?

Bakuman

Show #69 - Coming Soon. I mean this isn't it.

2009-03-01T01:06:56Z

Not really a show. Direct Download:

OP & ED: "Chocolate Disco" by Perfume

Not so much a show as an announcement and an apology?

Show #68 - SITACon 2008 Podcasters Unite - Part 2 - Otaku Shame

2009-01-14T03:54:01Z

Show #068Direct Download:

OP: "Fushigi Purupuru Pururin Rin!" by Shishido Rumi from the Welcome to the NHK OST
ED: The first Welcome to the NHK end theme, "Odoru Akachan Ningen" by Kenji Ohtsuki and Fumihiko Kitsutaka

This show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let's call this episode "OT," for "older teen," 14+. Part 3 will be explicit. I mean we literally discuss hentai in part 3.

Hi this is Alain from the anime blog Reverse Thieves. As a regular listener to your podcast I was wondering if you could do us a favor and mention a project we are currently recruiting for. If you find our project interesting could you mention the Otaku Diaries on your next podcast and/or post our project information and contact information on your website.

We at Reverse Thieves are looking to do something a little different.

We are proposing a project called the Otaku Diaries. We are looking for people who consider themselves otaku to participate in an anonymous survey. It will be profiling the lives, loves, and losses of these individuals and how their hobby has related to shaping them. We will also be looking for patterns as well as differences in the cases. We are looking for diverse people who are not afraid to get personal, questions will include topics like prior relationships, profession, and sexuality.

If you are interested here is how it is going to work. Send us an email at otakudiary@gmail.com with a brief description of yourself include your age, sex, and location. No names need be exchanged and your anonymity will be protected, create a separate e-mail account just for this survey if you wish. If you are selected to participate, you will be given a case # to which all your answers will be attributed. After all the data is collected we will be doing several blog posts about the results.

We hope to start at the end of February, depending on the number of responses.

Thanks!

- Hisui (Alain)
www.reversethieves.com
reversethieves@gmail.com

Promo: Happy House of Hentai

We talk about nerd shame, how to extra XP by turning Noah red, and reviews of:

Bondage Game (a hentai)
Negima
Fate/Stay Night
Lunar Legend Tsukihime
Genshiken
Welcome to the NHK
Ressentiment
Densha Otoko gets another mention

- The strip Noah mentions is from Chugworth Academy http://www.chugworth.com/ , and not Short Cuts, as we suspected.
- Noah makes sweeping generalizations about Japan

Show #67 - SITACon 2008 Podcasters Unite - Part 1 - Trivia

2009-01-07T21:25:45Z

Show #067Direct Download:
OP: Black Lagoon OP
ED: Ghost in the Shell; Stand Alone Complex OP

Maybe Noah will add some links later! Also, this show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let's call this episode "OT," for "older teen," 14+.

Podcasters Present:
Anime World Order
R5 Central
Happy House of Hentai
Ninja Consultants

This podcast is about:

Gerald's Hobby is taking pictures of Mike Dent:

- Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist is a reference to The Thin Man

- Rock Holmes
- Captain Hitler
- No one should ever watch Eiken, ever.

- Chi's Sweet Home

- "You don't mess with owl-bears... unless you're 7th level or higher."
- What if 4-chan answered Densha Otoko's messages instead if 2chan?

Podcasters We Mentioned:
- Ed from the MangaCast
- Dave and Joel

Promo: Ani-Gamers podcast. Here is a picture of Evan:

Show #66 - Christmas Episode 2008 Part 1

2008-12-26T00:21:40Z

Show #066Direct Download:
OP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Y6--DjMKg
Music: ??
ED: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIZapZNh_Q Denki Groove "Shonen Young"

View Poll: What show do you want to hear next?

Come back later for more show notes!!

4Kids cuts Staff
http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13943.html

My post on ANN
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=671137#671137

Show #65 - NYAF 2008 OtakuUSA Magazine Panel

2008-11-24T04:06:49Z

Show #065Direct Download:

Music: OtakuUSA Magazine theme song by Marxy

Recorded live at New York Anime Festival 2008. My computer crashed mid-way through our already short panel.

Be sure to check out this month's issue, where Erin has a Claymore feature, a review of Blue Dragon, and a couple of paragraphs on Death Note merchandise.

Erin and Jeff Knight (not pictured), the ad sales guy, at the OtakuUSA panel at NYAF (not pictured).

I can't believe you missed the Ninja Consultant panel at San Diego Comic Con!

MangaNext 2008 Panels!!

2008-10-31T04:21:19Z

MangaNext 3 is this weekend! Noah and I won't have a table, but we might be hanging out at Alison Wilgus's Artist Alley table on Saturday. Actually Noah won't be there Saturday at all. If you want to hang out, email ninjaconsultant (at) gmail.com.

Our panels are:

Culinary Manga Sunday, Panel 1, 11:00 AM
Crazy Manga Genres Sunday, Panel 1, 1:00 PM

If you went to AnimeNext this year, and attended our panels - I've added to the Crazy Manga Genres and spun off food manga into it's own panel! It's slightly improved content!

Show #64 - Guin Saga Roundtable

2008-10-17T04:08:01Z

Show #064Direct Download:

Music: Conan the Barbarian theme by Basil Poledouris, Berserk music "Forces (God-Hand Remix)".

Ioannis "Yani" Mentzas from Vertical
Serdar Yegulalp from Advanced Media Networks and The Gline.com
Erin and Noah
Read a transcription of the show on Vertical's site here.

Vertical has published the first 5 novels of the Guin Saga, the 120+ volume fantasy series that inspired Berserk and other Japanese fantasy in a Tolkien-esque way (that is to say, Kaoru Kurimoto inspired Japanese fantasy as much as Tolkien inspired the genre in the West, but Guin Saga is not in itself Tolkien-esque).
3-4 Guin Saga volumes come out every year in Japan
The author also publishes a few other books, cleans the house, and is a regular on a quiz show (Specifically Hinto de Pinto). And she's a literary critic. And she's a composer. And she composed a musical based on the Guin Saga that has been performed in Tokyo.
Kurimoto-san married the editor of the sci-fi magazine that first published Guin Saga.
Noah vocab: Phatic. "A Phatic Experience."
Guin Saga is the "Mother of Light Novels," along with the Vampire Hunter D novels.

What is a light novel anyway?
- Short and Fast read
- Has illustrations
- Usually "genre" but not always
- There's often a psychic
- "Feats of the imagination"

Guin Saga is soon to be an anime series from Aniplex
Guin Saga is translated by Harvard graduate and fantasy fan Alexander O. Smith (~~who probably edits his wikipedia page about himself~~ retracted, see below).
We're all glad about the Viz Big editions of Vagabond.
Yoshitaka Amano got famous in part for his Guin Saga covers!
Noah and I recommend King Naresuan 1 & 2 (but mostly 2). We're looking forward to part 3.
Finally at about one hour and 17 minutes Dungeons and Dragons comes up. That's one hour and 15 minutes longer than it usually takes for Noah to start talking D&D!
Is the leopard headed fighter in Tekken a Guin reference? Or a Tiger Mask reference?
- UPDATE: Since Guin was first published in 1979, it post-dates Tiger Mask by 11 years. HOWEVER, as it turns out, before Tiger Mask was a Japanese pro-wrestler, it was actually a MANGA! Who knew???

News: SITACon 2008

2008-10-10T05:04:09Z

We're leaving in the morning for SITACon 2008, where we are guests!

Here are some panels we'll be on! (Schedule not final.)

Friday, October 10^th6:30 PM to 7:30 PM – Opening Ceremonies
11:00 PM to 12:00 AM – Japanese Commercial Apocalypse!

Saturday, October 11^th12:00 PM to 1:00 PM – Manga You Should Read (with Gerald, and Clarissa)
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Podcasters Unite (with R5, Gerald, and Clarissa)
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Manga Madness
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – Comiket Survival

Sunday, October 12^th10:30 AM to 12:00 PM – Ninja Consultant Live Podcast

We've never done a live show before... at least, not in such a formal setting. I mean it won't be live after I edit it in post. We'll probably give away whatever T-shirts we haven't sold in Artist Alley.

My panels for MangaNext got approved, so look forward to more Crazy Manga Genres and Culinary Manga at the end of the month!

News: New York Anime Festival 2008

2008-09-26T04:34:11Z

Noah and I will be at NYAF in the Artist's Alley, table number 15!

I will be on the OtakuUSA Magazine panel at 3 PM on Friday!

We're sharing the table with the folks from the A!Pon vidcast, Chaotic Unicorn, this guy named Taz, and maybe even Dookie Poo. The Angry Otaku, whom we've had on our show in the past, will also be there.

A slight word of warning: Although I will be at the con on Friday, Noah will not, and I won't be at the table much. Your best bet is to try to catch us on Saturday or mid-day on Sunday.

The T-shirts we have left are all Youth or XXL.

Manga Recon Show #008: YaoiCast #002 [Explicit 18+]

2008-09-13T19:51:49Z

Direct Download:

OP: "Lookin' Cute / Feelin' Cute" by Gay Pimp
ED: "Fa***ty Attention" by Adam Joseph

This entry is cross-posted is cross-posted to the mangacast.

0:55-8:15 - Picnic as reviewed by Kate
8:15-9:58 - Can't Win With You - excerpt read by Gina
9:58-13:55 - Same Cell Organism as reviewed by Kari
13:55-14:28 - Brief mention of Little Crybaby by me
14:28-25:30 - Say Please reviewed as reviewed by Alison, with a discussion of rape in manga

All of these titles are recommended, except Little Crybaby, which was terrible.

Show #63 - Otakon 2008 Podcasting Party [Explicit]

2008-09-02T03:54:50Z

Show #063 Explicit! Direct Download:

Music: JAM Project singing the Soul Taker Theme, Cha-La Head Cha La, and Wesley Willis's "I Wupped Batman's Ass" as well as "Stabbing Westward"

Featuring:

Mike Toole, of Anime News Network
Daryl Surat and Gerald Rathkolb of Anime World Order
David Riley of Dave and Joel's Fast Karate for the Gentleman
Mike Dent of R5 Central (all of the above are Otaku USA writers as well)
Tyler is the Rangercast
James the Angry Otaku of the Ah!Pon vidcast

Links and cleaned-up show notes coming soon!

Wherein we discuss who the Kano sisters are, and what they were doing at Otakon.
We review the JAM Project concert.
Note to first time concert goers:
- Don't wear the band's T-shirt to their concert, you will be "that guy."
- If the band leaves after their "final number" and the house lights don't turn on, there's going to be an encore. Don't leave!!
- Dave Riley never stops talking!
- Yoshiki Fukuyama's (Fukuyama was the time traveling cowboy with Sam Hagar's hair) role models:
1. Gegege No Kitaro
2. Japanese author Osamu Dazai
3. Basaru Nekki
Masaaki Endoh - A member of Poison or Foghat who traveled through time, and became Japanese in the process.

Most violent songs ever created:
- Cha La, Head Cha La
- Violence of the Flame

Gerald points out that we're mostly Irish.

Dave may have killed Ed Chavez last December.

Birth is worth "exactly $5". Not plus shipping, just $5 over the counter.

Venus vs. Virus is not Innocent Venus

Chris Oarr might be Dave's adopted father.

Kigurumi make a showing at Otakon this year

Mike Dent cosplaying as Wesley Willis?

Aren't you jealous of my Satoshi Kon sketch!?

Tyler is sadly too young to remember the deceased Wesley Willis, known for his song "I Wupped Batman's Ass"

Noah's best thing about Otakon: The Akira Baby

Gerald's favorite: Kappei Yamaguchi's hair

My Fav: The Anime is Serious Business panel

Mike Toole has seen the Pyongyang animation: Cordo Maltese, there's a big budget movie Corto Maltese

A three ring binder of badly drawn penises was outselling us in Artist's Alley (get photo from Gerald)

Mike Dent reveals the last line of his Greatest Movie Ever fanfic.

JAM Project panel

The Kano sisters.

ADV's "booth."

Dave Riley and Chris Oarr - separated at birth?

Aren't you jealous of Erin's Satoshi Kon sketch?

Gerald hasn't had a drop to drink.

Neither has Daryl.

Left to right: Gerald, Dave, unknown Wesley Willis cosplayer.

Cosplay has really improved at Otakon this year. That's the boar from Princess Mononoke!

I still need images of the Akira baby and the crudely drawn penis notebook.

At the very end: Gossip about Paul Chapman and Dave's girlfriend!