Show #66 - Christmas Episode 2008 Part 1

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"

Poll #1320825 What show do you want to hear next?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Which episode of the Ninja Consultants 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

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.

MangaNext 2008 Panels!!

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

Show #064Direct Download:

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

• 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).
• 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

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^th
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM – Opening Ceremonies
11:00 PM to 12:00 AM – Japanese Commercial Apocalypse!

 

Saturday, October 11^th
12:00 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^th
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM – Ninja Consultant Live Podcast

News: New York Anime Festival 2008

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+]

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]

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.

( more images under the cut!! )

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!

Manga Recon Show #008: YaoiCast #001 [Explicit 18+]

Direct Download:

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

0-10:25 - "Only the Ring Finger Knows" - the manga, reviewed by Clio
10:25-14:00 - uke and seme types
14:00- "Desire" reviewed by Gina
16:20 - More BL terms
19:41 - "Rising Storm" reviewed by Z.

( Covers below the cut )

BL terms:

Bobuge = BL game
Chikiku Seme = demonic seme (very violent)
DiveIn = well thats self explanitory
GataiUke = replacement uke (a narcissistic uke who wants to replace anoher uke. they often have similar features to the uke they are rivals with).
JKin = characters that look like those from Johnny's boys bands
Kemoshota = animals with little boys
Kentauros = dogboys/catboys/rabbit-boys...
Nyotaika = characters that obviously look like women
Riba = role reversal manga (uke and seme switch)
RoboYaoi = sci-fi BL with mecha
SasoiUke = an uke from a normal background that captures the heart of a superior seme
Souke / Souseme = ideal uke/seme or obviously one or the other
Yaora = yaoi lover (doesn't read BL sticks to doujinshi)

Promo #5 - Otakon 2008

Promo #5 Direct Download:

We're sharing tables with the Geek Nights people somewhere between F5 and F10 in the Otakon Artist's Alley selling T-shirts and buttons. If you want to stop by, Noah says he's not going to any panels this year (or something). All our panels got denied, but I felt less bad about it when Aurora Publishing couldn't get a panel either.

Other podcasters will be there!! Including Anime World Order, Fast Karate for the Gentleman, Geek Nights, R5 Central, and the Rangercast! That's like, half of the Otaku USA writers! I wonder if Joseph Luster will be there?!

Feel free to use my lame phone call promo on your own podcast in the next week!

Hax0red!!

The domain I share kind of got hacked by Nigerians, so we're sort of down at the moment. I don't have a new show ready yet anyway.

Thanks to everyone who showed up at our panels at AnimeNext! They were a huge hit!

Otaku USA issue seven comes out real soon, and I have two reviews and a bio in it, so be sure to check out my "Otaku Top Five"!

Bonus Episode - Dungeons & Dragons

Bonus Episode Direct Download:

OP: "Dungeons and Dragons" skit by the Dead Alewives, from the out of print album Take Down the Grand Master
ED: "Dungeons and Dragons part II" also by the Dead Alewives. Perhaps it was never on an album.

The Ninja Consultants will be appearing at the AnimeNext convention at the Meadowlands Expo Center in New Jersey, on Sunday, June 22nd 2008.

Erin and Noah will present two panels, one at 10 AM (the worst possible time slot) and one at 3 PM, (the second worst possible time slot). These times are subject to change without much notice. Look for signs outside the panel room for updates.

The 10 AM panel is "Japanese Commercial Apocalypse" and the 3:00 PM panel is "Manga Madness".

I assume we'll be running these panels again at SITACon at the very least, where we'll be guests. I applied to do the same manga panel at Otakon but I was *definitely officially* rejected.

- Quote of the week: "Kulshedra! I've been spelling it wrong forever!!"

• D&D 4th Edition, To which Noah believes 2nd Edition is superior
• Wizards of The Coast
• No Sword Blog entry on D&D
• JapaneseWikipedia Entry on D&D
• D&D Inspired Anime Titles
• Bastard!! -- "DARK SCHNEIDER!!!"
• Record of Lodoss Wars (Ep. 1 & 2 = good)
• Allegedly based on an actual game. Deedlit was apparently played by a dude.
• Replay Books
• MoccaFest
• BookHunter (Read or Die meets Dirty Harry) by Jason Shiga

===4TH EDITION COMMERCIAL===

We're really sorry about this everybody! It's all Erin's fault!

• Tycho's post on the tabletop RPG business model.
• YouTube 4th Edition demos:
• D&D 4th Edition Part I
• D&D 4th Edition Part II
• D&D 4th Edition Part III
• D&D 4th Edition Part IV

===ENOUGH OF THAT===

• A well-known medieval travelougue: The Letter of Prester John by the (likely fictitious) John Mandeville
• Some things one might find in a medieval travelogue:
• Dudes with mouths in their stomachs
• Giant ants collecting gold
• Dudes with one giant foot
• Like Kino's Journey with cooler monsters
• Ron Edwards and the Forge
• (Warning = read *A* *LOT* of Forge posts before posting if you are going to post. They hate repeating themselves and the site is carefully moderated.)
• Gamism
• Narrativism
• Simulationism
• ...and then there's the gregarious player who just shows up to hang out.
• GNS and Other Matters of Role-playing Theory (artice outlining the GNS Model)
• Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Tolkein's The Hobbit
• The Song of the Niebelung
• (the stories in which were adapted, of course, into an opera, comic and who knows how many other media. Here is the Radio Lab podcast episode dealing with the opera.)
• What is a lich? Pray you never find out...
• Little known fact: the Classical and Medieval residents of Antioch were sarcastic jerks! <-- I can't find a good link, so you'll have to take our word for it!
• You want to learn about the lives of saints? Look here!
• Norse Mythology: Here!
• How about Indian Mythology?
• Balkan Mythology? Super-weird!
• Albanian Mythology! Full of disgusting monsters!
• For instance, the Kulshedra!

Show #62 - Fujoshi Wave Discussion Post Anime Boston 2008

Show #62 - Fujoshi Wave Discussion Post Anime Boston 2008

Show #062 Direct Download:

OP: Dr. Zeus song from the Simpsons
ED: Incidental Music from Oguie's fantasies in Genshiken 2

Notes to be completed later.

Show #61 - '70's Shojo Manga Panel, Part 2

Show #061 Direct Download:

OP: "Ace wo Nerae!" by Kumiko Ohsugi, Opening theme of Aim for the Ace
ED: "Glass no Kamen" by Mariko Ashibe, Opening theme of Glass Mask (1984)

Part two of two of Dr. Weeaboo's '70's Shojo Manga panel from Anime Boston 2008.

Notes (to be completed later):

Ace Wo Narea (Aim for the Ace)
The Forest of Cinderella
Oke No Monso? (time traveling, Egypt, has pharaohs, ongoing? siblings in love, Sister's name: Isis)
From Eroica with Love is being published by CMX, and besides Swan and Emma, it's their best title.
Glass Mask
The Showa 24 Group (Nijûyonen Gumi)
No Play about the Crimson Goddess
What is No Theater?
Kaze to Ki no Uta - The Song of the Wind and Trees
Naomi
Otome Chikku manga
The Swaying of the Flower Swing
Manganovel.com free translation stuff and it's legit
Moyoko Anno is recommended - Flowers and Bees, Happy Mania, Hataraki Man

Show #60 - '70's Shojo Manga Panel, Part 1

Show #060 Direct Download:

OP: "Candy Candy" by Mitsuko Horie Opening theme of Candy Candy
ED: "Ai no Hikari to Kage" by Hiroko Suzuki End theme of Rose of Versailles

Dr. Weeaboo's '70's Shojo Manga panel from Anime Boston 2008. We edited it a little to make her sound even smarter. Thanks Dr. Weeaboo! We think you are awesome!

This is the second video featured in the panel:

Show #59 - Ogiue Maniax

Show #059 Direct Download:

OP and ED: "20th Century Boy"" by T. Rex in reference to 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa

An interview with Carl, the Ogiue Maniax blogger at New York Comic Con 2008.

More notes coming soon. We recorded more audio than this but the echo effect on the mixer was turned on and it sounds terrible. I also accidentally deleted a lot of what Noah and the Angry Otaku recorded. It doesn't matter, since one of the mics was off.

Show #58 - Manga Zombie and a Manga Panel at MoCCA

Show #058 Direct Download:

If you haven't been reading Comipress on a regular basis, it's not too late to start now. We received permission from Comipress and author Udagawa Takeo to read the introduction to Manga Zombie, which is being translated and made available for free online.


We also received permission to record a December 3rd panel at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art. It started off as "Manga 101," but the audience was mostly Metro Anime Club members and Publisher's Weekly people, so the discussion rapidly devolved into sweet, sweet manga industry insider gossip!! Stick around, as the good stuff is in the second hour. On the panel:

- Moderator: Brigid Alverson of Mangablog.net
- Dallas Middaugh, Del Rey Associate Pubilisher
- Mari Morimoto, translator and veterinarian
- John Fuller, Kinokuniya manager for the NYC branch
- Designer/letterer Brad Foltz,

Special thanks to Gina Gagliardo for arranging the panel! The Calvin asking questions at the end is Calvin Reid of Publisher's Weekly.

Thank you so much to Udagawa Takeo and ComiPress for allowing us to promote your wonderful work!

These are not the final show notes, please check back later for more notes on this recording!

Show #57 - Season Two! Crystal Triangle Review! 206-338-3790

Show #057 Explicit! Direct Download:

Our voicemail number expired!!! The number we say in the show is totally wrong! Call this instead: 206-338-3790

OP: "Nrrd Grrl" by MC Chris
ED: Bookins Theme Song by Jared Nissim

News:
Erin has a new job!
We moved into a new apartment!

It is now more true than ever that Erin might be a hipster. Can you be a hipster and an otaku at the same time? Patrick Macias
might be evidence of this.


We are getting married!


Promo: R5 Central Podcast with Ninjaconsultants guest hosting.

Erin absolutely refuses to go into David's Bridal because of the heart shaped apostrophe.
Noah won't set foot in a commercial jewlery store, because it turns out diamond engagement rings are a giant scam!

Here is a Wired Magazine article about the archaeological dig in Turkey that Noah mentions.

Noah later opted not to steal a ring from the dig, because he's seen Midnight Express

Engagement ring facts at Wikipedia

Article on the Byzantine Empire

Erin now works at 4Kids, home of the American dub release of Yu-Gi-Oh! and One Piece.

We'll be going to Anime Boston and New York Comic-Con

We have coverage from New York ANime Festival and Anime Weekend Atlanta

Review: Crystal Triangle -- it's not that crazy.

Conspiracy tropes from the 1980s:

Lovecraft Mythos (owing at least partially to the publication of the Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, popularized by the game Illuminati
by Steve Jackson Games.

The
Nemesis star (or comet) which proposed a wandering celestial body whose near contact with earth would destroy it (known to Erin from the Silver Nemesis episode of Dr. Who)

The Dark Moon (or counter-moon), supposedly the second, unseeable (and therefore arcanely powerful) moon of the Earth.

Erin on CBS news
Erin's stickk.com profile.

Action Items:
Request my books on Bookins
Buy my manga on amazon.com

Want some free things? We have free things you may want:

• Random Maison Ikkoku leaflet comics Claimed!
• Random promotional anime DVDs Claimed!
• Hello Kitty ocarina Claimed!
• 108 piece "One Piece" jigsaw puzzle  Claimed!
  

Noah talks about the Japan Society of New York film series: Dawn of Japanese Animation
He attended the Action and Adventure day. There was even a Benshi
There will be a DVD released of this stuff, but it isn't out yet, so no link.

FAQ: We know about Shawnimals Ninja Consultant
Noah opines that he cares more for Ninja Poo than the horrible Korean movie Doggie Poo.

One more Action Item:
Anime and Manga Podcast Omnibus!

Show #56 - Daryl Makes Our Show Explicit

Show #056 Explicit! Direct Download:

OP and ED: Aura Battler Dubine opening theme "Dunbine Tobu" by MIO

Special Guests: "Podcast Historian" Daryl Surat of Anime World Order, James "the Angry Otaku" of animepodcast.net, and Ed Chavez of the Mangacast, although his mic isn't really working.

Recorded during New York Anime Festival we discuss the ICv2 conference, "Uncle Carl" and this comment of Daryl's.

More show notes coming soon!

Poll #1115710 Is Erin an Otaku?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Is Erin an otaku?

Is Erin a hipster?

Show #55 - Naruto Vs. Avatar Vs. Johnny Quest

Show #055 Direct Download:

OP: Naruto Shippuden's most recent OP ED: OP and ED of the original Johnny Quest cartoon

My mom is the guest of this not-very-christmassy christmas episode. We talk about Sailor Moon vs. She-Rah, Godzilla, Starman, and strong female characters.

• "Christmas Time is Here" - Noah sings from A Charlie Brown Christmas, and is flat.
• Mokona! bu bu bu bu! (from Magic Knight Rayearth
• Yes, we have Erin's mom as a guest -- just like they do on The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast where Paul convinced his mom to watch Akira.
• Erin's mom thinks Akira might be Yu-Gi-Oh! or Inuyasha, but it isn't.
• Erin's mom was also very unlucky and watched the last disk of Berserk.
• We slogged our way through the most recent episode of Shippuden!
• We also watched the most recent episode of Avatar!
• Erin's mom watched Power Rangers!
• Is Avatar the best American Cartoon ever?
• What about The Simpsons
Erin's mom doubts there are Avatar action figures, and yet here they are! Some even squirt water! But you know what? You *can't* get a Toph action figure!
• Appa, the flying buffalo from Avatar, is not Abba, the Swedish pop group.
• However, Appa is a little like the Nekobus from Totoro.
• Erin was more obsessed with the Simpsons when she was younger. Then she started watching Sailor Moon
• Erin points out that anime and manga are not genres, but rather media, and contain many genre and subgenre (not the least of which being the cooking genre, with titles like Iron Wok Jan, Yakitate ! Japan
• Erin also watched She-ra (Noah admits to watching He-Man
• Noah thinks Magical Princess Minky-Momo is the apotheosis of frilly, girly anime. (If you don't know the series, think Otaku no Video's Misty May
• Has there ever been a magical-girl spin-off from a shonen series? Arale from Dr. Slump makes an appearance in Dragonball, but that's all we could think of
• Sexual revolution in Japan
• Erin's mom didn't like Speed Racer. She preferred Rocky and Bulwinkle. She also never saw Astroboy.
• However -- she did watch plenty of Godzilla movies and other Tokusatsu shows.
We later finally figured out that the one she was talking about is called Starman.
• Her favorites were the ones with Ghidora and Mothra. Didn't like Mechagodzilla very much, though.
• Gamera is ok too. Baby Godzilla creeps her out, though... and that little kid.
• We watched Gamera 2006 (Gamera the Brave) recently.

Poll #1110821 Is Godzilla sci-fi?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Are Godzilla films science fiction?

• Which American adventure cartoons were the best?
• Thundarr the Barbarian
• Pirates of Dark Water
• Erin's mom says, Johnny Quest is better than Avatar... but then, she also thinks Zutara is the OTP.

NYAF: Otaku USA Panel!

Hey, if you're going to be at New York Anime Festival come to the Otaku USA panel tomorrow, Saturyday December 8th from 6-7 PM! Erin will totally be on it! So will Dave Riley of Fast Karate, Ed Chavez of the MangaCast, and Daryl from Anime World Order.

From Macias' blog:

OTAKU USA
Join Patrick Macias, the editor of chief of OTAKU USA, as he gabs about the inner workings of the new bi-monthly magazine devoted to anime, manga, gaming, J-Pop, and cosplay. Other contributors to the magazine and special guests will be joining him for jokes, giveaways, and Q&A from you, the readers. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Manga Panel Room

Show #54 - AWA AWO Panel with Daryl Surat and Paul Chapman

Show #054 Direct Download:

OP: "Born" by Miwako Okuda, the opening theme from Le Chevalier D'Eon
ED: "Over Night" by Aya, the end theme from Le Chevalier D'Eon

Noah and I announce our plans for New York Anime Festival which is next weekend: December 7th, 8th, and 9th.

Recorded live at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2007, (Erin's con report here), this was originally scheduled as Anime World Order's podcasting panel, but we filled in along with Paul "Fear the Gooberzilla" Chapman from The Greatest Movie Ever Podcast. We mostly gossip about AWO, and briefly review Le Chevalier D'Eon. Noah makes fun of the state of academic writing. I hope he's prepared to defend himself in academic papers.

Our T-shirts are still for sale, by the way! Email ninjaconsultant @ gmail . com - $12 for U.S. orders, $14 international, and if you're attending NYAF, they're just $10. Buttons of the same design are just 25 cents each, plus 41 cents postage.

Show #53 - Interview with Jason Thompson

Show #053 Direct Download:

OP: "Conan the Librarian" from the Weird Al movie UHF
ED: Dungeons and Dragons cartoon opening


An interview with Jason Thompson, author of Manga; The Complete Guide

Terminology for this show: The Four Types of Manga; Shonen, Shojo, Josei, and Seinen

Jason Thompson's Top Five North American Manga Experts:
1. Frederik Schodt (author of Dreamland Japan and Manga Manga!)
2. Matt Thorn (Shojo expert and manga teacher in Kyoto's Seika University)
3. Carl Gustav Horn, living god (Thompson's words, not ours), chief manga editor at Dark Horse
4. Ed Chavez of the MangaCast
5. Casey Brienza of AnimeInsider


Honorable Mention:
- Trish Ledoux or Toshifumi Yoshida for older manga
- Tina Anderson for boys love
- Toren Smith (post-interview addition)



- Epic Interview on the Comics Journal we refer to
- Interview on the MangaCast from earlier this summer
- Who is Trish Ledoux?
- Jason's comic for Wired Magazine
Jason's Comics:
- Yak Fist (which sadly does not exist!!)
- The Stiff (currently on hiatus)
- King of RPGs
- The Deadliest PR Guy in the World (co-written with Patrick Macias)
Patrick Macias used to be Jason's roommate
- Macias's interview with Jason
Videogames played at Viz:
- Ultima Online
- Counter-Strike

Manga the Complete Guide ratings for titles mentioned in this show:
Title	MtCG Stars
Stray Little Devil	2 stars
Saint Tail	2 stars
Bondage Fairies	4 stars
Akira	4 stars
Happy Mania	4 stars
Antique Bakery	4 stars
Tramps Like Us (Kimi Wa Pet/You're My Pet)	3 stars
Over the Rainbow (bad josei)	1.5 stars
Wedding Eve (Review in Otaku USA issue 3)	2.5-3
Dream Hotel	1.5 stars
Nurse Call (Referred to as Ender's Call in the show)	3
Erica Sakurazawa: Angel	2.5 stars
Erica Sakurazawa: Aromatic Bitters (second volume is not translated)	3.5 stars
Peach Girl	4 stars
Peach Girl: Sae's Story	2.5 stars
Division Chief Kosaku Shima (salaryman manga)	2.5 stars
High School Girls	2.5 stars

RPGs Mentioned:
- Shadowrun
- The Dying Earth
- Skull & Bones; Pirates Edition

Show #52 - MangaNext Panel: Manga the Complete Guide by Jason Thompson

Show #052 Direct Download:

OP: "Disarm Dreamer" by Aki Misato from Genshiken 2 - episode 4 will change your life.
ED: "Theme of R.O.D ~long version~" from the Read or Die OST, by 岩崎琢

Recorded live at MangaNext 2001, it's Jason Thompson, author of, Manga: the Complete Guide, pimping his book in a 1 and a half hour long panel!

Here's Erin's official review of Manga the Complete Guide

He also writes for Otaku USA magazine, editing the manga section.

shaenon recently posted this bio of Jason Thompson:

Jason Thompson has over ten years' experience as a manga editor, producing the English editions of titles such as The Drifting Classroom, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z, Hana-Kimi, One Piece, Shaman King, YuYu Hakusho and Uzumaki. As the first editor of VIZ Media's SHONEN JUMP magazine, he helped launch Japan's #1 bestselling manga magazine in America. His writings on manga appear regularly in Otaku USA magazine, and have also appeared in The Comics Journal, PULP and Animerica. His webcomic The Stiff is available at www.girlamatic.com.

• Animerica
• GameOn USA (lost to the ages)
• TokyoScope
• Japan Edge - an interesting book
• Manga Manga! (1983) book
• Manga 60 Years of Japanese Comics
• Manga (1980) very rare!
• Dreamland Japan by Frederik L. Schodt 95-96
• Jason's livejournal

Sorry about the huge file size of this episode. The audio quality is pretty low already so I didn't want to make it any worse. If you want a smaller version, email me and I'll make you one. ninjaconsultant (at) gmail.com

Entries from Manga the Complete Guide read out loud at the panel:
Title	MtCG Stars
Kazan	4 stars
Pineapple Army	3 stars
Bow Wow Watta	2.5 stars
Guru Guru Pon-Chan	4 stars
Bastard!! Heavy Metal Dark Fantasy	2 stars
Desert Coral	2 stars
Legend of Lemnear	1/2 star
Mega Comics (Gainax, 1991)	1.5 stars
Pretty Face	3.5 stars
Gerard and Jacques	4 stars
Hero Heel	1 star
Countdown: Sex Bombs	3 stars
Adventure Kid	3 stars

Oh check it out! This is our show #52, so if you visit the archives you could listen to one episode per week for a whole year!

Show #51 - Top Five AMVs of All Time

Show #051 Direct Download:

OP: Mamboleo by Elisa
NPR Story Excerpt (played in full at the end of the show)
Mummer's Dance by Loreena McKennit.

ERIN's List

1. Vlad Pohnert - Memories Dance
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK3VYEKANs



2. istiv - Shonen Bushidou
   Spirit Never Dies by Masterplan
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3eIsyTORRk



3. Right Now Someone is Reading this Title - dokidoki
   Right Now by Van Halen
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZujpIv8_pmQ



4. Kevin Caldwell - Engel, Engel - Rammstein
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVQaixvlMwo



5. Absolute Destiny - I Wish I Was a Lesbian
   I Wish I Was a Lesbian by Loudon Wainwright III
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptC9N9YJ24Y

NOAH'S LIST

1. Jigoku no Video - Shirow Learns to Fly
   Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
   *UPDATE: *remastered youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5f8JP8_wA this was remastered by yoshi1013 (un-remastered available here)
1. (Cornpone is/was an early fan video group... from way back when!)




2. Kevin Caldwell - Believe
   Believe by Franka Potente
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu35zNVrB2w



3. Vlad Pohnert - Memories Dance
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK3VYEKANs



4. - Hold Me Now
   Håll Om Mig - by Nanne Grönvall
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9197GTl1ASg



5. MousePotato (Black Sun Productions) - Nightmare (Cut the Zac reference)
   Counting Bodies like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums by Perfect Circle
   *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iziK7pXej0g

Jigoku no Video = Rich Lather

Promo: Fear the Gooberzilla
(Oktoberfest) - The Big Month of Dick

Promo: Animefe.com - note that after a long downtime, they're not hosting our forums, apparently.

Decoy - Naruto's Technique Beat
Seizure of Power (instrumental) by Marilyn Manson
*same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52FFA2_flo

NO SUBTITLES IN YOUR AMV - unless they are funny

CHARACTERS SHOULD NOT TALK UNLESS LIP-SYNCHING
(skyebox, we're looking at you!)

2001: A Space Odyssey

Run Lola Run

Cosby Show

Simpson's Cosby Quote (remix)
(quote originally from Simpson's episode 2F32 'Round Springfield

ERIN'S HONORABLE MENTION

• Religion X - Mai Time is Running Out
  Our Time is Running Out by Muse
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOksHxc8Q0M



• DarkXPower - Pokemon - Bitches
  Bitches by Mindless Self-Indulgence
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOyb-fqnN28



• Big Big Truck - Crazy-Ass Violence -
  Mama Said Knock You Out by LL CoolJ
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktq5Q-a72Jc



• Lost Boy - Rhythm Animation
  Rhythm Generation (Red Monster Mix) by TWO-MIX
  *same video on youtube:....?



• Studio Hybrid - Jinnai and the Bugrom LIVE!
  Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot by Caramba
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oml89-BS7c0 El Hazard



• Aokakesu - Mamboleo
  Mamboleo by Elisa
• (We don't like Trouble Chocolate)
• Perfect Blue Does not make just any dance video good.



• Nostromo - FMA Always Hardcore
  Always Hardcore by Scooter
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CZUquFacpc



• Scintilla (Aqualine Studio) - Alternate Eva Opening: Eva Bebop
  Tank! by Yoko Kanno
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f61O5wRCk44



• doki doki - Lollipops, Sunshine, and rrrRRRrrr
  The Bullet's Breath by Iniquity
  *same video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHg9tIOCIDA

ED: NPR Show Featuring AMVs
Mamboleo (reprise)