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Show #88 – 50 Manga Recommendations in 45 Minutes

  By ninjaconsultant | August 5, 2011 - 9:30 pm | Uncategorized
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Show #088 – Direct Download:

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

  By ninjaconsultant | August 4, 2011 - 8:47 pm | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | August 3, 2011 - 9:51 pm | Uncategorized
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Show #086 – Direct Download:

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

  By ninjaconsultant | August 2, 2011 - 9:08 pm | Uncategorized
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Show #085 – Direct Download:

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

  By ninjaconsultant | June 8, 2011 - 5:06 pm | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | March 23, 2011 - 10:12 pm | Uncategorized
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Show #084 – Direct Download:

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.

Show #82 – Scott Pilgrim

  By ninjaconsultant | December 23, 2010 - 3:52 pm | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | November 9, 2010 - 10:57 pm | Uncategorized
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Show #081 – Direct Download:

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).