Show #65 – NYAF 2008 OtakuUSA Magazine Panel

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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!

Show #64 – Guin Saga Roundtable

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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 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???

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

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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.

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Bonus Episode – Dungeons & Dragons

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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!!”

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

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Show #59 – Ogiue Maniax

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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

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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!