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Show #030 Direct Download:

• Doink-chan’s “doinkies” Segment
• The poll about why we
  don’t have a myspace page
• Our Deviantart page
• VashInuCho mini-book pdf
  VashInuCho on Namek:
  
  My AWO fanart:
  
• You should listen to all of the mangacast‘s year-end publisher reports, located here.
• ADV Manga – Mangacast year-end review

• Tokyopop – Mangacast year-end review

• Tokyopop “flooding the market” link of interest

• The iGame podcasthttp://www.gcast.com/u/iGamePodcast/main?nr=1&&s=96924612
• Arada’s Helpful List
  1. White and wet trees don’t mix well.
  2. If your going to a party and wearing black, don’t let your dog fall asleep on you. Chances are you will not be ale to change.
  3. Guys and girls are idiots.
  4. If someone states that Sasuke is gay and or emo, and you don’t agree, judt don’t say anything. Your life will be much much nicer.
  5. Hatake Kakashi is the most taboo topic you could talk about. So don’t.
  6. Never EVER tell anyone when you think of Sakura or the English dub of Naruto if it’s positive.
  7. Don’t eat beans before going to the movies. It leads to a number of horrible things.
  8. Gay is not a verb.
  9. Pie is a great topic changer. Be warned, you will get odd stares.
  10. When talking to someone always , always used complete sentences, wether it be in real life or on aim.
  11. Snow drifts may look solid, but heir not.
  12. Don’t get into an argument about Ninjas, Pirates, or Wizards. You will not win.
  13. Never get a crush on an younger/older brother/ sister of your best friend.
  14. YOur not going to find love at 15 so don’t try.
  15. Your parents do in fact own your soul.
  16. Don’t claim your goth when your wearing preepy clothing. You will be punched in the face.
• Bad American Dubbing 1, 2, and 3
• My all-ages manga suggestion: Iron Wok Jan
• More “mature” titles:
• Death Note,
• Monster,
• Dragon Head
• Apparently there is only one convention in Tennessee.
• Check http://www.anime-cons.com for cons in your area.
• Awesome Irish Graphic Novel

• Our First Ninja Consultant
  Who-Wants-My-Stuff Giveaway!
• Satoshi Kon has a
  new feature coming out: Pa
  prika!
• Daicon Films on
  YouTube
• Galactic Airport Pilot
  Film
• 
  Otaku no Video: Gainax’s “Otaku” film
• Noah gives some Evangelion
  commentary
• What to suggest to non-anime

fans:

• Miyazaki
  Films
• Cowb
  oy Bebop
• 
  Millennium Actress
• The trick is: Don’t care what people
  think about you. Because that’s cool.

Show #029 Direct Download:

Music: Fat Bottom Girls by Queen

The Geek Nights crew had girlfriends… at least we think so.

The problems in the anime dating scene:

1. Big Age Gap between Sailor Moon/Pokemon girls (ages 14-17) fans and Akira/Starblazers guys (25-35).
   • In college geek clubs, males outnumber females. (Inherent shortage of geeky girls.) Usually only one third are girls.
2. Long Distance Relationships are CRAP.
3. If you date all the geeks you know, (all two) you risk making those guys enemies.

Tapes Noah gave Erin when they started dating:

• Project A-Ko
• Here is Greenwood
• Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death

Things that Erin was looking for in a boyfriend which Noah fulfilled and is why we are like, totally meant for each other:

1. Likes the Simpsons (and can quote seasons 3 through 6)
2. Likes anime.
3. Likes Doctor Who

Now that Doctor Who is back, a lot more people who are my age like it, but in 1996 to 2001, Doctor Who had been off the airwaves in most places in the States, and a lot of guys who liked it were closer to thirty, and I was 17-22.

What was Noah looking for:

1. Available
2. Returns his calls

“I used to think that I had the tallest hair but that trip to Graceland really opened my eyes.”

How to meet girls: Teach them to play Dungeons & Dragons

Erin’s guy-meeting technique: Ask them out, and risk embarrassment. Be very clear that you are asking them on a date.

Noah’s technique on meeting girls: Seem somewhat pathetic, but not too pathetic, then impress them somehow. Eventually, start making physical contact and gradually test the boundaries.

Don’t send out anti-girl rays like Daryl Surat.

Sid and Nancy

Promos:

• Arada’s podcast: Randomness
• Anime World Order – You can still win a date with Daryl Surat! Email us: Ninjaconsultant @ gmail.com

My So-Called Life

• Episode 1.3 Guns and Gossip

The Sandman book “A Game of You”.

Noah is right that the documentary is not called Speed, it is called “The Cruise” starring Timothy “Speed” Levitch.

I mention Patrick Macia’s Hot Tears of Shame podcast, this episode in particular.

Con Whore T-shirts

Show #027 Direct Download:

Music in this episode: “Time is Running Out” by Muse. “Yatta” by Green Leaves, “It’s My Life” by Bon Jovi, who is weirdly not dead yet, and “Cell Block Tango” from the musical Chicago.

The Muse and Bon Jovi are brought on by two AMVs from the contest that were pretty good. Yatta is included because of some guy in Artist’s Alley performing the yatta dance. Also be sure to check out the lyrics translation in this AMV.

Soar is from the Randomization Podcast:

• randomizationpodcast.tk (dead link?)
• http://www.freewebs.com/randomizationpodcast/ (dead link?)
• http://rzpodcast.livejournal.com/ (Uh… search the archives?)

Weekly Anime Review (on hiatus, but sometimes new episodes anyway)

I start right off the bat comparing Otakon to AX. Answerman did the same this week in his column.

Guy dressed as Harlock every year since 2003:

New Harlock I saw this year! (After this recording.)

Soar talks about the FMA movie, which is getting a theatrical release later this year.

Noah’s assertion that the filler will end on episode 225 is a 4chan rumor that should be disregarded (not that Noah hangs out at 4Chan… necessarily). Noah and I are on episode 179.

Otaaaaakooooooooooon

Amychan visited Dan Kim of the Manga Clone Army webcomic, Nana’s Everyday Life

Snapes on a Plane

Anime World Order

• A USB Studio Condensor Mic
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Our podcast is about, according to Daryl:
• 
  Chiyo-chan
• 
  Naruto
• “…with a giant L on his shirt”

Notice, Noah is hotlinking to images like some kind of myspace user!

Daryl compared Otakon to the 1979 film, “The Jerk” starring Steve Martin.

BUY OUR T-SHIRTS OMGWTFBBQ

Dave and Joel’s Fast Karate for the Gentlemen

(Update: we officially love Fast Karate, our eternal allies, and in our eyes they can do no wrong. _However_ their promo might be a little explicit (not that there’s anything wrong with that), and we here at NC just want the parents of the various 5th/6th/7th graders who listen to this podcast to realize that, uh, we’re sorry. Mostly we had to join them in warning the world about Koi Kaze, a series about incest that passes itself off as a romance.

My badass Nausicaa gas mask:



No, it’s not from “Desert Punk“:

Me as Takami from Host Club:


I have a badass anime-cons.com T-shirt which says “Con Whore” on it. I got from Patrick D (pdelahanty).

Daryl Can’t Stop Talking!

Monica Rial (Hyatt from the Excel Saga dub) and Christine Auten

Geek Nights

Famed AMV editor and Canuck Extraordinaire Dokidoki tells us of the results of the AMV Iron Editor competition. Winners will move on to AWA. AtomX eventually posted the videos made at the panel.

The Sukeban Deka Live Action movie!!! As released by Media Blasters, whom Gerald now owes “favors” to.

Apocalypse Zero (held by some as the worst anime of all time)


What is a clown pistol?
Why did Geek Nights deserve to be assassinated on air?

• Noah vocab: “A Parthian Shot”
• Undefeatable starring Cynthia Rothrock: “See ya!”

TAKE THAT, SHOW NOTES!

Show #024 Direct Download:

…Opening quote: Ninja Consultants from the British Transformers dub.

Music: Opening: Yakusoku wa Iranai by Maaya Sakamoto (arranged by Yoko Kanno?) – a.k.a. the opening theme of Escaflowne. Middle: The Email Song remixed by me, the actual music being from Analog Lights, the Ninja Consultant music advisor/contributor, and with Audacity contributing the strange error. Ending music: Mystic Eyes by Hiroki Wada, the abysmally inappropriate end theme of Escaflowne.

Show Notes by Noah:

Our one-year podcasting anniversary is July 9, which is a Sunday
But we’re celebrating on Monday, July 10!
Come to Swift’s on E. 4th Street & Lafayette in NYC!
The Doctor Who Club will almost certainly be there too! Which is just as well, because we keep missing their meetings.
Even if you’re under 21, come anyway!

We’re updating our site!
Our Webmaster Jack is on Mangacast
We’re reformatting the show with segments, but we’re not going to Anime Expo!
(Thank you for offering your couches, tho’!)

E-mail from Daniel: WE HAVE PUT YOUR E-MAIL ON THE SHOW!

GetBackers (or Gettersback as Noah likes to call it) We are largely ambivalent about.

We’re still watching BLEACH (or “Blech” as Noah often ‘accidentally’ types it, like just now). I think we’re up to episode 20 or so. For some reason, watching this show is like trying to drink meat gravy. ‘Nuff said.

Sgt. Frog Manga is a fine manga for kids!

So are:

Erin’s recommendations:
Cromartie Manga
Azumanga Daioh Manga
Iron Wok Jan

But not:

Noah’s Recommendations:
Berserk
Akira
Lady Snowblood (maybe…)

Suggesting videopodcast??

Noah might like to, but Erin says probably not…

It’s illegal!
It’s time consuming!
It takes knowledge of video editing!
It might not be very funny!

We have friend who could do the video editing… sometimes.

Nerd Shinagami = awesome!!!

World of Warcraft Manga???

EGGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Noah, shamefully admits to reading Star Trek Novels
and was intimately familiar with the Photon franchise (it waslike Lasertag)
No, NOT VOTOMS!

We don’t play WoW. It’s warcrack.

“IN THE FUTURE, THERE IS ONLY WAR” — Warhammer 40K
There was a novel and a collection of short stories based on the Warhammer 40k franchise that Noah read when he was 15 and thought was really good. Now he can’t find them and doesn’t
want to accidentally link to one that was written more recently and sucks.

Click here to learn about Miniatures wargaming
We didn’t read the Doom Novels, but they couldn’t have been any good.

Apparently there are novels for the game Halo as well. From what Noah understands, the game HALO has a pretty good plot, even if it is just a video game.

Paul (last name withheld): WHERE ARE YOU?! You’re not on the clustermap…

[technical difficulties]

The recording software we use, Audacity, had a stroke in the middle of Noah reading the mail. Erin decided to incorporate the botched sound bite into an amazing techno remix!

You can make your own techno song feature Noah by downloading the warped audio here!!!

Paul’s interrupted email question was:

I put this question to you — Escaflowne, fucking amazing, or merely awesome? Answer carefully.

Paul asks Why Noah doesn’t like Escaflowne:

a. Noses are too pointy
b. Screaming catgirl
c. Does not make sense (i.e. Isaac Newton living in a floating mountain controlling time)
d. “Fortunate blood”
e. Coolest character killed in the second episode.

Update: Paul has derided Noah’s dislike of Hitomi’s nose in an e-mail, claiming that if pointy noses bother him so much, he couldn’t possibly have liked Macross Plus, which is nonsense, because Macross Plus is one of Noah’s favoritest things ever.
Consider, then, which nose is pointier. Noah thinks the answer is clear.

Myung, Macross PlusHitomi, Escaflowne

Just look at that schnozz!

Noah doesn’t like Ouran High School Host Club

Noah was hoping to annotate Daryl’s LJ comment with links to explain all the references, but has finally given up because he just doesn’t recognize enough of them himself. Homer nods.

Rocky Horror is a rite of passage for adolescent geeks, a role which is now being taken up by doujinshi and slash fiction — we’ve covered this before!

Welcome to the NHK, manga about the REAL Otaku lifestyle.

Anime News Network does blogs by their authors.

Zac’s entry on Anime Expo

Apollo vs. Bacchus, the immortal struggle.

Hippies as Proto-Otaku?

Are anime fans apolitical?

Is Anime PORN?????

Canadian news item

Who the hell is Bill Postmus?

Thank you, Mediablasters for all that porn.

Sailor Moon is not Urotsukidoji III: The Nazi Death Rape Machine (note: upon further research, Noah actually means, Urotsukidoji II: Legend of the Demon Womb. It’s not actually entitled “The Nazi Death-Rape Machine,” but that does not prevent it from featuring said machine.)

What is porn?

On the show Noah attributes the quote “Pornography is whatever gives a Supreme Court Justice an erection!” to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt. On reflection, the real quote is “obscenity is whatever gives the judge an erection,” and while it is sometimes attributed to Larry Flynt, the actual author is apparently unknown.

Moe on wikipedia

And just to be clear, Kokoro Library is porn.

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