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Show #60 – ’70’s Shojo Manga Panel, Part 1

  By ninjaconsultant | May 9, 2008 - 10:47 am | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | May 2, 2008 - 8:20 am | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | April 10, 2008 - 10:59 pm | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | March 14, 2008 - 11:58 pm | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | January 4, 2008 - 2:19 pm | Uncategorized
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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!

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

  By ninjaconsultant | December 24, 2007 - 2:27 am | Uncategorized
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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.

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

  By ninjaconsultant | December 3, 2007 - 12:18 am | Uncategorized
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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

  By ninjaconsultant | November 20, 2007 - 10:57 pm | Uncategorized
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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 #51 – Top Five AMVs of All Time

  By ninjaconsultant | November 2, 2007 - 10:58 pm | Uncategorized
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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

ED: NPR Show Featuring AMVs
Mamboleo (reprise)