Monthly Archives: May 2006

Show #021b Direct Download:

• New Segment: Even Noah Likes It
• High School Girls – I first heard about it on the MangaCast, and now it’s a new anime series. We’re watching the Lime fansub group shows. We especially enjoyed the third episode.
• Azumanga Daioh. Read it. Watch it. You’ll like it.
• The Presidential Physical Fitness Test (as seen in “Girl Fight“) in the U.S. is not like Japanese schools’ health day at all.
• Noah quote: “Even the kid from Easter Island can do one [sit-up].”
• Date mixers are described in the Josh in Japan episode about Dating.
• Monkey News on the Ricky Gervais podcast
• Ergo Proxy was licensed before it’s debut in japan, so those fansubs we’ve been watching are certainly not legal.
• As compared to Witch Hunter Robin
• Noah quote: “All music sounds like two robots talking to me.”
• The girl who runs the Randomness Podcast calls us
• What is Skype?
• Anime Boston is in only a couple weeksTHIS WEEK and I am FREAKING OUT.
• I’ll be selling T-shirts in the Artists Alley at table C.
• I got the shirts printed at Acmeprints and Dogwig prints. I’ll sell whatever’s leftover online.
• Really long, bad AMV we watched the other night.

Projects I’m plugging:

Draw Inuyasha and Vash the Stampede riding a chocobo and email it to us at ninjaconsultant@gmail.com I’ll collect them all into a mini-comic eventually.

Falling/Losing Stars of Manga, or the Rising Stars of Manga Refugees project. Collecting comics that lost the RSOM contest. Eventually we’ll put out a book of our own.

Show #021a Direct Download:

Opening song: “Rainbow in the Dark” by Dio, from the Very Best of Dio album

Songs in the Middle: The “Real Otaku Heros” songs are by Le Jizm, and the complete set of them is available for download here.

“Sakura kiss” by Chieko Kawabe is the opening theme of Ouran High School Host Club

End Song: “Rose” by Tsuchiya Anna, the opening theme of the Nana anime series.

Why Dio? We were inspired by this video, which aired during the VH1 top 40 metal songs of all time countdown (Spoiler: #1 was “Iron Man”.) We here at the NC podcast think that the creature on the cover of the Beast of Dio album looks like the demon locked inside Naruto. Also Dio is the villain in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

• Apples to Apples For the record, Noah does not like this game very much.
• Our new microphone – despite now having two mics it sounds like we’re underwater because of an inexplicable static I had to filter out of the show. Let this be a lesson to you: Always do some test recordings, don’t just plug the headphones into the mixer like we did.
• Hana Matsuri cherry blossom festival in Brooklyn’s Botanical garden.
• Nana, first published in Cookie, is currently running in the U.S. in Shojo Beat magazine ($35 a year! Wooo!) and the first three volumes are available under Viz’s Shojo Beat line.
• The Nana Live Action movie is only available fansubbed, we recommend the version by Live-Evil.
• The Nana anime is available on fansub. We’ve been watching the Live-Evil subs version, but several other groups also subbing it.
• The Nanas are 18/19 years old at the start of the story, not 20-23 like I said in the show.
• Nittle Grasper – This is a fictional band from Gravitation, people! Noah likes the name of the band and does not really like Gravitation.
• MacDonald Duck Eclair – I have yet to buy one of their CDs.
• Noah actually liked Happy Mania, which I reviewed in this episode of Manga Recon.
• Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga. Buy it. Read it. Love it. But probably not if you’re under 16.
• The Peach Girl the anime is fansubbed, and the manga is available from Tokyopop.
• “The System is down… dancing Robots” is from somewhere on Homestar Runner, but we like it best in suberunker’s “Football!” AMV.
• Brief mention of Boys Before Flowers a.k.a. Boys Over Blossoms
• Nana is by Ai Yazawa the author of Paradise Kiss, which is available from Tokyopop and the 12-episode anime series was fansubbed last year. I wouldn’t be surprised if it got licensed this year.
• Noah quote: “…your wife left you and your dog beat you and your life was on fire…”
• The Track-Shun Show (or on iTunes here.)
• Pretty Cure Max Heart
• Kino’s Journeys
• Ouran High School Host Club, as I reviewed in Manga Recon episode 1, volumes 1-6 currently available under the Shojo Beat label, the anime is now being fansubbed by at least three groups. We’ve been watching the Lunar subs.
• You thought Utena had a bunch of roses in it?
• Otaku Generation reviewed Host Club in episode 46.
• Rose of Versailles is available on fansub
• Digital Manga publishing. Not just yaoi, but really a lot of yaoi. Robot is one of their non-yaoi titles.
• DR Master sent me a big box of manga, too.
• The MangaCast has several DMP reviews of yaoi already up.

Write in to us with a list of your favorite shows if you want to know what we think of them! We’ll add them to the list of “Ninja Consultant Approved and Disapproved Titles”.

Show #019c Direct Download:

Music: “Young, Dumb & Ugly” by Weird Al, from the 1993 album “Alapalooza”. You can get the whole song and album in the iTunes store. Alapalooza was one of the first CDs I ever owned. Many of the songs parodied on the album will probably fly right over the heads of our youngest listeners. There’s a very funny clip of this song and Akira in AMV Hell 3

Vocab:    Sycophants, Sycophantic
          Troll
          Spaz-Attack

Special Note: I am so sick of this episode by now. It no longer even seems relevant. According to this ANN poll, most people don’t even care about Artist’s Alley at all. In fact, it’s a depressing poll, where the majority of people answering it haven’t been to cons, and most people taking the survey preferred meeting American voice actors to meeting Japanese creators, or even Japanese voice actors!

Here’s the first ever Fan Art me and Noah got of ourselves by Zelda Girl 4:

• Japanese fanart of American works, like Spiderman, Teen Titans, Super Girl and Batgirl, Powerpuff Girls…
• I’m sure you’re all eager to see the new Powerpuff Girls Anime Series.
• We keep making jokes about “P.S. Inuyashaaaa RUUUULLLLEZZ”
• A Certain Podcast Which Alison Does Not Like
• The Mugglecast was the top-rated show on Podcast Alley for several months last fall. They’re number 8 today. Ninja Consultant is #1374 by comparison, AWO is #1362, and OG is #751.

Alison still has not drawn Vash the Stampede and InuYasha riding a Chocobo. I’m encouraging all of our listeners to draw it, and we’ll put up a gallery later. Maybe I’ll make a mini-comic of just sketches of Vash and Inuyasha riding a Chocobo. Under current Otakon rules that would be allowed in unlimited quantity, if it was a booklet. Putting it on T-shirts or buttons wouldn’t fly, but we could sell 25 posters of it.

Promos:

• FIB Cast – Fish in a “Barral”
• The Randomization Podcast
• The Teen Opinion Podcast – I’ve never listened to it, but they friended me on Skype.