Show #074 – Direct Download: 
OP: "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses
ED: "Welcome Christmas" from the 1966 How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The difference between criticism and reviews.
The Five Disfunctions of a Team – Manga Edition
Detective Loki Ragnarok
Bastard!
K-9 and Company
The Myth of the Noble Savage and the movie Avatar.
Show #073 – Direct Download:
OP: Kanon 2006 OP, “Last regrets” by Ayana
ED: Clannad After Story ED, “TORCH” by Lia
In this episode we interview Caleb, an Otaku USA writer. Here’s his personal blog, Anime wa Bakuhatsu da!
It’s insulting to the entire human race to put someone down because you think the anime they watch is trashy compared to what you watch. It’s rude, it’s annoying, and it’s an embarrassment to any fan community. It’s perfectly okay to not like a series; no one’s expected to like everything, but insisting, even in jest, that someone who watches Kanon is suffering from severe autism (just like the characters! truly I am a comedy genius!) is just taking the extra step from “having a different opinion” to “being a jerk”. it’s common Internet behavior, true, but the Internet at large is another huge embarrassment to humanity.
Show #072 – Direct Download:
OP: Only Yesterday clip
ED: Multilanguage version of Ponyo end theme, including the abysmal English language remix.
An interview with Simon Richmond, author of the Rough Guide to Anime (and the very useful Rough Guide to Japan) conducted at NYAF 2009. Here’s my Otaku USA NYAF coverage. Here’s my PW interview with Simon.
Daryl’s comment is worth noting in the show notes:
In my review of the book in Otaku USA, I said that if I had to pick *one* book that every anime fan should read, The Rough Guide to Anime was it. It’s not just because I briefly met Simon at Anime Boston thanks to your interviewing him, either. If everyone knew (or at least read through and partially retained) the information contained within it and watched the 50 recommended anime titles (well, you can skip Steamboy. And if you absolutely MUST watch Evangelion, save it for last so you can properly contextualize it), then anime fandom would be substantially better off for it. It’s not a big book, it’s not expensive, and despite being really information-dense it’s got a lot of pictures and sidebars so as not to overwhelm people.
At every con I go to where I do some sort of anime recommendations panel (such as this weekend’s upcoming EXPCon in St. Augustine, FL!), I tell people to go out and get this book. My actual success rate is unknown, as I’m still the only person I know to have read it, but it’s simultaneously “newbie-friendly” while containing more worthwhile, lasting information worth retaining than pretty much any other anime book on the shelves.
If there ever came a day when 1. I figured out what the heck I’d write a book about, and 2. I managed to actually write said book and get it published, key in my mind would be “does this book I’m writing handle [whatever its subject material would be] as good as if not better than The Rough Guide to Anime?” Were that day to ever come, I’m not fully sure the answer would be “yes.”
Show #071Direct Download:
OP and ED: "Theme from Mega Force" by Movie Night: The Band
Hetalia – began as a webcomic, and was collected into manga volumes, then adapted into an anime series which was streamed online for free in Japan.
Tonari No 801-chan was similarly a webcomic, and I think it was adapted into a live action drama series.
At 1 h 9m 35s – we talk about Japanese comics some more, and it’s historical and informative.
Guest: Chris from Ego and the Squid
If my hotlinking crashes your server let me know.
Chris’s Favs:
Dinosaur Comics
Isotown
Overcompensating
Penny Arcade
New Feelings
Achewood
American Elf
Scene Language
Star Shaped Rock
Daisy Owl
The Ego And The Squid
The Order Of The Stick
Fart Party
Hark! A Vagrant
Cat And Girl
Creased Comics
Buttersafe
Nedroid
Natalie Dee
Married To The Sea
Toothpaste For Dinner
Noah’s Favs:
Penny Arcade
Skinhorse (by the author of Narbonic)
Erfworld (dude is cool)
Order of the Stick
Erin’s Favs:
A Kick in the Head
XKCD
Perry Bible Fellowship (retired)
Fart Party
Jerk City (NSFW)
Dinosaur Comics
Old-Timey Comics:
Wondermark
Married to the Sea
Edison Hates the Future
Some Other Mentions:
Alien Loves Predator
Idiot Comics
Irregular Comics
Webcomic Cons:
Conneticon
MoCCA
Stumpytown
APE
New England Webcomics Weekend
Goodbye Kim’s Video Underground!
Now Syndicated: Diesel Sweeties
Paper Comics:
Ted Rall of Tom the Dancing Bug
Ernie Pook’s Comeek by Lynda Barry
Topatocow Store for the coolest shirts
Drama Webcomics:
Voids
Scene Language
Eventually we talk about manga again – around 57-1 hour in.
Viz’s IKKI – titles for free
Rin-E – Rumiko Takahashi’s bland Bleach rip-off
Garfield Without Garfield
Arbuckle
Lasagna Cat
Flethcher Hanks reprints – Super Wizard Stardust (recommended!)
1 h 9m 35s – Japanese strip comics
A Drifting Life – read it!
My Neighbors the Yamadas – based a newspaper strip – recommended!
4-Koma strips in translation:
Azumanga Daioh (recommended)
Lucky Star
Shoulder a Coffin Kuro
S.S. Astro
Cosplay Kurumi-chan
Sazae-san
Although not a strip comic, High School Girls is recommended!
60 Ways to Leave Your Mother
Star Shaped Rock
American Elf
Creased Comics by Brad Neeley, who did Wizard People Dear Reader, and a hilarious short about George Washington
Overcompensating
e-sheep
Show #069Direct Download:
OP and ED: “20th Century Boy”” by T. Rex in reference to 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa
We totally saw these two movies. And the Korean Antique Bakery movie.
Check our wedding website for all the videos we’re talking about.
Thanks to everyone who donated towards our wedding!!
Show #069Direct Download:
OP: Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling
ED: Paul Simon sings Scarborough Fair on the muppet show (featuring Miss Piggy), and the relevant excerpt of Scarborough Affair by Scooter
This episode does not have anything to do with:
But those shows are on their way.
Which we have been planning, which is why Erin went to Japan…
to get this dress from Eri Matsui:
How does the zero-g work?
Look at this:
It’s like a roller coaster!
As seen here:
We are selling things! But first —
We pitched Whose Wedding is it Anyway? On the Style network. But… they turned us down.
So. We are selling things. Like these things:
Do you want to come to our wedding? If you want to, maybe you can!
Or, if you want to give us a wedding gift — you can do it here.
Wedding stuff email address: noahanderin@gmail.com
…and, in Japan, Erin also bought 24 cologne for Dave Riley.
"Take risk! Be sexy!"
Direct Download:
OP & ED: Theme from Blazing Transfer Student, “Blazing Transfer Student” by Toshihiko Seki.
Manga Adaptations Discussion:
– Haruhi Suzumiya
– InuKami
– .hack//XXXX
– Gurren Lagan
– Family Complex has a great description of eye surgery, couched in a very boring regular story. Here’s my review.
– Peach Pit was hospitalized recently
– Who is Kazuo Koike?
Not really a show. Direct Download:
OP & ED: “Chocolate Disco” by Perfume
Not so much a show as an announcement and an apology?
Show #068Direct Download:
OP: "Fushigi Purupuru Pururin Rin!" by Shishido Rumi from the Welcome to the NHK OST
ED: The first Welcome to the NHK end theme, "Odoru Akachan Ningen" by Kenji Ohtsuki and Fumihiko Kitsutaka
This show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let’s call this episode "OT," for "older teen," 14+. Part 3 will be explicit. I mean we literally discuss hentai in part 3.
Hi this is Alain from the anime blog Reverse Thieves. As a regular listener to your podcast I was wondering if you could do us a favor and mention a project we are currently recruiting for. If you find our project interesting could you mention the Otaku Diaries on your next podcast and/or post our project information and contact information on your website.
We at Reverse Thieves are looking to do something a little different.
We are proposing a project called the Otaku Diaries. We are looking for people who consider themselves otaku to participate in an anonymous survey. It will be profiling the lives, loves, and losses of these individuals and how their hobby has related to shaping them. We will also be looking for patterns as well as differences in the cases. We are looking for diverse people who are not afraid to get personal, questions will include topics like prior relationships, profession, and sexuality.
If you are interested here is how it is going to work. Send us an email at otakudiary@gmail.com with a brief description of yourself include your age, sex, and location. No names need be exchanged and your anonymity will be protected, create a separate e-mail account just for this survey if you wish. If you are selected to participate, you will be given a case # to which all your answers will be attributed. After all the data is collected we will be doing several blog posts about the results.
We hope to start at the end of February, depending on the number of responses.
Thanks!
– Hisui (Alain)
www.reversethieves.com
reversethieves@gmail.com
Promo: Happy House of Hentai
We talk about nerd shame, how to extra XP by turning Noah red, and reviews of:
– The strip Noah mentions is from Chugworth Academy http://www.chugworth.com/ , and not Short Cuts, as we suspected.
– Noah makes sweeping generalizations about Japan
Show #067Direct Download:
OP: Black Lagoon OP
ED: Ghost in the Shell; Stand Alone Complex OP
Maybe Noah will add some links later! Also, this show might count as explicit. But maybe not? Let’s call this episode “OT,” for “older teen,” 14+.
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Anime World Order
R5 Central
Happy House of Hentai
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