I was just tipped off to a fledgling anime convention going on this weekend in Ft. Worth, TX. Hit up Yule Con’s website for hotel info and directions. I know it’s last minute, but I want to give a local con some love. You can get weekend passes at the door, and, if you live in the area, conventions are always a great way to pass the weekend.
I’ll be there starting at 7 pm(ish), so come out and say hello! You’ll recognize me by my purple polkadot kitty ears and lanyard full of badges!
This will be my first of hopefully many convention reviews. Sorry it’s so last minute, but I literally found out about it this morning. Ack!
This week, we’ve got a little review of Nabari No Ou for you, as well as the witty banter you know and love/like/tolerate. I’ve been informed that one of my friends’ workplaces blocks our website as “adult,” which makes me very sad, but also doesn’t surprise me in the least, considering my cohosts. Anyway, please enjoy this week’s episode!
Good morning, everybody! I’ve got a few quick news blips from the last few weeks that you might want to read! These are in order based on how they arrived in my RSS feed.
Boxee and Crunchyroll team up? For the good of humanity!
Proof that Studio Ghibli could write a story about a pair of scissors and it would sell like hotcakes.
Fans of Haruhi Suzumiya and Gintama rejoice! New movies announced.
Good morning darlings! It was brought to my attention today that one of the hosts of our ADD Network partner HyJact’d just had a baby 10 weeks early, so medical costs are stacking up. Thus, the Hyjact’d crew is holding a raffle to help her out.
INTERNET ASSEMBLE!
Here’s the article with a link to the donation site. Good luck, and let’s hope everything goes fine for baby!
That is all; you may go back to your regularly scheduled Wednesday.
There’s really not much to say except Happy Halloween! This week, we’re one short. The Guy Nerd and I review Kakurenbo, talk about Halloween in Japan, and list a few other Halloweeny anime shows to boot!
This week we won’t be posting on Tuesday, and this is a short episode, but we’ve got a Halloween goin’ on ’round here, and we hope you enjoy! Is anyone dressing in their anime cosplay outfits for Halloween this year? I’m going at Little Bo Peep! The Guy Nerd adds, “Happy Halloween! Don’t get raped by a clown.” I’m guessing he had a bad experience at a circus once.
Hello hello everybody! We’re doing something slightly different this time: all three of us reviewing one show. Not only that, but it’s a show with 2 seasons. It’s a show with two seasons, we are reviewing both, all three of us are reviewing it, and we all liked it. Holy crap, the world is imploding on itself.
But enough of my talk. We’ll start off with a nice dose of Japanese lesson followed by a hearty review. Please enjoy the meal-sized podcast. Toodles!
If you, like me, are a fan of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster manga/anime, you will be most pleased to know that we will FINALLY see it stateside. Beginning tonight at 11 PM EST, the unfortunately-named SyFy (ugh) channel will show 2 episodes a night on their Ani-Monday programming block.
It’ll also be re-run the following week on SyFy’s sister network, Chiller. I, for one, have my DVR at the ready.
I may have gotten the name wrong, but no matter what you call it, the Eureka Seven movie is something else. That’s what we’ve reviewed this week, the Guy Nerd and I. The Gay Nerd won’t know what hit him. Audacity did its best to shut us down this week, but thanks to some quick thinking and computer finagling (that is so a word, spellcheck says so) we are getting it out oooon time. Hoowaay!
Since, as the title suggests, there isn’t any anime news I particularly liked and since I failed to do a proper mini rant last night, I’ll be ranting at you in text format today!
Ahem…here we go.
When I was a little kid, everything I watched was brand new. Never been done. But it seems like lately things have been pretty much the same. Even in the world of anime, which is still gaining its legs here in American mainstream culture, we see remakes almost as frequently as something truly NEW comes along, and even the new things are just recycled ideas. I listened to a piece of short fiction the other day that illustrates what I’m talking about…sort of a creativity singularity. Click here to listen to Melancholy Elephants (36 minute mark).
I still get excited about anime and certain titles, but even the stuff I’m excited about seems to often be disappointing when I actually see it. Maybe it’s that I tend to take the story as a more important part of anime than the art. But look at shows like Cowboy Bebop or Baccano. There are some very compelling stories in those shows as WELL as excellent art and music. Shows like that prove I’m not completely crazy for being picky, since they bring everything together so well.
I’d rather not have to sit through another Fullmetal Alchemist remake. Give me more Lupin movies any day, but I’m done seeing the exact same story told in a very slightly different order. If you did it wrong the first time, learn from it and make something new and better. Jeez.
I had a little more to say, but I’d rather invite discussion: Do you think I’m being ridiculous by saying most of the modern shows are warmed over crap that have all been done before, or am I fully justified? This applies to all current forms of pop media, not just anime. Happy Wednesday!
I was just tipped off to a fledgling anime convention going on this weekend in Ft. Worth, TX. Hit up Yule Con’s website for hotel info and directions. I know it’s last minute, but I want to give a local con some love. You can get weekend passes at the door, and, if you live in the area, conventions are always a great way to pass the weekend.
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