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 Episode 188 [32:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So this week I am all alone, Ichigo is traipsing through the woods acting an ogre, or goblin or some other such thing. Tim was forced into slavery and as such had to work the Sabbath, as for Weltall, hell if I know where he is. My plans for world domination have hit a fairly major snag, turns out that there aren’t enough penguins to mount my envisioned invasion of the world. Now while I could get more, the time and resources involved are currently outside of my grasp. Oh well until then listen to me review Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom.
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 Manga Episode 82 [69:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well I have the new laptop all set up and running smooth but this show was done on the old one so things are still a little messy. I don’t even remember what we reviewed

Kieli – Read it Borders.
Ranma 1/2 – Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers. Read more

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 Episode 187 [38:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

No Ichigo, ding dong the witch is dead, lalala, but I do have a Tim and a Weltall to help back me up. We go off on the usual randomness and just have some fun, so sit back and enjoy. Oh and I guess we manage to get a couple of reviews in as well. (reviewed Souten Kouro and Tears to Tiara).
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 Manga Episode 81 [77:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

There isn’t much to say here because I have having computer issues…

Sumomomo Momomo – Read it Borders.
Higurashi: When They Cry – Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers. Read more

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 Episode 186 [41:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’ve got a good show this week, talk about news, hiking the mountains in Nara, and review some Anime. We review Denpa Teki na Kanojo and Slap Up Party -Arad Senki-. Needless to say, it’s a good time.
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≡ Category: Features | Author: weltall | ≅ 1 Comment

Ok I know it was a while ago, but I realized I never put up any of the pictures from it. So if you guys want to check it out go here

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Don’t get so excited, it’s not out… yet. But we do have the sample video up for you to see. Final editing is almost finished and it should be available for purchase within days; assuming no hard drive crashes or anything.

The sample can be seen here.

Don’t forget, subscribers get it for free.

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So I just got my notification in the mail. I took the level 2 JLPT test on December 7th and passed! I passed by the skin on my teeth, but I still passed. The passing level was 240 out of 400 and I passed with 272. I thought you had to pass each section, but apparently you only had to pass on the total score. My reading/grammer score was 5 points below the 60% cutoff, but I still passed. And here is the proof:

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That’s right the long awaited Porco Rosso Aggro Pulse is out and available for purchase at RiffTrax
If you’re a subscriber you already get it, just log into the forums. If you’d like to subscribe and get all the great perks including exclusive content, listening to live recordings of Anime Pulse while chatting with the guys and getting Manga Pulse two weeks before everyone else then just click the subscribe link above.
If your not a subscriber and want to purchase this episode of Aggro Pulse just click one of the links; like here
The price is just $1.99, go…go now.

Click here for a sample video

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Wonder what you’re missing as a non-subscriber? It’s lots of wackiness. Here is the first of more (maybe) chatlogs from our ventrilo server before and during the recording of the shows. Next time I will have timestamps, but this time just know that it’s about three hours of chat, starting 50 minutes prior to the start of theO show and going through the end of the AP show. Let me know if you enjoy this. If not I won’t do it again. And please refrain from the tl;dr comments. I realize it’s freaking long.

Read it as you’re listening, maybe you’ll be able to figure out where things happen, next time I will do the time stamps, as well as mark where shows start and end.
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≡ Category: Industry | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 1 Comment

LOS ANGELES, CA  (PRWEB)- May 29TH - It has been announced that Spike Spencer is to revise his role as the voice of the character Shinji in the English dubbed version of Evangelion 1.0.
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LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 16 TH – Spike Spencer has announced that he is the voice of the character “Arakune” in the English dubbed version of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. Aksys games recently completed the dubbing in studio and is in the process of a general release of the finished product. This is a video game designed for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. And yes, it’ll have online support, so everyone can fight to their heart’s content! Spike hopes that everyone will enjoy the work and have fun playing the game.

ABOUT SPIKE SPENCER: An accomplished actor, Spike Spencer has worked onscreen with such notable stars as Tommy Lee Jones, Sandra Bullock, Frank Langella, Tia Carrere, and Scott Glenn. In the realm of voice acting he has voiced hundreds of episodes of Anime including Evangelion, Spriggan, Nadesico, Mar, Pre Tear and Bleach as well as numerous video games including World of Warcraft-The Burning Crusades, Tales of Vesperia, Trauma Center, Steambot Chronicles. Spike has lent his voice to many radio and television commercials and campaigns. Spike is also an author/screenwriter and is in pre-production on his first feature film that he scripted, “Dwindle Down.” Learn more about Spike at www.worldospike.com and at www.myspace.com/spikespencerfrickingenius.

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This just in:

Broccoli International USA, Inc. will be having a final warehouse sale to liquidate inventory.

Date: December 12, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 3:00pm – 7:00pm PST

Location:
1728 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035

TEL: 310-815-0604

Information about the warehouse sale is available on the Broccoli Books production blog.
http://www.bro-usa.com/bb_blog/2008/12/08/final-warehouse-sale-121208/
http://www.bro-usa.com/bb_blog/2008/12/08/final-warehouse-sale-list-of-products/

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Spike TV has announced that it will be airing the Movie Sequel to Afro Samurai, “Afro Samurai: Resurrection” In January 2009. They have also said that Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) and Mark Hamil (Star Wars) will add their voices into the mix. Spike had originally aired Afro Samurai in the U.S. back in January 2007. Read more

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Yes it is true, a Live-Action adaptation of the Anime cult classic Cowboy Bebop is currently in “early” development. Read more

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 Sakura-Con 2008: Roland Kelts [37:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re proud to present you an interview with Roland Kelts. He is a lecturer at Tokyo University and author of the book “Japanamerica: How Japanese pop culture has invaded the US”. We talk a lot about cultural and business differences between the US and Japan. I really enjoyed talking with him and I hope you enjoy this great interview.

Japanamerica Book

Ichigo with Roland

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 Sakura-Con 2008: Yutaka Izubuchi [44:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We’re proud to present you an interview with one of my personal heroes, Yutaka Izubuchi. His record speaks for himself, but just the fact that he is responsible for the creation and designs of my favorite series, RahXephon is enough to make me giddy. So I hope you enjoy this.

Wikipedia
Anime News Network

Ichigo with Izubuchi-san

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 NDK 2007 - Abe Hisashi [21:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here it is, an exclusive interview with Hisashi Abe, an Animator/Director from Madhouse. Anime Pulse were the only ones granted interviews with the Japanese guests at NDK. So check it out.

Madhouse
Hisashi Abe’s ANN profile

Anime Pulse with Hisashi-san. From left to right: Batou, Hisashi-san, Ichigo.

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 NDK 2007 - Itagaki Shin [19:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here it is, and exclusive interview with Itagaki Shin, an Animator/Director from Madhouse. Anime Pulse were the only ones granted interviews with the Japanese guests at NDK. So check it out.

Madhouse
Itagaki Shin’s ANN profile

Anime Pulse with Itagaki-san. From left to right: Batou, Itagaki-san, Ichigo.

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 NDK 2007 - Greg Ayres [40:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Here is an Anime Pulse interview with Greg Ayres. To find out more about him, visit his site.

Official Site

≡ Category: Japan | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 1 Comment

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the primary opponent to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which has held power for most of the 53 years since it’s inception, demanded a public apology from Aso Taro, the Secretary General of the LDP. Read more

≡ Category: Japan | Author: Fazman | ≅ 2 Comments

Many of us have undoubtedly at one point or another wished ill for our employers. Such was the case for a twenty-nine year old Elementary teacher in Yokohama’s Tsurumi-ku. This teacher took out his frustrations by writing blogs on the Internet. In said blogs the teacher stated that he wanted to kill the Vice-Principal of his school. He also stated,  ”If a teacher is murdered, it will be me who’s responsible, for certain.” Read more

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There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the new Pokemon themed Shinkansen (bullet train) by the JR East company running here in Japan. Well today I took a trip on it. It was the Asama Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagano. We start off with a pic of good old Pikachu and the fire monkey (names will not be included other than Pikachu because I don’t know them. If you care look it up yourself).

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Forty-Nine year old Tadashi Usami was found dead in an empty swimming pool around six-twenty A.M. on Thursday Morning. His body was found face down in the pool of a residential neighborhood. Police believe that Usami was on his way home to his hotel when he stumbled into the back yard believing this was his home. Having been drinking for most of the evening with a colleague near JR Ebisu station, Usami being extremely intoxicated was unable to tell the difference between this house and his hotel. Alcohol is believed to be the main factor. Foul play is not suspected.

Source:
Mainichi Daily News

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Well if you couldn’t guess it’s the special equipment edition of Evangelion 1.0 – you are not alone. It placed 4^thon the oricon list of the top 50 dvd’s in Japan between December 24, 2007 and June 16, 2008. The special edition sold 263,395 copies, 219,000 of those were sold in the first week of its release. Read more

≡ Category: Shows | Author: Batou | ≅ 1 Comment

So this week I am all alone, Ichigo is traipsing through the woods acting an ogre, or goblin or some other such thing. Tim was forced into slavery and as such had to work the Sabbath, as for Weltall, hell if I know where he is. My plans for world domination have hit a fairly major snag, turns out that there aren’t enough penguins to mount my envisioned invasion of the world. Now while I could get more, the time and resources involved are currently outside of my grasp. Oh well until then listen to me review Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom.
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≡ Category: Shows | Author: weltall | ≅ 2 Comments

Well I have the new laptop all set up and running smooth but this show was done on the old one so things are still a little messy. I don’t even remember what we reviewed

Kieli – Read it Borders.
Ranma 1/2 – Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers. Read more

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No Ichigo, ding dong the witch is dead, lalala, but I do have a Tim and a Weltall to help back me up. We go off on the usual randomness and just have some fun, so sit back and enjoy. Oh and I guess we manage to get a couple of reviews in as well. (reviewed Souten Kouro and Tears to Tiara).
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≡ Category: Shows | Author: weltall | ≅ 3 Comments

There isn’t much to say here because I have having computer issues…

Sumomomo Momomo – Read it Borders.
Higurashi: When They Cry – Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers. Read more

≡ Category: Shows | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 2 Comments

We’ve got a good show this week, talk about news, hiking the mountains in Nara, and review some Anime. We review Denpa Teki na Kanojo and Slap Up Party -Arad Senki-. Needless to say, it’s a good time.
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