Happy Holidays everyone. Here is the first of a two episode holiday arc. We present the interview that Chigo and I did with Piano Squall.
We’re all here this week. Leading up the holidays we bring some fun news. We reivew Mahou Shoujotai Alice, Cromartie High School and Scrapped Princess. We also go over our favorite anime characters.
Mahou Shoujotai Alice: Wait until hits the US and Netflix it/Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers
Scrapped Princess: Download Now/Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers
Cromartie High School: Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers
Show Notes:
News:
Pokemon doesn’t cause cancer, but researchers think otherwise
http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/54387.cfm
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=7569
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=19074
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/20/nintendo_threatens_l.html
Top 10 Anime Theme Songs of 2005
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8058
http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/6227/
New Anime Details and Sites
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8054
http://www.blacklagoon.jp/
http://www.kagihime.jp/index.html
http://www.girls-high.net/
http://www.starchild.co.jp/special/himawari/
DBZ on Robot Chicken
This Thursday’s airing of Robot Chicken on Adult Swim will be a holiday special featuring characters from Dragon Ball Z.
Employment Opportunities at Tokyopop
http://www.tokyopop.com/aboutus/jobs.php
Reviews:
Mahou Shoujotai Alice (魔法少女隊アルス)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahou_Shoujo_Tai_Arusu
http://www.tweeny-witches.com/
Scrapped Princess (スクラップド・プリンセス)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapped_Princess
http://www.sutepri.com/
Cromartie High School (魁!! クロマティ高校)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromartie_High_School
http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/cromartie/
Favorite Anime Characters:
Ichigo
Male: Vash the Stampede - Trigun | Tamahome - Fushigi Yugi
Female: Sakaki - Azumanga Daioh | Iria - Iria: Zeiram the Animation
Non-human: Iriomote Yamaneko - Azumanga Daioh
Batou
Male: Happosai - Ranma 1/2 | Yosho - Tenchi Muyo! OVA
Female: Gum/Alita - Battle Angel Alita
Non-human: Ryo-oki - Tenchi Muyo! | Black Cat - Trigun
ChibiGodzilla (Chigo)
Male: Sven - Black Cat
Female: Osaka - Azumanga Daioh | Ayeka - Pretty Sammy OVA
Non-human: Shinichi Mechazawa - Cromartie High School
This week we’re back with the whole crew. Chigo is here and Rukia makes a short appearance. We discuss the latest news, Ichigo reviews Saikano OVA, Chigo reviews Karin, and Batou just rants.
Saikano OVA - Download Now!
Karin - Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers.
Show Notes
News:
Howl’s Moving Castle Wins awards
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8007
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/pressrelease.php?id=1412
CNN on “Anime, Piracy and Profits”
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/12/news/midcaps/
anime_fortune_121205/index.htm?section=money_latest
Ghibli Announces New Anime based on Ursula K. Leguin’s Earthsea Cycle
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8021
New Sunrise Robot Series
The January issue of Newtype (Japan) talks about Zegapain, a robot action anime which Sunrise is now planning. According to the New Type article, robots in the anime will be rendered in 3D CG. Masami Shimoda will direct.
http://www.zegapain.net/
Free Streaming Anime
Bandai Channel and Biglobe are offering the first episodes of a number of titles online for free here. Available series include Petopeto-san, Noein, Gunparade Orchestra, Amaenai de Yo!! , Gakuen Senki Muryou, Akane Maniax, Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo, Sousei no Aquarion and more.
http://broadband.biglobe.ne.jp/sitemap/sitemap_bch.html
Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club Trailer
The official website for Sasami: Mahou Shoujo Club, a Tenchi Muyo spin-off, now hosts a streaming Real Media trailer.
http://www.vap.co.jp/sasami-club/movie/index.html
Tokyopop Manga Draw Negative Attention
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=8008
http://www.local6.com/news/5497816/detail.html#/index.html
Funimation - Shinsen-Subs Follow-up
There has been some misunderstanding regarding the events surrounding Funimation’s enforcement of its intellectual property vis-a-vis Shinsen-Subs. The fansub group was actively making available several titles that Funimation has already publicly announced. Their copyright infringement was not limited exclusively to unannounced properties.
New Poll: Favorite Director
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/poll.php?id=71&page=booth
Reviews:
Saikano OVA: Another Love Story (最終兵器彼女 Another Love Song)
http://www.saikano.net/
http://www.saikano-usa.com/
http://www.madman.com.au/saikano/index2.html
Karin (かりん)
http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/karin/index.php
http://www.wowow.co.jp/anime/karin/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=5949
This week we had special guest Rukia, the Awesome girlfriend-san. We also review the series Melody of Oblivion, Ginban Kaleidoscope and Revolutionary Girl Utena.
Revolutionary Girl Utena - Wait ’till it hits the US and Netflix it.
Ginban Kaleidoscope - Wait ’till it hits the US and Netflix it.
Melody of Oblivion - Download Now!
Show Notes
News:
Shinsen Subs faces Funimation
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/
http://www.shinsen-subs.org/
Witchblade Animation
http://www.witchblade.jp/
Pokeman Movie
http://pokeani.com/
Life Size Gundam Head for Auction
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6019829341
Weta Visual Director Richard Taylor Interview
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire2005/index.php?id=33604
Mr. Miyagi dies
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/25/obit.morita.ap/
Reviews:
Melody of Oblivion (忘却の旋律)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_of_Oblivion
http://www.jcstaff.co.jp/sho-sai/bou-shokai/bou-index.htm
Revolutionary Girl Utena (少女革命ウテナ)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Girl_Utena
http://www.utenatv.com/
http://www.utenathemovie.com/
Ginban Kaleidoscope (銀盤カレイドスコープ)
http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Animation/ginban/
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,3190,ugxmwe,ginban_kaleidos.html
Rukia’s topic of conversation:
http://www.anime-pulse.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=80
Here are some excerpts from our interview with Michael “Piano Squall” Gluck. The full interview will come in a few weeks. This should tide you over until the next full episode in a day or two.
We have some fun this week with special guest Chibigodzilla. We review our standards as well as Hoshi no Koe (Voices of a distant star), Yakusoku no Basho (The place promised in our early days), Mushishi, Serial Experiments: Lain and Iria: Zeiram the Animation.
Hoshi no Koe/Yakusoku no Basho: Batou - Even if you recieve it as a present, burn the disc and piss on the ashes. Ichigo - Wait ’till it hits the US and Netflix it.
Mushishi: Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers.
Serial Experiments: Lain: Wait until it hits the US and Netflix it
Iria: Zeiram the Animation: Download Now
Chibigodzilla does a rant about Asa-sempai in “SHUFFLE!” and we also play some audio comments. Because we finally got some!
Also, We’ll be interviewing Piano Sqall at http://www.pianosquall.com soon. Look forward to that.