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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 4thon 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 [...]

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 Manga Episode 33 [61:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week Tim and Weltall have a great show! They review Kamichama Karin Chu and Tim takes on Dean Koontz’s In Odd We Trust, in this amazing episode.

Weltall - Kamichama Karin Chu - Read it at Boarders
Tim - In Odd We Trust - Even if you receive it as a present, burn the book and piss on the ashes.

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 One Hour Ninja [53:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is the “How to become a ninja in one hour” panel from Anime Boston. Many thanks to Rangiku for recording this panel.

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Note, some of these are things I already knew, but now have first-hand experience.  If this is what I know from four days, imagine what I’ll know after three months.

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Yoji Totsuka became famous when he discovered that the elementary particle called neutrinos have mass. Totsuka who had been a special emeritus professor at the University of Tokyo won Japan’s

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On May 12th 2008 in the Sichuan province in china there was an earthquake that took the lives of 69,196 people. This tradgedy makes its mark in the history books as the 19th most deadly eartquake of all time. The most deadliest earthquake of all time was Tangshan China in 1976 with 242,419 dead.

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Welcome to the AP news team Fazman.  He is our first non-host member of the news team and will be posting Japan and Industry related news.  Join me in welcoming him.

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Full day #2.  I decided to spent more time in Akihabara this time.  So I headed over there in the morning.  I spent a lot of time just browsing the stores, played a bit more of the Gundam game.  I have decided that yesterday must have been a fluke, because this time I got my [...]

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 Ian Condry [45:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is Ian Condry’s panel from Anime Boston. Many thanks to Rangiku for recording this panel.

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A man who allegedly issued a death threat June 19th on 2ch against 水樹奈々 (Mizuki Nana) was arrested the day prior to her July 5th LIVE FIGHTER concert in Yoyogi (between Harajuku and Shinjuku in Tokyo).

Part of the threat posted on 2ch was 「お前ら安心しろ。水樹奈々と水樹信者はダガーナイフと２ｔ（トン）トラックを使って、俺が代々木で皆殺しにしてやるからよ」. This roughly reads “You can all relax. I will use a 2 ton truck and a dagger to kill Mizuki Nana and her fans in Yoyogi.”