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Episode 200: Umi Yukikaze

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Well, it’s been a long four years, and things still look good. We have a great show this time. Included is the normal news and reviews; we talk about Sentou Yosei Yukikaze and Umi Monogatari. We also have well-wishes from Kye Hebert, Spike Spencer, Piano Squall, ArtPlayMix.con, Anime World Order and the Ninja Consultants. We finally end with a whopping 25 minutes of the best of the past 200 episodes. Also, congratulations to our subscribers nisswa789, bionic86 and Tachikoma08 for winning our giveaways.
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Episode 198: 20th Century Manimani

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Greetings and salutations. We’re back with a long show. We do the news (a lot of it), review 20th Century Boys (the trilogy) and Sora no Manimani and then I finish up with part 2 of my Introduction to Japanese. This week, more numbers, yes/no, excuse me and this, that and that. Leave comments on your thoughts or to point out where I made a mistake.

Don’t forget, only one more week left to submit your favorite clips from the last 197 episodes of Anime Pulse for the immense episode 200 extravaganza. Go to the forums to see the thread.
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Nan Desu Kan Announces 2009 Guests

Denver’s premiere anime convention celebrates 13th anniversary

DENVER, COLORADO – AUGUST 22, 2009 — Nan Desu Kan (NDK), Denver’s premier anime convention, will return Sept. 11-13 at the Marriott Denver Tech Center.

For thirteen years NDK has celebrated Japanese animation, music and culture. This year, NDK continues its tradition of bringing acclaimed guests directly to the fans, welcoming voice actors Aaron Dismuke (Fullmetal Alchemist, Trinity Blood), Todd Haberkorn (Claymore, Suzuka), Michael McConnohie (Disgaea, Transformers, World of Warcraft), Melodee Spevack (Digimon, Ergo Proxy, Star Trek: Enterprise), and Cristina Vee (Izo, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Rozen Maiden).

Returning guests include industry veterans Robert and Emily DeJeasus (Studio Capsule), as well as Jason and Heather Martin (ArtPlayMix.com). Also reappearing are voice actors Wendy Powell (Case Closed, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece) and Chris Patton (D Gray Man, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece). In addition, The Robotech Convention Tour returns with Tommy Yune and Steve Yun.
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Episode 197: Kara no Cencoroll

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I’ve got a free hand this week, as Batou’s off playing with illegal weapons or something. So I do the news, review the Cencoroll and the final Kara no Kyoukai movies and do a new experiment, Japanese with Ichigo! This week we covered basic interactions, including greetings, please and thank you. Then we covered counting 1-10 and generic counters from 1-10. Let me know what you thought in the comments.

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Music

Intro – Modern Strange Cowboy by Granrodeo from Needless
Outro – Neko Mimi Mode by Dimitri From Paris from Tsukiyomi Moon Phase

Reviews

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LDP is out, DPJ is in. Hooray for change (wait, aren't they almost the same?)

I’m currently watching TV on my DS, yay for Japanese tech. The Minshuto (DJP) has 276 seats out of the 480, with the Jiminto (LDP) only having 82. This means that Aso Taro is out of power and Hatoyama Yukio is in power. Join the rest of Japan in rejoicing that one group of old, power-hungry and corrupt men has been replaced with an almost identical group (heck, they were the same party until 1996) of old, power-hungry and corrupt men. Yay for choice!

EDIT: Now the DJP is at 303, LDP at 115, with only 14 seats left to report. Komeito has 19, Communist party has 8, Social Democratic has 5, with 16 seats split among other small parties.