Year: 2015

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Anime World Order Show # 142 – Gay Basketball and Anthrax Are Better Than Kerberos Saga

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Is THIS going to mark ten years of our podcast? But we didn’t do anything special like what you’re supposed to! Who’s been listening to us all this time, and how have your lives changed since then? What, if anything, did we have to do with it? For now, we must soldier on. Clarissa reviews THE BASKETBALL WHICH KUROKO PLAYS, or as rational people call it, Kuroko’s Basketball.

Introduction (0:00 – 34:55)
Some emails are deceptively difficult. This time around we tackle the question of “what anime out there is like Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade?” while revealing that we don’t fully comprehend the geography of the very state in which we inhabit. Listen, people from Central and South Florida try not to think about what goes on up North, since that’s when it becomes The South. Also, out West. That’s where the demons reside.

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (34:55 – 36:20)
The Holiday sale is on until December 27th with new items added every day, and several of those are titles we’ve reviewed in the past or happened to mention during the introduction. Each order you place gives you a chance to win a $250 gift card, and shipping is free after you spend $49. With so many things discounted so high, you’ll hit that mark rather quickly if you’re anything like us.

Review: Kuroko’s Basketball (36:20 – 1:20:49)
Fine, we didn’t actually call it The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays, but then again, neither does Crunchyroll or Viz because no native English speaker would bother. Of course, any native English speaker who routinely says “Kuroko no Basuke” or, even weirder, “Kuroko’s Basket” probably reads pirated scans or watches some fansub. Those days are behind us, as it’s all on Crunchyroll now, including the two extra OAVs so GET IN THE ZONE. Note: the zone might possibly be referring to a dude’s butt, if all this fanart is anything to go by.

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Anime World Order Show # 141 – Caddyshack 2 Reincarnation Wish Inverted

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In this episode, we’ve implemented multiple new ways to drive away listeners as this episode is primarily about sports anime. We also give our convention report of Anime Weekend Atlanta 2015 and Gerald reviews the bicycle racing anime Yowamushi Pedal (“Weakling Pedal”).

Introduction (0:00 – 21:55)
Since we’re already reviewing a sports anime this episode and everybody’s refused to download or press Play over that alone, we go for broke and give some sports anime recommendations of things we’ve by and large not already reviewed on the podcast. It takes about 22 minutes because we’ve decided that from this point on, we should all start actually saying “The Basketball Which Kuroko Plays” instead of “Kuroko’s Basketball” or Kuroko no Basuke/Basket.

Con Report: Anime Weekend Atlanta 2015 (21:55 – 1:00:55)
Although anime conventions remain in full swing for the duration of the year, AWA is what typically closes out the “convention season” for us each year. With a record-breaking attendance of approximately 25,000 they’re definitely doing something right, but in some ways it was a bit of a strange year for us. Some of these pertained to gradual shifts in the convention focus, but the majority of it is personal to our situation. Daryl wrote up a report for his Stupid Video Panel OF DOOM! over at the Anime Hell blog.

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (1:00:55 – 1:02:25)
So here’s the deal: Right Stuf offered us a sponsorship in exchange for us mentioning they exist. This is pretty easy, since all of us already buy things from them anyway, so we provide an example where we would purchase from them as opposed to Amazon.

Review: Yowamushi Pedal (1:02:55 – 1:35:25)
Gerald reviews the first two seasons of this recent bicycle racing anime series, which is currently all that’s available to watch streaming. The final thirty minutes or so of the original recorded has been excised for your sanity, as it ended up becoming a…cyclical…argument. Regrettably, the part where Daryl starts tying things into the shonen narrative requirements combined with the modern audience expectations for heel suitability by way of Loki from the Marvel movies, plus the suitability of compilation films (which there are two of, but we’ve not seen them) ended up on the digital cutting room floor. We’ll leave those to your imagination.

Ending (1:35:25 – 1:42:27)
Aw, if we’d edited out 2 seconds, every segment duration could’ve ended on a multiple of 5! We’re not entirely sure about the timetables for these things, but at some point in the future Gerald will review Ai City, Clarissa will review THE BASKETBALL WHICH KUROKO PLAYS, and thanks to Twitch donations Daryl is on the hook for not only Initial D: Fourth Stage (just that, nothing prior) but also Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Oh, and our next episode is kind of sort of our ten year anniversary of podcasting. Shouldn’t we do something to mark the occasion? Watch something noteworthy? We have no ideas, so send us feedback via comments, Twitter, or email with yours.