Year: 2010

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AWA 2010 – Anime’s Craziest Deaths Title Listing

Ouch. We sort of stopped podcasting for the last month and change, huh? Well, not technically; we put in a bunch of guest appearances on OTHER podcasts. We just didn’t release new episodes of our own because we were busy preparing for Anime Weekend Atlanta (convention report forthcoming). In addition to my Panel OF DOOM!, Anime’s Craziest Deaths was back with about 45 minutes of new material. Subsequent editions of the panel at AWA will probably be about an hour long to help make room for more all-ages appropriate programming (that and it’s NOT EASY to find new clips since they barely make this sort of thing anymore!), but here’s the listing of what went down (note that whenever possible, if a same title was reused from previous installments, different clips were shown):

Rurouni Kenshin OAVs
Dark Warrior
Lily C.A.T.
Cybernetics Guardian
Berserk
Battle Royal High School
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan
Sword of the Stranger
Battle Angel
Hellsing Ultimate
Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Shadow Skill
Macross Plus: The Movie
Angel Cop
Wicked City
Ghost in the Shell (movie)
Princess Mononoke
Genocyber
The Professional: Golgo 13
Baoh
Blood: The Last Vampire
New Fist of the North Star – only at AWA does the mere sight of Kenshiro before he does anything result in the biggest applause of the night
Zambot 3
Ideon Movie 2
Vampire Hunter D
Dai Mahou Touge aka Magical Witch Punie-chan
Lupin the Third: Dead or Alive
Space Pirate Captain Harlock SSX – this plus the new CG movie trailer means now everyone knows DON’T F*CK WITH HARLOCK
Akira
Black Lagoon
Mobile Suit Gundam
Mad Bull 34
Crystal Triangle

The Video Art Track (VAT) was filled to capacity and then some, though about halfway through the show about 25-33% of the crowd all got up and left. I don’t think it was because “the crowd was burned out” so much that Anime HELL was beginning right at that same time. Heck, that’s where I would have been, otherwise! Here’s hoping that next time with the shortened running time I won’t find myself put opposite other “wacky clip” panels, since it’s generally the same crowd who goes to them.

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Anime World Order Show # 87 – Welcome to the Otakon Show

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It’s been a month since the last episode due to Otakon 2010, so the least we could do is give you a convention report of it! While we’re at it, we review the new theatrical film Welcome to the Space Show.

Yeah, we were supposed to review those things we said we’d review at the end of Show 86, but that’ll be Show 88 now!

Daryl was a guest once again on the latest ANNCast along with Mike Toole, whose Anime Jump site has got new updates for the first time in years! He reviewed Welcome to the Space Show too!

Introduction (0:00 – 36:12)
The emails reinforce the trend that everyone these days has now decided that Zeta Gundam, once hailed as the jewel in the “real robot” crown, is terrible. So we’re asked to list some “super robot” series of note instead. We opt to sub-divide “super robot” into two arbitrary categories: “Go Nagai” and “everybody else.” Then someone who is most likely a 15 year-old girl that shouldn’t be looking at this stuff asks us for recommendations on gay pornography…so naturally we oblige! But not before we hate on Akiyuki Shinbo and Maria Holic. Finally, Daryl was going to throw his hat into the shouldn’t-exist-but-does-anyway waste of time argument that shall not be named here in these show notes, but opted not to do so because neither Gerald nor Clarissa had seen the movie.

Promo: Manga Plasma (36:12 – 36:38)
These guys are all half our ages and just started podcasting, and while we usually hesitate to play promos for podcasts that don’t yet have 10 episodes out we figured what the heck. It’s kind of hard to hear over TM Revolution’s Resonance, but we think the person in the background saying “BULLSHIT!” at random intervals might be trying to be in character as Excalibur from Soul Eater or something. Just a guess. We’re old now. We got no damn idea what these kids with their hair and their clothes and their rock and roll music are into these days.

Report: Otakon 2010 (36:38 – 1:23:13)
All three of us were present at Otakon 2010 and relay our experiences for better or for worse at it. Mostly for better, since all the for worse occurrences were edited out! You’ll just have to slog through our Twitter archives for those. As the previous post elaborated, we did do one panel together which went over quite well. Gerald also had a History of Hentai panel which lived up to its name.

Review: Welcome to the Space Show (1:23:13 – 1:50:13)
Daryl reviews a theatrical anime film that was premiered for the first time in subtitled form in North America at the convention. As such, this review is fairly devoid of any spoilers, since there exists no means for most people to see it just yet. Also different from usual: this is something all three of us saw for a change! We all share the same thoughts on it, as does pretty much everyone we know who saw it, but it’ll be coming out soon in the US courtesy of…we’re guessing Bandai Entertainment. Feel free to see it for yourself when the time comes. And yes, that’s Susan Boyle who sang the song for it.

Closing (1:50:13 – 1:51:48)
We still haven’t actually recorded the next episode yet, but with any luck we’ll be able to do so BEFORE Anime Weekend Atlanta. No guarantees though. In the meantime, we’ve got guest appearances on other podcasts at least.