Anime World Order Show # 107 – Otakon 2012 Report

Three months between proper episodes is pretty deplorable even for us. We had meant for this episode to contain our Otakon 2012 report as well as the review of Unico, but the report ran long so we’re splitting this in half. Joining us for the con report via rather low quality landline reception is Anime Weekend Atlanta’s Video Programming Director (and amateur Strong Sad impersonator), Darius Washington of FandomPost.com. We tried recording this using Google Hangout instead of Skype. If everybody sounds “strange,” what you’re hearing is the difference between compression algorithms. CURSE YOU, TECHNOLOGY! We’ll be back to normal for the review.

If you need an anime review in your life, Daryl was on Fast Karate for the Gentleman talking about Crying Freeman. If you just need more podcast hours to fill time, Daryl was also on the ANNCast with Mike Toole to talk about…Otakon 2012 again! Some content recycling inevitable, but we also took two hours of Twitter questions regarding a variety of random anime-related topics, and talked a bit about Lupin the Third: The Woman Named Fujiko Mine.

Anime World Order Show # 104 – The [Sword for] Truth Has Set Us Free

We’ve been having a decent amount of guests on lately, huh? This time we are joined by Evan Minto from the Anigamers podcast and Genericon staff to talk about–PER HIS REQUEST–the notoriously disliked Sword for Truth by Osamu Dezaki and Akio Sugino.

We also weigh in on the bits of the ADV/FUNimation lawsuit that sounded interesting to us.

  • The cost to buy Sword for Truth has gone up a tiny bit since we recorded this. The cost of the live-action movie remains the same!
  • Here’s a pretty keen summary detailing the series of events that led to the Section 23 Films reorganization.
  • You can get the PDF of the filing directly from the Harris County Texas District Clerk site if you make a free account, but we’re not gonna lie: we got our copies from here. Obviously, the site will be updated as developments occur whereas a PDF would not, but the main page we looked at from that was this one.
  • The ANNCast with Carl Horn can be downloaded here.