Interviews – Anime World Order Podcast

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Once upon a time, this would have been labeled as a “bonus” episode since we don’t even introduce ourselves or say the episode number, but since the last time we had him on was over a decade ago we decided to catch up with Jim Kaposztas, creator of the first AMV and certified “oldtaku” to talk about anime fandom, conventions, and creative fan endeavors in both the pre-Internet era as well as today.

AnimeCon ’91 black and white flyer
AnimeCon ’91 color flyer
Cover to the BayCon ’86 program guide – for those so inclined, you can now find scans of this entire thing online

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (37:58 – 41:00)
The great day has arrived, as Angel Cop Remastered on Blu-Ray is out. Oh sure, we bought the original Blu-Ray but this is the true HD remaster in the original aspect ratio! Also coming at you is Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos in its entirety! We were only able to review the first 15 episodes back in 2007, so we’ve been waiting over 15 years to see the rest of this madness unfold. And while we can’t be certain, with it now streaming on Netflix and removed from HiDive/the Sentai Filmworks site, there’s a good chance that they no longer have the rights to Den-Noh Coil, so unless you think Netflix of all places will do a home video release, you will want to buy the Den-Noh Coil Complete Collection while the supplies of it still exist. We get the feeling that it might not be reprinted.

Jim’s YouTube channel “Ultragoji” which contains many of Jim’s creations over the years, DMCA bots notwithstanding (someone else has the custom URL)
Our 2008 interview with the Philadelphia Animation Society, which includes Jim and the late Bill Thomas (1949-2015)
We talked to the Philadelphia Animation Society again in 2009
Our interview with Rob Fenelon and Walter Amos in which Rob recalls some of these same stories from his perspective; part two of that interview is here
From Dave Merrill’s Let’s Anime blog, a 1999 essay by Walter Amos regarding his entry into anime/Star Blazers fandom which in many ways mirrors what Jim experienced since they ran in the same circles (you can see Walter in some of the pictures used for the Richard Moriarty celebration video on Jim’s YouTube)
Dave’s also posted some of the photos from Worldcon and Lunacon Jim refers to (Daryl thought they later ran in “Newtype” but “Animage” is the more likely culprit
The Redline AMV which we believe is from a (former?) listener
The Giant Robo AMV from the same creator
The Evangelion AMV set to the Savatage song
There are a few City Hunter x Cowboy Bebop AMVs, but this one is likely what Jim is referencing since it inserts the characters into Macross Plus
Death Note with Avenue Q
The Haruhi Suzumiya “I Ship It” AMV which we think resulted in some sort of fan scuffle between the AMV creator and the person who made the song, but we didn’t follow it
Synced Together: AMVs and Their Editors is a feature-length documentary 5 years in the making which will be premiering at various anime conventions this year, beginning with Sakuracon in April; there’s probably actually going to be a segment on the “I Ship It” drama in here

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It’s the annual trivia episode! For the first time, we have TWO special trivia guests: Christina Rose and Jason Moses, freelance Japanese to English otaku translators whose most recent gig is Super Robot Wars 30, out now on Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch (check the comments for additional details regarding how to get the Switch version and DLC in English), and for the first time with no region lockout, PC via Steam!

Introduction (0:00 – 25:30)
We may know who Christina and Jason are, and we may know what this whole “Super Robot Wars” thing is, but that doesn’t mean YOU do! We give them the opportunity to explain how they got into this whole sordid situation and what’s so super about these robot wars anyway, for the benefit of everybody out there who has never typed the word “akurasu” into their web browser address bar. Like Tim Eldred.

Christina’s Twitter LP of a King of Fighters visual novel
Dave Cabrera’s SRW Let’s Play was unfortunately deleted from the Internet forever when he deleted his Livejournal, and no archive backup exists. But he’s on Twitter, still blowing our minds and stealing our hearts

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (25:30 – 27:30)
The Holiday Sale is underway! Everything is on sale, plus, each day there’s a new Mega Deal. The weekly specials are also going on as well, so if you’ve got gift shopping to do (or just buy stuff for yourself at a discount) now is the time when you have to ask the tough questions like “do I REALLY need to buy a vacuum cleaner when instead, I could spend that money on getting all of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure in hardcover?” Plus, if you use our affiliate link to visit their site we’ll get a commission, which we use to help support our ~~definitely not out of control pornography addiction~~ podcast hosting expenses.

Trivia! (25:30 – 2:31:50)
It’s the usual three rounds worth of questions from categories of questionable merit, though the ones with the most merit (and difficulty) are listener-submitted. Revel as none of us know the answers to things we really should be able to answer, considering we own these things or did reviews of these things or grew up with these things. Tim Eldred won’t believe we didn’t get the alphabetical order of the Yamato movies right.

HiDive has many great titles, such as the one true Colorful here
Todd McFarlane’s interview with The Comics Journal
The official Oishinbo YouTube channel

Closing (2:31:50 – 3:01:35)
This was originally part of the introduction, but it ran a little long so we figured we’d put it here instead. As it turns out, several of the titles that we’ve discussed on AWO in the past (check the Review Index up top for the list!) are titles that have been featured in Super Robot Wars. We go through the list. And mention Tim Eldred one more time.