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Anime World Order Show # 82b – Chow Yun-Fat Has The REAL Tequila Shotgun

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Show 82 concludes with Daryl’s review of Bartender and Clarissa’s review of One Outs. But first, a special voice mail from the ONE AND ONLY Vic Mignogna, who tells us all about his experience at Whack-a-Nerd at Anime Festival Orlando! Keep your eyes on our Youtube channel for possibly related material in the near future.

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Review: Bartender (1:56 – 28:46)
Clarissa has selected for Daryl this 11 episode series from 2006. It’s low-key and low keyframe, but this is the sort of thing that personifies seinen…of a sorts. The series was written by Yasuhiro Imagawa during his “I’m done with directing, I’ll just stick to writing stuff” phase which was basically a seven year stretch between Seven of Nana (his attempt to ride the moe wave which failed because it’s actually for little girls only instead of pretending to be/also catering to older dudes) and Shin Mazinger Z. This is the Golgo 13 of food anime. To find out WHY, listen on! TJ from Chicago thinks we should get Carl Horn as a guest on the show. We also think that, but unfortunately he has no microphone/headset/Skype or cell phone, so we’d have to get him when he’s at home and has nothing better to do. As they’d say in Super Hyper Mega Bloody Ultra Cosmo Death Extravaganza X-23 II: Electric Boogaloo, that’s our story and we’re…stuck with it.

This sort of thing does not happen in Bartender, as many were hoping. That said, I’m 100% certain that bottle of Jack Daniels was drawn entirely from memory.

Review: One Outs (28:46 – 58:22)
When Clarissa chooses the reviews, nobody wins but she! It’s about baseball which is fujoshi code talk for GET YOUR HOT YAOI HERE (paddle juggling optional but hopefully banned), but it’s also about gambling which is code talk for ZAWA ZAWA. For a reminder on what the deal is with gambling anime and such, do go back and listen to our review of Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji – The Suffering Pariah ~ The Ultimate Survivor. We just wanted an excuse to write out that full title. ZAWA!

Promo: R5 Central (58:22 – 58:54)
Mike Dent just hit his four year anniversary, which puts him at Show 60 on the dot. For this relatively laser-free edition, he’s interviewing Bey Logan, the smartest English-speaking man on the planet when it comes to Asian action cinema and thus the best candidate to run Dragon Dynasty. The quality of some of the latest DD releases were a little below their usually high standards, but all that gets covered in the interview. Be sure to leave your comments regarding what you think…over there, that is!

Closing (58:54 – 1:05:47)
The next episode of AWO…may take a little while to come out. But what else is new, right? We’ve all got panels at Anime Weekend Atlanta which is but a few short weeks away…so maybe we should start working on them! But once that’s over, Daryl will be losing his mind over Sword of the Stranger, Gerald’s throwing the kids out of the pool for Astro Fighter Sunred, and Clarissa couldn’t think of anything in time to counteract Daryl’s suggestion of Ristorante Paradiso so she’s doing that. In the meantime, Daryl did a second guest appearance on Anime 3000 which you can download here.

Just as a reminder, the contest is still going! Email us once with suggestions for all three of us regarding what we should review in a future episode! You may only suggest one title for each of us, and in order to win, all three of us must agree to each of our suggested reviewers. We will select at least one winner, and that person will receive a FABULOUS PRIZE. 10 runners-up will also receive FABULOUS PRIZES courtesy of Green Mustard Productions. So get those suggestions in!

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Anime World Order Show # 82a – Carmencita Is A Bird, Your Argument Is Invalid

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Otaku USA deadlines are (mostly) behind us, our panels at Anime Festival Orlando are all done, which gives us a window of opportunity between now and Anime Weekend Atlanta to actually post something. Better get to it! This time, Clarissa’s picking the shows for everyone. In return for what Gerald made her review, she’s assigning him to review the Starship Troopers anime.

Introduction (0:00 – 29:45)
We forgot to put this in before. Fortunately, we’re just answering emails as usual. None of us can identify the anime that is requested of us, but we did at least properly conclude that the film in question was not Japanese in origin. It was the French film Gandahar. We also find out that someone exists on this planet who has seen Voltage Fighter Gowcaiser entirely too many times (more than once!), and end with some discussion regarding how the Japanese handle lip sync in animation.

Let’s News! (29:45 – 59:32)
Weird things are happening and it seems that Andrew WK, possibly the nicest guy in music, is bringing the world an album full of Gundam songs. The world is curious how on Earth this happened, and if we can get a sequel of just lectures about Zeta Gundam from Andrew WK too! Susumu Takaku has died, very sad considering he is probably responsible fo screwing up an entire generation of Japanese anime fans with having written Cutey Honey, Mazinger Z, Fist of the North Star Movie, and Devil Man. Also, Yoshinori Kanada has died, tragically early too, who also has a wide repertoire of works, we can forgive him for Birth, the show we secretly all love and hate. NO LONGER A SECRET NOW IS IT!? And because two isn’t enough and four is too many, we have THREE deaths for this episode with the passing of Takuji Endo creator of Clarissa’s favorite work EVER, Zetsuai 1989. In less death-y news, Noboru Ishiguro, director of Macross and, honestly, Yamato too, confirmed that a live action Yamato is in the works. Normally we wouldn’t talk about this, but since it’s Japanese, there is a slight likelihood it’ll be made, we’ll see if it can possibly be as good as the upcoming TV series! Then we talk about other stuff for a long period of time and show the world how unlistenable we are when we are not heavily edited.

Starship Troopers (59:33 – 1:34:44)
Oh man, Starship Troopers. If you can, watch this opening video along with us and maybe you’ll see somewhat prepared for this rather awful piece from 1988:

Yes, as awful as that show is, it is reponsible for give us some of the greatest anime ever, specifically many of those 1980’s real robot shows, and we owe it to the artwork in the 1977 re-release of the book. Here’s the cover to give you an idea:

This, however doesn’t allow for this show to have some of the very worst character designs to ever grace anime. While everyone in this show looks awful, its the females the suffer the most, and Carmencita suffers the most of them:

That’s not even the worst shot of her, in face, that’s pretty much how she looks in every shot.

The REAL show is below:
Look in to that picture, and just see if you can get that out of your nightmares!

Anyway, we talk about the awful show, how the book is one of the most important books in anime, and how making something 90% training and only about 5% fighting is really boring. UPDATE: Anime News Network reports that the man responsible for the art direction of this series just won an Emmy.

We’ll have the rest of the show up soon.