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 Episode 163 [44:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

That is right folks, hell has struck again. It started out when the mass emailer stopped working. Don’t know why I tried it a few times and nothing, so what do I do, why go ask the resident programing expert that we keep on staff, you know, Ichigo. Only there was a small problem, he’s on vacation, well shit that means we up a creak without a paddle. Wait salvation I happen to have a list of emails used by the subscribers for paypal, woohoo the show is saved…. Nope spoke to soon. Apparently Ichigo went and changed passwords before going on vacation and “conveniently” forgot to tell me about this. So now I don’t have access to a bunch of the site stuff. Oh but no worries this is Ichigo we’re talking about he’ll check his email every ten minutes even if he is on vacation right? Right? RIGHT? NO, what the F*&k do you mean NO? You mean for the first time ever he isn’t going to check his emails, great time for him to start having a life. So we managed to get through the recording, we being Tim, Weltall and Myself, almost. Oh yeah that’s right, TheOtaku site wasn’t loading for us, seems our ISP decided that was one website we had no business going to. We’ll try and get to it at some point but I’m not holding my breath on that one. I think were going to have to gather the board of trustees and make a corprate ruling that our Ichigo is not allowed to go on vacation ever again nor is he allowed to have his laptop more than 5 feet from his persona at any given point in time. So like I was saying, we recorded a show, we talked about a little of this a little of that and even talked about some anime, more specifically Penguine Musume Heart and Tentai Senshi Sunred. Well we made it through this week so enjoy.

Tentai Senshi Sunred - Wouldn’t Kick it Out of Bed for Eating Crackers.
Penguin Musume Heart - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it.
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 Manga Episode 57 [75:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s time for Kwanzaa and we bring you much manga love to you. Tim still has latent sickness, bastard will never get over it, oh my throat hurt, I can’t breath….

One Pound Gospel - Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers.
Element Line - Read it at Borders. Read more

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 Episode 162 [44:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

So yeah we’ve done Fushigi Yugi before, but we’ve never had Tim tell us his thoughts on it, oh how the anger flows. I think he might have been foaming at the mouth when I first recommended he talk about that series. There is some history between Fushigi Yugi and Tim, kinda of like the history between a guy and his crazy ex that is taking half his paycheck in alimony and wont give back his letter jacket from high school, he can’t let it go even though that was 20 years ago. But those were his glory days, he was big man on the high school campus cause he was on the football team now he’s just some office shmuck in a cubicle with an ex-wife. That is the kind of history Tim and Fushigi Yugi have. Oh and I talk about the newest installment to the Fist of the North Star, I like to call it the Chronicles of Roah, and while there are not lions there is a horse.

What?
Where is Ichigo?
I told you we don’t talk about that, it’s taboo.

Fushigi Yugi - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it. (Barely)
Hokuto no Ken Raoh Gaiden: Ten no Haoh - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it.
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 Manga Episode 56 [83:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Tim is still sick… we have a new contest question, a subscriber won some cool stuff(if they email us) and we talk about Christmas. OK this was supposed to be the Christmas episode but well it’s not very Christmasy.

Tokko: Devil’s Awaken - Read it now.
Gimmick! - Read it now. Read more

≡ Category: Features | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 3 Comments

Wonder what you’re missing as a non-subscriber? It’s lots of wackiness. Here is the first of more (maybe) chatlogs from our ventrilo server before and during the recording of the shows. Next time I will have timestamps, but this time just know that it’s about three hours of chat, starting 50 minutes prior to the start of theO show and going through the end of the AP show. Let me know if you enjoy this. If not I won’t do it again. And please refrain from the tl;dr comments. I realize it’s freaking long.

Read it as you’re listening, maybe you’ll be able to figure out where things happen, next time I will do the time stamps, as well as mark where shows start and end.
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≡ Category: Features | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 3 Comments

Wonder what you’re missing as a non-subscriber? It’s lots of wackiness. Here is the first of more (maybe) chatlogs from our ventrilo server before and during the recording of the shows. Next time I will have timestamps, but this time just know that it’s about three hours of chat, starting 50 minutes prior to the start of theO show and going through the end of the AP show. Let me know if you enjoy this. If not I won’t do it again. And please refrain from the tl;dr comments. I realize it’s freaking long.

Read it as you’re listening, maybe you’ll be able to figure out where things happen, next time I will do the time stamps, as well as mark where shows start and end.
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≡ Category: Features | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 3 Comments

Hi everybody, let me start off by saying that it’s good to be back, and even better that I don’t have to try and reconstruct any data.

So on the 6th I got this email from our hosting company

We will be performing a hardware upgrade on all of our nodes in our current Dallas location on Friday November 7, 2008. The upgrade window will take place from 1:00AM-3:00AM EST. During this time your server will be unavailable for up to 45 minutes.

I didn’t think anything of it until I noticed that the server was down when I checked at 9 AM Friday. I sent a support ticket and they told me that upon restart of the server (note that we’re on a VPS on a very, very large RAID array) it required a fsck.
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≡ Category: Features | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 9 Comments

So I went to my first movie in Japan. What was interesting about it was how much was similar and how much was just different enough.

The theater I went to was the Warner Brothers “Mycal” theater in the Aeon shopping center just down the street, a mile or so away. This was a 10 screen theater or so, and had a lot of movies playing. Of course, the big American ones had opened, Mummy 3, Hancock, Dark Knight, with Wanted opening in a couple days. I decided to go and see Sky Crawlers, the new Mamoru Oshii film.
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Sorry it’s been a while since I posted details of my travels. I was down on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea (the name of the straight that runs between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku) for a week with no computer. Then after a day trip to Iga it was time for my first week of work, and I immediately proceeded to get sick and spent pretty much any time not at work in bed. I’m better now, and finally feel up to doing some blogging.

First up, I moved out of my place in Tokyo, and here finally is a picture of the room:

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≡ Category: Features | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 3 Comments

So earlier this week I decided to treat myself and went out to Hakone where I visited a spa that was recommended to me by Kaitar. It was a complex with areas called Yunnesun and Mori no Yu. Yunnesun consisted of the title area and Yutopia. Yu means hot water, so it’s both accurate and a pun, classic Japanese humor.
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≡ Category: Industry | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 2 Comments

This just in:

Broccoli International USA, Inc. will be having a final warehouse sale to liquidate inventory.

Date: December 12, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 3:00pm - 7:00pm PST

Location:
1728 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035

TEL: 310-815-0604

Information about the warehouse sale is available on the Broccoli Books production blog.
http://www.bro-usa.com/bb_blog/2008/12/08/final-warehouse-sale-121208/
http://www.bro-usa.com/bb_blog/2008/12/08/final-warehouse-sale-list-of-products/

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Spike TV has announced that it will be airing the Movie Sequel to Afro Samurai, “Afro Samurai: Resurrection” In January 2009. They have also said that Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels) and Mark Hamil (Star Wars) will add their voices into the mix. Spike had originally aired Afro Samurai in the U.S. back in January 2007. Read more

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Yes it is true, a Live-Action adaptation of the Anime cult classic Cowboy Bebop is currently in “early” development. Read more

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A recently released Novel adaptation of Rei Hiroe’s Black Lagoon done by Gen Urobuchi has confirmed the production of a third season of Black Lagoon. Read more

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Yesterday Viz Media announced That the Anime series Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note would now be available for purchase from the iTunes store. Read more

≡ Category: Japan | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 1 Comment

The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the primary opponent to the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which has held power for most of the 53 years since it’s inception, demanded a public apology from Aso Taro, the Secretary General of the LDP. Read more

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Many of us have undoubtedly at one point or another wished ill for our employers. Such was the case for a twenty-nine year old Elementary teacher in Yokohama’s Tsurumi-ku. This teacher took out his frustrations by writing blogs on the Internet. In said blogs the teacher stated that he wanted to kill the Vice-Principal of his school. He also stated,  ”If a teacher is murdered, it will be me who’s responsible, for certain.” Read more

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There’s been a lot of hype surrounding the new Pokemon themed Shinkansen (bullet train) by the JR East company running here in Japan. Well today I took a trip on it. It was the Asama Shinkansen between Tokyo and Nagano. We start off with a pic of good old Pikachu and the fire monkey (names will not be included other than Pikachu because I don’t know them. If you care look it up yourself).

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Forty-Nine year old Tadashi Usami was found dead in an empty swimming pool around six-twenty A.M. on Thursday Morning. His body was found face down in the pool of a residential neighborhood. Police believe that Usami was on his way home to his hotel when he stumbled into the back yard believing this was his home. Having been drinking for most of the evening with a colleague near JR Ebisu station, Usami being extremely intoxicated was unable to tell the difference between this house and his hotel. Alcohol is believed to be the main factor. Foul play is not suspected.

Source:
Mainichi Daily News

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Well if you couldn’t guess it’s the special equipment edition of Evangelion 1.0 - you are not alone. It placed 4^thon the oricon list of the top 50 dvd’s in Japan between December 24, 2007 and June 16, 2008. The special edition sold 263,395 copies, 219,000 of those were sold in the first week of its release. Read more

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That is right folks, hell has struck again. It started out when the mass emailer stopped working. Don’t know why I tried it a few times and nothing, so what do I do, why go ask the resident programing expert that we keep on staff, you know, Ichigo. Only there was a small problem, he’s on vacation, well shit that means we up a creak without a paddle. Wait salvation I happen to have a list of emails used by the subscribers for paypal, woohoo the show is saved…. Nope spoke to soon. Apparently Ichigo went and changed passwords before going on vacation and “conveniently” forgot to tell me about this. So now I don’t have access to a bunch of the site stuff. Oh but no worries this is Ichigo we’re talking about he’ll check his email every ten minutes even if he is on vacation right? Right? RIGHT? NO, what the F*&k do you mean NO? You mean for the first time ever he isn’t going to check his emails, great time for him to start having a life. So we managed to get through the recording, we being Tim, Weltall and Myself, almost. Oh yeah that’s right, TheOtaku site wasn’t loading for us, seems our ISP decided that was one website we had no business going to. We’ll try and get to it at some point but I’m not holding my breath on that one. I think were going to have to gather the board of trustees and make a corprate ruling that our Ichigo is not allowed to go on vacation ever again nor is he allowed to have his laptop more than 5 feet from his persona at any given point in time. So like I was saying, we recorded a show, we talked about a little of this a little of that and even talked about some anime, more specifically Penguine Musume Heart and Tentai Senshi Sunred. Well we made it through this week so enjoy.

Tentai Senshi Sunred - Wouldn’t Kick it Out of Bed for Eating Crackers.
Penguin Musume Heart - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it.
Read more

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It’s time for Kwanzaa and we bring you much manga love to you. Tim still has latent sickness, bastard will never get over it, oh my throat hurt, I can’t breath….

One Pound Gospel - Wouldn’t kick it out of bed for crackers.
Element Line - Read it at Borders. Read more

≡ Category: Shows | Author: Batou | ≅ 3 Comments

So yeah we’ve done Fushigi Yugi before, but we’ve never had Tim tell us his thoughts on it, oh how the anger flows. I think he might have been foaming at the mouth when I first recommended he talk about that series. There is some history between Fushigi Yugi and Tim, kinda of like the history between a guy and his crazy ex that is taking half his paycheck in alimony and wont give back his letter jacket from high school, he can’t let it go even though that was 20 years ago. But those were his glory days, he was big man on the high school campus cause he was on the football team now he’s just some office shmuck in a cubicle with an ex-wife. That is the kind of history Tim and Fushigi Yugi have. Oh and I talk about the newest installment to the Fist of the North Star, I like to call it the Chronicles of Roah, and while there are not lions there is a horse.

What?
Where is Ichigo?
I told you we don’t talk about that, it’s taboo.

Fushigi Yugi - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it. (Barely)
Hokuto no Ken Raoh Gaiden: Ten no Haoh - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it.
Read more

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Tim is still sick… we have a new contest question, a subscriber won some cool stuff(if they email us) and we talk about Christmas. OK this was supposed to be the Christmas episode but well it’s not very Christmasy.

Tokko: Devil’s Awaken - Read it now.
Gimmick! - Read it now. Read more

≡ Category: Shows | Author: Ichigo | ≅ 3 Comments

 

 Episode 161 [61:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week much hilarity ensues, as stories of Gaijin Santas, tail-less cats and various units of measurements abound. We discuss the news, which includes the robotic female doll who still won’t let the creepy guy touch her breasts (doh!), Keanu “Dude” Reeves who may or may not be acting in a Live Action Cowboy Bebop as well as other stories. We also review One Outs and Code Geass R2 (What a twist!). Don’t miss it.

One Outs - Wait until it hits the US and NetFlix it.
Code Geass: R2 - Download Now!
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