Synopsis: In a world where might makes right, women fight each other to become the Queen? Leina runs away from her kingdom, and ends up encountering Risty, super busty bandit of justice.

Sorry for being sniffly Japanatorians, but you can download our ranting here.

(Warning: This recording of Podtoid-san/chan includes more than average talks of breasts, mammary glands, boobs, sweater cows, and gazongas)

Welcome to Kyoto Animation's newest animed show, K-on!

You can listen to the mini-cast here (6:34), and/or hit the jump for the synopsis.

The second exclamation means that its the second season. More commonly referred to as Hayate the Combat Butler, the show has recently started their second season, and you can see it on CrunchyRoll. No joke, FUNimation did one of those wacky things where they beat the fansubbers to the point. Of course, beggars can't be choosers, but I know some of us had lag issues in playing the episode.

What is podtoid-chan? Its a short (under ten minute) recording in lieu of a compressed, all encompassing show. Short, yet direct. Optional, and therefore a little more focused on the subject matter. The goal is to do as many of these as possible for the new season of shows, as they come out. Although we are already discussing it here, the show we are recording tonight is over K-on! if you want to make your opinions known on this post.

I'll skip the major synopsis here, since I'm sure most of you are aware of the show, and if not, Hayate the Combat Butler is a title that... well... actually, is rather misleading. Anyways, you can find our recording here!

As promised, the special edition compilation. While its not a Kevin Smith reprinting, I'm proud to say we repackaged previous content with a pretty bow. Mostly because it was a lot of work/fun and we've been resting ever since. Thus is also the reason we're releasing the episode as a Podtoid-san in addition to a Spoiler-san. While covering a con fell more into Podtoid-san territory, we had tried that before and it had been a very different product. Plus, we didn't want any loyal Podtoid-san reader to avoid it for that reason. Okay, maybe there's one actual spoiler for Code Geass in the fourth segment, but thats it, and it was all Dale's fault.

Topic of Discussion:
Four different daily question and answer sessions recorded around and about Otakon 08.

Locations:
BWI Airport parking lot
Topher Cantler's apartment
A terrace off the Covention center floor
Gate C5 at BWI Airport

Cast:
Too many to count, but super special thanks to Rhibiki, love of my life. Also, Dale has the coolest audio recorder ever.

00:00 Thursday: Waiting for Gia
25:00 Friday: Fear and Loathing in Baltimore, Maryland
46:00 Saturday: Guys and (guys who dress like) Dolls
74:00 Sunday: Lost in Transition
104:00 Its over!

... Sadly its still way below our longest show. We tried something different, hope you like it! Everyone can download the episode here. Other options, as always, include Itunes and the RSS feeders.

For security reasons, we have to keep all packages and luggage on us at all times, but podcasts are a different affair. Your swat team of sleepy bloggers are currently killing five+ (or in my case... tbd) hours at BWI airport. Hopefully we don't scare you away with our sleepy narrative, as a quick session of mid show sex talk bought us back to the living.

Location:
Gate C-6

Cast:
Dale
Gia
John
Tim
and featuring Abmoog, the noise making goomba

You can find part four here. Previous installments are as follows:
Part A: Waiting for Gia
Part B: Fear and loathing in Baltimore, Maryland
Part C: Guys and (guys who dress like) Dolls
Part D: Lost in Transition 

Note: And there you have it. The show is complete, fin, done... minus the amalgamated, HD remastered version we'll undoubtably release as soon as my Visa bill comes in.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Location:
A terrace off of the convention center

Cast:
Dale
DMV
Gia
God Len
John Martone
Matthew
Rhibiki
Tim
With special guest
Scott (from Anime Almanac)

You can find the episode here, but it is but a chapter in a great epic
Part A: Waiting for Gia
Part B: Fear and loathing in Baltimore, Maryland
Part C: Guys and (guys who dress like) dolls
Part D: N/A

Three episodes into this experiment, and we're having a blast. I hope all the readers are enjoying the "spoiling," but props go to our master questioners. Tonight's the LAST EPISODE! Although the con ends today, we're gonna try and pull it all together, as there are still things to buy in the merchant hall/pictures to take. After we get done there, we're heading over to Hitogoroshi's amazing house of nerd. Give us just a bit more of those amazing questions, or maybe just some feedback on how we did.

[Now it works! -- DMV]

Well, Dale's done it, posted the picture of me and my bud Jesus. I was going to use that in this post because, come on, how often do you get to tell someone, "hold on, can you take my picture with Christ?"

Welcome to day two of Otakon, as we just wrapped up the offical day one. Panels were attended, sushi was consumed, and cosplayers were as far as the eye could see. I've said it before, but being at a con with friends is easily some of the most fun experiences I've ever had. That said, tonight we recorded Spoiler-san with a bunch of perfect strangers (yeah, I just did that). Okay, so maybe I know them, but this time they were highly beligerent.

Location:
The dining table of the legendary Topher Canteler

Cast:
DMV
Dale
Gia
God Len  Drunkenstein
Hitogoroshi
Rhibiki
Tim
Me

You can find part B here! Also, subscribe to the Spoiler-san RSS feed.

Leave even more questions for us to answer tomorrow.

Part A: Waiting for Gia
Part B: Fear and Loathing in Baltimore, Maryland
Part C: N/A
Part D: N/A

Okay, I'll start the questions first: "Why did Ebzero brick Gia's PSP?" and "Why does Gia have such a dirty mouth?"

Okay, so technically its only Friday in word (1 A.M) but Otakon has all but begun. In fact, we just passed the convention center to see a good forty people still idling around outside of the hall... in costume.

Funny story, this segment of Spoiler-san was recorded on the roof of the BWI airport. The ambient noise was delightfully quirky to us as we waiting for the aftermidnight flight of Gia Man-fry. Hope the charm of public podcasting appeals to you, we'll try to sneak somewhere interesting for tomorrow's segment. Okay, time to go to sleep, so that we can wake up early, go to Dunkin Doughnuts, and then to the dealers room. There's a panel called "Dubs that time forgot" I'd like to check out. Oh, aren't some of you loyal listeners haunting the con? How are we supposed to recognize everyone?

He's your first dose of SS episode 12. I think the listners will enjoy it, as it was a blast to record. Hope we answered all of the questions, expect Lunarmoths, it was a mouthful. ASK US MORE SO THAT WE CAN ANSWER MORE. Ask them here... it'll just be easiest.

Part A: Waiting for Gia
Part B: N/A
Part C: N/A
Part D: N/A

Welcome to Spoiler-san 12: We spoil Otakon. Stick with us here, because this idea could be a little "wacky." So, in contrast of Podtoid-san's news and fun format, we've decided to do a fun only piece to help illustrate a con experience. Live con recordings are cool, but questions don't get immediately answered, and it takes the better part of a week to get back to the listener. So...

We'll be recording four miniature, expanding podcasts, one for every night of the convention. The aim is to set up an entirely question and answer idea, where we... the spoilers, will spoil any question posed to us, be they personal, con related, or anime related. This is also a request thread. Every night, we'll answer all the questions/talk about the requests on a podcast, which will be published that night or the following morning. The edits will be brief and basic, adding each nights segment onto the ones that preceded it, with a heavier post production edit of the entire product later.

Example comments include:

"What panels are you most looking forward to?"
"Will you kick Brad when you see him at the airport?"
"Are you going to attend the 4chan panel?"
"Why did Snape kill Dumbledore?"
"Can you take pictures of (Silent Hill) cosplay for me"
"What are you gonna eat for dinner?"

So there you go, thats the idea. Play along, I know its silly, but we think its gonna end up rather fun. Quick reiteration: ANY question you ask here will be responded to by tomorrow morning (Friday)

Topics of major discussion:
Code Geass
Slayers Revolution
Soul Eater
Blade of the Immortal
Strike Witches
Kure-nai
Kaiba
Macross Frontier

Comment from the crew:
Summer season is in full swing and I'm loving what's on. Okay, love might be too severe, but I love talking about what's on. My apologies to all the programs that just couldn't make it onto the show, there were just only so many minutes in the day. Although I really, really need to check out Itazura na Kiss and Alison to Lillia, since I've seen enough people comment to make them mandate a look. Also, Jeff sends his regards with an edit from beyond the mic.

Cast:
John, wielder of Excalibur
Len, pop star who fights aliens with deculture
Gia, owner of an Antique Bakery

00:00 Take the Wave with Golgo 13's OP
05:00 Geass: Len likes it when bad things happen to Shirley, Rolo is a douche
10:30 We're still talking about Geass, particularly episode 15.
14:00 Slayers Revolution, then onto Soul Eater
16:00 Soul Eater: Excalibur's the coolest weapon ever! I'd follow his 10,000 rules
22:00 Blade of the Immortal: I get it now. He has a blade AND he's immortal!
25:30 Guts = Batman, Manji = Superman
27:00 Strike Witches: Magic flying loli school girls! But seriously, what is a "furry?"
33:00 Ender's Game = Strike Witches!?!?! Remember when Len compared Cowboy Bebop to Firefly?
35:00 Kure-nai: Its over, but Len and Gia think it'll be produced stateside.
39:00 Toshokan Sensou
46:00 Kaiba: I love, love, love/have been impregnated by how much I love this show.
53:00 Macross Frontier: Sheryl has cancer.
66:00 Its over!

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