This week, we're missing one Colette Bennet, but we make up for it with more arguing than usual. I imagine that doesn't really make up for the Colette-shaped hole in the podcast, but uh, I'm trying to present the positive here. As per usual, you can listen to it here.
We discuss lots of news, some ideas of what we might like to see featured on the site in the future, and the strange phenomenon of anime shows that fake you out by sucking until around episode 7. There are a couple of tangents in this episode, but considering that the grand majority of them are all about manga, the power of tangency is being used for good rather than evil. Also, Tim and Jon arguing is the new Jon and Karen arguing.
Hit the jump for detailed show notes and all the usual nonsense.
Show notes for Episode 6:
News:
0:01:06 Bandai launches official manga site
0:02:57 Satou Shuuhou's online manga venture
0:09:36 The whole Christopher Handley situation, Gaiman's response, etc.
0:13:54 Tokyo named world's third most livable city
0:17:46 The Anime Encyclopedia and piracy
0:29:26 NIS starts licensing anime! Fantastic, or fantastically risky?
0:32:25 Zetsubo Sensei licensed! Yaay, something encouraging.
34:43 Break
Topic of the Week:
0:35:46 Our ideas about going forward with the site, and responses to some of your comments and suggestions.
***SCARY SPOILER ZONE OF NO RETURN************************************************
What we've been watching/reading/playing/masticating/etc.
0:51:41 Jake likes School Days and spoils it- not that he isn't in the right place!
0:53:12 So Ra No Wo To only gets good at episode 7 because the creators are assholes
0:57:59 Railgun; a certain scientific blah blah filler bunny
1:00:39 Baka to Test to Shokanju and, uh, Family Guy?
1:02:53 Vampires Dance in their bunds, or whatever
1:04:45 Kimi ni Todoke: Chizuru +Ryuu for the win
1:06:43 All the stuff that only I watch- Hanamaru Kidergarten, Chu-Bra!
1:10:10 Jdrama: Bloody Monday 2: still amazing
1:14:01 Video games: Fate/Stay Night, Way of the Samurai 3, Demon's Souls, some American stuff we'll try not to talk about anymore.
1:19:10: Better late than never: Spring 2010 picks (and lack thereof)
Omake:
1:25:33 Just a drop of omake this week.
Also, the "Japanese anime for $35.00" that we mention several times is here.
I think these ridiculously complete show notes may have just gotten TOO ridiculously complete, but I hope some of you find them useful- an hour to an hour-and-a-half can be long for a podcast, but I try to make it as easy as possible to skip around to the parts that interest you.
As always, you can send any questions, comments, gender-swapped character sketches or feedback in general to JapanatorAM@Japanator.com. Go easy on the gender-swappage though.
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