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After over a month of no new recordings, we have returned, but our attempt to resume normal releases hit some roadblocks. This week, Daryl’s finally talking about the Sanrio film Sea Prince and the Fire Child, Gerald discusses the Gainax television series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and Clarissa goes nuts over MPD Psycho.
The total length of this episode ended up being a little over THREE, not four, hours. We have therefore split everything up into two files that are in fact NOT of equal length: one file containing the news and the Nadia review, and the other file containing everything else.
Show 55:
Show 55a:
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Due to a power outage, the project for unknown parts of the first portion of the show got corrupted. It is very likely that there may be sections of obviously missing dialogue, or that at some point, the dialogue between Daryl and everyone else will shift out of phase.
Supplemental links will come later since this all got “finished” around 3:45 AM and I got about three hours of sleep. In the meantime, marvel at the wonders of this picture:
The following timecodes are for everything other than the news segment, which is devoted almost entirely to Anime Expo discussion, and the Nadia review.
Introduction (0:00 – 23:51)
Daryl has finished moving into his new home and has set up his computer in a large tiled room, thus giving him a constant echo for the foreseeable future from this point on until he stops being lazy and moves his computer into one of the rooms with carpet. We start things off by concluding our 009-1 Volume 1 contest (the winner has actually already responded and received their prize) and beginning a newer contest that is probably going to be semi-ongoing. Listen for the details! As far as emails go, Daryl is enlightened about the secret connection between Shojo Beat and Kazuo Koike, plus we brainstorm for titles of a very important anime genre, that of “things containing frowny-faced men with big eyebrows.” We neglected to mention very many frowny faced women with big bushy eyebrows, but we’ll blame Clarissa for forgetting about Dorothy Catalonia. Also, Gerald is officially on THE LIST for disliking Fullmetal Alchemist. Finally, just like how junk mail saved Kevin McDonald’s life, the AWO saves lives as well!
Promo: Destroy All Podcasts DX (23:51 – 24:37)
Even though Jeremy is a dirty, dirty film school graduate (and as such harbors many wrong opinions because opinions can in fact be objectively wrong if they’re contrary to our opinions) who gets mad tail yet still claims to be a nerd, we are willing to forgive his repeated transgressions. For you see, now that Daryl suggested he try using a basic diplo-sniper build, he is finally playing the original Fallout. Granted, he is doing the “cheap” evil route of just killing most everyone he encounters because he didn’t know how to access the Pip-Boy or his character stats and was somehow unaware that he needed to be searching for a water chip since he’s too used to the current age of videogames and their in-game tutorials that exist in lieu of reading the instruction manual, but one of these days he’ll come around.
Review: Sea Prince and the Fire Child aka Sirius no Densetsu (24:37 – 53:58)
Fine, so it’s not really like Katamari Damacy at all. Still, the B.O.T. level here is something indeed. Daryl reviews this classic feature film from Sanrio, the dub of which is long out of print. Bootleg copies can be had on eBay for about $15-$20, but just download the dual audio DVD rip for free. Sanrio doesn’t seem to be wanting to release this one on DVD in the US anyway, so this is the ONLY way that people in America can see this film in English without giving money to bootleggers. I guess now that this and Ringing Bell are out of the way, all that remains is Unico…
UPDATE: It turns out that there is a dual audio Region 2 DVD rip of the movie with English subtitles. The torrent link I used has been changed to reflect this new link.
Promo: Happy House of Hentai (53:58 – 54:20)
What better way to cap off a Sanrio discussion than by endorsing podcasts containing “Hello Kitty”? To be more accurate, this show should probably be renamed “Lord Kaos Gives Medical Advice Even Though He Is Not a Doctor,” but that’s far too long a URL to type.
Review: MPD Psycho Volume 1 (54:20 – 1:07:57)
Clarissa reviews this manga from the wonderful mind that brought us The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. This is a violence epic about people with multiple personalities possibly performing serialized killings upon other serial killers a la Dexter. Only this was made first. Right about now is when people are probably going to be experiencing Death Note withdrawal, so perhaps this can be your new fix.
Promo: Anime Pulse (1:07:57 – 1:08:28)
Daryl would pester Ichigo and company far more if they enabled user comments on their posts, since he’s trying not to register for any more forums if he can help it. Dear anime podcasters: don’t you WANT Daryl to comment on your episodes? Then please enable comments on your blog posts that don’t require registration. You probably want to throw in a word verification to avoid getting spammed into oblivion, as Dave and Joel have now realized.
Closing (1:08:28 – 1:15:29)
For the next few weeks, we are going to be BRINGING THE PAIN down on you suckers. Gerald’s closing out his Megazone 23 reviews by tackling Megazone 23 The Third (or as the Japanese say it, “Megazone 23 The Saddle”), Clarissa prescribes a cure for insomnia by reviewing Birth (as well as the Streamline dub of the same OAV entitled Planet Busters!), and Daryl in the face of this onslaught has opted to cut everyone a break and throw you guys a bone (or rather, a stick) by reviewing Demon City Shinjuku.
This is going to get worse before it gets better, and we might need to bring Neil Nadelman in soon to get in on this. Here’s timecodes for the second half.
Let’s News! (0:00 – 1:08:19)
We spend pretty much all of this time talking about the various developments that emerged from Anime Expo 2007. The Anime News Network con report is pretty much all you need as far as links go.
Promo: Otaku USA Magazine (1:08:19 – 1:10:11)
Mike Dent from R5 Central throws down this shockingly audible endorsement of a magazine headed up by TV’s Patrick Macias with anime (and soon, some manga) reviews by us crazy yokels. If you think Daryl and Clarissa are lazy as far as getting this podcast released, you should see us when we’re trying to come up with ideas for anime reviews!
Review: Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1:10:11 – 1:58:56)
Gerald takes a very long time (over 45 minutes) to talk about what is probably the most uneven show, in terms of quality, to ever come out of anime. The only anime out there to feature FRENCH PEOPLE, Miyazaki, getting high on mushroom, planting another sun in the sky, the KKK, and the most selfish bitch anime has ever created. HOWEVER, she was fighting for second place (with Belldandy of all people) as the greatest female character of all time for a good part of the 90’s. Witness how we talk so long about the show and focus on the Island Episodes so much that there’s no way anyone listening would want to watch this show!
