Robots – Page 13 – Anime World Order Podcast

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As promised in Show 170, we’re fulfilling the latest donation marker met by once again are reviewing a listener suggestion as Daryl and gang talk about the 2005 sci-fi western series, Gun x Sword.

Introduction (0:00 – 28:38)
Daryl was a guest on the Blake and Spencer Get Jumped podcast (they’ll be Press at Anime Central this year!), where they asked him on to talk about 1998’s Spriggan: The Movie. He was also a guest on the latest episode of Ani-Gamers chipping in on their review of the 2019 live-action feature film Alita: Battle Angel, a movie which has been in development for about as long as Spriggan is old. On the subject of Jump-related things, we take this opportunity to hate on Jump Force (which due to developer ineptitude is accidentally open source; the mods to replace Vegeta with Ultra Instinct Shaggy are already out) and wish that City Hunter was more readily available in the US. Whatever happened to those Chinese movie adaptations they said they were making like, three years ago, anyway?

On that note, in the emails we talk about the effect of Chinese government censorship on the entertainment which we consume. This is now extending over into anime, and people should probably give it far more weight and discussion than they currently do since it’s got a way bigger effect than a couple of people sending Tweets at light novel authors on your entertainment. Besides, if you want to talk about the real effect of Twitter on your anime/manga/light novel entertainment, it’d be the tweets the authors make themselves…

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (28:38 – 33:08)
The current sale is for FUNimation titles, which means it’s a gigantic one. Everything–including Gun x Sword–is on sale and everything beats the Amazon pricing, some much more so than others. We picked out a few titles you might be interested in; as always, if you visit their site through our affiliate links, we get a small commission.

Review: Gun x Sword (33:08 – 1:35:48)

This is the second half of our Twitch donation goal marker incentive. We contemplated leaving it at just Judge, but we elected to also take on a TV series closer to the 26 episode limit. Goro Taniguchi these days is best known for Code Geass, but this is the series he made just before that. At first glance, it’s easy to write this one off as a Trigun copycat, as most people did since the resemblance is not accidental, but is that all there is to it? Daryl had tried to conceal the fact that Gun x Sword is in fact a giant robot show–this detail is also concealed on practically all US promotional materials–but the prominent inclusion of Gun x Sword in the upcoming Super Robot Wars T ruined the surprise.

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We’re all guest panelists at AnimeNEXT June 8-10, even if the website doesn’t list us because we’ll bring down the prestige of the REAL guest panelists on account of our lousy work ethics and lack of proper portrait photos! This leaves us with a limited window in which to get an episode out, and so Gerald has elected to talk about the recently-concluded (for now?) Girls’ Last Tour.

Introduction (0:00 – 26:17)
After neglecting to read any emails last time, this time we’re back on the track as we talk about Android Kikaider and Bandai Entertainment’s peculiar decisions when it came to advertising Japanese animation in this country. We can remember these things, but not who ran the dang thing. Par for the course with us GET IT GET HUH YOU GET IT PAR FOR THE COURSE IT’S ABOUT GOLF. Anyway, we know there is a truckload of great anime airing right now, but you will find it in your best interests to begin prioritizing Space Battleship Yamato 2202 since it’s finally available in English for the first time courtesy of Crunchyroll and FUNimation. If you didn’t see Space Battleship Yamato 2199, worry not because the entire series is available for streaming right now, both with Japanese subtitles as well as English dubbed.

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (26:17 – 28:35)
We strongly considered just having this promo be in honor of the fact that as we post this, the current publisher sale is for Fakku and thus everything in the sale is porno. We considered it might be good to read title covers and advertising copy. But ad copy for porno is no good until it’s written in questionable English. And don’t you start with us by talking about some “clever” pun some bored ad person thought up which summarizes the Softcel / Kitty etc approach. We’re talking about FACTS here, such as the FACT that Goku: Midnight Eye is a fine mystery anime, with the great mystery behind it being “why didn’t they just keep letting Yoshiaki Kawajiri make more of this since the manga went on way further?”

Review: Girls’ Last Tour (26:17 – 1:00:01)
In general, we are an anti-spoiler heavy podcast since in most cases, knowing too much about something you’re about to see deprives you of the intended experience of discovering it at the moment the narrative intends you to. So it goes with this somewhat cryptic review of Girls’ Last Tour, in which Gerald implores you, dear listener, to trust in his past judgment which has never led you astray before and just go watch this series. But for the rest of you who still remember that time Gerald tricked you into watching Harmagedon, there is this review which is more or less spoiler-free while still conveying its appeal. Namely, moe blobs, Axis hardware, and environmental storytelling superior to that Bethesda crap or “dying person wrote several words in blood” stuff videogames have overused. Will his warm reception to this change Gerald’s mind on Haibane Renmei, 11 years later? We’ll just have to wait and see.