Streaming Titles – Page 17 – Anime World Order Podcast

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With Anime Fan Fest 2016 concluded and our writing deadlines met, we’ve got a short window before AnimeNEXT 2016 where we’ll all be guests and be presenting panels to record and release a new episode. In this episode, Daryl reviews Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma.

Introduction (0:00 – 38:33)
Daryl offers his thoughts on his attending Anime Fan Fest 2016, where our previously released episode was recorded. Due to repeated mishaps with our manual RSS feed editing–a task which is no longer done–the last two times we released new episodes ended up marking every single episode as new. Hopefully that will not happen a THIRD time. On the other hand, a few of you took this as an opportunity to listen back to either every single episode or select older installments, and so we answer questions about this stuff to the best of our ability. This involves us discussing what Tekkaman Blade is, who is Steve “Stevie B” Bennett, and why Ichiro Itano is the Nico Yazawa of being an anime director. Don’t worry. We would never actually use the “N” word on this podcast (unless paid to).

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (38:33 – 40:06)
Currently, Right Stuf is not only doing a sale on FUNimation titles, they’ve also got a selection of Sentai Filmworks releases for $10 or less. Several of these titles are worth watching, and Hulu removing a whole lot of anime titles starting in June is a strong reminder that there’s still worth in buying the shows you like on physical media.

Review: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (40:06 – 1:41:44)
Daryl reviews what’s probably his favorite consistently running title in Shonen Jump: a series about competitive cooking done in the style of a battle manga, much like Yakitate! Japan which we reviewed back in 2009. The anime adaptations of both series are available on Crunchyroll, and the original manga for both series are released in English courtesy of Viz Manga.

The second anime series for Food Wars! starts next season, but for those who can’t wait Volume 7 is roughly where the first anime series concludes and the second will start from. Note that Kindle editions now double as comiXology editions and are, as a rule, less expensive than what Viz will charge through their digital store and app. However, because Viz will occasionally do bundle sales that’ll make their editions cheaper than Kindle/comiXology, and since the Viz Manga app is the same app you use to read Weekly Shonen Jump anyway, you may prefer to just keep everything in one place.

For those curious: the comically large knife Daryl owns is this one. A more reasonable person would get this 8-inch knife instead, but Daryl was presumably thinking that he could get 2 more inches of knife for just a few dollars more, without giving thought to where one would store such a thing.

Here’s the Ogiue Maniax blog post we mentioned. The Many Levels of Fanservice in Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma.

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This episode came out a month late because of trauma incurred by a CG talking dog and also CG drifting cars, the one-two punch of which was enough to give Gerald pause before he could review the CG anime adaptation of Knights of Sidonia.

Introduction (0:00 – 41:00)
People–car-loving people and ONLY car-loving people–sure had a lot to say about our Initial D review. We read some more feedback to it. We also touch upon all the various anime crowdfunding projects that started up all within the span of our last episode to now. Most already ended, but two remain: Skip Beat (which within the last few hours met its funding goal as well as its stretch goal for Blu-Rays, so pledge with confidence knowing that you’ll get the show) and the far less certain VR anime CG re-versioning of Dai-Shogun.

Convention season is upon us, and we’re hitting New Jersey twice in a row! Daryl will be a guest at Anime Fan Fest on May 6th to May 8th courtesy of Otaku USA Magazine, then all of us will be at AnimeNEXT June 10th to June 12th. We’ll all be doing panels, and for the sake of making sure the cons in each state are unique, we’ll be doing different things at each convention.

Then on the writing front, the latest issue of Otaku USA Magazine is out, featuring contributions from Daryl and Clarissa. Daryl also wrote a feature on Anime News Network, The Pro Wrestling & Shonen Anime Connection, so do read that and leave a comment/reshare as you see fit.

Promo: Right Stuf Anime (41:00 – 42:15)
We were hoping to have this episode posted in time for the one-day Flash sale on Nendoroid Mikudayo, but it was not to be. Rest assured that Daryl’s latest Right Stuf Anime shipment came in, and it was nothing but quality: Night on the Galactic Railroad, The Venus Wars, and Lupin the Third: Jigen’s Gravestone all on Blu-Ray.

Review: Knights of Sidonia (42:15 – 1:37:45)
Gerald weighs in on the 24-episode CG anime streaming exclusively on Netflix. Sentai Filmworks is handling the physical media release, and the entire original manga by Tsutomu Nihei is available in English courtesy of Vertical Comics. Gerald’s only really seen the anime, Daryl’s main exposure to the series is via the manga, so nobody quite knows what the other is reacting to.

The next episode will likely come out sooner than you’d think what with the conventions mere weeks away, as Daryl will review the Shonen Jump series Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma now that all of the manga to date is officially available in English and the first season of the anime simulcast is complete.