The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast

One man's secret

This week Jellokun solo's the show but he had a lot to cover. There was the anime news and DVD picks as always. But Jellokun previewed the Winter 2010 anime series and reviews Haruka's Secret. Also a reminder you have a chance to design a a mascot for Otakumitsukai.com visit the contest page https://otakumitsukai.com/content/12-2010_mascot_contest Also send your questions and comments to banzaibeat@gmail.com

Duration:: 1h 9m
Broadcast on:: 29 Dec 2009
Audio Format:: other

This podcast is a proud member of the Blueberry Network that is at blueberry with noease.com. Blueberry with noease.com. Remember you drop the ease. What does it mean to be the very best? Let's put it this way. When other radio shows are biting your style, when voice actors and musicians love your swagger, it pretty much speaks for itself, doesn't it? We are the Onocast Radio Network, Anime Radio, with a hell of a lot of swagger. Anime fans, and what are you waiting for? Log into onocastradio.com for more information. Warning, this show is intended for mature audiences only, even though the hosts are not mature. You're listening to the Bonsai Beat, your weekly window into the world of anime, featuring all the latest news, episode reviews, and discussion. You're welcome to be his harky secret, the 2010 Winter, Preview, and so much more episode review. Yeah, could you kick an angel's ass? You're damn right I could. Is that Santa on the roof? Well if not, I got a present form. Oh, Santa! Santa! Oh, my motherfucking knee! Ah, fuck, shit, ah, fucking, fuck it all the hell that hurts like a motherfucker! Dad, what's a scrotum? So, Santa, what would happen? Bandits, Goku, they stole my reindeer, and all the presents and my pants. Ha ha ha, Christmas is ours, you'll never get away with this. Oh, I've got five good reasons for you to shut up. Dad, who are those guys? Kung Fu Legends, that's the little drummer boy, whose mystical drum conjures demons most foul. The Nutcracker, who knows over 100 different testicle-based attacks, and composite Santa claws, who looks like one half Santa and one half Frosty the Snowman. What a composite Santa's powers. I don't know, but he freaks me right the fuck out. Intruders! I will conjure a demon with my magical drum. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! I'll get this one, Bandits, you're not so tough. That's the cool attack number 49! Oh, my Dragon Ball! Okay, I got nothing. Oh, temperatures over 32 degrees Fahrenheit, my only weakness. We did it. Fools! Mrs. Santa? That's right. The mastermind behind this evil attack on Christmas is me! But why? It all started at the North Pole. I started getting terrible headaches. Mrs. Claus, are you okay? At first, I thought it was merely my period, but that was not the case as I hit menopause centuries ago. Solar radiation, force and evolutionary change. Now, I want real things. Go ahead and I need a minute to rest. It's up to you for now. I think one of them popped. It's payback time. Let's beat her up so bad. Your kids will inherit the bruising. Yeah, we'll hit her so hard she'll starve to death roll with you. She's so ugly, we'll push your face and go and make gorilla biscuits. She's so black. When she go to night school, teach her more grabs. That's still my wife, guys. Yeah! Oh, you know she's lasered? You didn't think there was a reason it glows red? What is your shoe? Eww. Eww. She wanted to play your games. She's grown too gigantic and unstable. Women. My right fellas. The tanka, it's a booty-kai, is finally complete. What the fuck are you talking about? Was that even English? What happened to my wife? This is the last time I bring presents to Japan. So there you go. And yeah, my window's thing. Doin' stuff. Ta-da! Ah, welcome to episode 59 of the Bonn as I beat. It's a gelacoon. Thank you for joining me as always. I was gone last. We didn't do it next to last week. I apologize for that. Fuckin' annoying. As I was saying, we didn't do a show last week because I was sick and didn't have much away in a voice. It was not very fun to say the least. But I'm here this week and I'm feeling pretty damn good so I can't complain too much other than my levels being fucked up. Okay. This episode is going to sound really, really, really good because it's just me doing everything locally and nobody is over Skype unless Sean Russell and/or Pat are so kind to join me but we shall see because yeah, I'm not too sure. So as a Christmas, you know, getting over the Christmas spirit I guess, that was the Robot Chicken Dragon Ball Z parody. You can check it out on YouTube. Just search Dragon Ball Z Robot Chicken or Robot Chicken Dragon Ball Z. It's pretty funny to watch. There's also another really fun one about Inuasha. Definitely check that one out too though until there he is. In today's episode, we have quite a bit going on and I am very disappointed to say the least that I am on my own because this is a packed show. We've got the anime news as always, we've got the DVD picks as always. But then I'm also reviewing Harka Secret, which is a new show that just ended, well the Sucka season just ended, reviewing Harka Secret and then I was going to, well I'm still going to, I'm going to review the preview, the 2010 Winter season. Stuff like that always is done better, like you know, things done with multiple people especially when you're previewing a season is always better than just one person. So I tried, Pat's, you know, he comes and goes, but Zoldar, he's MIA, he, I know he's so talented and whatnot and you know, so I don't know, he messaged me and he's not here and I've waited for like three hours, not fun. Anyway, I hope everyone had a very good holiday, Christmas if you celebrate it, Hanukkah, whatever else that you guys all celebrate, nonetheless I hope it was a good holiday for you and personally I get to see family and have, we do a prime rib at my in-laws every year, so we did prime rib and all that good stuff and just some good good food. So it was a good holiday, now I know this is an anime show and so you know let's just go and get right into the anime because really, how many times have you heard the words, oh happy holidays, oh happy holidays, yeah we've heard it a lot, so let's go ahead and get in to some anime news, okay, okay, okay, okay, this week in anime news brought to you by anime news network, yes thank you anime news network as always, bringing us the news, that's newsworthy, so the anime, Keshi Keshi Keshi Keshu Koon, children's manga gets a tv anime green light and the only reason I'm saying this is just such a wacky show, it's a comedy that follows in eraser's battles to be the strongest of all stationary battles, so they be the strongest of all stationary supplies, so I wonder if you're gonna have like a throw down at office depot or you know something cool like that, no of course not, so the January issue of sugarcans, monthly choral choral comic magazine confirmed on December 15th at the anime adaptation of Norieokies, Marase, children's comedy manga has been green lit, the licensing company blah blah blah, so basically the story centers around a white eraser that strives to be the strongest of all stationary, the eraser dons a paper costume and a piece of eraser crumb on his head to become Keshi Keshu Koon and Keshi Keshu Koon vows to erase the correction fluid, the blackboard eraser and his other rivals, yeah don't fuck with the ink and don't fuck with the liquid you know I don't know, eraser plus blackboard, is that like the ultimate you know person to beat or in this case the ultimate supply to beat, erasers will get their butts kicked every day of the week by that blackboard because they can't get that dust, so yeah, pretty interesting because er hmm an eraser, as is people don't really think that we kind of watch weird things, yeah the children's what you expect, maybe I'll get an American release, maybe some four kids will pick it up, 2009's top selling DVDs in Japan, overall, Ponyo sells 841,000, uh biohazard which is um resident evils, excuse me, to commit it, then it's Torro, uh Torro, Gintama, Gundam, Usevic, so basically breaks down like this, overall most copies, like I said, Ponyo, uh 841,000, most money earned, again Ponyo, 4.5 billion yen, which is about 45 million US, in the animation slash special effects DVDs, number one is Gintama, jump anime tour, 2008 and 2005, I have no clue if that's one, must be, uh 76,000 copies, pieces of love, volume one, 54,000, while we'll see Gundam double zero, second season number one, 34,000, he was interesting, Usevic, season two, 30,000 and Usevic, season three, 29,000, Usevic follows, they're like, I think it was like one minute and a half, two minute sketches of these two rabbits who are in prison, and uh the anime pulse just did a review of this show, uh it was very interesting, and if you wanted to know more about Usevic, this is like they said, this is something you would find on, back in the day on MTV, when they had the animation block, you know, uh stuff from, you know they had the uh stuff from Japan that anime, and all those just weird cartoons and animation shows that they played, that would probably be where you'd find Usevic, uh check out http calling 4/4/anime-pulse.com, I have no fucking clue why I just said http, wow, anyway, oh anime-pulse.com, uh I don't have the name of the episode for anybody, remember it has Usevic in the title, so uh if you're interested in hearing more about that, check them out, um theatrical animation DVDs, again, Ponyo, uh then there was a biohazard degeneration, which was again Resident Evil, had 121,000 Wall-E, 96,000, my neighbor Totoro, still, still, number 487,000 DVDs, I mean geez, and then there was Wall-E limited initial to this special edition, uh round of top 5, at 69,000, though, those were all again, those were the top selling DVDs, um Gunna Munikorn's Anime English dubbing cast has been announced, um I'm gonna probably butcher these names, um beng- uh bengleher links, it's gonna be voiced by Steve Cannon, Adri Brene, he's gonna be Stephanie Sheith, or she, I don't know, sheh, there you go, sheh, S-H-E-H, uh Takio Ayuri is by Robby Sharpay, Mikote, Mikote Bartch, I can't even say that, Rachel Lillis, um Dorita Cruz is by Tear Piat, Sabria Zimmerman is by Michael Bailey, Cardius Visit, is Steve Mann, Siam Visit is by Troy Baker, and Fiacette Shola is done by Sean Shimmel, now the interesting thing about this, if you remember, Gunna Munikorn will be released on DVD and Blu-ray, will have a simultaneous overseer release on March 12th, with Japanese and English dubbing, as well as French, Spanish and Chinese subtitles, uh along with English, and I don't know why there's Japanese subtitles as well, so yeah, there is one, two, three, four, five, different subtitles just to choose from, but yes, the first of six volumes will ship on the same day as the Japanese, that is awesome, that's like unheard of, and uh, what kinds of cool stuff going on in the background, yeah, the joys of being in a basement, um geez, damn water heater, uh, okay, well, if you're looking for more legal ways to get your anime in North America, VisAnime.com portal has launched with Buso Rinkin, yeah, that's Shonen's show, about Shonen in fighting in girls, yes, 21 stream, or excuse me, 11 stream titles that include Honey and Clover, Inuasha, Naruto, Hikaru Nugo, uh, Honey and like I said, on the death note, Bleach, Nana, Inuasha the final act, Naruto, Naruto, Shippuden, and the Prince of Tennis are the 11 shows that are streaming, now the crappy thing is, they've all been added to Hulu.com, uh, so VisAnime.com is, is, you know, the back end, I guess, the official way, you know, it's all done upon Hulu as well, so anyone in Canada or Mexico or anywhere other than the United States, you're gonna be finding a proxy to get to Hulu or VisAnime.com to watch these, uh, unfortunate, but it's better than nothing, so good luck finding a proxy if any of these shows interest you and you don't want to purchase them, and you can watch them online, nothing wrong with that, um, finally, two Oklahoma students will be disciplined for their death note, this isn't the first time we've talked about this subject, this is the third story we've talked about on this show about kids and their awesome death notes, cause they're like, hey, I don't like that guy Greg, I'm gonna write his name in the death note, oh, the death note got found, okay, so basically, two students in elementary school, so, uh, first off, this is a show for elementary kids, and, uh, yeah, that's your first problem, where that was apparenting, but the quote unquote death note, which is in reference to the movie, to a movie, uh, you know, that movie where those guys tell each other to kill people, so basically what they wrote down was "Kill" in certain student names here, by gun, shotgun shell in her hand, so apparently, this girl, cause it's her, was supposed to be holding a shotgun shell that would magically light itself and explode, killing her on exploitation, oh, what a terrible way to die, and then the other student was, uh, was more lazy, you know, I gotta, I gotta say, for being in elementary school, to be like, hey, you can hold a shotgun shell that will explode and then you die, that's pretty fucking creative, but this other student was student's name, will be shot by a sniper, oh, come on, fucking lazy ass kid, if you can create a death note, there's gotta be hilarious deaths, that should happen, so, yeah, the students, uh, were being punished and, yeah, all, you know, the typical student, you know, the student's like, oh, that's, you know, the school re-acting, not that I'm saying it's a bad thing, but, you know, uh, student, you know, the student's not, uh, keeping that stuff hidden, you know, why would you bring the school in the first place, and, you know, again, you could say, you know, what are these kids, um, you know, psycho, or are they gonna bring a gun to school or whatever, no, it's like, back in the day, we used to play power rangers, you know, or used to play football, during recess, um, you know, wrestling in the backyard, it's, you know, just that, it's just, this guy, these kids, acting out, you know, just thinking they're part of the show, like, who knows, you know, finally, 2009's top selling Blu-ray discs in Japan, man, yeah, we have only a few, we only have a few choices in America for what comes out on DVD, and, um, unfortunately, it's not too much yet, or it's seen on Blu-ray, unfortunately, it doesn't come out too much, you know, we've only got a limited selection, so hopefully, hopefully 2010 brings more Blu-rays at a reasonable cost to America. So number one, no surprise here, Evie Galleon 1.11, you are not alone, sold 590 million yen worth of product, which is about 6.5 million US. Number two is Baka Kumore, um, Baka Mona Katari, sorry, volume two, 390 million yen, 4.3 million, the Dark Knight, Batman, anime, whoop, Batman's ass in Japan, uh, Baka Mona Katari, volume one, 370 million yen, which is another 4.1, tied, somehow, somehow, Batman took the number three spot, oh, and then Baka, Baka Mona Katari, volume three, again, 4.1 million, 370 million yen, and then there's darker than black at number six, um, with 3.9 million dollars, and 360 million yen, K-On volume one, uh, 320 million yen, 6 point, or 3.5 million, number seven, number eight is Final Fantasy 7, Advent Children, wow, I'm still like, holy cow, maybe they're re-releasing, I mean, I remember that back when I was in, in, uh, hiding, you know, like in college coming out, and that was 2004, so, been a while, uh, number nine is K-On volume two, number ten is K-On volume three, at three, or 280 million yen, and 260 million yen, respectively, musical Blu-ray discs, now, this is, this is interesting, Namai Amuro, 21,000 copies were sold, 130 million yen, 1.4 million US, uh, number two was McCross Frontier, and number three was Nana Mizuki, so, pretty interesting, uh, Japanese Theatrical Blu-rays, Yutterman, number two is 20th Century Boys, number, and then, you're too tight as well, why are they just mistyped, sorry, number three is Crow's 0-2, so, um, you know, I'm not really surprised at the way things came out, I think it's a big surprise, I guess, still, is Baka Moogatari, because, you know, we, as we said before in the previous episode, I think it did gangbusters, I'm surprised that volume three, volume two is like, does that say something about, about the show? Number one was ranked fourth, number volume three was ranked fifth, but number two was ranked number two, that's the one with the elementary school girl, and, and her being a snail, and, uh, why? Why is that higher than the first volume? I would think that the first volume of any show would do better than these volumes later, because who watches an anime from volume two onward, or volume four onward? Not many people, unless you're Sean Paul of, uh, fight bait, you know, and he'll get that if he listens to this, or anyone else listens to the, uh, fight bait podcasts, but yeah, that's, and the other thing, Kion did worse than darker than black, now Kion was a huge smash hit this year, but maybe I'm thinking because it was on the internet, and the internet is fickle, but huge on the internet, I guess, I don't know, I just got the, I got the feeling that Kion was a lot more popular than, um, you know, then I thought, you know, I thought it would have done a lot better, I guess, what I'm saying, um, you know, everyone was, you know, when Kion was airing earlier this year, everyone, oh, Kion, Kion, Kion, Kion, Kion, Kion, we read stories about, uh, you know, um, one of the girls having a cell phone, and people sold, when people went and bought this cell phone, that was old, just to have it, or the very, very, very expensive $700 headphones that she was wearing, um, people went out and bought these, because they were in the show, I mean, just crazy-ass things, and I just kind of got the feeling that, um, that, that Kion was more popular, because that's, it's Kion, what do you, you know, what do you, you would just think, I don't, you know, I guess just that's what I expected. So that is our anime news for the week. Um, before we get into, uh, the DVD pics, I want to talk about, uh, OtakuMitsuki.com, they are running a contest where you get to design their mascot, like they've got, um, the template, like it's this girl with blue hair, and she's cute, and whatnot, um, well, more like purple hair, I guess, going to, it looks like it goes from purple to blue, depending on the, in the season. Anyway, um, you can design what she's gonna look like. Uh, basically what she's wearing. You get a template of what she looks like, but then you can, um, design, you know, you pick what she wears. Okay, now I got this page in front of me, it's probably a good thing. You can get more information at www.otakuMitsuki.com, front slash content, front slash 12 dash 2010 underscore mascot underscore contest. I'll leave a link at the bonds I beat, uh, that bonds I beat.com. Um, and you can get to it directly from there, and I'll put it in the show notes as well. Uh, so basically what you're tasked with is making a new mascot. Uh, it's this little girl, she looks, you know, 12 or 13. But in reality, she's 18, you know, the whole thing. Um, and she has wings. She got blue hair, blue eyes, purple, I don't know, purple or blue. You'll see it. So basically, there are rules you do have to follow. There is no nudity. She needs a new outfit and nothing more. Uh, no copying else. No one, you know, no copying anyway, work. That's not cool. Uh, she must remain flat chested or, you know, at no more than an a cup for breast size. And apparently there is a story behind her not having boobs. So what? Yeah. It's only got to be one entry per person and no making multiple entries under different names, you know, none of that garbage. Um, all images should be hosted by you. Uh, you know, there's things like photo bucket and, and you know, other imaging hosting websites flicker. Uh, and you'd want to post on any verse that info, anything you create. Um, again, I will leave show no, I'll leave the link in the show notes and I'll put a link on bonsai beat.com. Again, you can win $75 gift certificate to, uh, to otakumitsukei.com. Great website. Uh, I've met, uh, the people who run this site. Uh, if you listen to a couple weeks ago, we spoke with itchy goods insama. His wife runs the site. I met them while down in Charlotte here two weeks ago and just great people to be with. Um, you know, they die hard anime fans. Uh, you know, they run this shop as a side thing. Uh, you know, they, uh, you know, anything you can send their way would, you know, anything helping anybody out. You know, okay, this is starting to sound like a beggar kind of thing. What I'm trying to say is they run this site, this store, uh, because they're just such big anime fans and this is something really cool that they're reaching out to the anime community. Uh, people who like to draw, I mean, hell, I would probably just draw like a little dress and something on it, but I can't draw with crap. But, uh, if you can draw or you can use Photoshop or something really cool, definitely, definitely enter. I mean, it's free to enter. The worst they'll say is, you know, thank you for entering, but, you know, it's not what we're looking for. And if they do pick what you let, you know, what you put in, you get 75 dollars in their store. That's a free DVD. That's a couple DVDs. That's a figure. That's a bet. That's tons of bento boxes with like three bucks a pop. But still, when 75 bucks, all you have to do is create a nice cute, uh, Otaku Mitsakei.com, Misakei.com, uh, mascot. So yeah, there's my vlog for the week. Horribly done, I know. Uh, okay. So yes, check out Otaku Matsakei.com for more info and any first on info, for even more info. So yeah. Let's just go ahead and get into the DVD picks because, uh, I don't know how much longer I keep talking without making myself sound more goofy. It's another week and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the Wheelie DVD picks. Alright. Weekly DVD picks, as always. Yeah, I, uh, I, no, I'm turning this demon up next week. Every time I switch windows and gills at me. Okay. So DVD picks, DVD picks, DVD picks. This week, not a ton coming out. Uh, a lot of re re re releases. Um, there's, uh, Gaku in heaven complete collection. If you're like Niyoui, you'll like that. Uh, you know, Giver, whatnot. Uh, for me though, Spice and Wolf, season one complete collection comes out this Tuesday. Spice and Wolf is a huge anime. People love it or seem to like it with wolf girls and fuck girls. I don't know. I've never seen it either way. It looks pretty good. People really like it. It just gotta be something to it. I would say definitely check out Spice and Wolf. Season one, it's complete collection. You can't go wrong there. One price are getting the entire collection or the entire season. So pretty cool with that. Okay. Well, go ahead and move on now because, uh, yeah, we got lots more to cover. So, for the most part, fall 2009 DVD or fall 2009 shows are wrapping up. Um, two of the shows I was following finished up here this last week. Getting into January, a new season of anime is going to be starting soon. And you're probably wondering, well, what the heck is coming up? What looks good? What doesn't look good? What could be interesting? You could find out. I could tell you right now because there's some pretty cool stuff coming up. Um, so first off, we have the first show. It starts January 7th, 2010. It's from Studio AL, AIC, or ALC. It's called Okame Kakushi. It's based on a PSP novel game. Um, the creator, umiko, and Higurashi series. So, uh, did you like Higurashi? I know Higurashi for sure. If you like that, you'll definitely want to check this out. Um, because, you know, that's a good anime and very interesting and very violent. Uh, but he's back in his, uh, back in his role. So, he's back with another anime. Um, basically, it's about a student who settled in the remote village of, uh, Jikumachi, where, uh, it is separated between the new and the old cities by a bridge. The serenity of the surroundings has its own roots and ancient traditions, which Hiroshi will uncover and, uh, perhaps the horror that lies within. 'Cause, you know, nothing can ever just be happy. No, it's gotta be crappy and gloomy. So, yeah. Ah, it looks dark, it looks gritty. Um, it could be something to watch, but, uh, it sounds like more of a horror anime. Personally, I might've known that, but I know a lot of people would be. So, uh, moving on, it would be Sora. No, w- uh, wotu. That's, uh, Sora knows, it's W-O-T-O. Um, it starts January 4th. It studios A-1 pictures. Uh, Sora no-wotu places an emphasis with a slight European kind of setting, which takes place in the future, where a long war between two cities brings a gradual decline of the world itself. Five girls guard a fortress and play brass, uh, over town- over towns with people- what? Oh, uh, without, uh, people or a sea without fish. They plate- they play music. Basically, it's about these five girls in the army. They all play brass instruments, like the- the- the promo picture shows a girl playing a trumpet. And the sea below her is just basically empty. To me, this feels like a cayon with a European setting. And, oh, by the way, they're in the army. But to me, this really brings, like, all these girls look very moe way. Um, they're very QT, and there's music. It just reminds me of, like, the army meets a cayon. It's the best bag to put it. Now, for a show that's- we know we talked about Kidominou Jiken and being about third graders. Yeah, they're taking it a step further. Hanamaru kindergarten. Uh, it's done by Studio Gynax. Release date is January 10th, 2010. The story follows Anzu, who joins a preschool kindergarten and makes new friends with Higogari and Kyon. I am butchering these names. Needless to say, the three girls try to get the attention from well, the caretaker, of course, Tashuta, uh, who is pretty much attracted to the teacher taking on, uh, the neighborhood class. So, yeah, basically, uh, Kidominou Jiken with kindergartners? Yeah, this is pretty crazy because, um, I'm pretty sure it's not going to be sexualized in any way because, wow, people would be going still going to jail. And if it is, wow. Fuck you, Gynax. Um, I don't know what to say, you know, like, these are preschool grids. What could happen? What could know? Anything? It just seems very weird and very interesting to say the least. All right, check out one show. Doesn't say how terrible it is, but what are you going to do with kindergartners? Their mind only knows so much. That's it. Siakon no quasar. I was done by Taki. Start sometime in January. Uh, in St. McClav County, or a buoy, myafou meets a silver-haired boy, Alexander. He is a quiser. A being who can manipulate iron and draws his power from breast milk. Yes, another reason to have cute girls in fan service. And yeah, breast milk. So, uh, the trailer has shit loads of fan service. And yeah, and why wouldn't he be using breast milk for powers? I mean, only iron, you know, that thing that's unless you melt it all the way down back into its liquidated form that you can actually do anything with. Oh, geez. Yeah. This is another one of those shows that it's going to be very interesting to say the least. Um, again, another show that I'm going to watch one episode of and go, there just might be something to it without all of breast milk stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Darmey, he had a Darmey, or a Dumber. God, I can't even see this. A Darmari Sketch. Three times three stars. This is the third season from Shaft, uh, starts January 7th. Darmey and Darmey Sketch, uh, basically, this is, like I said, the third season based on the four Como Manga. The story revolves around, you know, and the lives of her friends who stay in the same apartment as her. And she also, uh, as her aunt also school life where she pursues arts to realize her dream. Yeah. Again, it's a show I haven't watched. I know it's a huge thing. Uh, and a lot of people love this show. So it's the third season. You know you're going to watch this already or not. Show. I'm actually kind of looking forward to, uh, Baca to test to Shugu Joo. Again, butchering the names. I apologize. This is one of my studio silver link begins January 6th, 2010. Very interesting premise. Uh, this is based on a light novel series. This is the idiot. Uh, so it revolves around, uh, Akisha Yoshi, who is the idiot of the show. Uh, he attends an academy that divides students based on their test results. The classes on the A grade students are filled with luxury, such as air conditions, uh, air conditioning spaces, you know, a large classroom, which is a complete opposite of the F grade students. Uh, the F grade students are like, and shitty desks. They're like falling apart. They're like, you know, like a barn. There's no air conditioning. Uh, basically their building is dilapidated and like, I swear to God, there's probably like farm animals living in it. It's terrible. Like, if you're here in an F grade class, you're just like, no, that's terrible. So, um, basically the thing is the academy is also a magical academy and why wouldn't it be. So, you know, the students can summon beasts into battle. So the quality of the beast is also recycled on the grade. This is where the story gets exciting. Where a very smart girl named Mizuki Jimae gets an F grade because she wasn't able to tend to test. So, uh, she had a fever and she couldn't go to the test and she got an F and apparently one F and an overall grade just sends you all the way to the F class. Um, together with, uh, uh, I see Akisha, Yoshi, they pitch a plan to figure out how to conquer the higher grade classes to earn, the luxurious items. So they want to become F students to A students together. And they do this by battling all the other students and you work your way up the grade. So if you're a shit student, if you can make a kick ass beast that whoops ass, yeah, you're getting an A slot. Seems interesting, you know, it seems very, very fun. And it's so funny in the, uh, in the trailer, they have like a final, like a final fantasy kind of cutscene where they have each little characters, beasts, beat each other up and they apologize to each other and it's weird. It could be interesting. Moving on to Zaldar's favorite anime, Chew Bra. We've talked about this show a few times. Um, basically it's about this, eh, sorry, the studio is, uh, Jexys Z-E-X-C-S. I have no clue how to pronounce that. It starts January 4th. Um, Niyu is a middle school student who shocks her fellow classmates by wearing black lace panties to school. She starts a club called, what do you guess, the underwear club, to relay the message of good underwear can bring about its good points. Yeah, so, uh, yeah. What mark can you say? Really? This show is nothing but fan service and more fan service and probably even more fan service. And, uh, yeah, they're underage. So, uh, yeah. Enjoy this, you know, this anime of more fan service, I guess. This whole season is really fucked. Dance in the vampire band. Um, another fucked up show. It has naked lolly vampires. This entire frickin' season, so far, is one fucked up show after another. Why aren't people going to jail? Why isn't, like, the- why aren't, like, the people watching this, including us fans, uh, fans? Why aren't, like, the FBI, like, in the secret service or whoever? Why isn't, like, the DA busting through our windows and arresting us for watching this lolly crap? Ah, I could just see it now. Large part of the United States of anime fans all arrested for watching that vial filth. Anyway, on to dancing the vampire bond with the naked lolly chicks who are vampires. Uh, Mina Topres is the ruler of the ancient covenant of vampires using the wealth of her clan. She cleared the debt, and why wouldn't she clear the debt? She's rich. Uh, she cleared the debt of Japan, so Japan is debt free. Thanks to her. Isn't that great? And she- she basically secures a special authority that allows her to create a district off the coast of Japan. So, uh, yeah, this district is a district of vampires. Yeah, so, uh, Mina then reveals to the world that the existence of vampires and their desire for both races to live together in harmony. Naturally, the factions on the good and evil side, uh, you know, they want to fight. So, um, they fight. So, like in the- in the trailer, there's vampires biting humans and sucking their blood and in their naked, and they look like Barbie dolls. That's kind of naked. They didn't do nothing. There's nothing, uh, you know, sexualized. There's no nipples or no pussy or nothing like that. No, I look like a freaking Barbie doll. Uh, and yes, I agree. Vampires are gay. You know, fuck. And they have to fucking violate and now fucking this shit. So, um, yeah, there's a- another good show that I'm very interested in seeing. I have no clue how to properly say this. It's called "Dur-ra-ra-ra." Do you are A-R-A-R-A. It's done by Studio Brainspace, beginning sometime in January. Um, uh, weird- god, these fucking names- Ryu-Grom-me. Mikado is a boy who longs for the exciting life of the city, of the big city. At the invitation of his childhood friend, he transfers to his school and Ika-Kaburo. Uh, Mrs. Ome is- has warned him about people he doesn't want to cross in the city. A champion fighter, an informant, and a mystery gang called the Drowzu. Uh, nervous from- from, uh, Passome's stories, Mikado witnesses an urban legend on his first day in the city. The headless rider, a stray on a black motorcycle, from then on, the existence of a supernatural cases in a gang called the Yellow Turbins will rise to the surface. And, uh, yeah, it'll be pushed to the breaking point. Yes. Ugh, a show about supernatural things and gangs and turbines. Uh, it's gonna be like a supernatural mix of action and- and, you know, there was- in the trailer, there's just a lot of violence. And the story is, yeah, very confusing. Even from that summary, I still can't be like, what- what happens now? Um, yeah, but I- I- I want to see it just because- I like the name. And yeah, the violence was really, you know, kind of cool. Uh, so, yeah, there's that. Next one is Ladies vs. Butler's. And I believe this is the last show. Yes, this is the last show we'll be going over. This starts on the 5th of January. It's done by studio, uh, Exebec, X-E-B-E-C. A school romantic comedy that focus on, uh, Akio Han Hino, an ordinary high school student who looks like a delinquent. And, you know, how does he look like a delinquent? Does it gonna be like Toradora where the main character, he had those fucked up eyes? And they're like, everyone thinks I'm a delinquent, but I'd have to clean. He enrolls into an academy that was once a school for upper class ladies. He is placed in the school's newly established servant training department. The students are here, are raised to be either maids or butlers. You know, gets thrown into a bicker between them, of course. So you're going to school to be someone's bitch. Hmm, Jeeves, bring me that caviar, please. Shit, I didn't learn how to bring you caviar, sir. My school filled me. Who goes to the school? Why would you want to go to this school? Why would you ever want to grow up and be a servant or a maid or a butler? Maybe they're like better in Japan. I don't know. But why would you want to go to school to do this stuff? Yes, that's what I'm going to do. When I have a kid, I'm going to be like, you're going to school to be a butler. Because you're going to butler people around you, son of a bitch. And if you cross me, I don't know. Still, what motivates you to say, well, when I grow up, I'm going to let someone boss me around who's rich. Oh, yeah. So yeah, I don't know. I really don't know. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. And it was someone's butler like Batman, you know, Bruce Wayne would just come by. I'm like a kid. Go wash my dirty bat underwear. Because I've pooed them. Because the Joker scared me. I don't know. Yes, there you go. You have a really cool master. That could be a good reason why. So that is the 2010 season. Very, very interesting. This season, there's a huge difference. There is not many shows, which for once I'm happy. There's a ton of them. I mean, you know, there's a good 20 shows. But this last season, there were like 40 of them before that. There was like 60 of them. So finally, I don't know if you want to say the recession is kicking in. But studios aren't cranking out, you know, anime after anime after anime after anime. And the thing, oh, we made 75 different versions of there's a romantic comedy show and the vampire show and all these other crap. No, there's actually a small, you know, this small bunch of anime coming out. That's new. That's like nice. There's not a bazillion different shows you need to pay attention to. So yeah, 2010, it starts soon. Two weeks, one week, one week. Yeah, well, two weeks. So two weeks from today. You can be watching my new anime again. What's wrong with that? Okay, after I've been talking for the last hour, I still have more to say. Finally, we can get to my review of Harka's Secret. And let's bring it up here. So Harka's Secret is a high school romance comedy. You can find both seasons of it on crunchyroll.com. You can watch entire first season as fast as you want. You don't have to be a member to watch it. Same with the second season. There's still a wait on the final episode as it just came out last Friday or Thursday. You know, somewhere along those lines. It just ended. But if you want, you can watch this for free. You don't have to be a premium member and whatnot. So Harka, Nagzaku, Nagzake, I can never freaking say her name. She's like the perfect girl at this private high school. She attends. She's beautiful. Everyone likes her. She's the best piano player in Japan. And finally, she's ultra mega uber rich. But she hides a terrible dark secret that if found out could ruin her great reputation in the school. Then there's Asai Yuto. He's a very plain ordinary guy. And he's friends with an obsessed Utaku who does anything and everything manga and anime related. While bringing back a book that his friend checked out from the library and it expired, he bumps into Harka, spilling the contents of her bag everywhere. She freaks out and runs away, leaving her bag and everything behind. Harka, Yuto, brings back the bag. But from that point on, Harka does everything to avoid Yuto at all costs. She, Yuto knows he somehow screwed up. He says, "Oh, you know, I did something. I gotta apologize. I gotta do this. I gotta do that." Well, he finally corners her and apologizes proper. And they kind of come friendly and goes, "Oh, hey, they trade numbers apparently." 'Cause he gets a call that night saying, "Oh, I checked out this book and I can't bring it back on time. Let's go break into the school and put it back." Because this book, this secret that she's so scared of, she likes anime. So they go ahead and break into the school and put the book back. And so basically their friendship is born out of the secret that she likes anime. And she didn't want anybody to know, but now Yuto knows. And yeah, so as long as keeping the secret from school, she's also gotta keep the secret from her family. Because her father is highly against Otaku lifestyle. He looks down on manga and anime as a lower form of entertainment. You know, it's bad. So the first thing, like I said, they become friends. So one day Yuto gets to go to Haruka's house. Well, she's so rich. It takes 10 minutes for her to walk from the gate to her front door because it's just so long. And then we also get to meet 14-year-old Mika. That's Haruka's younger sister. Okay, so then they're also maids. So the maids in Mika also help the story move. Mika, like I said, is she's 14, but she knows what's going on. She knows there's something between Haruka and Yuto. And she's always spying on him. And she's always eavesdropping. One of the things that always doesn't happen though is they'll be spying and they'll be like, "Oh, that hurts. Oh, don't put it in too deep. This is my first time." And then they'll fly through the door because they were leaning against and it fell open somehow, even though it was completely shut. And they'll be there, like, drawing or painting. Nothing sexual going on. From this point of the show, the episode's turned into a slice of life anime where it just shows all three characters doing something fun and there's always a happy ending. And in the end, the episode's usually Yuto and Haruka are always just friends, but they always proclaim that they're going to be together forever. Meanwhile, Mika tries to push Yuto and Haruka together, giving him pointers and tips. Besides focusing on Haruka and Yuto's quote-unquote relationship, there's another girl who Yuto always runs into and her name is Sheena. When I mean that I always run into her, like, they would be walking down the street and they bump into each other. Every time Yuto runs into Sheena, we get a huge panty shot and Yuto's always looking. She gets pissed off and then she's like, "Oh, it's you. Oh, how is everything?" And they're all chummy chummy. Well, after the third time of them bumping into each other, Sheena thinks it's destiny and there's something to it that, you know, people, especially in Japan, don't bump into each other three times. And then out of the blue, she's transferred to their school and they're sitting next to each other in class. So now they're classmates. So yeah, Sheena is determined to get Yuto's attention and become his girlfriend because, you know, it's destiny. They have to be together. They bumped into each other three times. So yeah, so like I said, then there's Yuto's sister who is a complete drunk and she's always partying with Yuto's teacher, who is also a complete drunk. They always demand food from Yuto. So Yuto's always cooking and doing the chores and all that around the house. And then the teacher is always trying to hit and score with Yuto. Like when she's drunk, she's like horny and she's always cute and she's always trying to have sex with Yuto. And they're just there for comedic effect. Nothing more, nothing less. You know, she doesn't have to be drunk even. She'll say stuff in class and then she'll be all embarrassed. Both characters are there, like I said, to be comedic and nothing really else. There is one scene where Yuto's sister isn't drunk and she actually says something profound and nice. But that was like a one-time thing. And then there's Harka's parents. Like I said, her father is against anime and manga and he's always been stern in the way that he portrays himself as the authority figure. Again, he's used for a comedic effect. I mean, he's supposed to be feared, but then he's really, really funny. Because like, okay, there's an episode where Harka's father finds the hidden anime in the mongas and stuff and freaks out. So Harka goes to Yuto's house to hide out. She has to spend the night and yeah. So anyway, the next day, Harka's father finds out that, oh, he's at Yuto's or she's at Yuto's. Let's go over there. He brings an entire army. He brings snipers and he rolls up to the door with a tank. And then instead of just knocking on the door, he takes out like a samurai blade and chops the door into a ton of pieces and the door disintegrates. And then he walks in with his army and is like, okay, you're coming back with me now. 'Cause I have his army and yeah. Yeah. So when there's Harka's mother, she plays the voice of reason between the two parents and she always seems to side with Harka. And she accepts her otaku lifestyle because if she puts it, she gets good grades and you know, it's not so bad. And then they also accepts the relationship between Harka and Yuto. And usually with one swift, cruddy chop, Harka's dad turns into a stone and gets knocked out. And then she's like, oh, everything's all right now. Everything is peachy. And yeah. So sadly, what starts off with a good show? It quickly becomes stagnant and you know, a lot of things just kind of happen per episode. The show becomes stale and then the first season overall, nothing significant happens, which brings you to a second season. There are moments where Yuto and Harka are going to get close and then affirm their feelings. But something always happens, like I said. And after the first few times, it's funny. But it gets cold, really, really quick. And the show's all turned into a freaking harem. First is Yuto and Harka. And you know, there's the entire show. They're like, hey, we're just friends. There's nothing between us, but yet you know there is. And then there's Sheena. And then there's freaking Mika, this 14-year-old chick. She likes Yuto as well. So like I said, this show gets very complacent. It does what every other romance comedy does. If you've seen any romance comedy, this fits the mole 100%, just the situation and the characters change. I mean, it reminds me of, I would probably say Ioriashi. But Ioriashi did a really good job. Well, like for example, like the maids and Mika are always pushing these guys together. But the maids always make something happen. Like there's a really cute Christmas episode. And it starts to snow unexpectedly. Oh, but then they're showing the roof. The maids are throwing fake snow into a fan which blows over the window. You know, it's like a sheltered love romance. The maids are there to make sure Harka doesn't actually get hurt. You know, I don't fucking know. The story is cliché, they all miss cliché. If you're a fan of romance comedy, you'll probably like this because it does nothing to rock the boat. The show overall doesn't answer any of the questions. You know, nothing really happens. It's just a bunch of sites of life things. All the characters do something fun together. All the characters do this. All the characters do that. And that's it. The show rented. If it ever hits the American shores, rent it. If you watch the first few episodes, you'll kind of know what's going on. And either you're going to like it and you're going to keep watching or you're going to be like, "Okay, I'm done." And I don't know how or why. I watched the second season too. I watched the show in about a two-week span over my lunch break. I watched about three episodes a day. And at first, I really loved this show. I thought I was like, "Oh, this is interesting. It's funny. It could be a good, you know, a good story. It could be pretty cool." And then after a while, like I said, it just became complacent and stagnant. So I give it a rental. Nothing more, nothing less. It's a romance comedy. It's there. It's not spectacular by any means. And look for a season two review in the coming weeks. Because there is a big, big, big difference between season one and season two. What should say itchy-wise? There's some fan service in season one. Oh, there's lots more fan service in season two. So yeah, that is Harka's secret. It's called Harka's no-hitsumi. It's a Japanese saying of it. Again, you can find both seasons on Crunchyroll.com. So yeah, that's that. So we're going to wrap it up here because I've been talking for quite a while. And if you're still listening, I'm amazed. Check out www.bonsideb.com. I have been working on show notes. I've got the show. I've got the website finally updated. You can follow me on twitter, twitter.com/jellocoon. It's J-E-L-L-K-U-N. Oh, sorry, K-O-J-E-L-L-O-K-U-N. If I could say my own name. Also, again, check out otakumitsuki.com. They've got their $75 gift certificate mascot contest going on. Again, I will leave a link in the show notes. I'll leave a link on the webpage for more information. If you can draw a dress and something really cute, you could be winning $25. So yeah, thank you very much for listening. Hopefully next week, Zodar will be back. Until then, there's J-E-L-Koon saying thanks again. Have a great week. And uh, see you next week. [Music] Is it us, or online radio? Just get up, get a bit more culture. To find out more, log into www.odacastradio.com. Odacastradio.com. [ Silence ]