The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast
Jikan the Kaze
This podcast is a proud member of the Blueberry Network that is Blueberry with no ease.com. Blueberry with no ease.com. Remember you drop the ease. What does it mean to be the very bestest? 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 Odecast Radio Network, Anime Radio, with a hell of a lot of swagger. Anime fans, what are you waiting for? Log into OdecastRadio.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. It's out of reviews, kadono, jikin. Jalkon reviews, koi kaze. We ask free news, DVD picks, and more. Episode 57 of the Bonsai beat, is coming at ya. [Music] Hey everybody, welcome to Episode 57. Oh, the Bonsai beat. I'm here in North Carolina with Zoldar. Woo hoo! Go South! Oh no, bad South. Oh, come on now. Yes. So, we are here at his place of residence recording this show. Came out here just to meet his ass, and it's been horrible. It's alright. And you've been forgetting it ever since. Yes, every day. I wake up and go, "God, why the hell am I here?" So, but it's nice to be here. It's, you know, it's Monday here. And it's nice and 30 degrees out compared to the negative 30 degrees that was when I left. So, yes. So, he's, he's, he's, he's the whole time he's been talking to me about how wonderfully warm it is down here, and I've wanted to slap him. It's been amazing. Can't be that bad. So, today I will bring reviews of koi kaze, a great, great show. Zelda, finally finished, kodomo no jiken. So, he gets the opportunity to review that. Finally, once in for all, I know we've talked about it for the last few weeks. But, it'll be the last time we talk about it. So, yeah. Let's bring news, DVD picks, all the other fun stuff we always do. So, let's go ahead and just get right into it, I guess. Is there anything else I need to say? No, don't, you know, if you hear me go, "Ah!" Sometimes during the podcast, I'll, because of my co-hosts, you're slapping, when I said something stupid. There you go. Which I'm sure he's wanted to do in many of these. But, now that he's down here in North Carolina, he can do so. Yes. And, yeah, you know, I will be watching the second season of Komodo jiken. So, we will probably, we'll talk about it again. Yes, I know, I'm sorry. But, I'll try to talk about something else next, before then. Yeah. Let's hope so. Okay. Okay. Okay. This week in Anime News, brought to you by Anime News Network. So, Anime News for this week. Things just keep going better and better and better for Imagine Studios. The studio that brought us American fans, the CG version of Astro Boy. Well, it just keeps getting better. 100 of the 400 total employees have been laid off. So, things just keep going better for them. Mainly a lot of animators have been given the axe. Which is really not too surprising, since that movie was not all that great. I don't know why they thought they could remake that and get people to go watch it. But, didn't, didn't do much for me. Yeah, it only made 20 million dollars and it costs like 60 million to make. So, you know, the set board is two. They are making, uh, Gotcha Mon. They're making your CG remake. So, we'll see how that goes. With changes of stream date for Inuasha, the final act. As many of you may know, and love Inuasha, it's finally its final season. Finally, finally, finally, finally. Years later. This is me off so much. Why? Just because it's, it's like, uh, One Piece and has 400 and something, 30 episodes and it's just ridiculous. Uh, I guess. I guess. So, the final act will now stream on Mondays on both, uh, ShonenSunday.com and hulu.com. So, um, it debuted on Saturdays in October, but now it's been moved to Sunday. So, now on the Lord's Day, you can watch Shonen. I'm not even going to say anything. Hey, you want to take the next story? You want to put the animation? Yep. So, well, I can do that. Do, do, do, find a motion. The animation is opening a RIN site and no points for, uh, guessing what I first thought when I saw this. Um, the words went through my head, uh, what? Surely not. It's awesome. Uh, no, of course it wasn't. But, the visual blog of the North American anime distributor Funimation announced on Thursday that they have a new official website for the RIN Daughters of M-N-E-M-O-S-Y-N-E anime. I'm not even going to try on that one. Minimafe. Whatever. Yeah, whatever that is. And is now stream, is open and is streaming an uncut trailer. So, I'm guessing there's blood intents in this. Oh, you have to be 18 to have this site. Yeah. Like, uh, you can just not lie. Uh-huh, sure. Oh, she is. She is pretty hot. She's got those big boobs. Uh-huh. She's got hands up in the air. Yeah. Okay. Funimation is releasing the entire six episode video series on January 19th. Uh, series was released in Japan in 2008. It's got the director from Elemental Gelad and Tails of Symphonia, the screenwriter. Ooh, from Gilead. Full Metal Alchemist and Brotherhood Aquarian. Huh, I think I'll go check out this trailer here and see if it's any good. The... Chris, the graphic is a hard-boiled science fiction action series. Uh, it's ridiculous. The story follows a seemingly ordinary office lady named Rin who is secretly a private investigator. Ooh, which is also nearly indestructible of supernatural powers. And why wouldn't she be? That's right. Well, we... All our office ladies need to be almost indestructible. Uh, they're hosting an online panel, the Funnycon. Uh, not even gonna say anything to that. 2.0 panel, which is taking place from 6.30 to 7.30 PM Central Standard Time. That's weird. On Thursday, December 17th. Adam Sheehan and Justice Rojas will once again host the panel along with guest Mike McFarland. Ooh, it's the director of young on Gilead in 1.11. And Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood. And J. Michael Tatum, Spice and Wolfs. J. Michael Tatum. Tatum. Excuse me. We get to hang out with him for an hour. Great guy. Okay, cool. Spice and Wolfs, uh, Lawrence and ADR Director of Rin, Daughters of this thing. Questions for the panel must be submitted ahead of time and they will accept email questions until 5 PM Central Standard Time on Wednesday. I guess that makes you must be in your neck of the woods. Did you say emo questions? E-mail. I suppose you could emo them, but I don't think that would work too well. I'm going to cut my wrist and hopefully the game. Yes, unless you guys are my question. Um, but I, you know, I love these. Please enter your birth date below. Yeah, it doesn't happen. I'm going to not lie. Um, Atalia has been greenlit for a third season. So, uh, if you like by shonen boys and, and scariotypical manga or comedy and all that good fun stuff, you'll get more third season coming up on adamate.tv. Okay, I'm going to watch the clips here now for Rin, Daughters of Nemoja. No. What? No. We're moving on to the best story of the week. Ah, fine. You know, every time something comes up with Ava. We got to talk shit about it, and this is no one. Yes. Well, yes. But every time something comes up with Ava in Japan, it's unbelievably freakin' stupid. God. Yeah, first it was a cellphone. I own the show. It's one of the things that got me into anime. But good God, I would... Duh. Japanese people are crazy when it comes to Ava. Okay. You can go read this one. Okay. Thank you. Two Ava Fender Guitars auction for 17 million yen. You know... Let's repeat that. It's two guitars. Yeah. But that's 17 million yen. So that's like $170,000 or something? $107,000. Oh, only $7,000? No, no, $107. Ugh. Still, it's two guitars. That's a bit ridiculous. $107. So... They started out on December 1st for $500,000 yen, which is $5,000. Or sorry, $5,600. The 2.2 meter, such 7.2 feet, steel replica of the spear of Longus from the Ava Galian anime franchise was put on Yahoo Japan auctions in 2007. However, it was unverified closing bid at $3,727,000 yen, which is about $121,000. So, yeah. But yeah, this is a yearly thing they do for charity. They put up yearly auction things, really unique items for charity, and they usually sell for boatloads of cash. So, you know, in this case, yeah, we could talk smack about it. But this stuff is actually going to a good cause. You know, it's not just, "Hey, Dokomo is sending out version two of the Ava phones." Let's get them. No, this goes to charity and all of that. And they do look cool. That they do. I have to say, from looking at them. That they do. They do look cool, so that helps. I've got Rin on them. Yes. And actually, he's always one of my most entertaining characters. Rin, you mean Ray? So, I think you say the name already at high. Yes, it's Ray. It's pronounced Ray. You can tell where my brain is today, can't you? Yeah, dude. It's fucking pedophile. Yeah. Oh, well. Okay. Well, let's just go ahead and go right into the DVD picks cause, yeah. Again, end of the year. Not much news. Not much news, exactly. So, okay. It's another week and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the Wheelie DVD Picks. Alright. DVD Picks. Yeah. Lots of good stuff coming. This is a very, actually, a very large weekend for, so, for a large week for DVD picks. Quite a bit coming out. My exact opposite results and thoughts when I was looking at what was coming out. I was like, wow, there's not shit coming out. Well, there's a box releases. You know, L cells are, I think it's new. Uh, Basilisk. Yeah, Basilisk has been released a bazillion times. But, um, for this week, I would probably say Honey and Clover. Part two, because Honey and Clover is a, eh, it's a show. I know it's very highly regarded. It's a good show. So, my pick this week would be Honey and Clover. How about yours, sir? The...all of... What's it called? Shoot. I had it in my head a minute ago and it just went completely out. Wow. This is awful. I apologize. Um, the...the Samurai Champloo Complete Series. I didn't like the way it ended, but it's, you know, it's kind of hard to get past the coolness of rock and roll ninjas. Wow. It is not rock and roll. It is rap. Yeah, you know. But rock and roll sounds cooler. They'll play the drums and play Mick Jager, music. That's right. Well, yeah. I cut you up. And I have to admit, the first two are pretty awesome. And any anime where they have to come out and say the beginning, this is not meant to represent historical accuracy. And the first words that go through my head were no shit. Um, he's always a good thing. But it's certainly the only thing about Basilisk. You mean, you don't have to only show people? Yeah. You're a fool. Uh, Ghost Town Complete Collection. Don't do anything for me. If you buy one piece, well, I'll hook you up with past, but you're also a fool. And I don't know anything about Honey and Clover. So... There's also Tula Vru from Sentai Film Works. That thing that used to be ADV. They're coming out with Tula Vru Volume 1. It's where the, uh, the guy who's taking a shower and a girl mysterious just shows up naked in his bathroom and then falls in love with him. And there's lots of itchy. That's all Tula Vru is, it's itchy. And she's an alien. So, uh, yeah. Thank you, Sentai Film Works, for giving the American audience such great things. All we need now is Kanokan. And what was that one about the can that turned into a girl? That one. I have no clue what you're talking about. There was an anime when Kenokan and, um, uh, when Tula Vru were airing last year. There was a show about a can. This guy, this boy buys a can of juice. But the juice turns into a very, very beautiful girl. Or the can does. And it's horrible and it's just got awful. No way, does he drink the can? He's like drinking the can and he throws it away or something. I don't know. I didn't watch it. But all I know is he's like, he paid for his juice. And he drank the juice and the can became like a hot girl. It's gay. Well, you know, if I was, I would be drinking a whole hell of a lot more juice if that was going on. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. But, you know, unless this the guy, an alien appears while he's taking a shower. Excuse me, I think I'm going to go take a shower again here. Yeah. He's taking a shower. Mine is on business and bam. That's a chicken bathtub. And she's hot and has big boobs in pink hair. All right. I'm in love. Where can I pick this up again? At Best Buy or Right Stuff or at taco mchfinky.com. Okay. So I'm going to be reviewing Komodo No Jinkin today. And I'm talking into the microphone and not really knowing what I'm doing. So those of you who've been listening to us for a while. You know, all three of you may remember that I said when I, if I ever watched this, I was going to shoot myself. Well, you hit it here first. I was wrong. This is actually a very, very good show. Yes. It got us has gets the bad rap of being lollicon. Yes, it kind of is, but not really. Being an anime for a while, I have seen a whole heck of a lot worse. It's not even as good. It's not even as bad as Najika. And Najika was even had his redeeming qualities. But the story here is Ren and her two friends. Ren is very much a little precocious, kind of brady, third grader. She, they, her class, ran out their last teacher. Well, because he was a dick, basically, and she'd never have been teaching to begin with. Thankfully, he's not around long. And halfway through the school year, they get a new teacher, a young 23-year-old just out of school. Well, Ren, of course, decides to immediately start picking on him. And being who she is, she picks on him in a sexual way. She basically starts trying to come on to him. The great thing, one of the great things about this is that, you know, I don't want to give too much away, but there are reasons that she is the way she is. And it becomes very psychological as they explore the way those are. There's also a very rich girl who likes to come up dressed as different anime characters to school, who is very good for comic relief. And you have the required third grader with ridiculously big breasts. The funny thing here is, though, she is the most innocent of the three kids. And how she is friends with these two that are very completely not innocent and still remains completely innocent, is very entertaining. But the teacher is, since I teach myself, it was very interesting to see him go through some of the same kind of problems that I have had with his idealistic notions about teaching, problems with his boss, problems with his idealistic notions being destroyed. But he turns out to be a very good guy. Rin turns out not to be evil. And it's not made for child sex, it's not made for lollicon. It got marketed that way, because Japanese marketers are stupid, I suppose. And nobody would buy something if it was marketed as a nice psychological discussion of third graders. No, nobody's going to buy that. But it does have redeeming qualities. I was very, very entertaining, very, very touching in many places. But more importantly, it is also absolutely hilarious. The antics are in the way that the problems that they get into are just incredibly, incredibly funny. It was not brought over to America because we're all ridiculous prudes over here. It never will be. Yes, and it probably never will be. So you are going to have to go and find it on YouTube or download it from somewhere. Because of when it came out, it got massively panned in Japan. There was a story where something like this happened, a teacher was in a sexual relationship with some sort of one of the school students. When this came out, it made the show come off very, it didn't give a good start. It was like, "Oh, now they're showing an anime." Yeah, so it got really, really overly censored in ways that it did not need to be. But it doesn't really take away from the story. In fact, it makes it kind of even more entertaining. The children curse, and you hear a quacking noises, that sort of thing. Some people have said it's over the top and you can't follow what's going on. Maybe that's true for the second season in the OBA's. I don't know. I didn't find it to be that way in season one. But I recommend it if you're looking for a good comedy, if you're looking for a good psychological profile of teaching, if you're looking for a good psychological profile of bad, very bad, family relationships. But it's funny, it's very entertaining, and it's not nearly as sick as it's been made out to be. So that's Komodo No Jinking. There you go. So, yes, Komodo No Jinking also, like he said, it plays off the fact that it wanted to be lollicon. And the first few episodes, they go over the top and do lollicon. I don't know if it really wanted to be lollicon. It's because it's made by a woman. I don't know if the woman wanted it to be lollicon when she made it. It turned out that they marketed it that way. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they did. It was horrible. The first two episodes are nothing but like, panty shots and like, Rin licking whipped cream or I think it was blood or something off of Ioki's finger because he cut himself. But it's done for humor and it is funny. But you do have need to stay past the first two episodes. If you make it to episode six, you will watch it all the way through. Because episode six is very, very moving and effective. Definitely. So, Komodo No Jinking is all our good that I recommended. Yes, watch it. So, I got a chance to watch Koikaze, the show that's about incest. Real incest. Yeah, real incest. You know, in a lot of anime's, you'll see, oh, we're not related by blood. It's all right if we sleep together or other just really ridiculous things. You know, we talked about kiss excess and how, you know, they're not related by blood. So that, you know, it's okay. You can go sleep together. Well, this show is about two siblings who do fall in love and do end up sleeping together. So basically, the story starts off with, you know, sorry, Koshiro, he's a 27-year-old guy who lives with his father still, who works in a marriage arrangement counseling service. I didn't even know these still even exist, apparently. They do, even in America. Oh, okay. I'm kind of using one for it. So, he works for this relationship arrangement thing and he just got broken up over a long-term girlfriend. He was kind of bummed out like, oh, man, life sucks. You know, when you lose a girlfriend, it's never fun. So he bumps into this cute girl on the train and she drops her bus pass or something important. Wikipedia is a name tag, but I think it was a bus pass or just something. It was like her ID or something because I had her name and picture and all that. And he gives it back, you know, he chases her off the train and gives it back to her. And, you know, she says, okay, thanks, you know, I appreciate it. And goes on a merry way. And he's like, oh, man, she's cute, but, you know, she's a little young. So later that day, he's leaving work. He's unexpectedly got given two tickets to an amusement park and he's like, well, what the hell am I going to do with these things? You know, they're worthless. He bumps into that same girl and they end up going to the amusement park together. Where he kind of opens up. They're riding the carousel or an attention, but what's the thing? It's a big circle thing, the ferris wheel. The right and the ferris wheel together. And it's an enclosed one with the door and everything. And he starts crying about his girlfriend saying, you know, you know, just getting over all this. And she feels really bad for him. And she kind of says, you know, I've got a guy who I like, but he turned me down. And she's depressed about it as well. So they're kind of an opity party, but you can feel a real connection between these guys. And even he can, they can both tell like, hey, there's something here. You know, they got along great. They kind of are coming from the same situation they can relate. Well, after they get back from the amusement park, they're waiting in front of his work. And Coach Euro's father appears. And he goes, oh, hey, what are you doing here? Oh, I'm here to pick up your sister, Nanaka. And so yeah, they find out they are related. And you're probably wondering like, how the hell do they not know this? Well, like I said, he's 27 and she's 15. So that's a 12 year difference. And their parents got divorced. And when they were younger, Coach Euro stayed with his father. Nanaka stayed with his, their mother. But due to her going to school in the town, she wanted to move back with her father. So it wasn't taking two hour bus trips every day or train rides every day to school. So that's, you know, how they meet. Coach Euro is very like, oh my God, you know, I wanted to, you know, I feel something for her. This is so weird, you know, but, so he's very standoffish and very, you know, I don't want anything to do with this girl. You know, I shouldn't be having these kind of feelings for her, especially that she's my sister. So he's kind of a jackass to her and avoids her, a scold for an open hand reason. Or on the other hand, she wants to get to know him. She wants to get to know Coach Euro and she liked that they got to hang out and were friends. And even get so as picked on by people calling her, she has a brother complex because all that's all she talks about. So, throughout the episode, throughout the series, to them really getting to know each other, getting their feelings out in the open. And then you've got a couple other main characters. You've got their mother. There was an episode they actually banned from airing because it was so controversial. But it was the episode where Coach Euro goes to go see his mother and we learn all kinds of things about Nanokan, how she is and why she is and this and that. I don't understand why they banned it, but it was. And then he also got the workmates that he works with, that Coach Euro works with. You've got this guy who's a nerdy otaku who likes dating younger girls. And it just dreamed to be dating a high school girl and he's just there for comic relief. And this is finally another character named Kaname Chittery. And I was like, "Oh my god, Kaname Chittery, full metal panic." But no, they had to come and name my guests in anime. She is a co-show supervisor and she kind of gets a hint of what's going on. And finally suspects like, "Yeah, yeah, there is more going on than the whole simple brother-assisted relationship." And even goes as far as a scene where Coach Euro moves out because he doesn't want to be around Nanokan. He's given the point where he's like, "This isn't right. We can't have that kind of relationship." It's social stigma, it's not appropriate, and the best for him is to move away and just be done with it, you know, out of sight, out of mind. Well, she comes over and is going to make him food. Kaname also comes over saying, "Oh, hey, I'm dating Coach Euro. What you guys are doing isn't right. You're too late. Just forget about it and move on. You're 15. Date a boy or age." Eventually they do end up sleeping together, but it's only once. And there's a very, very, very touching moment at the end of the show where they are talking about committing a lover suicide. You know, there's social stigma of, you know, brother and sister sleeping together and being in love, you know, isn't accepted anywhere. Japan, America, anything like that. Maybe the Deep South. But... Not even here. So not even... Some cousins, first cousins, maybe, but not sisters. So, they go back to the amusement park and they're like, "If we wish hard enough, this merry-go-round, or the carousel will go on its own." And this whole thing they're trying, they're both coming to realization like, "Look, we did it. We should just move on." Because they thought about, you know, about moving to a different town and starting life new. You know, telling their parents and then basically running away together. And so, we basically come to the realization like, "Look, we did what we did. We can't let it happen again. We just have to have our feelings, but not act on them, and we have to live normal lives." There's a lot more that goes into this, but the, you know, I basically spoiled the entire show for you to a degree. But there's so much more that you could get out of this show by watching it. Because, yeah, it's as easy as cutting dryers. Yup, they slept together. But you get to understand both Nanookas and Coach Jero's feelings for each other. And understand why they have them and the people around them and how they relate and how seriously they take the situation. You know, they aren't just, you know, a young guy, you know, an older guy and a younger girl and like, "Oh my God, you're young and you're pure and innocent. I want to have sex with you." No, it's nothing like that. It's very drawn out and very thought-provoking. Especially the final episode. Extremely thought-provoking. You know, this show gets a bad rap because everyone goes, "Oh, it's a troubled incest." But there's just so much more to that. This isn't a hand tie by any stretch of the imagination. This is a 13 episode show. There's no nudity that you do not see them having sex. There's nothing like that. It's just a very well done show. And I definitely, definitely recommend it because... A lot like Kamuro no Jinking is actually on this show as well. It's very, very misunderstood. It is very much a psychological study of what happens to people who are doing something that society frowns upon and how they handle it and how society handles it. Now, it doesn't go into the obvious reasons why this would be bad, you know. If they had children, their children could be totally screwed up biologically. But it goes into the effect on the character's psychology and it goes on to the effect of just society in general. And when is it okay to go through and against what society tells you to do? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Because you almost find yourself rooting for these guys. It's like they love each other. They met under almost false pretenses. They didn't know that they were related. And you see the connection of what they get so well. But, you know, then the reality kicks in. So... I also recommend this show. Yeah, definitely. If you're not watching it, you've always been put off by the content. Watch it. It's very well done. A very good show. And yeah, the quick show, 13 episodes, you'll find yourself breathing through this show. This is one of those shows that you can marathon because it's just so well done. So... So, yeah, this week's show is quick and dirty, quick and easy. I've had a lot of fun out here in North Carolina. Hell, I just wanted to stay here for the weather, to be honest. Because it's a lot nicer than Minnesota. Say that much. And you've got two shows with potentials now. Two misunderstood shows that people think are about sex that's really aren't telling your reviews today. Yeah, there you go. It's a double feature of misunderstood anime. Yeah, definitely. Next week, I'll be bringing you a view of Naguzaku's Secret. I very butchered that name. A show currently on Crunchyroll. The second season actually finishes airing this week. I'll be bringing you season one of that show. I hope to have fairy musketeers finished. Finally. I think I've been talking about that for three months now. Next semester, by next week, excuse me. If you see a trend here, yes, it does take me a while to finish this show once I started. I'm one of those people who has way too many hobbies. I could actually, you know, go into and talk about all my video games and everything else here too. But don't think you probably want me to do that. Exactly. But I hope to have that done by next week as well, so come in for that. Very different shows. Next week will not be. Nearly as shows there is serious. And I wouldn't call either of those shows misunderstood. Yeah, definitely. Check out www.bonsib.com. There you'll find past show episodes, reviews, all that fun stuff. And the emails and the voice mails via Skype. Yes, talk to us. Hate us. Hate us. Trying to do Rin. Hate us. Bock us. But don't ignore us. There you go. Rin several times tells that to her teacher when the teacher is mad at her. So there you go. So yeah. Thanks again for listening. That was a quick dirty episode. We got other stuff to do. So yeah. Until next time, this is Jill Koon. And this is Altar. Thanks for listening. Have a great weekend or a great week. And we'll see you next week. Or did online radio just get a bit more culture to find out more log into www.odacastradio.com. Odacastradio.com
Jellokun and Zaldar are back with reviews of Kodomo No Jikan (TV) and Koi Kaze. Also news DVD picks. Its a short episode this week.