The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast

kodomo no tame ni

kodomo no tame ni meaning "for the sake of the childern" this week we review Kodomo No Jikan a show that Zaldar said he would kill himself if he ever saw... Well he saw the first 4 episodes at the time of this recording. So either he's a liar or he's just lazy I pick the later. We also discuss various news bits and give you our DVD picks of the week.

Duration:: 1h 3m
Broadcast on:: 19 Nov 2009
Audio Format:: other

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We are like the general store on Main Street. We're known, but not really, we're fighting Walmart in essence in the anime podcasts. Well, wait, Anime Pulse would be Walmart and Anime World Order would be the target. We are not even Kmart. We're like Bob's Best Pharmacy. There you go. We're J&Z Pharmacy on Main Street. We know your name. That's right, we do. Okay, now all of your name. Yes. Now that we've killed four minutes and 15 seconds of rambling, that's kind of what we're going to talk about. What's that? Oh, yes, I just love to ramble. Boar people. Well, you're in a great mood today. I am in a great mood today. It's Sunday. The Vikings won. They kicked the Lions' butt. Um, I don't know, it's just a good day today. Oh, that was sarcasm, Bob. Sure. Uh, the Panthers actually won today. Amazingly. Which is, like, unbelievable. Welcome to this week in football, your football discussion. Hey, on the site that we talk about anything else, the cast is our fan station. Yes. Well, hey, in our tag line on bonsaib.com, it does say we talk about anime, sometimes gaming, or anything else we find interesting. That's right. So there you go. We're keeping to our slogan. On today's show, we should break it into that. You know, the intro was kind of tough to hear. We're going to discuss Kidomeno Jikin. Somehow, after Zoldar saying he'd never watch it, he watched it. We bring you lots of good news, and our DVD picks, as always. So let's go ahead and jump right into the news, because we got lots of stuff to cover today. And if I was smart enough, I left my, uh, my sound folder out. Okay. This week in anime news, brought to you by anime news network. Yeah, I think anime news network. And other sites that were used to bring you the news. Hey, that rhymed. Okay, well, first off, I've not seen this anime. I would not be surprised because it's still not over. Kiss X-Sis month, it's called Kiss X-Sis. Manga is good. The green light to do a TV anime adaptation next spring. Currently, the show is only three episode OVA. The first two episodes have aired already. And the third one is coming out, I think, next week. The television anime adaptation of Bo Ditama's Kiss X-Sis romance manga has been green late for next spring. The story follows the forbidden love between a boy and his two-step sisters. The manga has already inspired a three, uh, original anime DVD volumes that are bundled with limited first edition to the third, fourth and fifth manga. Um, yeah. Oh yeah, November 20th with the third volume. So yeah, next week. The manga has been running, uh, in Kadasha's weekly young magazine since 2004. So yeah, uh, some other things this guy has created. If anyone is not going to be surprised. Phaidu Patsu, uh, Juden Chen, that just got done airing this last season. A very fun anime to watch. Um, Cubon, Cubon, I've never heard of that show. And then finally, um, he's done the art in Maharo, uh, Mahoromatic manga. So yeah. And you know what's funny though, as I say, the forbidden, like, I've not read the manga. I've only seen the two OVA's. And it doesn't seem like a forbidden love because in the OVA's, the brother like does everything he can to, uh, not get in this fine situation. He finds himself with his step sisters. And it's hilarious because his parents are both like, whatever you want with their step sisters. You're not related by blood. Who are you going to pick? They like encourage it. Which is wrong on so many levels. Hey, hey, every hand tie is like, oh, your brother and your sister before not related by blood. So we can do whatever you want. I know. But yeah, I do find that disturbing. I'm not going to lie. Very true. Yes. So yeah, it'll be, I think it'll be kind of interesting because I want to know what they do between, you know, what's the difference between the OVA's and the actual series? Because honestly, in the OVA's, it gets pretty tired, some pretty freaking quick. I mean, all it is is 21, 24 minutes of these girls like getting naked and going into the bed with him. And he's like, wakes up and like, hey, oh my God. Oh, you're in the room with me. Oh, you fell in my penis. How did that happen? Well, we're going to give you a bath and, oh, you fell into the bathtub. Oh, and now you're on me. Oh, and now you're not wearing any clothes. It's a lot of that stupid, silly stuff where it's all you fell on that bar of soap that was left there or the water or just, it's not, I don't know. It's not very fun. Ah, yeah, moving on. Ponyo and Astro Boy have been submitted for Oscar nominations. Okay, then. So basically, they've been nominated for the best animated feature category for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. I am Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Ponyo, it's Ghibli's Ponyo anime film. And David Bowers, Amma, and Amajai's computer animated adaptation of Usamu Tezaka's Astro Boy manga are among the submitted films. Here's what some of the other ones are. Elfen and the Chipmunks, the Squeaker Curl. Yeah, Astro Boy, Battle for Tara, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Caroline. Yep, oh, sorry. Disney's a Christmas Carol. I want to know. Well, it hasn't come out yet, I guess. Never mind. The Dolphin, the story of a Dreamer. Yeah. Fantastic, Mr. Fox, Ice Age, The Missing Lakes, Monsters and Aliens, Nine, Plan 51, Princess and the Flaw, Frog, a tongue called Panic and Up. Honestly, Ponyo and Astro Boy have zero chance against Up. Up is going to win hands down. And it took, really. Well, this on Up are the best there. But my question is, how are some of these animated features? Because they're those 3D, it's because it's animated 3D. But there's a lot of action still in it. I mean, there's a lot of action. There's a lot of action, it's all 3D, dude, it's all animation. It's not, it's not the animation you and I are used to seeing an anime or whatever. It's 3D animation like Pixar, like Toy Story's animation. All right, Toy Story's animation. But like nine, I did not think, nine was 3D. Nine was a 3D garbage, so was Plan 51. So was the Christmas Carol, so was the Cloudy of Chants and Meatballs. So was Astro Boy. I don't know, but to me that doesn't seem like animation, maybe. Well, it's animation because it's 3D animation. There's tons of different animations and then just pen on paper or computer pen paper. Maybe I have to expand my definition. You do, you could have this thing, your definition. Wikipedia, boy. There's claymation and 3D animation, Asian animation, Korean animation. I don't know, but I don't know. This year was just jam-packed with these stupid 3D films. We're not a movie podcast by any means, but it seemed like this year has been like 3D. We've done it so many years back in the 60s, 70s and 80s and 90s, but now we've got it right. Thanks to computers. So you want to take- They're doing it because they're having to find something to keep people coming to the movie theater. Yeah, I know. You want to take the next story? Uh, which one are we doing next? Four kids. Handly. Four kids. Four kids. Oh, oh, right. No one's supposed to look at the surprise. Trying to understand, trying to understand that one. The American licensing and distribution company Four Kids Entertainment released its securities and exchange commission 10/4 report for the quarter ending on September 30th on Monday. Oh, 10Q report. That surely does not 10 quarters. Yeah, I'd say, wow. Since whenever we broke them in down to it, practically monthly. The whole quarter is, how do you have 10 of them? Quarter means four. Yes. So the company posted a third quarter net revenue of 7.3 million, which is less than its revenue before, but it still turns it out that's actually a loss. They have revenue of 7 million. Evidently, they have cost of 5 million more than that. Because they have a loss this quarter of 5 million. So far this year, it has lost 20.9 million. I don't know how companies lose this much and still survive. But I'm glad they do. Con noted, however, that the cost and expenses for the company were at U.S. 14.5 million for the quarter down from 24 million during the third quarter of 2008. They're going to have to be implementing additional personnel cuts and expense cuts there in the next few months to further reduce its expenses. During Four Kids, quarterly conference call, chairman and chief executive officer, Alfred Kahn, attributed a net loss to a decrease in chaotic franchises, trading card revenue, and the different accounting treatment applicable to the agreement with the CW network as compared to the Fox agreement. Four Kids has ended its Fox programming block in December 2008, and now runs its programming on the CW network. Wow, that was really stupid. So I'm sorry, the CW network is way less people watch that happen. Kahn noted that ratings for Four Kids current 2009 to 2010 season are up 11%, which I don't understand, international licensing revenues for UPO, dinosaur king and shaman king were down. Although domestic licensing revenues for UPO increased to 0.2 million. Okay, that's good enough, man. Okay, dude, I didn't realize that Four Kids was even on the stock market. Looking at their stocks, holy shit. If I wasn't an investor with them, I would be getting a rampage right now. Okay, get this. It last traded on Friday at $1.67 a share. Okay, it previously closed at $1.68 the day before. It opened at $1.70, so it's been losing money. 52-week range for a year between $1.34 and $2.43. And my god, in two weeks time, it's done like a fucking nose dive, climbed back up, nose dived again, climbed up again, level off, and then just now, just been nose diving steadily. In the last freaking six months, and over the two weeks, it's in the last two months, I mean, it's been just nose diving like hardcore. How does this company, how do these guys get on the stock market? I mean, obviously they're doing good enough because they're a publicly traded company, but my god, you would think with Fox and CW behind your network that you would be doing decent. You think those would be good money making? Go Google Four Kids Stock Price. Pick the first thing you find on Google. You'll see a little chart of how the stock's been doing, dude. It's like a definition of a roller coaster. As far as there is no loop-to-loops or anything, or corkscrews, it's terrible. But at times, stock kids, stocks do go up. Yes, but what rhyme reasons work well? Oh, no, I understand that completely. But you've got a pretty solid product. You're broadcasting on two major networks. How can you be at one point riding high, and then over the next two, three weeks, month, you just go rocketing down just wow, if I owned stock in this company, I'd be like, what the fuck are you doing? Yeah, it would be two. Check it out real quick. I have. In a recession, what's going to happen is that the things that are going to go down are the not things that people don't really need. Well, no, kids need to be entertained, though. And the bottom line is, all they're doing is they're showing kids programming. That will never go out of style. No, I mean, they probably, I don't know if they said, I don't know their entire business model. For all we know, they lost a shit ton of money on trying to sell DVDs of Yu-Gi-Oh, or whatever, maybe a show isn't doing as good in the ratings. I don't know. The ratings TV have gone down, and they switched to the CW. And the CW is not nearly as popular a network as Fox. I really don't understand that. But people are not watching TV anymore. Even young kids are doing other things. They're getting, that's a good thing. That's a good thing. But you'd think for being a TV distribution, doing shows, you think your stuff will be pretty damn stable because you write up contracts with advertising revenue and all that stuff. But I mean, I don't know. I guess I really can't speculate too much because I don't know their overall business model. I don't know how it comes out. They want to make money other than selling the rights to, like he said, CW to show the show. Getting a cut of the advertising revenue. But advertising revenue is incredibly, incredibly down simply because companies don't have money. Yeah, that's true too. Maybe they're advertising like Hyundai cars to the kids. Tell your parents to buy the new little El Ranta, I don't know, buy a Saturn. They're not going to be around much longer. Tell your parents to buy a Saturn. Anyway, that's, I don't know. Let's see, oh yeah, this was ridiculous. This was freaking ridiculous. Do you remember the Akihabara killer from last year who ran a truck into people and then started stabbing the shit out of people? Yeah. He wrote a letter to his uh, he wrote an apology letter to one of the victims. He said he deserves deaths. Sorry, he deserves death. And compares victim's pain to his online avatar's death. Tomohiro Kato, the man who allegedly killed. I don't know how he allegedly killed someone and they got pictures of it. And you had the knife. Yeah, you always got to call that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't know still. I killed, allegedly killed seven people and injured 10 in a hit and run and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Otaku shopping district of Akihabara last year. He sent an apology letter to one of the victims. The 23-year-old man is on trial for the incident. 55-year-old taxi driver Hiroshi Yusa received the six-page handwritten letter via Kato's lawyer on Friday. Also in close was another letter from Kato's parents. That is crazy. Why would you defend your son or help him or speak on his behalf? He's 23. He made his bed. Like, is it in Japan? Like, I know there's a whole thing of like just honoring, you know, disgracing a family and you know, I don't know how relevant that is in today's Japan, but I mean, that's all I know for being an American. But I mean, like, seriously, like, do the parents still feel responsible for what their kid does, even though he's an adult, equally? Well, even in America, I mean, you still, you know, your kid messes up. You love them, you still. Yeah, he's 23. Trying to defend them. Well, yeah, but you still love your kids even when they're 23. No, I understand that, but I don't know. Well, he wrote... I mean, you don't say you shouldn't get... Yeah, I guess. What he's doing is trying to get, he's trying to show sympathy and, you know, this sort of thing to maybe get a ridiculous sentence. I think he knows he's going to die. However much I repent, however much I apologize, it would never be enough to make things right. And since my crime deserves death 10,000 times, I think I will be sentenced, and I will think I will be sentenced to death, he wrote. He added that the victim's pain must be something like the uncontrollable anger I felt. When my online self was killed on the form, I spent all my time... that I spent all my time on my trolls. So, yeah, I've created forms before. It can be a pain in the ass when you've got people trolling or just trying to cause havoc. But, you know, I didn't go rent a truck and mall people down and then hop out and stab people. I just said, "You know what? I'll get your IP address and ban you." And, you know, that sort of stuff took reasonable actions. Not, "Hey, I'm gonna go murder people because I'm so angry." I think this guy is seriously something wrong with him. I agree. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it's the best penalty and how often they use it. Yeah. But he's, I think, by trying, if he deserves it, he's trying to get out of it. That's, you know, I do not expect that. Yeah. Hey, are you downloading anything by chance? Nope. Serving wood. No, that wouldn't do it. Okay. I'm just trying to think, like, what the hell? You sound like really crappy tonight. It's about 25 minutes. Okay. Anyway, you want to go ahead and take next story? Alrighty. So, we're doing the... Just pick whatever one you want. Alright. So, they evidently, the hand big guy who is, we all remember, got in trouble for having the supposed Lolita anime, aren't supposed to Lolita manga. Well, it wasn't that well, yeah. As it was charged with a possession of child pornography, is now being charged with possession of erotic material, basically. So, hopefully that will reduce his sentence. I mean, I don't like the stuff he got, but we do have freedom of speech here. Hadley was accused of receiving and possessing obscene material as opposed to child pornography via the United States Postal Service in May of 2006. In particular, he was accused of having books containing visual representations of the sexual abuse of children, specifically Japanese manga drawings of minor females being sexually abused by adult males and adults. Judge, the original, stuck down some of the charges against Hanley and ruled parts of the Protect Act of 2003, unconstitutional, restricting free speech. However, Hanley still faced charges for possession of obscene material because it was moved in interstate commerce, and his defense has been negotiating a guilty plea for a possible wider sentence. Yeah, for whoever, the last time we talked about this, we were talking about how he said, "Okay, yeah, I did it. I'm just gonna plead guilty and let's just get this damn thing done and over with." Now, here's the thing I found interesting, though. Originally, they said it was one book, and then they said that his computers were clean, no other manga was found that was depicting, you know, anything to what this manga was. Now, in this article, they said there were seven books and two computers. So, I don't know. I don't know, either, and it always depends on news may change. And then, as has been said before, anime news network is not professional journalists. Well, thanks. Yeah, we use them for news, and that's professional. Anyway, yeah, go ahead and take the next story. Okay, so according to anime nation, they're trying to make programs now that will mimic children's voices for reasons that I do not particularly understand, I guess, so to cut down on dubbing on costs for anime shows, they're not gonna use computer voices rather than real people. So, yeah, do you want to listen to real people? Oh, good idea. Here's like a shoulder. Okay, fuck you. Seriously, though, so you get the point. Why? The one thing I like about- Yeah, there's no emotion. Right, it doesn't sound like a child at all. That sounds pathetic. Yeah, and like, that's the thing, like, I like watching anime parts, you know, any show I like to watch because like, hey, these are real people doing their voiceovers. They have emotions. They aren't computers. No, if they're gonna start doing that shit for anime, fuck you anime industry. Stop taking work away from people who already have a hard enough time finding work. You know, Seiyuu's, uh, you know, they always complain about, you know, how in Japan and America, how voice actors are underpaid for what they do, you know, work doesn't come easy. They don't get up every day knowing they're gonna be doing work. Um, this is something a computer shouldn't be doing. Period. Do you agree? Agreed. So I mean, come on. Agreed. Why don't you go watch a play? Even, even if it's a- Well, go watch a play. You can, you know. Well, with robots doing it, with no emotion. You're gonna ruin the play. You know, anything that requires acting. It's just gonna ruin the product. Computers are not meant for this type of application. Our synthesizing isn't to the point where you can fake being a human being. Or speaking like a human. Computers don't know emotion, they don't have emotion. You can't program emotion in someone's voice. No, fucking keep it to people. Because you know what, even if they went to computers, anime is still gonna be super as expensive. Just because they cut out the, the dubbing side of things. You know, it's not like the anime industry in Japan, or America, if this even took off. You know, it's gonna be like, oh, well, you know, we didn't have to pay that whatever million yen that we paid off the voice act, you know, for all the voice actors, and whatnot, and all the time editing, you know, all that stuff. Let's lower the price by that much. Let's lower the price, you know, 500 or 10,000 yen or something. No, that would be like, hey, we just saved a shitload of money with switching to GEICO. Oh, coinage. Anyway, you get my point. I don't know. Very good. I hope they don't do this. I hope it's just something. Because part of the problem is, I don't understand this myself. Those vocaloid albums are really popular. Like, everyone flips out over those stupid vocaloid albums. I don't understand why. Ooh, it's a synthesized voice singing. So fucking what? It's a computer. No fucking talent needed. But what were you gonna say? I'm sorry, I cut you off. Yep. Well, that's all right. I think I'm afraid this is the way it's going, because I mean, if you remember McCross, they had a singer that was totally made by a computer. And there's a lot of, I was reading something recently. It was in Indy in the sci-fi author who had a story where they wasn't soap opera. And, you know, the actors in the soap opera were not real people. They were computer-wise. And so the things that they said and the things that they did in the pictures were everything were completely made by a computer. They didn't tell anybody. They acted like it was real. And they even went so far as to gave the supposed actors fake lives. So they made up stories, not only for the people in the show, but the people who were supposedly acting in the show. Wow, that's true. So I am afraid that is the way. We heard the boy shout the voice. We heard the boy shout a voice. He's a girl. [MUSIC PLAYING] What difference are the higher pitches in that? It sounds lifeless. It sounds creepy. Yeah, I just hope that this is just a flash in the pan. They just think, oh, this might be a good idea. We should try this and then watch how fucking spectacularly it will fail. I mean, come on. If you did this, any other genre, if you did any other media, not a genre, any other medium, if you did this for a play or a live action show, or something other than an animated TV show. Would it fly? I don't think so. The title of the author of the story I was talking about, by the way, is an eligible boy by Ian McDonald, which is actually very, very good. If you like science fiction, short stories, you should check that out. But really, I'm afraid they continue to do cost cutting. Yeah, well, we'll see what happens. I mean, I don't know, I mean, that McCross you're talking about. I mean, I guess I'd have to watch it. But still, you would think the amount of time they'd have to program the appropriate voice act, the use it, to make it sound like if someone's shocked, to make it sound like they're shocked, to make it sound so freaking synthesizer-like. I mean, you'd think this would take a long time. Yep, you would think. You would think. I don't know. I don't know. So, you want to go and take the next story, too? Oh, right then. Give me all the power tonight. Power. Yes. Ha-ha. So, Ghost in the Shell, the standalone complex, is evidently getting two new manga in Japan. Now, for those of you who don't know, what's wrong with you. But the standalone complex is different than the movie, since the main female character does not become some strange conscious living in a computer thing. The major. But it still has some of the strange philosophy. You have to watch it kind of with a dictionary to figure out what the hell is going on sometimes. But that's what makes it good, to me at least. But it's, you know, I think I like the movie more, Simple Living Cause. I thought having a conscious computer was incredibly cool. And this was actually the first, when I saw that movie was the first time I'd run across that. But the anime itself is based on a manga by Mr. Shirao. The first of the upcoming manga, Ghost in the Shell, standalone complex. Takagimō na hi-bye, which I probably just ultimately butchered. We're launching a January issue of young magazine on December 9th. I love having a Japanese magazine titled in English. Oh, so the same Mazliaki Yamamoto is drawing this all new manga based on production, IG's 2002 video anime series of the same name. This spin-off series of bonus anime shorts, recounted tongue-in-cheek stories of the Takagoma, AI tanks from the main Ghost in the Shell standalone complex anime. So it's going to be a rather funny story, if I remember, from the Takagomas are pretty much there for humor. So it's going to be a more humorous manga, which is entirely different from Ghost in the Shell of any other type. I don't know if that'll work, but we'll have to see. The Sanket manga, which is simply titled Ghost in the Shell standalone complex, launched in a 2009-02 issue of weekly young magazine on December 14th. Yucutan, the creator of Amman and Sheenan manga, and the artist for steamed by Leviathan and Piron manga, will draw this manga version. So the evidently it's also going to be released in USA in the US by Kodana USA, which has already started republishing Shirao's original Ghost in the Shell manga this fall. Hobby Japan's Ghost in the Shell standalone complex visual book, and Ghost in the Shell standalone complex second dig visual book, included short anthologies of original four-panel gag manga by Aichiro Mashin, Ramana Kusamini, Koji Sugai Tanai, and others. DreamWorks has licensed the rights to make a proposed 3D live-action film last year. To do this, DreamWorks hired Shutter Island, who I've never heard of, writer and executor, and then Tia Kalogrudas to adapt the manga. This has to be the, I don't know, live-action of manga in several works than any that I have seen. If anybody can think of one that they liked, please do send us an email. The same January issue of monthly young magazine with the Tachkoma manga is also the magazine's debut issue under its new name. It was evidently previously by monthly magazine called Bessahatsu Young Magazine. I was also featuring a new side story of three by three eyes manga, and a special 36 page side story to this year's live-action film adaptation. I've never actually seen three by three eyes, probably should. So I don't know, I think that's really cool, especially since it's going to come to America, and I just absolutely love Ghost in the Shell. That's what got one of the things that got me into anime was the first Ghost in the Shell movie, and I'm one of the few people who likes the second movie. I'm actually probably more than the first, but it's going to be, I don't know, I think that's cool. I'm somewhat hopeful about the live-action show. I don't know what that's going to do, how that's going to go, but here's hoping it's going to be better than the Death Note live-action. Yeah, we can only hope. So go ahead to the final story here, a pretty crazy story to say the least. We always say how America's used in Japanese media kind of gets the kind of a bad angle. Well, you can say the same for the Philippines. The Philippines have banned child pornography, which wouldn't be, you know, so bad. I mean, banning child Friday, I'm all for it, you know. We don't need that garbage. What ticks me off is when they label things that are completely wrong. The Philippines have moved to ban all lolly porn or hentai, and it's wording a congressional statement, then describes hentai as the Japanese pornographic cartoon that depicts children in explicit sexual activity. Yeah, yeah, that's not the proper definition. Yeah, exactly. This isn't the Philippines, dude. They can do what the fuck they want. This isn't America. They just have a bad wording of it. It's my point. Let them do what they, you know, they don't have the same rage as Americans, and even then freedom of speech, go talk to frickin' Hanley, go to IO and talk to his house and tell you what he thinks about that. I don't think these things are correct, but yes, they're trying to do it, but since, you know, looking at it in the picture is kind of make you do it in real life. We said, yeah, so not just like this. That protect act. We got the same as that problem, which has been found, thankfully, parts of it, to be unconstitutional. Yeah. So, pretty crazy. Um, a bill banning this proneographic cartoon. Yeah, the worst part. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, the worst part is certainly that they labeled all hentai as this. I mean, I don't mean that bad. There's an inside. It's fairly good. Yes, but it's not good. No, exactly, but you know what? What do you expect? These are politicians, you know, they can't know everything. We can't know everything. Yes, they should do their homework, but they're probably just like in America. If we had parents screaming yelling, oh, that hentai, it's about children. It's terrible. And that's all the politician hears. They're going to just make the assumption. And plus, they're going to probably make it sound worse than it is. So they get the results they want. If you say, oh, well, the majority of hentai is for adults and it contains, you know, depictions of over the age of 18 adults engaging in sex, you know, whatever, even though you could say all the rape ones and this and that. But still, you know, if they came out and said, well, the hentai isn't that bad. No, they're going to come out and say, oh, that hentai is for children being raped. Oh, the kids. Think of the children. We need to ban it. No. You get my point. So, yeah, that is the news of the week. What is right? Not what is popular. Well, he's here with something done, man. I agree with you, but still, what can you do? It's another week, and the more DVDs are being released, what should you get? It's time for the Wheelie DVD Mix. Yeah. Beauty Mix and the Week. So, this week, we've got some good, good, good releases. Oh, wow, I would not agree with that. Okay. That's you. Evidently. Zaldar doesn't have one this week because he's lazy, doesn't know anything. Well, I do, but it's one that's not on that front page. Oh, there you go. Well, what is it? The new this week in anime for 11, 17, 2009, the Full Metal Alchemist movie, The Conqueror of Shambhala. Is that new, or is that just a re-release? It's on Blu-ray. Oh, there you go. Cool. And there's all the Neon Genius Evangelion Movie 1.01, which is coming out now. Oh, yeah. It's coming out pretty, what, two weeks, three weeks? Something like that, end of November. They said it was released on 11, 17. Really? Yeah. Oh. It's not on that first page. What's the difference between that and what I just think you is? I don't know that more here. Stop sending me stuff, damn it. You make blinging noises in your podcast. You jerk. Ah, you like blinging noises. So, so Evie Galian, there you go. Here's awesome Blu-ray and Blu-ray. Put it in your Blu-ray for you where the Blu-ray lives. Um, I personally would pick Special A's, a very fun show. Ooh, it could, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Kuja Biki on balance, plus the OVA. Some hot shit right there. We're gonna get some Yuri action and Princess Princess and some more little Snow Fury and some Marbleach. Hells, yeah. So Zodar's pick is that Full Metal Alchemist movie and mine of Special A's. So let's go ahead and just move on to... What's that? I have no idea what Special A's is about. It's a fun show about this girl who wants to be the best against this guy that she's grown up with. And everything she does, he's always better. Um, school gets better scores, she's always second. They wrestle, he always beats her. Just like anything he does. They do all these competitions and he always wins. It's just really fun. And I talked about that show, I think like episode two or three. Oh, good. That way before I came in. Yes, a long time ago. It's called Kissing the Special A's. So, yes, it is cool. So... Kedomo no Jikin. The show that you said you would kill yourself if you watched. And still... Yeah, I saw it on YouTube and I'm like, all right, it can't be that bad if YouTube allows them to put it up. And you know, I have to say you were actually right. If you can get past the first two episodes. If you can get past the really, really ridiculous, and it is really, really ridiculous, uh, slowly stuff, it does actually have a really, really decent plot. And it does look like there are reasons that the kids are the way they are. And it explores that in a very realistic way. And it doesn't, it's not at all saying it's good that the kids are this way. So, how far did you get? How many episodes in? I have watched the first four episodes. Okay, good. It's even better. And it's actually a very sad part to the show later on. Yeah, I mean, I figured out what happens to the girl's mother and I've kind of figured it out to the cousin that you're sitting with. There is not a great guy in some ways. Well, this is where you got to watch later. They explore that a lot more deeper and go into, like, his psyche. They go into his point of view and what happened. And you learn more about Rin's mom and, and, and, and, you know, the kid. And what's his name? Um, yeah, Coco. Oh, that's the other guy. Sorry. Um, Renji that you're not thinking of. You learn more about Renji. You learn more about Rin's mom. Um, so, uh, so basically if you don't know what McDonald's chicken is, it's, uh, what's that? Oh, yeah, go ahead. Follows the, I knew, and that's the other thing that's really good about it. Is it shows, at least for me, since I teach as well, kind of the death of a really, really, what could be a really, really good elementary school teacher, but who has to go up against some of the entrenched ways of doing things. And his, his loss of innocence to some way, and he's loss of, you know, I'm going to be a teacher and change the world. His growth and cynicism a good bit. And I think it does that really, really well that it shows, you know, he's there, he's trying, but it's just so hard because the kids aren't listening. He's principal, a dick, basically, and all that stress and what it does to him. I think it does that very well as well. But it follows a new teacher in elementary school and his, his, his, his class and focuses on three students, um, Rin, one of her friends who's incredibly wealthy and who likes to dress up in cosplay costumes and a younger girl who develops way too quickly. And it also really handles that, I thought, in a very well, a very good way as well. I mean, she's in third grade, she has breasts that look like she should be in high school, but it doesn't treat that as a, as a sexual thing. It treats it as this is really a problem. How do we deal with this? It's giving her psychological issues. And it goes through her younger, her friends helping her by a bra. And some of this, I think, is because it is actually written by a woman that it does this so very well, it's, you know, I really was afraid it was going to be like strike witches, where the entire point of the anime was, ooh, uh, third graders, panties. Yeah. Did you watch? And it did not. Was this super ass censored when you watched on YouTube? Yeah. Okay, you're watching the, the scent, you're watching the original TV then. They do, they did come out with the DVDs. They are totally unsensored. And I have been trying to get ahold of them because honestly, I would re love to rewatch this show because there's so much that gets cut out of this show. Not just the cooklorious panty shots because they do have them, but they actually cut out full. Oh, no, there's like, well, you've seen the scene. Well, maybe you haven't. Have I gotten to the points where they're just lifting their skirts up for Ioki? Right. Yeah. Okay. But I mean, they have all that. They sense their as it shows her character and how she looks at life and what she thinks about women and what women are for. Okay. Do you not notice the parts when they censor out into the entire fucking sentences? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. But I don't think it's, I wouldn't call it gratuitous. I mean, it's gratuitous. Instruments. Accenture. They share that show though. They do. They censor it. But you said it was gratuitous. It's not gratuitous, but they do censor it. Yes. Wow, you're dealing with it. So it's seriously though, when you get to the bottom line though, you're dealing with third graders. Yes, it is not real. But in the context of the story, you are dealing with third graders. I understand they got to censor shit. But what really gets to show a bad rap is to censor ship because they are full sentences, full spoken sentences for my character completely censored out. They censor out full scenes of not just nudity or just graphic fanservice. They censor out important parts of the series when they're discussing Rin's mother and her cousin and the relationship they shared. And I really hope I'm not spoiling this for you. Because this is such a good, I really think this is such an underrated show. Because, god damn it, Pepper, get down. I agree. This is such an underrated show because everyone looks at it. I mean, even if you watch the trailer, the trailer is nothing. But sexualized, they're eating ice cream cones, and they're doing it really seductively. The first scene is Ayoki walking into the room, and the girls are changing. And Rin is half naked. The first whole episode is nothing but Rin. The first two episodes really, in my opinion, are just to try to shock the viewer and say, look how far we can go. But then the real... Yeah, exactly. It got labeled incorrectly because I think you're right. I didn't. I looked at the trailer and was like, oh my god, this is sick. And it also, it came out at a bad time. It came out when they had just arrested an incredibly sick and evil pedophile in Japan, who turned out to be an elementary school principal. So it got all caught up in that. But really, I mean, they banned it basically from America. And it was a little bit old, they had planned to come with the manga. I can't walk. Yeah, they had actually made plans to bring the manga to America. And California, I think it was, got wind of what this manga was. And once again, because of the way they choose to portray this anime, honestly, it bit them in the ass, in my opinion. Because they portray this anime like, we're going to push the limit to where it can't go. We're going to be right on the line of what's decent and what's not. And in my opinion, a really, really, really good story gets missed. Because so many people, you know, like we've already mentioned, see this as some really sick, depraved show, where in reality, there's a very good story behind all the sexualized nuisance. And the other big thing is, you know, the story is a third grader falling in love with his teacher. What everyone feels to say is, nothing ever happens. They don't start messing around or anything like that. When they brought, when they were going to bring the manga over to America, they said, no, because it's not appropriate to be telling a story where a third grader falls in love with their teacher. That's why. And it's not like, I mean, as much as we want to maybe not admit it, this does happen. And this is something that teachers have to deal with. No, yeah, there's always students are like, I love my teacher. And some don't know how to, I guarantee you, if you were talking to teachers, if you asked them, has there ever been any times where a student has said, oh, I love you or brought you flour, you know, just something inappropriate in the relationship. And I guarantee almost every teacher would say, yeah, I've had a problem with, you know, maybe one or two students that have, you know, done something like that or got the wrong idea or, you know, it's part of growing up. You're learning about your sexual identity and who you are and what you think you know, especially when you're that young. I mean, I think the thing is, especially in America, people don't want to think that kids that young should know about that or understand those feelings or, you know, or even have them. Yeah, exactly. I mean, they do. Kids should be pure and innocent. It's the way America sees it. Well, they never have. But, um, no, like I've mentioned, I try to get as many people to watch this show. And I always say, just get past the first two episodes, get to the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh episode, it gets better. Yes, there's still some unneeded fan service and some things. But when you get past all that garbage, there's such a good story underneath everything. And I really think this anime shot itself in the foot by trying to portray something that that it wants to be, but it really isn't. I'm even up at once to be it. I mean, I do not think, I mean, the lady has said that she thinks American culture is a little bit screwed up. That's American culture, though. This is the center of the hell of it in Japanese. And they did that as of what had happened recently. You think it was that? But she said that, you know, wow, they think these things are wrong. I mean, in Japan, kids bathe with their parents and there's nothing sexual about it. And we used to be able to do that here. You can't do that anymore. Yeah, it's because sexual abuse. Exactly. But so there is some of that, but she in no way was trying to push the boundaries of what was real or what was allowed. I mean, strike which is was the one that was trying to do that. And they showed that in America. Yeah, I have information. Uncensored. I haven't watched uncensored yet. I'm attempting also to try and find it. I'm going to Netflix it. I'm going to Netflix it. On how bad it really is. Yeah, exactly. But it's both the pictures I have seen of the censored and the non-censored version. Okay. They don't even really show panties. They show bloomers. And that's like that bloomers are like swimsuits. I mean, there's not, you know, maybe in Japan, there's something sexual about bloomers, but there's not here. I don't find looking at women in bloomers, sexual. I mean, it looked almost completely just like what they use in Japan for Katie uniforms. So I do not get it at all. But there are a lot of things about the world that I don't get. So yes, I have to say I have been very impressed with it as an actual show. It's not at all titillating, but if you're going in for that, then there's something wrong with you. And if there's something wrong with you to begin with, yeah, you're probably going to find it titillating. But that's not the fault of the show. That's the fault of you. Yeah, well, I mean, like, I would say if you haven't seen it, check it out. It is actually worth it. Yeah, anyway, we can we can tackle this all day long. Let's just move on. Well, I would really honestly though, I want you to finish this show. I really want to get your opinion. Of overall, because there's so much more that they cover. That, you know, push the show a second. It is actually a second season. Well, it's more it's an OVA. There's just three OVA's. There's no actually second season. Okay, then call that a second season on me. I may not know what they're talking about. Yeah, so, um, yeah, this was this week's show, you know, just a few things to say before we close out the show here. Like I mentioned before, check out www.bonsaidb.com. Feel free to email us at bonsaidb. or excuse me at gmail.com. Yeah, at least we watch now. We don't hear about our viewers. I mean, you know, even if you think we suck, make your ass eggs. Tell us you disagree with me. And you think it's much as Komodo no Jenkins should be strung up. Hey, you know, let us know. I'd be interested to see what people. Yeah, review us on iTunes. We are on there, you know, all that fun stuff. So yeah, we'd love to hear from you. So until next week, this is Jalkoon saying, so, you know, this is Daniel saying, love each other or else. Oh, snap, you know, like, you use this real name. Crap. So yes, there you go. Until next week, thanks for listening. And yeah, have a good week.