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Today we'll be about the manga by Kana Kuenuki, School Zone. There you go. You can check out Otocastradio.com, and there's a Mangumi picture. You can click that and get more information. Or you can check out block talk radio, friend slash, Mangumi. And check out his past episodes. Either way, both ways I just mentioned bringing it to the same place. Pretty much. Yeah. But he isn't very consistent like we are. He's got like six shows. Well, I kind of did it. I kind of got grounded at one point and couldn't do them for a long time. So then I just stopped. So yeah, if we've had number 50. Yep. Next week we will be coming live from Madison, Wisconsin. I'll be going to GeekCon. We're going to get some bacon there. Some chocolate deep fried bacon. I don't know. Minnesota is more known for bacon. More than Wisconsin. Wisconsin is known for cheese. Oh wait. Yeah. That's right. I got them mixed up. That and I'll be visiting Chicago for a little while. So yeah. Sorry your accident made Minnesota sound like Wisconsin. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Look at the difference. I suppose you're right. Yes. So Wisconsin. Yeah. Yeah. So hopefully we're doing a live show on a Saturday, probably Saturday night with freaking Neo. I'll update the Autocast website and bondsab.com and when we're going to do that. It'll probably be an hour thing. Normal bonds they beat just probably with some con reactions and whatnot because it's a small con. There's no industry there. So I mean it's not like cause it's going to be news and notes from it. Unfortunately. Well not for that key con if you can. But I'll be getting interviews and whatnot and we'll be playing them at a later date. Meet up with my main man Kyle Herbert. Hey bear. Nope. Kyle Herbert. Oh different person? Different person. Oh. You are correct sir. It is? You are correct sir. We're also reviewing the year 2000. What do you call it? Harram comedy. Harram comedy. Whatever. Love Hina. I bought it a couple of weeks ago. I finally finished it up the other day. You can also read my written review at otocastradio.com. Ray. We're ready for that. Yeah. So let's go ahead and just get it right into the news. Okay. Okay. This week in Anime News. Brought to you by Anime News Network. Not too much again in the news. It's been a very slow couple weeks. It has. It has. Kind of boring almost. Yeah. Yeah. I mean all this stuff has been like Japan only. First one is a Japanese firm is offering to turn a company manual into a manga. And it also includes pamphlets and catalogs. Yeah. And from what you can see on Anime News Network it's actually pretty well drawn. Well yeah. Yeah. But still. You just want to know how to put the thing together. You know. Put the thing together with drama. Oh no. One of the sample images they have is like some guy recognizing something. And there's the lines in the background that mean it's an intense scene. Oh yeah. Oh I just remember this has to go here. Yeah. Part A, Part C. Oh crap. Fintech. A Tokyo based firm that has been making manuals for other companies since 1987 has launched a new manga manual service on September 20th. So this is a couple weeks old actually. So it started on September 28th. Instead of the traditional manual with text and diagrams. Fintechs which offers to draft an easy to understand manga. With its new manga day to Sakura manual service. It also offers to turn in pamphlets and catalogs and get this. Fliers and websites. Sales and promotional meds. I am going to make you see my company's legit and really you know. Hey angel investor. I have a hundred thousand dollars. Here's my manga flyer. Here's my manga sales and promotional material. And get this even after it says and promotional materials into either storytelling or four panel or four comma manga. Storytelling. I want to see if you want a hot dog standing like yes. Like something that might make an interesting scan nation. I guess. They have over 200 contracted manga creators. So that's pretty impressive in itself. At least I think. The company says they can deliver a 24 page monochrome manga in any desired art style in about 30 days. So. I want to have a key tomorrow style. Yeah. From the fifties. I want some geckycon manga. Make it all adult situation and adult themed. Or Hiro Otis style. You know they say flyers. What would you do if like a babysitting service like. My babysitting these service needs a kick in the pants. We're going to get a manga style. Oh no. I lost the baby. I just. Makes me like feels above. I can totally understand why they're doing this. I've worked in the printing industry for three and a half years. And. I can say at least from American standpoint. The printing industry is hurting bad. The invention of the internet. And digitalizing everything is kicking the crap out of normal print projects. Printing right now is doing what's called print on demand. Basically they have a portal website. That you can be like okay. What did you say you have a menu or something something like that. Something just static and you print it off 50,000 times. You can go on to the website. Imported in and the company will print it off for you. And they're really expensive printers that are like huge. And digital print on demand is like the big thing. But. Yeah. Overall you know. A lot of what my printing company did. Was a lot of not necessarily junk mail like you know direct mail. We did a lot of that stuff but now you know what the economy's crap. There's no need for it. And I think it's I guarantee you this is a worldwide thing. Not just in the States. So I'm thinking maybe these guys. The FinTech people are just thinking you know what could be our next angle to make something unique so we can keep printing on a paper. You know because everything is going digital. Well they've got a good idea too. Especially. I'm curious I'm pricing because honestly I'd want to do it just for something. Even if I was like you know this is for like older cast radio. Or like what's to say I really like the like an Xbox 360 manga. That'd be awesome. I don't know. An older cast employee manga manual. Not even a man. There you go. No sexual harassment of other employees. We're not working for you. We didn't know Echee. And no fan service. In manga for him. Keep language clean on older cast prime. Cello. Hey. Chado. We could all have like our own little manga characters. There you go. I've got a curious and pricing though. I would think it's not cheap because you know they got to the time. Even though it's 30 days. They still have to come up with drafts and all the other stuff. That goes into creating a manga. Of course they have to come up with an art style. They've got to pay the artist. Come over the character designs. Figure out the story. I don't know. I just wanted to see some real story. They said they can write a story for you. Yeah. Oh man. I want to see a McDonald's manga. Like the like the times of Ronald McDonald's. They can actually do their job right. Especially the ones that just are morons. Stick figures like this isn't manga at all. Yeah. But I mean looking at the stuff that they're showing on Anime News Network. I mean it looks really well done. Oh it does. It looks like something that somebody would upload to the internet. But probably won't be because it's an employee manual. I want to see some real life examples. I want to call one of these companies who hired them. What were you thinking? They said they could do it for manuals. What's easier? The three page manual is Ikea. What is Ikea? What is it like to manga? How to put your coffee table together? You want a 24? I dropped the leg of the coffee table out the window. The old son put the table together before an Akane Chan shows up for their hot dinner. We'll find out. I don't know. I think the three page manual is a lot better than the 24 page book. Have spikes, be you'll put together like a coffee table or something. I don't know. It's like you see somebody on the subway and you're like hey what's up? I'm like hey stop. I'm reading my employee manual. Yeah maybe I won't. That won't happen until now. It probably happens now. Do you have the employee manual? It's interesting now. It's like reading. No one wanted to read it before. They did it. They sexual harassed everyone. Now there's new manga. I have no one sexualized anyone. Thank you Fintech. Well in other news. Summer Wars, the Summer Wars life size Gundam statue wins an award. It wins a good design award. And Mamoru Josota's film wins Spain's Sid Hayes I think is how much it's pronounced. Josota's Summer Wars anime feature won the highest award within the animated section of this year's Sid Hayes film festival, which critics consider to be the most prestigious festival in the world for fantasy cinema. It's been three years since a Japanese work won the Spanish Festivals highest animation award. Not coincidentally Josota also won the Gertie for the girl who leapt through time. Ha ha I like that movie. And everybody else said it. And RJ and Neo said it was bad. Le Petite Dragon by French director Bruno Collette won this year's Gertie in the animated short category. While Panique Ovidige by fellow French director Stephanie Rous that Stéphane Aviere and Vincent Pattar won the children's animation category. In separate development, Green Tokyo Gundam Project's 18 meter tall, which is 59 feet for you Americans, life size Gundam statue won this year's one of this year's best 15 good design event. In Tokyo on October 1st, the robot statue stood at Tokyo's Tokyo Bay's artificial Odaiba island this past summer. That's not even a real island. That's a Megan's man made. Yeah. That's a artificial island. Hey, if you think of New Orleans, man, I need to be an Odaiba. Still, still looks cool though. I want to know. Okay, good design. I mean, yes. It's not easy to turn a 2D, flat, you know, object into a huge 3D moving monument sculpture thing. But seriously, why did they win? Why did they like the creator of Gundam be like, "Hey, I drew that. You just made it come to life. You win nothing." He gave them permission. All it takes is a phone call. Well, then I'm going to go get a phone call and make a statue of me. Or an email. No, somebody has to call you each other. It doesn't work the other way around. Damn it. I thought I was understanding, and I think it's really a shame they tore that down. I mean, like, seriously, there's so many Gundam fans around the world. Come on, it's been around for so long, you would think it'd be like a tourism thing. Well, there is a 130, er, there is a 130 scale mock-up substituted for the already disassembled Gundam statue. Here's how great it was. You're too late. Here's how great it was in 130th of the size. Yeah. So that's like human size, I think. There you go. It's six meters, no. It's two-thirds of a meter tall, so it's like two feet tall. It's like, take the picture of you stomping on it. Like, you're gone down. Yeah. I'm like, "Boy, take that Gundam. Human kick your ass." I've got to see this summer wars then. If it won the highest award for a fantasy film. And it's by the same person who made the girl who left her time, who left her time, which I thought was a good movie. RJ and Neil were, RJ's like, "Yeah, I gave it a seven out of ten." Huh. Well, in other crappy news, 'cause like I said, there's nothing worthwhile out here. British anime net dancer Becky Cruell gets a DVD in Japan. This is frickin' sad. That's so funny, though. So, um, there's this 14-year-old girl, British girl. And all she does on YouTube is dance to anime songs. It's not even good dancing. But apparently, if Niko Niko likes it, oh, it's a hit. Apparently it's gonna go so well. Of course, that's the YouTube of Japan. Yeah, I know. Or it's the anime YouTube of Japan. Yes. It's popular, though. Yes. I know. That's all that matters. That's all that matters to British people. It's popular. If she can make it on Niko Niko, she can make it anywhere. I don't think she wanted to go on Niko Niko, but I don't know. Well, yeah. You can see her live, too, at a stage event on October 25th and on camera. Of course, it's Aki Havara, the otaku capital of the world. And watch like six people show up and be like, "Fuck you, I'm not coming out of my house." Yay! I don't want your video a million times on Niko Niko. Did you look at our YouTube channel? It's like a bunch of creepy comments. Like I'm going to rape you. I'm going to rape you. There's only Japanese style. We got our own version of it. Oh, man. I don't know. Like it's just, you know, you think, you know how we always get chastised about, uh, this is a man. I understand from America's point of view. This part doesn't help the anime stuff in Japan either. Of course, it's going to be one of those really niche DVDs, so. But I guess, you know, if they can make an anime video about exercising, they can make a... DVD of... If they can make an employee manual, a manga employee manual, then I guess they can make a DVD of a British girl. Yeah, I guess so. I don't know. I think it's pretty stupid. I'm going to see her YouTube channel, so I guess I'm going to have to check it out at some point. Yeah. You want to go and take the last story? Yeah. A United States studio sues over old boy manga's adaptation rights, or animation rights. An American film development company is suing the Japanese publisher Futabasha and the creators of the old boy manga for allegedly selling the manga's animated adaptation rights twice. Futabasha published Gian Sujia and Nobuaki Minagashi's original old boy manga between 1996 and 1998. And the Korean studio show East produced Park Chan's... Park Chan Wook's live action film adaptation in 2003. According to the lawsuit filed in the Tokyo district court, the American plaintiff is asking for about $245.7 million, which is worth $2.74 million in compensation for its stalled adaptation plans. The plaintiff said that it had been signed an agreement for an animated adaptation rights with Futabasha and began production on the project in 2007 or 2008. The plaintiff further stated that the agreement borrowed the defendant from offering the animation live action drama or film adaptation rights to anyone else but the plaintiff for five years after the contract signing. However, the plaintiff alleged that Futabasha discovered that it had signed a conflicting exclusive agreement for film and animation adaptation rights with the Korean production company that made the 2003 film. As a result, the lawsuit said that Futabasha did not actually had the adaptation rights to offer the American plaintiff when they made their agreement in 2007 and 2008. The plaintiff said that it had to therefore halt production on its animated adaptation. Well, now this is just a stupid argument. Yeah, I read this and I was like, "Who the hell cares and who the hell is buying this to warrant a lawsuit?" You know, I think that instead of suing the, instead of suing Futabasha, they should be suing or they shouldn't even be suing. I don't understand, it's, they didn't have the adaptation rights, so therefore they didn't give them the adaptation rights. And the American company should have done a bit more research. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Now, the Futabasha probably also should have kept a little better track of their records. Yeah, you know, licenses and contracts are really important, how you write them up. Just a little bit. Just a tad. Well, we're going to go ahead and move on to our DVD picks of the week because that's all the news we got because there isn't much this week. I believe so. It's another week and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the weekly DVD picks. Alright. DVD picks. There's crap coming out this week unless you like more veto. Well, yeah, I really haven't anything that came out this week to pick. I want to know what this new fit, the new Fist of the North Star. Yeah, heard about that. I heard about it on a website that I can't mention on the radio. Yeah, I don't mention it, but yeah, what? Oh, whoopee-vis. I'm not saying I found it on Vis's side. I'm saying that if Vis ever catches wind on the site. Whatever. Okay, I can edit this out anyway. So I want to know what this is. Yeah, what is this? Like, what's so new about it? That's from the 80s films. I think it's a remastered HD version of Fist of the North Star. Well, it comes with a package with another show, though, called Neo Tokyo. What have you, bring up the big picture? It says the first time ever all three action pack adventures on one DVD. But the original Fist of the North Star is like a 108 episode or something like that. I think in maybe these are like OVA's. Yeah, I think it's probably OVA's. Okay, I know there is the Fist of the North Star OVA movie. And I think there is another OVA series called she and Fist of the North Star. I haven't watched any of them, so I'm kind of dumb. I started to watch the movie, but I didn't really like it. You gotta be into the whole blood and guts and the action. When I punch you in the face, your head is going to explode off. You know, kind of over the top, manly action. I just couldn't get into it. Well, I just think it's too. I just don't like it. It's kind of dumb. Yeah, it's kind of a simple vibe. It's like the stupid action movies that are way over the top with violence and stuff. It's like, all it is is like, oh my God, they're fighting. You know, another in a car chase scene and explosions. Yeah. Well, I kind of like action movies. The Fist of the North Star thing just doesn't do it for me. Yeah, it probably has the OVA's movie or something like that. Okay, well, I'm not picking anything this week for a release because there's nothing worthwhile. Well, I mean, I have a DVD that I recently stumbled upon actually last night. It didn't come out this week. But it's actually the first time I ever saw the series or in a high school host club. What? I have not seen that series until last night and we watched the first DVD at the anime club that I go to. And I thought it was hilarious. So I tried watching an episode of it in Japanese. And I actually had to say... Oh, the dub is so much better. What? The dub is so much better. It is. The dub is so good. In the Japanese version, they all sound like pretty boys. But in the English dub, they sound like... Wow, they're supposed to be all pretty boys. But yeah. But yeah, it's completely different like in the English dub because you get the... You understand like if they're being sarcastic or you understand... Yeah, I think the dub does much better than watching in Japanese just because... You know, if you listen to in English, you understand the subtleties of what's going on. Yeah. I really love Tomoki and... Yes. And Kyoya is hilarious. And uh... We just did Kyoya. J. Michael Chatham. Yeah, I know. So yeah. He was really good. Yeah. I sent an email to him saying... Like OMG, I just saw it in a high school host club. And he was like so totally awesome. Good job, yo. And then he was like stop emailing me. Stop emailing me. You're creepy nerd. Yes. Awesome, man. Watch it. It's so good. I own the first box set, but they brought it out in two different box sets. Part one, part two. And they're both like 60 bucks a pop. It's pricey. I got my first box set back when Best Buy was selling off other anime at half price. So I got it for cheap for like $39. It was still like the most expensive item out of the five or six things I bought that day. Wow. Yeah, it's still not cheap. But Auron is a must watch show. But I've tried to people who hate it. And I'm like how can you hate it? It's so funny and clever. And like all the voice actors are like freaking perfect for the role. I love that. The twins are my favorite. That and Honey Senpai. That was Honey's hilarious. I think like a lot of people of the anime club were like OMG they like totally butchered Honey's voice. And I'm like no, I think they got this downright because I watched the Japanese version and Honey just does not sound as cute as he's supposed to. Yeah. He sounds like Pikachu after like a really rough night after Pikachu and bar hopping. And you know found a couple girls at a club or something. You got super AIDS. And then he got mono. But yeah, that's freaking hilarious. That is so awesome. I love, I recommend Auron to anybody. Me too. Have you, what's going to get right into the review of Love Hino then? Oh, I'm sorry. What would you, so you wouldn't even recommend anything this week? Uh, no. No, yeah. That's Auron. If you haven't watched it already, but most of the world have. Yes. Very true. My nephew, like the Power Rangers. And I did this on a birthday where he had all his friends around. They were like Green Ranger. I was like let me show you the real syntax. I'm going to show you the episode where Green Ranger actually dies. And they were sitting there looking. A couple kids started crying. They were like Green Ranger everybody. And the parents were like where are you showing our kids? The Anime World Order podcast. Not suitable for children, because the truth hurts. Visit us online at www.animeworldorder.com. Wow. They may be old, but they're not forgotten. It's long lost anime. I need to break it out twice in three weeks. Yeah. Anime World Order? Fucking Epic Podcast. Fucking Epic. If you've not heard the AWO podcast, watch it. I think that-- I think that-- listen to it. I think that clip needed subtitles. Yeah. That guy doesn't exactly speak perfect English, but no. The old timers of anime, that was from last year's Oticon from 2008. They got to interview him again for this year. Best interview I've heard. They're so interesting. Listen, these guys started watching anime in the '60s and '70s. Oh, wow. And they have a really respected anime club. And it's just a great listen. But, yeah. AWO, big shout out to them. Great podcast. I even own a hoodie with the AWO logo on it. [laughs] I've been contemplating repping that at the DeekCon going, "Hey, here's my business card, but let me just hide this shirt I'm wearing." Well, yeah. So, yeah, check out WWE. Anime World Order. Pretty good. Pretty good listen. I tell you what. Moving on. Love, Ina. It came out in the year 2000. And, uh, yeah. So, long-lost anime is anything nine years or older, you know, but the world of anime, man, it's huge. Stuff from 10 years ago. Uh, I know, okay, I'll give you a good example. Like, uh, Neo from Otocast Prime. He has another show called American Otaku. Someone emailed him and said, "Why don't you review older anime?" He gave a really good example. There was 40 new anime's this season alone. Times that by 9 or 10 or 12 years. Yeah. That is a ton of anime. And a large majority of anime is garbage. Yes. So. A lot of it is a lot of it sucks. So, people get mad when we don't review old stuff because it's all crap. I try to review everything, but I mean, I have limits on what I want to watch. I mean, like, I watched a big robot anime called Z-Mind. You can listen to that episode. That was episode 48, I believe. Uh, that is now my official worst anime I've ever seen. And one of my favorite reviews I've ever done. [Laughs] Um, but I mean, like, I try to watch everything to a point. I mean, I'm not going to watch something. Yeah. Just to watch it and then waste my time because I've got a life too. [Laughs] Hey, you know what? I got a job yesterday. Good job. I have a job now, now I have a life again. My year-long hiatus of not working. I need a job. Yeah, well, you're young yet. Anyway, let's move on to the review, shall we? Have you seen Love Hina? Um, no, because I heard stories about it on my school bus when I was in seventh grade. And at that point, I decided that I was never going to watch that anime or read that at manga. That's funny as hell. I heard stories on the school bus. What fucking bus were you on, damn? Um, the one with the perverts. [Laughs] I was on the sick bus. There you go. Okay, well, Love Hina is the first, basically, pretty much a comedy harm from the year 2000. And the story is very, very simple. A boy makes a promise to a girl when they're both really young that they will go to Tokyo University together and their life will be perfect. Flash forward several years. I would say about 15 years. Um, Kataro has sailed his entrance exams twice for Tokyo University. [Laughs] And has now been given the roles manager to an all-girls apartment by his grandmother. There are several characters who make appearances in every episode. But Kataro and Naru are the two, quote unquote, main characters. There are some sexual tension between the two that everyone else knows about. And let's see, and everyone knows that they're made for each other. But Kataro is too much of a thick-headed guy to really put two and two together. And she's a quick-to-temper girl. The other girls in the house are really being more there as secondary characters and really episode filler. Let's see. Okay, so the characters are really kind of, they kind of have their own little stereotyping on niches. There's an underage girl who's an Indian. She's like in middle school. Wow. Yeah, but she's like, uh, she's like a genius. But she always runs around and she's crazy. Like her room is like a jungle. [Laughs] Her name is Sue. And they're actually given quite a few different episodes and she kind of has her own little back story. So her name is Sue, who's a smart genius, but she's really weird and she's really hyper. You know, she's very much a kid at heart because she is a kid. Um, then there's another age girl named Shinobu, Shinobu, who's a really good cook. And she's like madly in love with Kataro. And that was also in junior high. She's in the same class as Sue. And there's my resume. She's from America. She's a thick southern accent. But she likes to party. And often disregards the feelings of others or fails to mention key important things just to make everyone else kind of run around with their head chopped off for the entertainment aspect. Finally there is Matoko, who gets a lot of stream time. She's like this really, really gifted swordswoman who's supposed to inherit a school of martial arts or something. And she doesn't think she can do it. So she kind of runs away to this apartment to kind of get away from everything. So yeah, then there's Naru, who's like your typical girl. She's quick to temper. She's like always punching Kataro. And she's nice and all, but she's really, like I said, really quick to temper and jumps to conclusions a lot. There are 25 episodes in this anime. And honestly, 97% of this anime is freaking slice of life stuff. Only until the very last two episodes are they really actually like moving the freaking plot forward between Kataro and Naru. Like everyone says their story is like a love story, but it really isn't. A lot of the stories are like we're all going to go to the beach and have a good time. And then something might happen that slowly move the relationship of Kataro and Naru together. And then there are some other characters that you meet along the way that impact things here and there. But I'm not going to bother getting into them whether you watch the show and meet them. So, Kataro being the only male lead in the show, he's a well meaning and often goes out of his way to help his friends. But he's really thick headed to love and relationships and really to any of the girls advances. He always thinks of everything he can do by him and he always thinks he can always do everything by himself. You never ask for help when he needs it. Again, a very very generic stereotype. Of course. His character starts to wear on you after a while though. There's also a lot of physical humor and really unrealistic hits. For example, Kataro always gets beaten up by somebody. Like he'll be punched through a wall or he'll be punched from the ground and fly all the way up into a roof and then fall off the roof and hit the pavement. And the pavement will have an indent of his body. But then he'll just get up like, oh, okay, I'll punch. And it's constant and it's funny for the first few episodes. But once you start watching it, it happens every episode. And it seems like that's the only thing the writers could think of is like, how can we make this more funny? Oh, how about we have someone punch him again? Let's punch him harder this time. Yeah. And overall, I find this anime really fun to watch. But I don't understand why I have such a following. So I spoke to a couple friends who have watched anime a lot longer than I have. And they said it's more one of those nostalgic things. Apparently Love Hina was the first show in the comedy harem genre. So this is like the first thing of the entire genre. And then it also has to deal with about when it came out in America. It came out in the year 2000, not much. You know, the bubble wasn't quite there yet. You know, companies weren't releasing stuff hand over foot just yet. So there was not a lot of anime to choose from. I guess this is one of the better shows at the time. And people just tend to remember it and how much they liked it at the time. So let's see. There wasn't much out yet. Yeah, like I said, there wasn't much. When I purchased this about two weeks ago, three weeks ago, I paid 40 bucks. And this is like a re re re re release. I mean, this show has been released numerous times. Box ads and Viridian collections and this and that and the other thing. So I mean, it's still going for 40 bucks. Obviously, someone's buying it. Well, yeah, fangirls. Yeah, apparently. The show overall is a mixed bag. Like I mentioned before, a lot of the show is sliced alive. And for a show that's 25 episodes, it gets old quick and really out of the whole show, there are some movements on the Kataro-Naru-Naru relationship, but honestly, not enough for my taste. The use of physical violence is funny at the start, but it's used so frequently that it quickly becomes unfunny. And it's just kind of there. There's no reaction to it. If you watch the show, like Ayoriashi, in my opinion, that show does a much better job at the slice of life/love harem comedy that this show tried to be. It shares many of the traits, if not an almost identical duplicate of Love Hina, but it takes a more direct approach and a more serious look at the relationship that's being built in Ayoriashi. Where the Love Hina main plot of the story almost seems to take a back seat because there's just so much slice of life that it's kind of intertwined and they have to quickly bail out at the last second and finish off what the whole point of the story was. There are some good points of the show, though. If I buy a DV, I watch an English dub. I don't want to watch in the Japanese. This English dub was really good. The artwork was really nice, and there's a lot of fan service. But not so much fan service that's over-the-top, say, Strike Witches or other really itchy-filled shows. But it's enough that you kind of don't expect it but you kind of do. There's five or six different girls in the house, and they're all wearing short skirts, so obviously there's going to be some. My final comment on this show, yeah, exactly. My final comment on this show, I love Hina, is you should rent it. Either you're going to like the first disc and want to continue watching, or it's going to quickly wear on you and you're not going to want to finish the show. And that's the way it was. Like, when I bought this, I watched the first 12 episodes in one sitting, and it was enjoyable. It was just something fun to watch. You didn't need to get super involved in the story. No, it's a slice of life when you get down to it. So they also have a couple OVA's. I've yet to watch. That's kind of why I bought this DVD set was two years ago for Christmas. My brother bought me the Love Hina movie collection. So I've had them sitting in my anime shelf for the last two years, and I've been able to watch them because I didn't see the main TV yet. So yeah, that's Love Hina on a nutshell. It's fun. It's a good watch, but overall, I would just say rent it. Unless you know you're going to like the, you know, the genre. So that is Love Hina for you. Yay. Yay. So... Well, that was an interesting review. Got any questions about it? Hmm. Well, if you had to rate it, what would your rating be then? I would probably say a six out of ten or a five out of ten. Like it's not horrible. It's like, it's mediocre. Yeah, it's just kind of there. And it's like Evie Gallian. It's like what? Because reading like my anime list, the show, you know, people can review it. Oftentimes you see, oh my god, this is my favorite anime show. Oh, it's so great. Do you watch it? Yeah. And it's not that great. But I've watched, maybe it might be because I've watched other shows in the genre before this that were better done in my opinion. But, um, and this is all my opinion. And watch it and email us at bondsib@gmail.com and, you know, put us a task. You know, I want to hear your guys' opinions because I don't see why this show gets such a, such a good following. And like I said, I bought it for forty frickin' dollars. A nine year old show. I mean, how many enemies? They're nine years older, a long or older, that you have to go buy practically at a brand new price. Not very many. Uh, indeed. Yeah. So yeah, I would probably say a five or a six at best. I mean, it wasn't terrible. It was just kind of there. But nothing does, like, super draw you in and, like, make it memorable. So, let's see. Yeah, it's about forty-five minutes. So, check out bondsib.com. There you'll find show notes and past episodes and our catalog of what we've reviewed and all that fun stuff. Still working on the site. Still running up show notes from past episodes. And I'm really lazy about that lately. Have you shared our interview with J. Michael Tatum? Uh, it is on our iTunes feed. Ah. It has been downloaded about fifty times, which I'm actually surprised. And it hasn't been downloaded more. But it's weird. Our Johnny Young Bosch interview has only been downloaded about seventy-five times. Wow. Wow. Like our Takahata 101 has done about five hundred downloads. But it's been, like, a month since then. No, it's been like three months since then. And it's crazy. But that was a thing, though. It seems like any interview we do, we always have, like, a base amount of people we always get downloads from any of our episodes typically. Yeah. But then, like, if we do an interview, like, a month later, like, out of the blue, their numbers will just skyrocket. Like, I had a, uh, I had an episode. I used the comeback of this constantly. And if you're a listener, a listener of bondsib, I apologize. I had an episode that was, I reviewed a Hentai called Marinay, a go go. Just a simple Hentai review. Nothing sexual about it. I wasn't being, like, in the sex scene, they did this. No. It was just a Hentai review. And it did our normal download rate. And then all of a sudden, for, like, three months straight, it did gangbusters. I've got about a thousand downloads off that episode alone. Wow. Yeah. Just for a simple Hentai. Um, it's like our Vigminyana interview, except it skyrocketed overnight from 32, or, no, it was like 50 live listeners to the next day, it was at a thousand listeners. That's awesome. So, yeah, we'll be doing another Hentai episode down the corner. 'Cause I watched a couple Hentai's. I watched one called, um, Cosplay Sex Machine. It's a shape-shifting girl that can turn her, she can become anybody you want, basically. And then all she has to do is have sex with you, and she lets you. Thank you, Steve. Yeah. Well, you won't see me on that show. Sorry, but I'm an innocent person. Yes, you're underage. The age of 18. So, yeah, there'll probably another episode of Hentai, 'cause I know Zoldars into the Hentai stuff too, so probably episode, I don't know, '69, or the obligatory one, I don't know. Oh. Yes. I don't know. We'll get to it when we get to it. Oh, I should have bought you and Zoldars some of those Hentai dolls. No, thank you. And I would have a picture of me burning it. I do not collect figurines or any of that crap. You would do Zoldars. There you go. He may like it. He may have a three-way with him. But, yeah, next week we will be at GeekCon. I plan on bringing my mixer and my netbook, and should be able to do the show. I'll probably do the show possibly from the floor, or my hotel room. I don't know yet. They have a, uh, bring your own computer for land gaming. I'm out. Land party. Yeah, it's one big land party. I'm going to help them set it up because I work in IT, so I offered to give them a hand. So I'm going to see about snagging the spot, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure about the layout and whatnot yet, so. Either way, I will be next Saturday night, probably around eight o'clock or nine o'clock at night. Check out bonsaib.com again. I will get everything updated and a schedule of events and what I plan on covering in the next couple of days, whenever they get around to spring out the complete schedule of all the panels. So, uh, I'm really excited though. It's my first ever con. Yeah. Excited. Well, I hope you have a good time. Well, I'm pretty sure I will. I'm really excited now. I was really disappointed early, maybe a month or two ago. Yeah. Because all they had was like religious stuff, it's like, does God exist? What? They've got like four panels on religion, and they've got like 14 panels on cosplaying. Like, how do so? How do so characters? They got one on MMOs, but they got a couple things that are pretty interesting. They've got one on, um, Fruits Basket. They've got another interesting one called Otaku 101, which talks about beginning and end of beginning and end of getting into anime and whatnot. Um, and then they got another one. I don't know if they're just showing videos. I don't know the name of it, but they show you how to like hack the family common stuff. It's some YouTube series, and it's a panel on this show, but I just don't know if they're just showing episodes from the show or, or if these are the actual people because the actual people will show the show on YouTube are from Japan. But I don't know. But uh, check out autocastradio.com. There you'll find Freak's show, Mangumi. Check him out. Check him out this week. Yeah. Check him out tomorrow, day and night. Oh, so this won't get released until Sunday. So let's see. So yeah. If you hear this, you probably already missed them unfortunately. I'll try to get this out quicker. There's actually probably won't need much editing. Maybe not. Maybe I'll get it out tonight then. Blah, blah, blah. Yes. I'm sure enough to edit that out again. So this is Jellacoon saying thank you again for listening. Hopefully Zaldar will be back next week. If not, he'll be replaced by the almighty Neo. Or me. Or him. That man, Gumi, man, Freak. Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. What the hell? It's just practicing voices. No. No. Yes, sir. Now until next time, this is Jellacoon saying thanks for listening. And this is Freak saying goodbye, everybody.
Freek from Mangumi joins Jellokun this week as they discuss the latest news from around the anime universe and then a review of Love Hina