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[LAUGHTER] Yes, we do have a fun-filled episode for you. I'm just still reeling from the middle school girls and panties introduction. Yeah, that also helps if I-- let's see, press record on a dash V2. Well, you know it does, but-- Fortunately, it's still there. OK, and we also get to talk about somebody changing their high school uniforms for to the match the lucky star uniforms to boost tourism. Yeah, OK. Gee, that can't end up badly. No, no, not at all. No. So have you been watching anything lately? Oh, most recently, just been watching fairy musketeers. Yes, I know. I'm sick on Crunchyroll and finishing up watching the second OVA of what it was that I reviewed last week. The show's title I've never forgotten. "Bought when they cry from eBay." So looking forward to that, if you don't haven't heard of when they cry, basically low-lives that kill each other. It's going to be very entertaining to review once I watch it again, I think. Volley death for the win. Oh, yes, then I've been watching the rest of El Hazar. That was the one I didn't remember in the first sand. Excuse me. I finished up corridor yesterday. I marathoned episode 5 through 25 in about a day and a half. Like yesterday, I went from 15 to 25. It's just the show. It must be nice not having a job. Oh, it's great. Yes. I love the fact that I've lost my home. I have a nine-month unemployment gap in my employment history. It's great. I highly recommend everyone to losing their job. We had all this time to watch anime, though. 10 episodes in a day. I know. Oh, yeah. Also finished Lucky Star. And finished Kion. Yeah. Did you cry at the end of Kion? Kion? Oh, yeah, that episode was boring. episode 13 was just kind of thrown in there, I think. I don't know. It was just there, and it was just really random. I don't know. I haven't seen it. I just know that it's supposed to be sad from what I have heard. Are you smoking? No, it's not. It's a little slice of life with nothing sad about it. It's just what I've heard, so I have not something I have seen. But yeah, I finally finished "Tora Dora." It's a show that was on during the winter of last year, winter 2008, that it aired. And it's just a show I started and liked, just kind of dropped it. And I got bored, and I was like, yeah, I've got it sitting around. I just watched the damn thing. So I did, and I liked it with a really good show. I'll have to review it in one of these days. Sounds like it. Indeed. But today we have Hintar. Yeah. Hahaha. I'm going to be doing a review of Cleavage, the two episode OAV. Of course, Hintar isn't OAV. But yes, is it worth buying? You can get it now on rightstuff.com. But stuff with 1F for $18, so hey. OK. OK. OK. OK. This week in Anime News, brought to you by Anime News Network. Yeah, Anime News Network. Yes. Um, some across front here. It's the ethical film has been confirmed. Dun, dun, dun. Woo hoo. More on the cross. More on the cross. More on the cross. More on the cross. Hey. Stupid firefox. Um, so the official McCross website has confirmed that there will be two theatrical McCross frontier films. The second issue of Katakawa's Show 10 McCross, H Magazine. Yeah. You know, Magazine just for, you know, McCross. Hey. They confirmed that there will be one on November 21st. Under their name of McCross frontier, Itsu, god damn it. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. No. Itsuari. He may. Yeah. McCross frontier Merck's the 25th anniversary of the studio news classic anime franchise that combines transforming robotic mecca and love triangles and interplanetary war. All your three anime food groups in one group. No fan service, but so no dessert, but you know, hey, yeah. Story is good enough. I'll let it slide. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You mean Nakata's chubra manga gets greenlit. This is what we were hinting at in the intro that I horribly butchered. I need to write that shit down. The July issue of comic high magazine. I cannot talk tonight. I'll take over there. Yeah. The July issue of comic high magazine will announce on Monday that an anime adaptation of Yumi Nakata's chubra manga has been greenlit. I love that name chubra. Yes. Chubra. Well, it's appropriate in an entirely I'm sure non in intentional English way. Yes. The magazine is going to provide one production sketch of the character Naiyu Hai Amma and we'll say that more information will be provided in future issues. So run out and buy all the magazines now. Yes. The publisher Futubasha describes the manga as middle school girls times underwear equals slightly H girls comedy. Okay. So you're describing it as in having middle school girls and having H girls comedy. And this is after you the rest of the world has told you you need to stop selling some of the games you make and you're doing then you think this is a good idea. I just thought the same thing. I thought the same thing of like, wait, well, this doesn't have anything to do with rape though. Well, true that hopefully, but still, the, and I guess we'll have to get to that story now. So we've had hinted at it, but well, we'll do that in a second though. Yep. Okay, the story sent around the line of middle school girl. I am. Go ahead. Push over the edge. I'm like, get on my way. Basically, it's this middle school girl who wears Lacey Black underwear and she wants to spread the word of the merits of that kind of underwear via get this, the underwear club. Why in the fuck does a middle school have an underwear club? I don't know. This sounds like one of those show in the education club. I don't know. I don't know. I watched one episode and then like, kill myself for watching the one episode. Yeah, no, I don't think I could watch one of these. It would be, uh, I would feel way too dirty afterwards, but I don't know. I've decided that I guess that it could be somewhat useful as a way for parents to talk to their children about their changing bodies, but, you know, why surely Japan doesn't have a problem doing that is sexualized to their culture is. Yeah. So I don't know. Under that, um, uh, I don't have it, uh, yes, that's a perfect lead in, isn't it? Yes. Um, but basically I don't have it in front of me. Do you the, the rape reaction? I, I remember the story. Okay. So a feminist group, I won't say a feminazi group, but we already know this part. We already know that like, Hey, people like America was like, Oh my God, there's rape games in Japan. Oh my God, this is a feminist group, actually got found one of them found a game called rape. Oh, no, no. Yeah. That's old news. That about it. Yeah. So they have, so based on that, they have a computer game moral group, which I find out of five, hilarious in and of itself, came out and basically said you need to stop making these. Uh, Japan got kind of all ticked off and studio menori, which developers of the fairly infamous eight game elf, a fairy tale of the two, which is so infamous. I have never heard of it, uh, evidently blocked foreign visitors to their site. Yes. And they tell us in, in broken English, uh, why, why they do currently that a bit, a bit, a bill that allows to limiting the content to all erojis is being discussed in the diet, because intellectuals and politicians said, Japanese eroj were being problem and troubled with the foreign country. Therefore, we should make eroj hidden away from foreign country. And also as content should be limited and censored. Okay. Now we trusted the word what they said at once. So we blocked you to make stay away from the trouble. Do you like that? Yes. And the, the official message was this, if you go, if you try going to there outside Japan, so if you're not, if you're not pro, using a proxy server or anything like that kind of way, you'll get a message with the message cannot be browsed, excluding Japan. Some foreigners seem to seem to be having an apathy against ergo. Therefore, we've prepared prohibited access from foreign countries to defend our culture. Sorry for you, the fan that lives in a foreign country. So Japanese culture evidently, the protected Japanese culture includes raping children. Okay. Yeah. Maybe I need to stop doing this hobby. Yeah. Maybe I need to stop respecting Japanese culture. Wait a minute. Yeah. I'm giving them money. Yeah. No. I'm sorry. Yeah. Anyone know something? I'm just going to say, I, like, you know, ANN has their forms. Um, Daryl Sarat of the Anime World Order Podcast had a really good mess. I had a really good post, and I'm going to go ahead and read a little bit of it. It's kind of long, but basically says, in quotes, to defend our culture. And then he goes on to say, to defend our culture, what? I don't realize that porno computer games and the central aspect of rape, um, games were a central aspect of Japanese society, clearly us uncultured foreigners simply cannot comprehend the glorious Nepons ancient and time honored tradition of kitty rape simulators. And yeah, I, he kind of like just wraps it up in a neat little bow and says, Hey, you know, I, I looked at his comment and was like, Wow, that really says a lot. And, yeah, I'm, I just don't understand. I mean, yes, maybe they should have a right to do it, but I, you can make an argument that it makes people more likely to do stuff. Well, I want to say, I don't know that's that regardless, but also there's got to be limits. I mean, if you're into that sign of stuff, hey, more power to you, but do you really need to get the kids involved? I don't think so. I don't know. I think this is going to be an issue that just going to go, you know, basically what everyone really wants. So it just, they just wanted to be out of sight, out of mind. You know, I think that's the bottom line is people are just like, you know what, just get rid of it. And if you don't have access to it, okay, but I mean, this has been a whole thing with Japan where they don't have child pornography laws. So, you know, the big top nine group countries are like, Hey, Japan. Yeah, you're the only one without child porn laws. You might want to get on that. So, you know, just another rock being thrown in their direction, you know, to say, come on, get with everyone else, I guess, I don't know. And some encouraging news, U.S. anime sales dropped only 2% from Q1, 2009 versus Q1, 2008. And that is huge because Q1, '08, the very essence of just the recession starting was just kind of laying its found work. I mean, it wasn't so impactful like it is now. It wasn't as nearly devastating and whatnot. And it's really, really neat to actually hear that, you know, overall anime sales only dropped 2% when you think of, you know, $30 to $40 discs and, you know, they had a report from 2007 to 2008 that overall anime dropped, you know, what was it, 11% from, you know, 2008 to 2007. So, I mean, this is even better than, then, so, some other notes that kind of came out about the ICV2 rental retail, or not rental retail news source reports that, you know, anime dropped only 2% in the first quarter of 2009 versus the first quarter of 2008, like we said. Funimation has 40% of the market share now in an anime, which is not surprising. I'm actually surprised it's not more, but, you know, not a good thing since most of the anime they have is not the kind of stuff, the kind of interesting, you know, like stuff that I like. Well, not just that. But, you know, my favorite company went out of business, so, I guess, my anime tastes are so in line with the rest of the countries, but. Well, no, but it's because they have picked up, you know, Jenny on titles that they got their market share increased. I mean, they grabbed almost everything last year at last year's anime expo. They announced that they were picking up all the titles that had begun to air, you know, like a good show I liked with Karen, you know, Funimation picked up the ball and was like, "Hey, we're going to release this now for you." You know, we only released three titles under three volumes under Jenny on, and then Funimation came and got it. Yeah, but are they going to going to still license new material that is of that same quality? Or are they just going to look for the next Naruto or the next bleach? No, Funimation has been picking up all kinds of crap. They've been getting stuff left and right. They've been, well, only one's been reaping in an interesting style. I know, I know, but they have, but are they going to license stuff like what Jenny on would have licensed, or are they going to only license the more mainstream this will sell to three million people, a kind of anime? And that's, to me, that's a good question, but I, you know, that's something I can't answer. You can't answer. That's not, and I also think the reason the sales are going so, you know, 2% is not that much. You know, I would have liked to see a increase, but you know, it's a recession. Sorry, look at where the thing is being released now. Everything is box sets. Everything is part one, part two, you know, there's no more, I mean, there is out there, and I look at bachino, bachino is being released in singles, but I mean, like, overall, clonade, you know, season one, part one, season two, or season one, part two, you know, more and more box sets are being released, that's a complete series, rather than, let's re-release the singles or the Viridian collection from, from ADV and whatnot, you know. And so, I think that's a really big, really good thing too, because, I mean, like, people are, I think, you know, this time last year, they were just talking about, I believe it was Gurun Lagann was going to be one of the first titles to actually do this, and it seems like the entire industry has come and, you know, did the same thing. We're going to stop releasing singles, stop, you know, charging $30 to $40, we'll charge you $70, you know, usually it's $69, you know, $59 to $69 for a complete box set, you know, so. And I also think, to some extent, it's the most, I've seen most of the people who are into anime, unlike myself, are fairly financially solvent, and either are not going to be affected by a recession as much or are going to find some way to buy it if they are, because it's almost, it's almost an addiction, even for me. Well, I almost wonder too, though, I mean, look at, um, uh, Funimation, and all there, the stuff they're putting online, look at Hulu, maybe, I want to, and I do think that is definitely. Yeah, that, you know, you don't have to pay anything. Exactly. Um, do you think that that's hurting or helping? I mean, I would almost think it's helping. Um, I think we're getting more things because I don't think something like Fairy Musketeers would have ever been brought over here in a DVD format. So I think we're getting more things than we would get now. I think eventually we're probably going to go to a DVD less society and we'll be downloading things and things. Wow. I say no to that. There's always going to be a physical media because people want to collect them, people want to have them, people want to hold on to them. It's going to probably be a generational thing, but I mean, I don't buy American TV shows anymore. I just download them or I watch them on Hulu. And I think, I mean, if you, as long as I can have the file, I think that's all I'm going to care about eventually. Yeah. I'm not going to care about having an actual box. No, and I don't want to get into the merits of, you know, you know, physical versus digital. No, I totally understand. And I totally agree. The problem with digital is DRM, DRM is the number one biggest thing. I mean, yeah, what's it say you download the entire season of One Piece, but one day five years down the road, Viz says, Hey, we can't make money anymore. We're shutting down. Well, you know, it's the same as the MSN music store. People who downloaded all this stuff from the MSN music store, Microsoft took all their DRM servers offline saying, Hey, we're not going to do this anymore. Well, it turned out all those MP3s are useless. And that's a big kind of, you know, kind of thing. Right. They would, they would have to find some way to make it so you couldn't make a copy of it and get someone who hasn't paid for it. But on the other hand, but at the same time that you could still play it 20 years down the road. Yeah. Seeing that's the thing, DVDs, you can do that right now. Unless you're the most person in the flames or something. Right. So I don't know, though there will have to be an answer to that. Yeah. That's going to be. But I mean, I actually really think that this is something really cool that it's such a small amount because, you know, over the last year we've seen, or the last two years, we've seen, you know, Jenny on go under. We've seen the rise of anime from a distribution point on the internet, you know, two years ago, even a year ago when I, when we started this podcast, it was Japan was still scared of bringing, you know, letting stuff be simulcast. Funimation is now simulcasting, you know, first run shows, Crunchyroll's, you know, well, sometimes I'm just taking some of them off, but yeah, well, that's neither in here nor there though. But, you know, Crunchyroll, you know, is simulcasting or, you know, streaming very quickly, first run shows, and they're addressing a lot of what anime fans have been saying. Why they, you know, why they pirate, you know, why they download the fan subs. So we'll see here next year, I'm really curious to see if they break it down again here for quarter two, quarter three, quarter four for 2009 versus 2008, and then an overall, you know, 2009 versus 2008, because of the recession and whatnot, I'm actually willing to go on a bet and say, I'm looking forward more to 2010 versus 2009, because, you know, everyone is saying, oh, it's supposed to end in 2010, you know, maybe I think things will be better. Who knows. Yeah, either of us are economists. No, exactly. But I mean, I think we both can say, holy crap, 2%, wow, you know, yeah, that is definitely true. And it's amazing. The thing about that, though, it also includes manga DVDs and whatnot. So it's, it's not just DVDs. It's not just manga. Oh, and I just remember to do this. The top 10 properties overall, I found the list kind of interesting. They have them also broke up by JoJo, Shonen, and whatnot, Afro-Samurai Resurrection. That's a Funimation title was number one, not surprising. Oh, yeah. Well, Afro-Samurai, like Naruto and stuff, that's interesting. Yeah, no, it's, I think a lot of you like the Afro-Samurai because they had Samuel Jackson and it was getting a run on Spike TV, so this is true. And it's like Ninja actually, and it's anime, but, you know, how weird American shows are. Yep. Number two was Naruto, and that's a vis, number three was Dragon Ball Z, Funimation. Number four, I was surprised for this, or on whole high school host club. I was really surprised to see that, like, so high up. I mean, it's a good show, and I know, like, on anime and DVD, people were begging, and begging, and begging for it to be licensed, and it's a very, very good license show. Both dub and, just story-wise, if you want a really funny comedy, pick this show up. Number five was Cowboy Bebop Remix, Bandai. Number six was UU, I, how do you say that? Aikuso? Aikuso? Aikuso? I don't fucking know. H.A. You're asking me how to pronounce something in Japanese? Yeah, no. Yeah. That's a Funimation title, Fomeno Alchemist, another Funimation, was number seven. Number eight was Pokemon, number nine was Bleach, number ten was Cold Geass. And now, I'm really surprised, oh yeah, so, yeah, I'm surprised Bleach isn't higher, to be honest. But, Pokemon surprise isn't higher, maybe the Pokemon fad is finally waning, or, I don't know, I don't see any kids today with Pokemon anything, and... Thank goodness. Yeah, I'm kidding. Cold Geass? I don't know if I should be surprised or not. Um... Cold Geass is good, I would think that would be higher, actually, but it's strange. You get the good... I mean, it... Well, it gets a good run on, you know, adult... Cartoon Network. Yeah, it does. It's a good thing that, I don't think that anything that's running on regular TV is going to get higher, just because you're getting that exposure. Mm-hmm, I agree. And then, just start to do a real quick, top ten of the top shown in titles. Naruto is number one, Bleach number two, number three, Death Note, number four, Rosario Vampire. I have not seen that, I've done my list. No, I haven't heard anything about that one. Number five was Chibi Vampire. And that one... Well, that's the Karen. That's for the manga, not for the anime, but it's called Chibi Vampire, Child Vampire. Number six was Subasa, number seven was Negma, and then number eight was Yugio, number nine with the Grayman, number ten was One Piece, and these were all... Mangas. So, yeah, pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. So I guess we should talk about the people who are going to, to give their, make their high school students where the Lucky Star... Yeah, so yeah, what is everybody's talking about is the group is discussing Lucky Star and uniforms to both the local tourism. If you remember, we read a story about the prefecture that's used in Lucky Star. Make they made an actual home set, they used the actual home of the manga creator, and they made, you know, this is Kanata Ruth's room, this is, you know, they made tons of people came from over New Year's, you know, day and whatnot, to, you know, with the Lucky Star and see what it's all about and whatnot. Now they're talking about the Japanese prefecture of Satama is established a prefectural anime tourism investigative commission, I'd say that five times fast. And they want to discuss ways to boost anime related tourism, including changing the local school uniforms to match the uniforms of the Lucky Star characters. It's actually a pretty cute uniform, I mean, if you like pink. Yeah. Yeah. And thankfully the Lucky Star uniforms don't seem like they're as short as some other uniforms in anime. My whole thing though, the thing I did like about this though, you know, they're talking about leasing a few vacant public facilities as production studios for manga creators. I think that's the big thing right there. I mean, that's certainly better. No, I mean, like, they're giving, I mean, like, I'll take the manga thing first before getting to the whole, like, you know, we've heard, I don't know if you've heard, but like, manga creators over there don't make much, no, they don't anything really, the say use over there, make an average of 15 to $30,000. You know, that's wow, you know, you know, my, so I really think, like, you know, setting aside physical, vacant buildings and saying, you know, we're going to turn something good around. These are vacant, you know, these are vacant properties not being used. Let's turn down something that can better the community and can bring more tour, you know, bring that, well, you can bring tourism and you could also bring money into the local economy because they're based in that, you know, city. They're paying their taxes and, you know, whatnot. And the whole thing about one of the ideas of dread, you know, putting the girls in the school uniforms as Lucky Star, I think basing your tourism around anime is a bad idea. Because yes, Lucky Star was very popular, still is very popular, but, you know, what about next year? What about the year after things go in waves? I mean, I'm not denying the popularity of Lucky Star, it's huge, but it's not going to last. Yeah, you're going to spend all this money, you're going to get a little bit, but then you'll have to change them again to the next, so we'll have the ever-changing high school uniforms. Yeah, and I honestly think like getting the children involved, I mean, that's awesome that they want to go that far, but seriously, these kids are just trying to go to school and live their lives. Why burden them or bother them with tours, you know, tourists, buggin' them? Like you were saying earlier, well, maybe they might not mind it or, you know, have fun with it or whatever, but like seriously, like, if I was being told, okay, we're changing our whole school policy in line with a really popular anime, if you get accosted by Otaku or, you know, anyone from not Japan and want a bucket with pictures and stuff, you've got to accommodate to them or whatever, I mean, that's just unneeded, they're just trying to live their lives. That would annoy me, but at the same time, I mean, Japan is where, you know, high school girls have done much worse things for money, so maybe they'll start charging people for it, who knows. But I mean, like, the whole thing though is just like, these kids are just trying to live their lives at the end of the day, this is a disruption and it's a mistake, definitely. So, I'm just trying to look at the bright side of it a little bit. When I first saw this story, I thought Lucky Star was set in elementary school, so that was not knowing how crazy I am, I don't even know Lucky Star, yes. All of the characters are moe, so that's, they look really young, but they're not. Theoretically, Konata Konata is 18, but she looks like a frickin' 13 year old, so yeah. So thankfully, that's not happening because that would have led to really big problems if that was what they were doing. I still, even if I'm walking home from high school, I don't want to get accosted by some foreigner, some gazion, some, and asking me to take his picture with me. Yeah, I mean, like, I just, I like the enthusiasm, I like that they're thinking, I mean, hey, tourism, tourism, you gotta bring the dollars in. But I mean, don't get the kids involved, it's, they're just trying to live their life. I mean, if people want to take it far and go, hey, yeah, this is awesome, I'll do it, you know, that's their business, but changing a whole high school over that, that just seems kind of too far, I hope they come with a better idea. I mean, you're, what you're doing is you're, they don't have to pay the high school students now to act like, uh, to act basically, and it would be like, acting like, oh my God, they're wearing their, the lucky star uniforms, let's go get pictures, let's go do this, let's go do that. Right, but usually you would pay people to dress up like that, and do that. Well, then they'd probably have to do this, so there are kind of getting work for free from high school students, which is not good either. Well, I think you're looking a little bit too much into it, because they never said that, but yeah, I give what you're saying. Well, I mean, they're basically making them be re-enactors. Yeah, yeah. That's a job. Yeah, yeah, it looks like if you look at all the people in like, the Disney world. Exactly. The Funimation Portal Stream is a new full alchemist again, so yeah, 10 through 12. You can now watch, um, Funimation brought back the Full Metal Alchemist series after being taken down for the, for the breaches of security. They also said they've taken, they've done a lot more behind the back end features with greater bandwidth, and the company plans to develop and add more features as time goes on, and they give you a thread on a website that you can bitch and moan about stuff. One piece hasn't come back yet, they said they want to bring it back, but it sounds like they're getting their asses handed to them by Toei, and yeah, they have to go make amends and prove to them that they're not going to fuck up again, so it comes out to be. I almost wonder if they were just like waiting, not necessarily waiting for something this severe to happen, but it seems like why now are they taking the time to like address all the problems they've had for the last few months? Exactly. I have not done this beforehand. You know, or when it first came out, because that was the biggest problem, especially when Full Metal Alchemist came out, it was bandwidth. If you want to watch during the day, you're going to be, I remember I watched, um, Oron High School Host Club, um, because I own the season one part one, but I don't own part two yet, but I wanted to watch it. I would literally have to pick the episode, start, stop, and then let it buffer for at least a half an hour, 45 minutes, and I'm on a broadband connection, so, yeah, it was pretty bad. I haven't tried it since then, so maybe it's better. Oh, sorry, that would kind of make it pointless. Yeah, definitely. Azura Cryin 2 has been greenlit. The final episode of Azura Cryin 2 Television Anime series has announced that the production of the second season is underway. It's been greenlit for the fall premiere, so that is very quick. Yes, it is. So, if you haven't heard of Azura Cryin, let's show it just wrapped up actually, um, it's about this semi-serious school action story that revolves around a kid who has been hunted by a ghostly girl who was a childhood friend, so that's about all I know. I haven't seen the show and didn't really interest me, but I know it's got a good reception. Yep. Yeah, you may not have seen this, I think it went up only a couple hours ago, but they do have now the promos online for Eden of the East and Spice and Wolf. Oh, yeah, they just put that for when on air. Yeah, so you can now go to animenewsnetwork.com and watch the advertisements for those movies. I cannot wait for the new Eden of the East film, oh, November. There's so much stuff coming in winter, a fall winter this year, so, yeah, come on, wait, oh, I need more drama. Uh, Kion gets a non-four panel flashback manga special. Basically Kion was being drawn in four panel of shorts. They are drawing a flashback 16 pages of varying panel layouts. The story will flash back to Emilio and Ritsu were friends in elementary school. Pretty cool. Yeah, so if you can't get enough Kion, that just ended here yesterday, get a little bit more. Spielberg is evidently has plans to do an old boy live action movie that has gotten somewhat messed up in a suit, but he's still evidently continuing with it. I don't know anything about hold boy, but according to anime vice, they were being sued by a Korean production producer that had already made a film in 2003 and felt that they had movie rights to the manga. Now the manga's publisher is suing this production company claiming that it never had rights to negotiate a remake, uh, and it's even more complex because Show East has actually closed it to doors and no longer exists, so, you know, who actually has what here, it sounds like this is about as good as the, um, when they were making the Watchmen movie and that suit got about, it seems like it's that crazy, but evidently according to Spielberg, he in DreamWorks is still planning on doing this is going to have Will Smith in it, and according to some of the people who know the story, that means the story is not going to be the same because evidently there is a twist that would be that Western audiences might not like and since it has Steven Spielberg and Will Smith in it, they're expecting that to be changed. I don't know. I don't know anything about the story. If you happen to know something about this, please feel free to call in and let us know. I don't know whether to be excited about this or not. I don't know. Well, Smith and Steven Spielberg in a comedy, I mean in a movie, it sounds pretty bad. He's usually good, but Spielberg likes to take things that are supposed to end sadly and make them not end sadly. Whatever. Well, Smith and Steven Spielberg would be kind of a kick ass combination. Generally. Yeah. Yeah, so we only have about 19 minutes left. So luckily this cleavage thingy is short as well. Let me bring up our weekly DVD picks if I can find this freaking sound file. It's another week and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the weekly DVD picks. So another week is here and more DVDs are being released. Unfortunately, not too many that are that great this time. Yeah, I got to agree. I'm not picking jack shit. I'm not even going to buy anything. Well, I will say that if I had unlimited resources, jibberu, the second coming looks entertaining. I mean, you know, you can never have enough hand tie. So especially tentacle hand tie. So if I had unlimited resources, I would check that out. I might check out darker than black as well. That's supposed to be pretty good. Yeah, it is. Origin, spirits of the past looks interesting. I don't know if it would be something I'll end up picking up eventually or not has takes an interesting take on environmentalism in that we try to grow some trees on moon. They become conscious. What? Yes. Yes, yes. We try to grow special types of trees on the moon. Please tell me they were in case I'm like oxygen globes or something. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. That's fucking awesome. There's the pine tree of the moon. Basically become conscious, attack, split the moon into several pieces. These pieces fall to the planet earth and the trees basically take over the planet and it's almost then like in the future humans are fighting with the trees for survival. I'm assuming there's a reason you can't do that. I don't. But yeah. So it goes from there and it's a space shot. I can just feel like NASA, we're scrambling the fire jet and the fire. Despite my co-host here, I'll try to continually making fun of it. It does look like it will actually be interesting. It got a B+ rating from AnimeOnDVD.com. It does. That's fucking hilarious. It does look like it might be worth getting. Quick. We need all the number two. I just need to catch one. Is in HD. Oh cool. So I would check that out. The others. Yeah. I don't really care about the team princess. You see that's not anything I'm going to care about. And I'm sure as heck not going to get anything, any Pokemon stuff. So. But you got to catch them all and buy all the DVDs and the movies. Catch one. I'd try to catch a Pikachu and it bit me. Yeah. All right. For trying to catch one. Yeah. All right. Let's review some Hintai. Let's review some Hintai. Alrighty then. Yeah. Yeah. Hintai. Boobs. So this was from the authors of Bible Black. And it comes off, it's based on an H game by the same name. You know, with the resume where they include Bible Black, you thought this would have been better. Basically, it's, thank you my anime list.net, basically it's about this kid about this set brothers type sister kind of relationship. They're related, but not by blood. When their father is given a transfer, oh that never happens, um, total Utah and total Erica are left alone in this big ass house. They are siblings, but they're not related by blood, so hey, it's all good. It's all good. Let's get it on. Yes. When Utah was a child, his mother died, oh that's a shocker, and his father remarried to a woman who herself had a child from a previous relationship, Erica, his stepmother was quite gentle, but she too has since passed away, oh, his life is just full of death. So now they live alone, and they begin to love each other as a man and a woman. However, dun dun dun, I'll save this part for later. So yeah, this is a two episode OVA, they're half an hour apiece, and the fetish is big breasts. These girls have big ass boobs, where you swear to God, if they were in real life, they would have like terrible back posture or something. Like it's just ridiculous. Hey, I'm a high school kid, but I've got double deep breasts, and so does the teacher, and everyone else we know. Of course, yeah, everyone should have double deep breasts. Of course, so Yuto basically is a little emo bitch, and he's always looking at his dead stepmother's picture, and Erica, her sister was like, "Oh, you love her boobs, oh you miss mom." And then they're like, "Oh, okay, we can start making out and shit." And basically Yuto does all the housework, so Erica's like, "Hey, I'll do stuff with you, if you keep doing all the housework and cooking and stuff." Yeah, he's like the wife, he's a bitch. So the other kind of stupid retarded thing is, you know, it's got that character that, "Oh dude, I love your sister, oh she's so fucking hot, oh my God, I want to do her." You know, he's got that character, and then you've got just another one, he's a friend of Yuto's, who loves her sister, and she's a lesbian, and like one scene, she tries to rape Erica. It's like, "I love you, and I want to make out with you and be with you." It's crazy. Yeah, so, you know, if you're smart, what do you do? We start having sex at school. Well, what do you load, behold, the art teacher finds out, and has secret pictures of them having sex in a school room, yeah, you know, you never, and the other thing is, the art teacher is attracted to Yuto, so to keep the secret of them, you know, of them having sex, the art teacher has sex with Yuto, and yeah, basically, in the end, because the male friend of Yuto's has taken dirty pictures of Erica on the tennis court way off in the distance, so there's a pool with a window, Yuto and the art teacher are having sex, so then there's big cat fight over Yuto, and they're just like, "Wait a minute, I'm such with both of you!" And then there's an awesome three way, and then that's the end of the show. It's pretty lazy. There's like, no, there's no story other than like your brother, your sister, "Oh, but you're not related to my blood, so it's all good, you're wailin' on each other all you want." So let's see, we should come up with a new Brady Bunch song for this, you know, something that- No, no, because everyone's dead, and there's not enough characters. Well, no, there's not enough characters, but I mean, you know, this lady meets this fellow and they're now a family, and they now all sleep together, I don't know. Yes. Yeah, it would have been a more interesting show if they went that round, but I don't know. Marsha could have fallen in love with one of her brothers, and maybe not, maybe not. But yes, it does seem to be a- Very lack of cheating theme in Japanese Hintai, you're my sister, but you're really not, so let's get it on. Yes, and you know what the funny thing is, is I've seen better when they take the genre of brother-sister-not-related, but in the hand, it's like weird watching it, and this was done by Milky Way, so I mean, this is released in English, you know, it's not just something I came up on, I was like, "Hey, it's pretty cool." I don't know, I find the overall genre of that though, kind of, I don't know. Thank you. Yeah. It doesn't seem like you're watching it. Yeah. I mean, I'm all for Hintai, but man, like, like I said though, give you a freaking Bible black, and you read me, like, "We did Bible black." That's like the best known Hintai ever. You think it'll be better. Well, I'm expecting the other fiend, but yes. Well, okay. Still, it's pretty crazy. Smack down my covers, yeah! Yeah, you jerk. That's cleavage. I would give it a two out of five, because it's just, it's there. It's nothing more than nothing less. If you want to get your rocks off to Hintai, there you go. The artwork was well done, I mean, like, but I mean, there's nothing extraordinary. They look average, and all the chicks have huge racks. Yeah. Yeah. Nothing. Yeah. I would love to see, like, the representation in real life. Like, here's what they would look like. Oh, you need wheelbarrows. You know? You walk on all fours, because they can't stand. Yes. So, that's cleavage. Nothing special. I don't know what I'm doing. I have no clue I'm going to review next week. Um, maybe I'll just leave it up to you. You and your furry musketeers, or, where's that manga you want to go? I'll hope to have three musketeers done. Bye next week. We'll see, though, until I can review that. I will say I have finished watching the rest of El Hazard, and the second OVA is not as good as the first. There were parts where I just laughed, because it was so ridiculous. It is still worth watching if you can pick up the set that has both the set, both the second and the first OVA, is worth having, just because of some of the extra extras on the second OVA are pretty entertaining. But it's definitely not as good as the first OVA. I am. They do have an array stuff.com, the El Hazard, uh, CPM stuff for cheap. It is definitely worth picking up, is highly, highly hilarious, not crazy, like, bo-bo-bo-bo-bo, or something great, ridiculous like that. Well, so maybe we should watch this, um, Eden of the East, uh, for our last few minutes here. Watch this Eden of the East promo, and... Oh, not to say we did it, because it's all in Japanese, and this is an audio podcast, so... Well, I was going to say, if we could watch it, we could... We could comment on it while you watched it, and how it looks like... Well, okay. Have you watched Eden of the East? No, but you have. And you like it so much. Yes. And I'm already going to say that it's going to be a badass show. I don't need to watch it, because Eden of the East was fucking awesome. Oh, well, then. All right. Now, Eden of the East, the, uh, theatrical trailer, if you've even heard about it, um, picks up where the anime left off, um, and the final scene, uh, Taka, um, Akira Takisawa was asking, uh, Jules, take all my money and make me king, because somebody has to be, and this is where the, the theatrical release picks up, so November can't come fast enough. Yeah. Azah, Azah. Um... This is a, just put up on, um, anime news network here, the, evidently the fairytale manga is getting a TV anime production. I have no idea. This year's 31st issue of Kodasha's weekly shonen magazine will announce next Wednesday that a television anime adaptation of Hiro Mashima's fairytale, um, has been greenlit. The anime studios A1 picture and Seidelite will produce the project, evidently the seventh volume of the manga will be published by Del Rey. Final with America next month. Never heard of the manga myself, but... Same thing. Um, you know what, though, thinking about it, I think next week we are going to have our summer preview special, um, where we will run down. One is coming out for the summer, 2009 season, lots of good stuff, a few things, Spice and Wolf 2, um, is coming out more allied access and the hilarity shorts of stereotyping every fucking nation in the, in the world, uh, and then a lot more. So I think next week, you know what, because we are still kind of pondering what to do, because the summer season does start soon. We will do a special summer, uh, send off, kind of, getting you ready for the summer shows. That'll be a day before the 4th of July, so that I bring in to be, I don't know if you get a long weekend, seeing as 4th of July is on Sunday, they're on a Saturday this year. I don't know if you get a long weekend, so, uh, but our hour is coming to a close, um... And if we are not here, because North Korea has decided to, uh, destroy us all by missiles, well, it's been good being on, on a podcast with you. Yes. Which I like to say, um, thank you to all the listeners who took down my fucking server. I know, man, you change co-hosts and your server gets so, so taken down, because you just, I'm just so popular. Yes, we actually... The people are just crying out for me. Yes, we ran out of bandwidth on my, the server that I host the podcast on the mp3 downloads, um, so I had to scramble and put something new up. But um, yeah, um, this is the bonds I beat, you can follow me, Jellacoon at twitter.com/jellacoon. Check out our radio network, Odacast Network, at www.oldacast-radio.com, there you can find out what other shows, like the Anime Insider, the Ninja Legion, and many other great shows hosted under the Odacast Radio Network. 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I know, and it's gonna say like that from now on, BTR finally gave me the option to pick any time, and so, yeah. So now you can go listen to your anime and then still go out and get drunk at the club afterwards. Yeah, really? So I'm in situation from all involved. Yeah, well, just get drunk while podcasting. Well, you know, you can't get drunk while, while they listen to it. I don't think we should do the show, drunk, I mean. The show will slowly decline, like, we're going to try that one week, um, that might be interesting. I'm thinking about it. That'd be kind of fun. Uh-huh. You've got a great show for you. And to the podcast, what are we talking about again? Yes, you can turn the podcast into a drinking gang. Yes. Every time you say anime, take a shot of bourbon. Big shot. Um, so yeah, and also check out bonsaib.com there. You'll find, um, show notes, past episode downloads, um, all the fun stuff. So this is Jellicoon and Zoldar saying have a good week and see you July 3rd.
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