Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Happy BIRFDAY TO THE A.O.Y!!!!

So as of 2 days ago, this blog is celebrating its one year on the internet, and I have to say... I am kinda impressed by the traffic over the past year and content. This didn't turn out to be a blog that would keel over and die, because I made sure that it wouldn't.

So what do I have for plans for the next year... not a darn clue. I keep traffic to it with my current activities on the podcast, me whoring myself out there for attention and showing past publications of anime fandom over the past decade(s). I hope to keep getting more stuff in, because I need to get around to getting more and showing more to you viewers out there. I appreciate all the love (and loath the hate, if there is any) that the people show when they come to this side of the net. I hope to keep meeting more people through podcasting and social networking since that is how I meet my guest for the podcast.

So really thank you to all of you who stick with this blog, because its 1:15 on the A.M.'s and I am tired and got school work up the butt to do in the next few days, and it didn't help that I have been playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution since I got home 4 some hours ago when I could have been using that time for more productive things like editing a podcast or doing some school work, oh well. Peace out to you and see you next time!!!!


Saturday, February 25, 2012

Cool Kids Club Podcast Episode 44 - Bubblegum Crisis Review #1


HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUBBLEGUM CRISIS!!!!

Welcome back! Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the classic cyberpunk anime classic, Bubblegum Crisis! We at the podcast decided to dedicate a whole month to Bubblegum Crisis, with stories of fandom, fanfiction, "by ear" stories heard at cons over the years, and for us to pick on the anime a bit (regarding the AD Police and Mackie of course). We start out on how we came to watch and love this beloved OVA series and what made us the fans we are today, then we go into tangents of the anime and just have fun with it, since the OVA series is a lot of fun regardless. We talk about the first 2 OVA's, Tinsel City and Born to Kill. We are joined by Jeff of Anime Graruru, One Pixel Jump and "all around" BGC fangirl herself, Amanda Stair (Duran). Hope you enjoy, and more to come

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This show has:

Kinuko Oomori... the Japanese Pop Rock Goddess... of Rock!!!!

My personal ramblings: (When I came to this podcast, this was really the number one thing I wanted to talk about and discuss more than anything, but I wanted to do it right with the right people involved. Now, this is the perfect time to talk about this anime with whatever experience I have picked up being a podcaster in the past 40 some episodes I have been with the show. My greatest wish on this is to do this OVA justice and pay its dues to the anime community.)

Monday, February 20, 2012

Cool Kids Club Podcast Episode 43 - Battle Royal High School Review



Hey gang! This week in our quest of AnimEigo titles we stumble upon the world of something we just can't comprehend too well in Battle Royal High School (aka, might be "Tekken: The Wonder Years"). This has man in cheetah mask (KING), space police, big teddy bears, boomerang sewer grates, fairies on crack, exploding trees and so much more. This episode is kinda split up into two parts, which part (a) is our review of the anime, we talk about movies like Drive and talk about video games. Part (b) is our pre show DRAMA!!!!, where we decide to resurrect C(hibi)G(oku) from the dead, but it turns out that was more trouble than we bargained for and the Dragonballs just exploded and CG went back to the negaverse or wherever. Long story short, I don't wanna explain anything to you, but CG does anyways. All this and more in this weeks episode!

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This show contains:

The best way to promote safe sex...

Monday, February 13, 2012

Cool Kids Club Podcast Episode 42 - Crusher Joe OVA 2 Review, Mailbag

Yo!!



We broke out of the Ice Prison and found ourselves on a jungle planet full of microbots or whatever in this weeks review of Crusher Joe OVA: The Ultimate Weapon. This has corrupt politicians, women trying to take charge, a big bomb, some robots and tanks, 'sabout it. Actually, this OVA wasn't that great, so much to the point we decided to talk about other stuff like the Dirty Pair, Call of Duty vs Battlefield 3, AnimeCon 91 on Youtube, movies and video games with much more, and hold music since we had a call drop. We even hit up our Mailbag again with the return of SPACE SHAFT SUCKA and other peoples problems. Special Guest Stephen from Jade Phoenix joins us with mic troubles, so sit back and enjoy. We also warn about our next episode...

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This show has:

Well played Kenichi Sonoda... well played...

Monday, February 6, 2012

Cool Kids Club Podcast Episode 41 - Crusher Joe OVA Review

Muchos Gracias Hombres!!


Our AnimEigo train has taken us to the far reaches of space and into some trouble with the space law, as we do hard time in Crusher Joe "Ice Prison" OVA. This has annoying robots, beach planet resorts, chicks with star nipples, machine gun hands, space lasers, annoying co-workers and Space AMERICA!!!! We also mention a few things like 50's Robots, Japanese metal bands, Odin: Starlight Mutany, Indian water rights, Funi suing ADV (or whats left) with CRUSSSSSSSSSHHHHHes added in, and so much more. Oh, and ChibiGoku has been killed off the show for some time, just FYI.

Special Guest Jeff from the Anime Graruru Podcast!!!!

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This show has:

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Space America...E'fffffffffff YEA!!!!

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Evidence #9: (You can still) Rock in Animerica (Animerica Vol.1 No.6)

Wow....Its been a while... (BTW, if I still lived in Raleigh, I probably could have worked at Walnut Creek with my old job and been listing to this from the parking lot. McLaurin, I loved thee.)

So yea, I have not done one of these show and tells for quite some time, I have had a lot happen with my second semester starting back in school and other things, which has kept me busy. But, I have not forgotten this blogs roots, of showing people my collection of past Japanese Animation Publications from long ago. So for this piece of evidence, we go back to August of 1993.

For this issue, we have the Animerica volume with the Masamune Shirow cover on the front. This has segments of an interview with Shirow, and interview with Miyazaki, ad's, manga  inserts and everything in between. So take a gander and sit back and enjoy.








Here we got our word from Trish Ledoux and the interview with Shirow. Funny how she mentions she did dubbing again with Outlanders.... because I have that on VHS, or should I say I got the tape from Amazon.com because I had to know how she sounded as a dub voice actor. Suffice to say, I enjoyed the dub, as cheesy as it sounds. I kept trying to picture in my head the Trish I met at Animazement '09/'10 to the Trish of 1993 voicing for Princess Kahm. It was like she had to dig deep down inside herself to pull out the "Vally-Girl-Wannabe-Tiffany Grant" persona to pull off this role. If her and me cross paths again, she is going to sign my tape, which I don't think she would have a problem with.







Here is what the word is on the anime street corner with info of Riding Bean being dubbed, new releases in Japan and in the states, Ikegami coming to Comic Con, Gundam 0083 in comic form, and much more.





Here is the second part to the Miyazaki inteview, with a Porco Rosso color comic.


Here we got some letters to Animerica and whats on the next issue.






 Of course, who could forget about those anime ad's? Oh Dark Image, I have to wonder if owning your dub to Devilman would be worth my time on amazon.com? I guess one could only hope, when I feel like spending funds for those tapes off amazon...dot com.

Speaking of comics, here is a couple with AD Police and Mermaid Forest:


















Well, I think that is going to be it for now. Again, sorry for the lack of material for magazines like these, I am still working on obtaining more, but also I do have a lot to show for, so I am not hurting at all right now. But, I got assignments to do for school so I need to get cracking on that, but I'll see you guys later.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Cool Kids Club Podcast Episode 40 - Riding Bean / Final Fantasy XIII 2 Review

Hey Guys!!!!


We got more anime titles from AnimEigo for you guys to listen to, in this week we talk about the best OVA of all time, Riding Bean!!!! This has Guns, Cars, Girls, Girls in Cars shooting Guns, Fumanchu's in cars, and kevlar everything. I also talk about my other favorite anime/manga series Gunsmith Cats on the side, since they both coincide with each other. Then we got ChibiGoku and our guest Tony (alias KuwabaraTheMan) to review and talk a bunch on Final Fantasy XIII-XX2, Dos Equis DOS!!!! This is like, hour and a half something, so it's longer than the usual episodes.

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This show has!!

                                          "Bean, Your the best drag racer I'd Evah SEEN!!"