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Cast of Characters (in order of appearance)

• Me
• Seiya

Seiya and I geek out on the Final Day. Topics of discussion include second-hand towels, old magazines and trading figures.

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Cast of Characters (in order of appearance)

• Me
• Zonaxx
• DS
• Zonaxx’s brother
• Zonaxx’s friend
• Magusman
• Random Wanderer
• Booth Guy A (Asian Hen Da Ne guy)
• Booth Guy B
• Booth Guy C
• Hinano
• jpmeyer
• Seiya
• Centimetre

A lot of random Dealers’ Room chatter in this one. Most of what I got with RW and Magus in there was unusable, so a bunch of it comes off as random one-off-exchanges. Oh yeah, I started to use my Navel bag on Saturday, and people kept asking me about it. Hinano and JP’s interview didn’t come out as audible as I had hoped, but you can mostly hear them…

Sunday coming next, and after that pictures + general evaluation + comic in the next week.

Only referring to Zonaxx’s bro and friend as such because I’m not sure if they want their names on the interwebz and I don’t know their net handles :x

It seems upon further investigation Big X isn’t really about fighting for the Nazis. But Big X is still a Nazi super weapon.

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Cast of Characters (in order of appearance) 

• Me
• FUNimation guy
• Magusman (MAGOOS)
• jpmeyer
• ADV guy
• Bandai guy
• Seiya
• With a special guest appearance by Trinora

That first question was at the FUNimation panel. I was also going to record something at Mike Toole’s panel, but lacked the balls to turn on the recorder around his godly presence.

Saturday’s going to be a nightmare to edit, but I’ll try to get it done today or tomorrow. Comic + general con evaluation to follow in the next week.

In this final installment of my epic and experimental :mad: saga (with an anime adapation directed by Akiyuki Shinbo, animated by SHAFT coming next summer) I will clear up some misconceptions that have been floating around (mostly in Mr. Mirage’s hive of scum and villainy (note: not nearly as cool as Mos Eisley.)) Yes, it’ll be an all new, all sexy, and all wonderful grand finale that clear up all the loose ends and blow you right off your seat to the back of the cinema. It’ll contain gripping drama, as the characters come to figure out just who the hell they are and then sacrifice their lives the for the sake of the universe. It’ll be dark and introspective piece, one that’ll go out with a bang. No survivors! Except me! Because I rock!

BONUS MATERIALS include a deep and insightful audio commentary by me, the original author as I read DM’s response to my original posts, and make fun of it, along with making fun of his readers, then making fun of the people who hilariously flamed me on this very blog! It’s all fun and games, so stick around! Actually not this is the most boring post of them all and the party’s already over, but like Final Yamato, I’ll give you guys the ending you all want, even if it is a bit late.

Ok, time for the boring bit: First off my post wasn’t about Gundam. I understand how many of you would think that it is, and that’s partly my fault for focusing so much on Gundam and not making myself perfectly clear. I used Gundam as an illustration show how anime and its fans have changed over time, and how this change really bothers me. That’s all.

Secondly, scanning DM’s comments to make sure I’m not crazy, it seems a decent number of his minions think the entire post was directed at him. DM seems to think this as well, reading his opening paragraphs. No, I just used him as an example of the kind of fan that really pisses me off. I could have used anyone, but he’s just so good at being a bad blogger.

Thirdly, I do understand that’s it’s silly to get mad at people for having opinions, but something does need to be said about how the current generation of fans has no awareness (and at times) no respect for what came before. And in general people need a kick in the nads every now and then.

Bonus Audio Section: download

Recording this just reminded me that I suck at public speaking. Oh well, it has Giant Robo music so it’s awesome.

And so ends my latest masterwork. I can see you all enjoyed it, but sadly I’ll be keeping quite for a while, until I can find something else that pisses me off enough to rant angrily about then derive pleasure from its responses. Later :D

do you remember that old lullaby?

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I bitched about Aoi House a long while back. I think I complained about how it was unrealistic portrayal of anime fans, or some shit like that. Well, I am a fucking hypocrite. I mean, at first Tina looked kinda dumpy, which would be normal for any anime fan. Now look at her. My logic was, if she’s wish-fulfillment, I might as well fulfill some wishes. So after a while I started dolling her up. Played with various looks and styles, until she became the ultimate moe-machine, at least in my eyes. Of course, I have many different kinds of ideas of moe (most of which involve girls being under the age of 13…) Tina’s look appeals to the moe in me that likes girls like Mikuru (or maybe I’m just getting thrown off by the chest) and her personality is very much one of a girl who I would like to have by my side. Well, I guess she could stand to have more of Konata-ness to her. This however depresses me. My shameless wish-fulfillment robs me of any artistic integrity I may have had. It’s shameless, and I hate myself for it. Despite that though, the penis wins this battle, and I’ll continue to make Tina as unrealistic as possible! Huzzah! Actually, please share with me your thoughts on my shameless wish-fulfillment in the comments section. I’d like to hear what you guys think.

Now to the actual comic. I think everything came out pretty well. I had hard time nailing the Zetsubou Sensei style, but I got it in the end. I hope my utter copying of the screencaps counts as fair use, since they’re in the context of a parody.

There is a new podcast. It’s Otakon chatter, which I finally got around to editing. I’m not as good as Patrick Macias when it comes to this kind of thing, but I think it turned out pretty good. This is the final podcast of SEASON 1. The reason I’m closing this one off is because while there are good episodes, it’s kind of a low qualtiy production all around. It was a good way for me to learn the ropes of podcasting, and I hope to apply those lessons in the new podcast, Mistakes of Youth: BEYOND THE TIME. Look out for it~

I would write more, but I don’t fucking feel like it. As you can tell from the lack of updates on the blog, school has been kicking my fucking ass. I’m going to try to see if I can drop one class to make it kick my ass less. Three studio classes are just too much…

Anyway, until next time~

Currently in the process of uploading new version of Podcast 08 as the original had too many fadeouts. This new one should be fine. I also added a new music track. Yay.

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A new podcast is up and can be downloaded quite directly. The tracker I use for BT is down so a BT download is not available at the moment.

Also, if you don’t read the blog, I’m taking a few weeks break from the comic. Yeah.

The Mistakes of Youth Podcast is now Diggable (or it will be soon). If you want you can digg it.
- David

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to shout out that the Mistakes of Youth podcast now has an RSS feed located in the bar on the left of the website and that you can also subscribe on iTunes via this link:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=211179514

- David

I forgot to mention that episode 7 of the podcast is available. SG kind of fades out by the end, but that’s because he was chasing a tornado at the time, and his mic kinda got knocked around and he couldn’t speak into it so well (in truth, his mic just sucks any my sound cleaning program cleaned most of him out :/) I’m sorry! I’m still new to this >_<