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Part II of the Matt Alt interview! Topics covered include MOE anime, Gundam, Eva and Tokusatsu film. My many thanks go out to Mr. Alt for agreeing to come on this dirty show.

Guests

• Matt Alt

Songs

• Opening Song– “Senaka goshi ni Sentimental” by Miyasato Kumi
• Ending Song– “Anime Ja Nai” by Arai Masato

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At long last, my interview with Matt Alt! At least the first part. A variety of interesting topics are covered, such as Matt’s early encounters in Japan, translation philosophies and why old anime is cool!

Yeah, the quality is shit. But you can hear 95% of it, and the remaining 5% are bad quips by me.

Guests

• Matt Alt

Songs

• Opening Song– “Macross” by Fujiwara Makoto
• Ending Song– “Suna no Juujika” by Yashiki Takajin

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Wonder Festival may be long over, but our Beauty Memories live on… in the form of a podcast! The content of this show is true to the title for the first 10 or so minutes (believe it or not, there was even more of just me talking that was edited out) but after that there’s a good review of the event overall between me and lastarial. We learned quite quickly that it would be impossible to catch any audio at the event itself.

We actually talked about a bunch of fascinating things in line, but I never know when to switch on the recorder. Oops.

Some old photos.

Guests

• Lastarial

Songs

• Opening Song– “Mr. Noone Special (Reprise)” by Cymbals
• Ending Song– “Muzak Cycle” by Cymbals

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On July the 7th, 2009, omo, a mysterious man known only as “Alex”, and myself attended the once-in-a-century concert “Super Dimensional Tanabata Sonic” put on by Kanno Yoko and the Seatbelts. However, the podcast that was produced is mostly about the new Eva movie, and really unfocused rants about the concert. That’s just how we roll, here!

We also review Pepsi Shiso, and I eat a Chocolate Cornet.

For those afraid of spoilers, we do spoil the end of Eva 2.0, so when we say SPOILERS, skip to around the 19 minute mark and all should be good.

Some photos.

Guests

• Omo
• Alex
  

Songs

• Opening Narration– “Introduction” by Shigeaki Saegusa, from the Zeta Gundam soundtrack
• Opening Song– “What Planet Is This?” by Kanno Yoko and Seatbelts
• Ending Song– “Want It All Back” by Yamane Mai
• Closing Message– “SF Game Center” by Kanno Yoko

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As per the title, I speak with Mike Dent for a bit about the new-ish first Gurren Lagann movie, and little on the properly new second movie. I should probably go through some kind of podcast training camp, because whenever I invite superstars on, I end up not saying much. Not that like that’s a bad thing–no one cares about my opinion, and Mr. Dent knows a lot about the robots, so it manages to be a pretty good show.

I should note that I am posting this in lieu of an Akiba centric episode with The Eroge Guy from Hen Da Ne, along with a trip to Nakano with kransom. These episodes would probably be fine if I could get around to editing them real well, but right now they just sound like cheap Hot Tears of Shame imitations, and why listen to that when the real thing is so much cooler? And less pedo.

Guests

• Mike Dent
  

Songs

• Opening Song– “Minna no Peace” by Afromania
• Ending Song– “Happily Ever After” by Nakagawa Shouko

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I sit down with fellow lolicon mt-i to talk about a number of mostly loli-centric topics. The discussion covers Ichigo Mashimaro Encore, Toradora! (with spoilers), the new Hayate OVA and Kodomo no Jikan. It’s all fun and games, and I wish everyday was Sunday!

Guests

• mt-i

Songs

• Opening Song– “Zo!” by Kugimiya Rie
• Ending Song– “1 2 3 Day” by Little Non

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Since I’m heading off to Japan in just about a month, I had my old friend Santi over, and as per usual we watched some terrible anime. This time around we partook of BAOH and Dog Soldier, and on the way to lunch we decided to talk about our experiences with these two works of art into a digital recorder for an internet podcast. What follows is us talking unintelligibly about these two works of genius, as well as other things like Akikan.

Guests

• Santi The Mysterious
  

Songs

• Opening Song– “Afro Rock Theme (Rock Afro Mix)” by Comoesta Yaegashi
• Ending Song– “Cirno no Perfect Sansuu Kyoushitsu” by IOSYS

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The Ol’ Gang from the very first episode (of season 2) come back together for an awesomely nerdy conversation about one of the year’s most dangerous shows! We talk about interlacing, dutch angles and postmodernism. Yeah. We’re cool guys.

Guests

• Link
• Omo

Songs

• Opening Song– “Haroo Daizu no Uta” by Haruka Tomatsu
• Ending Song– “motto☆hade ni ne” by Haruka Tomatsu

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More of my time at Seiya’s house. I changed the recording setting in this one because I thought it’d make things sound better, but they actually sound worse, so I apologize in advance for the terrible audio quality. The content is pretty good though, especially Seiya’s Gainax spy story.

Anyway, discussion topics include:

• Morning Musume
• Trader Vic’s
• Saaya Irie
• Fakku
• HD DVD
• Fist of the North Star
• Boys love
• Gainax
• Spot the prostitute

Visuals Aids

• Old Gainax building
• New Gainax building sekrit spy shots

Guests

• Seiya
  

Songs

• Opening Song– “Kikaku Mono AV no Onna” by Tokusatsu
• Ending Song– “Go My Way” by Eriko Nakamura

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Seiya’s moving out, so I head over to his house to take some magazines off his hands. Brought the recorder over to capture some of our dumb conversations, and the topics include:

• California
• Arson
• That “post today“
• Neo Mag, the UK anime magazine
• Ark Angels is the winged skateboard manga by Koreans
• Caveman Ninja
• Pocari Sweat
• 3D CG
• ReBoot
• Urotsukidoji

Guests

• Seiya
  

Songs

• Opening Song– “Sir James’ Trip To Find Mata” by Burt Bacharach
• Ending Song– “Dream On James, You’re Winning” by Burt Bacharach

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Omo, a drunk Jeff Lawson and myself sit down and talk about Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu for about an hour. We probably go way deeper than we need to about a show like this, but whatever!

Also note how I only begin to say things of merit once we start talking about fanservice.

Guests

• Jeff Lawson
  
• Omo

Songs

• Opening Song– “Tokimeki Fortissimo” by Miyu Matsuki
• Ending Song– “Muteki no LOVE & PEACE!” by N’s

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Daryl Surat lays down the law on Macross Frontier as I sit down and listen because I don’t know anything about Macross at all! Also, I was podcasting from a secret location, constantly afraid of a security guard breaking in and arresting me for communicating with terrorists.

Actually the whole point of this was just getting Surat on so I could use AWO’s thoughtbird. I didn’t even like Macross Frontier that much!

Guest

• Daryl Surat
  

Songs

• Opening Song– “Seikan Hikou” by Megumi Nakajima
• Ending Song– “Triangler” by Maaya Sakamoto

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Bonertown and I go on for an hour on how useless Code Geass season 2 was. Lots of spoilers abound, as usual, so listen with that in mind. This one isn’t just filled with spoilers for Code Geass, though– it has Death Note and Gundam 00 spoilers, as well. There’s also a BIG Cowboy Bebop spoiler that everyone should know by now.

Guest

• WELCOME TO BONERTOWN
  

Songs

• Opening Song– “0″ by Kotaro Nakagawa
• Ending Song– “Callin’” by Mikio Sakai

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Ok, we’re back. In this show we’re talking about this 5cm Per Second movie made by some guy called Makoto Shinkai. Some pretty deep discussion goes on, along with me not being able to form sentences at all. Omo sounds kind of robot in this episode, and I don’t know how to fix that. Sorry!

Guests

• Omo
• Lastarial

Songs

• Opening Song– “One more time, One more chance” by Masayoshi Yamazaki
• Ending Song– “Who Put The Bomp” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes

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We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when– BUT I KNOW WE’LL MEET AGAIN, SOME SUNNY DAY!!

Cast of Characters in order of appearance

• Omo
• Me
• Link
• Hendane guys

Songs

• Opening Song– “Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga” by Nico Nico Douga people
• Ending Song– “We’ll Meet Again” by Vera Lynn