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Anibros Podcast Episode 154 – In My Attempt to Bury the Lead, I Will Now Reveal…

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Show 154

I would like to extend a heartfelt welcome to the influx of new listeners that have been directed to this glorious Podcast by way of Anime Jeopardy, courtesy of Kumoricon 2022.

Also, as a disclaimer, this episode  was recorded before the Twitter drama. We reference Twitter several times in this episode, so just keep that in mind.

On with the show!

 

 

This week’s hosts:

Laven – @LavenVoth

Kenny – @sakoku_otaku

  • Introduction
    • AniBros Creative can be found at anibroscreative.com, and follow up on Twitter at @anibroscreative
    • Laven is @LavenVoth
    • Kenny is @sakoku_otaku
    • Opening Banter
      • “Boy-see”
        • Kenny is a Salaryman and currently being a salaryman in Boise
        • Good Patrick is a resident of Boise but Kenny failed to tell him he’d be coming into his town
        • Kenny has seen a lot of potate-themed art
        • Are we post-Pandemic?
        • Life Protip: Delete more tweets than you send.
        • RSS Check! Looks like we messed up! RIP Feedburner.
        • Listen to us on Spotify!
        • Otaku no Video
          • Two-part OVA created by Gainax in 1991
          • Director: Takeshi Mori
          • Written by: Toshio Okada
          • Story of a college student, Kubo, who becomes an otaku after a chance encounter with an old classmate and friend, Tanaka.
          • Autobiographical but stylized depiction of the history of General Products and Studio Gainax
          • Features segments called ‘Portrait of an Otaku’, live action interviews with otaku
          • Discussion
            • What new stuff stood out to us?
              • Portrait of an Otaku hit harder now that we’re the age of the folks that made this movie. They do get progressively more and more stupid.
              • Garage Kits are made to be way more popular than they ever were.
              • Otaku no Video remains a familiar and cozy show to return to.
              • Kubo and Tanaka were definitely huffing fumes
              • The Otakuland opening may be a reference to Tomino’s New Anime Century speech
              • The worst part of Otaku no Video is that they become capitalists — but maybe that is a self-aware acknowledgement of the worst tendencies at Gainax.
              • Highly recommended, definitely watch.
              • The reason we have this podcast.
              • Laven is looking for land to build his own Otakuland
              • Syberpunk: Edgerunner
                • 10 episodes series on Netflix
                • Produced by TRIGGER for CD Projekt Red
                • Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
                • Written by: Masahiko Otsuka, Yoshiki Usa
                • Based on story by: Bartosz Sztybor (シテボル); Rafal Jaki
                • Discussion
                  • “One of the best shows I’ve seen in awhile.” – Laven
                  • Fear going in: this is just a video game tie-in, how good could it really be? But! It is really good!
                  • Kenny and Laven fight over DARLING in the FUCKS again
                  • What’s it about?
                    • David Martinez has a bad time: his school hates him, his classmates hate him, and his mom is killed in a car wreck.
                    • David becomes an Edgerunner — a member of a crime team running jobs.
                    • He quickly spirals into the dark world of corporate warfare and cybernetic enhancements.
                    • Kenny’s Take: Edgerunner is exactly what it felt like to watch anime in the 90s/00s/
                      • This is what it was like to watch Ninja Scroll or Cyber City Oedo
                      • It has violence! It has sex! It has a complex story that is based on source material that isn’t 100% present in the anime!
                      • Cyberpunk is based a TTRPG created in the 80s by Mike Pondsmith
                      • The sensory experience is dialed up to 11.
                      • This could only exist as an OVA — in fact, it is an ONA!
                      • Cyberpunk is a love letter to the 80s OVA
                      • It is so refreshing to have a true sci-fi and cyberpunk anime again!
                      • When our generation is making decisions (after boomers are good, TY Knight Sabers), let’s hope its all nostalgia like this.
                      • Who is your favorite character?
                        • Laven: Lucy, the main girl — perfectly engineered for me to like her;
                        • Kenny: Maine and Dorio
                        • All the characters are really well done and given opportunities to bond witht he audience.
                        • Who at Trigger needs to always add the Rebecca-type character?
                          • And what is driving the perception that she’s a loli?
                          • Really good world building.
                          • Do we want a sequel?
                            • Only if its a completely new story.
                            • Comfort viewing — you can watch it slow or binge it
                            • ANIBROS STAMP OF APPROVAL
                            • So will we play Cyberpunk 2077? No. But if it goes on Sale for a steep enough discount, maybe.
                            • Want to watch anime and experience a cyberpunk adventure
                            • But wait, there’s more!
                                • Trigun!?
                                  • Laven had time to fit into a re-watch of Trigun.
                                  • Jack reviewed Trigun on Episode #
                                  • Still holds up!
                                  • A secret sci-fi show
                                  • A slow burn — but worth that investment as it starts to unfold
                                  • Why didn’t Kenny like Trigun? He doesn’t remember — because of the dub? Because of the way its fans behaved? Maybe!
                                  • What about the new Trigun? No.
                                  • Cowboy Bebop
                                    • Watching in Japanese
                                    • Maybe if I watch it this time, it’ll be different?
                                    • The two goofballs muse about what they want to make on 3D printers.
                                    • What!? Laven went to go see the Yokohama Gundam.
                                      • The Odaiba Gundam is a trash gundam now.
                                      • 1:1 scale RX 78-2
                                      • Available to see until Spring 2023 which is great because the borders to Japan are opening soon!
                                      • Gegege no Kitaro exhibit
                                        • AR experience
                                          • https://anibroscreative.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Podcast154-Cyberpunk-1.mp3

                                           

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