Join DJ Ranma S, Mako-chan, and Ari Rockefeller as they discuss their first two conventions of the year, MAGFest in National Harbob, MD and Kotoricon in New Jersey. Note, this episode does not have the rant. You can grab #97c for the rant or #97a for the rant and podcast.

Join DJ Ranma S, Mako-chan, and Ari Rockefeller as they discuss their first two conventions of the year, MAGFest in National Harbob, MD and Kotoricon in New Jersey. Then after that, our likely heroes breakdown and discuss "The Rules of Cosplay". Listen as they sit down and methodically rip Elizabeth Reesman and new arsehole. Warning, this special podcast does contain more profanity than normal, viewer listening is advised. *As of this posting, her blog and Facebook Like page have been removed. Note: This episode contains the podcast and the rant. If you want just the rant, download #97b, and #97a is just the rant.

Ranma, Mako-chan, and Ari talk about Dragon*Con and why people are protesting and boycotting it. Upon the death of the director, the Kite movie project pushes forward... We get DBZ in full color and Nickelodeon to air the new Digimon anime.

Ranma, Mako-chan, Ari, sit down and discuss what the hell happened at Katsucon 19. This week's guests are webmaster Taiki from our site, Omega Zed from Chocolate Lemon (www.clgaming.com), and Scarlet from Scarlet Rhapsody (www.scarlet-rhapsody.net). The three of them sit down and discuss Katsucon in a nutshell and their take on events.

Ranma, Mako-chan, Ari, and Sinh come back for the first LIVE podcast for the band to get back together for one more run! during this episode, the hosts talk about the return of High School of the dead, the Captain Harlock trailer in English, anime and videogame dopplegangers... They discuss the top five greatest anime soundtracks, along with their picks for their favorite anime soundtracks! Plus on the podcast listen as to how the stream failed three times, and for the first time ever with the new format, no Japanese Artist music!

The week, the team talks more about Dragon Ball Z, English Vocaloid counterparts, Otakon's spinoff convention, Hatsune Miku promoting donating blood, and the passing of voice actress Chieko Honda.

More Dragon Ball discussion. A complete "World of Dragon Ball" exhibition opens up and tours around Japan, a new One Piece-DBZ-Toriko anime crossover! All girl band Zone breaks up (again), The company behind Ichi the Killer goes bankrupt! Looks like Fairy Tail is coming to an end... And FUNimation opens fireson Animeland Wasabi with a lawsuit!

An android themed maid cafe opens in Tokyo, and Ranma is ready to go! We find out that the Fairy Tail anime isn't over, but there's more to it... The top ten saddest deaths of minor characters in anime. The team agrees on #3 and #1 especially. Toonami will be airing One Piece, Eva 1.11, on the Pokemon side, Charizard will return to Ash after 13 years... And the Japanese ads for The Cabin in the Woods is quite frightening...

Join DJ Ranma S, along with guests Jeff Delise of Vidgle (www.vidgle.tv) and panelist Keiko Hiratashi as they literally disassemble the con (or lack thereof) known as Springfest. Listen as they try to discuss the positive side of the convnetion, but mostly what went horribly wrong.

On this week's show, DJ Ranma S and Mako-chan talk about PAX East 2013 with special guest Scarlet from Scarlet-Rhapsody. As they talk about the good, the bad, the fun, the highs, the lols, listen as Ari Rockefeller groans about not being able to go. Despite the technical hiccups at the beginning fo the snhow, this is our biggest podcast to date, over two hours!