OSMcast! & The Carbuncle Chronicle

Everyone is CAH-RAZY over those zany robots!

Because we just weren’t done talking about hot chicks blowing up robots, we decided to continue forth with our opinions on Mamoru Oshii’s movie adaptaion of the Masamune Shirow classic, Ghost in the Shell!

Spoiler: We lied! The movie is _actually _about basset hounds.

One of the pluses on reviewing a hallmark of Japanese animation, especially as one so uh, _digital _as Ghost in the Shell, is that you can find the DVD for it pretty cheap. I mean, like $12.04 and $12.14 with free shipping cheap. Or if you have a really banging 6.1, 7.1, or Whatever is the Lastest Greater than 5.1 Surround Sound System then I suppose you could pony up the extra 10-20 bucks to grab the special edition that’s floating around. Of course, chances are that if you an afford such a sound system, you can afford the extra money for the DVD.

Apperently "tensai" means "genius." ... Yeah.

Ol’ Robert Pelloni (aka Bob) is still hard at work living locked up in his room as protest to Nintendo for not getting to him the tools he needs to move his project (the eventually DS game “Bob’s Game”) into the realm of retailability. Good luck Bob! After I’ve started playing Chrono Trigger on the DS, I’ve realized I need more RPGs that look and play like they should on the SNES in my life. And yours looks like an SNES-era Enix knockoff, so I have hope!

Robotrek is awesome and Bob should be inspiried to even greater... greatness by these pixels. I know I am.

I’m serious here, unheard of Enix games like Soul Blazer and Robotrek are the best. Okay, so most all the Quintet-developed games pre-Grandstream Saga are_ the best_, but still! I loved those games and your (Bob’s) game reminds me off them. I only worry that much like many other projects that started with much fanfare and the devleoper shooting his mouth off on how the great his game is only for the games to crash and burn, yours will not stand the test of time. I hope you can prove my worries are for naught!

As long as, you know…

Nintendo calls you back and stuff.

Bubblegum Crisis

Tonight  we dethrone the AWO’s “Last podcast to podcast about Bubblegum Crisis” crown with our our podcast about Bubblegum Crisis! … Mostly.

Okay _sometimes _we talked about Mega Man 9.

But it’s usually about Bubblegum Crisis, really!

Looking at the various places one can buy the boxed set of Bubblegum Crisis, I discovered that the best place was actually AnimEigo themselves. And if you like anime form the 1980s and/or hot chicks blowing up robots and/or cool mecha designs and/or awesome synth and rock music, you now have the links.

Get on it.

8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs ala chiptunes

And as we said, we all here at OSM Central hope you all out there had an awesome Christmas and a future Happy New Year! Like we said you still need some holiday music, 8-Bit Jesus is still there, just waiting for you. To you know… Download it.

Of course, what _better _way to give the gift of commenting than to give us some comments! We have that whole comments section just for that, too! Or send us an email at [email protected]. Or, as always, the OSMline is open to be called up and what not. The number for that is (206) 202-0071.

Macross Frontier

It’s all about high flying, mecha, idol sings, and guns, lots of guns in this episode of the OSM cast_!_ Of course, the topic is the latest Shōji Kawamori epic, Macross Frontier.

Okay I think we are back on track and ready to rock. Inubito’s actual main computer should be arriving this week, which means he won’t have to try and hack at editing this podcast on his laptop.

This is good news for the world.

(What’s not good news for the world is that as I’ve been editing the post for this podcast my power has gone out twice. So let’s rush though this and gte this suck up before it’s too late.)

Macross Frontier is, like we said, in no way licensed for the US and may never be. So our only recourse is the wide wonderful world of torrents and downloading. I’m pretty sure that the right Google search can point in you the right direction.

This is how Singapore sees Bubblegum Crisis. In very small preview images.

Next week we plan on talking about Bubblegun Crisis, that classic 80’s anime about hot chicks in powered armor blowing up robots. It really doesn’t get more awesome than that. Of course, I now realize that I think that Daryl Surat of AWO is also revivewing BBC in their next episode… So let’s see who updates with thier BBC podcast first! It’ll be exciting! … Or possibly not.

As always we are starved for attention so please give us some by either posting in the comments below, sending us an email at [email protected], or giving us a call on the OSMline at (206) 202-0071.

Adolescence of Utena

The OSMcast rises from it’s grave of computer woe’d-ashes to deliver unto you our take on one of the most awesome, trippy, postmodernist, animated movies ever : Adolescence of Utena AKA The Utena Movie.

Protip: And while I know that this is _technically _the 15th of December, this was recorded with the intent of getting up on the 1st, so it’s still dated for that time.

There are still a few options for you to go buy this movie, and you most definitely should.

Sadly, while we have been able to finagle an actual podcast for your listening enjoyment, Inubito’s computer is still down for the count. On the plus side, Lee no longer has mono! But yes, we are back in business so there shouldn’t be any interruptions again for the near or distant future.

We hope.

So in the meantime we give you a glimpse into a world where bulletproof tigers run rampant and polar bears need not fear the arctic wastes:

The consequences of this action could be... deadly!

This is the con we are talking about!

Over two weeks past due, we bring you our Nekocon 11 con report! Short version: Totally fun. Long version: Listen to our podcast! /Basara

(We also complain about Gonzo and how much Rosario + Vampire sucks.)

Protip: We had to use the travel mic and it so happened the room we were in was really echo-y. You have been warned.

So yeah, we had fun! We totally want to go again next year if we can! If  you live in the area and somehow have not gone, make plans for next year. For real.

You have now seen the entire show in this one screen cap.Congratulations!

But we all now know that Nekocon is awesome. Now I’d like to point something we forgot to mention in in the World of OSM. You see that screen cap on the left there? See the next one below that? The place I stole the screens from is a site complaining on now two of the three main networks that air the recent season of this crap are censoring the fanservice.

This is the travesty that others have now bemoaned and wailed and the gnashing of teeth and crap. Bats are not fanboys' best friends!

Apparently the one factor that people are drawn to the show (more panty shots per capita than a season run of Ramna episodes starring Happosai) has gotten _so _outrageous the networks that agreed to let this show get advertising money that they are throwing cute bats everywhere to cover up the said 50+ panty shots per episode. Go figure.

Legend of Galactic Heroes 2 or Irresponsible Captain Kamina? Only the Future knows!

Now, I will make no judgments upon the person for instead of using the phrase “panty shot” instead they use the phrase, “pantsu.” Whatever. The point is that even they are confused as to why the networks are even bothering. And to that sentiment I agree with them. However I have a different solution for you Osaka TV and Aichi TV. It’s really easy: Stop showing the show and show Nodame or Tytania or something I dunno… Good. Sure, it’s a wild idea that has no place in things like contacts or anything resembling logic and how these things actually work. I’d just rather see good shows being shown more than bad shows.

Well that was an unexpected rant! As always, you can contact us in an innumerable amount of ways. Commenting in our Comments Section always works. Email ([email protected]) also works! Voice mails (206-202-0071) do too!

… Okay so there’s three ways! But they are all excellent ways of doing it. Ergo, so you should be doing it

Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, and Jerry Jewell

In a strange twist of fate, our shortest episode actually has the longest title. Go figure! At this recently past Nekocon we got the chance to chat with three awesome voice actors: Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, & Jerry Jewell.

Protip: Since it was the portable microphone, you’ll need to turn up the volume to hear us. But there’s not a whole lot of background noise so it’s all good.

Thanks to the awesome staff at Nekokon for making this happen, as well as our guests for sitting down with us to talk, even though it was only a little while.

Azumanga Daioh

In tonight’s episode of the OSM cast_!_ we talk about J.C. Staff’s adaptaion of Kiyohiko Azuma’s awesome series: Azumanga Daioh!

With special guest star DJ Inubito as “The guy playing Fable II while we talking about stuff.”

Thanks to ADV’s awesome habit of making collections of stuff they make, you can not only now own the entire anime in a Thinkpack box set, you can also buy the entire manga run in one giant omnibus edition. 

This is coming out soonish!

Normally we have this stuff uploaded by Sunday night so it’ll be ready for your listening enjoyment bright and early Monday morning. But we just got back from Nekocon _late _last night and could not stay conscious enough to make it happen. Hopefully Monday evening will be just as nice! And if you _must _have it in the morning, I hear Tuesday is also a good day for it!

Speaking of Nekocon, it was a blast.

This comes out soonish after!

I’m sure we’ll be doing a con report on it at some point in the near future! Possibly even next week.

If you have any questions about the con, or about Azumanga Daioh, or you know, anything… Just leave us some feedback in one of our many myriad ways. Like for exmaple, the comments section! Or an email! You could also (dare I say it…!) even leave us a voice mail!

The World Ends With You

Expand your horizons, your world, as it were, with our latest podcast all about Square-Enix/Jupiter’s awesome game for the Nintendo DS: The World Ends With You!

And also where we try not to talk about the World of Warcarft! … Too much.

This game is in steady supply, but sadly no matter where we checked, the “Square-Enix tax” is in full effect and you are looking to be spending $40 for this game. It’s totally worth it though!

We just got back from CrisisCon, and it was pretty fun! Definitely an enjoyable con, and we’ll be sure to come back next year. I’m sure we’ll talk more about it on our next podcast, but by then Inubito and Basil will have already been to Nekocon! Such is the way our recording and update shcedule works…

There's a joke in this, I just know it...

Street Fighter IV is looking like it’s shaping up to be pretty awesome. They’re even having a contest where if you art is rad enough, it’ll be on the inner cover of the game! But right now all we care about is the awesome magazine ads we were talking about. Until then, we’ll just play more Third Strike and I’ll weep that Makoto isn’t in SFIV yet.

Oddly enough the most repeated question at the Crisis Con panel was “Do you get enough feedback?” And the answer is a resounding “NO, WE DO NOT AND IT MAKES OUR SOULS UNHAPPY. D:” So, if you would please be so kind as to comment down below, shot us email, or even voice mail, you’ll be our favorites. Unlike those _other _listeners…

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me blah blah blah

To conclude our October extravaganza of Octoberness, we’re finishing out with another set of three with a podcast all about the latest take on Kouta Hirano’s epic tale of vampires, Nazis, and blood, lots of blood.

So yeah, Hellsing Ultimate.

As it turns out this time Buy.com has the best deal on Hellsing Ultimate, with all the discs running you around $16.63 a disc.

Astroboy so did love the world so much that he... er... saved it. With machine gun butt attacks.

We only covered Hellsing Ultimate Volumes 1 thru 3, but you should go on ahead and buy all four. the fourth volume actually has our favorite villain yet, Rip van Winkle!

Protip: If the image to your left does not melt your heart, then there is no hope for you, as your heart is now cold, bitter stone. And you should feel bad. I mean just look at him.

And don’t forget to check out Chris Kohler’s write-up on “The Famous Takahashi.” It’s a really interesting look at a marketing guy you can’t help but to love. That’s really, really hard to do.

The Man, the Myth, the Pictures courtesy of Chris Kohler/Wired.com

Though I guess it helps when you can mash on a video game controller sixteen times in one second.

Also, we know when our podcasting panel will be at CrisisCon! It’s on Sunday November 2nd, from 11:30-12:30 in the Main Events room. It’s called Podcasting 101. We will be joined by our fellow Huntsvegas-ian podcasters Dead Workers Party Network! I suppose we will be talking ahout the basics of getting into podcasting and whatnot, which should be enjoyable. If nothing us you’ll get to listen to us ramble on for an hour of your day. Only this time it’s live and in person! I believe the DWPN guys are playing to pull off either a stream or a live recording of the panel, so I’d imagine we’ll be linking to that when we can.

And then we’ll be heading up north for Nekocon the weekend after! Not that we have any panels or anything planned, but we’ll be there all the same.

As always, please fell free to comment in the comments section, or send us an email at [email protected]! Or even call us up on the OSMline! The number is 206-202-0071.

We’ll see you next week!

Shop smart... shop S-Mart!

Kicking reason to the curb once more we take on a terribly terrific trilogy of movie-ocity with Sam Raimi’s and Bruce Campbell’s epic cults classics, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness.

Oh, _and _the musical. You can blame Eric for that one though!

Right now Best Buy has all three movies on sale for $6.99 a pop!

So you shouldn’t keep yourself away from these films any longer. Unless you’re scared. Of awesome. Best Buy also has the musical for $14.99, but you can also get it at the same price from Amazon.

You know you want one.

Speaking of good ol’ Amazon.com, you could also pre-order the KORG DS-10 Synthesizer! If you ever wanted to make beats on the go, I don’t think you can go very wrong here guys. I mean if it’s good enough for Yasunori Mitsuda, it’s good enough for all of us.

I wish I could also tell you all the reserve the Ghostbusters game but who knows when the game will even be out. Though man, Bill Murray is looking kinda old. But that still doesn’t stop him from asking the _relevant _questions.

Though sadly he may have received his relevant answer…

Who you gonna call?

Also, don’t forget that in a few weeks (Halloween weekend in fact) we’ll be at CrisisCon in Huntsville, Alabama! When the panel will be… I’m not sure. Hopefully they’ll get back to us soon enough so we can post about it and talk about in our next episode.

Also we’ll be kicking back the very next weekend (November 7th – 9th)  at Nekocon, in glorious Hampton, Virginia! We don’t have any panels or anything planned there, but we’ll be sure to crash something.

And as always, you are more than welcome to let us know you, dear listeners, exist!

I uh, guess that works!

There are many ways you can let us know this! You could…

It really is _that _easy!