Wirt refuses a bluebird's help and winds up wandering into a huge mess of trouble at the annual Pottsfield harvest festival.

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On this episode of Otakuology, Mike & Jin discuss the breaking news that swept over the anime community.

It's the end of an anime era. Right Stuf is officially shutting down its online store and getting folded into Crunchyroll. Will Sony be a monopoly here in the West?

Cocky Spike Spiegel and the crew of his spaceship, Bebop, an intrepid band of bounty hunters, land on Mars in the year 2071 chasing an enormous cash reward. The four-person team, also including looming cyborg Jet Black, fearless Faye Valentine and tech expert Edward, are in search of ex-military officer Vincent. The former hero has become a biological terrorist with an arsenal of devastating nano-bots that he'll let loose on Alba City on the night before Halloween if his demands aren't met.

While lost in the woods of the Unknown, brothers Wirt and Gregory run into a jaded old woodsman who warns them to beware of a beast.

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On this episode of Otakuology we take a look at a two episode OVA Goku Midnight Eye. Goku lives by a simple rule: never get involved with women. But as a private detective in a futuristic Tokyo City, that's easier said than done. Goku's cases take him into the heart of danger, whether it's facing down a powerful and wealthy man who develops mass-murdering weapons, or a crazed experiment wielding ultimate power gone wrong. His one ace in the hole is his cybernetic left eye, which allows him to control any computer system in the world and gain information instantly. But even with it, Goku can never see into the hearts of the women who enter his life as quickly as they leave it.

On this episode of Otakuology we take a look at the classic 1986 action packed anime Project A-Ko. A plucky, super-powered redhead finds herself saving her crybaby best friend from an amorous, bikini armor-clad classmate at their new school and aliens seeking to bring her home.

What is true happiness? For Giovanni, the answer is as far away as the stars. Mired in hardship, the young kitten faces problems that should be unknown to someone his age. At school, his classmates mock and ridicule him, and after the bell rings, Giovanni toils at a job to earn enough money for bread. Then at home, he must take care of his mother. The sole bright spot is that of the Festival of Stars, where he hopes to run into Campanella, his only friend. When they finally meet up, however, it isn't while looking up at the stars, but rather traveling amongst them...

On this episode of Otakuology we take a look at the one-shot manga by Akira Toriyama Sand Land.

The world is a desolate wasteland called SandLand, inhabited by humans and demons. Water costs a lot of money so the people of SandLand thirst constantly. An old sheriff asks Beezlebub to help find the elusive Phantom Lake. Along with Thief, they go head to head with the king's army and discover the truth behind many mysteries.

On this episode of Otakuology we take a look at the 1999 anime Jin-Roh

Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura and Written By Mamoru Oshii

In an alternate history, following World War II, civil unrest and terrorism run rampant in a devastated Japan under foreign occupation. During a botched interception of underground munitions being transferred by a terrorist organization, Constable Kazuki Fuse, a soldier in an elite counter-terrorism unit, witnesses the true terror of human nature. He fails to prevent a teenage girl from carrying out a desperate suicide bombing that subsequently causes immense destruction to Tokyo. With mental scars and his competence under question, Fuse is sent back to the military academy for re-evaluation. Unbeknownst to him, he will soon be caught up in a web of government conspiracies that have the power to determine the future of all of Japan.