Anime Roundtable #34

Our view of Justin Sevakis’ open letter to the anime industry. In the bullets, the closing of the Toronto maid cafe, celebrity divorces, CSI DeathNote, and an American adaptation of Train Man to come. And finally Adam requests a guest spot on the Happy House of Hentai.

Tell me what doesn’t belong?

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Adam Grant. (1:05:33)

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Links of Interest
Justin Sevakis’ Letter on ANN
Arthur Smith Interview on Active Anime
Blog entry on iMaid Cafe closing

Tokyo Anime Center

Danny Choo blog on Japanese men preferring 2D girls over 3D

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Anime Round Table and Review
Eeeper’s Choice

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Anime Roundtable #33

The reputation of foreigners in Japan, ADV’s latest moves online, the latest in anime merchandising, and Death Note trully coming to North America.

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Adam Grant, Angela Jordan (1:06:10)

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Links of Interest

@Wiki blog on Halloween subway incident

Best Haruhi Tissue Box Joke (better than what Adam and Mike said)

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Ninja Consultant

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Anime Roundtable #32

This week, School Days and its prospects in North America. We’ll also remember Steve Pearl and a bygone era in North American fandom.

Don’t worry, most of this is still not as serious as it sounds.

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Adam Grant, Mohamed Sharmarke (1:06:20)

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Links of interest
The School Days question on Anime Nation’s Ask John

Gothamist Blog on the NY Subway Couple

Justin Sevakis tribute to Steve Pearle on ANN

Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema

Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival

Promo
Dave and Joel’s Fast Karate for the Gentleman

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Anime Roundtable Digest #6

Dean’s return episode where he gives his thoughts on recent anime news, and then his impressions of the current fall season…about a quarter of a way through.

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Adam Grant, Dean Colak (39:40)

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Links of Interest

Random Curiosity Anime Blog

Anime Nano Blog Directory

Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema

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Anime Roundtable #31

The Baskin Robbins episode. In it we’ll have a serious discussion about anime’s depiction of war on the eve of Remeberance Day in Canada. On the lighter side we’ll talk about Halko Momoi, One Pound Gospel, cultural figures in Japan, and the Perry Bible Fellowship.

mmmmm….ice cream…

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Angela Jordan, Adam Grant (1:06:24)

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Links of interest
Perry Bible Fellowship Comics

Halko Momoi’s Official Site

Macross F Preview Video

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Episode #31 and Digest #6 This Weekend

The episodes were taped on Thursday, but they’ll be put up a little later than usual this weekend. Episode #31 will likely come up late Saturday, and Digest #6 hopefully sometime Sunday.

In the meantime I just wanted to put in quick plug for the annual Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema going on next week from November 15th to the 18th. The anime highlights will be SOS Metro Tokyo Explorers on the afternoon of the 17th, and 5 Centimeters Per Second on the evening of the 15th. Both I believe are Canadian Premiers. So if you’re in the area, by all means. And I’ll once again repeat how much I am raving over 5cm, that is a must see in my books.

You can see the WFAC website by clicking on this link.

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Anime Roundtable #30

Talk about the Japanese Government survey on regulating “Harmful Material”, and a brief conversation on “Realizing Gundam”. Sprinkled with how Mike screwed up giving away candy during Halloween, and the ups and downs of Canadian Dollar parity (especially when Canada Customs gets involved) at the beginning; and an interesting request by Adam at the very end…one that will not surprise you one bit.

Mike Nicolas, James Austin, Adam Grant (1:06:18)

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Links of Interest
New iMaid Cafe Website (warning: very slow load)

Icarus Publishing Blog (Read Oct. 17 Entry)

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Up A Paddle

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