Space to Rant #4: Douché (Colbert Pronunciation)

Mike sighs as he needs Rant Space to once again talk about credentials and credibility in the anime fandom and industry circles in North America. This after being called ignorant and disrespectful to the industry, by a member of the industry. Mike wonders if this was worth his time in the end, but [...]

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Space to Rant #3: Valentine’s Edition

Megan uses her cell phone to Gabcast her dating tips to geeks, and her thoughts about dating in the the geek sense. It really isn’t all that complicating.
Megan Swaine (3:20)
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Space To Rant #2: A Bite out of a spoiled ‘roll

The other members of the Roundtable finally begin to take up some Rant Space. So while we wait for the taping of the next episode, Enrico looks back one of our last episodes of 2008 and gives his honest feelings about Crunchyroll’s current direction.
Enrico Bianco (5:11)
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New Feature: Space To Rant #1

We finally introduce our new feature where the regulars get the chance to sound off on anything they want by themselves. It can be a reflection, it can be a story, and yes it can be an angry rant. But it is all genuine.
In the first edition of Space To Rant, Mike looks [...]

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TV viewing tonight: Animania and update on ep #47

If you’re in Ontario and can get OMNI2 tune in at 11pm tonight for a documentary that was partly taped at Anime North a few years ago. Animania had its broadcast premier a few months ago in Japanese, but the english version is set to premier tonight.
Yup, it’s about anime culture in North America. [...]

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Second Anniversary & Anime Roundtable #42: The Movie

Like I mentioned at the end of ep 42 last week, today is the second anniversary of this podcast. Our first show was taped exactly two years ago, and I’d like to think it’s gotten a little better since. Once again thank you to everyone who makes this worthwhile. The only thing [...]

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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 [...]

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Episode 21 taped….

…but boy what a disaster it was. Where do I start. Not much of an audience (not a big deal), tried to use a speaker for the non existant audience (many issues there), and the few that were around wanted to actually sit amongst everyone doing the show, many distractions. And to [...]

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Calm Before the AN Storm

Got back sometime ago from Anime North to tie up loose ends.  Very happy I went, aside from checking on things, I got my badge in advance of the long lines later (although this was long too).  Just finished up all preparations for tonight (one or two more in the morning).  Now all we do [...]

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