Good morning, everybody! I’ve got a few quick news blips from the last few weeks that you might want to read! These are in order based on how they arrived in my RSS feed.

• Boxee and Crunchyroll team up? For the good of humanity!
• Proof that Studio Ghibli could write a story about a pair of scissors and it would sell like hotcakes.
• Fans of Haruhi Suzumiya and Gintama rejoice! New movies announced.
• New Anime convention for our corn-whisperer friends.
• Something that makes the Guy Nerd very happy: are dubs on the way out?
• Excitement! Viz media is going to release 20th Century Boys anime over here!

That’s all I’ve got for you this week.  Look foward to next week’s podcast! We’ll see you then!

Good morning darlings! It was brought to my attention today that one of the hosts of our ADD Network partner HyJact’d just had a baby 10 weeks early, so medical costs are stacking up. Thus, the Hyjact’d crew is holding a raffle to help her out.

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Here’s the article with a link to the donation site. Good luck, and let’s hope everything goes fine for baby!

That is all; you may go back to your regularly scheduled Wednesday.

There’s really not much to say except Happy Halloween! This week, we’re one short. The Guy Nerd and I review Kakurenbo, talk about Halloween in Japan, and list a few other Halloweeny anime shows to boot!

This week we won’t be posting on Tuesday, and this is a short episode, but we’ve got a Halloween goin’ on ’round here, and we hope you enjoy! Is anyone dressing in their anime cosplay outfits for Halloween this year? I’m going at Little Bo Peep! The Guy Nerd adds, “Happy Halloween! Don’t get raped by a clown.” I’m guessing he had a bad experience at a circus once.

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Kakurenbo Bit Ratings
The Girl Nerd: 5 bits
The Guy Nerd: 5 bits

Today’s news post is all about..movies!

Stolen from http://www.playpark.net/P804/

Teaser picture for webpage hit count here:

But no really, here’s the movies that are making waves in Japan and around the world-

1) Astro Boy (also called Atom for some reason) opens in America. Maybe we should review that some day. Let’s call that Plan……F!

2) Ponyo + America = Profit? I know I’ve made multiple promises to watch this, and I will once I get my insulin pills for the impending diabetes

3) From the people who brought you The Girl who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars~!  I seriously hope it will be shown outside Japan (doesn’t count if it’s 10 years later)

In other news,  do you smell it in the air? It’s another attempt to stop people from downloading anime on the net!

Hello hello everybody! We’re doing something slightly different this time: all three of us reviewing one show. Not only that, but it’s a show with 2 seasons. It’s a show with two seasons, we are reviewing both, all three of us are reviewing it, and we all liked it. Holy crap, the world is imploding on itself.

But enough of my talk. We’ll start off with a nice dose of Japanese lesson followed by a hearty review. Please enjoy the meal-sized podcast. Toodles!

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Ratings:
We all give it 7 bits! Holy crap!

If you, like me, are a fan of Naoki Urasawa’s Monster manga/anime, you will be most pleased to know that we will FINALLY see it stateside.  Beginning tonight at 11 PM  EST, the unfortunately-named SyFy (ugh) channel will show 2 episodes a night on their Ani-Monday programming block.

It’ll also be re-run the following week on SyFy’s sister network, Chiller. I, for one, have my DVR at the ready.

I may have gotten the name wrong, but no matter what you call it, the Eureka Seven movie is something else. That’s what we’ve reviewed this week, the Guy Nerd and I. The Gay Nerd won’t know what hit him. Audacity did its best to shut us down this week, but thanks to some quick thinking and computer finagling (that is so a word, spellcheck says so) we are getting it out oooon time. Hoowaay!

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Bit Ratings
The Girl Nerd: -20
The Guy Nerd: -20

That’s right. Negative reviews tonight. It’s unfortunate. I REALLY Wanted to like this. Really I did.

Since, as the title suggests, there isn’t any anime news I particularly liked and since I failed to do a proper mini rant last night, I’ll be ranting at you in text format today!

Ahem…here we go.

When I was a little kid, everything I watched was brand new. Never been done. But it seems like lately things have been pretty much the same.  Even in the world of anime, which is still gaining its legs here in American mainstream culture, we see remakes almost as frequently as something truly NEW comes along, and even the new things are just recycled ideas. I listened to a piece of short fiction the other day that illustrates what I’m talking about…sort of a creativity singularity. Click here to listen to Melancholy Elephants (36 minute mark).

I still get excited about anime and certain titles, but even the stuff I’m excited about seems to often be disappointing when I actually see it. Maybe it’s that I tend to take the story as a more important part of anime than the art. But look at shows like Cowboy Bebop or Baccano. There are some very compelling stories in those shows as WELL as excellent art and music. Shows like that prove I’m not completely crazy for being picky, since they bring everything together so well.

I’d rather not have to sit through another Fullmetal Alchemist remake. Give me more Lupin movies any day, but I’m done seeing the exact same story told in a very slightly different order. If you did it wrong the first time, learn from it and make something new and better. Jeez.

I had a little more to say, but I’d rather invite discussion: Do you think I’m being ridiculous by saying most of the modern shows are warmed over crap that have all been done before, or am I fully justified? This applies to all current forms of pop media, not just anime. Happy Wednesday!

It is with great sadness that I admit to having nothing clever at all to say. I’ll get my groove back, but I’m pretty exhausted today. Anyway, this week there’s no proper review; we’ve just discussed the upcoming shows for Japan’s fall 2009 anime season.

There are only a couple of shows coming out in Japan right now that we actually want to see, and you’ll get to hear us rag on the ones we DON’T like. Hoorayyyy!

Link to Chartfag’s delicious Fall 2009 chart, which we’ve discussed in detail HERE.

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Good morning my darlings! Another slow week in the world of anime.  Here’s what we gots for today:

Someone is making a documentary about anime fans. What? Why? We’re not that interesting. They say they are looking for fans who want to examine the social impact of anime, but if I know anything about documentaries, it’s that they tend to find the most psychopathic nutso otaku out there and will tell us that anime is responsible for violence in schools. Bleh! Bleh I say!

The first news that is news to me is that someone made a manga series about butlers and maids in training fighting and stuff. Why? WHY is Japan so obsessed with butlers and maids? I think I’d be well suited to talk about social issues as reflected in anime. Maybe I should sign up to do that documentary thing? Anyway, the manga is getting an anime. Sigh.

Like I said, a very light news week for anime. Drop us a line and let us know if you have any other interesting anime news, or have any series you want to see reviewed. Cuddles!