Chiaki teaches how to make ramen! Everything from making the broth to rollin’ the dough! We also cover some Japanese table manners while we enjoy the fruits of our labor.
Reviews: Kara Kuri no Kimi (The Puppet Princess)
We cover how anime is made, today and in the past. The process from conception to art and how it has changed over time. Discuss everything from directing to the in-between checking of animation. We also discuss how digital media has changed animation production.
Reviews: Animation Runner Kuromi
We saw the Secret World of Arriettty and decided to discuss anime movies in America and how they fair. We also discuss how the English version of Karigurashi compares to the previously released Japanese version.
Reviews: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
The addicts go through all of their mailbags and answer YOUR questions! We have been very behind on answer mailbags and it’s time to repay your generous questions with answers! Listen for your own submitted question!
Impressions: Zero no Tsukaima F and High School D x D
Love is in the air and we discuss the greatest romance of Studio Ghibli.
Impressions: Black Rock Shooter (TV), The Daily Lives of High School Boys, Recorder to Randorosu, Brave 10, Kill Me Baby, and Papa no Iu Koto o Kikinasai
How did anime evolve? Where did the style come from and how has it become what it is today? Chiaki uses her educational knowledge from Japan to give a chronological history of anime.
Reviews: Blood the Last Vampire
Impressions: Moretsu Pirates, Ano Natsu De Matteru, Amagami SS Plus, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi, Another
We contacted a number of other currently active and well-renowned podcasts and used our own knowledge of anime and what we watched from the past year to create the first anime oscars! Joined by Felix Alburne we decide the best anime of 2011.
Have you ever wanted to go work in Japan? Do you know how you’d go about finding a job? We talk about the good and the bad of working in Japan.
Reviews: Un-Go
Impressions: New Prince of Tennis, Senki Zesshou Symphonogear, Nisemonogatari and Poyopoyo
Its a standard cliche to have a musical episode in all long-running series. We get ours out of the way and talk about musicals and abridged series.
Reviews: Tamayura Hitotose and Ben-to
We talk about censorship in Japan and anime, what constitutes porn, what are the laws like, and more!
Reviews: Kimi to Boku and Mawaru Penguindrum
