Anime World Order Podcast

It's been entirely too long since we've reviewed something from before the 1980s, so we all checked out the Toei Douga 1975 film adaptation of The Little Mermaid to see how it compares to the original story...and yes, the Disney film everyone knows! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We're not done awakening the trailblazers yet as planned, so for this special extra large THANKSGIVING DAY episode, Gerald's put together another exciting trivia episode to expose how little Daryl and Clarissa know, even when the topics pertain to things previously reviewed on this very show! Plus, we're joined by Dawn from the Anime Nostalgia Podcast, who agreed to show up mere hours before the start of recording and mere minutes after waking up. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's a podcast. It's a special podcast. It's got super discussions about Code Geass, Berserk Season 2, Anime Weekend Atlanta 2016, and Gerald's review of a Most Dangerous film from 1986, Ai City. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We missed the entire month of August, so we may as well double up with our con report on Otakon 2016 as well as Clarissa's review of the recent NoitaminA series Erased. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We've got a bit of time between one convention and another, so Gerald takes this opportunity to review the recently-concluded Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

With Anime Fan Fest 2016 concluded and our writing deadlines met, we've got a short window before AnimeNEXT 2016 where we'll all be guests and be presenting panels to record and release a new episode. In this episode, Daryl reviews Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl was a guest at Anime Fan Fest 2016, and used the opportunity to finally get some time with Charles Dunbar, Darius Washington, and Sean O'Mara. The topic was allegedly How to Stay Excited Over Anime After Decades but it was early in the morning and everyone just talked at one another about who knows what. Same as usual, minus the early in the morning part I suppose. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This episode came out a month late because of trauma incurred by a CG talking dog and also CG drifting cars, the one-two punch of which was enough to give Gerald pause before he could review the CG anime adaptation of Knights of Sidonia. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

The following episode contains zero edits whatsoever to remove microphone pops, crosstalk, dead air, us saying UM, clearing our throats constantly, or anything that in any way makes the listening experience palatable or enjoyable. That is because we are reviewing Initial D. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplementary links.

Ten years sure is easy to type, but living them's another story! To celebrate our decade of podcasting, we er, had nothing planned. But it's a new year, so let's do a 2015 Year in Review despite the fact that we never did 2010 through 2014. Look, we never figured this whole podcasting thing out, okay? Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Is THIS going to mark ten years of our podcast? Clarissa reviews THE BASKETBALL WHICH KUROKO PLAYS, or as rational people call it, Kuroko's Basketball. Any native English speaker who says Kuroko no Basuke or even weirder Kuroko's Basket probably reads pirated scans. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplementary links.

In this episode, we've implemented multiple new ways to drive away listeners as this episode is primarily about sports anime. We also give our convention report of Anime Weekend Atlanta 2015 and Gerald reviews the bicycle racing anime Yowamushi Pedal. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

As a result of donations sent in via his Twitch channel at www.twitch.tv/suratd, Daryl was tasked with reviewing an anime selected by those who donated. The decision was unanimous: Ben-To. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental details.

After giving our convention/panel coverage of Otakon 2015, Gerald reviews the recent released theatrical film Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection of F (or, if you prefer, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'). As Gerald does not actually like Dragon Ball Z, this makes him either the least qualified person to do such a thing...or perhaps the MOST. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

With Hama-con over and Otakon mere days away, we go over some of the major Anime Expo 2015 announcements (this takes 28 minutes) and Daryl reviews the now 20-year old OAV series El Hazard: The Magnificent World (invariably bringing up the original Tenchi Muyo! in the process). Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplementary links.

Yep, we missed an entire month, but Shirobako is all about missing deadlines, as Clarissa points out this episode. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Wait, did we turn the clocks back to the early 2000s for this episode? Only partially, for while it?s true that we?re reviewing The Anime Encyclopedia, it's the newly revised 3rd Edition as opposed to the older editions. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Freelance videogame journalist Heidi Kemps of the website gaming.moe joins the battle to discuss the recently-concluded short comedy series Hi-sCoool! SeHa Girls. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It wasn't easy, but we finally managed to get a hold of Ardith Carlton, who played a formative role in American anime fandom and is still going strong to this day. Her tales of 70s geekdom and what it took to make it to Japan where she now lives is one of Attack No. 1 levels of determination. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

To celebrate roughly nine years of this podcast existing, Gerald has decided to do this episode in the style of a podcast he ACTUALLY enjoys: Atomic Trivia War 9000. Joining us for this episode is Paul ?White Daryl? Chapman from Otaku USA Magazine and The Greatest Movie EVER! podcast. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Clarissa and Gerald thought they could get a podcast review done with minimal editing and minimal viewing overhead if they just watched something that was already on Netflix. But then they chose the 2013 Space Pirate Harlock CG animated film directed by Shinji Aramaki. How does this compare to what Daryl said in Show 125? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is not a standard style episode, as we're interviewing Robert W. Gibson, a longtime anime fan who was there in the foundational era of US anime fandom. Part 1 is available at Tim Eldred's Cosmo DNA website. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In this episode, Gerald reviews the 1978 theatrical film Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo. Be forewarned that this episode is heavier on spoilers than usual and the person we are likely to model our pronunciation of ?Lupin? after is Dennis Moore. Dennis Moore. Dum de dum. The night. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In this episode we free our souls from the weight of gravity and gain true understanding of one another as you belong to me, I belong to you, we belong to Earth, and Daryl reviews the 7-part OAV series Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Despite the fact that Clarissa is in the middle of moving and Gerald is in the middle of helping Clarissa move, it was decided that the computers and microphones shouldn't be packed up just yet, since Gerald's got an Otakon report due. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Seriously? We missed the entire month of June yet still say this thing is updated weekly? No matter, what?s done is done. Or rather, what?s not done is done. For this episode, Gerald reviews the classic 1980s Sunrise mecha series Giant Gorg. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

After months of general unwillingness to record due to the difficulty of assembling a proper review without spoiling everything, we're back! Clarissa reviews the recently completed television series Samurai Flamenco. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's a lot less structured than usual, but Daryl rambles on about the CG Space Pirate Captain Harlock film as well as Bayonetta: Bloody Fate. At no point does he say what either are about. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

After 2 months, we spend a lot of time not talking about anime, read an email about not watching it, and then FINALLY Daryl reviews the new anime anthology Short Peace. We're out of practice, okay? Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplementary links.

We imagine there aren't too many people who listen to us that do not listen to the ANNCast, but just in case it may be worth pointing out that all of us were on the latest episode, answering Twitter questions for about two hours. Give it a listen if you want to hear our thoughts on Space Dandy and learn sordid details of our lives which we've already disclosed in either previous episodes or on Twitter. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

To kick off 2014, Gerald has taken it upon himself to review the 2012 feature film 009 Re: Cyborg. We also delve into an oft-repeated discussion of modern anime regarding its hierarchy relative to other special interest media. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

For the final episode of 2013, here?s the third and final installment in which Gerald and Daryl answer another batch of Anime82's questions. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Here's the second of three parts of our answers to Anime82's questions. We may have a separate episode before posting the third part. Or not. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We were sent another batch of questions from the Anime82 Podcast, so we figured we'd post our responses here across 3 installments. Here are Questions 1-6. Perhaps we should have sent our responses to Anime82 first before posting this ourselves, since our not having sent this audio is probably preventing them from posting in the first place? Details, details. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

After over 2 months between episodes, with so much that has happened as far as titles and news events, we're...not talking about any of those things since Daryl has to catch up on doing what he said he'd do months ago, which is review the 2012 theatrical animated film Asura. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl and Gerald recount their experiences attending Otakon 2013 and Gerald reviews a title he saw for the first time at Otakon: Midori - Shoujo Tsubaki, also known as Mr. Arashi's Freak Show. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

After a many-year hiatus we've got Tim Eldred back to talk about Space Battleship Yamato 2199. Sorry for lack of description, but we've got an Otakon flight to catch. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We're joined by "Mitsugi" from the Anime Addicts Anonymous podcast, who's currently in Japan and just saw the latest Studio Ghibli film, The Wind Rises. So we talk about that and uh, siscom. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We had this interview scheduled with Sam Pinansky of the just-launched website AnimeSols, but then he went on ANNCast right before this recording and they asked all the stuff we originally were planning to ask. We then had to improvise for questions. THIS INTERVIEW IS THE RESULT. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It has finally come to pass. After all the years of idle chatter, we have finally sat down to interview the man, the myth, the LEGEND~! that is Mike Reynolds. For decades, Mike's voiced tons of "old man" characters in anime as well as done work for Power Rangers, VR Troopers, and the like. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We thought we would be able to line up some guests to do the next review we had planned. That didn't work out, so we're recording this IN HASTE. Clarissa had a grad school conference to attend and thus couldn't make this recording. Daryl has articles overdue...and thus, is here! As such, Gerald is telling everybody the (bad) news and reviewing Gdgd Fairies. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Gerald's out sick, so here's an interview conducted with two of their guests, the dangerous acting duo of Michael McConnohie and Melodee M. Spevack. Rest assured: you've heard their work, so BECOME A PART OF US. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Another new year, another set of broken promises from us. No, we didn't get a final recording out before the end of 2012. But we're back, and this time Daryl reviews Kids on the Slope. To his surprise. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

No, it's not the end of the world: Clarissa's semester has ended, which means we can get back to the usual...er, actually it didn't end so recently that we have something to review. So we read three emails instead. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In a rare deviation from our usual set of hijinks, Clarissa isn't around and we review a NEW show for a change as Gerald espouses the merits of Shoji Kawamori's latest venture, AKB0048. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Clarissa is occupied with schoolwork, so substituting as her is Paul Chapman from Otaku USA Magazine and the Greatest Movie EVER! podcast. In this episode, we talk about our time at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2012, Daryl reviews The Drops of God manga, and we totally don't guilt/anger-trip you over the Production IG Kick-Heart Kickstarter. That's it. Nothing else happened. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

As promised, here's a re-casting of Daryl's answers to the latest round of anime podcaster questions put forth by Regan Strongblood of the Anime82 podcast. We'll be back to actual episodes next time. Probably. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

With Anime Weekend Atlanta next week, we're putting the final touches on our panels. And...playing Torchlight II. In the meantime, here's a re-casting of Gerald's answers to the latest round of anime podcaster questions put forth by Regan Strongblood of the Anime82 podcast. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

If you thought we were done with this A and B nomenclature thing just because we said we were, THINK AGAIN. We were going to have this after the Otakon 2012 report but things were running long, so here's where Gerald reviews the Discotek Media releases of The Fantastic Adventures of Unico as well as Unico in the Island of Magic. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Three months between proper episodes is pretty deplorable even for us. We had meant for this episode to contain our Otakon 2012 report as well as the review of Unico, but the report ran long so we're splitting this in half. Joining us for the con report via rather low quality landline reception is AWA Video Programming Director (and amateur Strong Sad impersonator), Darius Washington. We tried recording this using Google Hangout instead of Skype, so the audio quality is a bit "off." Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.