Anime World Order Podcast

This is Part 2 of our interview with Walter Amos and Rob Fenelon. You probably want to listen to Part 1 first. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Apologies for the one month delay between episodes. Anyway, we're back with Part 1 of an interview we conducted with Walter Amos and Rob Fenelon back at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2007. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Show 63 concludes with Clarissa's review of the much-dreaded Crystal Triangle and our run-in with 4chan, the INTERNET HATE MACHINE, at AWA 2007. Two year anniversary? Probably. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Our special guest is Neil Nadelman and the Totally Lame Anime floodgates have been unleashed! Daryl reviews Dog Soldier, and Gerald reviews Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos! Stay tuned for Clarissa's Crystal Triangle review which will be uploaded in a few days. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's catch-up week for all of us. Daryl's going back and reviewing the remainder of To Terra and Gerald's reviewing the rest of Hakugei and Vol 1 of Xenosaga. Clarissa's belated AWA report was split into a separate bonus file that we uploaded prior to this. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Show 62 was running pretty long and we needed to get SOMETHING out before Thanksgiving, so we figured we'd put the con report for Anime Weekend Atlanta 2007 up as its own separate thing. You know, so you have something to listen to while you're waiting in line/traffic on Black Friday. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Are we deliberately trying to get people to stop listening to us? Not only is this episode late, it's also nearly three hours long. THREE HOURS LONG. And it's another all-mecha podcast! Gerald reviews Space Runaway Ideon, Clarissa tells us about Gravion, and Daryl might need a helping hand with Godannar. Huh huh, huh huh. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is the third and final part of our 60th show and Osamu Tezuka spotlight, featuring Clarissa's review of the Black Jack OAVs and movie from the 1990s. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is Part 2 of our 60th show and Osamu Tezuka spotlight, containing Gerald's news segment as well as his review of Vertical Inc's release of the manga Apollo's Song. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is Part 1 of our 60th show! To celebrate, we're focusing on Osamu Tezuka works, and Daryl starts things off by talking about Astro Boy in its various anime TV incarnations over the years. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Is time and space broken, or have the cartoons driven us crazy? Daryl's reviewing the historic anime anthology Robot Carnival, Gerald talks about the historical business manga Project X: Cup Noodle, and Clarissa makes AWO history by talking about When They Cry: Higurashi. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This show ran long, so we're splitting it in half. In this section, we read emails and talk about the news. We'll put up the file with the actual reviews in a few days. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Finally, an actual episode again! Clarissa reviews Suzuka, and Daryl not only recounts his experience at Florida Supercon, but also reviews Barefoot Gen, which is a very important work indeed. Gerald's Otakon report has been split off into a separate file. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is Gerald's report on Otakon 2007. It was the length of an entire episode on its own, so we have split it apart from the regular show and given it this separate feed item. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Skype's acting haywire, so we don't have a show for THIS week either. Here then is the audio for the interview we did with Colleen Clinkenbeard at Anime Festival Orlando 2007. We're even more addled than in the first interview. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We don't actually have a show recorded for this week, so here's the audio to our interview from Anime Festival Orlando 2007 with Funimation voice actor, director, and comicbook artist Sonny Strait (Krillin in DBZ, Hughes in FMA). None of us have ever done a live interview before prior to this. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

You thought last week was pain? This week is ALL bad anime. Daryl secretly loves Angel Cop, Gerald is ashamed to own The Humanoid, and Clarissa's blood pressure is DA BOMB when she watches Zaizen Jotaro. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Everything this week causes pain one way or another as Daryl reviews Demon City Shinjuku, Clarissa reviews Birth / Planet Busters, and Gerald wraps things up with Megazone 23 III. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

After over a month of no new recordings, we have returned, but our attempt to resume normal releases hit some roadblocks. This week, Daryl's finally talking about the Sanrio film Sea Prince and the Fire Child, Gerald discusses the Gainax television series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, and Clarissa goes nuts over MPD Psycho. This file is the first hour or so of the show, encapsulating all segments except for the news and the Nadia review which are available as a separate download on the feed. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We're releasing the news as well as the Nadia review in their own file separate from the rest of Show # 55 since these two segments alone run about two hours in all. We go over some of the news items arising out of Anime Expo 2007 and talk all about Fushigi no Umi no Nadia. Beware: discussion of "the island episodes" are contained within. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

After a month of procrastination and being occupied with actual work, we conclude the super-extended Show # 54 with Clarissa's review of Ai no Kusabi. Its DBR--Dudes Bein' Rude--rating is quite powerful indeed. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's time, it's time, it's...GERALD TIME! The extra drawn-out Show 54 continues as a result of Daryl's moving, so this week is Gerald's review of Black Lion by the almighty Go Nagai. Egged on by Daryl's solo recordings last week, Gerald follows suit. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Please don't let this be your first impression of this podcast. Please? Show 54 continues with Daryl's advance review of 009-1...but due to technical difficulties and the onset of madness, Daryl decided to record the remaining segments...BY HIMSELF. As such, this is probably the single worst segment of AWO ever. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In an attempt to at least release SOME content on a weekly basis, we're splitting Show 54 up across the next few weeks. This is our report for JACON 2007. Normally we'd try and keep this to 20-30 minutes, but...yeah, we failed at that. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl reviews Record of Lodoss War, Gerald reviews The Notenki Memoirs, and Clarissa reviews the BL anthology J-Boy. Apologies for the delay, but it's probably not the last of it. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is not a standard episode of AWO, but since we're all incredibly busy with school, convention preparation, and relocating to another city, we're talking about the subject of bootlegging in anime as well as Volume 1 of the journal Mechademia. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This week, it's all stuff we're feeling kind of "eh" about, which partially accounts for why it took so long for us to edit it. Daryl reviews all of Ergo Proxy, Gerald tackles Megazone 23 Part 2, and Clarissa's keeping it real [robot] with Hades Project Zeorymer. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In addition to our Megacon 2007 report, Clarissa reviews Animation Runner Kuromi, Gerald revisits The Venus Wars, and Daryl finally gets around to reviewing To Terra Volume 1. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's our glorious 50th episode! Gerald reviews Megazone 23 Part 1, Clarissa's got Princess Tutu, and Daryl rambles about Macross: Do You Remember Love? for nearly an hour. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This is not like our usual episodes, so don't let this be your first episode you hear. We keep asking for voicemails, but we never seem to play them. Here we shall rectify this and also procrastinate on releasing Show # 50. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl keeps the manga reviews coming with a review of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Clarissa gets back her shojo mojo talking about Loveless, and Gerald celebrates its 20th anniversary by reviewing Dirty Pair: Project E.D.E.N. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full notes and supplemental links.

Daryl reviews the MANLY MANGA Satsuma Gishiden, Gerald reviews the MANLY CARTOON Spirit of Wonder (what?), and Clarissa is the MANLIEST of us all since she reviews MAZINKAISER~! which law dictates must be spelled in all-caps tilde exclamation point. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl has an advance review of Le Chevalier d'Eon, Gerald gets sprung with Utawarerumono, and Clarissa reflects upon Nerima Daikon Brothers. As a test to see if we can hang with REAL reviewers, all of us have decided to review just Volume 1 of shows we've never seen before, all courtesy of ADV Films. We're going nowhere fast. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

In what will go down in history as the AWO's darkest hour (it was Gerald's idea!), this episode is entirely devoted to hentai. Daryl reviews the extensively surreal Kanashimi no Belladonna, Clarissa reviews the manga Pink Sniper by her favorite hentai artist Kengo Yonekura, and Gerald fulfills the dream by providing us with a highly-researched review of Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl reviews the books The Push Man and Other Stories and also Abandon the Old in Tokyo, Clarissa reviews the recent anime series Black Lagoon, and Gerald reviews Voltes V. The books contain dead babies, they probably shoot babies in Black Lagoon, and women are repulsed enough by 70s super robot anime such as Voltes V that they miscarry. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and details.

This week, the theme is unbridled optimism in the face of adversity, so who better to have on as a guest than veteran anime fan and Corn Pone Flicks personality Joe Vecchio. Daryl reviews Studio 4C's 2004 theatrical film Mind Game, Gerald weighs in with his thoughts on Vertical Inc's release of the Osamu Tezuka manga Ode to Kirihito, and Clarissa feels all warm and fuzzy inside as she shares with us her thoughts on ADV's manga release of Yotsuba! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This isn't technically an episode, so if you've never heard our show before, don't listen to this episode first, okay? All we do this episode is answer emails...on Christmas Eve. We were supposed to put this up weeks ago, but then the entire project got corrupted and the whole thing had to be hastily re-edited and processed. As a result, the first 30 minutes or so may sound like we recorded this in a tin can. Also, there is no music at the beginning or end. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Daryl reviews the obscure and INCREDIBLY DEPRESSING 1970s film Ringing Bell (from the people who brought you Hello Kitty!), Gerald is quite let down by Kishin Corps, and Clarissa saves the day with Part 2 of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. This is perhaps the last episode of 2006, what with Christmas and New Year's coming. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

It's our one year anniversary! Funimation sent us DVDs to review, so Clarissa reviews Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid, Gerald has the unenviable task of reviewing Moon Phase, and Daryl pitches in with his viewpoint on the Limited Edition of Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie: The Conqueror of Shambala. Be sure to listen to the end for a SPECIAL ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SURPRISE! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This week, it's titles that for one reason or another just aren't for everyone. More so than usual, anyway. Daryl reviews the 2004 Gonzo anime series Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Gerald reviews the manga Voyeur and its followup Voyeurs Inc, and Clarissa reviews the Studio Ghibli film Omoide Poroporo, aka Only Yesterday. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

We're officially over the hill. Can you believe we've been babbling for 40 episodes? Daryl--whose gain level introduced lots of static whenever he spoke--reviews the semi-obscure 1980s film The Dagger of Kamui, Gerald reviews the quite obscure 1980s TV series Future Police Urashiman, and Clarissa gets the ball rolling with Part 1 of our Jojo's Bizarre Adventure review. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

By popular demand, here's what we--and by we I mean Clarissa--think of the Fall 2006 anime lineup. What we watched of it, anyway. Death Note and D. Gray-Man were covered in Show # 39. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

There are officially too many good videogames coming out right now, but we resist the urge to slack off just barely. Daryl talks about The Twelve Kingdoms, Clarissa gives us her thoughts on the first few episodes of both Death Note and D. Gray Man, and we somehow manage to talk about our experiences at Anime Weekend Atlanta 2006 in 30 minutes instead of 2 hours. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and descriptions.

In perhaps the manliest (and longest) episode to date, Gerald reviews the Kazuo Koike jigoku manga masterpiece Lady Snowblood (this episode's title being a reference to the editorial thought process governing this manga), Daryl opines on the new Fist of the North Star movie Raoh Gaiden, and Clarissa weighs in with her thoughts on the first season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This one's for all the Gerald acolytes out there, as he conducts an interview with Michiko Ito, professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Kansas. Tim Eldred, whom we interviewed in Show 14, is also present. Listen on, would-be otaku, and discover exactly what inanimate objects YOU should be praying to in order to guarantee that you see that next episode of Gundam! Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Departing from our typical show format, our special guest this week is Marc Handler, who's worked in various roles on localizing titles such as Voltron, Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, Transformers, FLCL, Naruto, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Astro Boy, Avalon, Zatoichi, and much, MUCH more. Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This isn't really an episode. Well, it was until we decided it was cosmically lame. See, it's mostly composed of the audio to our panel at AWA 2006, and it was pretty boring. Oh, and we sound like robots for the first 30 minutes. Oh well. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

This episode is a week late due to computer troubles, but hopefully the wait is worth it. Gerald reviews Hayao Miyazaki's theatrical directorial debut The Castle of Cagliostro, Daryl reviews the 2004 anime remake of Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix (aka Hi no Tori), and Clarissa reviews the yaoi manga Embracing Love by Youka Nitta. Visit www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

No time for a final quality check listen, we've got to drive to Anime Weekend Atlanta! Gerald reviews Cromartie High School, Clarissa continues the ABe kick from last week with Serial Experiments Lain, and Daryl unveils a small portion of THE TRUTH he discovered at Metrocon 2006! Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.

Finally, a normal format episode again! Gerald lets us know all about the uncut version of Street Fighter II: The Movie, Clarissa kicks it old school with My Youth in Arcadia (aka Arcadia of My Youth), and Daryl offers his own unique insight on Haibane Renmei! Visit http://www.animeworldorder.com for full show notes and supplemental links.