Otaku Pride Podcast

This week we interviewed Alex and Kou of dance of heart

A Few of the things we discussed…

• Why is it called Dance of heart? We havn’t seen anything about dancing.
• What is the production process for dance of heart? How does the collaboration work out? Which software do you use? (Kou uses manga studio)
• How have you evolved as artists/writers?
• What is your plan for the future of dance of heart?
• Alex tells us about their struggle with perfection vs. finishing things and finally releasing it.
• What is the relation of dance of heart to DDR and other dancing games?
• Ether Future has a new recruit, Xion who drew a guest strip while kou was out of town
• How are you promoting the webmanga? other than Otaku Pride of course
• We discuss the otaku pride error pages which were drawn for us by kou
• Were your characters inspired by real people? What is your relation to them?
• We discuss Sasha’s gender benders post
• Alex convinced a “womanizer” friend that he was a girl during chatroom roleplaying and hilarity ensued

 

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Show notes

• Marvel vs Capcom 2 rehash
• D. Gray-Man is back from hiatus
• Anime news network finally got rid of their dragonball evolution site theme
• That mall tom rambled about last week
• Aparently the japanese really like curry
• 4chan is a bannable offense

Site threads

• Haikus are awesome… we need more of those
• Twilight the anime… please god – smite those fools
• Metal gear solid
• Learning Japanese from anime? or from fortune cookies?

Site news:

• The popular sort is going to be better starting next week
• Tag Counts are now correct
• unanswered sort is renamed to unloved
• lots more bugs are fixed!

Coming next week: Nina and Kou of Dance of heart!

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Show notes

This week we talked about…

• Over 22.6 billion Yu-Gi-Oh cards have been sold, settings Guiness world record for the most popular card game in the world
• The New People Mall in San Francisco
• Viz Cinema (also in san francisco) will debut 20th century boys
• Fat Princess – is awesome
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Marvel vs Capcom 2 is out for xbox and coming soon for ps3
• Marvel is releasing some anime
• Sasha likes to talk about webmanga I mean um… wegmambas
• Jim thinks team rocket is the best bad guy/girl ever
• Tom likes the green dude from dragon ball z

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