• PS3 price drops on many games!
• Final fantasy 13? her?
• Who’s Learning Japanese? (hj lite)
• When to make a new Post and when to just reply
• Manga in eBook format? please?
• Bardock, father of goku. thumbs down
• esploded!

• The iPad. What it’s good for, and why Jim bought one.
• Manga in the iBooks vs Kindle store
• What makes games fulfilling – ie. Easy Mode is for Babies
• Linux on the Playstation
• Hardware hacking
• What makes Digital Distribution worth it
• Mark Shuttleworth’s Trip to the International Space Station
• Vote for what you want to hear about from E3

Show notes:

• Being an IGN editor is very exciting
• Final Fantasy “Premier Party” in Japan to announce all kinds of things about FFXIII
• Unforunately the title track for the US version has been replaced with some american song
• Anyone seen Teknoman (Uchu no Kishi Tekkaman Blade)?
• What is it about anime that draws you in?
• Jim is a total neophyte… Not sure what to call ryan
• How do you get into video game journalism?
• Whose reviews do ryan, a game journalist, read?
• How do you pursue a career in media?
• XBox vs PS3

Computer == Esploded

• Funimation is releasing Dragonaut on DVD
• Maria, Ryan, and Jim checked out a few episodes
• Jim thinks the show is ecchi but doesn’t seem know what that word means
  • Jim points to a list of ecchi anime on wikipedia
• turns out linux is invincible to advertising
• Tom ate an old cookie
• There is some intense sexual organ rendering on the dragonaut page
  • screenshot (in case the site changes when the dvd releases)
• The subtitles are a lot less… um… cheezy than their english audio counterparts
• Oh yeah… real dragons have curves (see screenshot)
• Here are the boobs tom was talking about
• Boxee and crunchyroll are getting together
• Jim thought blueray was in 720p What a sucker! hah!
• Maria’s foot was… er… black?
• Tom hates spammy tweets
• I accidentally outed maria as a twilight fan
• Tom is fake excited about keanu reeves in cowboy bebop
• Don’t forget to send us your Halloween pictures!
• One Piece is great – I (jim) am enjoying it
• We are going to check out the One Piece Podcast and let you know what we think
• Jim loves Azumanga Daioh
  • The dubbed version has the same words as the subtitles but the jokes are in different places – it’s very weird and awesome
• MKV is a superior file format to AVI
• Don’t forget to send us your Halloween pictures!
  • Tom@otakupride.com
• Episode 22 of dance of heart!

Oh yeah the world series was on

• Games as Downloadable content
• The PSP Go
• The Plumeting cost of Data Storage (disk space)
• Jim (that’s me) is waiting for Manga Fox to turn into Crunchy Roll
• Ryan really wants Neil to make a Dark Theme
• Related Posts (New Feature!)
• Do we support our cosplayers?
• Dirk Tiede’s Paradigm Shift Book 3 is Available to Preorder!
• Tom is apparently offering to ship anime/manga to people who can’t get it in other countries (I don’t think he’s serious)
• Otaku Pride stickers should be currency

• The Otaku Pride Twitter Contest

• The upcoming CGI remake of Astroboy
• The new PSP Go
• Wolverine as Anime
• Project Needlemouse
• Gunsword
• One Piece (the manga)
• American-Otaku.com
• Free Hugs

See you next week!

Lots of people dancing
- more pics coming soon

Rosario + Vampire Manga is much better than the Anime

Difference between The audience for Anime vs Manga

You can’t take Sasha anywhere…

We all really enjoyed Fairytale Fights (given our limited amount of gameplay) looking forward to it (Oct 27)

We address the question, “Why pay to go to a con if you’re just going there to buy stuff?”

The Del Ray manga Surgical Masks were NOT to promote monster, but heres a link

First 30 people to ask for a sticker can get one mailed to them, just send us your address either as a reply or in a feedback

follow us on twitter! 0takupride

I bought the first two books (out of the trilogy) and found the story to be both fun and suspenseful. I recommend you check it out You can read the entire story as a webmanga and if you like it, please don’t hesitate to leave comments, or even buy the books!

I’ll try to do a full writeup  when I finish the 3rd book’s story (on the web since it’s not yet released as of this writing). See you next week ^_^

This week we’re talking about the NYAF 2009 Schedule (As of this posting NYAF 2009 is this coming saturday) so feel free to follow along with the schedule as we talk about the events ^_^

• Intellectual property rights is very exciting and awesome and sasha needs to go to it because she wants to go the funimation panel
• Sasha sets us back on course by bringing up the “How I broke into anime and manga industries” panel
• There are 6 maid cafes this yearmaid cafe (noun) – A horribly naive gentlements club… you heard it here
• We all think the Zombie survival panel is by far the most useful event you could attend
• Everyone should check out the gundam panel with my buddy yoshi, and don’t tell him I called him a gumpy old man in podcast x
• Andrew W.K. made a gundam tribute album… um wtf? it’s weird
• We’re not sure what an extra curricular robot battle is… maybe it looks good on your application to robot overlord school?
• Japanese Video Games vs US Video Games
• Steampunk in anime? STEAMPUNK IN ANIME?! I love steampunk <3
• There is a concert on sunday… I may be there sunday now =D Hooray!
• Fairytale fights! Most of us Otaku Pride podcasters will be checking them out on saturday
• Anime news network is having a panel…
  - we love them, even if they do have horrible dragonball evolution site themes
• Kamina Sama stumbled on our error page lulz

• NYAF and Comic-con will be at the javits center the same weekend in 2010
• What do you think of a masquerade Otaku Pride Halloween party this year?
• Which cosplay will piss off both NYAF and Comic-con attendees? Harry potter?
• We discuss super powers – and I will cut and paste your ass
• Tom has never heard of homestar runner
• Turns out tony stark’s atomic pacemaker is a super power
  
• Coming soon: Customizable site themes – Check out the first user submitted draft (by etherfuture)
• Lots of new features coming soon!
• Chopsticks > Spoon > Sporks == A First world problem

See you next week!

This week went a little longer than usual – nearly an hour! Here are a few of the things we discussed:

• Creator of Gundam (Yoshiyuki Tomino) says, “Video Games are Evil“
• NYAF Pre-Event Party
• What’s your favorite Japanese Animated Film?
• 5 Reasons nobody buys anime (and how to fix it) – hit on reddit (66 comments so far woot!)

Thanks for listening!

This is all you really need to see anyway:

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

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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