Otaku Pride Podcast

show notes:

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

 

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Shownotes:

• 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!

 

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Show Notes:

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!

 

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I don’t have time for show notes this week… sorry guys =(  I am starting school this week and still working ~35hrs/week.

This is all you really need to see anyway:

 

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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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