Bonus - On Anime Bootlegging and Mechademia Volume 1

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, entitled "Emerging Worlds of Anime and Manga."

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Oh, since we forgot to actually record something in post with regards to the subject, the keychain contest is over. Don't worry, we have other contests as well, but they'll be the more standard DVD giveaway ones.

The bootlegging discussion is from 0:00 - 47:20. Since Christian Daly and Greg "DESTROY SURAT" Spahr could tell we were totally going to steal from their material in doing a discussion on how to spot bootlegs, here is their Powerpoint presentation from their panel at AWA 2004 on the very same subject which contains pictures of several of the bootlegger logos as well as pretty much all of the information we conveyed, only it's in a couple slides that can be read in minutes as opposed to heard by us. Jerry Chu was there too, but I don't think he listens to this show. Then again, Greg probably doesn't either. Too busy raising a family or something, the big wuss...NO WAIT, KEEP AWAY

Promo: Destroy All Podcasts DX (47:21 -48:07)
This podcast just came out today! And...their feed is down at the moment! However, they like the podcasts we like, such as...us! Therefore, we shall draw your attention to it, even though it's their first episode and they're undoubtedly still working things out. Edit: Okay so they've got three episodes, and not only do they use sound clips from the Hong Kong dub of DYRL, Tranzor Z, and Robotech...TO THE RESCUE! (I lie to myself and say they got them from us, and we in turn swiped it all from Mike Toole and Dave Merrill), but episode one is all about GETTER ROBO~! And really, discussion of that is the best possible application of one's film degree, because we stole the film noir quotes from Jeremy Kaufmann, who runs this operation.

Review: Mechademia: Volume 1 (48:07 - 1:41:47)
Per its official web page, the focus of this journal is manga and anime, but rather than limit themselves to just that subject--perhaps to make it easier to get papers?--it is the editorial board's position that the production, distribution, and reception of anime and manga continue to generate connective networks manifest in an expanding spiral of art, aesthetics, history, culture, and society that they call Art Mecho. Much like Superflat, Daryl has no clue what that actually means. We went through each of the major articles at the following times:

51:52 - The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism by Anne Allison
54:55 - Globalizing Manga: From Japan to Hong Kong and Beyond by Wendy Siuyi Wong
1:00:34 - The World of Anime Fandom in America by Susan Napier
1:09:59 - Costuming the Imagination: Origins of Anime and Manga Cosplay by Theresa Winge
1:15:10 - Assessing Interactivity in Video Game Design by Mark J.P. Wolf
1:18:21 - Mori Minoru's Day of Resurrection by Tatsumi Takayuki
1:21:57 - Superflat and the Layers of Image and History in 1990s Japan by Thomas Looser
1:26:25 - Kurenai no metalsuits, "Anime to wa nani ka/What is Animation?" by Ueno Toshiya
1:30:23 - The Multiplanar Image by Thomas Lamarre
1:32:51 - The Werewolf in the Crested Kimono: The Wolf-Human Dynamic in Anime and Manga by Antonia Levi
1:36:19 - Metamorphosis of the Japanese Girl: The Girl, the Hyper-Girl, and the Battling Beauty by Mari Kotani
1:38:25 - At this point we briefly go over the reviews and commentaries at the end

Closing (1:41:47 - 1:44:20)
Next time, Gerald's reviewing the book The Notenki Memoirs which is all about the history of Gainax, Clarissa's reviewing the yaoi anthology J-Boy, and Daryl's going to review the original Record of Lodoss War OAVs. Though recorded weeks ago, we haven't quite gotten around to finishing the editing of it. Or beginning it, for that matter.

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