Anime World Order Show # 76a - A Disgrace to the Anime Punditocracy

Here's the first half of Show 76, containing the "general chat" portions of the show; reading emails and responding to recent anime news developments. Show 76b will contain the actual reviews.

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The Podcast Pickle player is down and we figure we may as well put up the torrent for both halves. We'll hold off on posting the second half of Show 76 for about a day or two, since otherwise all the people using podcatching software that downloads just the latest episode--that's most of you--won't ever hear this part. This is actually the first thing we've posted since Google changed the feed URL to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AnimeWorldOrder but since they state that the previous feed link will redirect, let's see if it causes problems for anyone if we just leave everything the same.

Introduction (0:00 - 26:51)
All the podcast gurus state you should save emails for the end of the show, which is why we read them at the beginning! Current emails in Inbox: 345. We lament the continued non-licensing of Ippatsu Kikimusume, and Gerald clarifies his stance on Dirty Pair Flash which was probably initially brought up when he reviewed Project E.D.E.N. way back when. Daryl takes the time to update the list of People In His Sights before trying to remember some anime titles with particularly noteworthy narrators. We can't help but think that we forgot something terribly important. And given the attendance levels for the Providence Anime Conference, are anime fandom gatherings geared towards non-teenagers viable?

Let's News! (26:51 - 1:03:09)
There were some regrettable deaths in the world of Gatchaman and O-DIIIIIIIIIIIIN, and we suspect Baoh as the cause of the death. Bandai Entertainment is joining FUNimation, ADV Films, and Tokyopop at the layoff party, and Diamond is upping their minimum order price by $1000. Dave Merrill's Livejournal is where the party was for that discussion: our favorite comment exchange was "GOSH WHY CAN'T WE GET WOMEN AND KIDS INTO THE COMIC BOOK SHOPS OF AMERICA? BECAUSE MY VAGINA IS HAUNTED!" Be sure to read those comments so you too may have the covers to the next three Grant Morrison projects. PS: all comicbook writers from the British Isles are awful no matter how much TRUE BELIEVERS claim otherwise. PPS: laserdiscs are finally no longer being made. You remember laserdiscs, right? Oh, huh. Well, we don't either.

Based on the amount of people in a previous poll who correctly identified the right answer, about 100+ people reading this will be glad to know that Discotek Media will be releasing the remastered Fist of the North Star theatrical animated movie on DVD later this year. In other "wow, someone licensed that?" news, The Roots of Japanese Anime Until the End of World War II is coming out in the US as well. It won't be cheap, but spare no expense for DVD quality copies of Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors, the very first feature-length Japanese animated film which is also incredibly jingoistic Japanese WW2 propaganda. On the newer side of things, Toei now has Space Pirate Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 available to view in streaming form, and iTunes has a whole bunch of anime songs up for purchase. Oh yeah, remember all that stuff about Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 3? Looks like it's been worked out. You know what hasn't been worked out? The fact that people don't seem to realize that anime voice actors are perpetually out of work and/or make very little money.

But enough about THE INDUSTRY: the Reverse Thieves have begun the Otaku Diaries project, an anonymous survey about the social lives or lack thereof of self-proclaimed otaku. You've got two months to complete the survey, and at about 150 short answer/essay questions you'll probably need it. Daryl's signed up for it, and hopefully so will everyone else. Let's see how deep the pit goes, shall we? If all that writing gets you in a mode, we recommend contributing to the proposed Anime Confessions archive, a would-be repository for all manners of fandom soapbox diatribes. So far they don't really have very many submissions. Perhaps YOU can help! Finally, Ben and Matt over at For Tax Reasons have released yet another short, which at nearly 8000 views is proof positive that they don't really need the rub from us. Too bad; they're getting it anyway!

Promo: Pop Rocks and Soda (1:03:09 - 1:04:28)
All the podcast gurus state you should make your promos about 30 seconds long, so we're playing this one that's about 90. Bonus points for no bongo drums this time!

We'll post the second half of this on Tuesday or Wednesday or so. It's actually done. We could post it now. BUT WE AREN'T. You know why? Because even though we shipped out nearly all of the T-shirts and hoodies, we didn't yet ship out the international orders. It turns out that shipping for hoodies is more like $8.75 than $5, and we shudder to think how much more expensive the international shipping will be. Anyway, if YOU want AWO t-shirts or hoodies, email us for the details. Here's Aaron from the WARP Anime Podcast (Go Recursive Acronym GO!) stylin' and profilin':

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