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Another way to help Otaku no Podcast – Buy Me Stuff!

I have come up with yet another way to help the podcast! If buying stuff from our affiliates, or donating, is not to your tastes, then why not buy me some stuff?! (Why you would be willing to do this instead of buying stuff for yourself, I have no idea, but a guy can dream, [...]


PMX 2011 preliminary schedules are now up!

Good news everyone – the PMX preliminary schedules are now up! They’re available in PDF form as a print-ready black and white or color version.

I would like to point your attention at 3 panels in particular. (Yes, as you might have guessed, we will be running some panels of our own!)

“Otaku Podcasting for [...]

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Cool Find: ProPlayer Video Player for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad

Those of us that have collections of anime videos on our hard drives (unlicensed only, please; and please support the creators by buying the title when it becomes officially licensed in your region, blah blah blah) are presented with a problem when we want to enjoy said content in places other than sitting right in [...]

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The Reverse Thieves announce the 2011 Anime Secret Santa project!

The Reverse Thieves have just announced their 2011 Anime Secret Santa project!

If you don’t know what in blazes I’m talking about, go back and read our post about it a couple years ago. But, for the lazy, here’s the Reader’s Digest version: basically, you e-mail your name, blog title and url, and a link [...]


Otaku no Podcast App v2.0 is out; Android app coming soon

We are pleased to announce that a brand new version of the Otaku no Podcast app is now available in the app store!

New features include:

Completely rewritten from scratch. Faster performance, and follows the iOS user interface design more closely. No longer asks for your location. (Note: The location prompt was due to a [...]

RIP Steve Jobs

I hope you’ll forgive me this non-anime-related post. But I feel that we have to acknowledge the loss of a true visionary. In a statement released late today by the Apple board of directors, they announced that Steve Jobs has passed away.

I won’t say very much, because not only am I still in shock, [...]


Otaku no Podcast is once again an Amazon affiliate

Earlier this year, we wrote about Amazon’s decision to terminate its California affiliates (of which we were one) due to the new CA sales tax law. This, of course, spurred me on to search for more affiliate programs, resulting in the new affiliate links you may have seen from various places such as Right Stuf, [...]


Otaku Call to Action: Please Take our Listener Survey!

Listen up, folks – I need your help here. We need information on YOU, the people who listen to our podcast and view our website. I’m gonna level with you: the purpose of this survey is to help position this podcast in various ad networks. As I’ve mentioned before, I run this whole dog and [...]