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 Friend of the show Beep has set up a Flickr group to share your photos from Anime Expo 2009. A few of us have already started posting pictures there. If you’ve got pix from AX’09 you are welcome to share them as well. Or just click the link and check out all the cool cosplay. Friend of the show Dave “Paradox” Fayram (no, he hasn’t been on the show yet, but he is still a friend of it) is attending San Diego Comic-Con and has started putting up his pictures. Check them out on his San Diego Comic-Con Flickr set. Looks like he’ll try and upload new ones every day, so check back often! This is a public service announcement to all Tokyo residents. If you were planning on visiting Tokyo’s Cafe & Bar DiCE! on July 25th 2009, from 10am to 4pm… STAY AWAY. STAY VERY FAR AWAY. For on this day, this normally mild-mannered maid cafe (disclaimer: as I have never been to this place, nor can I find it anywhere on Google, I don’t know if it is either mild-mannered or a maid cafe) will be turned into a place of absolute terror – for it will become the Kigurumi cosplay cafe Aokazetei. In case you didn’t know (and count yourself among the lucky few if not), “kigurumi” cosplay is a particular subgenre of cosplay, which can best be described as “mascot cosplay.” Basically, the cosplayer dresses up in a full bodysuit styled after their favorite anime character or whatever — including a fully-detailed, properly proportioned (according to the given character’s design) character mask. Yes, a mask. With huge, non-moving anime eyes. And when the guy (for it will undoubtedly be a guy wearing these costumes) speaks, his (doubtless high and squeaky) otaku voice will be coming, somewhat muffled, from behind this huge character mask with the dead eyes. shudder If you are morbidly curious (or have a sado-massochistic complex), check out the above links for some truly disturbing pictures. Fortunately this subgenre is not very popular especially here in the States. Of all the anime conventions I’ve been to, I only saw one kigurumi cosplayer, at last year’s Anime Los Angeles. (I did not see that person again this year, though that doesn’t necessarily mean that he wasn’t there at all.) Basically my advice to you would be this: RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!!! This has been a public service announcement brought to you by Otaku no Podcast. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. I can’t believe that it’s that time already. Yes, that awesomely huge comic convention, Comic-Con, is set to rock the San Diego Convention Center this Thursday through Sunday, July 23-26, with a special Preview Night on Wednesday, July 22. But if you’ve procrastinated up till now hoping that you could get in at the last minute – sorry! You’re out of luck. All memberships are sold out. WOW! This year’s attendance is going to be epic! Our intrepid reporter Danny Barer will be there and we will be talking with him after he has come back (and has had a chance to decompress) about all that went on at Comic-Con. Look for that episode sometime next week. (I just learned that one of my other friends is going as well, so I’ll try and wrangle him onto the podcast as well). For more information, check out the Comic-Con website. Here it is, the special mid-week episode I promised containing my review of FanimeCon 2009. In short: It’s the perfect compromise between huge mega-con and small local fan-run con, and I liked it. A lot. We also go over some news, including, yes, some more Weird Japan. No picks this week, but I think you’ll like this episode just the same. Continue reading Episode #0007 – FanimeCon 2009 Review Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:58 — 18.3MB) | Embed Attention all otaku – we need YOU!! I’ve set up a Facebook “fan page” for our podcast. The problem is, it has one of those gnarly long Facebook numeric URLs. In order for us to get one of those cool guy (and much easier to type/remember) Facebook “vanity urls”, we need at least 100 “fans” (that means you) to follow us on Facebook. (At least 100 is a lot easier of a goal to reach than 30,000…) Got a Facebook account? (If not, would you be willing to set one up to help us out – it’s free!) If so, then head over to our fan page on Facebook and become a fan. Please. We thank you for your support. Soon, with your help, we can become human, and avenge our father’s murder. Oh wait… The server oompa-loompas here at Otaku no Podcast have been busy. Their latest achievement: a new Photo Gallery section on the website, where I will post pictures from the various anime conventions and events I have attended. I’ve already started uploading some pictures from FanimeCon 2009, and will shortly upload my Anime Expo 2009 pics as well (as soon as I have finished going through them, fixing white balance, etc., which could take a few days). I’ll also upload older pics as I find them. So definitely check this section often! Blame DJ City of TJX – The Japan Xperience for this little AMV interlude. He recently tweeted he was listening to a certain Van Halen Song… and that got me thinking about one of my favorite AMV (Anime Music Videos) of all time. And here I present it to you for your viewing pleasure. Sit back and enjoy the show. Note there are a lot of “in-jokes” so you might want to put your mouse cursor over the “pause” button so you can catch them. Yes, it’s true, we’re still very much alive and kicking. Let’s just say that 2008 was the Year of Hell, and a lot of stuff happened in my life (most of it NOT good). Things aren’t quite at the levels they were before the Year of Hell, but at least the dust has settled and I’m in a more or less stable situation right now. So I figured it’s time to revive the show! Today we bring you yet another of our big group discussions, this time talking about our experiences and thoughts on Anime Expo 2009, quite possibly North America’s largest anime convention, which happened this past July 4 weekend. We also give out some anime recco’s along the way. And, of course, go over this week’s anime news of interest. Continue reading Episode #0006 – We’re Not Dead! (Yet…) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:32:44 — 42.5MB) | Embed OK, We are on the road. (rails, actually) Expect to hit the LACC around 3 pm. Watch this space for more updates and announcements of live broadcasts. |
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