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Cuerpos especiales celebra el Día Mundial de la Radio estrenando su primera ficción sonora. Misterio en Cuerpos 33 es el título de la historia que sucede en una junta de vecinos y en la que participan, además del equipo del programa, Gracita Morales, Doraemon, Shakira, Encarnita la del Baptisterio y Mauri, un oyente del programa que hace de portero.
Cuerpos especiales celebra el Día Mundial de la Radio con una ficción sonora. Misterio en Cuerpos 33 investiga el asesinato de Shakira con Eva Soriano como detective y la participación de Doraemon, Encarnita, Gracita Morales y un oyente, que hace de portero del edificio en el que transcurren los hechos. En vísperas de San Valentín, Bertus hace una review del Día de los Enamorados y, aprovechando el estreno de Cumbres Borrascosas, Juan Sanguino habla de Margot Robbie. ¡Sin olvidarse de la segunda parte de la playlist de amor de Alba Cordero!
Send a textBig rumours of a remake of two beloved Pokémon classics, an expensive Pinball machine and a whole bunch of news with Anton, Mike and AlOur Patreon is just £2 per month, which comes to £24 a year.Rewards include:Exclusive Patreon RSS feedThe main podcast without advertisementsLive recordings of the main podcastThe bonus podcast "Last Call!"Live recordings of "Last Call!"Early main podcast shownotesDiscord Community AccessA Shout Out! WooHoo! Our Personal Friend CodesOur Eternal GratitudeTHIS WEEK'S DISCUSSION INCLUDES:Stern Pinball Pokemon machine, Mario Tennis Fever, No Man's Sky Remnant, Pokémon Company 'What's Your Favourite' advert, Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf, Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Console Archives series: Doraemon, Nobunaga's Ambition, MagMax, Sonic Wings Special, Dezaemon Plus, Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Master of Monsters: Disciples of Gaia, Monster Rancher Hop A Bout and UFO: A day in the life, Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, Pragmata, Danganronpa 2x2, Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero Switch 2 Editions, Nintendo Store for Mobile Version 3.1.0, Paper Mario: The Origami King added to Nintendo MusicSupport the show
Tayangan Doraemon resmi dihentikan di TV nasional. Apakah ini pertanda kita harus berhenti berharap pada “jalan pintas” politik ala Gibran?
Comencem el primer pòdcast del 2026 amb una notícia molt esperada: el pròxim 8 de gener arriba l’emissió lineal de Bola de Drac Super al Super 3, de dilluns a divendres. Tot i que bona part de la sèrie ja era disponible a plataformes, ara torna a la TDT, reforçant l’aposta pel doblatge en català, l’anime en català i el consum familiar al Super 3, dins l’ecosistema 3Cat. A la Càpsula del Temps, ens acompanya Aida Deturck per reivindicar la figura de Chiho Saito, una de les mangakes més influents del shōjo dels anys 90. Repassem la seva trajectòria, el seu estil i la seva importància històrica, amb especial atenció al manga d’Utena, una obra revolucionària que encara avui marca generacions i que mereix més reconeixement. A La Doraxarxa, aquesta setmana no comentem cap polèmica concreta, sinó que preguntem directament al Doraemon com veu aquest 2026 que tot just comença pel que fa al manganime en català, el doblatge i el futur del sector. Reflexió, ironia i alguna clatellada institucional, com és tradició. Tanquem amb el Tenkaichi Musical, on sona “Catalrhythm”, l’ending 2 de Kuroko no Basket, interpretat en català per Aventura x Japó.
Fernando Martín celebra su tercer aniversario de bodas, 'bodas de cuero', compartiendo lecciones: el significado oculto del 'nada' de su mujer, la subjetividad del 'ordenado' (su versión es 'Primera Guerra Mundial', la de ella un 'escape room'), y el bolso de su esposa, como el de Doraemon. Bromea sobre sus dos hijas. Se informa sobre la Copa Mundial del Tiramisú en Treviso, Italia (10-12 de octubre), que busca 100 catadores amateurs. El programa aborda la polémica de un cartel universitario granadino 'no atendemos a padres'. Profesores oyentes relatan anécdotas: un padre pregunta por la silla de su hijo para la luz solar, otro defiende que su hijo orine en un árbol por falta de cartel, y una madre pide buscar un tapón de rotulador en las heces. Se explica que las emociones negativas perduran más (20 años) que las positivas (3 semanas) debido a una respuesta hormonal de defensa. Oyentes comparten divertidas experiencias con agujetas: desde desnudar a un amigo en el gimnasio por un ...
Tanquem el 2025 amb un episodi carregat de notícies, debat i molta reivindicació del manganime en català. A la secció d’actualitat, la gran notícia de la setmana arriba directament del Japó: s’han anunciat nous animes de Keroro i també el retorn de Kochikame, dues franquícies mítiques que desperten nostàlgia i obren el debat sobre si algun dia les tornarem a veure amb doblatge en català. Un anunci que ha fet vibrar els fans i que torna a posar sobre la taula la importància de preservar l’anime clàssic i actual en la nostra llengua. A la secció central Parlem-ne, comptem amb dues veus que cal conèixer: Àngels Ribalta, actriu de doblatge i veu de l’Ash Ketchum en català, i Ismael Delic, actor de doblatge i veu d’en Lionel. Amb ells analitzem a fons la recent estrena de Pokémon Journeys amb doblatge en català al Super 3, dins l’ecosistema SX3 / 3Cat. Parlem del procés de doblatge, de la importància d’aquest retorn i del que suposa per a tota una generació que ha crescut amb Pokémon en català. A La Doraxarxa, aquesta setmana canviem la polèmica habitual per una pregunta clau: què farà en Doraemon la nit del 31 de desembre? Una secció especial per acomiadar l’any amb humor i mala bava marca de la casa. I al Tenkaichi Musical, tanquem amb una cover molt especial: “Simple and Clean”, interpretada per Aida Deturck, el mític tema del videojoc Kingdom Hearts, en català.
Arriba l'especial de Nadal d’El Racó del Manga, amb un pòdcast carregat de nostàlgia. Obrim el programa amb una de les notícies més rellevants de la setmana: s’ha anunciat un nou curt d’anime de Neon Genesis Evangelion, previst per al febrer de 2026. Un retorn inesperat d’una de les franquícies més icòniques de l’anime japonès, que torna a generar debat entre els fans i reobre la conversa sobre el futur de la saga i el seu impacte cultural. A la càpsula del temps, viatgem fins al Nadal de 1980 per analitzar un fenomen que va canviar la història dels videojocs: Pac-Man. Ho fem amb la col·laboració d’Oriol Figuerola, de la llibreria Terra de Còmic de Reus, per entendre com aquest títol va transcendir les sales recreatives i es va convertir en un símbol de la cultura pop mundial. A La Doraxarxa, canviem el registre habitual: en lloc de notícia polèmica, preguntem directament a Doraemon què pensa fer aquestes festes i li demanem una valoració del 2024 pel que fa al manga en català, l’anime en català i el doblatge en català, amb mencions inevitables al paper del Super3 i el 3Cat. Tanquem l’episodi amb el Tenkaichi Musical, on sonen les Younenki Music interpretant en català el primer opening de Hunter x Hunter. Un final perfecte per celebrar aquestes festes amb música, reivindicació i esperit nadalenc.
️ LA RUINA está de gira en http://www.laruinashow.com La Ruina desde Burgos con Ignasi Taltavull (@ignasitf), Tomàs Fuentes (@cap0) y Maya Pixelskaya resolviendo el final de Doraemon. Puedes ver La Ruina en Podimo y disfrutar de 30 días gratis para ver este episodio y mucho contenido más aquí: https://podimo.es/laruina El juego, la taza y todo el merchandising oficial de La Ruina en https://lallamastore.com/ Ignasi Taltavull: http://www.instagram.com/ignasitf Tomàs Fuentes http://www.twitter.com/cap0 http://www.instagram.com/cap0 La Ruina sigue en redes: @laruinashow http://www.instagram.com/laruinashow
Có một tập Doraemon như thế này Nobita dùng khăn trùm thời gian để biến mình thành một cậu bé 5 tuổi, nhưng giữ nguyên toàn bộ trí nhớ hiện tại. Trong chốc lát, Nobita trở thành thần đồng, bài nào cũng làm được. Nobita đã có một lợi thế ban đầu hoàn hảo so với bạn bè đồng trang lứa: một cậu bé 5 tuổi với trí tuệ vượt thời gian. Nhưng rồi sau đó, Nobita bắt đầu lười học. Không rèn luyện. Không cố gắng. Và cuối cùng, cậu vẫn là một học sinh lẹt đẹt đội sổ như trước đây.Giả dụ đặt trong bối cảnh được tạo điều kiện tốt như một Nobita "thần đồng", liệu chúng mình có thành công được không, hay vẫn lặp lại thất bại cũ? Nếu cuộc đời cho cậu cơ hội thứ hai, thì cậu sẽ tận dụng nó như những gì cậu từng mong ước, hay sẽ lại tiếp tục lãng phí? Hãy cùng Vì sao thế nhỉ đi tìm câu trả lời trong tập podcast ngày hôm nay nhé! ______Follow thêm dự án truyện ngắn của chúng mình tại @lunglinhlaploe nhé! https://open.spotify.com/show/2dST4hyJBtQiQlQsql1Mvl?si=6AmkotXOQRWwwKDH2cUjsw
Al pòdcast d’aquesta setmana comencem amb un últim repàs de totes les activitats que durem a terme com a Racó del Manga durant el Manga BCN, així com fer-nos ressò de la notícia de la setmana: el retorn de l'anime de Dr. Slump al 3Cat. Tot seguit entrem al Parlem-ne, aquest cop amb unes convidades de luxe: el podcast Les Lladres del Temps. Amb elles fem un exercici d’endevinació i estratègia: quines noves llicències en català es podrien anunciar al Manga Barcelona? Queden només quatre dies per a l’esdeveniment i l’ambient està més emocionant que mai. Manga en català? Anime en català? Apostes valentes? El debat d’aquesta setmana és pur hype i informació privilegiada… ideal per despertar l’enveja sana de qualsevol otaku català. A la Doraxarxa, en Doraemon torna carregadíssim per comentar la polèmica del moment: els germans Márquez celebrant el títol i subcampionat de MotoGP a Cervera… parlant tota la família en castellà. Una secció sense filtres, com sempre. I al Tenkaichi Musical, l’Aida Deturck ens porta una nova cover d’anime en català, exclusiva pel podcast. En aquest cas, Kuroi Namida, de NANA.
¡Vuelven los especiales! Esta vez traemos criaturas fantásticas: 00:00:00 - Introducción Mildre nos recomienda un videojuego: 00:10:20 - Snufkin: La melodía del Valle de los Mumin. Alecrombie nos habla de un libro: 00:19:33 - "Los diablos" de Joe Abercrombie. Phoebe no falla con los juegos de mesa: 00:37:58 - Yokai Pagoda. Joy nos trae una saga de novelas: 00:44:00 - "Trilogía del Baztán. El guardián invisible" de Dolores Redondo Seidon nos recomienda una saga pero de videojuegos: 00:55:42 - "Ori and the blind forest" y "Ori and the will of the wisps". Malcolm no decepciona con su concurso. 01:09:55 - Concurso especial Criaturas Fantásticas. Y para terminar, como no: 02:07:01 - Sección del CM. Seidon habla de las JPOD 2025 y los premios de la Asociación Podcast. Podcast recomendado: Popaína Pódcast. 02:14:28 - Tomas extras. Música inicial: "Peskiraemon", versión de "Doraemon". Voz y ukelele by Joy. Te recordamos que si quieres tener charlas frikis en Telegram no dudes en unirte a este grupo hecho por y para Peskiters ❤️: https://t.me/peskiters3 Como siempre, os pedimos que le deis a "Me gusta" en iVoox y nos comentéis a través de esa plataforma. Decidnos cómo de "pipongo" os lo habéis pasado escuchándonos. Ya sabéis, a los que comentéis en iVoox o en Spotify os saludaremos en el próximo programa ;) Enlace al programa en iVoox: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/162778664 Síguenos en nuestras redes sociales: https://linktr.ee/peskitoymedio Suscríbete en iVoox y dale a Me gusta
Aquesta setmana, a El Racó del Manga, celebrem una nova fita abans del 31 Manga Barcelona: s’han confirmat dues activitats exclusives del nostre projecte! Hi haurà un segon taller de doblatge en català i una sessió de signatures a la zona de Meet & Greet amb les actrius Núria Trifol i Isabel Valls, protagonistes del previ versus NANA vs NANA. Dues oportunitats úniques per viure el doblatge en català des de dins i conèixer algunes de les veus més estimades de l’anime al nostre país. 💛 A La Càpsula del Temps, viatgem fins al 1989 per redescobrir un clàssic de la Game Boy: Super Mario Land. Amb la col·laboració d’en Francesc, administrador del compte de X Catseries, amb qui recordem aquest títol mític de Nintendo i la seva influència en la història dels videojocs retro. 🍄 A La Doraxarxa, en Xavi Omella comenta la sentència de l’Audiència de Barcelona que condemna a presó un usuari de X per comentaris contra una família de Canet de Mar que va exigir el 25% de castellà a l’escola. Autèntica pólvora per a en Doraemon! I tanquem com sempre amb el Tenkaichi Musical, on sonarà l’ending de Kare Kano, interpretat per Aventura x Japó, una joia d’anime en català 🎶
¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! Aquesta setmana a El Racó del Manga, comencem amb una bona noticia: Naruto arriba a Netflix amb el doblatge en català. I a més a més hi ha esperança per a veure One Piece en català a la mateixa plataforma. Ampliarem la informació. A la secció La Càpsula del Temps, Vidi Xuela ens porta una autèntica lliçó d’història de l’animació japonesa amb un especial dedicat a Osamu Dezaki, el visionari director d’animes com Ashita no Joe o Lady Oscar. Descobrim com va revolucionar l’estètica dels anys 70 amb les seves emblemàtiques postcard memories, i per què el seu estil encara inspira creadors actuals. A La Doraxarxa, en Xavi Omella encén la polèmica amb la sentència que condemna l’Ajuntament de Vic per exigir un nivell de català “massa alt”. Reflexionarem amb en Doraemon sobre què significa realment “discriminació per llengua” en un país que lluita per normalitzar el català. I tanquem el programa amb una dosi de màgia i nostàlgia: al Tenkaichi Musical, les Younenki Music ens regalen un medley exclusiu de cançons de Sakura, la caçadora de cartes, interpretat íntegrament en català. 💛
¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! Arrenquem el pòdcast d’aquesta setmana amb una notícia sobre l’esdeveniment que tots estem esperant: les entrades de dissabte del Manga Barcelona ja s’han esgotat! Un nou senyal que la cultura japonesa al nostre país viu un moment d’efervescència sense precedents. En parlem a la secció d’actualitat amb la Jayce, que ens porta tots els detalls. A la tertúlia “Parlem-ne”, la periodista Adriana Díaz conversa amb els membres del pòdcast “Illa Punteria”, especialitzat en One Piece, per descobrir com estan assessorant a Sonilab Studios en el doblatge en català dels nous episodis de la sèrie més esperada pels fans de l’anime en català. Analitzem què pot significar això per al futur de l’anime en català, la implicació del Sx3 i el 3Cat, i la importància de tenir experts fans dins del procés creatiu. A “La Doraxarxa”, el nostre estimat Xavi Omella carrega contra la polèmica declaració de Roger Escapa, que ha afirmat que “tots som hispans”. Prepareu-vos per un debat incendiari, amb el toc d’humor habitual del nostre Doraemon català. I tanquem amb una explosió d’energia al Tenkaichi Musical: recordarem quan en Jerry Brown ens va portar en exclusiva l’Opening 1 de Bola de Drac Super, en una versió que fa tremolar les set boles del drac!
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¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! En el pòdcast d’aquesta setmana, ens farem ressò de l’estrena del nou canal en català 2Cat, així com l’inici de les votacions dels premis Manga Barcelona. A la càpsula del temps celebrarem els 50 anys del manga de Candy Candy, amb la col·laboració de la Miya de Pro Shojo Spain. A la Doraxarxa consultarem amb en Doraemon que en pensa d’aquest nou canal en català de RTVE. I al Tenkaichi Musical tornen Aventura x Japó versionant per primera vegada i en català l’opening 2 de Dan da dan.
¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! En el pòdcast d’aquesta setmana, ens farem ressò de l’arribada del “One Piece Symphony” al Palau de la Música, així com la desaparició d’aquest anime del lineal del Sx3 (3cat). Al parlem-ne, analitzarem quin impacte per a la llengua catalana pot tenir l’arribada de “Pokemon Journeys” amb doblatge en català al Sx3, amb Aventura x Japó i en Meian (Copa Pokemon). A la Doraxarxa, li demanarem a en Doraemon la seva opinió respecte al repertori de cançons del passat piromusical de la Mercè de Barcelona. I finalment al Tenkaichi Musical recordarem el primer ending de Bola de Drac a càrrec de l’Aida Deturck, canço que ja teniu disponible al seu Spotify!
Original Kamen Rider reprises role in new anime, Doraemon anime gets new ending theme after 20 years, and Ken Watanabe revealed for Alice in Borderland season 3! Also, a Hair product company teams up with Yu-Gi-Oh! for a new line, Evangelion marks its 30th anniversary with a weekly radio show, and Crunchyroll is bringing back its manga reader! Meanwhile in Japan... A hostess arrested for lying to her client about why she needs money, and a 63 y/o Japanese woman marries a 31 y/o man she met through a 'chance encounter'?!
En el pòdcast d’aquesta setmana parlarem de la nova iniciativa de Crunchyroll per a llegir manga des de la seva aplicació, així com del comunicat de Devir pel que fa al manga en català. A la càpsula del temps parlarem d’un videojoc retro arcade que molts recordareu: Metal Slug (amb la col·laboració del divulgador “Benjamorín”). A la doraxarxa comentarem amb Xavi Omella i en Doraemon les paraules en català d’Aitana Bonmatí a la gala de la pilota d’or. I al Tenkaichi Musical tornen les Younenki Music, amb un mashup de Guardians de la nit.
El monólogo de Fer es, también, la apreciación a todo lo que ha aprendido en tres años de casado: "Mi mujer tiene el bolso de Doraemon"
En el pòdcast d'avui, a l’actualitat ens farem ressò de l’anunci de l’arribada de “Pokemon Journeys” amb doblatge en català, així com algunes informacions més que fonts directes del Sx3 ens deixen dir. Al Parlem-ne, Adriana Diaz torna al pòdcast amb una tertúlia en motiu de la recent estrena als cinemes de “Guardians de la Nit: La Fortalesa Infinita”, amb dues de les veus protagonistes: Marcel Navarro (Tanjiro) i Marc Gómez (Akasa). A la Doraxarxa, en Doraemon reaccionarà en directe al discurs del President Salvador Illa per la Diada Nacional de Catalunya. I al Tenkaichi Musical tornen Aventura x Japó, versionant per primera vegada i en català l’últim opening de One Piece.
El audio cubre una variedad de noticias y temas. En el ámbito internacional, se reportan ataques en Kiev con 10 muertos, afectando la delegación de la UE, y peticiones a Rusia para negociar la paz. En España, el Rey y la Reina visitan Ourense, la provincia más castigada por los incendios forestales, con más de 90.000 hectáreas quemadas. También se menciona el aumento de llegadas de inmigrantes a Baleares y la polémica por el reparto de menores no acompañados. En deportes, Carlos Alcaraz avanza en el US Open, la selección española de baloncesto debuta en el EuroBasket, y el Villarreal ficha a Arnau Tenas. Se discute el sorteo de la Champions League y la Vuelta a España. Un segmento amplio se dedica a los dibujos animados infantiles, con oyentes compartiendo sus preferencias, a cuáles están "enganchados" (como Bluey, Doraemon, Gumball, o incluso "Buba" y "Pocoyó"), y debatiendo sobre si los dibujos actuales tienen menos trama que los clásicos. Se mencionan anécdotas como un bar en ...
We're talking Otakon! Join DJ Ranma S and co-host BerryMelon as she discusses her Otakon weekend in depth! Also, we bring back the Open Forum Topic, "Should convention raves be age restricted?" We also discuss Hitomi, the ‘legendary' maid, guardian angel of Akihabara, and Rumiko Takahashi celebrates Doraemon's anniversary with crossover art! Meanwhile in Japan... Kyoto's pinkest, cutest new restaurant is the start of a new life for retired train cars, and a household cleaner makes a survival horror game for Steam?!
Iniciamos el magazine de hoy con Un país desde un lugar, que es desde una estación de tren. Kiko Llaneras nos ofrece los datos y la emoción nos la da nuestro compañero, Jaime Navarro desde Santa Justa, y Miguel Jiménez, responsable de trenes históricos de la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles españoles. Seguimos con Nuria Rodríguez, en su historia de las cosas nos habla de un objeto que rápidamente se ha convertido en mítico: la cámara de fotos. Desde que todos llevamos una en el bolsillo, qué bonitas nos parecen las antiguas cámaras. Hoy con Enrique Figueredo vamos a recordar la historia de uno de los mayores robos llevados a cabo al otro lado del Atlántico, en Argentina concretamente. El 13 de enero de 2006, un grupo de asaltantes disfrazados se llevaron un buen botín del Banco Río de Acasusso en un despliegue de ingenio sin precedentes. Hasta se celebró un cumpleaños durante el atraco. Y cerraremos el martes con Gema Jiménez Maldonado, que hoy se abre en canal para contarnos cuáles son sus mayores traumas... Hay cosas de High School Musical, hay Doraemon, temas que no pasan desapercibidos...
Será que você consegue encontrar o impostor???No episódio #295 do Animes Overdrive, Pedro Lobato, Ped Games, PH Mota, Gabi Tozati e Luis Hunzecher se enfrentam em uma brincadeira caótica e divertida: o Jogo do Intruso de Animes!Neste episódio, cada participante preparou grupos de personagens de anime — com um deles sendo o intruso. Mas não basta acertar quem está fora de lugar... é preciso adivinhar por quê! Será pela cor do cabelo? Gênero do anime? Poderes? Dublador? O critério é sempre um mistério, e as discussões hilárias que surgem no caminho tornam essa disputa ainda melhor. Um episódio leve, cheio de risadas e perfeito pra quem adora testar (ou falhar com) seus conhecimentos otakus!
Sohei Kamiya, founder and prominent figure of the right-wing political party Sanseito, faced criticism from disability rights groups and medical experts in the lead up to the election after remarks made in a party-published booklet that denied the existence of developmental disabilities resurfaced. In the 2022 booklet Sanseito Q&A Book – Basics, Kamiya wrote, “If you provide the exact same education as for typical children, there's no problem. Actually, developmental disabilities simply do not exist.” The booklet likened neurodevelopmental differences to personality quirks, using fictional characters from Doraemon as examples. Episode Notes: ‘Sanseito Leader Kamiya Claimed Developmental Disabilities “do not exist” in 2022 Pamphlet': https://barrierfreejapan.com/2025/07/22/sanseito-leader-kamiya-claimed-developmental-disabilities-do-not-exist-in-2022-pamphlet/
After a short holiday the boys are back to discuss Jay's take on Captain America 4, both their takes on THUNDERBOLTS*, their hype for Superman, the finale of Doctor Who and so much more. Come TALK NERDY TO ME!!For more nerdy content visit www.talknerdy.uk
Review các phim ra rạp từ ngày 23/05/2025TỘI ĐỒ - T18Đạo diễn: Ryan CooglerDiễn viên: Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O'Connell, Michael B. JordanThể loại: Hồi hộp, Kinh Dị, Tâm LýMắc kẹt trong cuộc sống thực tại rối ren, cả hai quay trở lại quê nhà để có một khởi đầu mới, để rồi phát hiện một thế lực ác quỷ đang nhăm nhe chờ đợi họ.LILO & STITCHĐạo diễn: Dean Fleischer CampDiễn viên: Maia Kealoha, Sydney Elizabeth Agudong, Tia Carrere, Chris SandersThể loại: Gia đình, Hài, Phiêu LưuBộ phim live-action Lilo và Stitch đưa câu chuyện kinh điển của Disney năm 2002 trở lại với một diện mạo mới, vừa hài hước vừa đầy cảm xúc. Phim theo chân Lilo, một cô bé người Hawaii cô đơn, và Stitch, sinh vật ngoài hành tinh tinh nghịch đang chạy trốn, khi cả hai vô tình tìm thấy nhau và cùng nhau hàn gắn những tan vỡ trong gia đình của Lilo.PHIM ĐIỆN ẢNH DORAEMON: NOBITA VÀ CUỘC PHIÊU LƯU VÀO THẾ GIỚI TRONG TRANHĐạo diễn: Yukiyo TeramotoDiễn viên: Wasabi Mizuta, Megumi Ôhara, Yumi Kakazu, Subaru Kimura, Tomokazu Seki,...Thể loại: Hoạt Hình, Phiêu LưuThông qua món bảo bối mới của Doraemon, cả nhóm bạn bước thế giới trong một bức tranh nổi tiếng và bắt gặp cô bạn bí ẩn tên Claire. Với lời mời của Claire, cả nhóm cùng đến thăm vương quốc Artoria, nơi ẩn giấu một viên ngọc quý mang tênArtoria Blue đang ngủ yên. Trên hành trình tìm kiếm viên ngọc, nhóm bạn Doraemon phát hiện một truyền thuyết về sự hủy diệt của thế giới, mà truyền thuyết đó dường như đang sống dậy! Liệu cả nhóm có thể phá hủy lời nguyền này và bảo vệ cả thế giới?
Cập nhật tin tức mới về các phim điện ảnh: - ‘Trạng Quỳnh nhí: Truyền thuyết Kim Ngưu' dời lịch chiếu.- BTS phục trang - hoá trang - bối cảnh phim ‘Dưới đáy hồ'.- Nghệ sĩ Đức Khuê là mảnh ghép quan trọng của ‘Út Lan: Oán Linh Giữ Của'- Tuấn Trần tự tay vẽ logo tên phim ‘Mang Mẹ Đi Bỏ'.- Gemini Hùng Huỳnh lồng tiếng ‘Bí Kíp Luyện Rồng' và những lùm xùm xung quanh câu chuyện lồng tiếng phim Holy Night và Doraemon.- ZOOTOPIA 2 tung teaser.- Ê kíp ‘Điều Ước Cuối Cùng' tung poster và trailer đầu tiên, ấn định ngày khởi chiếu 04.07.2025.- Sau ‘Chị dâu', đạo diễn Khương Ngọc bấm máy ‘CụcVàng Của Ngoại', dự kiến khởi chiếu tháng 10.2025.
Review các phim ra rạp từ ngày 16/05/2025Mưa Lửa - Anh Trai Vượt Ngàn Chông Gai Movie – KThể loại: Tài LiệuĐạo diễn: Đinh Hà Uyên Thư Diễn viên: Gia Tộc Anh Tài Nội Dung Phim: Mưa Lửa – phim tư liệu về hành trình 33 anh tài tham gia chương trình Anh Trai Vượt Ngàn Chông Gai 2024. Những câu chuyện chưa từng lên sóng, những chông gai ngoài đời thực, những khó khăn và những niềm vui... Vũ trụ đã sắp đặt, phải là 33 con người này, số phận đã định đoạt, phải là 33 Anh Tài này để tạo nên mùa Anh Trai Vượt Ngàn Chông Gai đầu tiên! Hành trình của Anh Trai Vượt Ngàn Chông Gai 2024 là những cơn “mưa lửa”, chứa đựng niềm tin, niềm hy vọng và sự hồi sinh trong cuộc sống. Lửa hun đúc tinh thần, mưa tái sinh tâm hồn, và vì thế, những cơn “mưa lửa” trên hành trình vượt ngàn chông gai đã thực sự làm bùng lên khát khao mãnh liệt được yêu, được sống, được cống hiến của bất kỳ ai, nghệ sĩ hay khán giả. Đó là những mạch cảm xúc tinh tế mà 33 Anh Tài đã thắp lên, đã truyền đi và đã giữ mãi sức nóng đó trong trái tim hàng triệu người hâm mộ. YADANG: BA MẶT LẬT KÈO - T18Đạo diễn: HWANG Byeong-gugDiễn viên: KANG Ha-neul, YOO Hai-jin, PARK Hae-joon, RYU Kyung-soo, CHAE Won-beenThể loại: Hành Động"Từ giờ trở đi, bạn là kẻ chỉ điểm của tôi." Là “cầu nối” giữa thế giới ngầm và các cơ quan thực thi pháp luật, những kẻ chỉ điểm chuyên nghiệp được gọi là "yadang" - người cung cấp thông tin bí mật về thế giới ma túy cho các công tố viên và cảnh sát. Khi một kẻ chỉ điểm ma túy “báo tin” về một bữa tiệc có sự tham dự của các VIP nổi tiếng và vô tình vướng vào một âm mưu nguy hiểm, hắn phải làm mọi thứ trong khả năng của mình không chỉ để sống sót,mà còn để phục thù.UNTIL DAWN: BÍ MẬT KINH HOÀNG – T18Đạo diễn: David SandbergDiễn viên: Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Odessa A'zion, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Maia Mitchell, Peter StormareThể loại: Hồi hộp, Kinh DịLấy cảm hứng từ tựa game nổi tiếng Playstation cùng tên Until Dawn. Một năm sau khi em gái Melanie mất tích một cách bí ẩn, Clover cùng bạn bè quyết định vào một thung lũng nơi cuối cùng nhìn thấy em gái để tìm kiếm câu trả lời. Khi lạc vào một khu nhà bỏ hoang, họ bị một kẻ giết người đeo mặt nạ theo dõi và bị sát hại một cách kinh hoàng từng người một... cho đến khi họ tỉnh dậy và phát hiện mình quay ngược lại vào buổi tối đầu tiên. Bị mắc kẹt trong một vòng lặp thời gian bí ẩn, họ buộc phải sống lại cơn ác mộng đó mỗi đêm, nhưng mỗi lần lại phải đối mặt với những mối đe dọa mới và những cách chết khác nhau, ngày càng đáng sợ hơn. Khi hy vọng dần tắt, nhóm bạn nhận ra họ chỉ còn 13 mạng sống trước khi biến mất mãi mãi. Cách duy nhất để thoát khỏi là sống sót cho đến khi bình minh.CUỘC CHIẾN KHÔNG TRỌNG LỰC (CHIẾU LẠI) – T13Đạo diễn: Alfonso CuarónDiễn viên: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed HarrisThể loại: Hành Động, Hồi hộp, Khoa Học Viễn Tưởng, Tâm LýBộ phim Cuộc Chiến Không Trọng Lực – Gravity kể về chuyến du hành ngoài không gian đầu tiên của cô kỹ sư cơ khí Ryan và cũng là chuyến đi cuối cùng trước khi nghỉ hưu của phi hành gia lão luyện Matt, khi cả hai làm nhiệm vụ trên Trạm Không Gian Quốc Tế (ISS). Trong thời gian thực hiện nhiệm vụ, những mảnh vỡ từ một vệ tinh khác đã phá hỏng tàu con thoi của họ khiến cả 2 mất liên lạc với Trái đất. Họ dần trở nên cô độc ngoài không gian với lượng oxy đang ngày 1 cạn dần và tử thần đang kề cận.PHIM ĐIỆN ẢNH DORAEMON: NOBITA VÀ CUỘC PHIÊU LƯU VÀO THẾ GIỚI TRONG TRANH Thông qua món bảo bối mới của Doraemon, cả nhóm bạn bước thế giới trong một bức tranh nổi tiếng và bắt gặp cô bạn bí ẩn tên Claire. Với lời mời của Claire, cả nhóm cùng đến thăm vương quốc Artoria, nơi ẩn giấu một viên ngọc quý mang tên Artoria Blue đang ngủ yên. Trên hành trình tìm kiếm viên ngọc, nhóm bạn Doraemon phát hiện một truyền thuyết về sự hủy diệt của thế giới, mà truyền thuyết đó dường như đang sống dậy! Liệu cả nhóm có thể phá hủy lời nguyền này và bảo vệ cả thế giới?
Hosts Nicholas Friedman, LeAlec Murray and Leah President are discussing all the anime and manga news this week, like DAN DA DAN's news season 2 trailer featuring the new villain EVIL EYE, Look Back's recent award recognition, the upcoming Neon Genesis Evangelion Concert, and manga collabs from Converse and UNIQLO, featuring Doraemon and Nana. THEN, we're recommending our favorite anime that only needed one season and sharing your recent responses in the Mailbag. Have a question for The Anime Effect? Ask it here. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. DAN DA DAN Season 2 Anime Debuts New Trailer Look Back Anime Film Wins Best Animation Award at Japan Movie Critics Awards Neon Genesis Evangelion Concert Featuring Yoko Takahashi Heads to North America Giant Evangelion Statue Unveiled in Real-Life Village-3 Doraemon and Converse Team up for Trio of Anniversary Sneakers Ai Yazawa x UNIQLO T-Shirt Collab Features Fresh New Nana Manga Art Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this week's episode, we take a look at marketing for writers, and discuss how it can both benefit and hinder writers. This coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Fury of the Barbarians, Book #5 in the Dragonskull series (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills), at my Payhip store: BARBARIAN50 The coupon code is valid through May 2, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered! TRANSCRIPT 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 247 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is April 11th, 2025, and today we are looking at marketing challenges for writers. First, let's start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Fury of the Barbarians, Book Five in the Dragonskull series (as excellent narrated by Brad Wills) at my Payhip store. That code is BARBARIAN50. We will have the coupon code in the show notes along with links to the store. This coupon code is valid through May 2, 2025, so if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered. Now let's have an update on my current writing and audiobook projects. I am done with the rough draft of Shield of Battle and its accompanying short story, Raven's Hunt. I am currently editing them and making good progress on that. The book should come out either right before or right after Easter, with right after being the more likely option the way it looks right now. I'm also 14,000 words into Ghost in the Corruption, which will be my main project once Shield of Battle comes out. Audio recording is still underway for Shield of Deception and Ghost in the Assembly. So more updates on that to come. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects. 00:01:17 Question of the Week And now let's take a look at Question of the Week. Question of the Week is intended to inspire enjoyable discussions of interesting topics. This week's question, what is the best TV show you started watching in 2025 (if any)? No wrong answers, obviously. Justin says: Television shows? The TV in my house is used for video games and movies. It has been 18 years since I watched any TV shows. Surabhi says: Nowadays the only non-Marvel series I watch are animes like Doraemon and Shinchan XD. Perry says: I never watched a lot of TV but I do catch the odd European football or hockey game. That said, I'm enjoying The Wheel of Time. Sam says: Clarkson's Farm. He might be a love him/hate him chap, but he certainly does make for entertaining shows. It also shows just how fickle the farming industry can be and shines a much needed light on the issues they face. I would like to second Sam's recommendation of Clarkson's Farm. It's definitely well worth watching if you have access to Amazon Prime. Bonnie says: I'm totally out of the loop. Haven't really watched any TV since I binged Avengers and Star War when home with Covid in 2021. I read during downtime. Andrew says: Tracker is okay. Matlock is good, well-written. I want to like Watson, but have given up. Dark Winds is excellent. 1923 got so dark, I quit. Landman started great, got worse when wife character entered the picture. Re-watching Lonesome Dove. Love it. David says: The Blacklist. Michael says: No particular series as I don't really watch much on TV, but a shout out to the Japanese NHK World Channel, which is essentially their international service in English available to watch live on their website, at least in my country or via their app. There's so much good content on there, really interesting documentaries, news features, Japanese shows, and of course the highlights of the Sumo tournaments. Larry says: Starting The Outpost. John says: My brother has recommended Wolf Hall. My most anticipated series is Andor. I think of what I watched this year thus far my guilty pleasure was Reacher, most emotional was 1923, most cerebral has been Severance, and funniest has been The Residence. No favorite standout yet. Juana says: Tracker. William says: Poker Face was enjoyable. For myself, I think it would be Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light about the downfall of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII. I'll have more to say about that later in my Winter/Spring 2025 Movie Roundup post in a few weeks. 00:03:29 Main Topic: Marketing Now let's move on to our main topic, writing adjacent activities: marketing. This is part of my podcast series about what I call writing adjacent activities. What do I mean by this? I'm talking about the tasks that seem like they're part of the writing process but really belong in a different category. These tasks are important, don't get me wrong, but they can also be a pitfall if you spend too much time on them or don't use that time correctly. In this series, we are focusing on a few of these tasks and how they can benefit or hinder your writing process, even though they seem like good uses of time and may in fact be beneficial. In this episode, we will talk about marketing. For the self-published author, it is an absolutely essential thing to do. Even traditionally published authors are becoming involved in their marketing or hiring marketing firms apart from their publishers to help with that work. Even important tasks can still take time away from the most important one, writing. First, how does marketing work for writers in the first place? Even as traditional advertising and print media like newspapers and periodicals has all disappeared by 2025, there are still many, many ways to advertise a book. Here are some examples: Social media and I don't mean ads, I mean posting content about your book or engaging readers on social media about your book. It's become increasingly common in this age of a video-based social media like TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram Reels for authors to post short clips about them interacting with their book or doing things with their book and so forth. And that is, I think, a distinct category from ads. Ads of course are another type of marketing such as Amazon Ads, Facebook, BookBub, etc. An email newsletter where you send out an email to your newsletter subscribers when a book comes out Having an author website Group promotions where you work together with a group of authors to promote Doing interviews with podcasts, local media, etc. (though these days podcasts have essentially superseded local media) Sending out advanced reader copies Permafree/discounts I should note that of everything on this list, I've done them all except for advanced reader copies, which I never really bothered to do because I write so fast that it seems to be kind of pointless at that point. Now I got to admit that list seems overwhelming, but you're not going to do them all simultaneously. Most authors pick a few from the list and then focus on them, and then some of them take some work upfront like setting up your author website and then it's less work to maintain it and update it as you go along than it is to set it up to begin with. For example, making many of my series starters permafree has been an extremely successful strategy for me. For an author who only has two books, that strategy would not be as effective, but if you have a series of nine books then that is a good idea. So why is it beneficial to market your books? A couple years ago (and I've told this story before, but it bears repeating), I was at a Subway waiting in line to order lunch. The person in front of me was staring at the menu in great confusion. “Does this shop sell submarine sandwiches?”, she finally asked the sandwich artist. Even with 40,000 locations worldwide and millions of dollars in advertising each year, this person was completely unaware of Subway's offerings. This moment made me realize that marketing must be constant even for big legacy brands like Subway or Coca-Cola because there is always someone out there who isn't familiar with what you have to offer them. If multi-billion dollar corporations like Coca-Cola and Subway have people who haven't heard of them, how much more [work is there for] indie authors like us? There is in my opinion, an erroneous sentiment that getting too involved in marketing as an author somehow cheapens your work, devalues your art, or means that you're not as committed to your art. That sentiment is frankly, in my opinion, self-destructive and keeping a lot of people from reaching new readers or keeping existing ones as new books come out. Marketing is necessary and needs to be ongoing to work. It's important to remember that readers love new books and want to know more about them. Your goal is to just let them know what's available and how to find your work. You're not being annoying by creating an ad or sending out a newsletter when a new book drops. Even if you have loyal readers, it's likely only a very tiny percentage of them are obsessively checking ebook stores daily for your latest publications. Social media and newsletters in particular are effective ways to let people know when the latest content is ready or can help them get excited for an upcoming release. Just as importantly, good marketing can help you find people who are interested in your genre or read authors similar to you. So marketing is a good thing and it is in fact necessary if you want to have a career as an indie author or sell books in any quantities. However, it can become a pitfall that takes time away from actually writing new books. So when can it be a pitfall? There are about five different ways it can become a hindrance to writing. #1: The most obvious pitfall is that time spent working on marketing is time not spent on writing. Although marketing is an essential part of how writers make income, it's only going to go so far compared to creating new books. This is in fact a decision I've had to make many times where if there's only so many hours in the day, and if I have an hour and I have to choose an hour spent fiddling with ads to try and optimize them to sell old books or to focus on writing new books, very often I have decided to focus on writing new books. Or if I have ads that are underperforming, I just shut them off and don't think about them until I have a free moment when the current book is done because writing the latest book is where my attention and priority should be. #2: The second pitfall is that spending too much time on social media or various forums like Reddit can also skew your perspective and give you an unreal view of the preferences of your readership. You'll likely only engage with a small percentage of your readers online. Just because they're reaching out to you or sharing their opinions online doesn't mean that their opinion matches the rest of your readership. An example of this is when Warner Brothers thought there was a massive demand for the Snyder Cut of the Justice League movie based on an online fan campaign and spent a very large amount of money for the recut of the movie, only for it to have a fairly modest audience that didn't recoup the cost. Later it came out that much of the Twitter campaign for the recut were bot accounts, people with multiple social media accounts, or people that ultimately pirated the movie instead of getting an HBO subscription to watch it when it finally became available on streaming. The Internet is a very useful tool, but it's best to take it with a grain of salt and remember that that just because one person is saying something on the Internet doesn't mean there are ten or even a hundred silent people who share their views. As with the example with the Justice League movie, large businesses have run into that trouble where they assume just because a particular audience segment is very loud on social media, therefore it must be a large segment when in fact it turns out to be just a very loud minority that ultimately isn't going to have much buying power. So that is something to keep in mind when you examine [social media], that opinions expressed online may not necessarily reflect reality. #3: There is also the temptation to get so lost in thinking of how a book will be marketed, that when you write it, you don't try to write a book that is authentic to you or your readers. Trying to piece together a book based on the latest tropes or sales trends will likely mean that by the time the book is ready, social media will have moved onto another one. Writing to market is a form of marketing that sometimes works, but often results in something that feels formulaic or doesn't match your writing style. You can't always tell if the author hated the book when they were writing it, but sometimes you can. And it's sometimes very obvious to tell if an author wrote a book not because he or she enjoyed writing it but because they thought it would sell. And I think deep down, you really have to enjoy the genre you're writing in, which is why many frustrated mystery, fantasy, and science fiction authors saw how well romance doing and so decided to try writing romance only to deep down they didn't enjoy reading romance and so they didn't write a romance book that anyone would enjoy reading. So that is the potential risk of that temptation. #4: Another pitfall is the urge to market your way out of a book that isn't connecting with readers. If a book doesn't meet reader expectations, no amount of marketing is going to significantly change that. Sometimes it's best to cut your losses with a book or series if it's not performing the way that you expect instead of throwing even more money marketing at it. I'm afraid I have a very recent example for my own life in the form of these Stealth and Spells Online series. I think the problem with that series is I fundamentally misread what the LitRPG audience wants. Stealth and Spells Online is about a virtual reality game, but what the LitRPG audience really seems to want these days is either Portal Isekai or System Apocalypse Fantasy, which Stealth and Spells Online most definitely isn't. I told the narrator that I intended to write a LitRPG, but what I ended up with was a science fiction espionage thriller with LitRPG elements. So that, as you might expect, has been very hard to market and very hard to turn a profit while marketing it. So what I decided to do was I originally planned for seven or eight books in the series, but I'm going to cut it down to three and wrap up the story in hopefully a satisfying way with book number three this summer. That is a lived experience example of a changing course when some marketing doesn't work. #5: There can be a feeling that you're missing out if you're not trying a marketing strategy that worked for someone else, so you'll end up stretching yourself thin by trying everything, stretching your marketing time across social media, newsletters, video content, posting the spaces like Goodreads, assembling a launch team, sending out advanced reader copies, going on podcasts, doing interviews with local media, and doing guest blog posts simply is not sustainable. There is a potential value in doing a short-term marketing sprint like that where you do all the things for a few days, but doing that all the time is not a good idea. As we mentioned earlier, it can take away time that should be spent writing. So really the best marketing course is to pick a few tactics that you enjoy and are comfortable using and then do those most of the time and save everything else for special occasions or if an opportunity comes up. For myself, I mostly focus on setting first in series permafree and doing various ad campaigns on Facebook, Amazon, and BookBub. I tend to stay away from TikTok and video marketing and some of the more time intensive things. I prefer things like permafree or various CPC ads where I can set it up and let it run and then check on it every few days to make sure it's working or not spending too much. So how can you balance time spent on marketing with making progress with your writing? The best way to market your old books is to publish a new one. Algorithms on online stores like Amazon and all the others reward fresh books and readers have short memories, so taking years between series risks them forgetting you. Finishing a series in a timely fashion is crucial now many readers, especially in Epic Fantasy (for a variety of reasons), will only start series that are already completed, having been burned by series that were left unfinished. Having a polished product should also precede your marketing efforts. If your cover looks bad, your money would be better spent on getting a professional looking cover instead of more Facebook ads. Taking the time to make a good cover and good ad copy for your ads is also important before you spend money on marketing. For marketing, it will save you time and money to map out your goals for it each year just like you map out a set of goals for what you'll publish each year. Having a clear set of goals will keep you from trying every new thing that you hear about just because it worked for someone else. It's also wise to be honest with yourself about your strengths when considering how you spend your marketing time. If you hate TikTok, forcing yourself to make videos there isn't going to lead to compelling content that would make people want to buy your book. The authors who have had success with TikTok had that because they were able to genuinely connect with an audience there, not just because they threw a book trailer on the platform and hoped for the best. As with many writing adjacent activities, it is best to have a set block of time to work on marketing and to plan even the time spent checking ads and responding to social media comments so it doesn't take over your writing time. Just like having a plan for each year with some larger goals is a good idea, having a daily or weekly set of goals for marketing can help keep you focused. In conclusion, the true pitfall of any writing adjacent activity is they need to be kept adjacent to the actual production of new writing. All the tasks we covered in the series are important, but writing should always be the priority if you are a writer. So that's it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the back episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave your review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.
Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction on Inio Asanon arkinen scifidraama, jossa kahden ystävyksen aikuistumista varjostaa Tokion ylle haaksirikkoutunut muukalaisten avaruusalus ja Japanin militarisoituminen. Ajankohtaisina aiheina puhumme Desucon Frostbite 2025:stä, Ken Akamatsun kanssapolitiikoilleen järjestämästä seminaarista manga- ja animealojen kipukohdista sekä Bloombergin artikkelista suoratoistopalvelu Crunchyrollin viime vuosien ongelmista. Lukujonossa on Masaaki Nakayaman päähenkilötön, pienistä palasista koostuva kauhumysteeri PTSD Radio. --- Kommentoi | Threads | Mastodon | Bluesky | X | Instagram --- (01:13) – KUULUMISET: BL-BINGO - Maaretin BL-bingoketju Mastodonissa (05:09) – DEDEDEDE: ESITTELY - Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction (08:09) – DEDEDEDE: INIO ASANO JA TAIDE - Inio Asano - Asanon Instagramista saa hyvän kuvan siitä, miten hän vaihtelee piirrostyylejä eri sarjoissaan - Osalla hahmoista on outoja, karikatyyrimäisiä kasvonpiirteitä (kuva) - Sivuhahmoilla on usein selkeää sukunäköä keskenään (kuva) - Neljäs veli on chuunipoika (kuva) - Yksityiskohtaisia valokuvapohjaisia taustoja ja söpöjä jalkoja (kuva) - Jakso 60, jossa puhuimme Death Notesta - Manben-sarjan Inio Asano -jakso (DailyMotion) - Naoki Urasawa - Muukalaisten alukset muistuttavat epäilyttävästi arkisia esineitä (kuva) - Inio Asanoa innoitti mangaka Tamakichi Sakura - Yoshiharu Tsuge, osa gekiga-liikettä josta olemme puhuneet jaksossa 57 ja jaksossa 89 - Shigeru Mizuki, josta olemme puhuneet jaksossa 56 ja jaksossa 89 - Koko aukeaman ruutu, jossa valtava määrä muukalaisia putoaa taivaalta (kuva) - Asano demonstroi YouTube-kanavallaan, miten piirtää nykyään joskus myös kokonaan digitaalisesti, vaikka ei olekaan sen kanssa vielä täysin sujut (YouTube, englanniksi tekstitetty) - Title drop -hetket jyrähtävät välillä ruutuun aggressiivisesti (kuva) - Lukujen välisivuilla hahmot leikittelevät DEDEDEDE-tavujen kanssa (kuva) (25:05) – DEDEDEDE: TARINA JA MAAILMANRAKENNUS - Siellä se muukalaisten emoalus kelluu (kuva) - Maailmanrakennus tapahtuu usein varsinaisen fokuskerronnan taustalla, esim. radion taustameluna (kuva) - Japani on militarisoitumassa uudelleen, mutta tällä kertaa söpösti (kuva) - Muukalaiset ovat puolustuskyvyttömiä ihmisiä vastaan (kuva) - Muukalaiset kuvataan “lokalisoidusti” kutsumassa toisiaan japanilaisilla nimillä (kuva) - Pohjois-Korea alkoi ampua ballistisia ohjuksiaan Japanin yli vuonna 1998 - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask julkaistiin vuonna 2000 - Vuoden 2011 kolmoisonnettomuus - Tokion suuret maanjäristykset ovat toistuneet noin sadan vuoden välein, ja edellinen oli 1923… - Jokainen pokkari alkaa Isobeyanista ja päättyy Isobeyaniin (kuva) - Doraemon, kaikkien tuntema lastensarja, jota Isobeyan parodioi - Yhdysvaltain presidentti Padron näyttää ja kuulostaa kumman tutulta (kuva) (46:17) – DEDEDEDE: KADODE JA ORAN - Päähenkilömme (kuva) - Kadode ja Oran ovat parhaat ystävykset (kuva) - Kadoden emoaluksen saapumisessa kadonnut isä oli paljon poissa (kuva) - Kadoden neuroottinen äiti on aika kamala ja rasittava, mutta äidin uusi miesystävä on oikein mukava heppu (kuva) - Oranin isoveli Hiroshi on sarjan paras poika (kuva) - Toinen kuva (kuva) (53:27) – DEDEDEDE: MUUT HAHMOT - Lukioporukka (kuva) - Välillä on konflikteja, mutta silti ystävyys on tärkeää (kuva) - Uudet yliopistokaverit Futaba ja Makoto (kuva) - Kadode on ihastunut intohimottomaan opettaja Wataraseen (kuva) - Mangaka Kengo Hanazawa… …on saanut sarjassa vähän hönön pienen cameon (kuva) - Ressentiment - I Am A Hero - Oban sisällä asuu muukalainen (kuva) (01:06:14) – DEDEDEDE: JULKAISU - Sarjan kannet - Ilmaisu “Tokion 23 erillisaluetta“ (23区) on systemaattisesti käännetty väärin muotoon “ward 23”, aivan kuin kyse olisi vain yhdestä erillisalueesta (järjestysluvultaan 23), eikä kaikkien 23 alueen kokonaisuudesta (01:09:52) – DEDEDEDE: ANIMESOVITUS - TV-sarjaksi muokattu animesovitus Crunchyrollissa - Kadodea näyttelee Yoasobin vokalisti Lilas Ikuta - Orania näyttelee Ano (01:17:07) – DEDEDEDE: SPOILERIOSIO - Oran ei halua käsitellä todellisuutta (kuva) - Kadode ja Oran ja muukalainen (kuva) - Kadode ja juna (kuva) - Ystävyys on tärkeämpää kuin maailmanloppu (kuva) - Steins; Gate - Oran ihastuu (kuva) - Lähestyvän maailmanlopun vihjailukin on aggressiivista kerrontaa (kuva) - Dempagumi.incin kappale Even if the World's in Pieces / Ashita chikyuu ga konagona ni nattemo (YouTube), jolle Asano on näemmä piirtänyt myös levynkannen - Neljä vuotta myöhemmin… (kuva) (01:46:13) – DEDEDEDE: YHTEENVETO - Petterin arvostelu sarjasta Anime-lehden numerossa 4/2018 (kuva) (01:48:49) – DESUCON FROSTBITE 2025 - Kamome Shirahama kunniavieraana kesän 2025 Desuconissa - Jakso 43, jossa puhuimme Shirahaman sarjasta Witch Hat Atelier - Bonusjakso, jossa puhuimme Kore Yamazakin vierailusta Desuconissa 2023 - Jakso 9, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Delicious in Dungeon - Orb: On the Movements of the Earth - Petterin ohjelma Kääntäminen kulttuurisodan kohteena (YouTube) - Ylilaudalla keskustelu oli ennalta-arvattavan värikästä - Maaretin ohjelma Animetunnarit tarinaa kertomassa (YouTube) - Desucon Frostbite -taltiokokoelma (YouTube) - Norpun blogipostaus, johon superdarling-hahmotyyppiluento perustui - Kunniavieras Tsubasa Yonaga - Onban kikou (02:19:30) – KEN AKAMATSUN MANGAKESKUSTELUTILAISUUS - Jakso 63 ja jakso 70, joissa olemme viimeksi puhuneet Ken Akamatsun lähdöstä politiikkaan - ANN: Ken Akamatsu Named as Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Ken Akamatsun tekstipostaus ja sarjakuvapäiväkirja tapahtumasta - Denfaminicogamerin artikkeli tapahtumasta - Artikkelin läpikäyntiä konekäännöksen kanssa - Tetsuya Chiba - George Morikawa - Hideaki Anno - Jakso 79, jossa puhuimme mangan fyysisistä piraattijulkaisuista - Tuleva uusi Gundam-sarja Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX - Machiko Satonaka (02:32:59) – CRUNCHYROLLIN HAASTEET - Bloomberg: Sony's Crunchyroll Finds Its Early Lead in Anime Under Attack - Kopio artikkelista Japan Timesissa - Engadget: A new Crunchyroll manga mobile app arrives later this year - Sakamoto Days oli Netflixin isoin animelanseeraus sen jälkeen kun se alkoi kertoa viikkokatsojalukujaan - Richardson Handjajan graafi perustuen Parrot Analyticsin dataan siitä, miten Netflix tuotti animelle jo vuonna 2023 tuplasti enemmän rahaa kuin Crunchyroll - Graafi talteen siltä varalta että linkki joskus lakkaa toimimasta (kuva) - Nykyään on muotia ilkkua kaikille Crunchyrollin ongelmille - Esimerkki 2 - Esimerkki 3 - Miksi Re:Zeroa ei markkinoida? - Valitusesimerkki siitä, että suoratoistopalvelut “tappavat” sarjoja (kuva) (02:58:34) – HAMPAANKOLOSSA: KINGDOM & K MANGA - ANN: Viz Media Licenses Kingdom Manga - K Manga laajeni uusille alueille lokakuussa 2024 ja helmikuussa 2025 - Jakso 85, jossa kokeilimme K Mangaa emmekä pitäneet siitä - Tarkennuksena Kodanshan sarjojen saatavuuteen muissa manganlukupalveluissa: kaikkia Kodanshan sarjoja ei vedetty pois, vaan simultaanijulkaiseminen muualla lopetettiin, ja sarjavalikoima pieneni (03:03:57) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTI: MANGA KIRJAKAUPOISSA (03:05:36) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTI: PIIRROSTYYLI JA SUOSITUKSIA - Jakso 100 ja jakso 103, joissa puhuimme One Piecestä - Jakso 105, jossa puhuimme Seirou Operasta - Jakso 108, jossa puhuimme Blackguardista - Ouran High School Host Club sai varsin rakastetun animesovituksen vuonna 2006 - Titaanien sota / Attack on Titan - Jujutsu Kaisen - Beastars - Nobuyuki Fukumoto - Love Roma - Kooji Kumeta - Behind the Scenes!! - Jakso 67, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Oshi no ko - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Tokyo Ghoul - Shuzo Oshimi - Stray Dog's Night - Natsuki Takaya - Mika Yamamori - Harem Marriage - Jakso 16, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Takane & Hana (03:24:46) – KUULIJAKOMMENTTI: MANGAN SUKUPUOLIKUVAUS - Lauran Mastodon-viesti - Ranma 1/2 - Ayakashi Triangle - Wandering Son - Jakso 87, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Boys Run the Riot - Jakso 21, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Our Dreams at Dusk - Jakso 65, jossa puhuimme sarjasta Love Me for Who I Am - Sukupuolella leikitteleviä romanttisia komedioita, joiden keskiössä on otoko no ko -hahmo: - Prunus Girl - Maria Holic - Princess Jellyfish - Danganronpan Chihiro - Jakso 82, jossa puhuimme Vinland Sagan Cordeliasta - Nolkytluvun taitteen proto-transnaishahmoja - Fruits Basketin Ritsu ja Momiji (muiden muassa) - Paradise Kissin Isabella - I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend into a Girl, josta puhuimme jaksossa 69 - Just Like Mona Lisa - Maaretin Mastodon-ketju sarjasta - Simoun - After School Nightmare - My Secret Affection, josta puhuimme jaksossa 67 - Riyoko Ikedan The Rose of Versailles (josta puhuimme jaksossa 59) ja Claudine - Jakso 39, jossa puhuimme Ryo Hanadan sarjasta Devils' Line - Jakso 108, jossa puhuimme Ryo Hanadan sarjasta Blackguard - Land of the Lustrous - Onimai – I'm Now Your Sister - Your Name (03:40:02) – LUKUJONOSSA: PTSD RADIO - PTSD Radio - Fuan no tane, tekijän toinen sarja - Jakso 109, jossa puhuimme päähenkilön roolista - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Sarjoja, joissa kauhuelementti toimii mausteena: - The Promised Neverland - I Want to Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die, josta puhuimme jaksossa 92 - Higurashi - When They Cry - Spekulaatiota siitä, että tekijä lopetti sarjan kun pelotti liikaa (03:57:08) – LOPETUS
Entrevista a Yago Iglesias, entrenador del Pontevedra, par analizar la previa del Pontevedra- Mallorca de Copa del Rey. Además, la actualidad de la Euroliga con Kevin Fernández y todo sobre el nuevo libro sobre el mítico penalti de Djukic en la historia del Deportivo de la Coruña. Además, 'Lo mejor del Días' con el cameo de Take Kubo en 'Doraemon'.
In this episode of the PURE TOKYOSCOPE Podcast, author Matt Alt (Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World) and Patrick Macias (Mondo Tokyo: Dispatches from a Secret Japan) consider Henry Cavill's role in the upcoming Voltron movie, mourn the loss of the voice of robot cat Doraemon, and declare war on the Tokyo Mario Karts! FULL EPISODE SHOW NOTES ON SUBSTACK! FULL SHOW EARLY EPISODE DROPS AT OUR PATREON! INFO Pure TokyoScope on Twitter Matt Alt on Twitter Patrick Macias on Twitter Pure TokyoScope on YouTube Visit www.tokyoscope.com for merch The podcast is produced by jaPRESS LLC©, and engineered and edited by Patrick Macias Theme song by Marxy
Did anyone of you know that one of the biggest leaks in Pokémon history happened this past weekend? but hey, now you can buy and play Xbox games right from your phone so that's pretty cool. Disney announces release dates for Lilo & Stich and Freakier Friday, meanwhile Joker 2 has one of the worst second weekends at the box office. That plus a review of Saturday Night.
Norway releases its annual state budget, the voice of Japan's beloved ‘Doraemon', Nobuyo Ōyama, dies aged 90, Elon Musk reveals his $30,000 Tesla self-driving Cybercab and larger Robovan, a startling discovery is made on Mount Everest and we check in with the Quality of Life Conference in Istanbul. Plus: We speak to the renowned artist William Kentridge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
[School of Movies 2024] If New Empire is the best Kong film, this one qualifies for us as the best Japanese Godzilla film. Kaiju fans are being blessed with an embarrassment of riches in this era (check out the charming and dazzling animated Ultraman Rising for even more of this) and there has never been a better time to wrap your head around why this enormous nuclear lizard is such an enduring icon in his home country. Journeying back to the 1954 original Gojira, this film re-stages those events in different ways that even more deeply parallel a nation reeling from the mass-traumatic aftermath of World War II. Right now these people are at zero in terms of ability to cope, and Godzilla is set to slam them back even further to minus one (I didn't come up with that, some YouTube channel obsessing over his toughness stats did, but it's rather good). And yet, while this could be another funerial and mournful lamentation of death and destruction, and abandonment by our leaders, the disgraced kamikaze pilot at the centre doesn't so much have to regain his honour as recognise the value of his own continued existence. This film is life-affirming and helmed by my favourite Japanese director who isn't Hayao Miyazaki; the magnificently gifted and humane Takashi Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First, Stand by Me, Doraemon 1 & 2, Dragon Quest: Your Story) Guest: Dan Hoeppner @MightyMegatron0 of Leftover Army Monsters
This week we welcome comedian Yuriko Kotani to the podcast for a conversation about Japan, comedy, food and telly. I was lucky enough to be able to sit down during the busy Edinburgh Fringe for a podchat with Yuriko whereby we discussed performing comedy in a language other than your own, the magic that lies within Doraemon's fourth dimensional pocket and watching Japanese horror films at way too young an age. Yuriko shares her love for The League of Gentlemen and British comedy in general, while we also discuss the beauty of both Japanese architecture and food presentation.All music written and performed in this podcast by Steve Otis GunnPlease buy my book 'You Shot My Dog and I Love You' available in all good book shops, online and directly.Podcast Socials:Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tvtimespodInsta: https://www.instagram.com/tvtimespodYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@tvtimespodTwitter: https://twitter.com/tvtimespodSteve's Socials:Insta: https://www.instagram.com/steveotisgunnTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/steveotisgunnFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/steveotisgunn.antisocialYuriko's Socials:Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yurikocomedyTwitter: https://x.com/yurikocomedyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/YurikoKotaniComedyProduced by Steve Otis Gunn for Jilted Maggotwww.jiltedmaggot.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Minggu ni kita bercakap tentang perkara-perkara yang mungkin tak ramai tahu tentang karakter childhood kegemaran korang. Doraemon diinspirasikan oleh hantu Shin Chan sebenarnya dah mati? Rahsia tentang Dragon Ball yang Gen Z tak tahu Paperdoll Sailormoon pakai bikini Aku dah pergi ke hometown Slamdunk! Episod ini dibawakan oleh teman-teman kami di IQIYI Malaysia. **Follow TTYL Socials** (linktree on bio) Instagram: @ttylpodcast Youtube: TTYL: Talk To You Later Tiktok: @ttyl.podcast X: @TTYLPodcast
We've had both a partner direct and an indie showcase this week, but what do the guys think of the latest announcements?Shownotes - Episode 263Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, Bloomtown: A Different Story, Fatal Run 2089, Balatro DLC Friends of Jimbo, Neva, Moth Kubit, Coffee Talk Tokyo, Sea of Stars DLC Throes of the Watchmaker, PowerWash Simulator Shrek Special Pack DLC, Morsels, Date Everything!, Peglin, Wobbly Life, Pico Park 2, Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope DX ,Europa, Cuisineer, On Your Tail,, Metal Slug Tactics, The Plucky Squire, Pizza Tower, Refind Self: The Personality Test Game, KOTAKE CREATE, Q2 Humanity, Urban Myth Dissolution Centre, Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase August 2024, Star Overdrive, Tetris Forever, Tetris for Nintendo Entertainment System | Nintendo Switch Online., Goat Simulator 3, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st, Star Wars: Hunters Season 3, STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy, Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition, Disney Dreamlight Valley 'End of Summer' In-Game Event, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game, Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer, Capcom Fighting Collection 2, Marvel vs. Capcom: Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land, Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Castlevania Dominus Collection, Sid Meier's Civilization VII, Tales of Graces f Remastered, MySims Cozy Bundle, Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach - Ruin, Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, Tales of the Shire: A Lord of the Rings Game, Just Dance 2025 Edition, Funko Fusion, EA Sports FC 25, LEGO Horizon Adventures, Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma, Yakuza Kiwami, Animal Tower Battle, Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island, Kill The Crows, The Hundred Line Last Defense Academy, Stray Children, Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake, Beyblade X: XONE, FAIRY TAIL 2, Farmagia, Disney Music Parade: Encore, Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You Emotional, Kamaitachi no Yoru x3, Doraemon's Dorayaki Shop StoryCall Me By Your Gamea nostalgic video game podcastListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Loved One'How far would you go to find the person who means the most to you in all the...Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show
Langoy 345 arrancamos con noticias sobre Marvel, White Visión y el triste destino para Blade, mencionamos también la medalla olimpica para Perú. En el tema central hacemos un Battle Royal para calificar a los gatos de la cultura pop. 00:00:00 Intro y Noticias 00:16:23 Michis de la cultura PopSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Episode 136 of Key Frames, a podcast about anime. Is Crayon Shin-chan the most popular and successful franchise in anime that has little to no foothold with Western audiences? Maybe it's Sazae-san or Doraemon... Anyway, Ben, Andy, and Duncan all decided to watch the best-reviewed of Crayon Shin-chan's thirty-one feature films (soon to be thirty-two, literally this coming Friday) and talk about it! Does it hold up, almost a quarter of a century later? Is it easy to relate to and cheer for its cast of characters if someone hasn't seen all 1,320 episodes of the anime or read all fifty volumes of the manga? What, exactly, does nostalgia smell like and why is it stinky feet? All this and more will be revealed if you listen in! The post 136 - 7.58 first appeared on Key Frames.
Al and Kevin talk about the people they wish were marriage candidates Timings 00:00:00: Theme Tune 00:00:30: Intro 00:02:18: What Have We Been Up To 00:07:01: Marvelous Game Showcase 00:28:38: New Games 00:33:40: Other Game News 00:49:36: People We Want As Marriage Candidates 01:15:43: Outro Links Marvelous Game Showcase Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home Gourdlets Release Date Slime Rancher 2 0.5.0 Update Paleo Pines 1.4.3 Update Minami Lane 1.1 Update Potion Permit Complete Edition Sakuna Anime Contact Al on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheScotBot Al on Mastodon: https://mastodon.scot/@TheScotBot Email Us: https://harvestseason.club/contact/ Transcript (0:00:31) Al: Hello farmers and welcome to another episode of The Harvest Season. (0:00:37) Al: My name is Al and we’re here today to talk about cottagecore games, woohoo, woohoo, wow. (0:00:38) Kev: My name is Kevin last I checked (0:00:45) Kev: Whoo (0:00:46) Kev: Like cottage snore games. I’m kidding. No, actually it’s very exciting today. We have a lot of views (0:00:51) Al: I was gonna say, I was gonna say, are you Johnny? (0:00:54) Al: Like that’s, feels like something he would say. (0:00:56) Kev: No, no, I just I I don’t think that jokes been made yet. Um, I had to seize the opportunity (0:01:01) Al: I’ll need to search through the transcripts to see if it’s been said or not, but you’re (0:01:05) Al: right, I don’t remember it being said. (0:01:08) Al: All right, this episode, our main topic, if you will, although I suspect it will be the (0:01:15) Al: smallest part of the episode, but we’ll see, our main topic is people in cottagecore games (0:01:22) Al: that we want as marriage candidates that currently are not available as marriage candidates. (0:01:27) Al: This is the third of the trilogy of our marriage candidates. (0:01:30) Kev: Yeah, I get that the new that’s the you know, the last of news regards last minute last minute is so big (0:01:38) Kev: Like I forgot that’s what we’re here to talk of (0:01:39) Al: You’re like, oh, yeah, we’re actually we’re going to do that. (0:01:42) Al: Yeah, we’ve got that bit to do as well. (0:01:43) Kev: Yeah, I’m glad you also specified a (0:01:47) Kev: Cottagecore games, right because unfortunately I can’t talk about Jenny from high school (0:01:55) Al: Before that, we have some news. (0:01:58) Al: We have just some generic news. (0:02:01) Al: We also have some new games announced and we have we’re going to talk about (0:02:06) Al: marvellous games showcase, that’s marvellous (0:02:09) Al: the games company not marvel the comics company marvellous so we’re going to (0:02:16) Al: talk about that but first of all Kevin what have you been up to (0:02:21) Kev: Um, so, not, I mean, okay. (0:02:25) Kev: A lot of my pre times being consumed by fable them, the 1.0 came out. (0:02:29) Kev: I picked it up. (0:02:30) Kev: I’m playing it. (0:02:31) Kev: I’m enjoying it. (0:02:32) Kev: It’s, it’s the village builder I wanted. (0:02:36) Kev: I’m doing it. (0:02:37) Kev: Um, you know, I, like, I could go into detail, but that’s probably better for (0:02:42) Kev: another time, um, just, it’s really good. (0:02:43) Al: Yes. Yes, I’m sure you’ll go into detail on it on a future episode. (0:02:45) Kev: I enjoy it. (0:02:45) Kev: Thumbs up. (0:02:46) Kev: Um, when uh, uh, (0:02:51) Kev: um, uh, so that’s when I need the chill to, you know, brain dead game, more or less. (0:02:59) Kev: Uh, when I do feel like actually playing, I picked up some fighting games this week. (0:03:05) Kev: Uh, again, in particular, uh, Street Fighter 6 is the big one because they had, uh, the last of their wave of season one DLC or whatever dropped. (0:03:16) Kev: They added Akuma, who’s a big scary guy, both as a character. (0:03:21) Kev: I’m enjoying getting back into that. I am bad, I have lost everything, I feel worse than ever, but I am still playing. (0:03:32) Kev: So, you know, fighting games. (0:03:32) Al: when you when you said that you’re you’re bad I was going to say obvious the (0:03:35) Kev: What about you, Al? What have you been up to? (0:03:38) Kev: Okay, go ahead. (0:03:40) Kev: Mm-hmm. (0:03:42) Al: important thing is that you’re enjoying it and then you immediately followed up (0:03:45) Al: with I feel worse than ever about it so I was like mmm well awkward well we love (0:03:51) Kev: Yeah, well, look, we’re Pokemon fans. (0:03:55) Kev: We’re gluttons for punishment. (0:03:58) Al: Okay, what have I been asking for? (0:04:02) Al: I have picked up Starstruck Thagobond, which came out about a week ago as we’re recording. (0:04:10) Al: And yeah, I’m enjoying it so far. We’ll see where it goes and how much I enjoy it, etc, etc. (0:04:20) Al: I also may well go into more detail on that in the future episode. (0:04:26) Kev: Okay. [laughs] (0:04:28) Al: I’ve… (0:04:32) Al: Yes, yes it does. I have also been playing more farm RPG, which was, (0:04:39) Al: I don’t know if you’ve listened to this week’s episode or not, Kevin, because it’s only two days (0:04:42) Al: since it came out. Well, that’s what we were talking about me and Cody, and I have continued (0:04:42) Kev: I’m… Yeah, no, I have not caught up on that. (0:04:49) Al: to play it, so I don’t know how long I will continue to play it for, but it is, it’s very (0:04:52) Kev: Hey, well, there you go. (0:04:55) Al: much my just, I’ve just been kind of tapping buttons on mobile when I feel like it sort of thing for it, (0:05:01) Al: So. (0:05:03) Al: Yeah, I have been, I have been playing that. I don’t know if enjoying is the right word. (0:05:04) Kev: You enjoy the number go big some people do (0:05:09) Al: It’s like, do you, it’s like if you play cookie clicker, do you enjoy that? (0:05:13) Al: Is it? I don’t know. Yeah. Yeah. Enjoy is just an interesting word for it. Anyway, (0:05:21) Kev: That’s that (0:05:23) Al: we don’t need to get into that. And I’ve been playing some more Pokemon, as usual. It’s, (0:05:28) Al: It’s raid weekend, Kevin, so I’ve done the raid this weekend. (0:05:32) Al: I thought you were going to say Street Fighter 6 has Swampert. (0:05:32) Kev: Who’s rate or what is being attacked? What is that a Swampert? You know, what’s crazy? (0:05:41) Kev: What if I told you Street Fighter 6 introduced rates (0:05:48) Kev: No, no, I wish (0:05:49) Al: How does a raid work in a fighting game, a one-on-one fighting game? (0:05:54) Kev: Yeah (0:05:56) Kev: Basically, you’ve got to beat up a bunch you beat up X number of opponents or whatever and you (0:06:02) Kev: Earn attack points and then those attack points are used to fire a big cannon at a big scary version of Akuma in this case (0:06:12) Kev: To whittle down. It’s held to a zero and rewards are based on how much you contribute yada. Yada (0:06:18) Kev: Obviously, it’s not actually like a (0:06:20) Al: Yeah, yeah, it’s it’s like a yeah, it’s a it’s a whole world sort of get a big number type thing. (0:06:22) Kev: You know cooperative thing (0:06:27) Kev: Yeah, yeah, it’s a goal like like those Sun and Moon events you remember back (0:06:32) Al: Yes, I do. (0:06:33) Kev: 8 billion eggs or whatever. Yeah, I like that. But okay Swampert’s cool. I like Swampert. They should bring (0:06:42) Al: Well maybe they will with this upcoming game. (0:06:46) Kev: I hope so. (0:06:46) Kev: Yeah, I know. (0:06:48) Kev: I’m so excited. (0:06:48) Kev: Oh my gosh, we’re back. (0:06:51) Al: Excited but excited-ish. Excited for what could be. (0:07:00) Kev: Yeah, yeah. (0:07:02) Al: All right let’s talk about we’re gonna first talk about the Marvelous game (0:07:06) Al: showcase. It’s interesting. Marvelous game showcase. It’s not games. (0:07:12) Al: It makes it sound like they’re just showcasing one game but it was definitely (0:07:15) Al: multiple games. Well it was multiple games kind of because we didn’t really (0:07:20) Al: get any details about anything. Are you excited about Far Magia? (0:07:22) Kev: Speaking of being excited for what COULD be… (0:07:29) Al: The concept of it anyway. (0:07:31) Kev: Uh, okay. So… (0:07:35) Kev: What is the concept? (0:07:36) Al: Well that’s a good question. So Far Magia is their first. They (0:07:41) Al: He originally announced this game a year ago. (0:07:42) Al: This is going to be, you’re going to hear this a lot in this section. (0:07:47) Al: They originally announced this game a year ago at the Marvelous Game Showcase (0:07:50) Al: 2023 as Project Magia, and they didn’t really say anything about it. (0:07:55) Al: They just said, we’re making it. (0:07:57) Al: And then they’ve shown a little cut scene, game introduction type thing with a bunch (0:08:04) Al: of characters and they went into detail about some of the characters. (0:08:07) Al: And that’s, that’s it. (0:08:08) Al: We still don’t have any game, game footage, gameplay. (0:08:12) Al: We don’t have any real information about the game itself, like what actually is it. (0:08:18) Al: I’m assuming it’s going to be a farming game based on the name, but I might be wrong. (0:08:24) Kev: That would, that would be why, I mean, yep, right. (0:08:24) Al: Because my assumption is it’s farm, magia, as in like magic farm, that’s my assumption. (0:08:32) Al: But it could, it might be far. It might not be farm, it might be far. (0:08:38) Al: Because we didn’t even hear them say the name because it was said in Japanese. (0:08:42) Kev: Oh, no, you’re right (0:08:42) Al: I assume a lot of things, but my current assumption is it’s farm, magia. (0:08:48) Al: And it’s going to be a magic based farming game. (0:08:48) Kev: Well, and I mean, you know (0:08:53) Kev: Given this company’s history you would expect that right? (0:08:56) Al: You would, yeah, you would think so. (0:08:58) Kev: But like I don’t yeah, yeah, that’s a reasonable assumption (0:09:03) Kev: But like at the same time, I don’t think we actually saw any sort of form ish related thing (0:09:08) Al: No, nothing. (0:09:10) Kev: But we did see Wasmoth. (0:09:12) Kev: Monster collecting, or monster fighting, yeah I don’t know. (0:09:14) Al: Monster fighting. I don’t think there was any collecting, but there was there was definitely fighting of some kind. (0:09:18) Kev: Well, there were different kinds of monsters it might be collecting, who knows. (0:09:23) Kev: It’s popular with the kids. (0:09:25) Kev: Um, and, yeah, I want to be excited, oh okay, okay. (0:09:30) Al: Oh we do actually see a farm. We do see a farm. I’ve just noticed four minutes and 58 seconds into (0:09:37) Al: the video, the showcase, we see what we see. This looks like a farm with moving plant, (0:09:39) Kev: Okay let me, let me look at that. (0:09:42) Kev: No, so there’s, there’s don’t. (0:09:47) Al: they look like they might be creatures. It’s it’s like literally shown for a second. (0:09:54) Al: And it’s like little tails waggling. (0:09:54) Kev: going through but yeah I mean that I mean you know obviously there’s a few (0:10:00) Kev: people there’s a few does room fact like someone’s never actually played a room (0:10:04) Kev: factory game does room factory combined monsters with your farming and whatnot (0:10:08) Al: Yeah, it’s basically it is essentially just a farming game, but with much more emphasis (0:10:14) Al: on the fighting. (0:10:16) Al: So think of it, I mean, it’s actually not miles away from what Stardew is right with (0:10:23) Al: the cave and with the skull cavern and stuff like that because Stardew has quite a few (0:10:28) Al: different areas now with monsters. (0:10:32) Al: But it’s much more like there is a story to that, to the monster fighting as well. (0:10:38) Al: Like you’re going out and trying to find your way through an area for a story whereas in (0:10:39) Kev: - Yeah. (0:10:43) Al: Stardew you’re doing it because it’s there, you know. (0:10:48) Kev: OK, right. I get you. (0:10:52) Al: So yeah, the fighting isn’t the unique thing, the kind of the story around why you’re fighting (0:10:52) Kev: Well, hopefully. OK. (0:10:57) Al: and what you’re doing and why you have amnesia. (0:10:58) Kev: Now, OK, I get you. (0:11:01) Kev: Well, hopefully this does combine the two, maybe a bit more. (0:11:09) Kev: You know, I’m always down for that, right? (0:11:11) Kev: Because I feel like at this point, we’ve had a handful of games (0:11:14) Kev: trying to combine the monster catching and the farming. (0:11:17) Kev: but I don’t feel like (0:11:18) Kev: any have actually done it that well (0:11:22) Kev: meshing the two together not not just having them both in the game but (0:11:24) Al: Oh, you’re right, it does look like Monster Collection, because it definitely looks like (0:11:25) Kev: actually you know (0:11:26) Kev: working together that’s what I want to see like paleo pines is the one that i (0:11:31) Kev: can think of that i’ve (0:11:37) Al: they’re telling monsters with cards what to do. (0:11:42) Kev: Yup, that you go triple A, level, I don’t know whatever A, this is Moonstone Island, maybe, who knows. (0:11:42) Al: So it looks like it might be a deck builder. (0:11:50) Al: A farming creature collector deck building. (0:11:52) Kev: Marvelous Moonstone Island, there we go. (0:11:59) Kev: Maybe, who knows. One, one other thing, like, I don’t, I’m gonna, you haven’t mentioned it, (0:12:07) Kev: So I’m guessing it doesn’t hold much weight for you, but they got Hiromashima to work on (0:12:12) Kev: the art, which is pretty cool for people not familiar. He’s a Japanese bengaka. He has (0:12:18) Kev: some pretty big hits. I think most notably he’s called Fairy Tail. The art for the characters (0:12:23) Kev: he has. Very distinct that those eyes are like his trademarks. But anyways, personally (0:12:29) Kev: that excites me. I like Hiromashima, so that’s pretty cool. That’s a good get. (0:12:32) Al: enough so they say this game is in development and will be releasing this (0:12:38) Al: year I don’t think it’s releasing this year like if this is I mean it’s June (0:12:40) Kev: which is wild (0:12:44) Al: basically right it’s June and they they’ve not even shown any game footage (0:12:45) Kev: yeah (0:12:50) Al: or even really given us a good idea of what the game is and they say it’s (0:12:52) Kev: yeah that’s wild to me (0:12:55) Al: coming out this year doubt it we’ll see we’ll see six months you can do a lot in (0:12:57) Kev: I don’t I don’t know (0:13:01) Kev: we’ll see (0:13:02) Al: a guess me I mean it’s it’s very possible that they just don’t want to (0:13:04) Kev: that you can (0:13:06) Al: hype it up too quickly and too fast and actually they are on track to be ready (0:13:09) Kev: - Yeah. (0:13:11) Kev: Yes, I will say that I haven’t, okay, I haven’t kept up with Marvelous' (0:13:17) Kev: released schedule history, but I haven’t heard bad things about it at least, right? (0:13:22) Kev: Like, I haven’t heard huge delays or whatever. But, um, the real question is, (0:13:24) Al: no they don’t they don’t they don’t tend to do they don’t tend to have delays (0:13:30) Kev: yeah. Yeah, so we’ll see. I think 20, 24, it’s, I think it’s possible. (0:13:35) Al: oh except for Rune Factory 5 that was delayed by multiple years but (0:13:40) Kev: Well, yeah, touche. (0:13:42) Al: to everyone that’s listening and screaming Rune Factory 5 yes yes yes (0:13:43) Kev: The question for me is when or if it will get localized. (0:13:54) Al: Yeah, yeah, that’s always a good question because they have… I’m trying to remember (0:13:54) Kev: That’s what I wanna know. (0:13:59) Al: if any… I think Pioneers of All of Town may be released the same time over here, but yeah, (0:14:06) Al: I don’t think they generally… Oh, and the newer Doraemon game, Doraemon, Story of Seasons, (0:14:14) Al: Friends of the Great Kingdom, that released at the same time everywhere, but I think in (0:14:21) Al: general, like a wonderful life was (0:14:24) Al: was like a couple of months, wasn’t it? (0:14:26) Kev: Yeah (0:14:27) Al: And the Friends of Minero Town remake was a couple of months (0:14:30) Al: and Rinfactory 5 was like three or four months. (0:14:31) Kev: Yeah (0:14:33) Kev: Well, I mean that’s a reasonable time right like question the bigger question is the if all right because (0:14:40) Kev: You know, this is a new title and franchise whatever right? (0:14:43) Al: Well, let’s, I mean, let’s put it, let’s put it this way. I, I mean, this was the English (0:14:43) Kev: So I don’t know if they’re gonna feel like it’s gonna hit in the States or outside (0:14:53) Al: language version of their showcase. Now granted it was in, it was all of, they didn’t have (0:14:59) Al: it dubbed, but they did have it subbed and it was a specific version of the video for (0:15:05) Al: the English language YouTube channel. (0:15:06) Kev: That is true, and we get in English official English title for major. You know I take it back (0:15:11) Kev: It’s gonna get localized. Doesn’t think about that (0:15:13) Al: I think Farmagia is just, is just the name. I think that’s what they’re calling it in (0:15:14) Kev: and they (0:15:17) Al: Japan as well. Yeah. (0:15:17) Kev: Oh is it okay (0:15:19) Kev: Well there you go (0:15:22) Kev: Well, they said showed it like in English. I don’t know and that could have been the name in Japan in Japan (0:15:25) Al: Yeah, they called it… (0:15:27) Kev: But with Japanese characters you know I mean (0:15:30) Al: Yeah, I just listened to it, and yeah, they called it “Pharmagia” is what they called it in the in the Japanese. (0:15:30) Kev: But we’ll see (0:15:32) Kev: Okay, Mike. I hope sir hi (0:15:36) Kev: All right, there you go. (0:15:41) Kev: And also, they very clearly labeled other things in the showcase as Japan only. (0:15:43) Al: They did, yeah. That’s a good point. They had one of the arcade cabinets was Japan only, the Pokemon one, and one of the mobile games was Japan only. (0:15:54) Kev: In the crane game we don’t get fluffy cow plush (0:15:56) Al: Oh yeah, the crane game. Well, you say game. I do feel like it’s like, is it a game? Like, this is stretching game quite a lot, like gambling box. (0:16:06) Kev: Okay, that one, that one I don’t know. (0:16:11) Kev: Other crane games, I, yes, I think they are, (0:16:14) Kev: but that one did specifically. (0:16:16) Kev: I don’t know, that was a weird design. (0:16:16) Al: it was very different it was very it definitely looked a very large plush (0:16:18) Kev: But who cares? (0:16:19) Kev: I just want the cow inside. (0:16:25) Kev: Yeah, yeah. (0:16:27) Kev: So just, we gotta plan our trip to Japan (0:16:30) Kev: so we can review the cow plush. (0:16:34) Al: Subscribe to our Patreon! (0:16:38) Al: I promise, Kevin, if we get enough patrons to mean that I can afford to take me and you (0:16:41) Al: to Japan, I will do it. (0:16:43) Al: It’s not gonna happen, but… (0:16:44) Kev: that’d be great yeah yeah we need okay that’s (0:16:48) Al: Next we have Story of Seasons. (0:16:50) Al: So in the grand tradition of this video of not giving us any real information, we got (0:16:55) Al: No real information about this either! (0:16:58) Kev: Nope. (0:17:00) Al: So we got the same little video that we got last year (0:17:04) Al: of the chickens and the cows. (0:17:05) Al: And then they showed us a little bit more of the seasons (0:17:11) Al: and the weather and someone looking up at the sky (0:17:14) Al: and seeing fireworks. (0:17:16) Al: And we saw a horse. (0:17:18) Al: And the one gameplay feature difference that we’re seeing (0:17:21) Al: is there’s a glider, which is interesting. (0:17:24) Kev: Yeah, I don’t know how about it. I don’t know how I feel about that. I don’t know how gliders you’re gonna fit in (0:17:29) Kev: But I guess we’ll see (0:17:31) Al: I mean, it definitely leans towards the fact that this is going to be, if possibly not (0:17:36) Al: open world, but certainly a full 3D exploration kind of farming game type thing, more like (0:17:41) Kev: I imagine, at the very least, I bet they’re gonna have a big wild area type of area, where (0:17:46) Al: how the… yeah, they’re going to do something. (0:17:53) Kev: you can maybe catch canvas or something, I don’t know. (0:17:57) Kev: The one thing that I haven’t paid attention to previously when they nest or whatever, (0:18:02) Kev: but they did emphasize, like, they’re putting a lot of focus on the visuals, and it is absolutely (0:18:07) Al: Yeah, it looks, it looks, it looks fine, but like, I mean, I’m also just okay. Fine. Like, (0:18:09) Kev: the prettiest story of season’s game ever. (0:18:19) Al: but why? Like, I just, I don’t know what I have to be excited about it, other than, (0:18:25) Al: yeah, it looks, looks, looks nice. (0:18:28) Kev: We get HDTaos. (0:18:29) Al: Yes, but what is this game? Like, I don’t know, what is it? I want to know what it (0:18:30) Kev: That’s exciting for me. (0:18:37) Al: is. And like, what was the last game they actually released that was actively exciting? (0:18:37) Kev: That, eh, validating, yeah, yeah, yeah. (0:18:45) Al: I know you liked A Wonderful Life, but you liked A Wonderful Life because you like A (0:18:49) Al: Wonderful Life, right? Like somebody who had not played that before would not be excited (0:18:51) Kev: Yes. (0:18:54) Al: about that. The second Doraemon game was okay, but it wasn’t like exciting and different (0:18:55) Kev: They should be. (0:19:00) Al: from the first, really. The first Doraemon story of season’s game, that was probably (0:19:05) Al: the last actually exciting. (0:19:07) Al: and pioneers of all of town was fine but it wasn’t amazing it didn’t do it I mean (0:19:10) Kev: Well, yeah, I guess we’ll have to see, won’t we? (0:19:18) Kev: Right. (0:19:19) Kev: Yeah. (0:19:20) Al: it wasn’t bad right but nothing about it is memorable like as bad as bad as the (0:19:23) Kev: It was whelming. (0:19:27) Al: most the last to harvest moon games have been at least they’re memorable like (0:19:33) Kev: It is better to be a trash fire than just a mediocre. (0:19:34) Al: pain. (0:19:38) Al: Yeah. So I hope they’re doing something rather than just going, what if story of seasons, (0:19:45) Al: but 3D, you know, like, I hope it’s more than that. (0:19:50) Kev: Yeah (0:19:51) Kev: Well, yeah, well, yeah, that’s a good question. I will have to see who knows (0:19:56) Al: But I’m also, well possibly, I’m also just a little bit surprised by (0:19:57) Kev: Maybe for Magia be the winners (0:20:04) Al: we got maybe a little bit (0:20:07) Al: more than the amount of footage we got last year, a year ago. We still don’t have a name, (0:20:13) Al: we still don’t have any actual gameplay, just some pre-rendered cutscenes. And no idea about (0:20:18) Al: what this game actually is, a year later, after the first initial indication that this (0:20:21) Kev: Yeah, that’s a good point, yeah. (0:20:23) Al: game was coming. And that’s not the last time I’m going to say this. But the other thing, (0:20:28) Kev: When will you say it again? (0:20:35) Al: before we get on to that. The other thing that I’m surprised (0:20:38) Al: by is last year they announced there were two Story of Seasons games coming. This one (0:20:41) Al: that they’ve been talking about now, a single player focused one, but also a multiplayer (0:20:45) Al: focused one. We got no indication that they’re even still doing that at all. It wasn’t even (0:20:50) Al: a like ‘oh we’re still doing this’. Nothing at all. They didn’t mention it at all. They (0:20:55) Al: talked about one Story of Seasons game. So has that second Story of Seasons game died? (0:21:01) Al: Have they decided to just stop talking about it until it’s closer? (0:21:04) Kev: I don’t know became became the nude Damon ex machina. That’s what happened (0:21:12) Al: Right, okay, next we have Rune Factory, Rune Factory Project Dragon, which is not Rune (0:21:16) Kev: So what what else did they talk about? (0:21:24) Al: Factory 6, because as I’ve just mentioned for the Story Seasons multiplayer game, they (0:21:29) Al: didn’t mention Rune Factory 6, even though they mentioned Rune Factory 6 a year ago. (0:21:32) Kev: Yep. (0:21:37) Al: Yeah, I don’t know why… (0:21:37) Kev: I’m starting to get the impression (0:21:39) Kev: they may have made some questionable PR decisions. (0:21:42) Al: Whoever decided what they were going to tell us all that information last year, like, (0:21:47) Al: just silly, silly decision, you should not do that. (0:21:52) Kev: Yeah, although they did give the small disclaimer at the beginning that they were there were gonna be games (0:21:58) Kev: They talked about last year that they were gonna talk about this year (0:22:01) Kev: So they acknowledged it (0:22:02) Al: Yeah, but for what reason, though? This is the thing. They didn’t say why. Right? So (0:22:07) Al: this is my thing. It’s like, don’t announce a game. Because they did this with Rune Factory (0:22:08) Kev: That is fine (0:22:14) Al: 5, right? They announced, “Oh, we’re making Rune Factory 5.” And then it took four years, (0:22:19) Al: was it? Until they actually released Rune Factory 5, and they basically gave no information (0:22:28) Al: for most of that time. (0:22:30) Kev: Yeah, mmm, so look forward to farm Asia is the theme of this showcase (0:22:36) Al: Fine, let’s talk about Project Dragon. (0:22:40) Al: So they said that this is a game where you save the world through dance, (0:22:41) Kev: Dance (0:22:46) Al: but all the stuff they showed us was just pretty standard combat. (0:22:46) Kev: And I didn’t see dancing (0:22:50) Kev: Yeah, I was about to say that it looks you know what it looks like it looks like genshin impact boy, that’s that’s some genshin impact (0:22:58) Kev: Okay. (0:23:00) Al: I’ll take your word for it. I haven’t actually played (0:23:00) Kev: Um, I mean, I haven’t played that much either, but I’ve seen Genshin Impact gameplay and it, it looks very similar. (0:23:08) Kev: Um, but yeah, it, like one thing ever and down here is like, it, there’s no farming that we really saw. (0:23:16) Kev: Is it just the combat oriented one? (0:23:18) Kev: Maybe because brand. (0:23:18) Al: I feel like why would they call it Runefactory if it didn’t have farming in it? (0:23:22) Al: But then I feel like if they were going to do that, they would have called Farmagia one of, they would have called it a Runefactory. (0:23:29) Kev: Well, you know what? The thing is, this isn’t a mainline room factory game. It’s a side game. (0:23:36) Al: I mean you’re right though they didn’t say anything about farming so we don’t know if (0:23:42) Al: it’s got farming in it. We do know it’s got combat which they claim is dance. I didn’t (0:23:42) Kev: Yeah. (0:23:48) Kev: I didn’t see dancing. I wish it were. I’d be excited if it were actually fight dancing. (0:23:50) Al: see dancing either. I guess there’s a bit that I’m watching where they’re they’re fighting (0:23:59) Al: a wooly and it does look like they don’t actually have a weapon and they’re doing moves like (0:24:03) Al: you have a weapon and it’s shooting off fireballs. (0:24:06) Al: That just looks like standard magic stuff in these games, right? (0:24:10) Kev: Yeah (0:24:10) Al: Like it doesn’t… (0:24:11) Al: I don’t… (0:24:12) Al: What makes this dance? (0:24:13) Kev: Yeah, it doesn’t it’s probably just the story whatever it’s probably not actually the game (0:24:16) Al: Yeah. (0:24:18) Al: No information on when it’s releasing. (0:24:23) Al: I think they’d originally said this was meant to be coming out this year. (0:24:26) Al: It’s probably not. (0:24:28) Kev: Yeah, who knows? (0:24:28) Al: Yeah. (0:24:29) Al: Yeah. (0:24:29) Kev: So far, Meiji, uh-huh. (0:24:30) Al: I don’t… (0:24:32) Al: It certainly weirdly seems like the one that’s closest to release, and also the (0:24:36) Al: one that’s possibly most exciting out of these. (0:24:37) Kev: Yeah. (0:24:39) Kev: Because it feels the most real. (0:24:42) Al: Maybe that’s… (0:24:43) Al: Maybe that’s why. (0:24:44) Kev: Yeah, I mean, yeah, like, (0:24:46) Kev: even though we didn’t get the gameplay trailer, (0:24:48) Kev: first of all, we get the release date, (0:24:50) Kev: which implies they’re close to completion to some degree. (0:24:52) Al: Well, we got released year, year, yeah, but I like it’s, it’s a very wide way. (0:24:55) Kev: Release year, oh yeah, yes, year, right? (0:24:58) Kev: Release window, let’s say that, right? (0:25:00) Kev: There is a number. (0:25:02) Al: It’s a six month long window at this point. (0:25:04) Kev: Sure, sure. (0:25:06) Kev: Yeah, but I mean, the others have a much wider window. (0:25:12) Kev: At least, they’re telling us that this game (0:25:15) Kev: will very likely exist from Asia, (0:25:19) Kev: from Agia, whatever they call it. (0:25:21) Kev: And hey, like, what we can in French on the trailer, (0:25:24) Kev: you know, monster catching farming, (0:25:26) Kev: It all sounds fun, so. (0:25:28) Kev: So, yeah, I’m excited about it, and hey, yep, yeah, the Dracula one, yep, that’s, uh, it’s fine. (0:25:30) Al: Yeah, they had a little indie section in the middle as well where they talked about a few (0:25:36) Al: of the games that they are publishing, including Moonlight Peaks, which is one we’ve talked (0:25:41) Al: about before, which is interesting. They’ve apparently said it’s coming out in 2026 now, (0:25:48) Kev: Okay, sure, take your time. I’m in a rush. I’m keen on the game. (0:25:49) Al: which before it was saying they didn’t have any date before, so just updating my list. (0:25:58) Kev: You know how your grandpa. (0:26:00) Al: That is, that is the first game. That’s the first game on my list to say 2026. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. (0:26:06) Kev: You know how it’s always your grandpa or whatever who judges your farm? (0:26:14) Kev: Does this mean we’ll get Dracula to judge our farm? (0:26:15) Al: Yeah. (0:26:18) Kev: I like that. (0:26:24) Kev: There was that Death by Guitar game. (0:26:26) Kev: game. It wasn’t Cottagecore, but you played it. (0:26:28) Kev: It plays an electric guitar. I think that’s red. (0:26:30) Al: Yeah, I kind of vaguely paid attention to that, but I was like, I don’t have the headspace (0:26:34) Al: to figure out what is happening. And there was a… (0:26:34) Kev: And that’s fine. And Pokemon– who thought– I didn’t know Pokemon actually would ever hear one of these, but there we are. (0:26:38) Al: Yeah, the… (0:26:42) Kev: It’s not Cottagecore, it’s an arcade game. Very excited-looking children, but… (0:26:42) Al: Yeah. (0:26:45) Al: I think it actually looked kind of cool because it was like too stuck together and you can (0:26:53) Al: play them individually or you can join up for co-op and it covers all both screens for (0:26:56) Kev: Yeah (0:27:01) Kev: Yeah, arcade machines are cool and like they do really cool stuff in Japan with them (0:27:06) Kev: So it’s a pity they’re dead pretty much everywhere else, but that there you go (0:27:12) Kev: No cow plushie for us (0:27:12) Al: There was a Metroidvania as well, which looked fine, but it looked like a pretty standard (0:27:16) Kev: Yeah, I do I (0:27:18) Al: Metroidvania, right? (0:27:19) Al: There’s nothing like, “Oh wow, it was amazing,” but it was fine. (0:27:20) Kev: Followed Hollow Knight did the Stardew thing where it’s just kind of ruined (0:27:27) Kev: Genre, why why did you have to give it the cape like the Hollow Knight? (0:27:35) Al: I’m looking for my first farming Metroidvania. (0:27:39) Kev: Oh (0:27:42) Kev: I’m trying to think you know Hades 2 has farming. It’s not metroidvania. Oh, no, I’m not it has farming. Absolutely (0:27:47) Al: Oh please tell me you’re joking. (0:27:52) Al: So it’s more like Cult of the Lam. (0:27:55) Kev: And maybe? (0:27:56) Al: Damn, am I gonna have to play this stupid game? (0:27:58) Kev: Because I don’t know if you remember Hades one had the fishing right so they like they said we’re gonna kind of expand on (0:28:04) Kev: That and they threw in farming now (0:28:05) Al: Yeah, the thing the thing is, right, the fishing is just like, it’s not really interesting to me, (0:28:11) Al: because it’s just all of the stuff in Hades between the runs was just things you did (0:28:11) Kev: Yeah (0:28:15) Kev: Yeah, yeah, yeah (0:28:16) Al: to make the runs better, right? Whereas the thing about Cult of the Lamb was the runs (0:28:21) Al: were to make your your village better, not the other way around. (0:28:24) Kev: Yeah (0:28:26) Kev: That’s a good point. I don’t know how far goes into that. I just know farming exists in the game (0:28:32) Kev: I haven’t played it myself or anything (0:28:34) Al: I don’t want to play this game. Don’t make me play this game. (0:28:36) Kev: Cottagecore (0:28:39) Al: Speaking of games that I’m gonna play but I don’t expect to enjoy, we have a new Harvest (0:28:45) Al: Moon game being announced, Harvest Moon Home Sweet Home, but this is a mobile game. It (0:28:52) Al: is coming to iOS and Android in August of this year. So in two months, between two and (0:28:58) Kev: Ha! (0:28:58) Kev: Mm-hmm. (0:28:59) Al: three months, but we didn’t get any gameplay footage or screenshots of this game at all. (0:29:04) Al: in this announcement. And it very much feels like they went, “Oh, (0:29:08) Al: the Marvelous Showcase is tomorrow. Let’s announce our new game, even though we’re not ready to.” (0:29:14) Al: Because it was announced literally 24 hours before the Marvelous Showcase. (0:29:18) Kev: Look, there’s no denying that Marvelous has done better than Natsume, but Natsume likes (0:29:25) Kev: to hold up that Harvest Moon logo just to remind them. (0:29:28) Al: Yeah, so they announced this game, all they did was one tweet and it says “Harvest Moon (0:29:29) Kev: Just to rub the salt on their one win. (0:29:33) Kev: And it works! (0:29:34) Kev: It hurts me to see it! (0:29:42) Al: Home Sweet Home is coming to iOS and Android August 2024. Home is where the heart is. After (0:29:48) Al: 10 years of city life, you’re ready to head back home in Harvest Moon Home Sweet Home. (0:29:53) Al: Your childhood friend has convinced you to move back to your hometown to try to revitalize (0:29:58) Al: to be easy going. The town of Alba, I’m assuming it’s Alba, not Alaba, because I don’t know. (0:30:04) Al: Did we have this conversation around the other game? What was it called? Alba Wild Life Adventure, (0:30:08) Kev: I mean, there’s Jessica Alba, right, so I’m going with that. (0:30:17) Al: because the word Alba is also, that spelling is a Gaelic word to refer to Scotland, but (0:30:28) Al: it’s not pronounced Alba, it’s pronounced Alapa. So it’s like, I’m assuming you’re correct in this (0:30:31) Kev: Well, the invisible woman lied to me. (0:30:35) Al: Alba, but I can’t read it and not think about that, the fact that it could theoretically be (0:30:43) Al: Scotland. I doubt it, but anyway, we’ll move on. Back to the quote. “The town of Alba,” I’m just (0:30:49) Al: going to say Alba for now, “has seen better days and not all its residents are happy to see a city (0:30:53) Al: slicker like you back. Can you convince even the negative naysayers? (0:30:58) Al: That you truly have the village’s best interests at heart? And can you revitalize Alba with the (0:31:03) Al: help of your childhood friend and other villagers on your side? You definitely can. (0:31:08) Kev: okay so there’s there’s nothing here like uh let’s be clear but but it’s giving me some ideas (0:31:11) Al: No. (0:31:13) Al: Yeah, that was a lot of words to tell us nothing. (0:31:17) Kev: but it’s giving me some ideas and we get a cottage poor farming game where the residents (0:31:26) Kev: all are hateful and and discriminating and and not nice i’d be down for this (0:31:32) Al: We should do it where you like you get to choose um I don’t know if this is really bad (0:31:39) Al: or not but I’m going with it anyway I’m leaning in you get to choose what minority you are (0:31:44) Al: and then everybody in the village hates that specific minority and you have to justify (0:31:47) Kev: Yeah (0:31:53) Kev: Yeah (0:31:54) Al: justify why you should exist oh no (0:32:01) Kev: Somebody get on this. This is gold. Mmm. Oh (0:32:04) Al: don’t know how I feel about even talking about that. That’s dreadful. Oh my word. No! (0:32:09) Kev: You could you could do some mean stuff at one point they have to burn your crops, you know when they have to (0:32:15) Kev: - Thank you. (0:32:17) Al: - No. (0:32:17) Kev: - Yeah, it’s good stuff. (laughs) (0:32:22) Kev: Hmm. (0:32:24) Al: Yeah, so there’s nothing here about this game, we don’t have any information about it, because (0:32:29) Al: like all of this is saying is basically the plot of every farming game. (0:32:35) Kev: Yep, yep, this this description gave me an another angle to another idea (0:32:41) Kev: Why don’t we do the reverse where you move to the city to? (0:32:46) Kev: Gentrify the village to modernize it ruin ruin the lifestyle. Let’s see that. Let’s see that angle. Come on (0:32:53) Kev: Be the this slick real estate guy (0:32:57) Al: It’s just taking the, um, the Georgia route to the extreme. (0:33:02) Kev: Yeah, yeah, basically (0:33:05) Kev: Thank you harvest moon for in announcing these ideas in my head (0:33:05) Al: You know, you know, there’s a fun. (0:33:10) Kev: Heh heh heh. (0:33:10) Al: There’s a fantastic bit in, you know, how on, in the 1.6 stardew update, (0:33:15) Al: you can pay to find the walnuts on ginger Island. (0:33:18) Kev: Yeah, yeah. (0:33:19) Al: If you do that, there’s a fantastic cut scene where, uh, what’s, isn’t (0:33:24) Al: Morris is sitting on our bed. (0:33:27) Al: Deck chair in the middle of the island with bags of cash sitting around him while his (0:33:29) Kev: Yeah. (0:33:32) Al: parrots go and find all the walnuts is fantastic okay so that’s that’s all of this the marvelous (0:33:32) Kev: You’re the last. (0:33:35) Kev: It’s good, that’s good, I like that. (0:33:39) Kev: That’s, that’s strong. (0:33:44) Al: stuff and the natsume stuff so we have some other game news as well which is a little (0:33:50) Al: bit more concrete shall we say so first of all we have gourdlets gourdlets have announced (0:33:57) Al: they’re releasing in summer 2024 so just to summarize this this was this is it describes (0:34:05) Al: itself as an easy-going sandbox game about building towns for cute vegetable folks yeah (0:34:12) Kev: That’s exactly what it looks like. (0:34:16) Al: you love when you’ve got a description of a game and you’re like yeah that is yeah okay (0:34:19) Al: sure and it’s very sad it like it’s very sandboxy like there’s some bits of them actually just (0:34:25) Al: putting just making. (0:34:27) Kev: It’s that isometric (0:34:29) Kev: You know view with you see the whole island and clearly you can add to it and cubicle or whatever (0:34:36) Kev: Yeah (0:34:37) Kev: Those are some Pikmin vegetable people (0:34:40) Al: I. I mean. (0:34:40) Kev: Yeah, all right. That’s cute. When do they add the turnip boy crossover to ruin everything? (0:34:47) Kev: Does he fit in? (0:34:47) Al: I’m intrigued as to see how well this will work with controller, (0:34:50) Al: because it does say it will have controller support. (0:34:53) Kev: Hmm (0:34:54) Al: I’m intrigued to see how well that will work, because it looks very mouse based. (0:34:57) Kev: It does, one of those vegetable people is cooking, okay. (0:35:03) Kev: I don’t know, they don’t have hands, I don’t know how they do it, but they do it. (0:35:06) Al: You don’t need to question these things (0:35:10) Kev: Also, this isn’t their fault, but (0:35:14) Kev: Ooblets has really claimed their stake on that name and (0:35:20) Kev: the (0:35:20) Al: let’s hmm well we’ll see what we’ll see what comes of it so they’re releasing in (0:35:27) Al: the summer and I don’t think that’s early access I think that’s just 1.0 (0:35:32) Kev: Yeah, their demo’s out now, so probably. (0:35:34) Al: slime rancher 2 have announced that they have just released a 0.5 update it (0:35:42) Al: doesn’t seem like there’s much to talk about if you don’t already have played (0:35:46) Al: the game. There’s stuff about a new shop. (0:35:50) Kev: Okay. Look, I, well, I get, like, I get marketing has to be a thing, but you can announce your early access. I get that. But after that, I don’t want to hear anything about it until 1.0. (0:36:03) Kev: It feels so weird to me to announce these half updates or whatever. Like it’s wild. (0:36:12) Al: Am I part of the problem Kevin? Speaking of weird update numbers, (0:36:15) Kev: No, you’re not. You’re, no, no, no, no, not by any means. It’s, it’s like, (0:36:21) Al: Paleopine’s 1.4.3 adds the now let me see if I got this, (0:36:21) Kev: ha ha ha. (0:36:28) Al: if I can pronounce this properly, Sarcosuchus, or Sarcosuchus? (0:36:32) Kev: Uh, circus sutures, I’d say sutures, but it could be, because I don’t, you might be right. (0:36:38) Kev: It might be circus, circus, circus, circus, circus, circus. (0:36:39) Al: A new dinosaur. (0:36:41) Kev: I don’t know which one. (0:36:43) Al: - It adds a new dinosaur, that’s what matters. (0:36:46) Al: And if you, listener, are like, I love dinosaurs, (0:36:50) Al: but I specifically wanted the Sarkosuchus, (0:36:52) Al: and I wasn’t gonna buy paleopines until that was in the game. (0:36:56) Al: Now’s your time. (0:36:57) Kev: there you go um I think then that’s a plushie too yep there’s a plushie of it yep a good old (0:37:05) Kev: makeshift um I do think it’s cool that they add more dinosaurs to this game because you know (0:37:11) Kev: obviously that’s going to be the appeal right but but I want a really big on the 2.0 update that adds (0:37:18) Kev: like a whole new class of dinosaurs like the sauropods they were in the game they were just cut (0:37:22) Al: You’d rather wait six months and then get 10 dinosaurs than get one a month. (0:37:28) Kev: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. (0:37:30) Al: I think that’s fair, and maybe there’s a time we need to have a conversation about (0:37:34) Al: this on the pod properly, but I do feel like there’s something big about that, like (0:37:39) Al: there’s something exciting about like the Stardew updates every two or three years. (0:37:45) Kev: Yeah, and like, I think, because like, I mean, it’s Hello Pines is very much in the vein of monster collect the right maybe not as as intense as other games but it’s a lot of the same bones right of collecting dinosaurs right. (0:38:02) Kev: I think monster collectors in general like, because Moonstone Island does the same thing every couple of months they’ll release like one or two new creatures or whatever which in a game we’re collecting (0:38:15) Kev: is a big deal like, I think it’s just not exciting to collect one new one you know, like, I mean, Pokemon right they do they drop, you know, a whole (0:38:20) Al: Yeah, well that’s actually, Pokemon’s a really good example of that actually because I still (0:38:30) Al: play Pokemon Go all the time, Pokemon Go specifically, but I really miss when every (0:38:38) Al: few months they had here’s 10 new Pokemon, right? And now that it’s like every so often (0:38:45) Al: there’s one new Pokemon, you know, because they’re obviously slowing down because they can’t create (0:38:47) Kev: Yeah, or can they? (0:38:50) Al: Pokemon to add in, they can only work with what they’re given. (0:38:57) Kev: We don’t know what what gen 10 will be, could be released exclusively through Go. (0:39:01) Al: Well sure, but that’s still the Pokemon company and Game Freak making the Pokemon up, right? Niantic (0:39:03) Kev: I know, I’m, yeah, I know, I’m messing, but yeah. (0:39:07) Al: cannot create new Pokemon, they can only work with what they’ve got, and so they’ve slowed (0:39:13) Al: that down massively so that they don’t run out, but that just makes it less exciting, right? (0:39:20) Al: Oh, here’s a Pokemon, you’re like, oh great, I’ll go out and catch that one new Pokemon. (0:39:24) Al: It’s not exciting. Yeah, I would agree. (0:39:26) Kev: yeah yeah yeah so um yeah but yeah so that and and again paleo going back to the paleo (0:39:35) Kev: pines thing like it’s like dinosaurs are cool and I appreciate but just and I know they’ve shown (0:39:41) Kev: they had a lot of content or things they were planning to add so I feel like they’re gonna (0:39:46) Kev: plan a 2.0 some sort of big update with a bunch of dinosaurs and I don’t know like I said I personally (0:39:50) Al: It’s possible that they are doing that. I will also say that Paleopine’s works a bit (0:39:53) Kev: Well wait, but it does keep it in the news cycle. (0:39:59) Al: differently to like normal creature collection and you can’t - it’s hard to like just go (0:40:02) Kev: Mm-hmm. (0:40:05) Al: out and collect everything, right? So actually having that steady release of here’s a new (0:40:06) Kev: Yeah, it is, yes. (0:40:10) Al: one means that you might always have something that you haven’t got yet, which is possibly (0:40:16) Kev: - That is true, that is true. (0:40:16) Al: a good thing. It’s a difficult one. (0:40:20) Kev: Yeah. (0:40:20) Al: My point is I don’t think there’s a “this is always the best way” because I think we’ve (0:40:24) Al: talked about it before and that I don’t think everybody can do the stardew thing because (0:40:29) Al: you’re not going to be constantly interested in every game releasing a massive update every (0:40:35) Al: two years. You’re also not going to be interested in every game releasing an update every month (0:40:36) Kev: Yeah, I guess. (0:40:40) Al: but be that as it may. Speaking of updates, Minami Lane. Minami Lane. Minami Lane. (0:40:41) Kev: Yeah, that’s true. (0:40:48) Kev: What? Oh, minomulate? I don’t know, whatever. (0:40:50) Al: Minami Lane. Anyway, they’ve released an update 1.1. It has gamepad support and six new languages (0:40:58) Al: and a bunch of quality of life and improvements and (0:41:02) Al: fixes etc. But the main thing is that the controller support and the languages. (0:41:07) Kev: This is the one with that raccoon, the war veteran, right, I think? (0:41:11) Al: No, that was Akka was the war veteran. (0:41:14) Kev: Oh, yeah, no, you’re right, that is that guy. (0:41:18) Al: Yeah, I know this one’s a (0:41:20) Al: a small village builder. It’s not really a town builder. It’s a village builder. (0:41:26) Al: It’s more like a street. It’s like one street. (0:41:26) Kev: almost like a neighborhood builder yeah okay yeah that’s there’s that isometric sandbox again (0:41:36) Al: we love it I have owned this I do own this game I haven’t played it yet (0:41:43) Al: because do you want to guess why I haven’t played it yet (0:41:43) Kev: Okay (0:41:47) Kev: You’re playing Stardew Valley no, I don’t know (0:41:49) Al: nope it didn’t have controller support (0:41:52) Kev: Now I was that I was about to actually guess that after I said that I don’t know I was like I look like oh (0:41:58) Al: if you release a game on steam and it doesn’t have controller support i’m not (0:42:01) Al: playing it until it has controller support because i’m playing it on my (0:42:04) Al: my Steam Deck, that is where I’m playing it. (0:42:06) Kev: Yeah, even as someone who doesn’t have this thing, I feel very similarly. (0:42:14) Al: I feel like if I was like a student now rather than 15 years ago, instead of building a gaming (0:42:23) Al: PC, I would have just bought a Steam Deck, I think, because the portability is such a (0:42:28) Al: huge thing. And you can still use it like a standard PC by plugging it into monitors (0:42:35) Al: and stuff like that. But obviously it didn’t exist back then. Sad. (0:42:37) Kev: Mm-hmm (0:42:40) Kev: Yeah, that’s yeah, yeah, that’s fair. Yeah, I think so and (0:42:45) Kev: steam tech saw like it’s a big appeal of (0:42:49) Kev: The consoles for me or just open the box and play the thing right like in steam deck is very much in the line (0:42:52) Al: Exactly. And yes, sure, it’s something you might have to update more often than you would if you (0:42:59) Al: were putting a lot of money into a high-end PC. But one, you’re still spending less money, (0:43:02) Kev: …Right. (0:43:04) Al: right? Because high-end PCs cost a lot of money. People go, “Oh, well, you can get a lot more for (0:43:04) Kev: Mm-hmm. (0:43:09) Al: your money in a PC, sure, but you have to spend a lot to get something better than a console.” (0:43:13) Kev: We have updating you don’t need to update as much. (0:43:15) Al: And two, I can’t remember my number two. What was my point? What was I arguing about? (0:43:21) Al: Yeah. You. (0:43:23) Al: Yeah, it’s just it’s one of the oh, yes, I remember the steam deck is like the baseline now for games. So if you have a game, a steam deck, you know, it’s going to be able to run most games, most games are going to be able to run on it. Not all, but most games will be able to run on it. (0:43:38) Kev: Yeah, mm hmm. (0:43:41) Al: And so even though they might not run the best and they might not have the best graphics, it’s still, you know, you’re going to be able to run it. Whereas if you have like a cheap PC you’ve put together with a bunch of things or you have. (0:43:52) Al: Like a cheap laptop or something, no guarantees there, you know, having that guaranteed hardware that, you know, that someone has played someone, someone else in the world has played this game on that hardware. (0:44:05) Al: You know that you can guarantee that there is somebody that has played this game on a steam deck. And if if there’s an issue with it, they will have told the developer, whereas your random PC that you’ve shoved stuff together may well have some really weird edge case bug. (0:44:20) Kev: Yeah, yeah, you’re right. Yeah, it’s absolutely the (0:44:30) Kev: Consistency that’s around looking for here consistency, right? That’s that’s a big appeal (0:44:32) Al: Yep, exactly. Potion Pyramid have released their Complete Edition. The Complete Edition (0:44:39) Al: will contain the base game of Potion Pyramid and all paid DLC, with over 30 cosmetic pieces (0:44:46) Al: of furniture to decorate your potion house. The Complete Edition will be available as a physical (0:44:50) Al: version on PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. A Complete Edition DLC pack will be available (0:44:56) Al: digitally for those that own the base game and want all the available DLC. (0:45:00) Kev: Yeah, I do appreciate get doing the big everything’s here release including the physical (0:45:02) Al: Yeah, it also seems to be 66% discounted just now. The complete bundle. You can get the whole (0:45:18) Al: bundle for £18, which is only £1 more than the base game is at its standard price. (0:45:26) Kev: Well there you go. (0:45:27) Al: And I assume it’s a similar sort of price in the US, but I’m looking at the non-US price. (0:45:31) Kev: Yeah. (0:45:32) Al: So if you have been… no, you go, nope, you go. (0:45:33) Kev: Yeah. (0:45:34) Kev: Look, I’m sorry. (0:45:35) Kev: Just go in. (0:45:38) Kev: I would just get it. (0:45:38) Kev: Look, I’m sorry. (0:45:39) Kev: Like potion permanently. (0:45:40) Kev: Good for you. (0:45:41) Kev: And I’m looking at the next news items so harder. (0:45:45) Al: All right well let’s go for it then. I could have added this into last week’s episode but (0:45:49) Al: I felt like I needed to leave it for this one because Kevin the Sakuna anime is now going to (0:45:52) Kev: I’m so excited. It’s so pretty oh (0:45:56) Al: be airing in Japan from the 6th of July. It does look really good. (0:46:01) Kev: That’s so close it looks so good. Holy mackerel. They got I didn’t realize that Toho animation like that is a (0:46:10) Kev: An anim
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In episode 515 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley and Ritu discuss: 00:00 - AI Power for E-commerce Sellers 07:54 - Utilizing AI for Amazon Sellers' Success 09:05 - AI in PPC Strategy With Chat GPT 20:52 - Search Term Modifiers and Word Order 23:04 - Enhancing Amazon Ads With AI 31:24 - Generating Posts Using Canva and Amazon 32:19 - Utilizing Search Group Performance Data 33:47 - Optimizing Data Strategy for Efficient Analysis 41:23 - Convert Snapshot Data to Time Series ► Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast ► Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension ► Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) ► Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft ► Watch The Podcasts On YouTube: youtube.com/@Helium10/videos Transcript Bradley Sutton: Today we've got a first time guest who I think is probably top five in the world these days as far as actionable Amazon strategies, and she's going to give us an absolutely value-packed episode full of tips on generative AI, PPC and more. 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That's a completely BS free, unscripted and unrehearsed organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. We've got a special guest today Ritu. So, first of all, we're going to get into your backstory about how we can even talk in Japanese, because that's something that's crazy. Were you born in Japan or were you born? Ritu: I was born in India, but I lived in Japan for 17 years. Bradley Sutton: So from what age? Ritu: You want to know how old I am. Bradley Sutton: No, no, no. From what age were you living in Japan? Ritu: Mid-20s. Yeah, so mid-20s. Bradley Sutton: Also was, so you didn't go to school in Japan. Ritu: No, I didn't. I went there as an adult. I was working at a company and I take company 17 years. Bradley Sutton: Yes, that means you had to have gone there when you were a child. Then because you can't be over 25 years old. So I don't know what's going on here. Ritu: That is very cute. Bradley Sutton: I was all the reason. I was asking if you grew up because I wore this shirt today. Do you recognize this character here? What is this? Ritu: Yes Doraemon. Yes, I grew up with Doraemon when I was a little over there, that's awesome. Bradley Sutton: Yes, I grew up with Doraemon when I was a little over there, that's awesome. I know a little bit about you, but I for some reason had this idea that you actually grew up in Japan and that was why you were so fluent in language. Once you go as an adult, it's a little bit harder, unless you really immerse yourself in the culture. Ritu: I did. I really immersed myself in the culture. I went there just for a year, honestly, and ended up staying 17. It's so crazy how that place had such a big impact on me. It was such a stark contrast to where I grew up, which was India. Bradley Sutton: Whereabouts in India. Ritu: In Delhi, the capital city of chaos that's how I describe it from chaotic to super orderly. You can imagine what a difference, that is A stark difference from the world I knew. I was just drawn to the calm and the orderliness of that place. How things were punctual, everything happened as expected, there were no surprises, everything was planned in so much detail, which I kind of liked. I think where I'm at right now is a nice middle ground, because I think I like the chaos. It has energy. It has a certain type of progressive energy that all of us need, especially as entrepreneurs. We need that energy to be able to kind of keep moving forward. But then I also like the organizational skills that I picked up while I was in Japan, because you need that to have good execution. I think best of both worlds is what I'm trying to be at right now, trying to draw from both my cultures. Bradley Sutton: Then did you go to university in India. Ritu: I did. I'm an engineer. I did my electronics engineering from India. I went back to school much later in life. I went back to school in the US and I did a course in data science, which is why I'm very attracted to PPC and data and data analytics and that sort of stuff. Bradley Sutton: When you graduated with the electrical engineering degree, did you start working in India, or is that when you went to Japan? Ritu: Yeah, I started working right away and I started working in India and I worked for an IT company and it was a pretty long stint there as well, like I was very interested in technology right from the start and it kind of aligned with my life's goals and stuff like that. At the time. I mean, little did I know that I would completely switch at a certain point. When I was in Japan I worked for not only the company that I was in India, I kind of went to their Japan office and I started helping them out. But then later on I switched to a more technical role at a school, at a high school, American school in Japan, and then I had my kid and took a break from work and then I kind of dealt in a little bit of entrepreneurship. I started running my own business. I had an Etsy store. Yes, in Japan, while I was in Japan, I started my Etsy business selling jewelry. It was like kind of one of a kind jewelry and I realized that, gosh, it's not enough just to create a listing and people are not going to flock to that listing. So I had to teach myself a whole lot of stuff like marketing advertising. So I learned Facebook ads, Google Ads, blogging, YouTube, all of that stuff. Bradley Sutton: So Etsy in the United States, or is there an Etsy in Japan? Ritu: No, there's an Etsy in the United States, but I was selling on the US market from Japan. So I was producing my stuff there, but I was shipping it worldwide wherever there were shoppers. But shipping costs are exorbitant. Sending stuff from Japan it's very expensive. Yeah, so mostly was attracted to the data side of things. Yes, I have both left and right brains, because the creative side was just all my creations, the jewelry that I made. But then I needed the data science side of things to kind of round things off and make money out of my business, because everything we do here is based on data and I know he's intended the data company. So is PPC Ninja. We might think that we're in the business of selling goods, but actually we're in the business of leveraging data. So that's why it was so important for me to get that knowledge and make sure that I'm kind of ready to go with my own endeavors. Bradley Sutton: Now. So, Etsy was kind of like your first online marketplace. Now, did you ever end up selling on Amazon or did you go straight into software and consulting etc. Ritu: Yeah, so I've never sold on Amazon, but I've helped businesses sell on Amazon. So it's basically the data side of things. So, I only sold on Etsy. I sold on my own website for a bit, but then I have never sold on Amazon myself. But PPC is where I'm focused on. Bradley Sutton: Okay, cool. Now you talked about having an analytical mind, and that's kind of like what you're known for. When you've spoken at events like Billion Dollar Seller Summit and others is especially in the last couple of years, you're one of the go-to people as far as AI and things like that, now me, I'm a little bit behind. I use even on this podcast, we use AI to generate title options and transcripts and things like that, but I would say I'm not one of those full force ahead like, hey, ai is going to replace hours and hours of work. I haven't really adopted it to that effect. So, the typical Amazon seller what are some things that you don't have to be a seven, eight, nine figure seller but just like any Amazon seller if they have not started utilizing AI to help them in their operations or business? What are? Let's take it to that spectrum first. What are some things that you think that any Amazon seller could benefit by utilizing AI? Ritu: Yeah, there's so much. Actually, the magic happens when you start combining things. So AI by itself may not be the be all and all of things, because it's not going to operate in a silo. You've got to combine it with other pieces of data that you have access to. For example, just this morning I was preparing for a new product launch for one of our clients and I'd got all my data from Helium 10. I was at the stage where I have to come up with some keywords for broad match campaigns. I wanted to make sure that all the right keywords are in there, not just the long tail ones with high search volume, but I wanted to make sure that I'm capturing all the seed combinations of important words that make sense. So what I did was I exported the Helium 10 cerebral analysis and I fed it to chat GPT and asked it to come up with two words and three word combinations of seed keywords that would perfectly describe this product. Now what I'm going to do next with that is basically convert that into broad match modifiers, which basically means you add a plus sign in front of all the seeds and then I'm going to create campaigns with it. So that's something that I do at every launch. I generally don't skip that step. It's an important one for me. So, in addition to all the long tail keywords, I will come up with enough seed words that will run at a slightly lower bid but will be like a discovery campaign for me through the broad match modifier channel. So that's kind of one thing that I do. Ritu: Then, like yesterday, I was doing another one for another client, where we have a list of keywords that we discovered from the search query performance report, which is kind of this new, very valuable piece of data that Amazon is giving us these days. So from there I was able to come up with a structure for sponsored brand headline ads and I didn't have to do the work. I just fed that entire list to chat GPT and said, hey, organize this into groups of very related words and then give me a headline ad which is less than 50 characters, because that's the amount Amazon will give us. And then it did that for me. I also gave it one other important instruction, which is to make sure that one of the keywords or a very close variant of that keyword in the group must be included in the title, and that's basically my way of saying, hey, I want this to be a lower funnel ad, not a generic kind of upper funnel ad, because my sponsored brand ads tend to be more focused on ROAS rather than brand discovery and brand awareness. So those are some of the ways that I'm using it almost on a daily basis. I had switched to chat GPT plus a long time ago. I've been paying for it and it's totally worth it. Bradley Sutton: So there's how much is it for somebody to subscribe to? Ritu: that it's about $20 a month. It's not much at all, yeah, it's just $20. And what it gives you is all the beta features, all the new stuff. So right now you can actually upload files very easily. You can upload any kind of file to almost any kind of file to chat GPT and then ask it to analyze, analyze the file and then you can ask it a bunch of questions. So it's just made life so much easier. And I mean I think sky is the limit with what you can do with AI. It's like I always, always feel like I'm not using it enough, even though I'm using it probably quite a bit more than a lot of people, but I still feel cautioned to use it more. Bradley Sutton: Okay, interesting, interesting. So there's some of the ways that you can use it in PPC. Now I remember you presented something. I've seen you speak, you know, various times, but I don't remember which event, this or what it was. That might have been a billion dollars, but where were you doing? You were doing like translation, using like Helium 10 because, like you were doing research, you weren't translating the English keywords. That's obviously a big mistake that some sellers make. Hey, I've got my Amazon USA listing, let me just translate it. Or let me just translate the keywords. No, you need to do the research in that marketplace. So you switch Helium 10 to Amazon Germany, for example, but if you're not a German speaker, you just see all this Deutsch keywords and you don't really know what it means. Or so they're doing it in Amazon Japan and they don't speak Japanese like you, so they might not know. So what's your? I'm not sure if it was AI or just something in Google you were doing to kind of like make that process a little bit easier. Ritu: Yeah. So what we've done is we have integrated chat GPD right into Google Sheets, and we had to write a little bit of code for that. But once we did that, what's happened is that we have these ready to go sheets where we simply change the prompt and add a bunch of keywords and then it will just translate into whatever language, right? So? And I've noticed that any translation done by chat GPD is way better than Google Translate and I've tested it, especially in Japanese, because I can read it. I know that the quality is much better. Ritu: Just to give you an example chat GPD will use the right combinations of Kanji and Hiragana, whereas Google Translate will not. It just doesn't do a great job. And if I tell chat GPD to give me a translation in all four different scripts, that's, kanji as well as Hiragana, Katakana and the Roma G, it will give all those to me. It's a no-brainer to use chat GPD for that sort of thing rather than Google Translate and then other languages as well. Like we're just onboarding this client that has four markets and we have no speakers of those languages on our team. But with chat GPD, we can simply include that into our SOPs, into our workflows and just use those sheets to kind of get the final product out. So it's really great the combination of Helium 10 and chat GPD workflows. They work really well for us. Bradley Sutton: Okay, cool. Now going back a little bit, just remember you were talking about broad match modifiers. There might be people out there who don't know what that means. Can you explain that a little bit? Ritu: Yeah, yeah. So a broad match modifier is a type of broad match, so when you're setting your add up, it'll still be a broad match. However, by simply adding a plus sign before every part of the keyword which means if it's a two word keyword, then both the parts will have a plus sign in front of them what you're gonna ensure is that the buyer search must include those words in exactly that format in order for that match to happen. So this eliminates any kind of kind of synonyms or related words that Amazon might try to kind of connect to, which you don't think need to be there. So at this point, amazon is even replacing exact matches with weird sort of words that it thinks are similar. So we don't want that, because we've done all of the research to find out which exact version of that keyword is giving us the highest search volume, so we wanna stick to it. Ritu: In order to make that happen, we're actually finding ourselves doing more and more work with broad match modifiers, because all the other match types are being weird anymore. Like exact matches are not behaving like exact matches. Same thing with phrase match and broad match anyway, always was a bit too broad and it was always kind of giving you all kinds of weird matches for sponsored brands, but then it started doing the same thing for sponsored products as well, and that makes it a little challenging. It can be wasteful. So yeah, broad match modifiers is a great way of making sure that your matches are clean and that they don't bring in kind of extraneous, superfluous words that you shouldn't be targeting. Bradley Sutton: Do you use that 100% of the time when you have a broad campaign? Ritu: So you always have if it's a three word phrase. Bradley Sutton: You'll put the plus in between each of the. Ritu: Yes, 100% of the time. We've been doing it for the past two years and we actually future proved ourselves because we knew this was coming. It's kind of like Amazon always follows Google. So we knew this was coming because Google introduced broad match modifiers first. Now they've already sunset it. So I don't know where this is gonna end up for Amazon, because what I've heard and I don't wanna just speculate, but what I've heard people say is that Amazon might be moving toward a future where there aren't any match types. There's only a word, there's only a keyword, and then it figures out how to match it the best way. Now it's plausible, especially in this AI world. It's plausible that that might happen. But in the interim, I'm betting on broad match modifiers and exact match. Of course, can't do much about the fact that Amazon isn't treating exact matches the way they ought to be treated, but that's the best we have right now. Bradley Sutton: So what would the difference be between using broad, doing broad target with modifiers compared to phrase for the same, the same, you know, like coffin shelf, like. So if I do coffin plus shelf in broad or coffin shelf in phrase, what's the difference in the potential? You know showings of that keyword. Ritu: Yeah, no, I think the showings of that keyword might totally depend on the bids and they might also depend on relevancy. So it's very hard to predict which of the three match types are gonna win. You know that's been a struggle. I mean you can't really say if you put coffin, what was it? Again coffin shelf. Bradley Sutton: Yeah, coffin shelf. Ritu: Yeah, if you say coffin shelf broad coffin shelf phrase and say coffin shelf exact, what we would want it to do and what would be logical is that if I had a higher bid for exact match, then you know all the searches should come in match through exact match. But that's not always the case. You know, we've seen so much variability there. It also depends on which campaign, you know, starts out those keywords and then each campaign has its own story, its own history. Because let's say, you combine that keyword with a bunch of other keywords and let's say those other keywords got a majority of the early data points, like it started hitting some other words coffin longtail words Before it hit your coffin shelf word, then what happens is that this word starts getting starved of impressions, the other words start to take dominance and these words that get starved of impression give you the false impression that they're not working, whereas it's just a matter of how things started off, like what were the set of searches on that day, on that very moment that Amazon decided to match? Ritu: And then it's going to just take its cues from whatever little data it has in the beginning, because that's all it has to play off of, and then it just keeps giving more and more and more impressions to the early data points and everything else just gets ignored, you know. So it's like a game Like PPC is a game that you know you've got to be able, you've got to be willing to keep playing, trying different things, different ways, moving things, you know, trying it in a different match type, in a different campaign, restarting, stopping, all of that you know. Bradley Sutton: Okay now you know like, for example, if I just do you know, going to this same example, you know coffin shelf, no modifier and broad. You know, yeah, nowadays you know something crazy can come up with, like, you know, spooky decor.You know, potentially it could even come up not even including the word, but ones that are traditional, would be like, you know, coffin shelves for men, coffin shelves for women, but then also it could be coffin shaped shelf, like it could insert a word, or shelf shape like a coffin. You know, like changing the order, but if I put that modifier in there, does that force it, in your experience, to be only longer tail, like it's coffin shelf has to be in there as a phrase and then it's only putting words at the beginning or the end, or still. It could switch it up a little bit. Ritu: Yeah, it will switch it up. So coffin shelf could be shelf coffin even. As long as the word shelf and the word coffin both exist in the match, it will match. Yeah. Bradley Sutton: Okay, going back to Helium 10, now I was looking at, I did it. I still haven't seen your replay of your presentation you did for Helium 10 Elite a few months back. But I was looking at your slides and there was something that you were talking about magnet and seed keywords and just by looking at the slide I couldn't tell what the strategy was. So can you explain what are you doing? I'm not sure if this has to do with chat, gpt or, but just how are you using magnet in a unique way? Ritu: Yeah, so what I do is basically I start off my keyword research by looking at audiences, like who is the right target audience for a product, right? So that's my first step. Now the audience list will help me figure out what words these people use. So if it's a garlic press and let's say there's five different types of people, there could be just regular straight up chefs, there could be restaurant owners, there could be whatever. So there's like five or six different types of people who might use a garlic press. Ritu: Now I ask ChatGPT to tell me all the words that these audiences or avatars are likely to use when they search on Amazon. So I'm actually starting from a suggestion of a seed keyword. That's my starting point, and then I use those seed keywords that chat GPT generates to go and dump that into magnet. And then I use the expand option the second one, not the first one and that basically gives me all of the keywords and their search volumes, and that's what I need Basically. Ritu: I wanna kind of run it by search volume information to figure out if it is really a word that I should be going after. Now I don't always come up with those words, probably because the search volume is too low, in which case I don't need to worry about it, but I can still use that information as broad match modifiers to just generate some sort of discovery. So like, for example, eco-friendly. I don't know if there's any sort of garlic press that's eco-friendly, but let's say someone in that audience wants an eco-friendly garlic press made out of bamboo or whatever. I will still create broad match modifiers that have those important words in that combination so that I can at least start to do some keyword research through an ad rather than through existing search volume data. Bradley Sutton: Okay, cool, switching gears from keywords now to images. I know you've talked about mid-jurdy Canva. Have you played around at all with the new Amazon one that they made kind of for sponsored brands? And then, if so, what's your results? I've had very different, like some of it are absolutely terrible, but then I know that part of it's because I don't really know how to prompt them. I'm not very good at prompting, but what's your experience with the new Amazon AI image generator for sponsored brand ads? Ritu: Yeah, I mean it's not bad for someone who's really struggling with image creation in general, but it's not really usable for every case right? In some cases, it's gonna be hard to come up with the perfect background for your image. The other trouble I have with it is that the product image is too small on the canvas, and that's not how I like my sponsored brand headline ads Generally. This is a tip actually for our listeners when you create a sponsored brand lifestyle photo, the biggest mistake people make is that they fully capture the lifestyle setting in which that product is being used, but then the product itself is so tiny. That's a big mistake. That shouldn't be the way right. The way to do it is to have the product front and center. It has to be blown up right in the middle and then you could maybe suggest what the background is. You might just use suggestive creatives rather than have it in absolute terms. It's being used in the setting that it's being suggested, so for that reason I generally like to request for zoomed in, highly close up type of images so that we can have better conversion rates. Ritu: And there's a story that I just wanna share here real quick. We had one client with a dog product and the product was being used on a dog that was sitting in the lap of a woman on a sofa, and then there's a living room in the background so you can imagine the size of the product. It's like so small you can't see it right. So then what we said to this client was give us a zoomed in image. So then they zoomed right in, so all we see now is the pop and we see the product. Right. So it completely changed the metrics for that ad and then we started using that particular image for many other of their sponsored brand headline ads, and then the rest is history. Ritu: They really started growing after that. But the point is that close up images are more important than pretty images, right? So pretty images anyone can create pretty images. You wanna make them highly converting images and for that reason I might not use the Amazon's AI generated images right away, unless they become better, unless they can kind of keep the product as the hero it needs to be, front and center. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out any prompt that can help me get to that stage, but I'll keep testing. I'm not sure yet. Bradley Sutton: Yeah, so then what outside of Amazon? Then, like I said, I know you're using like mid journey, which is another one that's not too expensive it isn't like 10 bucks a month or something like that to use mid journey, or yeah. So then what if somebody is like all right, you told us what some basic stuff that people how chat GPT for 20 bucks a month can help Amazon sellers. What is something that Amazon sellers of any level can use mid journey for? That's kind of simple and definitely adds value. Ritu: Yeah, I think mid journey is definitely the leader and if you can learn to use it, there's nothing like it yet. But even straight up, chat GPT is now getting pretty good with images, so you can describe whatever you want and then it is connected to dolly in the back and then it generates those images and gives them back to you right in your chat GPT prompt, right. So if you have the paid version, then you can start testing that as well. Bradley Sutton: Okay, so let's say I've got all right, I've got a pretty nice image. You know, maybe it's a white background image or something of my product. Would the first thing I should do with experimenting with AI and mid-journey and things? Would it be making an infographic? Would it be trying to make a lifestyle? Like I remember in the early days of AI, like you could never put a human being in there because they would have like 17 fingers and just crazy faces and stuff like that. But like what should I do then? What kind of images? Or is it not really don't use it for your main images, but use it for, like, the sponsored brand and sponsor display, things like that? Ritu: Yeah, so okay, I think we need to think of images as layers, just like we think of layers in Photoshop. Right, there's layers like a background layer. So if you want just the ambience, the mood, the background, you generate that layer independent of anything else. That's one way of going about it. And then you layer in your product. You have your kind of no background product. Then you can always place it right in the middle, do those sorts of things. So it would probably be a two or three step process where you think of each layer separately, even the humans. You could bring humans in from a different source. You can get humans from there, you can get your backdrop from somewhere else and then you can get your product from your own product images and put them together. That would probably give you the best results. Ritu: But if you tried to have mid-journey to all of that, you might experience some failures there or some surprises with, like you said, 17 fingers and stuff. Now, mid-journey, the latest versions of it are getting better and better, so it's very human-like and it doesn't appear awkward. The facial expressions aren't awkward anymore, so that's good news, just means that we're going in the right direction. It's only gonna get better from here. So I would think of layering as one concept, and then, of course, where you wanna apply it is another thing infographics. I don't think chat, gp or even mid-journey would be good for infographic other than just generating the background for it, because text it still doesn't do a good job with text. You'll have to use some of your other tools for text. So again, it's layering, combining tools and coming up with the concept. So yeah, those are some of the ways in which you can use images. Ritu: Now posts is another interesting one. A lot of people are using mid-journey for generating posts, and that's a good way of generating lots of posts content, because Amazon doesn't allow you to repeat an image twice. So what you can do is you can have Dali or even Canva. I've used Canva AI, which is different from Canva normal. I can explain the difference, but anyway. So Canva AI can generate based on your description of what kind of backgrounds you want, and then you just slap in your photo your kind of hero image on top of it and there you have your posts. It takes barely any time to create like 20 different posts and most people don't realize this, but posts are free advertising. I would highly recommend generating posts on a regular basis and take advantage of it. Bradley Sutton: I've seen them more in search results lately too. Ritu: Posts. Exactly, it's one of those widgets that comes up. Bradley Sutton: That never happened, like six months ago or something. But, now it's right there on page one, so it's important to do, I agree. Ritu: Yeah. Bradley Sutton: All right. So earlier you talked about search group performance. I love search group performance. My self is just like it's stuff that three, four years ago we would have. I would have bet a million dollars that Amazon would never release this kind of data to the public, and Amazon definitely has come a long way. What are some other ways that you're using search group performance, analyzing the data that Amazon gives? Ritu: Yeah, so search group performance. Like you said, it's unbelievable that Amazon is actually sharing this information out, so it's really up to us to take advantage of it as soon as possible. Almost feel like time is of essence here, because everybody's going to have access Everybody has access to that information. But right now most people are in the state of overwhelm. They're like, oh, I have this great data, but I don't know what to do with it. So most people are stuck at that stage. Ritu: But if you want to take the next step, then I would suggest start downloading those reports right away, because these things also get lost. Amazon discontinues things that you think they're going to be giving us forever and forever. For example, the brand analytics data that used to be I don't know millions of rows has certainly been compressed to just 10,000, and so on. So I mean there's a loss there that cannot be replaced. So I would say, number one start downloading your at least your monthly data at the ASIN level and then stitching all that data together, and by stitching I mean maybe putting it into a data warehouse. We use BigQuery in order to bring data in, and the way to stitch it is by making sure that your reports have some extra columns like the date column has to be there Then you have to make sure that you have the brand name in it and you want to make sure that your market is in this, so that when you stitch all that information together, then you can use a single report like a looker studio to dip into the data warehouse and you can basically use switch filters to switch between your different markets. So if you plan your data strategy well, then you will be able to use it more efficiently than just using it in a throwaway style, which most people do. Ritu: Most people go download a report, they look at it, they stare at it and they're like, ok, whatever Done, and it's thrown away. You don't want that. You want a system. You need an ecosystem for managing your data so that you can look at those from time to time. You get a month over month review. You get a month over month trend. You can see if anything has lost its search volume over time. It's so easy to check that at a search term level. Once you have stitched all that information together and is available in maybe something like a looker studio, how about something that's good? Bradley Sutton: it's important to understand the you know, like how to get started and not just like, all right, let me. Let me just look at search career performance or this data, just, you know, in the UI on on Amazon. But then what's the next step? Now I've got everything in my data warehouse and stuff like, for example, me. One of the things I like to look at in search career performance is comparing the conversion rate by the keyword for for just the overall niche, compared to my own. You know my own conversion rate. But you know, I think that's probably one of the most no brainer things. What are some other maybe not so common things that you're looking at when, when you get all of that data into your, your data warehouse, and start you know, start looking up stuff? Ritu: Yeah. So one of the things that I find really interesting is the average price per search term. So this is you know, amazon gives you the average price and that, basically, is a good indication of whether that search term is going for cheaper products or is it going for slightly more expensive products. Just to give you an example, let's say you have the word lotion right Now. You have a $50 lotion by L'Oreal, maybe, and you have a $5 drugstore brand Same thing, selling lotion. But if you're going after, if you're looking at the search term lotion, whatever, daily lotion or whatever and if you see that the average price for that search term is going at $6, let's say that's the average price of the product being sold. That is telling me that, no matter what I do to compete on that, on that search term, it's going to be hard because I'm going to be competing with lots and lots of cheaper brands. So we actually have filters on our search terms or search query reports, so that we only look at those searches that are in the ballpark of our products price point. That basically eliminates a lot of the noise, because otherwise you might be led into thinking that gosh, this is a great keyword and then you spend lots of money on it and ends up being a high cost scenario. You don't want that. So you look at both of the things one that you mentioned, which is what we call strength, keyword strength, which is determined as a ratio of purchase share and impression share. If you can get that ratio to be above one, then that's a good keyword. That is strong, inherently strong, because you're winning more of the purchase share than you're winning of the market, which basically puts it in a good spot. Ritu: And then the second one would be the filter on price. The third filter I would put is search volume, because, again, we don't want noisy, insignificant terms to distract us. And I think the fourth filter I would put there is data sufficiency, like how many sales have you had for that keyword over that period of time? So yeah, those would be the four filters to kind of get everything else out. And then, yeah, I mean that would be our way of figuring out which search terms are good. Then the other use cases of that would be to stitch that data with your ad data. So when you stitch those two together you can find gaps in a systematic sort of way, not just like a one off, throw away kind of way, where it's always being merged and it's always coming together and you can always see these are the ones that I'm not advertising yet. And then, yeah, I think those were the two main ones. Ritu: The third, slightly more advanced one, is when you want to figure out if a search term is good for product A, product B, product C, product D off your catalog because they might be sharing those keywords. Then you can see relative strength across your different products and see where you want to channel your information. Now that comes with the caveat, and that caveat is that there's a very high halo sales ratio on Amazon, which means you might be directing traffic to one of your product variations and something else is actually getting picked up eventually. So you need to know all of the. You need to know all those pieces in order to make the right decision and essentially in terms of using your, your traffic source as a fire hose, literally, and saying, okay, I want to direct it to this product and not to this product. Unless you know what the halo sales are, you could be off. Bradley Sutton: Yeah. Yeah, well really great stuff. Now, before we get into your last strategy you know, maybe it could be a PPC strategy, since that's your specialty how can people reach out to you if they, you know? How can they find you on the interwebs if they want to? You know, get some help with some of the stuff that you've been talking about today. Ritu: Yeah, absolutely so. I'm on LinkedIn. I'm pretty active there, so just look up my full name, Ritu Java, and you should be able to find me there and just say hi and I'll be happy to help. Yeah, and other ways, you can just reach out to our website, ppcninja.com or anywhere else. You see me. Bradley Sutton: Awesome, awesome. Now we have some of we do on our show. We call it TST. That's the 30 second tip. So you know you've been giving us lots of great tips and strategies, but what's like a hard hitting one you can give us in 30 seconds or 60 seconds or less. I'm not going to cut you off, go ahead. Ritu: So I think that you know we're all sitting on tons and tons of data and we don't know how to use it. I would suggest start thinking of strategies to use your data by connecting them up. Every piece of data that we get from Amazon or other sources, whether it's keyword rank tracking or search volume data, or your ads data or organic data. Also, you know competitor data and stuff like that. It's in different locations, it's hiding behind wall gardens and stuff like that. Ritu: You want to figure out a system to bring it all together, and I would recommend using a data warehousing strategy to start bringing everything together so that you can start looking at it holistically. So I would recommend start to think of simple ways in which you can convert your snapshot data into time series. That that would be my advice, and time series is basically for people who don't understand that. It's basically assigning dates to all your downloads. If you're downloading a business report, make sure you add a column and put the date there so that that becomes a way of identifying when that event happened. When you're connecting so many pieces of data together. Bradley Sutton: Awesome, Awesome Well thank you very much. Thank you so much for your time. Ritu: Than you so much Bradley. Bradley Sutton: This was really awesome, awesome and we'll definitely be having you back on the show sometime next year to get your latest strategies. Ritu: Awesome, we'll look forward to that. Take care, Bradley, have a good one.