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Tyler and Lamar welcome voice actor, graphic designer and writer Mike Dent. Dent, a former Rangercast co-host, also created the podcast R5 Central and hosted Otaku USA's Friday ACE Podcast for a spell. More recently, he's had a hand in tokusatsu projects for Shout! Factory and Discotek Media. We ask him about his origin story and get him to explain the staying power of Space Sheriff Gavan.Also, we discuss toy news and leaks, the current whereabouts of a key Masked Rider prop and mourn the passing of the legendary anison singer Ichiro Mizuki. Mizuki had an association with Super Sentai dating back to JAKQ Dengekitai.Relevant links:Hear Mike in a trailer for a recent sneak-peek of the Kamen Rider Zero-One comicTMNT crossover comics are backNew soundstages at Auckland Film StudiosFerbus is safeNew Zord Ascension Project logo hints at TigerzordIchiro Mizuki, the Emperor of Anime Songs, dead at 74Post of the week: Day of the Dumpster upscaledSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/rangercast/donations
Click Here To Download! This Week: It’s the end of Series 5…and possibly R5 Central for all of 2010?! To take things out, Mike salvages what is left of this much-delayed episode by tag-teaming with Paul “Igadevil” Sullivan to have a free-form discussion about Kikaider The Animation–is it truly as controversial as the fans made it out to be, is it even worth the trouble? We’ll try to figure it out here! PRODUCTION NOTES: –Continuity: The discussion with Paul was recorded on September 20th, 2009 with hopes of getting the show out by November. This of course, did not happen …
Click Here To Download This Week: In an age where Godzilla lies dormant, the fans have taken the stage and given birth to The New Age of Monsters! R5 Central examines the phenomenon by reviewing “Negadon, The Monster From Mars” and interviewing one of the minds behind the forthcoming German Kaiju-Inspired audio drama, Gualagon! TIMESTAMP LIST: 16:57.20 – Negadon Review with Ai 22:13.43 – New Age Spotlight with Sylene 55:59.00 – Interview with Sven from the Gualagon Team New to the show? Check out our FAQ. PRODUCTION NOTES –Continuity: The interview with Sven was conducted June 26th, 2009. The interlude …
Mike and Meri do a little guest appearance over on R5 Central to talk about DragonBall, the recently-debuted "DragonBall Kai", a little bit about the (then to-be-released) "Evolution", and our Top 5 DBZ Movies That Don't Suck.
Mike and Meri do a little guest appearance over on R5 Central to talk about DragonBall, the recently-debuted "DragonBall Kai", a little bit about the (then to-be-released) "Evolution", and our Top 5 DBZ Movies That Don't Suck.
Click Here To Download This Week: Series 5 of R5 Central kicks off with one of the biggest events to date! Mike recently had the opportunity to interview the one and only Hikaru Utada. As she gears up to release her new album, the two of them chat about her feelings about the making of the album, future plans, and other tidbits that you’ll find interesting…hopefully ^^ PRODUCTION NOTES: -The interview with Utada was recorded January 29th with the “in-studio” bridge segments recorded a few weeks later. Also, yay! I can do graphics again! –New to the show? Check out …
Here's a recording of the JAM Project press conference that was held at Otakon 2008, courtesy of Mike Dent and the R5 Central podcast at http://r5central.wordpress.com. Special thanks also to Tyler from Rangercast; between Mike, Tyler, and us that comprised nearly all of the questions asked during this interview. Warning: as we realized that the rest of the press in attendance was not going to ask anything, our questions become progressively more absurd until...well...
Alternate title: "Noah, When I Want Your Opinion I'll Take My Cl*t Out of Your Mouth and Ask You For It." Rather than edit our own con report which was hastily recorded a few days ago, here's the Ninja Consultant Otakon 2008 report recorded LIVE at the con! With special guests Daryl Surat and Gerald Rathkolb from AWO! Also, Mike Dent from R5 Central, Tyler Waldman from Rangercast, and James Veronico from Animepodcast.net! Featuring Dave Riley from Fast Karate for the Gentleman, and Mike Toole as the Voice of God. Recorded Saturday night from about 1 AM to 4 AM WHILE COMPLETELY SOBER. Except for those Irish anime podcasters. You can't keep them away from the bottle.
The drama! The mayhem! Our goal was to create a short film in two hours in front of a live audience at Otakon 2008. The filmmaking workshop flew forward at break-neck speed -- there lay at the end of our journey only one thing - WIN, or FAIL. What resulted is cataloged in this hilarious doc. Thanks to a behind-the-scenes videographer, those crazy two hours are captured for all to see.
PBC Productions filmed "Epic Colossal" Battle at Otakon 2008...in 3 hours. It was part of their fan film making panel than occured on friday night. R5 Central podcast host Mike Dent joined in for what proved to be an action packed, low-budget, sentai explosion!
This latest show has been delayed but I've now finished up the show notes finally! This weeks show has Densha Otoko from CMX Manga, DNAngel from ADV and Kimagure Orange Road from Animeigo which may win this hamsters vote for the best old school anime I've seen this year(tying into joint first place with Giant Robo) and the dodgest dancing this side of Miami Vice....... Anywho if you need to contact me with hints, questions, comments, requests for reviews and anything else then drop me a line @: eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com eeeperschoice- at -podomatic.com Eeeper's Choice Podcast Eeeper's Choice Voicemail Also at GoogleTalk Voicemail @ eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com Please note that all images (excluding Show Artwork included in the mp3) unless otherwise stated are the respective copyright and trademark of their respective owners and licensers. No copyright infringement is meant or implied. News CPM will re-release four titles with reduced prices on January 30: Black Jack DVD Collection 1 ($29.95), Ichi The Killer: Episode Zero ($14.95), Time Bokan ($9.95), and Hammerboy ($9.95). Satoshi Kon's next film Paprika is screening at 10 a.m. at Laemmle's Grande 4-Plex in downtown Los Angeles through Sunday. This screening makes the film eligible to be nominated for an Oscar.I've checked out the ANN page on Paprika. It's as good a synopsis as there is on the film so far.(P.S.: I know I was late with this news clip but I was too F***in' tired to edit it out!) ADV Films has officially announced their license to SGT Frog, which includes merchandise and gaming rights as well as other areas (everything but the manga). Separately, Diamond Distributors has relayed that ADV has announced that Volume 1, which is listed in the December Previews for a February release, has been rescheduled for later in 2007. A new trailer for Makoto Shinkai's upcoming Byousoku 5 Centimeter movie trilogy is now online. The films will be released next spring in Japan. The official site for Gonzo's Master of Epic anime series is now online. The show premieres next January in Japan. With grateful thanks to the ANN Reviews Densha Otoko Densha Otoko or Train Man is supposedly based on a true story but with all things Internet related I'll let you decide. I found it to be a nice read while commuting so if you like your heroes nerdy but not Harem Heroic then this could be the title for you. It doesn't have a UK based publisher as far as I know so you'll have order it State-Side for now. DNAngel DNAngel was the title I got back into Anime and Manga after an almost ten year absense. And I know what some fans and listeners will say 'He chose That Title to come back to!?!' but it's the perfect title to show some who's been away from the Crusade for a while. Not terribly bad, not great just a little bit non-engaging. The manga is longer but has way more Shoujo elements to it than the TV series. Kimagure Orange Road KOR is fast becoming a favourite of mine but it's purely an acquired taste. If you can't stand 80's anime this may not be your bag but then if you never watch 80's anime then your not being a true Otaku are you? If you don't like it then you don't like it. Animeigo did a fantastic job translating it but they recently lost the license by that I mean that is that the Japanese label that controls it just recently brought out their own boxset in Region 2(Japan) land with better image and sound quality. In other words We're not letting you produce any more of this DVD while we bring out our outrageously priced version that the fans in Japan must buy rather than pick up your nice, cheap version.....As I said before Animeigo did a fantastic job. Here's the web page for their liner notes on the TV series. Animeigo regularly bleed for their customers and so many of us ignore the fact that back in the day they were the ADV and Funimation of their day. They just annouced their next license here. Eriko Hara's(Hikaru) ANN pageHiromi Tsuru's(Madoka) ANN page Tohru Furuya's(Kyosuke) ANN page Finally here's some images from KOR (Please note ALL images taken from Kimagure Orange Road are for review purposes only and no copyright has been taken away from the owners or implied) Madoka. The Heroine of the story.I think.. Kyosuke. Our Hero. Poor unlucky bas*&!d A quiet moment between Hikaru and Kyosuke. It can't last. Told ya. Kyosuke getting the job at ABCD from Master. Good Times. Good Times..... Promos This Week: R5 Central Ninja Consultant Weekly Anime Review(WARP) Fast Karate For The Gentleman Anime World Order I'm going on a short break to recharge the batteries so the next show won't be out for two weeks. But on the next show I'll be reviewing two manga titles, Infinite Ryvius based on the series by SUNRISE and Legal Drug by CLAMP and the truly awesome OVA series Giant Robo! Chuala Boola or what!?! Eh, eh!?! Ah, I don't know why I bother...
It's still not dead!?!..Errr...I mean, Welcome back! This weeks show has thrills, spills, chills and that weird fluff you find between your toes after you've put on a new pair of socks....On this weeeks show I review the manga Basilisk by the late Futaro Yamada and art by Masaki Segawa, the Playstation 2 game Yakuza and in the Retro Choice I review the OVA series Sohryuden or Legend of The Dragon Kings.Anywho if you need to contact me with hints, questions, comments, requests for reviews and anything else then drop me a line @: eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com eeeperschoice- at -podomatic.com Eeeper's Choice Podcast Eeeper's Choice Voicemail Also at GoogleTalk Voicemail @ eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com Please note that all images (excluding Show Artwork included in the mp3) unless otherwise stated are the respective copyright and trademark of their respective owners and licensers. No copyright infringement is meant or implied. Basilisk is Samurai Action the way I like it. Nice Scenery, great characters and a boat-load of Ninja-action and hemoglobin. Just when Jubei thought he could retire as the baddest samurai, Gennosuke turns up looking for the toughest motherf*&^er around award.Links: Tanoshimi page on Basilisk Basilisk on the ANN The review of PS2 game Yakuza replaces an anime review that I started to review nut realised was too thin given the size of the series. I played Yakuza for about two or three days and thought it might be worth reviewing. Let me know if I should continue to review games or not. Wikipedia entry on the actual Yakuza Neat overview on the Kinji Fukasaku classic Yakuza Papers Sega's offical page on Yakuza Sohryuden was another anime that i watched on Channel 4 back in the day. I remember it being longer but time has refreshed my memory. It's a fairly decent anime but if I could be blunt it's a poor man's X. Only watch it if you've already seen X or you're bored of X. Anybody got any better alternatives let me know. The link to AWO's review of They Were Eleven(which I mentioned in the review) can be found here ANN page on Legend of the Dragon Kings Wikipedia entry for Legend of the Dragon Kings Promos This Week: R5 Central Ninja Consultant Otaku Generation Shadow Falls Podcast Opps Alert: To Grant I know I said I'd talk about dubs but I didn't have the time. Will do it for next show. Secondly the show notes are not complete. To be ammended. Next week I'll be reviewing the manga Densha Otoko by Hitori Nakano, the TV series Kimagure Orange Road and the anime D.N.Angel.
Image from Prefectural Earth Defense Force © KOICHIRO YASUNAGA This week I've joined the internet revolution of making myself appear smarter than I actually am.This week it's thriller/comedy(!?!) manga Remote from TokyoPop and on the anime side I finally review a series in it's entirety in the form of Stellvia of the Universe in the firing line. If this keeps up I'll actually sound like a professional soon!....NOT THAT KIND OF PROFESSIONAL!....In the news Bandai threatens to tie up fansubbers with piano wire, The Anime Network continues to delude itself that it's the Cartoon Network, Edward Alric whores himself out to MySpace and the UK contniues to rub my nose in the ground with FilmFour's Miyazaki season. Oh, Lord! Why do you hate me so!Anywho if you need to contact me with hints, questions, comments, requests for reviews and anything else then drop me a line @: eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com eeeperschoice- at -podomatic.com Eeeper's Choice Podcast Eeeper's Choice Voicemail Also at GoogleTalk Voicemail @ eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com Please note that all images (excluding Show Artwork included in the mp3) unless otherwise stated are the respective copyright and trademark of their respective owners and licensers. No copyright infringement is meant or implied. Links: Stellvia Official Page (warning: hasn't been updated in a while) TV Tokyo Page on Stellvia Geneon USA's Stellvia page ANN page on Stellvia ANN page on Remote manga TokyoPop's official page for Remote ANN page on Seimaru Amagi ANN page on Street Fighter II:The Anime Wikipedia entry for Street Fighter II:The Anime IMDB page Street Fighter II:The Movie Promos This Week: Randomness Podcast R5 Central Ninja Consultant Jeepneyfied With Mishi! Otaku Generation
This week the madness continues with my ISP problems. I've discovered that Skype won't let me call out at all. I can hear the other person but they can't hear me. So no guests on the show for a while. Enough of this maudlin'! Now it is time to laugh again! Aha Ha! Ha ha! Ha ha!Ha ha!Ha ha!Ha ha!......OK that's enough laughing for now. This week I talk about the manga Keroro Gunso, the anime Jigoku Shoujo and not much else. The retro corner will return and also I'll attempt to review a J-Pop CD next week. God help us all.Anywho if you need to contact me with hints, questions, comments, requests for reviews and anything else then drop me a line @: eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com eeeperschoice- at -podomatic.com Eeeper's Choice Podcast Eeeper's Choice Voicemail Also at GoogleTalk Voicemail @ eeeperschoice- at -gmail.com My rant is available from the player on the sidebar or you can directly download it here Please note that all images (excluding Show Artwork included in the mp3) unless otherwise stated are the respective copyright and trademark of their respective owners and licensers. No copyright infringement is meant or implied. Links: ANN page on Keroro Gunso(Sgt. Frog) AnimeNfo page on Keroro Gunso The Movie KERORO Island(Japanese) ANN page on Mine Yoshizaki ANN page on Jigoku Shoujo the anime ANN page on Jigoku Shoujo the manga Offical Jigoku Shoujo site(some good clips from the series and soundtrack) Promos This Week: R5 Central Ninja Consultant Anime World Order Otaku Generation Update:Here's the Eeeper's Choice Podcast Review link on Wordpress