Podcasts about Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Il était temps, après bientôt 90 épisodes, qu'on parle un peu de cinéma d'animation. Donc pour marquer le coup, on a dégainé un des chefs-d'oeuvres du genre, VAMPIRE HUNTER D : BLOODLUST, réalisé par Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Petit trigger warning : on parle un peu d'hentaï, prenez bien en compte si vous vous aventurez dans un visionnage de ses films qu'ils peuvent choquer pour de vrai. BODY TRASH en préco : https://www.fnac.com/a21333718/Body-Trash-Edition-Collector-Limitee-Combo-Blu-ray-DVD-Gerard-Kennedy-Blu-ray THE MONSTER SQUAD chez EXTRALUCID FILMS : https://fr.ulule.com/the-monster-squad/ CODE PROMO SHADOWZ, La première plateforme de SVOD horrifique française : JUMPSCARE2025 pour ne payer l'abonnement qu'1 euro par mois pendant 3 mois ! La novélisation RE-ANIMATOR sponsorisé par Jumpscare : https://www.editionsfautedefrappe.fr/page-d-articles/hp-lovecraft-s-re-animator-jeff-rovin Suivez-nous sur Bluesky et Instagram : @jumpscarecastContact : jumpscarecast@gmail.com LA MUSIQUE DE JUMPSCARE : https://cedriccremet.bandcamp.com/album/jumpscare-original-podcast-soundtrackTout l'argent revient au compositeur, n'hésitez pas :) Discord de Jumpscare : https://discord.gg/ew9CfgYCz8 https://jumpscare.lepodcast.fr/

From Highlander animation to Highlander anime in this one. Directed by Ninja Scroll's Yoshiaki Kawajiri, one might expect it to be Highlander sleaze, but sadly no

Review dos filmes VAMPIRE HUNTER D (1985), dirigido por Toyoo Ashida , e VAMPIRE HUNTER D: BLOODLUST (2000), dirigido por Yoshiaki Kawajiri, adaptações da série de livros de Hideyuki Kikuchi.⁠APOIE O PROJETO NO CATARSE!!! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.catarse.me/kitsune_da_semana⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EDIÇÃO: Gilsomar do Livramento ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/outerheaven.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Contato: leokitsune@gmail.comBluesky: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bsky.app/profile/leokitsune.bsky.social⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitch: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitch.tv/leo_kitsune⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quer mandar coisas pro Kitsune? CAIXA POSTAL 13885, AC Bom Retiro, CEP 01216-970, São Paulo/SP

Making Christianity metal again while talking bout the Highlander franchise, especially Yoshiaki Kawajiri's anime interpretation, with special guest Detective Wolfman, host of Bloody Pulp and On the Beat.   patreon.com/agitator brokenriverbooks.com Check out Wolfman's writing HERE. 

Day 12 of the 31 Days of Dread In this episode of 31 Days of Dread, Peter explores Wicked City (1987), one of the standout anime films of its era. He delves into the remarkable career of director Yoshiaki Kawajiri, shedding light on why his filmography deserves more attention. Wicked City is a dark, wild, sexy, and thrilling ride—everything live-action adaptations would need hundreds of millions to capture. This anime exemplifies the bold, imaginative qualities that make animation such a powerful medium.

Day 12 of the 31 Days of DreadIn this episode of 31 Days of Dread, Peter explores Wicked City (1987), one of the standout anime films of its era. He delves into the remarkable career of director Yoshiaki Kawajiri, shedding light on why his filmography deserves more attention. Wicked City is a dark, wild, sexy, and thrilling ride—everything live-action adaptations would need hundreds of millions to capture. This anime exemplifies the bold, imaginative qualities that make animation such a powerful medium

In the dark realms of irrationality, mysticism, and lust, red demons snake and throb through the blue haze. They hunger for the old man lounging in the backseat as we speed through the wicked city. Unknown to us, elsewhere and in another time, his spirit is poisoning a pure soul, moving it across the board towards checkmate. He says we must fight poison with poison and cure poison with love. He smiles to himself and says that we must send them back to their golden hell. "A Tokugawa government spy wants to hire me?!"

Join hosts Nathan and Ryan as they venture into the dark and gothic world of "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" (2000) in this thrilling episode of Drive-In Double Feature Podcast. Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, this anime film follows the enigmatic vampire hunter D as he tracks down a noble vampire who has abducted a human woman. Dive into the film's stunning animation, intense action sequences, and richly atmospheric storytelling. Explore how "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" blends elements of horror, fantasy, and adventure to create a memorable cinematic experience. Get ready for a discussion that's as immersive and intense as the hunt itself as we delve into the haunting journey of "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust."

The DOtD detectives go undercover in a demon world as we review Yoshiaki Kawajiri's “Wicked City!”  We talk through the 80s anime vibes, the absolutely WILD amount of explicit sexual content, and question whether the human characters are really just that.  Spoilers at the local soapland.Like & Subscribe to keep updated on new episodes!Website: https://www.dotdhorror.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dontopenthatdoorTwitter: https://twitter.com/DOtDHorror Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dotdhorror

Il y a des sujets qui nous choisissent plus que l'inverse. Depuis de nombreuses années, les films de Yoshiaki Kawajiri hantent notre imaginaire sans que nous les ayons un jour entièrement découvert. C'est pourquoi il fallait enfin braver les ténèbres et pénétrer cet univers si mystérieux, teinté de gore et de romantisme passionné.  Accompagnés par le guide Yoann Orzulik, nous vous proposons de (re) découvrir les œuvres principales de ce cinéaste des cinéastes, resté dans l'ombre de trop nombreuses années. Comme à l'accoutumé le voyage débutera par des recommandations diverses et se conclura autour d'un Bacridleyscott particulièrement relevé. Bon voyage !    Entourloupement vôtre    Timecodes :  00:00:00 Générique 00:05:36 Hundred of beavers, Mike Cheslik 00:14:46 The Expanse, James S.A. Corey 00:27:18 : Party Boy Kongming, Yuto Yotsuba & Ryo Ogawa 00:35:34 : Yoshiaki Kawajiri  00:55:45 : Manie Manie 01:03:33 : Wicked City 01:24:55 : Demon city Shinjuku  01:43:22 : Ninja Scroll 01:57:27 Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust  02:17:16 : Bacridleyscott                    

Not only bringing anime to the west, but bringing anime to the 3 devils of RBS. Join us as we watch one of the original anime movies that proved to North America that cartoons, aren't just for kids.Check us out on Youtube!RBS podcast - YouTubeJoin us on Twitter! Give your opinion on this movie, what did you like? What didn't you like? Which eyebrows do you vote for?RAISED BY SPOILERS (@RBSPOD) / TwitterWe feature music from the amazing following Artist, all rights and permissions obtained in advance:The Exorcist GBG:Spotify – The Exorcist GBGThe Exorcist GBG | Facebook

Tragic space vampires, sabre tooth tigers with laser beams, terminator-esque death machines, enough F-bombs to pop your explosive cyber collar, and more delightful nonsense abounds in Yoshiaki Kawajiri's classic cyber punk OVA:  Cyber City Oedo 808!  Tune in for the full review and your twitter questions! Timestamps: [00:00] Intro + Kaiju No. 8, Fist of the North Star, The Boy and the Heron [48:24] Review - CYBER CITY OEDO 808 [2:25:58] Twitter Questions

Here. We. GOOOOO!! Welcome back to SPOOKTOBER 4, pick #3 by Cody Martin himself. We are excited to talk about this film. This animated EPIC is packed with delicious animation, beautiful shots, and a tragic story. This film is directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and is called, “Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.” This film, in the words of Cody is the perfect middle ground as it doesn't feel like a halloween movie made by Disney or an over the top horror flick. WE really had a good time with this film and found it to be the perfect Sppoktober addition to the collection. Enjoy! Film Discussed: ⁠Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) Letterboxd: Eric Peterson: ⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/EricLPeterson/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jared Klopfenstein: ⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/kidchimp/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ethan Jasso: ⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/e_unit7/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Caleb Zehr: ⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/cjzehr/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ricky Wickham: ⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/octopuswizard/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Cody Martin : ⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/codytmartin/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Here is a COMPLETE LIST of every film that we have done an episode for. Enjoy! ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/ericlpeterson/list/a-complete-list-of-every-the-film-snobs-episode/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Five star reviews left on the pod get read out loud!

Hacía mucho tiempo que tenía ganas de revisionar esta excelente película de Yoshiaki Kawajiri, un thriller sobrenatural con espías demoníacos y humanos que intentan mantener la paz entre nuestro mundo y el demoníaco. Artes marciales, uñas largas y sexys mujeres-insecto.

Originally Recorded: June 25th, 2023 It's throwback time here on Summer at the Movies, or, should we say, Summer at the OVAs. Tonight we're traveling back to the 80s as Amon and Lac discuss the Yoshiaki Kawajiri directed, Madhouse produced slice of men's adventure pulp that is Wicked City. Will our hosts be wowed by this blast from the past or too distracted by teeth being where they shouldn't be to enjoy themselves? Our theme music was composed by Gabriel Pulcinelli / Ponpoko in the Distance. You can find more of their work at https://ponpokointhedistance.com/ and at @gabrpulcinelli on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Facebook. AUDIO PLATFORMS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/47LMCAgEW0BAOy9BnKYmLv Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dub-talk/id1514880122 Like what we do? Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/dubtalkpodcast Or consider buying us a Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/dubtalk Hosts: @amonduulus @LacTheWatcher Editor: @amonduulus Music: "It's Not Easy" by Hitomi Tōyama "Hold Me In The Shadow" by Hitomi Tōyama Selections from the Wicked City OST by Osamu Shōji

On this episode, join Kate and Dennis with first time special guest Rhys as we discuss 1990's Cyber City Oedo 808. Lots of action, violence, and profanity (for the dub at least) in this one, but for a Yoshiaki Kawajiri project, there's actually no nudity. But we discuss things like DC's Suicide Squad, Kawajiri's original intentions, stabbed through the gut, vehicle safety inspection, RGB all-in-one coolers, Goggle/Gogul, single-legged pants fashion statement, anime Babu Frik, vampire disease, cybertooth tigers 0:00:00 - Introduction & Getting to Know Rhys 0:11:08 - The Watchlist 0:25:34 - Some Anime Related News 0:38:11 - Cyber City Oedo 808 Production Notes 0:53:50 - E1 - Memories of the Past 1:48:14 - E2 - The Decoy Program 2:41:38 - E3 - Crimson Media 3:29:04 - Special Features 3:33:53 - Voices, Finals Thoughts, & Kanpai Special thanks to Rhys (@drcrowdpleaser) for joining us! Follow his Extra Life stream here: tinyurl.com/fincheroo Support the show by either donating to our Ko-Fi link below, or by purchasing a copy of Cyber City Oedo 808 on Blu-ray steelbook through our Amazon affiliate link: https://amzn.to/3OeDCRE Dennis: @ichnob | Kate: @TaikoChan  Website | Email | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | RSS | Ko-Fi

Ani-May is back! And so is the director of this movie, Yoshiaki Kawajiri! You may remember him from our podcast on Wicked City. We certainly do. Despite all our attempts not to. Come join our discord! https://t.co/WwwXmsh2MZ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Opinioncast Support us! https://www.patreon.com/opinionated Check out Rick's books! https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rick-Fox/author/B00LM9YTMI

Today we're talking 1990-1's Cyber City Oedo 808, directed by the legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Our guest is rapper and producer Bleachy Warhol, the latest artist to be signed to Danny Brown's Bruiser Brigade record label. We talk one-take art creation, animated girl hair, Kawajiri blue, hating everything, things being how they are, White Jesus, making love to couches and refrigerators, cyberpunk, sabertooth tiger robots, being raised on TV, our favorite characters/episodes from Cyber City, androgyny, and making love to big girls. Towards the end, things get really fun. Bleachy shows us four new songs, including one that has a line so good Kelby lost his mind. https://bleachywarhol.bandcamp.com/ https://bruiserbrigaderecords.bandcamp.com Bleachy's IG  

This week we watched Yoshiaki Kawajiri's “Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust" and discussed deez nuts, Bhad Bhabie's OnlyFans, the Yecosystem, helicopter dicks, colonizing Mars, the Spooky Sex Tier List Pt. 2, and more! Leave a 5 star rating and a review/movie suggestion on iTunes and we'll shout you out on the show and “review” your movie of choice! Cover art by Sixofspades1 on Twitch Follow us on Twitter: @meandmydadwatch @drew2conclusion

On this episode, Cat and Joe welcome back guest host Vance Tucker to talk about another wild classic anime movie by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, based on the works of fantasy horror author Hideyuki Kikuchi. Demon City Shinjuku, released in Japan in 1988 and later in the US in 1994, is set in a distant future where there's one president of the world, amazing technology, very vague magic force-like powers, a lot exposition and demons about to pour out of the center of Tokyo to take it all over. Cat, Vance and Joe have a lot of questions about this truly ridiculous, but very fun film.

The DOTD brood go bounty hunting as they review Yoshiaki Kawajiri's "Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust". Our triumvirate of terror talk through some differences between the book and the movie, the unique portrayal of vampire lore within the film's mythos, and vampire speed dating. Spoilers on our left hands.

Trev and Piss are back to talk about CYBER CITY OEDO 808, a 1991 OVA directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. There are mohawks, there are bishounen. There are explosive collars and cyber-jitte. Check it out with us.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/no-cartridge-audio/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Two agents, a lady-killer human and a voluptuous demon, attempt to protect a signatory to a peace treaty between the human world and the demon world from radicalized demons directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri

En este programa Rekens nos explicará como se creo la serie de los 80 "V Los visitantes" y el impacto que tuvo en USA y en España, Seburo nos hará un repaso a la vida y obra del genio Japonés Yoshiaki Kawajiri, el Señor Marrón nos explicará con detalle la historia del juego de escaramuzas Warmachine y su situación actual, Akasha nos comentará la novela "Fungus. El rey de los pirineos" de Albert Sánchez Piñol, y el Camarada Mò nos traerá el maravilloso cómic "Pulp" de los magnificos Jacob Phillips y Ed Brubaker.

This week the Squirms return to the world of animation with a lovely gothic tale of romance, vampires, and vampire hunters. Full of action and allusions to the big D himself, Vampire Hunter D proves he has just the....Bloodlust.... required for the job. Support our Patreon! www.patreon.com/FriedSquirms Listen to more Fried Squirms at www.friedsquirms.com Check out all earVVyrm podcasts at www.earvvyrm.com Email us at squirmcast@gmail.com

Programa dedicado a la película de anime, la serie de anime y los cómics de "Ninja Scroll" de Yoshiaki Kawajiri, J. Torres, Michael Chang Ting Yu, Tatsuo Sato. Como siempre además de la biografía y comentario también se comentara alguna noticia o recomendación de obra. LOCUTOR 1: Miguel A. Mateos Carreira LOCUTOR 2: Hinoko MUSICA: GarageBand

Filmmaker Bill Scurry (co-host of the ‘I Don't Get It‘ podcast) joins us to discuss the astonishing career of one of the legends of Japanese animation, Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Follow Bill Scurry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WilliamScurry Subscribe to Bill Scurry's YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/2NKPwF6 Follow James Hancock on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrongReel Wrong Reel Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/wrong-reel

On this episode we talk about 1993's feature film Ninja Scroll, written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. This movie was chosen by Fabian as one of his all time favorite anime movies that Nick had never seen before. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted by Nick Quintero & Fabian Rodelo --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/featurefilmclub/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/featurefilmclub/support

Brettro Culture's Brett the Wiese joins host Zack Long to talk about the 1987 anime-horror OVA Wicked City while Kelly Warner is away. A mix of body horror and kink, the film isn't everything that Zack remembered it to be. But the goopy woman deserves respect!Make sure to check out Brett's blog at http://brettroculture.blogspot.com/Reach your hosts at ZackLong@Scriptophobic.ca or KellyWarner@Scriptophobic.ca. You can connect with Brett on Twitter at @WeZ_LUiGi.Wicked City can be watched on YouTube and the film will be released on Blu-ray on September 29th 2020.Next week, Kelly returns to gush about one of her favorite movies, Ishiro Honda's Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People, 1963), available to watch on Daily Motion, Tubi, Vimeo, DVD or Amazon Prime rental.

There can be only one, but Highlander's had a surprising number of media adaptations and spin-offs over the years. We take a look at all of them and even get some behind-the-scenes gossip about the infamous comic book tie-in: Highlander 3030. ----more---- Episode Transcript   Episode 05 [00:00:00] Mike: It's fine. It's fine. I'm not bitter. Mike: Welcome to Tencent Takes, the podcast where we make comics trivia rain like dollar bills on Magic Mike night. My name is Mike Thompson and I am joined by my cohost, the mistress of mayhem herself, Jessika Frazer. Jessika: Muahahaha! It is I hello, Mike. Mike: Hello. If you're new to the podcast, we like to look at comic books in ways that are both fun and informative. We want to check out their coolest, weirdest and silliest moments, as well as examine how they've been woven into the larger fabric of pop culture and history. Today, we are traveling through time and talking about the 35 year legacy of one of the strongest cult franchises around, Highlander. But [00:01:00] before we do that, Jessika, what is one cool thing that you've watched or read lately? Jessika: My brother has some copies of classic Peanuts Comics, and it's so much fun. It's good, wholesome, fun. And Snoopy- related media always makes me nostalgic. And Mike you've mentioned before that we're in California in the San Francisco Bay area, but fun fact, I live right near Santa Rosa, which is the home of the Peanuts creator Charles Schultz when he was alive. So there's a museum there and an ice skating rink. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Which is super awesome And Snoopy on ice was huge when I was a kid. And that is definitely the place I also learned to ice skate. By the way, they throw a mean birthday party, just saying, not right this second. Not this second. [00:02:00] We should do it is what I'm saying. Mike: We should do it for ourselves. Jessika: No, that's what I'm saying. Oh, I don't have children. Mike: But we do. Jessika: Yes, they can come with us, like they're invited. Mike: I mean, are they? Jessika: Look at you hesitating. Mike: We took the kids to the Peanuts museum right before the lockdowns happened. that really Jessika: That's really lovely that's nice got to do that. Mike: There’s a lot of cool stuff to do. It's really interactive. It's also just a really fascinating experience because there's so much about the Peanuts during their, what 50 year run give or take. It may not have been that long. It may have been 30 or 40, but it was a long time, and I really dug it, like there was a lot of cool stuff, so yeah . And also the cool thing about Santa Rosa is they've also got all those Snoopy statues all over town too. Jessika: They do. Yeah. All the [00:03:00] Peanuts characters actually. Cause they, the Charlie Browns and the Lucy's now and the Woodstocks. Yeah they're all over the place. But that used to be something fun we could do as a scavenger hunt, and actually that's something you guys could still do even with the lockdown. Cause most of them are outside is just find that list of where all the Snoopy's or whatever character is and go find them all. Cause we did that at one point, like as an adult, obviously. Well, what about you, Mike? Mike: The complete opposite of something wholesome. Jessika: Perfect. Mike: We didn't actually have the kids for a few days. They were with their dad and we couldn't find anything new to watch. So, we wound up bingeing the entire series of Harley Quinn on HBO Max. Jessika: Oh, you’re ahead of me then. Damn you. Mike: This is my third time going through the series. We've just gotten to the point where we turned it on when we want to watch something that's kind of soothing in a way, even though it is not a soothing TV show. But I still am [00:04:00] having these full on belly laughs where I'm breathless at the end and it's just, it's so smart and funny and absolutely filthy with the violence. And then there are these moments of sweetness or genuine reflection, and it's just so damn refreshing. I was never much of a Harley fan, but this show and then the Birds of Prey movie really made me fall in love with that character. Also side note, Michael Ironside who played General Katana and Highlander II. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: He shows up in Harley Quinn doing the voice of Darkseid, which is a character he's been voicing since the nineties when he first started doing it for the Superman animated series. Jessika: Oh, damn. Mike: So, just a little bit of symmetry there. Mike: All right. So before we begin, I have to say that this episode wound up being a rabbit hole full of other rabbit holes that I kept going down. So, I want to give a little credit where it's due for a ton of my research. I really wound up leaning on two books: John Mosby's Fearful Symmetry [00:05:00]; and A Kind of Magic: The Making of Highlander by Jonathan Melville. Likewise, there's a YouTube series called Highlander heart hosted by Grant Kempster and Joe Dilworthand, and an associated Facebook community with the same name that were just invaluable for my crash course. And finally, I want to give special, thanks to Clinton Rawls, who runs Comics Royale, and Matt Kelly for taking the time to chat with me because they didn't have to, and they provided me with some really useful information for this episode. Jessika: Yeah, I'm super excited about what lies in store. What's really funny is I've actually, I feel like a kid before it test. Mike: Right? Jessika: like I'm a little nervous because I've been cramming so hard for this Mike: We both have. Jessika: No, you, especially you, especially like you should be much more nervous than me, Mike. No, I’m just kidding, please don't take that on. Oh, but yeah, no I'm super excited and really ready to talk about all of this stuff and learn more because I've just been consuming the media and the [00:06:00] comic books. But, you’re going to give me some back knowledge that's gonna blow my brain and I'm excited. Mike: Oh, well, I'll try to live up to that high expectation. Let's assume that you didn't know what the topic of this episode was. And if someone asked you what cult property from the 1980s. Spawned five movies, two TV series, a Saturday morning cartoon, an anime film, several video games, multiple tabletop games, audio plays, roughly a dozen novels, and four okay, technically six different comic books. What would your first answer be? Jessika: Oh, goodness. What's funny is probably not Highlander. I'd probably I would say like Batman, honestly, Mike: Yeah I would've gone with something along the lines of G.I. Joe. Jessika: Oh, yeah. Mike: Or some weird Saturday morning cartoon, something like that. I never would have guessed Highlander. I never would have assumed that. but it's just, it's really surprising to see how [00:07:00] much has been generated out of this initial movie. Were you fan of the movies or the show before we started bingeing everything for this episode? Jessika: So I was actually a fan of the show via my dad who had it on hadn't watched the films before, because I was born in 1986 fun fact. Mike: Right. Jessika: I was born when this thing was sent into the world. We both were at the same time, apparently. I didn't have that exact experience of growing up watching it, but he definitely had the TV show on in the nineties Mike: Okay. Jessika: So that was what I was familiar with and I loved it and I would run around chopping things; I'd be at work, I was actually like when I got older I'd be like, there can only be one, and I’d like have to like swipe at someone. Mike: It’s such an iconic line. Jessika: iIt is! it transcends. Absolutely. Mike: Yeah. I was pretty young when the movie came out and the show was how I became aware of it. And then when the show was airing, I was in high school. And then I became [00:08:00] aware that there was a movie that had inspired it. And so I was able to rent that when I was old enough to be trusted, to go rent movies on my own by my parents. Back when we couldn’t stream everything. Jessika: Oh my gosh. Mike: And there were rewind fees, Jessika: Oh, my gosh. Be kind rewind. Mike: Speaking of things from the eighties: it’s funny we'll talk about it later on, but the show really brought in, I think a lot of people that otherwise wouldn't have been fans. Before we start talking about the comic books, I really want to take a few minutes to talk about all the media and content that spun out of Highlander because it's a lot. And it was honestly in a couple of cases, really surprising. I didn't know about half of this stuff before I began researching for the episode, and then. Like I said, it was just constant rabbit holes that kept on leading me down more and more research paths. And it was really fun. But I want to talk about all this now. Jessika: Perfect. This is exactly what we're here for, and I think that people want to hear it too. [00:09:00] Mike: I hope so. Okay. So why don't you summarize Highlander? If you had to give an elevator pitch, Jessika: The film follows the past and present of Connor MacLeod, an immortal who is just one of many vying to be the sole victor in an age old battle, where in the end, there can only be one. Like very simply a lot more to it, but like how much of an elevator pitch. Mike: I think that's pretty simple. It's about an immortal who basically keeps on fighting his way through history and there's these really wonderful catch phrases that get us hooked. The movies got actually a really interesting origin story of its own. It was written by this guy named Gregory Widen when he was in his early twenties. That was when he wrote the initial screenplay. But he had already had a really interesting life up until then. He was one of the youngest paramedics in Laguna Beach at that point in [00:10:00] time. And then he went on to become a firefighter while he was still a teenager. By 1981, he'd also worked as a DJ and a broadcast engineer. And then he signed up for a screenwriting course at UCLA and he wrote this feature length script called Shadow Clan. And it would go through a number of changes before it became Highlander. But the core theme of an immortal warrior named Connor MacLeod wandering across the centuries is there. He wound up getting introduced to producers Bill Panzer, and Peter Davis who decided to option the film. And then they hired the screenwriters, Larry Ferguson and Peter Bellwood to rework the script into what we eventually had wind up in theaters. And once the movie was green-lit, they brought in Russell Mulcahey to direct it. And I vaguely knew that Mulcahey had been doing music videos before this, for the most part, he had one other cult movie ahead of time. It was a horror movie, I think, called Razorback. But I didn't realize which music videos he'd been making until I started doing all [00:11:00] this research. So I'm going to give you a small sampling and you're going to tell me if you've heard of these. Jessika: Okay. Sure sure sure. Mike: Okay. The Vapors “Turning Japanese”. Jessika: Uh, yeah. Mike: Yeah, okay. The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star”. Jessika: Wow. Yes. Mike: Duran Duran Duran’s “Rio”. Jessika: Wow. Mike: And Elton John's “I'm Still Standing”. Jessika: Yeahwow. That's actually a variety of characters. Mike: Right? But also those all really iconic music videos. Like not only songs, but music, videos cause those were all in the very early days. And the dude's entire portfolio is just iconic. If you think about the music videos that really defined the genre Jessika: Yeah, sometimes you just got it, I guess. Huh? Mike: He has a lot of those music video elements. A lot of times in the movie, it feels like a music video, like when Brenda's being chased down the hall by the Kurgan and it's got all that dramatic lighting, or that opening shot where they're in the [00:12:00] wrestling match and you see the camera flying through everything. Jessika: Yes! Mike: That was wild. That was really unusual to see camera work like that back then. The movie was distributed by 20th century Fox. And I think at this point, We'd be more surprised of 20th century Fox did a good job of marketing weird and cool, because they really botched it. They wound up forcing cuts to the movie that created really weird plot holes because they didn't feel that audiences needed it or what would understand it, and they wanted to make it simpler, but it really made things more confusing. European audiences on the other hand, really embraced the film because they got a much better version. So case in point, I'm going to show you the two main posters for it. This is the American poster for the movie. Jessika: Mmhmm. Oh, wow, he’s scary. Wow wow wow, okay. Before I even say any of the words, what you first see is Connor [00:13:00] MacLeod, but it's this awful grainy picture of him. He looks like there's something wrong with his face, which he shouldn't necessarily. And he looks like he's about to murder someone. He's like glaring off into the distance. And at the top it says, Oh, it's in black and white, by the way. at the top it says, He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536, he will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York city in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal Highlander! Credits at the bottom, rated R, absolutely rated R. Mike: Also, I feel like featuring original songs by Queen does not get the billing that it should. Jessika: I agree. I jammed my way through that film and this just the whole series, [00:14:00] actually the whole franchise I jammed my way through. Mike: Yeah. And if you listen to the kind of Magic album that is basically the unofficial soundtrack to the movie, and it's so good I don't know how they got those perpetual rights to Princes of the Universe, did. Every time I hear that song, I get a little thrill up my spine. All right. So here's the poster though for the European release. Jessika: All right. So, Ooh, this is totally different. This is Whoa. This is way more exciting. Okay. First of all, it's full Color, my friends, right in the middle in red it says Highlander right under it “There can only be one” in yellow. Oh it's amazing. There's a little sticker at the bottom that says featuring original songs by queen. Look it, trying to sell it, I love it. And then there's Connor MacLeod in the center of the screen [00:15:00] dramatically head back eyes closed screaming his sword thrusts forward and behind him is the Kurgan, oh my gosh so good. It's so - Oh, and a backdrop of New York city. All in lights. It's beautiful. Mike: Yeah. It’s one of those things where basically, that documentary that we watched seduced by Argentina, they talk about that where they're just like 20th century Fox fucked us. Jessika: And I didn't realize how much until, because I did watch that as well. And I'm like how bad could it be? But I that's pretty bad. It's a pretty big difference. It's like watching, that'd be like going, expecting to see like psycho or something. Mike: Honestly, I keep on thinking of Firefly and Fox and how they just totally botched the marketing for that show and then the release, and issues with Joss Wheden aside. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: It’s one of those [00:16:00] things where again, it's a really beloved cult property with a really devoted fan base, even, 5 years after it was released, shit, almost 20. Jessika: And I do love Firefly, again, Whedon aside. Mike: I do too. Jessika: And it makes me a little sad think about it because it had so much potential. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Oh, it's so rough. It's rough to see. Mike: Yeah. What were your overall thoughts on the movie now that you've seen it because you hadn't seen it before this, correct? Jessika: No. I had only seen the TV show and probably rightfully so, because that was much less violent. I mean, much less graphically violent. They were still beheading motherfucker every episode, but, versus the film, which is like blood and like half a head and wow, there, it goes the head. But I actually really liked the movie. It was adventurous, it was thrilling and told a fairly cohesive and interesting storyline which unfortunately had an ending. But it still took us on an emotional journey. [00:17:00] Mike: Yeah, and I feel the same way. Jessika:: And how all the camp that I love from the 1980s and the special effects are just chefs, kiss love it. Mike: There is something so wonderful about the special effects from the 1980s, because they're so earnest all the time. And at the same time they look so cheesy by comparison now. Jessika: But you can tell they were trying so hard. It's almost like a little kid who's just learning to finger paint and they walk up and they're like, I did this thing. It's so good. You're like, it is really good. It's really good for where you're at. Mike: Yeah, exactly. Highlander is very much a quintessential eighties film to me, and there's both that nostalgia factor, but also it's a pretty tight little film. It doesn't really try to do anything too grandiose or too world-building because I don't think they expected to really make the sequels that they wound up doing. Which speaking of which we should discuss the sequels. [00:18:00] Mike: Like, I feel like you can’t discussion without talking about the sequels. And honestly the first time I ever heard of Highlander as a brand really was when I was visiting family in Texas And we were watching a Siskel & Ebert episode where they were thrashing Highlander II. Jessika: Dude, Siskel and Ebert I'm sure hated this. This does not surprise me in the least. Mike: I don't remember much about it, I just remember being like, oh Sean Connery's in a movie, well that's cool. Because my parents had raised me on all of the Sean Connery James Bond movies. Jessika: Yeah casting, come on. Why? Why? They had a French dude playing a Scottish guy and a Scottish guy playing a Spanish Egyptian guy. It's. Mike: I believe label was a Hispaniola Egyptian. They kinda darkened up Sean Connery a little bit too. I'm not sure. Jessika: It felt that way. I was just hoping he had just been under the tanning beds, but no, I think you're right. [00:19:00] Mike: Highlander II was definitely the most infamous of the sequels. And I mean a huge part of that is because it had such a batshit production and there’d been so many different versions of it. It was so bad that Russell Mulcahey reportedly walked out of the film premiere after only 15 minutes. There's this great documentary that you and I both watched on YouTube, it's split up into a bunch parts, but it was a documentary they made for the special edition of Highlander II. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: It was the third release of the movie that they put out because the first one was basically the bonding company for the films. Investors took over the production and assembly of the movie due to the fact that Argentina, where they were filming. And they had gone to Argentina because a, it was gorgeous, but B because it was supposedly going to be a third of the cost Jessika: Yeah. Mike: To make a movie there than it would elsewhere. Argentina’s economy collapsed and went through hyperinflation. And as a result, everything just went haywire. But they went back years later and they not only recut the [00:20:00] movie, but they refilled or added in certain scenes I think four or five years later. And then on top of that, they did the special edition a few years after that, where they redid the special effects. And I don't know it's kind of funny because it's not a bad movie now. It's not terrible. I feel it's an enjoyable film in its own way. But it's also funny where you watch that documentary and they're talking about the stuff that they're so proud of. Russell Mulcahey was talking about how proud he was of that love scene. I'm using this in quotes, love scene between Virginia Madsen and and Christopher Lambert where they just decided to do it up against the wall of an alley? Jessika: That’s always an interesting choice to me. Like you really cannot wait. Mike: Yeah. And then he was like, I thought that was a really hot scene. And I got to sit there and I'm like, I don't, I can't view this through the lens of, a 20 something guy in the 1990s. I don't know what my interpretation of it would have been then, [00:21:00] but watching it now watching it for the first time when I was in my twenties and the, in the early aughts, I just was like, this is weird and sorta dumb. And also they don't really have a lot of chemistry, but okay. Jessika: Yeah, it just kind of happens. They're just like, Oh, here you are. Mike: Yeah Right I don't know. At the same time it was cool to see they did all those really practical, special effects where they actually had them whipping around on the wires on like the weird flying skateboards and stuff. I thought that was cool. Jessika: I thought that was neat too. And how he was like, yeah, I actually got on top of the elevator and he was excited. Now he got on top of the elevator. Mike: And then they basically just dropped it down, like that's wild. So how about Highlander three? Jessika: Ahhh… Mike: Yeah, that’s kinda where I am Jessika: It’s very forgettable in my book. Mike: I feel like you could wipe it from the timeline and no one would care. Really, it felt like a retread of the first movie, but with the shittier villain in a way less interesting love story. honestly, it was a bummer because Mario [00:22:00] Van Peebles, the guy who plays that the illusionist I can't even remember his name. It was that forgettable. Jessika: Yeah, no, I can't either. Mike: Mario van Peebles is a really good actor and he's done a lot of really cool stuff. And it just, it felt like he was the NutraSweet version of the Kurgan Jessika: I like that. Yes. Yes. Mike: All of the mustache twirling, none of the substance. Jessika: It leaves a little bit of a weird taste in your mouth. Mike: Right. Splenda Kurgan! Moving on Highlander, Endgame. Jessika: What I do like about this film is that in both the TV series, as well as the film, there is the actual crossover. Connor shows up in Duncan's world and Duncan shows up in Connor's world and there is that continuity, which is good. And I do appreciate that because, before I got into this, I assumed that the character was interchangeable and we were just seeing different actors James [00:23:00] Bond situation. And when I went back and realized like, Oh no, he's his own character, they're blah, you know. Mike: I dunno I saw this in theaters I love the show and I appreciated that it felt like an attempt to merge the movies in the series and of the movies, I feel like this actually has the strongest action scenes. There's that bit where Adrian Paul faces off against Donnie Yen. And I was like, that's gotta be really cool to be able to sit there and show your kids much later in life: hey, I got to do a martial arts scene with Donnie Yen and he didn't kill me in the movie. that's pretty dope. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Again, it felt underwhelming. It just wasn't all that interesting. And also I spent years being mad at that movie because the trailer brought me into the theater expecting something way different than what we were going to get Jessika: Okay. And I don't know that I saw the trailer. Mike: It has, it has a bunch of scenes with Magic where Connor and Duncan jumped through a portal [00:24:00]. Jessika: What? Mike: And a sword gets thrown at Jacob Kell and he catches it midair. And then he does something else where he's holding a sphere where you see Connor's face screaming and then it shatters. Jessika: What’s with all this weird, extra scene stuff in these trailers. I don't understand. Mike: Yeah, it turns out that this hasn't, this has never really been officially confirmed, but reading between the lines yeah, it’s been confirmed. They basically filmed extra scenes just to make it more appealing for people. So they would show up to the theaters. Like they filmed scenes, effectively they filmed scenes just for the trailer the director when he was asked about it in Fearful Symmetry. He basically said, yeah, I know there was some stuff that they filmed for marketing afterwards, and I wasn't involved with that. And then I think it was Peter Davis that was asked about this for the book. And he basically said, Oh, this is a really standard practice. People, or accompanies [00:25:00] film stuff for for marketing purposes all the time. And that's where he left it. Jessika: Oh, okay. to know. Mike: I was really grumpy about that, but that said I've softened a little since then. Do we even want to talk about the Source? Cause I feel like that's something that we shouldn't talk about in polite company. Jessika: No pass. Mike: Okay. Jessika: It happened? Mike: It happened, it was a thing that happened that was going to be a trilogy. They were planning to make that into a trilogy of movies. Jessika: Ohh rough times. Mike: Oh it's real bad. I don't think you were able to watch this, but Highlander, the search for vengeance. It's the anime. Jessika: No, I couldn't find it. Mike: Yeah. It's not available for streaming and it really it's really a bummer because it's actually pretty good. I'm not quite sure how to qualify it because it's not a live action movie and it doesn't star Duncan or Connor, but it's a full length anime. It's a full length movie in its own right. It focuses on Colin MacLeod who he’s [00:26:00] an immortal, who's technically part of the MacLeod clan. He's born as a Roman Britain and then he's adopted into the MacLeod clan after he fights alongside them later on. They keep on doing this. They keep on going back to dystopian SciFutures, which I kinda like, Jessika: I love, bless their little hearts. Mike: Yeah. A lot of the story actually takes place in this post-apocalyptic 22nd century, New York. And I haven't seen this in about a decade because it's not available on streaming. I don't have the DVD anymore. I really should pick it up before it goes out of print. But the movie fucking slaps. It was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, he was really big in the nineties. He did Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust. He's known for really cool looking movies that are also really violent at the same time. Like you look at his characters and you're like, Oh yeah, no, they all look interchangeable because they're also similar one movie to another, Jessika: Oh, I see. Mike: But they're really cool. And the movie was written by David Abramowitz, who was the head writer [00:27:00] for the TV show. So it felt like a pretty legit Highlander story. Honestly, if we had to talk about this and ask which of these movies or the sequels were our favorites, I would probably say the Search for Vengeance. Because I loved it so much, but since that wasn't a theatrical release, we'll exclude that and you didn't get to watch it. Of the sequels, which did you enjoy most? Jessika: Mike, why don’t you go first. Mike: Okay. I'm a little torn, I guess I enjoyed Endgame mainly because it feels like part of he in quotes, real Highlander story, I guess it's the least terrible of the sequels. And it brought in my favorite characters. The final version of Highlander II, is I don't know. I don't hate it. It honestly feels like a cool dystopian cyberpunk story with some bizarre Highlander lore shoehorned in, but at the same time, it's not the worst thing I've ever watched. How about you? Jessika: Funny [00:28:00] enough, I was going to say Highlander II, but maybe just a bit more so if it were its own standalone movie and not try to be a part of the Highlander franchise. The idea of the shield is super interesting and I think they could have elaborated more on the lead-up and the resolution of that issue rather than having to also make it about the Immortals in their forever game. Mike: Yeah, I agree. How do you feel about moving onto the TV series? Jessika: Oh, I am pro. Mike: Okay. I personally feel like this is the property that sucks all the air out of the room when you're talking about Highlander. Jessika: Oh no. Mike: Yeah, I mentioned that this is how I really got introduced to the brand. I started watching it in high school, around season three, which was when it was really starting to get good. The first two seasons I feel were kind of when they were ironing out all the rough spots. But I wound up watching it through the end. So if you're listening to this podcast and you have never seen the [00:29:00] show Highlander, the series ran for six seasons, which is a good length of time for any TV show. And it followed the adventures of Duncan, who was another member of the MacLeod clan. He was a distant cousin of Connor. And the show bounced between Seacouver, which is a fictionalized version of Vancouver in Paris. And it basically retcon things so that the original movie didn't end with The Quickening, but that the battle between the Kurgan and Connor was it's implied, it was the start of The Gathering. That's my interpretation of it. Jessika: That was what I got too. Mike: Yeah. And Christopher Lambert, he shows up in the pilot to help set things up and get them moving. But I think that's the only time we ever really seen him on the show. Jessika: Correct. He's really just an intro. He's in that first episode only. Mike: You have rewatched it as a have I . We haven't watched the entire series all the way through, but we've watched a lot of episodes. Jessika: Correct. Mike: How do you feel [00:30:00] it measures up today? compared to that nostalgic view that we had before, Jessika: I had a lot of fun watching it, actually. definitely super cheesy. I don't love all of the characters I watched a lot of the first season, then I bounced around I think I did the top, like 25 on a list that you sent me. But Duncan’s just so codependent sometimes with his characters and it's like the one time the Tessa goes on a hike by herself, she gets kidnapped by an, a mortal and it’s like, oh my God, she can't even go on a fucking hike, are you joking me? And the one time he goes to the store by himself, he gets kidnapped and it's like, oh, come the fuck on you guys. Mike: Yeah, I feel like it generally holds up pretty well. It's a little uneven, but when it hits , it really hits. And it's a lot of fun. And considering that it was a relatively low budget show on basic cable in the early to mid-nineties, there's a lot of stuff that has aged way worse. [00:31:00] Jessika:: Absolutely. It exceeded my expectations on the rewatch, for sure. Mike: Yeah, and I have to say that one really cool thing about Highlander is it's got a really large female fan base. And I suspect that the show is really responsible for that. Jessika: I would agree. There's a few reasons. Mike: Are six of those reasons. Duncan's abs? Jessika: Like 10 of those reasons are all the times he gets surprised in a bathtub. I know I messaged you while I was watching them, because I was like Duncan got surprised in a bathtub again. Mike: I don't remember which episode it was, but there's one where he is surprised while he's in a bathrobe and he's got, it's not even tighty whities, it’s like a bikini brief, and watching that, I was just sitting there going, thank you for this gift. Thank you. Thank you for this visual treat that you have given us in the middle of my very boring work day. Jessika: It’s [00:32:00] also that there are such a wide variety of female characters. I would say, Iit’s not just the other female person he seeing or whatever, the love interest, there are other female Immortals and they a lot more frequently than they do in the films. I can't recall if they have any female immortals in the films. Mike: They do in Endgame. Jessika: Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I thought there was, there were some in there, but that’s tailing into, I mean yeah. Mike: Yeah. And the Source had them too, but meh. Jessika: Oh yeah. Mike: I will say that the show was pretty good about writing pretty strong female characters, I felt. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: And we'll talk about Amanda in a little bit, but I have to say that I really liked how she was written and how Elizabeth Grayson played her through the original series and then her own afterwards. I dunno. I, what do you think is the sexiest thing about Duncan MacLeod? I'm curious. Jessika: He seems [00:33:00] really like trustworthy, but like and sexy trustworthy. It's like, he'd be the dude. I called if some guys were fucking with me. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: I kept on thinking about how there's this Tumblr post that's been going around the internet, regularly, and it's this discussion about which Disney men women find the sexiest guys always thinks it's Gaston. Jessika: Oh lord, why? Mike: It’s that male power fantasy thing where they're just like, oh no, like he's like really charming. And he's really muscly. And the counterargument from women is usually A no Gaston sucks and B we all like Roger from 101 Dalmatians. Jessika: Oh yeah. Roger. Mike: Which, Roger is very much my personal role model. The dude's a talented musician, he loves animals and he's got that great, a snark where he literally is trolling the villain when she comes to his house with a motherfucking trombone from upstairs [00:34:00]. And I think Duncan's a little like that. Like he's cultured and he's worldly and he's got this wicked sense of humor. And he's also the type of dude who has no problem reciting poetry in public or making his partner breakfast in bed. Jessika: Yeah, absolutely. Mike: So it just it was something that came to mind while I was rewatching all this stuff. Jessika: Yeah. just as like a wholesome guy. Mike: Right? Jessika: He always has good intentions. So that's actually what it feels like. He's always coming at things with good intentions. Mike: Yeah, and he's not perfect, but he's always trying to do the right thing, which I really appreciate. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: What was your favorite episode? Jessika: I went back and forth. I really like the Homeland episode, and like I said, I've really only watched a good chunk of most of season what I would say, and then so kind of bounced around, but season four, episode one. It was really sweet to see [00:35:00] Duncan take the obligatory trip back to his Homeland to pay respects. And it also had a good lesson in not judging a book by its cover as the main character assumes that Duncan is just an ancestry tourist, which was super interesting. She was super hating on it but I was like this is interesting instead of visiting what once was literally his home during formative years. So it was just such a wild thing to see her be like, what are you doing near those graves? And he can't really be like, they were my parents because you cannot even read them. They are so old. Mike: The funny thing is I didn't rewatch that episode during our refresher, but I remember watching that episode when I was about 15 or so. Because it's stuck out to me. Jessika: It’s really good. And of course, Duncan, he always has a good intention. The whole reason he went back was because he figured out that somebody had been [00:36:00] pilfering graves Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And he had to return what was in this grave. Mike: I know he's making the rest of us look bad. So mine is, it's unusual suspects. It's from season six, which I feel is actually pretty weak season overall. And it's this really silly one-off episode, starring Roger Daltry of the Who fame. He plays Hugh Fitzcairn, which is a character that he shows up in plays a couple of times throughout the series. And at this point in time in the story, he was dead, but it's a flashback to the 19 teens or 1920s. 1920s, because it ends with the stock market crash, but it's a take on the British country, house murder, mystery genre, and it's really fun. And it was just this really refreshing moment of levity after what I felt our run of really heavy, and in my opinion, not very good episodes. The end of season five and the beginning of season [00:37:00] six are all about Duncan confronting this demon named Aramon and it's weird and it's not very good. And I really don't enjoy it. This is all my opinion. I'm sure that I'm insulting some Highlander fan who absolutely loves this, but it's a fun episode in its own. And then it's a good moment after one that I didn't really enjoy. And so it's got that extra refreshing bonus. I just, I want to note, it's really funny to me how intertwined Highlander has always been with rock and roll and music in general, because they had Mulcahey who do it, doing all these music videos and stuff. And then they kept on having musicians show up as guest stars. I think it was there's a character named Xavier St. Cloud, I think who was played by one of the guys from, again, I think, Fine Young Cannibals? Jessika: Yeah, I think I actually watched that episode. Mike: I think he was using nerve gas to kill people. Jessika: Yes I did watch that episode. That was a wild one. Yeah. Mike: Yeah, and I think he shows up later on too. [00:38:00] I can't remember but anyway, I really appreciate that they gave Roger Daltry of all people, this character, and he just really had fun with it and they kept bringing him back. Jessika: Yeah. He was a good character every episode he was in my other favorites was the one where they had Mary Shelley and he was in that one too. I believe. Mike: I think so. Yeah. No, it was, the series was really fun, and I liked that we can sit there and pull all these episodes just from memory that we really liked. Jessika: Absolutely. Mike: So season six , they were trying to find a new actress who could carry her own Highlander show. And so they tested out a bunch of different actresses in season six and gave them either really strong guest appearances, or they were basically the main character for episodes. But they wound up not going with any of them. They went with Elizabeth Grayson and gave her the Raven where she reprised her roles Amanda. Did you watch any of that? Did you get a chance to? Jessika: I watched the [00:39:00] first and the last episode of season one, I can only find the first season. Is there only one? Mike: There’s only one season, it didn’t get picked up again. Jessika: Oh then there you go. Then I could have only, I know I was scratching my head. Worried about where else do I find this? Mike: Well, and it ends on a cliff-hanger. Jessika: Yeah, exactly. That's where I was like, let's go. Mike: It ends with Nick becoming immortal. Jessika: Oh, see, I didn't quite finish it. Cause I was hurriedly setting it up in the background. Mike: Yeah it was fine. I thought Elizabeth Grayson is really charming in that role, but at the same time, there wasn't a lot of chemistry initially between Amanda and Nick, I felt at the very beginning. Jessika: I agree, not in the first episode. Mike: By the end of the season, it was there, and I think they were also, as is the case with most shows first seasons, they were trying really hard to figure out what they wanted to do. And so originally it was a cop show with an immortal, which there are certainly worse pitches that I've heard. Jessika: Yeah. No, I agree. Mike: But yeah. sad that it didn't get to go further [00:40:00] Jessika: I'm tempted to go back and watch all of these things. I may have to do a pallet cleanse of something different. I may have to go back to my Marvel watching. Mike: On top of this, there was a Saturday morning cartoon called Highlander, the series or Highlander, the animated series, and it was set in the future. It's in a weird alternate timeline. It stars another MacLeod. It's fine It's a Saturday morning cartoon. I didn't even care enough to really go back and watch it because being that great. They did some interesting stuff. Like they brought Ramirez back if I remember, right. And then they also had a thing where instead of beheading other Immortals, the main character had an ability where he could be voluntarily given their power. Jessika: Oh. Mike: So he had all of their knowledge and power. And again, it’s again in a dystopian future where another immortal has taken over the world. Jessika: Wow. They just love their dystopian future. Mike: They really do. But yeah, it's fine. I think it's streaming on Amazon prime. I was just so focused on everything else that I didn't get a chance to go and [00:41:00] rewatch it. Jessika: Huh, good to know. Mike: We're going to go over all the other various pieces of media real quick. and then we've got one side tangent and then we're going to go through comic books, but. Jessika: I'm so excited. Mike: Books, Highlander wound up having a pretty substantial literary footprint. The original movie had the official novelization. There wasn't really anything after that until the show came out and then the show had 10 novels and an anthology and an official behind the scenes kind of book called the Watchers Guide and it's full of essays and interviews and photos. And since then, there've been a couple of non-fiction books, like Fearful Symmetry, which is about everything Highlander related. And it's almost like a textbook, but it's pretty good. And then there's also A Kind of Magic, which is more focused on making of the original movie. And those are both actually really good. I liked them a lot. They were really easy to read. [00:42:00] There were audio plays, which I keep on forgetting audio plays are a thing at this point, but it's by this company called Big Finish in the UK. They do tie-in audio dramas for television properties. Most famously they do Dr Who. They wound up doing two seasons of audio plays. The first had Adrian Paul reprise his role as Duncan and they take place after the series ended. And then also after the events of Endgame, you can't really find them anymore. Because they just, the license expired so they aren't selling them as far as I'm aware. Jessika: That's super interesting though. Dang. Mike: Yeah. And then the second season focuses on the four horsemen Immortals, remember Jessika: Okay. Mike: Do you remember them? Jessika: I sure do. Mike: Because we were talking about this a little bit, but it was all about Methos and the other guys that he hung out with when he was effectively, a comic book villain who would've if he’d had a mustache to twirl, he would have done it. Jessika: So quickly. Yes. Mike: I thought that was really interesting. There were a couple of people in the Highlander Heart [00:43:00] group who talked about it and they seem to really like them. I can't comment, but it was really neat. Games, this is the one that's really interesting. Highlander actually has been turned into a number of games over the years. There's a couple of tabletop games we're going to breeze through. So there was two different card games in a board game. One of the card games was released back in the nineties, it was a collectible card game. And this was right when Magic: The Gathering was really hot and everybody was trying to get in on that action. And then recently there's a new one called Highlander: The Duel. And it's a deck-building game where you play as Connor or the Kurgan going up against each other. And just a couple of years ago, there was a board game that got kick-started, it was in 2018 and it's this fast paced game for two to six players. The reviews across the web were pretty positive. And again, it's one of those things where it's Immortals battling for that mysterious prize. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: But it's cool. Jessika: Nice. Mike: I’m actually pretty surprised [00:44:00] we never got like a tabletop RPG because they are not precious about applying the license for Highlander to stuff. I'm amazed that nobody went to them and said, Hey, we can make this cool historical RPG where we sorta start having players wake up and then they have flashbacks or whatever. And Jessika: Yeah Oh that would have been cool Yeah Mike: Right? But yeah we never got anything like that which I was really I actually that was the one thing I expected and was surprised to see that we never got. Okay. So we're going to go into mini tangent with video games even though they aren't technically related to comics. The first game for Highlander was a 1986 tie-in release for home computers. It was a really simple fighting title. It wasn't well received. It was apparently pretty bad. So after that the animated series had a tie in called Highlander: Last of the MacLeods. It was released on the Atari Jaguar CD console. If you remember that. Do you remember the Atari Jaguar? Jessika: Oh my god, no. I don't. [00:45:00] Mike: It kinda got lost in the shuffle in the early to mid nineties of all the different consoles that were coming out. But you can find footage of this on YouTube and it's one of those early 3d games. And so it got a lot of praise for his exploration elements and animated video sequences, but it also got a lot of criticism for its controls in combat. After that there was actually going to be an MMO called Highlander, The Gathering. And it was in development by a French studio called Kalisto entertainment, which was honestly weird because Kalisto's catalog up until now were mostly middling single-player games. They'd gotten famous for a series called Nightmare Creatures, but they also did a Fifth Element racing game on PS2 that I had and was actually pretty fun. Anyway, Kalisto went bankrupt before the MMO could come out. Jessika: Oh! Mike: And none of the folks who, yeah, that's video games. Jessika: Fair enough. Mike: So they went bankrupt. The MMO hadn't come out yet. And the folks who wound up with the rights afterwards just decided to kill the project. There's [00:46:00] one other game. That's become the source of a lot of speculation. And it's only known as Highlander: The Game it basically came about because Davis Panzer productions that's, the guys who own the rights to Highlander, and SCI, which was this holding company that owned a bunch of video game groups. They decided to ink a deal, to make a Highlander game. They announced that they basically had done a partnership back in like 2004, 2005. And at the time SCI owned Eidos who was the publisher that gave us Tomb Raider. So they were a pretty big name. The game itself was formally announced by Eidos in 2008 and the development was being handled by another French developer called Widescreen Games. It was going to be an action role-playing game. It would star a new Immortal named Owen MacLeod. The story was going to be written again by David Abramowitz and that added some [00:47:00] serious legitimacy to the project for fans. Actually, why don’t you read the summary. Jessika: Would love to my pleasure. Summary: Owen is captured and enslaved by Romans who force him to compete as a gladiator. During this time, Owen dies only to come back to life. Methos, the oldest living immortal approaches Owen to be his mentor. He teaches Owen about the game and how he and other Immortals can only be slain by beheading. As with other immortal MacLeods Owen is pursued throughout his life by a nemesis. This enemy proves to be extremely powerful. One that Owen is unable to defeat Owen learns of a magical stone, fragments of which are scattered all over the world. Throughout the game, Owen embarks upon a quest to recover these fragments and restore the stone in an attempt to gain the power to overcome his foe. [00:48:00] So dramatic. I love it. Mike: What's Highlander without any drama? But that sounds rad right? Jessika: Oh, it sounds amazing. Mike: The game was announced with a trailer in 2008 that really only showed some of the environments from different eras and then it ended with an image of Owen, but it looked promising. And then there wasn't much else after a couple of years of pretty much nothing but radio silence, Eidos wound up canceling the game and that's where a lot of the speculation has started. There's not a lot of information on Highlander: The Game. I keep waiting for one of those gaming history YouTubers to get ahold of an old dev kit and then do a video with a build, but that hasn't happened yet. So really it's all kind of speculation and wishful thinking about what could have been. And it also seems like some of the details are getting muddied as time goes on. Like Fearful Symmetry talks about the game of it but they [00:49:00] have the segment. And again I want you to read this. Jessika: Sure sure. The gam was so far along in its development stages that segments including backdrops and some of the gameplay options were presented at a Highlander Worldwide event in Los Angeles 2006 and got a very positive reaction. The beautifully rendered backdrops were almost movie quality and included the likes of Pompei, a dark forest in the Highlands, New York, and Japan as gameplay locations and introduced us to another MacLeod, Owen, the same surname but a much earlier vintage. Mike: Yeah, so, I think Mosby is a little overly enthusiastic about all of this, and this is because I think Mosby doesn't have much familiarity with how game development works. It sounds like they had concept art on display and were discussing gameplay [00:50:00] rather than showcasing a build of the game. Concept art and design discussions are things that happen very early in game development. But if you're an outsider, looking in this stuff could easily be interpreted as things being much further along than they were. Jessika: Ah. Mike: Yeah. Now that said, I did work in video games for almost a decade, and a few of my coworkers were actually involved with Highlander the game. Jessika: What? Mike: Every one of them over the years has told me the cancellation was a mercy killing. And again, this is from multiple sources, so I'm not going to name or identify because, I don't want to make things awkward for them. But basically the game was garbage . It's not really surprising to hear cause widescreen never really made a good game, the best reception that any of their titles got was just kinda mixed. But earlier this week, I actually called one of my friends. Who'd been [00:51:00] attached to the project because I wanted to get more information about this game before we recorded. Jessika: We need to get you a new shovel, you dug so deep for this. Mike: With both hands. But, they confirmed what I've been hearing from other people the gameplay itself wasn't just bad. It was boring. The biggest problem was it didn't know what kind of a game it wanted to be. Basically, it was trying to do everything all at once. There were a bunch of traversal elements, which didn't really make a lot of sense. Like why would you climb a Manhattan skyscraper when you're a roided out dude with a sword? Couldn't you just take the elevator? Or I don't know the stairs? There was going to be a bunch of Magic elements in the gameplay, which, isn't really, that's not really a thing in Highlander. There's that fantasy element because we're talking about Immortals who can't die unless you cut off their heads, but generally Magic isn't a part of the accepted Canon. And then the combat, what they were aiming to do something like [00:52:00] God of war, which was really big at the time. But, it wasn't great. My friend also pointed out that Owen looked like a bodybuilder, but his fashion sense was from that industrial metal scene of the late nineties, which neither of those things really fits with the Highlander aesthetic because Adrian Paul was arguably the most in shape of the Highlander actors. But even that was, he was a dude who was like, yeah, I could achieve that if I was really good about my diet and then just worked out aggressively but not like Hugh Jackman does for his Wolverine roles. Jessika: Yeah, yeah. Mike: So I'm going to send you a screenshot of what Owen looked like in the key art the initial title it does. Jessika: What? It looks like Criss Angel. Mike: Right. And they're trying to recreate that iconic pose of The Quickening from the first movie that Connor does at the very end where he's getting raised up and, by the rails of Lightning, or the wires [00:53:00] of lightning. Jessika: Yeah, I get what they were trying to do. Mike: Yeah,I wanna know, what the fuck is up with those weird straps with rings that are going down his legs. Jessika: I don't really know, I was trying to figure that out myself. So just so that everyone can really get the picture that we're getting here and you'll, you might understand why it's taken me so long to describe it. I had to take it all in first. Mike: Yeah, it’s a ride. Jessika: It’s all very monochromatic. And the background is of course, a cut of the statue of Liberty, the backdrop of parts of New York that I'm sure aren't even next to each other, which is always funny. And then what is this? Is this the new guy, or is this supposed to be Duncan? Mike: Yeah, this is the new guy, Jessika: It’s Owen. Mike: Yeah. It's Owen. And then Connor and Duncan were supposed to appear, supposedly. I know Peter Wingfield was recording his lines for Methos. Jessika: Well, if they haven't killed off Methos that makes sense. And I don't know in the series if they have, and maybe Duncan makes [00:54:00] sense if he hasn't died yet, but. Mike: Yeah they can't kill off Methos, Methos was my first gay crush. Jessika: Yeah. He's. Slightly problematic in a couple episodes, but he's a great character overall. But he's very Chriss Angel, he's wearing like a trench coat and that has to be some sort of a lace undershirt or something. Mike: lAnd he’s got like a weird really, like baggy leather pants. Jessika: Yes. Which cannot be comfortable. It's doing this weird pooching thing in the front. Mike: Yeah, and then I think I saw another screenshot where it looks like he's wearing skater shoes tennis shoes as well. Jessika: Oh, Vans Off the Wall, man. Mike: Just once I want to see a MacLeod in the movies with a good fashion sense. Jessika: Yeah, I mentioned that I wanted to cosplay as Duncan, which overall would be a great idea. But then I was looking through his outfits and I'm like, what do I wear? Do I wear this weird white tank top with these like acid wash jeans [00:55:00] and a belt? Or is this the one where I'm wearing like five shirts and a long jacket? Is it that day? Mike: You know who he looks like that guy, Canus. Jessika: Yes! Yes, does. He has the lace shirt and everything. Mike: And the dog collar. Jessika: Oh my god, it was so funny. I told you, I think it was trying to be edgy. Mike: Yeah, and instead it comes off as really queer-coded. Jessika: It really does though. I know, my little queer brain was like bling. Mike: Yeah, It feels like they weren't really getting the essence of what Highlander actually was and who these guys were, because usually the Highlander characters are a little bit more believable and ordinary because that's the whole idea is that they're walking among us and we have no idea unless they tell us. Okay. On top of all this. So remember how I mentioned that trailer was just showcasing environments for the [00:56:00] game. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: There was a reason for that. The reason was that they couldn’t get the character models to work. Jessika: Oh! Mike: So the shot of Owen at the end it's actually just animated key art it's the same it's the same art that you just saw. It's that image. It was just slightly animated. And then they released a couple of screenshots for the game, but apparently they were really heavily photo-shopped well, beyond industry standards. So, it was one of those things where, this was a turd and it needed to be flushed. And it finally did. But Widescreen went under about a year after the game was formally announced. They were working on another big project and apparently that got taken away, and as a result, it just caused the studio to implode. By this point in time Square Enix the guys do all the final fantasy games had bought Eidos and they formally canceled it. We're not sure why exactly, my guess is that it was probably, they just looked at cost it would take to finish this game and then the [00:57:00] amount that it would need to sell in order to be profitable or to meet their sales expectations for it and they just thought it wasn't worth it. But yeah, my friend actually said they were embarrassed to work on it and they would have been fine even if it had been an average game, but it was just bad. Even one of those kind of middling average games, I think that would have been fine, that would have lived up to the Highlander bar. Finally, there's that Highlander game that spark unlimited was working on. I never even heard a whisper about this until. We watched that episode of Highlander Heart focusing on video games, and they brought Craig Allen on to talk about the project. Based on what we know now, I think this might be why Square Enix was holding onto the rights for another year after they shut down Highlander, the game, just because they had this other title, theoretically in development or very early development. Based on the footage that they have, it looks like they had at least done enough development work to put together a vertical slice that they could show for pitch [00:58:00] purposes and at conventions. But I thought it was really promising looking overall. What did you think? Jessika: I thought it did look really interesting the game play itself I did like the idea of having a female Highlander. That being said, they had this whole concept about what Craig Allen was calling beautiful damage. Mike: Yeah. Jessika: And it was this whole thing about, oh it was the first female Highlander and her looks go when she gets damaged, and that's her whole motivation is to stay pretty. And I just, that gave me a huge headache, and it of course was super male-gazey I mean, the game itself seemed that way. Mike: It was weird because I would love to see women and Highlander being built a little bit more like warriors, like a little bit more muscly, which would be in keeping with people who battle across the centuries. [00:59:00] They don't need to be super jacked like the Amazons in Wonder Woman, but making them look like stick thin suicide girl, punk rock chick from the late aughts. Didn't quite gel with me. I understood what he was talking about though, because that was the thing where they were starting to do permanent cosmetic damage in video games. That was something that was really big in the Batman Arkham games. Every time that you got knocked out, you'd come back and you'd have a little bit more of your outfit chipped apart. So, after a while Batman's looking pretty ragged and you realize maybe I'm not as good at this game as I think I am. Jessika: Yeah And the concept itself is really interesting It just I guess was the way it was phrased by this person. And it very much was he was so proud of the fact that it was the first Highlander female in a video game. And then everything was just like so incredibly sexist. I was excited that I wasn't Mike: We're also viewing it, with the lens of 2021 at this point. At that time, [01:00:00] that was before they had relaunched Tomb Raider, in 2013, 2014, where they made her much more realistic. She was still very fit, but she wasn't the Lara Croft that had generated a lot of criticism. I think possibly, I don't know, but I hope that it would have been marketed a bit differently if it had been done today. That said we also don't know exactly what it would look like as a final product. Jessika: Oh absolutely, yeah. Mike: It’s, I agree. It's a little bit problematic viewed through the current lens. At the same time, like a lot of the Highlander properties when it was being done, I think it was kind of just par for the course. Jessika: Yeah, fair enough. But, I did like the idea of having a female Highlander and having her have a whole story regardless of whether it's the first one to be completely [01:01:00] tragedy laden which was the other comment like her experience a ton of loss because she's female and experiences empathy unlike the male characters. Mike: I really didn't like that. Actually. I thought that was. I mean the, the whole thing where they were saying we wanted to focus on lifetimes of tragedy as opposed to enjoying multiple lives. And I'm like, that's the whole purpose of Highlander. That's what I really like is when you sit there and you watch them having fun and doing all this interesting stuff. Jessika: Women aren't allowed to have fun, Mike. Mike: Apparently. Jessika: We just have to have lives full of tragedy and pining for people that we've lost in our lives. Mike: Well, yeah. And we all know that the dudes don't have feelings, so we just, you know, go on and enjoy things. Jessika: That does suck that Hugh they don't give men the ability to have that capacity or give them the the credit to have that capacity. Mike: I will say, I am sorry that this one didn't get further along the development [01:02:00] stages, because it certainly seemed like it had a lot more promise than the title that was canceled right before it. Jessika: Yes, the gameplay itself looked more interesting, it looks more complex, it easier to navigate. What they were showing us was really intense. Mike: I really liked that whole idea of being able to view the environments in two different eras. It reminded me a lot of another Eidos game called legacy of Cain soul river, where there was a spiritual world and then a physical world. And you could flip back and forth between them, which was kind of cool. Jessika: Oh, that’s neat Mike: Yeah. I dug that. I liked the idea of exploring the same environment in two different areas. I thought that was really neat. Jessika: Yeah. Mike: Let's move on to Comics. Jessika: Sounds great. Mike: Okay, so, I’m curious. When do you think that Highlander got big enough to get a comic book? Jessika: I don't know maybe late nineties Mike: 2006. Jessika: Wow [01:03:00] That's later than I had expected. Mike: Yeah. There wasn't a comic adaptation of the movie when it came out, which is weird, there wasn't one here in the States. Highlander Heart, in their YouTube podcast, noted there was a series of five newspaper comic strips that were published as part marketing promotion. The hosts weren't entirely certain if they're exclusive to Europe or not. I don't know. I haven't been able to really find much reference to it. After the movie came out, though there was a two-part comic adaptation in Argentina. It was published through El Tony Todo Color and El Tony Supercolor they were sibling comic anthology magazines, and here's the weird twist. It looks like this was an unlicensed adaptation. Jessika: Mmhm, interesting. Mike: So now we're going to take another side tangent. The important thing that you need to know is that Argentina had just come out of a brutal military dictatorship that came about as part of Operation Condor, which is this horrific program the United States was involved in. And it isn't really taught about in high school history, at least it [01:04:00] wasn't when I was going through high school and I went to a pretty good one. did you ever learn about that? I'm curious. Jessika: No, I did not. Mike: Okay I'm giving you an extremely TLDR read of this, but basically this was a program in the seventies and eighties when the US backed military dictatorships across South America. So our country helped these groups, kidnap, torture, rape murder, thousands of political opponents, like Argentina was especially brutal. There were literally death squads, hunting down political distance across the country. It was a really horrific time. I want you to read this summary of what was going on during that time, actually. Jessika: Give me the really fun stuff I see. Mike: Sorry. Jessika: No you're good. It is estimated that between - 9,000 and 30,000 that's a huge span. Mike: I know, it’s such a margin of error I don't understand. Jessika: Lack of record taking will get you there quick, I think. I'm going to start over, but we’ll leave that in. It is estimated that between [01:05:00] 9,000 and 30,000 people were killed or disappeared, many of whom were impossible to formally report due to the nature of state terrorism. The primary target, like in many other South American countries participating in Operation Condor, were communist guerrillas and sympathizers, but the target of Operation Condor also included students, militants trade, unionists, writers, journalists, I don't love this, artists, and any other citizens suspected of being left-wing activists - well take me the goddamn way away. Mike: Right. Jessika: Including Peronist guerillas. I don't love that. Mike: No it's really awful. And based on that list of targets, it's not surprising that there was a lot of media suppression during this time. Democracy returned to the country in ’83, and there was this explosion of art across the mediums. Argentine Comics [01:06:00] saw this Renaissance period. A lot of them though, weren't really licensed and let's be honest. It's not like there's an internet where IP owners could monitor stuff like this and shut it down when they learned about it. There was also this drastic comics increase in the area due to create or publishing Zines because the eighties was the decade where personal computers suddenly became commonplace and all of a sudden pe

Une formule express consacrée à "Wicked City", un OAV d'animation japonais réalisé en 1987 par Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Une production MadHouse qui mixe Action, Espionnage, Dark Fantasy, Horreur et Érotisme.Retour sur ce film singulier dans un épisode pas si express que ça, d'une durée exceptionnelle.- La bande Annonce : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wOqciTZRik- Le Film est disponible en DVD ici : https://fr.shopping.rakuten.com/offer/buy/382957825/wicked-city-de-yoshiaki-kawajiri.html?bbaid=899666156&t=180192

Hoy hablamos con Abraham Marte acerca del legendario anime Ninja Scroll. Este anime recopila los mejores aspectos del mundo de Japanimation, y muchos aficionados se vuelven fan del anime gracias a este. Analizamos los mejores aspectos, exactamente qué lo convierte en un clásico y cuál fue su impacto en nosotros. Disponible en GuerraFilmsTV(YouTube) con video. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkVXmp0B8InEXYgQGvGhwFgMúsica de intro: Benjamin Tissot - Actionable from www.bensound.comMúsica de outro: Komiku - Intensive puzzle resolution from freemusicarchive.orgSuscríbanse al Podcast y coméntenlo con sus amigos. 

On today’s review, Tom and Jenny discuss the 1987 erotic scifi/horror anime Wicked City, directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and based on the first of the Black Guard novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi. Find this movie and more at the 13 O’Clock Amazon Storefront! Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to … Continue reading Movie Retrospective: Wicked City

This week we watched Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s “Wicked City” and discussed soft-core hentai, Dr. Seuss’s sexy drawings, protecting women, drinking breast milk, tax evasion, and the Misandry Zone. Cover art by Sixofspades1 on Twitch Follow us on Twitter: @meandmydadwatch

Well we wanted to leave you folks on a good note with the Highlander Franchise and what better way to do it than talk about The Search For Vengeance. A movie from Yoshiaki Kawajiri, the creator of Ninja Scroll and Wicked City. The film is very straightforward and doesn't deviate from the Highlander mythos which makes the conflict between Colin and Marcus very engaging with there cat and mouse fights over the course of history. Solid movie and we had fun talking about it. Twitter: @3blackgeeks @cjwizgeek @Deetheblackgeek @blknerdjapan @dukect

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The Amateur Otaku Returns with Part 1 of their 2020 Halloween Special. Topic of Discussion - The anime classic, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Available for Streaming on YouTube Click here for The Amateur Otaku Archive, where you'll find our podcast episodes and editorials on great anime we know you'll love. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,Anchor and more! If there are any topics, manga, anime or films that you would like us to cover in an episode; please lets us know your thoughts on our Twitter, Facebook page or send us an email at AmateurOtakuRTF@gmail.com We really look forward to her from you! Thanks for listening, Find Brandon Alvarado Find Doc Isak Wolff --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theamateurotaku/support

Nosferatu November comes to an end with Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. In this long-awaited follow-up to the 1985 film, D is charged with rescuing a young woman named Charlotte from the vampire noble Meyer Link. D must also compete against another group of vampire hunters known as the Marcus Brothers. The relationship between Meyer Link and Charlotte proves to be more complicated than anyone expected, and their final destination has plenty of haunting secrets in store. We hope you'll join us as our vampiric celebration is finally put to rest with Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.  Follow us on Instagram:@animewasnotamistakepodcast Or on Facebook:@animewasnotamistakepod Music Provided By: “GHIBLI - PSYTRANCE [REMIX] – DeepKörper - Original Music and Movie by Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki Twister -Kingdom Mix- Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance OST - Takeharu Ishimoto/Yoko Shimomura “J EON Went Astray” - Original Music and Movie by Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki

What happens when you give three of Japan's most lauded anime directors free reign to piss away a budget? Nick and Kenji are joined by friend of the show Marc to find out Enter Neo Tokyo (1987), the first of what would be a quadrilogy of anthologies to feature our boi, Katsuhiro Otomo. That is to say nothing of the fact that Madhouse founder Rintaro as well as Yoshiaki Kawajiri also make an appearance. For the occasion we decided to get the gang together and see what’s going on inside. Labyrinth by Rintaro The Running Man by Yoshiaki Kawajiri Construction Cancellation Project by Katsuhiro Otomo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/boku-no-podcast/message

Welcome back to Halloween purgatory!!!!   On this last episode of the Halloween season the boys cover Wicked City from 1987 Directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri!!!!   thanks for listening and if you'd like to send your bullshit through email at pcppodcast666@gmail.com   Outro song "Wicked beast" by Osamu Shoji from the Wicked City soundtrack.

The Novice Elitists once again return to the Oltra Violent A-rated basement, with another one of Isaac's picks. This time covering Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 1987 anime shocker, Wicked City. This is another episode of the boys doing their due dilligence, covering a film they've mentioned many times in previous episodes. But what will they think, finally sitting down to cover it?! Hey, man I just write the descriptions. You want to find out, hit play and get off my back.   This commentary was recorded on Oct. 12, 2020.    Email the show at thenoviceelitists@gmail.com or on twitter @CalebAlexader

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode!Happy Spooky Season! This month, just in time for Halloween, I'm talking all about the cute and slightly terrifying Children's Horror anime film, Unico in the Island of Magic! And to join me to talk all about this kinda creepy classic based on the work of legendary Osamu Tezuka is Gigi from the Dub Talk Podcast! Listen as we discuss how Unico might have traumatized us a bit as kids, why we think the dub of it is so good, and why we think this is a great unconventional viewing choice for the Halloween season, even if you're not normally a fan of scary stuff! But don't worry, we don't just focus on the spooky stuff--there's plenty of fun to be had, too, as this episode also includes: Yoshiaki Kawajiri talk, our frustrations on lack of cute Unico merch in America, and poorly done voice impressions! Trick or Treat!!Stream the episode above or [Direct Download]Subscribe on apple podcasts | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | SpotifyRelevant Links:Stream Unico in the Island of Magic for FREE legally in North America at Crunchyroll, Tubi TV, RetroCrush, Anime PlanetBuy Unico in the Island of Magic at Rightstuf or AmazonOne of the only English-language Unico in the Island of Magic fansites still active online!Osamu Tezuka's official English-language webpage on UnicoCartoon Research - "Sanrio & Me"Check out Gigi's podcasts, Dub Talk and Shoujo Trash Showdown!Follow Gigi on Twitter!My theme song music was done by Kerobit! You can find more about them on their Twitter!Support the work I do on this podcast by leaving me a tip on Ko-fi! Want to have your name read in the special thanks segment on the next episode? All you need to do is buy me 2 or more “coffees” on Ko-fi!As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at AnimeNostalgiaPodcast@gmail.com.Thanks for listening!

Welcome to the start of our October Extravaganza at Manga Machinations! We’re going to be covering creepy, spooky, and horrific content all month long! To start, we’re doing a One Shot on Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist! Dawn from The Anime Nostalgia Podcast joins us to discuss Asumiko Nakamura’s psychological thriller about a novelist haunted by a mysterious woman who threatens to expose his secret of plagiarism!!! Follow Dawn on Twitter! Listen to The Anime Nostalgia Podcast! Remember to send us emails! mangamachinations@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter! @mangamacpodcast Check out our website! https://mangamachinations.com Check out our tumblr! http://mangamachinations.tumblr.com Join our Discord! https://discord.me/mangamac Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro Song: “Shichiten Battou no Blues” by THE PINBALLS from Junji Ito Collection, Opening, Introductions, Catching up with Dawn 00:03:42 - Whatchu Been Reading: Transition Song: Dragon Ball Z OST “Prologue”, Dawn comments on how hefty the hardcover editions of The Rose of Versailles are 00:08:29 - Dawn has been reading The Drifting Classroom and reacquired Love Song: 4 Tales 00:12:32 - Seamus really wants us to know that he watched Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 00:13:14 - Darfox teases the shocks and terrors in Blood on the Tracks volume 2 00:15:20 - Burn the Witch focuses on Tite Kubo’s strengths of “cool looking art” 00:23:37 - The Panorama of Hell was dakazu’s first experience with Hideshi Hino 00:34:22 - dakazu finally got a hold of the Mother/Earthbound tribute comic Pollyanna 00:40:17 - News: Hobonichi Techo released manga tie-in covers for their daily and weekly planners 00:48:46 - One Piece on hiatus due to Eiichiro Oda’s sudden illness 00:53:01 - Next Episode Preview and Rundown: Manga in Motion on Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, we’ll be reviewing the anime adaptation of Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano’s dark fantasy novels directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri 00:57:05 - Main Segment One Shot: Utsubora: The Story of a Novalist, Transition Song: “Hana -a last flower-” by ASA-CHANG&Junrei from The Flowers of Evil, We review Asumiko Nakamura’s psychological thriller about a veteran novelist plagiarizing a young woman 02:01:17 - Shout outs to Dawn, Anime Mike, Next Week’s Topic: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Social Media Rundown, Sign Off Song: “wish men” by sunbrain from Beet the Vandel Buster

Show Notes   Intro: Paranormal Activity Franchise, Talking Trolls, 1991 Top Ten Lists and how we rate, Troma, SOV on Bluray, Some 2020 Film talk, [...]

Show Notes   Intro: Paranormal Activity Franchise, Talking Trolls, 1991 Top Ten Lists and how we rate, Troma, SOV on Bluray, Some 2020 Film talk, [...]

Brettro Culture's Brett the Wiese joins host Zack Long to talk about the 1987 anime-horror OVA Wicked City while Kelly Warner is away. A mix of body horror and kink, the film isn't everything that Zack remembered it to be. But the goopy woman deserves respect!

It's once again time for Anime August here at Catching Up On Cinema! This week, Trevor forces Kyle to sit through Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)! With character designs by Yoshitaka Amano, and featuring fluid, gorgeously rendered animation and background paintings, the film is a Gothic sci-fi actioner that unfortunately suffers from poor pacing and a bloated runtime. Undeniably stunning in terms of production design and action choreography, the film's technical brilliance is unfortunately only allowed to be appreciated in fits and spurts, making for a frustrating, and somewhat tepid experience.

During these sweltering days of summer, cool off with a movie face off that's too cool for most critics. This week we pit "Good Time" which is directed by Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie, versus anime classic "Ninja Scroll" directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Along the way we get sidelined with an imaginary cameo by Chris Hansen of "To Catch a Predator" fame...and it fits PERFECTLY! Come along and discover that these two films actually have far more in common than you may realize. All this, plus our Song of the Week: "There's Only Me" by Rob Dougan

We never thought that we'd be discussing an anime version of Highlander when this all started, but here we are!! It's time for your hosts Justin, Eliz, and Tyler to take one final animated trip into the Highlander series with 2007's Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. Star ratings help us build our audience! Please rate/review/subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen, and share us with your immortal rival!! Email us at sequelrights@gmail.com with feedback or suggestions on future franchises!

In which Alex and Cass discuss The Animatrix, directed by Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Takeshi Koike, and produced by The Wachowskis with Madhouse and Studio 4°C. Next month, we will be discussing Akira, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. Discussed: Cass watched the matrix for the first time ever, Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, is the matrix actually a smart movie or a dumb movie, The Matrix Is Not Actually About What If We All Live In A Computer Simulation, TV and the nuclear being of the same nature, Marshall McLuhan, "Minisode - The Medium is the Message" by Dan Olson, Marshall McLuhan's hot and cold media, Cass trying and failing to summarize Baudrillard, "HyperNormalisation" by Adam Curtis, Cass trying to and more successfully summarizing The Matrix, the red pill, blondes, brunettes, redheads, dying in the matrix, dying in real life, ejecting a flash drive, They Live, Fight Club, a clear indictment of everything that Brad Pitt stands for, American History X, the sad filmography of Jim Uhls, The Three Kinds of 90s, Kevin Smith Big Jorts, "Do You Want to Believe?" by PBS Idea Channel, the reason why you're miserable, "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher, Cass Completely Loses Their Train of Thought, Ben Pack's tweet about The Matrix, Cass completely loses the plot of the podcast and talks about Hypermarket and Hypercommodity for way too long, the Oculus, Hudson Yards, Actually Talking About The Animatrix Fully An Hour And Ten Minutes Into This Podcast, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Code Lyoko, SHOW US MORPHEUS' DICK RIGHT NOW, getting a boner in the construct, Enter The Matrix, The Matrix Online, "Endurance Run: The Matrix Online: Not Like This", canon is an abyss, lore is terrible and must be destroyed, robot israel, The Young Pope, the kessel run, Star Wars prequel defenders, Karl Popper, gross muscles, jumping off the roof to self-actualize, oh lawd he comin, too old for this shit, teaching robots about humanity using Kanye West and Jay-Z's "Watch the Throne", alexa, pull my consciousness into your hardware, going back in time to smash the utah teapot Alex's book recommendation: Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia Butler Cass's book recommendation: Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher Social: Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

WOOHOO!!! Happy New Year folks, we hope you are all safe where ever you are in the world. May the new year bring you lots of joy and laughter. At the start of this episode we wish to celebrate the fact that we have achieved 100 episodes, yay!! Now, first topic of the week is from Professor, and it is looking at the PS5, yes that is right, the PS5. We seriously manage to get our one and only Professor talking about the PS5, and positively too. We discuss changes being made to the controller and what it means for the future and the past. Confused? Well listen in to find out exactly what is happening, the discussion is quite interesting.Next up we have DJ bringing us the year ahead in Anime. We have a list of some things to look forward to and what we hope for. We discuss what is looking interesting and why. DJ tells us his hopes and discusses what he likes on the list, and so does Buck. We also have news about upcoming changes to Evangelion. That’s right grab hold of something and get ready for this as it is awesome. If you want to know what is happening you know what to do.Next up we have Buck and the new Mars Rover set to launch later this year for the latest mission to Mars from NASA. This is looking sweet. Remember we were talking in a previous episode last year about the training of NASA scientists happening in Australia in preparation for the next mission? This is it! Yep, the search for signs of life on Mars is going to the next level with the new Rover. Buck is starting to Geek out about this and will be keeping us updated as news comes to hand. If you want to find out more about what is happening on the newest mission listen in and see where the smiley face is.As normal we have the regular shout outs, remembrances, Birthdays, and special events. We wish to ask that if you are able to donate to help the Rural Fire Services, or any Firefighter battling the fires in Australia please do. We have posted links on our Facebook page to a few and there are many other options, but please help, thank you. Once again we wish everyone a Happy New Year, stay safe, look out for each other and stay hydrated.PS5 Controller patent- https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/1221934/The-PS5-controller-patent-major-PlayStation-4-limitation- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-12-17-sony-launching-dualshock-4-rear-button-add-on- https://pdfaiw.uspto.gov/.aiw?docid=20190366210&PageNum=1&&IDKey=&HomeUrl=/2020 in anime including Evangelion 3.0+1.0- https://www.cbr.com/anime-must-watch-releases-2020/- https://www.inverse.com/article/62024-evangelion-movies-rebuild-3-0-1-0-release-date-2020-trailer-plot-hideaki-annoMars Rover 2020 - https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mars-rover-ancient-life-human.htmlGames currently playingBuck– Raid Shadow Legends - https://raidshadowlegends.com/pc-mac-plarium-play/Rating – 4.5/5Professor– Collection of mana - https://www.nintendo.com.au/catalogue/collection-of-manaRating – 5.0/10DJ– Overstep - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1008580/Overstep/Rating – 4/10Other topics discussedMicrosoft sues Sony- https://www.itworld.com/article/2792636/microsoft--sony-sued-over-game-controllers.htmlGoogle Stadia (cloud gaming service operated by Google.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_StadiaOctodad (freeware independent video game developed by a group of students at DePaul University, many of whom would go on to form Young Horses, Inc., the developers of its sequel Octodad: Dadliest Catch.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OctodadSteam Controller (game controller developed by Valve for use with personal computers running Steam on Windows,macOS,Linux,smartphones or SteamOS.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_ControllerDetroit Become Human (2018 adventure game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit:_Become_HumanPS4 Pro- https://www.techradar.com/au/reviews/ps4-proPrice for a PS4 Pro- https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/ps4-playstation-4-1tb-pro-console-glacier-white?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgen_x97k5gIVyiMrCh3rrgt_EAYYAiABEgKeKvD_BwENintendo Switch is the bestselling console- https://www.businessinsider.com.au/nintendo-winning-video-games-fastest-selling-console-2019-3?r=US&IR=TOther anime series coming out in 2020- https://animemotivation.com/upcoming-anime-2020/- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_animePlunderer (Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Suu Minazuki.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderer_(manga)Sing "Yesterday" for Me (Japanese manga series by Kei Toume.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_%22Yesterday%22_for_MeA Certain Scientific Railgun (Japanese manga series written by Kazuma Kamachi, the manga is a spin-off of Kamachi's A Certain Magical Index light novel series, taking place before and during the events of that series.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Scientific_RailgunA Certain Magical Index (Japanese light novel series written by Kazuma Kamachi and illustrated by Kiyotaka Haimura, which has been published by ASCII Media Works under their Dengeki Bunkoimprint since April 2004.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Certain_Magical_IndexTear Studio (Japanese animation studio founded on March 15, 2013. The studio filed for bankruptcy in December 2019 with about 43 million yen in debt, including about 8 million yen to around 50 animators.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_Studio- https://variety.com/2019/biz/asia/tear-studio-japan-anime-firm-bankruptcy-1203444697/Kyoto animation studio fire- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49027178Digimon Adventure: Last Adventure Kizuna (upcoming Japanese animated adventure film produced by Toei Animation and animated by Yumeta Company.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon_Adventure:_Last_Evolution_KizunaSorcerous Stabber Orphen (series of Japanese fantasy action adventure light novels,manga, three anime television series (Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen 2: Revenge, and Sorcerous Stabber Orphen (2020), and a video game.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerous_Stabber_OrphenNinja Scroll (1993 Japanese animated jidaigeki-chanbara film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, starring the voices of Kōichi Yamadera, Emi Shinohara,Takeshi Aono,Daisuke Gōri,Toshihiko Seki and Shūichirō Moriyama.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninja_ScrollSamurai Pizza Cats (American animated television adaptation of the anime series Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee), produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Pizza_CatsPlunderer (Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Suu Minazuki.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunderer_(manga)Sing "Yesterday" for Me (Japanese manga series by Kei Toume.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_%22Yesterday%22_for_MeMars 2020 Rover nuclear battery- https://www.space.com/mars-2020-rover-nuclear-battery-fueled-up.htmlRadioisotope thermoelectric generator ((RTG, RITEG) is an electrical generator that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity by the Seebeck effect.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generatorChina launches their rocket- https://www.space.com/china-long-march-5-rocket-2019-launch-success.htmlIndia’s second lunar mission- https://www.businessinsider.in/science/space/news/chandrayaan-3-and-gaganyaan-top-priorities-for-isro-in-2020/articleshow/73063629.cmsRFC 791 (Internet protocol)- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791RFC 793 (Internet protocol)- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc793My Favourite Martian (1999 American science-fiction comedy film starring Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels,Daryl Hannah,Elizabeth Hurley, Wallace Shawn and Ray Walston, based on the 1960s television series of the same name in which Walston starred.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Favorite_Martian_(film)Christopher Lloyd (American actor famous for roles as Emmett "Doc" Brown, Uncle Fester & Uncle Martin)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_LloydTerence Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) (English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_DicksThe Catcher in the Rye (story by J. D. Salinger, partially published in serial form in 1945–1946 and as a novel in 1951.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_RyeRobot & Frank (2012 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Jake Schreier and written by Christopher Ford.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_FrankShoutouts30 Dec 2019 – Syd Mead passed away, he was an American industrial designer and neo futuristic concept artist, widely known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner,Alien and Tron. Mead has been described as "the artist who illustrates the future" and "one of the most influential concept artists and industrial designers of our time." He died from lymphoma at the age of 86 in Pasadena California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Mead31 Dec 2019 - Shoutout to the people of Mallacoota, Victoria and other towns affected by the bushfires - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-509522531 Jan 1983 – The official birthday of the Internet. ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard which was a new communications protocol called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). - https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtmlRemembrances1 Jan 1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician, musician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. He died at the age of 34 in Paris - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre-Th%C3%A9ophile_Vandermonde1 Jan 1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism. The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named the "Hertz" in his honor. He was also famous for other works in areas such as meteorology, cathode rays, photoelectric effect and most famously contact mechanics. He died from granulomatosis with polyangiitis at the age of 36 in Bonn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz1 Jan 2001 - Herman Raymond Walston, American actor and comedian, well known as the title character on My Favorite Martian. His major film, television, and stage roles included Luther Billis from South Pacific, Mr. Applegate from Damn Yankees, J. J. Singleton from The Sting, Candy from Of Mice and Men) and Judge Henry Bone from Picket Fences. He died from lupus at the age of 86 in Beverly Hills, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Walston1 Jan 2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer and author. She co-produced with her husband, Michael (and others), three prominent films of the 1970s — The Sting, Taxi Driver, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind — and was the first female producer to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, for The Sting. She died from cancer at the age of 57 in West Hollywood, California - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_PhillipsFamous Birthdays1 Jan 1852 - Eugène-Anatole Demarçay, Frenchchemist who designed highly specialized apparatus for use in his research. A specialist in the emerging field of spectroscopy, he detected the presence of the rare earth element europium in 1896, and isolated it as the oxide europia in 1901. He helped Marie Curie to confirm the existence of another new element, radium, in 1898. He developed an instrument for obtaining spectra, using an induction coil with pure platinum electrodes to produce a high spark temperature that eliminated impurities that could cause foreign spectral lines. By eliminating sources of error, he made it possible to separate out purer samples of various rare earths than had previously been available. He was born in Paris - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne-Anatole_Demar%C3%A7ay1 Jan 1879 - Edward Morgan Forster also known as E. M. Forster, English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist. Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy, including A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India. The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work, which often depicts the pursuit of personal connections in spite of the restrictions of contemporary society. He was born in Marylebone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster1 Jan 1919 - Jerome David Salinger also known as J.D Salinger, American writer known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951 and became an immediate popular success. Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel was widely read and controversial. The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny. Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work less frequently. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories; a volume containing a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey; and a volume containing two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924", appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965. He was born in Manhattan, New York - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Salinger1 Jan 1938 - Frank A. Langella Jr. also known as Frank Langella, American stage and film actor. He has won four Tony Awards, two for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performances as Richard Nixon in the play Frost/Nixon and as André in The Father and two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances in Edward Albee's Seascape and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool. His notable film roles include George Prager in Diary of a Mad Housewife, Count Dracula in Dracula, Skeletor in Masters of the Universe, Bob Alexander in Dave, William S. Paley in Good Night, and Good Luck and Richard Nixon in the film production of Frost/Nixon, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_LangellaEvents of Interest1 Jan 1818 - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is published anonymously by the small London publishing house of Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones. It was issued anonymously, with a preface written for Mary by Percy Bysshe Shelley and with a dedication to philosopher William Godwin, her father. It was published in an edition of just 500 copies in three volumes, the standard "triple-decker" format for 19th-century first editions. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Publication1 Jan 1896 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays. This achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. - https://www.onthisday.com/date/1896/january/11 Jan 1901 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; the states kept the systems of government (and the bicameral legislatures) that they had developed as separate colonies, but they also agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, Edmund Barton was appointed the first Prime Minister. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Australia1 Jan 1917 - T. E. Lawrence joins the forces of the Arabian sheik Feisal al Husayn, beginning his adventures that will lead him to Damascus by October, 1918 - https://www.onthisday.com/date/1917/january/1IntroArtist – Goblins from MarsSong Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJFollow us onFacebook- Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/- Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamatedSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrSiTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General EnquiriesEmail - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.com

In which Cass and Alex discuss The Tatami Galaxy, directed by Masaaki Yuasa and produced by Madhouse. Next month, we will be discussing The Animatrix, directed by Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe, Mahiro Maeda, Peter Chung, Andy JOnes, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Takeshi Koike, and produced by The Wachowskis with Madhouse and Studio 4°C. Discussed: how many tatami our rooms are, manic pixie dream girls, yōkai, aka manto, kuchisake-onna, betobeto-san, the black thread of fate, birdman, the art of lewd jokes and avoiding the library police, proxy-proxy-proxy-proxy-proxy war, a cube of cockroaches, kuudere, a mystical cleaning weapon created from the fibers of a palm that grows in taiwan, purging all of your thetans by eating honey, baseball, bee missionary, the time of judgment is coming: 2012, anime characters speaking english, twenty-thousand leagues under the sea, "like this", reverse sapiosexual, raven-haired madens, a silly little young adult novel, castella, an insane callback, live-action spam, buddhism follow-up, Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" Cass's book recommendation: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Alex's book recommendation: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris Social: Show Twitter: @animeisforjerks Show Mastodon: @animeisforjerks@skeleton.cool Show Email: animeisforjerks@gmail.com Cass's Twitter: @prophet_goddess Cass's Mastodon: @prophet_goddess@skeleton.cool Alex's Twitter: @dunndunndunn Alex's Mastodon: @catalina@selfy.army

Episode 222: Spooky season is upon us and what better way to celebrate then with two, count 'em, TWO Monster movies from the 80s! ANIME Monster movies! We dive into the works of Yoshiaki Kawajiri and take a look at two of his directorial works: Demon City Shinjuku and Wicked City. What lies beyond the border of Shinjuku and Tokyo in the DEMON CITY?!? What happens after the Treaty of the Human World and Black World expires in the WICKED CITY?!? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anime-summit/message

Who knew that when we surveyed our fans they would be so passionate about anime? We had no idea we would ever do an anime movie review and yet, in this episode we review two! The films are Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. The films are based on a lonstanding series of Japanese novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi and illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano. The first film was released in 1985 and directed by Toyoo Ashida. The second film, released in 2000, was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. The English dub on the films features some renowned voice actor, including most notably, John DiMaggio (Chowder, Futurama, Adventure Time).  Both films center around a half-vampire, half-human hybrid, known only as D. This cloaked stranger has an odd, wisecracking face in his palm, which has all sorts of unexplained powers and is referred to either as a parasite or a symbiote. In the 1985 feature, he is avenging a young woman who was bitten by a powerful vampire noble. In the 2000 feature, our hero is tracking a vampire who has seemingly kidnapped a beautiful woman, only to find that blah blah something about love.  This week's "Hidden Track" is by GORE. Their song Ashtray / Libido can be found here: https://borehardcore.bandcamp.com/album/bore. The band has a thriving instagram and facebook account, which you should probably like.  If you ever have feedback or recommendations on future episodes, please let us know at slasherspod@gmail.com. You can always find us on our social media: Instagram, Twitter, Slasher App: @slasherspod Facebook: /slasherspod Reddit: u/slasherspod https://www.youtube.com/c/slasherspodcast vampire, anime, manga, audiobook, novel, cartoon, animation, comicbook, western, cowboy, paranormal, horror, bounty hunters --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/slasherspod/support

This week on the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast I'm continuing my month of AniMayTion with a Yoshiaki Kawajiri double-feature of Hideyuki Kikuchi adaptations: 1987's Wicked City and 1988's Demon City Shinjuku. [00:00] INTRO [02:20] Cult of Muscle Promo  [03:33] RANDOM CONVERSATION [14:00] Wicked City (1987) [36:45] Demon City Shinjuku (1988) [53:49] FEEDBACK [57:35] ENDING MUSIC: Satanic Rites by Perturbator Buy Wicked City (1987) [YouTube] Buy Demon City Shinjuku (1988) [YouTube]   Support TWoRP Contact Us talkwithoutrhythm@gmail.com  

This week Ben the Beardo and Dick Fetti discuss spooky, cursed places. The Beardo takes the lead with the haunted history of Palazzo Dario in Venice, Italy. Everyone who lived there has eventually died !!! Then Dick the Fetti takes a trip to Mexico to discuss Isla de las Muñecas, Island of the Dolls; its haunted attendant, and the lack of Star Wars dolls. And then the boys return home to talk about the Blue Hole aka the Devil’s Puddle, in the Pine Barrens. To kick things off the boys spend 10 minutes gooshing about classic 1993 anime film “Ninja Scroll” [獣兵衛忍風帖], directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

n the first exciting installment of the dystopian anime, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance, Colin MacLeod (allegedly of the clan MacLeod) crashes a BBQ hosted by a gang of demon mutants camped out in the ruins of New Jersey and then aces an immortal monster man that rides around on a six-foot chainsaw. Oh, he is also heckled by a ghost/rat/possessed baseball scoreboard that sounds like Wolverine. Yup- you read all that right! The Rewatchers take deep dive on anime legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri, unpack the initial differences between the American release versus the director's cut, and bid a fond farewell to the unholy mutants of New Jersey- we hardly knew ye.

Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 1987 anime classic leads us to a larger discussion on the role of sexual violence in media (WARNING: gratuitous sexual violence, if you have not seen), as well as the hallmarks of the Body Horror genre. Why are people so obsessed with violence? How was the violence of the 1980's characterized, and how has it changed? Let's discuss.

WEEK IN GEEK: Both Andrew and D. went to see new movies over the last few weeks, so they can enter the incredibly potent world of hot takes as Andrew discusses how The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part delivers on the promise of the first one and D. tries to figure out what he thinks of Alita: Battle Angel and if he can separate nostalgia and snobbery from cinematic compromise. RELEVANT LINKS: Bethel, D. "News Blast: Alita - Battle Angel." A Website [ , ] For All Intents and Purposes. 8 Dec. 2019. Where D. Bethel discusses reaction to the trailer. Bethel, D. "The Year -- 2018: Comics." Long John. 28 Dec. 2018. D. Bethel summarizes his experiences reading through the entirety of the original Battle Angel manga by Yukito Kishiro (and published by Kodansha Comics). Highlander: The Search for Vengeance (dir. Yoshiaki Kawajiri, animated by Madhouse Entertainment) features Colin Macleod as the main character. INFO: Visit our website at forallintents.net and leave your thoughts as comments on the page for this episode. Join our Facebook page E-mail: Andrew - andrew@forallintents.net, D. Bethel - dbethel@forallintents.net Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Subscribe to and review the show on the iTunes store. For all intents and purposes, that was an episode recap. FEATURED MUSIC: -"Disco Medusae" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)* -"District Four" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com)* *Tracks are licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Motel Hell is back after a holiday hiatus with the latest and greatest weird news! This week’s format is a little different as Ben the Beardo and Dick Fetti take turns delivering the weirdest and dumbest news stories they could find from the past 3 months. The boys cover the upcoming war with robots, blood sculptures, Sacha Baron Cohen’s hard-hitting investigative journalism and collecting debts from pre-teens. But first the boys review Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s 1988 OVA adaptation of “Demon City Shinjuku”, originally written by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

As promised and only slightly delayed, The Casual Anime Podcast discuss director Yoshiaki Kawajiri's 2001 adaptation of Vampire hunter D. A hunt to catch a "Nobel" before he can turn the girl he has kidnapped quickly devolves into a Shakespearean tale of forbidden love and unlikely alliances.

Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! This month's episode is another ReView! What is a “ReView” episode, you might ask? Well, it's my highly-clever (ok not really) title for episodes where I go back and watch an older title I haven't seen in a long time, and see if what I remember (and what my opinions on it) are still the same now that some time's gone by. It's October, but what if you're not a fan of horror and still want to get into the Halloween spirit? Let's see if this month's ReView can help you out, as I revisit the 1994 Pioneer release Phantom Quest Corp! Stream the episode above or [Direct Download] Subscribe on itunes | Stitcher | Google Play Relevant Links: Buy Phantom Quest Corp on DVD Phantom Quest Corp English Trailer Phantom Quest Corp opening animated by Yoshiaki Kawajiri 2001 interview with director Morio Asaka mentioned in this ep Other anime mentioned in this ep: Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Blue Seed, and Yu Yu Hakusho Support the work I do on this podcast by leaving me a tip on Ko-fi! Want to have your name read in the special thanks segment on the next episode? All you need to do is leave me 2 or more “coffees” on my Ko-fi! Come see me at Con-jikan! November 17 &18, 2018! As always, feel free to leave me your thoughts on this episode or ideas for future episodes here—or email me directly at AnimeNostalgiaPodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

Brent reviews the film _Neo Tokyo_ (also known as _Manie-Manie_), which contains short films by Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Katsuhiro Otomo.

A review of Yoshiaki Kawajiri's polarizing 1987 film _Wicked City_.

After several tragedy driven episodes, Motel Hell is back with an episode of life-affirming stories which represent the human will to survive, despite how misguided that might be. Resident American Gladiator and all-around strongwoman Flex Lexa hosts this one and while things get graphic, there’s a happy ending! So join Motel Hell for another episode of questionable humor, dark personal stories and a surprising amount of political commentary. This week Ben the Beardo and Dick Fetti gush over the beloved “Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust” by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Dick Fetti recommends some actual disco in his Disco Box this week and the Beardo continues his worship of comic books. Disco Box recommendations: The S.O.S. Band – On The Rise – Tabu Records 1983 The S.O.S. Band – Just The Way You Like It – Tabu Records 1984 Pris – This Heavy Heart – Avian 2016 Pris – Love, Labour, Loss – Avian 2016

Tom and I look back at American anime fandom in the Nineties with an extended discussion of Ninja Scroll, a 1993 anime film with direction by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and animation by Madhouse.

One this episode, we've got just about everyone on the show. Dennis, Diana, Ed, Eve, Kate, & after a long hiatus, Sam! We're joined by Mike for the first time to talk about one of his and Diana's favorites, the 1993 film Ninja Scroll. After watching Wicked City for our first episode, we can make a better comparison due to the fact that both movies have the same creative mind behind both productions in Yoshiaki Kawajiri. We unfortunately also have to talk about the way the heroine is treated in the film, because it's a big plot point. We also go over Diana's anime skit homage to this movie, movie universe rules, no relation to Ninja Resurrection, and ninja magic. Don't forget to enter our contest to win a Japanese copy of the Escaflowne OST 1 plus an Escaflowne movie program guide from Anime Expo 2000. Just review the podcast, and send proof to us to social media or our email. Good luck! Deadline is June 30, 2017. Thanks to special guest Mike of Bejitaballz Cosplay. Go like his and Diana's cosplay page on Facebook. Dennis: @ichnob | Diana: @binkxy | Ed: @ippennokuinashi | Eve: @eve_il | Kate: @TaikoChan | Sam: @EssFive Website | Email | Facebook | Twitter | iTunes | Stitcher | Google Play Music | Blubrry | RSS Support the show by purchasing Ninja Scroll on Amazon! Blu-Ray: http://amzn.to/2scoPvT || Tenth Anniversary DVD: http://amzn.to/2qxWhQt

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts Yume Ninja and Max Song review Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust! Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a 2000 anime film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. The film is based on the third novel of Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D series, Demon Deathchase. The film began production in 1997 and was completed with the intention of being shown in American theaters. It was shown in twelve theaters across the United States and received generally positive reception from American critics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 17!  In this episode the twins discuss 80s Anime classics WICKED CITY(1987) and DEMON CITY SHINJUKU( 1988). 0:00- 20:00 - The Twins open by discussing their shared anime crimes growing up. 20:00- 54:00 WICKED CITY(1987) directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and written by Hideyuki Kikuchi.   43:00- 1:20:00 DEMON CITY SHINJUKU( 1988) directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and written by Hideyuki Kikuchi.   Music:Wicked City Soundtrack - “Intro Bar”Billy Idol - “Eyes without a Face”   Next Episode: TAKASHI MIIKE (GOZU, ICHI THE KILLER, DEAD OR ALIVE) Email us at: talktrashtwins@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @trashtwins Tumblr: http://trashtwinspodcast.tumblr.com/

This week we're joined by Dynamo Marz of Trick or Treat Radio and The Elm St. Kid's Movie Club podcasts to drive a techno-stake right into the candy colored brain of David Ayer's recently released Suicide Squad and try not to short out the entirety of Neo Tokyo's computer systems with our tidal wave of drool for Yoshiaki Kawajiri's profanity laden Cyber City Oedo. So strap in, put on your hottest pair of hot pants and hike up them fishnets because it's time to RAWK!!!! E-mail your feedback to: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Check us out on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Hit up our tumblr: http://cultofmuscle.tumblr.com/ Snatch dat merch: http://www.redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/   Watcha Been Liftin': 0:00:00 - 1: 22:30 Cyber City Oedo: 1:24:00 - 2:23:00 Suicide Squad: 2:23:00 - 3:35:00 Feeback: 3:35:00 - END

Otaku Movie Anatomy hosts review Ninja Scroll! Ninja Scroll (獣兵衛忍風帖 Jūbē Ninpūchō) is a 1993 Japanese animated action thriller film written and directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. The critically acclaimed film was theatrically released on June 5, 1993, and received a Western release in 1995. Ninja Scroll has its roots based in the story of Makai Tensho, by Futaro Yamada. Ninja Scroll is set in feudal Japan. Five years before the start of the film, the Yamashiro clan's chief retainers (vassal lords) dig gold out of a secret mine behind their lord's back. The lord of the Yamashiro clan wants to have the gold for himself, but his forces are not strong enough, so he cannot act alone. He also cannot go to the government first, because they would take the gold if they knew about the mine. He orders his ninja team, led by Genma Himuro, to kill the chief retainers, claiming he would then report the mine to the government. Jubei Kibagami and Shinkuro are members of this ninja team. After the chief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fulkultur biter tag i det gigantiska området anime - japansk tecknad film. Med tre experter och en informationstörstande nybörjare i studion blir gott om tips för både veteraner och nyfikna. Mycket nöje! Länklista - NybörjartipsAkira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625 Ninja Scroll (film, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 1993)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107692 Cowboy Bebop (tv-serie, Hajime Yatate, 1998)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213338 Steamboy (Katsuhiro Ohtomo, 2004)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348121 Attack on Titan (Tetsurō Araki, 2013)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140   - Ghost in the ShellGhost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568 Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Mamoru Oshii, 2004)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347246 Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (Mamoru Oshii, 2008, omgjord version av första filmen)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1260502 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Kenji Kamiyama, 2002 - 2005, tv-serie)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346314 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society (Kenji Kamiyama, 2006)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856797 Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 1 - Ghost Pain (Kazuchika Kise, 2013)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2636124 Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 2 - Ghost Whisper (Kazuchika Kise, 2013)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3017864 Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 3 - Ghost Tears (Kazuchika Kise, 2014)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3579524 Ghost in the Shell Arise: Border 4 - Ghost Stands Alone (Kazuchika Kise, 2014)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4016942 Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (Kazuchika Kise, 2015)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4337072 Ghost in the Shell Realize-projectwww.realize-project.jp   - Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki)Nasuicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087544 Castle in the Sky (1986)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092067 Min granne Totoro (1988)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096283 Kikis Delivery Service (1989)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097814 Porco Rosso (1992)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104652 Princess Mononoke (1997)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698 Spirited Away (2001)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429 Howl´s Moving Castle (2004)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347149 Ponyo på klippan vid havet (2008)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563 The Wind Rises (2013)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2013293   Övriga tipsAstroboy (Tetsuwan Atomu) (Osamu Tezuka, 1963, tv-serie)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056739 Starzinger (Yugo Serikawa, 1978 - 1979)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185655 Robotech (tv-serie, Robert V. Barron, 1985)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088595 I Mumindalen (Tanoshî Mûmin Ikka) (Hiroshi Saitô, Masayuki Kojima, 1990)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247117 Sailor Moon (1995)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114327 Gundam Wing (TV-serie, Takamatsu Shinji, Ikea Masashi, 1995)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159193/ Neon Genesis Evangelion (tv-serie, Hideaki Anno, 1995)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112159 Rurouni Kenshin (TV-serie, Furuhashi Kazuhiro, 1996)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182629/ Pokémon (tv-serie, Kunihiko Yuyama, 1997)http://www.netflix.com/title/80088367 Serial Experiments Lain (1998)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0500092/ Digimon (1999)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211145 Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Film, Okiura Hiroyuki, 2000)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193253/ Hellsing (tv-serie, Taliesin Jaffe, 2001http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325547 Gundam Seed (TV-serie, Fukuda Mitsuo, 2002)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374407/ Fullmetal Alchemist (tv-serie, Seiji Mizushima mfl, 2003)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421357 Elfen Lied (TV-serie, Kanbe Mamoru, 2004)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480489/ Trinity Blood (TV-serie, Hirata Tomohiro, 2005)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0791163/ Death Note (tv-serie, Tetsuro Araki, 2006)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877057 Claymore (TV-serie, Tanaka Hiroyuki, 2007)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985344/ Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (TV-serie, Irie Yasuhiro, 2009)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355642/ Hunter x Hunter (tv-serie, Hiroshi Kôjina, 2011)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2098220 Steins;Gate (tv-serie, Kazuhiro Ozawa mfl, 2011)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1910272 Harlock: Space Pirate (tv-serie, Shinji Aramaki, 2013)http://www.netflix.com/title/80000768 Little Witch Academia (film, Yoh Yoshinari, 2013)http://www.netflix.com/title/80079082 Attack on Titan / Shingeki No Kyojin (TV-serie, Araki Tetsurou, 2013)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/ Knights of Sidonia (tv-serie, Tsutomu Nihei, 2014)http://www.netflix.com/title/70301578 No Game No Life (tv-serie, Atsuko Ishizuka, 2014)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3431758 The Seven Deadly Sins (tv-serie, Tensai Okamura, 2015)http://www.netflix.com/title/80050063 Is it wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (tv-serie, Yoshiki Yamakawa, 2015)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4728568

En esta entrega de En Descarga Radiónica, Iván Samudio nos cuenta la importancia de Yoshiaki Kawajiri como director en el cine animado en Japón, gracias a un clásico de los años 90 llamado* Ninja Scroll*. Una cinta donde se nos cuentan las hazañas del ronin Jubei Yagyu, por detener al Shogún de las Tinieblasen su cruzada por derrocar al Shogunato de Tokugawa durante el Japón Feudal.

En esta entrega de En Descarga Radiónica, Iván Samudio nos cuenta la importancia de *Yoshiaki Kawajiri* como director en el cine animado en Japón, gracias a un clásico reciente del siglo XXI llamado *Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust*. Una cinta donde se nos cuentan las hazañas de un vampiro dhampir llamado D, quien como un cazador legendario de creaturas sobrenaturales, es contratado para rescatar a la hija de un hacendado que fue raptada por otro vampiro de la nobleza.

This week, for a long and unimportant series of reasons, Mike and Sean take a look at Robert Flaherty's 1934 film Man of Aran and the 1987 anime anthology Neo Tokyo, directed by Rintaro, Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Katsuhiro Ōtomo. They also talk about realism in documentaries and danger in children's cartoons, make their picks for Essential Pseudo-Documentary and discuss a Mystery Person of the Week.

DM and Vinnie really have a mostly themeless episodes. We talk about Darkside Blues, Ninja Scroll, and Fatal Fury the Movie.

This is the seventh episode of Dead Cells, a segment for splatterpictures.net. I am covering Wicked City. Wicked City is a 1987 standalone OVA directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri who also brought us Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - two titles that are certainly on the Dead Cells list, alongside Demon City Shinjuku, another one of those that we watched stoned on sugar and Jolt Cola on VHS back in the day. Before I was aware, I was watching his work on Gatachaman, or Battle of the Planets, which it was known in syndication. I urge you to perv his extensive credits online with no doubt you have watched something he’s had a hand in. Hear more at http://splatterpictures.net or see more at http://typicallydia.com

Tom and I are back, and this time we're talking about vampires, dhampyrs, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

Un programa más de noticias variadas videojueguiles, bocachancladas y verguenzas varias. En Anime Viejuno hoy repasamos Ninja Scroll & la carrera de Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

Xavier et Basile critiquent et analysent les deux films suivant :Venus wars réalisé par Yoshikazu Yasuhiko en 1989et Ninja Scroll réalisé par Yoshiaki Kawajiri en 1993.

So in our first personal pick, Vinnie went with 1987's Wicked City.Also Vinnie will be presenting a bunch in the next few weeks. At CloverCon in Bridgewater (May 19), NJ he will be presenting Must See Anime Openings at 11AM in the Green Room.At Anime Boston (May 24-26), he will be presenting Ponies! at 7PM on Friday, Science in Anime at 8PM on Saturday, and What is Anime? at 1:30 on Sunday.

This time around DM and Vinnie do a supplementary episode to Vinnie's Golden Ani-versary article looking at two of the classic OVAs from that year, Cyber City Oedo 808 and Mad Bull 34.

Science fiction films written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. They depict a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world." Stream The Matrix online: https://amzn.to/2URi6b0 Stream The Matrix Reloaded online: https://amzn.to/2V9w4nP Stream The Matrix Revolutions online: https://amzn.to/2RldBmV Stream The Animatrix online: https://amzn.to/2x1xSqZ Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/mfrbooksandfilm?fan_landing=true

Science fiction films written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. They depict a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world." Stream The Matrix online: https://amzn.to/2URi6b0 Stream The Matrix Reloaded online: https://amzn.to/2V9w4nP Stream The Matrix Revolutions online: https://amzn.to/2RldBmV Stream The Animatrix online: https://amzn.to/2x1xSqZ

This week Eeeper reviews, for the retro choice corner, Project A-Ko while Oni reviews Ninja Scroll! Yes I've got a co-host now in the form of Oni. Who is he? Well, you'll just have to listen and find out. He's been waiting to join the show for a while but only recently could he do so. The tone of the show is going downhill from here on in. 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.comAlso at GoogleTalk Voicemail @ eeeperschoice- at -gmail.comThe MyChingo flash voicemail box in the sidebarSend me an Odeo in the sidebarSnapvine Voicemail (US)+1-641-985-7800 then press * then 1723766 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 The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya is set for a May release in both standard and vol 1+artbox versions courtesy of Bandai Entertainment. Yes, the hardest working Internet launched anime in history is coming Here's hoping this doesn't turn out to be another Azumanga Daioh...[Link] Also on 25th January just under 1/4 of a million people viewed the special ending of Haruhi from volume 7 of the Japanese DVD when it was posted up on YouTube. A quarter of a million people!?! Have these people no real lives!? Oh, wait. Sorry, wrong person to ask that question... [Link] Mushishi is being courted for a release of it's l;ive action version. God, I must have missed this when it first came out. So, on the podcast no offense was meant to Mushishi fans at all. Betcha one of parties interested in the film was ADV and another was Harmony Gold. I mean without any new licences, they only have Robotech to fall back on for profit. Right? Right!? RIGHT!?! Oh here's that link to Jo Odagiri's ANN page. [Link] Funimation announced they have the rights to Mushishi the anime, Ragnarok The Animation and Suzuka. OK, let's just hope they finally fix their subtitle problems this year....YEAH, RIGHT!!!Christ, I can't escape from Mushishi! And it's been given one of the worst re-titles for this year. BugMaster! (As Weevil Underwood(English Version)): Oh no, you've broken my Great Moth! We hate that voice actors take on Underwood. Also Funimation expand their programming block on their Funimation Channel. Now we can watch more DragonBall then ever before! [Link] Bandai Visual USA have said they will release Gunbuster 2[Link] Manga Entertainment have announced that they will release the Ghost In The Shell:SAC movie Solid State Society in July. Apparently they weren't brave enough to release it on Blu-Ray [Link]I've tried to find the article on Anime News Service about Blu-Ray outselling HD-DVD in Japan but as of the time of my writing this, I've had no luck...Any one who read it can email me the link at the usual address. YouTube and Google reps met with members of the The Japanese Society of Rights of Authors and Composers (JASRAC) and The National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan. With literally hundreds of thousands of copyrighted clips of anime available on YouTube, JASRAC is starting to get nervous. What!?! They're only getting nervous now?!? The GITS DVD we were talking about can be found here but is now out of print. You might be able to find it on Yahoo.co.jp Auctions but it's up to you. And finally, as I promised here is the Wiki Entry on Pentacost Reviews Air Gear Huh? Where's the review? Sorry the section with Oni ran long so it's going to be next week before you can listen to Eeeper review this. Project A-Ko This amazing movie from 1986 remains one of Eeeper's favourite anime of all time and set a benchmark for parodies of anime and manga to come. Captain Harlock, Maison Ikkoku and Fist of the North Star are some of the titles that get poked to death in this treat. Eeeper goes all over the world for sport in this review before actually getting to the PLOT. Try and stay with him on this one, it does pay off. Central Park Media released this movie along with the OVA sequels comprising of the DVD volumes Love and Robots and Uncivil Wars. Oni watched Uncivil Wars but Eeeper didn't so only the first film and part of the OVA's are covered. This film was one of three VHS available to rent from 24-Hour Video in Eeep's hometown (the other two being Giant Robo Part One of the OVA and StreetFighter II: The Animated Movie) so it got serious playtime in the Eeep household. CPM page for Project A-Ko the collected edition Wikipedia page on A-Ko ANN page on A-Ko Ninja Scroll 10th Anniversary Edition Yeah! This kick ass movie from 1993 has it's flaws (no character devolpment for secondary characters for one thing) but it's getting the Manliest award from us. It may be replaced soon ( Mazinger Z and Getter Robo are on order) but for now bask in the glory of it's testosterone! The plot doesn't matter! After all it is a public safety service announcement from Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Oni has never tried to review anything before this so his review should be taken in the spirit in which it was approached. Which is the Spirit Of Vengeance. Go Ghost Rider! Wikipedia page for Ninja Scroll ANN page on Ninja Scroll Competition Time plus other stuffYep, it's our first give away and up for grabs is the first volume plus artbox of Fafner! Yeah I know it's an Evangelion rip-off but it's brainless, entertaining stuff anyway. The competition is open to all regardless of location. Only stipulation is that you must be able to play Region ! DVD's . That's it. To win you'll have to listen in. Open Request to all podcasters! If you have a podcast promo that you think we can play on our show send them in, please! Also speaking of podcasts, we are now on Digg, Technorati, Podcast Pickle and also Podcast Alley. Please add us to them! We need all of your help! Don't make us beg! It'll be embarrassing and sticky.... PromosNinja Consultants Fast Karate For The Gentleman Otaku Generation Anime World Order Next Week: Oni will be reviewing the classic shoujo sci-fi film, They Were Eleven. While Eeeper will tackle another Kawajiri title from 1995, Birdy The Mighty plus the late review of the manga Air Gear by Oh!Great. Just in time for the anime from ADV.

En esta entrega de En Descarga Radiónica, Iván Samudio nos cuenta la importancia de Yoshiaki Kawajiri como director en el cine animado en Japón, gracias a un clásico de los años 90 llamado Ninja Scroll. Una cinta donde se nos cuentan las hazañas del ronin Jubei Yagyu, por detener al Shogún de las Tinieblasen su cruzada por derrocar al Shogunato de Tokugawa durante el Japón Feudal.

En esta entrega de En Descarga Radiónica, Iván Samudio nos cuenta la importancia de Yoshiaki Kawajiri como director en el cine animado en Japón, gracias a un clásico reciente del siglo XXI llamado Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Una cinta donde se nos cuentan las hazañas de un vampiro dhampir llamado D, quien como un cazador legendario de creaturas sobrenaturales, es contratado para rescatar a la hija de un hacendado que fue raptada por otro vampiro de la nobleza.