Due to studio and technical difficulties, this weeks episode of SHAFT is delayed until the middle of the week. We plan to have another new episode on Sunday March 4th in addition to the episode due for this week.

PANEL: Chris(132 Productions), Matt

Main Topic:

This week we sat and talked about the commercialization of anime and its pluses and minuses. Anime has been a fan driven commodity, and now commercialization beyond the 4Kids style series with Yu-Gi-Oh underwear and Pokemon fruit snacks. We compare two anime podcasts and discuss the various ways anime is commercialized for better or worse. We also apologize for the background noise in our latest podcast, our studio contained an active Nintendo Wii which we could not move.
News:

Azureus, the popular BitTorrent client, has inked a deal with Manga Entertainment to distribute anime through their BitTorrent tracker, Zudeo. (Link) Funimation launches distribution and sale of their anime through their Funimation Channel on iTunes. (Link) The Japanese Goverment is promoting cultural exchange through anime and manga. (Link) Japan opens its first international anime research lab and has some big time names to run it. (Link) Gainax releases Evangelion drinks, “Don’t Drink This” black coffee and “LCL” orange juice. (Link) Evangelion director, Hideaki Anno, announces the first of the new Evangelion movies to be out in September in Japan. Bang Zoom Entertainment produced podcast, AnimeTV premiered the previous week with host Johnny Yong Bosch. (Link) Anime retailer AnimeNation.com also premiered a self-produced podcast through their website. (Link)
Releases:

Anime:

Anime Box:

Manga:

Review:

We finished our review series First Impressions, which reviews an anime series based on its first episode. We finished up with DearS. Gaining a 7 out of 10. Take a listen for our indepth coverage. Nothing like a recent box set, budget series to get you rolling.

Remember, we love emails, message board posts, comments. Send your email to animeshaft@gmail.com. Any email messages(we’ll read ‘em), audio files(we’ll play ‘em) or other questions.

If you’re talking about SHAFT then you can digg it.

Special Thanks to all of our listeners and behind the scenes contributers who make this podcast possible.

Extra special thanks to 132 Productions for hosting this episode of Super Happy Anime Fun Time.

-RSS Feed
-Direct MP3 Download
-iTunes Subscription

PANEL: Chris(132 Productions), Matt

Main Topic: The American Anime Awards selected their finalists and our panel took ‘em in and gave our top picks for this first AAA. Chris and Matt also took a stab at guessing the top ten list for manga and anime over at ICv2.

News: Anime on G4TechTV Canada lives on gaining Tenjho Tenge, Trigun and GunXSword with slots for every day.(Link) Hellsing OVA 3 is delayed until later this year, originally slated for a February release in Japan.(Link) Bandai announces a Cutey Honey live action movie release date and the acquisition of My-Otome and Tide Line Blue. (Link, Link) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles director Kevin Munroe leaked that his team is working on a new CGI version of Gatchaman slated for a 2008 release. (Link) Finally, a trilogy of Kiddy Grade movies is slated for a release in Japan later this year. (Link)

Releases:

Note: Due to the large amount of manga releases in the last two weeks, we’re limiting the listing to anime and anime box sets for this set of show notes.
February 6, 2007

Anime:

Anime Box:

February 13, 2007

Anime:

Anime Box:

Review:

We started part three of a four part series of reviews called First Impressions, which reviews an anime series based on its first episode. We took a look at Solty Rei this week. Gaining a 8.5 out of 10. Take a listen for our indepth coverage of the first episode and at our written post for this week under the show notes.

Extra Drop:

As you may or may not know our panel are avid fans of the World of Warcraft. When we’re not checking out the latest in anime, we’re usually tearing it up in Azeroth and Outland. For the horde! But glancing through YouTube, we found an interesting search when we were checking out cosplay. We found some Leeroy Jenkins cosplay. Complete with name, guild tag and sound bites! Check it out, he even lays down some phat techno beats.

Remember, we love emails, message board posts, comments. Send your email to animeshaft@gmail.com. Any email messages(we’ll read ‘em), audio files(we’ll play ‘em) or other questions.

If you’re talking about SHAFT then you can digg it.

Special Thanks to all of our listeners and behind the scenes contributers who make this podcast possible.

Extra special thanks to 132 Productions for hosting this episode of Super Happy Anime Fun Time.

-RSS Feed
-Direct MP3 Download
-iTunes Subscription

Just to let everyone know that we have changed the recording day from Wednesday to Sunday so that we could get another panelist to join us. So stay tuned as our next podcast will be arriving sometime around the 11th.