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We covered our own personal passion for anime. Why we enjoy it, why we’re anime fans in the first place and what we look for on the horizon. Chris also jumps into a side rant regarding a certain 2 episode a month podcast and Gene answers an email on why we’re not covering The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya hardly at all.

News:

Sovereign Media, the company behind SciFi Magazine(official magazine of SciFi Network), is releasing a new anime based magazine called OtakuUSA. (Link), Four anime titles hit the Japanese top ten grossing films of 2006. (Link), Appleseed 2 Trailer released to the Appleseed PS2 game (Link, YouTube), Howl’s Moving Castle up against big names for a Nebula award (Link), Geneon delays Hellsing Ultimate until June and cancels a special edition for Paradise Kiss volume 3
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Review:

March starts a new niche review month for us… this month will be all Gundam reviews. Each week in March we will review a different Gundam series. This week Gene took a look at Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory. For its spectacular artwork, gripping story and fairly tolerable characters we gave it a 7 out of 10.

Please don’t send email regarding the ‘Zeon guy’ Gene forgot to name on the show. Its Anavil Gato… he remembered about 5 hours later. ^.^;

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.

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