The gangs all here this week for what turns out to be the two year anniversary and US Thanksgivings week episode. That means Angelo and Matt are live in the hizzy.

We talk about giving the gift of Evangelion for the holidays, Broccoli Publishing packing it up in the US, Dattebayo halting production of fansubbed Naruto… now that Viz is finally doing it themselves, Gundam 00, Live Action Bubblegum Crisis, the new CG Astro Boy trailer, releases ranging from Darker then Black to Happy Lesson and a review of Naussica!

Join our crazyness won’t you?

Let us know if this more compact show note structure is better or worse. Not sure if people want an almost word for word transcript of the episode or this sort of quickly summed up style.

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This week Thomas joins us for a downright whacky show where we take an email about some titles we missed last week. We also brought up briefly Dragonball and its horrible looking trailers, 4Kids leaving the Fox morning line up, DiCaprio thankfully not acting in Akira or Ninja Scroll, and Gonzo dropping their output from 8 to 4 series.

We also bring up a mini topic about why Ken Akumatsu series can’t seem to make the same spark in anime that they do in manga. We reviewed Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke! And we bash MTV and AX for peeing in the anime pool.

Listen in and get SHAFTed!

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Thanks goes to Ryan (not Kyle :p) for sending us this AMV.

Anime: One Piece
Music: Masterplan - Sail on

This week we are joined by the otaku of the great white north of Canada, Walt! We start off with a little talk about series we’re watching, or in Chris’ case wish he was watching. We took an email about ’supporting anime on TV’… something we’re not too keen on given TV’s treatment of anime as of late.

We then took to a listener suggested topic of series we wish were licensed in the US. We did our best to stick to series that have been past over for license for quite sometime. But we ended up with a list that was some series that were oddly passed over. From He is my Master to Yakitate Japan! we touched on a little of everything.

We quickly and admittedly, poorly, went over the blog post about Akira and the live action script and quickly buzzed over Funimation’s invasion of Hulu(though we kinda touched it in the TV anime email).

After some very nice releases(Black Blood Brothers is our pick of the week… we just didn’t say it out loud). We moved on to our second Miyazaki review in Kiki’s Delivery Service! This ended up more of a round robin of things we enjoyed about the film and how anyone of any age can enjoy this Disney-esque classic.

All that plus, us… acting goofy. So get SHAFTed!

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There are a number of things this movie is working toward to appeal to fans and people who’ve never heard of this alike. However, unlike the reviewer in the article I managed to find regarding the Akira live action script I find many things discouraging. So I’ll make it in easy list form.

Lists in the Break

So um yeah. You stick your finger in the box to interact with a panda on a string…. If you want to learn more about this click here.

We have an empty chair on the SHAFT podcast and we need someone like you to fill if you’re interested read below for what we are looking for.

Requirements:

• Must like anime or know what anime is
• A broadband internet connection
• Skype
• A decent mic
• Be able to be in a quite room while recording
• Be available around 6:45pm to no later than 9pm Eastern on Monday nights

If  you can meet or already meet the requirements of the above and are interested in filling the chair send an mp3 file to animeshaft@gmail.com telling us why you would like to have a seat along with us folks. Keep in mind that this will be a rotating chair so more people have a chance to be on and so that we can have guests on the show from other podcasts or from the anime industry.

So there’s a couple of reasons I went with this. One, this song makes the whole over the top concept of how ‘Kiddy Grade’ sounds as a series… sound worse. Two, its actually a well done and edited AMV. Three, Paul would approve.

Remember to click the original link for the HQ awesome version.

Anime: Kiddy Grade
Song: Everytime We Touch - Cascada

(Original Link)

This week we’re joined by Lucid and Yomi from Anime Roundtable and Review for some old time talk.

Mainly, we talked about all the different things that bothered us in anime. From over exploitation of moe characters right on into why we have a total lack of the wonderful ‘dirty old man’ character stereotype. Plus a few little bits of news regarding xxxHolic(Kiddy Grade made the cut after we recorded), Sgt. Frog and Code Geass R2.

We shot out some releases, though a bit weak there is something that most will enjoy… I think.

We went on to review, as part of our month of Miyazaki reviews, Castle in the Sky. Its a review we can’t even begin to describe!

So jump into SHAFT, but be warned.. its a little random in there.

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