Got a bit of an essay thing going today so bear with me. I honestly wanted to cover this ON the show but we ran low on time with our latest episode. Show notes will be up later today.

Over on ANN, one of their articles caught my eye, this weeks edition of Hey Answerman! Mainly because of the amount of questions regarding podcasting there are this week.

First of the questions regards the legitimacy of podcasts and fan made blogs versus larger anime news sites such as Anime News Network, Anime on DVD or AnimeNation. Answerman goes on to answer in short

I’m not sure what you were expecting me to say, but yes, of course you’re wrong.

Nice. Of course its the short of the answer. He goes on to talk about there being no accountability if a blog or fan made content is wrong or not whereas the larger sites have such accountability. He also goes on to talk about how the larger sites aren’t ‘on the take’ meaning that their sponsors have no real control or sway in how things are done over there.

Here is the short of my response. People should not be reading or listening to fan based content for actual news, they should be reading or listening to fan based content for insightful looks into already established facts or news that have been posted.

The article also has a question about podcasters getting free admission to conventions through a press pass. Answerman then answers the question then decides to rant on podcasters a bit and its a tad well deserved I guess depending on the various quirks.

While it boils me that people create a crappy anime podcast that has like 3 episodes and 2 listeners to get into a con for free, there is a lot of nice and awesome podcasting content out there, be it about anime or otherwise and it makes me proud to help produce said content.

Its also rather sad that there is a certain elitist attitude toward the fan based anime community who freely(I should say costly) gives content be it through blogs, community interaction on forums or to companies surveys or through podcasting. Of course this is one columnist who takes pride in his work and that is commendable.

Check it out, pretty interesting.

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(Gene’s Reply; ANN forums)

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Saw this on Digg, thought it was pretty cool.

It may seem like an unlikely source of inspiration for a new computer memory technology, but “Detective Conan” (otherwise known as “Case Closed”) – a popular anime and manga series about a young detective who uses high-tech gadgets to help him solve cases – could have provided the creative spark that led to the development of a protein-based ultrathin memory.

Full Article.

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Almost forgot. Anime Boston 2008 site is now live.

Check it out.

Anime Boston 2008

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Gonzo has announced the creation of a theatrical film version of the five-part Afro Samurai anime series that will include new footage created especially for the feature version. The Afro Samurai anime series, which featured the vocal talents of Samuel L. Jackson, Ron Perlman, and Kelly Hu along with a hip hop score by RZA, debuted on the Spike TV network in January and was shown in Japan on WOWWOW in May.

Be afraid… (Full Article on ICv2)

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The cast of Megaman 5 and 6 perform the intro to Lucky Star. With the whole original sprites and everything. Totally fun.

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Yep, thats the cast to the first four Megaman games doing Hare Hare Yuaki(The Haruhi Dance). The of course uber cool thing about this is the fact its done using the sound engine for the original Mega Man games and the original character sprites.

NOTE: Episode 32 of SHAFT will be up tomorrow.

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