Just letting everyone know that the episode 109 will be streamed/recorded a day early this week. So join us on May 4th at 7pm.

Gene and Chris take to the mound in this episode of SHAFT leading off with their recent trip to the book store and certain manga related items that had us at the least interested.

Next up to bat, was an email from over the pond talking about the London MCM Expo.

Batting cleanup is our main topic of what anime fans really want from tangible extras like statues, figures and t-shirts to non-tangible extras like bloopers, dub audition tracks, and japanese interviews.

After our break, we hit the field with release spotlight and recommend some great titles this week. Though we get beaned with a ball and make some bad other country jokes… about baseball… and stuff.

And our baseball references really take a seventh inning stretch as we review the sports anime, Big Windup. Enjoyable subject matter and character design including a great dub give you a great hit, but poor character advancement and a lacking soundtrack makes this only a ground rule double instead of a full on homerun. But it fills the void of sports anime we’re not seeing.

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What won’t they attach the Pokemon name to?

This week Gene and Chris are back again and talk some overrated anime and FMA vs. FMA Brotherhood.

After, we talk trailers. What they do right, what they do wrong and what we like about them. Are they just opening and ending previews, jacked up AMVs or something more.

After, we hit release spotlight up for our picks of the week, some weird Pokemon and Hello Kitty products and end with a cheesy review of the live action Kekko Kamen.

Plus more then you could possibly imagine for SHAFT!

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Probably one of the longest commercials you’ll ever seen, but most defiantly fun to watch.

This week Gene and Chris fly duo into the void that is SHAFT!

We talked a little bit about the upcoming SHAFT meetup, answered an email about someones first con experience and listened to Chris tell a story.

From there we reviewed seven anime series which have premiered this spring in Japan, while there are some familiar titles which are getting a free ride, there are some really great new titles as well. Listen to what we thought about the upcoming spring line up.

From there we reviewed the infamous Dragonball: Evolution. Did this movie evolve into a winner… who are we kidding… we’re gonna tell you how horrible it was and talk about what Hollywood needs to do if they want to make anime a viable part of their industry.

Plus more random antics! Join us!

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