The View from the AT Field 05 - My thoughts on the Akiba Massacre
Posted by rayyhum777 on 05 Jul 2008 at 11:02 pm | Tagged as: Audio Columns, Podcasts, View from the AT Field
I know I’m rather late in saying what I’m saying now, but I feel I have to say it. I If you don’t enjoy it, please stay tuned for our AX coverage.
The Excerpt is below:
Art and Soul 5–”I Will Never Forgive You!”
Posted by Mike on 06 Jun 2008 at 7:07 pm | Tagged as: Art and Soul, Audio Columns, Podcasts
Art and Soul 5 (AAC) [9:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (187)
Art and Soul 5 (MP3) [9:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (64)Here’s the fifth episode of Art and Soul, my anime and religion/ethics audio column! This one covers a phenomenon that I’ve seen in so many anime–the phrase “I will never forgive you!” How does that square with Christian ethics, which demands forgiveness even when it’s very hard, even of enemies? Is that really an evil phrase? Tune in to find out. (A transcript follows after the cutaway.)
Show Notes
- –OP: “Gunbuster Theme” by Kouhei Tanaka
- –ED: “Never” by Seira (OP for Kaiba; I’ve included the whole song because the words are unusually appropriate for this column.)
- –Bible reading from the New International Version.
Art and Soul 4: Anglican Vampires, Oh My!
Posted by Mike on 07 May 2008 at 7:16 pm | Tagged as: Art and Soul, Audio Columns, Podcasts
Art and Soul 4 (AAC) [6:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (227) Art and Soul 4 (MP3) [6:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (92)The anime, religion, and ethics audio column returns after a long hiatus! This time, I’ll be tackling the burning question: why is the Hellsing Organization so insistently Anglican? Does it have anything to do with the real Church of England? Or is it all part of an elaborate Japanese fantasy?
This is not a very serious article. Please don’t put me on a heresy trial!
Full transcript follows after the cutaway.
The View From the AT Field 4–Score One For the Knights of the Order of Otaku!
Posted by rayyhum777 on 15 Feb 2008 at 12:52 am | Tagged as: Audio Columns, View from the AT Field
This is my latest audio column about the exploits of the Knights of the Order of Otaku. This film shows that even nerdy men can have courage and save a beautiful woman. Whether that woman will fall in love with the knight is a completely different story all together. But we do it for the honor of Otaku men and the burning passion within our giant robot souls, right?
Up next, “The View from the AT Field.” Brought to you by the totally honest and truthful folks at: www.believewhatyouhear.org, where everything you hear on the internet is 100% pure, unadulterated, and unedited truth. Let’s keep it real.
This is the video for it. It comes from something that a lot of people probably saw already.
Please enjoy anyway.
The View from the AT Field 03 - animated girls VS real girls
Posted by rayyhum777 on 23 Nov 2007 at 11:00 am | Tagged as: Audio Columns, Podcasts, View from the AT Field
Hi I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving, or if you don’t celebrate it at all, a nice Thursday. Because this one ain’t happy, folks. This is best listened after a full stomach of food, maybe even sweets including a whole chocolate cake. Anyhow, listen to it at your own risk…
Here comes the always grumpy uncle Ray!
See the script here, also below:
Art and Soul 3–The Ethics of STABBITY STABBITY STAB
Posted by Mike on 26 Oct 2007 at 11:38 pm | Tagged as: Art and Soul, Audio Columns
Art and Soul 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (282) Art and Soul 3: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (225)Yes, I know…School Days is long over and we should let Nice Boats be Nice Boats. But I conceived of this column’s content not long after I’d seen the final episode, as an expansion of my original review, and had been patiently waiting my turn to do the audio column about it….and otherwise out of ideas, here it is anyway!
In many ways it’s less a reflection on the show in particular than on the use of emotion in fiction and where (Christian) morality enters into it. Or, to put it another way, I felt both giddy and guilty that I had enjoyed anticipating Makoto being sliced up, and felt horrified when the final moments of the ending happened…so much that I had to reconsider everything I had felt about the show up to that point and what the show was doing. Yes, I know it’s fiction, and not particularly realistic fiction at that. I still thought there was something profoundly unsettling about it though, a feeling worth exploring in more detail before at last laying it to rest.
A transcript of the article follows below the cutaway.
Audio Column - The View from the AT Field 02
Posted by rayyhum777 on 12 Oct 2007 at 2:53 am | Tagged as: Audio Columns, View from the AT Field
In this week’s “View from the AT Field”, I examine the fascination with “moe” using myself as a reference.
I’m actually pressed for time, so sorry if this doesn’t sound as smooth as usual (read: I think this officially sucks). XD
I’ve included the article here - The View 02.
Enjoy!
Anime Diet Audio Column - Anime Souffle Live Volume 1 : Anime and the Mainstream
Posted by Jeremy on 24 Sep 2007 at 11:56 pm | Tagged as: Anime Souffle Live, Audio Columns
Anime Souffle Live Volume 1 : Anime and the Mainstream [3:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (356)This is my first audio column so be gentle. The recent announcement about Death Note’s upcoming premiere on Adult Swim, led me to muse a bit about my struggle (and perhaps the struggle of other otaku) to share their love of anime with Non-Anime Fans. It’s kinda short, but I promise more in the future. Enjoy.
Anime Diet Audio Column - Art and Soul 02: Evangelion and the Gnostic Impulse
Posted by Mike on 31 Aug 2007 at 8:18 pm | Tagged as: Art and Soul, Audio Columns, Podcasts
Art and Soul 02: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (319) Art and Soul 02 [10:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (227)Contains spoilers for Evangelion (what, you haven’t seen it?!) and Serial Experiments Lain.
Well, I suppose my hiatus ends a few hours early today. Here I am. I’m back!
Right now, I’m basically pinch hitting for both Jeremy and Ray, who couldn’t do an audio column today…this is the fastest thing I could concoct in a few hours. It just happens to dovetail nicely with the fanfic I posted today, too! Basically, I talk about the Gnostic desires in Evangelion, and also in Serial Experiments Lain. Seems to fit the fact that the Eva remake movie comes out tomorrow…or actually, it’s already out in Japan time, if I’m not mistaken.
This one is a lot less dire and Bible-heavy compared to my first one, so all of you bracing for a sermon, you can stop hiding in the corner now. :)
Show Notes
- –OP: “Cruel Angel’s Thesis” by Yoko Takahashi (OP to Neon Genesis Evangelion…duh!)
- –ED: “Fly Me to the Moon, 2007 Mix” by Utada Hikaru (ED for the Evangelion Remake)
- –BGM: “Beautiful World,” by Utada Hikaru (theme song for Eva remake)
- –BGM: “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now,” by The Smiths
- –BGM: “The Heady Feeling of Freedom,” by Shiro Sagisu (from Neon Genesis Evangelion ep. 26)
- –Offerings sacrificed at Hideaki Anno shrine: zero.
Transcript below the cutaway.
Anime Diet Audio Column - Art and Soul 1: Bokurano and the Art of Dying Well
Posted by Mike on 17 Aug 2007 at 9:47 pm | Tagged as: Art and Soul, Audio Columns, Podcasts
Enhanced Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (301) Standard Podcast: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (194)Warning: contains major spoilers for Bokurano.
You heard Ray’s column: now it’s my turn! My column is called “Art and Soul,” which will be a biweekly audio column about anime, religion/Christianity, and ethics. It’s an attempt to integrate anime with what I spent the other 75% of my day doing–reading, studying, and praying theology. (I am a seminary student with plans to enter ministry. This particular episode is, in fact, pretty much a mini-sermon; it’s certainly the closest marriage of my love of God and love of anime yet.) It’s also an excuse to indulge in my other love, public-radio style production values. You’ll hear something much more like This American Life than what we normally do in the podcast in this episode.
This episode is about the significance of one’s last moments in Bokurano, and how it relates to how the Man that I follow also died. As such, it contains spoilers for Bokurano up to episode 7, so be warned. It’s much more serious in tone, so if you’re looking for humor, sorry, this is not the episode for it. :) It is also unabashedly, blatantly, in-your-face Christian. For that, I make no apology.
This was a cool experiment, at any rate. See you all next time!
Show Notes
- –OP: “Uninstall,” by Chiaki Ishikawa (OP to Bokurano)
- –ED: “The Heady Feeling of Freedom,” by Shiro Sagisu (from Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- –BG: “Remedium” and “Take a Little Hand,” by Yoko Kanno (from Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society OST)
Read the transcript of this episode after the cutaway, including Scripture references (when I preach, I never say the chapter and verse numbers).
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