Anime Diet Radio Episode 20: 20th Century Fox Spirits

Posted by Mike on 03 May 2008 at 5:26 pm | Categories: Anime Diet Radio, Podcasts

 

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Note: the above does not constitute an endorsement of Kanokon as a good show.

And here we are, at the big 20 for Anime Diet Radio! This episode does have some issues, though. Some of our information has turned out to be wrong about various subjects discussed in here–namely, for instance, that Code Geass is popular (it’s getting terrible ratings) or that no Pizza Hut product placements have appeared in R2 episodes. Not that that matters when we also talk about Kamen no Maid Guy, Soul Eater, Itazura na Kiss, Special A, and The Tower of Druaga. And Gackt’s pet dog. And the exact details of the people who were watching anime in class were flubbed too. It’s still a funny story.

And, of course, we didn’t make it into any finalist rounds for the Anime Blog Awards–we missed the top 5 team blogs by one vote. And apparently our extraordinary measures (listen to find out) on other blogs had no effect. Drat. Must use more efficient means next time!

Please, also, forgive the poor sound quality of my voice, which clips a lot. I did some compression tricks to mitigate it somewhat, but my recording levels were simply too high. I bought a mixer to rectify that problem permanently, as the clip light on my cheapo Audio Buddy simply didn’t tell me when it was clipping, and Audio Hijack Pro’s built in clip meter also doesn’t work.

Show Order

• (00:00–07:02) Introduction/Banter
• (07:03–16:03) News Item 1: Code Geass Ep. 3 Ending Leaked
• (16:04–24:07) News Item 2: Gackt’s Dog gets an anime
• (24:08–36:45) Mailbag
• (35:46–56:13) Roundtable: Kamen no Maid Guy, Itazura na Kiss, Special A, Tower of Druaga, Alison and Lilia, Soul Eater
• (56:14–end) Conclusion

Show Notes

• –OP: “Triangular,” by Maaya Sakamoto (OP to Macross Frontier)
• –ED: “Never,” by Seira (OP to Kaiba)
• –Anime News Network explains (1) what happened to cause the Geass ep. 3 leak. At this time, it also appears that images from Episode 5 (2) have also been leaked! Not that it matters, since it’s already aired in Japan.
• –Gackt’s dog getting an anime is explained at ANN here (3) and if you read Japanese, you can find out more about Ener here (4).
• –The story of watching anime in class is at Furu Anime Panikku (5) and I incorrectly stated that the show that got the guys all excited was Kanokon. It was To Love-ru. Which, in retrospect, may not have made such a difference considering they are both fanservice shows!

Web References for iTunes Users

• (1) http://tinyurl.com/5d5bhd
• (2) http://tinyurl.com/4jmy6s
• (3) http://tinyurl.com/6kc37g
• (4) http://www.h2o-net.co.jp/ener/ener_background.html
• (5) http://tinyurl.com/63zuup

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4 Responses to “Anime Diet Radio Episode 20: 20th Century Fox Spirits”

1. 
   on 03 May 2008 at 5:51 pm  scythe
   
   

   Terrible Code Geass R2 ratings among the general TV mainstream doesn’t negate the fact that the show IS extremely popular online, not just in Western but also Japanese fandom, and that the DVDs for the first season (which also had crap ratings on TV) sold extremely, extremely well. Check out the sales numbers. That should tell you enough.

   Or to put it another way…few of you guys would doubt that Haruhi was/is popular, and that its DVDs also sold extremely well, but its Japanese TV ratings weren’t that good as well.

   The moral of the story?

   TV ratings, which try to measure how popular something is among Japanese viewers as a whole (including those who are merely casual fans), don’t tell even half of the whole story.

   If you’re going to claim that something “isn’t popular” only based on TV ratings…then many other shows you assume to be popular would have be reclassified as well, even if their sales were awesome and their avatars populate message board forums.

2. 
   on 03 May 2008 at 8:09 pm  bunbungirl
   
   

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   If you are interested in Anime, please link to my site.
   My site has information about Japanese culture
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3. 
   on 13 May 2008 at 11:59 am  Chake
   
   

   Hi there,

   I just wanted to thank you guys for your great show and effort.
   You’ve got fans everywhere, even in Germany – where I come from.
   I really enjoy listening to your podcast.

   I appreciate your comments and introductions to all those new shows each season.
   I’ve really enjoyed some off your tipps as for example: “Ghost Hound”.

   I hope that someday “anime” in Germany will be at least as popular as in the US,
   it’s hard to find any Anime on TV beside some rare ones on MTV-Germany (Gantz, Hellsing) and junk and 10time reruns like Dragonball/ Naruto and OnePiece.

   Luckly some MovieTheaters are beging to tune up to new ideas. They are making SpecialShow with some Anime-DVD like Neo Genesis Evangelion or now Elfenlied.

   Well so much from abroad, keep up the superb work.

   Chake

   Oh btw if Mike “Gendou Ikari” runs for World Leadership, he will have some votes from Germany too. I’ll take care of that. >evillaughter<

4. 
   on 25 May 2008 at 2:22 am  Anime Diet » Anime Diet Radio Episode 21: Gettin’ Plastered
   
   

   [...] comment we answered is at this post (3). Chake, we got your comment after we recorded this episode. Thanks, and we will comment on it [...]