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Chibi Tokyo goes out to the movies this episode first up was Scott talking about the late and great Isao Takahata World War II movie Grave of the Fireflies. Form what I like to call the least popular member of Studio Ghibil (everyone talks about Hayao Miyazaki)  takes a look at not by the people fighting it but by the people that have to live in the war torn towns. Is this all gum drops and lollipops how fun could war really be well find out what Scott has to say about it.

 It’s no secret that Chibi Tokyo are all big fans of the pimp daddy Satoshi Kon.  So what better way to show our love to big pimpin then is to talk about his 2003 movie Tokyo Godfathers.  Ed took this on a bit different from Kon’s other works as in there are just moments here that make you smile so much. Find out what else Ed thought about it.

 

And last up was Dan talk about Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa which we said in the show in Spanish means the prostitute. Find out just how many girls you can pay for sex in this review. (how can you not listen after that)

Reviews:
Scott Talked about the the manga Pluto. which we found out in this review isn't about a dog more about murdering robots. find out what Scott think about the book.


Ed Talked about the short anime series Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora or looking up at the half moon. now really how many love stories does Ed have to watch this one takes places in a hospital. did Ed like it only one way to find out.


And Dan talked about the Animal Crossing movie. is this movie for everyone or just fans of the game. and you can see how big fans we are of the game......

I know I'm scared too.
and one more thing vote for the mayor.

News:
Trailer of Rebuild of Evangelion


And of course Chibi Macross


and the very next day they use my idea for a chibi Eva more on that next week.

Dan talks about his time at Comic Con the con he got to go to and the rest of us didn't.

Reviews:
Scott lets us know how cool magic girls are (not that we didn't know already with Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Also i would like to point out that in the review Scott says the phase "he hands her his staff which is called the ragging heart" and no one made an immature joke now we know you come to expect a level of crudeness from the show, and we just let that one slide..... Chibi Tokyo is sorry.

Ed talk about the WWII manga Adolf. written by someone who we can also give the Mac Daddy status too Dr.Tezuka. Hey you got history in my fiction, you got fiction in my history. Do these two taste go together find out.

Heres that trailer of Five Killers we talked about in the show.

Reviews:
Scott revised Gunbuster but talking about Diebuster aka Gunbuster 2. does he still feel the same way after last years review of Gunbuster or has things changed listen up to find out.

Ed reviewed the the short manga Short Program. A collection of manga one shots from the mac daddy Mitsuru Adachi. just basically  listen up and hear Ed gush about Mitsuru Adachi.

First half of the show was spent taking about AX Most of the news talked about in this section can be found at ANN. pic below is from the doa beach photo shot which they have every year, its always more fun to taking  pictures  of the people rather then the girls.


Reviews:

Scott talked about Gakuen Alice. One girl trying to keep together all the people shes met. find out if this cutesy anime is up to Scott's refined taste.


Ed talked about the manga Octopus Girl. Octopus Girl takes indecency to a new level find out if the book is for people other then Kazuio Umezu fans.

Reviews:
Ed was up first and he talked about the manga Love Roma. A love story story about a very odd kid. Is the bad art in this book a turn off find out what Ed thought about it.

Dan talked about the GONZO anime Afro Samurai. Did this made for American anime hold up. and really how much of a bad ass is Sam Jackson. We will have answers to a few of these questions in Dan's review.

Reviews:

Scott Talks about the Studio 4°C Princess Arete a very old and non Japanese looking movie Princess Arete is neither both of those with a very unusual art style for an anime movie find out what Scott thinks about the movie.

 

Edgar talked about Hataraki Man, Moyoco Anno bought happy magic girls with Sugar Sugar Rune. Now find out what she thinks about the working world. A true to life anime about

Here are the Pictures from the Fanime Con report. Some Pictures are missing because one of us messed up. That person is very likely to be me, Dan. Sorry. If you would like more information that we may have missed. Feel free to message us about it.


 

As Ed said. Get plenty of rest before a long trip.


 

(1:00)Here's one of the maids, Courtney, who took time off from her busy schedule for a quick interview with us. They were extremely busy too.




...busy.



(25:54) Junky Spot. The Doll company. www.junkyspot.com

 




Many different kinds of dolls. Doll parts.

 

Despite Scott being afraid of these dolls. They do look very detailed.


 

Kinda look like cooler Barbies from this perspective.



(29:39) Okashi Studios. www.OkashiStudios.com
 

A kind-of off center picture of the Okashi Studios booth. Demos, post cards and a bunch of stuff was on display.


 

The Co-founders, Andrew Chew and Colleen Chew.


 

Another angle of the booth, this time showing the anticipated first release from Okashi Studios, Shira Oka: Second Chances.



(37:15) Yaoi Con. www.yaoicon.com

 

Out of 5 shots... this was the best one. That's not saying awhole lot. That booth was plenty busy.



(39:50) All that yaoi talk led to the worst idea in the history of Chibi-Tokyo. The Yaoi Experiment which will remain photo-less.



 

(42:04) Jackie the After-Midnight Moderator and her horror stories.





(44:50) The Anime Bloggers
Waffles:
http://waffles.nagatocity.net
Nigorimasen!:
http://anime.crimplednapkin.net


(1:02:05) The Cosplay-Footware Panelist: Francis Class. www.spansion.com




The Cosplay-Footware Panel which was very informative and in-depth about how exactly to make shoes.



Francis. How did he learn so much about shoes?





Scott: Those are the best electric sacks I've ever seen on a pikachu!

There were more cosplay interviews. But Ed decided to only air this one. Can you guess why?

Chibi Tokyo going to Chibibalize San Jose.... Hear all about it here

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We are back...... show notes later

Howdy, Dan here.

Maybe you're wondering what happened to the latest Chibi-tokyo since it's much (alot) later than our regular posting. Well... here's the skinny.

 Ed's computer died. Well....really, a computer can't die...it was murdered.

Y'see, we HAD an episode recorded and it was on the later stages of editing. Ed turned off his computer and when he turned it back on... something went horribly wrong. His entire HD was wiped clean. Everything, 200 gigs of anime, porn, music, porn, movies, h-games and porn... gone. I blame all his porn (yaoi) H-games. He insists it was a virus that came with some software.

 ...you be the judge.

Anyhow, jokes aside. It really sucks. That episode was a really good one (not to be full of myself, but it was... honest). So I'm here to say that the next episode will be out in a week or two... likely going to be 2. Our schedules between the three of us haven't been convenient. Well. not Scott's. Ed and I have been trying to figure out how to get everything back now....over a game of football~!

My crappy artsy shot of FC Dallas whooping our LA Galaxy 2-0

"alll byyy myyy sellllf"

 

Galaxy finally put one in... too late though. They lost

Ed likes to brag how he can get box seats... but they ARE badass though.

 

And that's it. I can safely say that we got it together and we're gonna work hard and fast to bring back Chibi-tokyo for another *badass* episode. We won't dissapoint.

dm

Reviews:

First up was Ed with one of Akira Toriyama Latest work Sandland. A short story about a post-apocalyptic world with demons walking around. A must for any Toriyama fan but will the rest of you like it?

 

 

Scott Talked about Koigokoro Fantasia. This one shot is about a young girl looking for the Haruka she met when she was younger. Scott really liked the art style find out if he liked the story too.

 

Dan ended this one shot madness with Japan. Art by Kentarou Miura of Berserk and Story by Buronson aka Yoshiyuki Okamura whos credits include a little show called Fist of the North Star….. Also you have to like a guy that name him self after Charles Bronson. Find out what Dan thought of this Collaboration of the gods.

Reviews:

Scott starts things off with talking about Riding Bean. Laid a lot of the ground work for what will soon be the Gunsmith Cats. So find out what he though about it.

Then Dan and Ed talk about the Gunsmith cats for the rest of the show Ed the manga and Dan the 3 episode OAV. Oh yeah what was one thing I forgot to say about the Gunsmith Cats is all the uses of bad ass 80s aviator glasses.

 

Just Ed and Scott for this show and all we did was talk about the shows we want to see this coming winner season although not many good shows are coming out find out which ones were looking forward to watching.

 

Reviews:

Scott talked about Pretty Face a Shone Jump manga being brought here my by Viz. It being a Shone Jump you already kind of know what going to be up with this story. It’s aimed at young teen males. A story about what happen when you lose your face and get of a hot chick find out what Scott thinks about this manga.

Ed keeps up the Digi Charat talk and talks about Winter Garden. So what does happen when Dijiko and Puchiko get old and stop using there eye lasers? Will it be a good story who knows may you should listen to the reiview…

 

Anime you shouldn’t watch:

Now we all know that The Last Unicorn isn’t an anime so really it can’t be under anime you shouldn’t watch but it was animated by a soon to be Studio Ghibli so well….. find out why Dan hates hates hates this so.

This week it was just ramen we spent half hour talking about ramen.

News:

Viz has death note even though that’s pretty important what’s more important is this is going to be the flag ship title for Viz’s online distribution. Also we talked the 3 big trends in of manga in Japan for 2006, and how the Jp is really big on online manga distribution. And lastly we ragged on the American Anime Awards.

 

And for the rest of the show we talked about the 2006 anime year

 

You can email us at chibitokyo@gmail.com

News:

Not really a lot of news this week and when I say this week I mean a few weeks ago cuz it takes me longer to get these episodes out. You can tell there wasn’t a lot of news due to the fact that we reported on the eva stamps. But either way we can now run out to Circle K (in Japan) and pick some Poring buns. If you eat enough you will lv up. And one of my favorite shows of last year will get a second season.

 

Reviews:

Scott talked about the doomsday like anime Jyu Oh Sei. Peg as a survivor by Scott watch kids beat the hell out of each other to become the beast king.

 

Ed talked about the old OAV series Moldiver. A magic girl show with no magic in it at all. Watch them save Tokyo about 6 times in this 6 episode OAV. Also I forgot to say on the show but the sub kind of sucks in this dvd, everytime someone talks it says there name right before the text which get really irritating after the first time you see it. I know who talking but there voice I don’t need extra words to read while I’m reading the subs.

 

Dan finished up talking about Noein. Did he like it did he hate it even more well I guess you guys just have to listen up. And Dan Also talked about the fist movie but he said only for 5 mins please time him and tell us if he went over his 5 mins

 

Chibi Tokyo loves to hear what you think so let us know chibitokyo@gmail.com

News

Here at Chibi Tokyo we always say Naoki Urasawa = good so hopefully the live action movie based on his manga series 20th century boys will be good. Also we talked about top selling magas of Amazon jp and why Japan can’t get let Nauisica of the valley of the wind die. And ADV gets Ah My Goddess season 2. and maid cafes.

 

Reviews:

Scott talked about the anime good Witch of the West. At first he was expecting an anime with magic girls. What he got was a serous love story and men suduesing find out what else he thought of this show.

 

Ed talked about the manga Eagle “The Making of an Asian American Presidentâ€? loosely based on the election here in the US of 2000 find out what it takes to be the president of the US. And that’s not even the main story line. All the drama of the campaign trail told though the eyes of a report of Japan.   

 

Email us just because at chibitokyo@gmail.com

 

News:

Well good news Agent Aika the show we give way to much attention too has another oav coming. New characters meaning brand new panties to look at!!! Also we didn’t talk about this on the show but Ikkitouse is also getting a news series. It’s basically the same joke about the panties as Agent Akika. New cast new panties I tend to repeat my funnier jokes. And Dan and South American can rejoice Fist of the Blue Sky got fansubbed. I was really expecting to see a Spanish fansub for this show before the English one.

 

Reviews:

Scott talked about the uber sad anime Now and Then, Here and There. Akitaro Kaichi worked as the Camera guy for Grave of the Fireflies. That’s where he must have learned the art of telling a story where the characters get fucked around a lot. Sure not as sad as Grave of the Fireflies (few things are) the anime will leave you with a lot of (ah crap I can’t believe they did that) moments.

Dan and I caught the last showing of Paprika so to kill two birds with one stone I that’s what I reviewed. From the looks of the trailer was expecting some kind of cyber punk action. What I got was further from that. Paprika mostly deals with dreams and a devise called the DC mini.

Dan talked about the beginning of the anime noein. He’s going to break this show into 2 parts so find out what he thinks of being of the show. Oh yea the show is really weird. Also the main character looks like the “father� from Azumanga Daioh.

Let us know what you think about our podcast, blog, or how we dress (that last one is a joke) at chibitokyo@gmail.com

Hi this is Ed no show last week we’re using a combination of thanksgiving and the fact that the Wii came as to why that happen. But really it’s because we did do a show it just sucked really bad and decided not to release it. (I mean it sucked a lot). So for the 2 people that go to the website. I though I would leave a blog post. 

 

The fall season has really let me down from the look of our fall preview show it was going to be good, but from most of the shows I’ve seen I can’t really get into many of them. Shows I was really jazzed about like Kanon and Death Note I’ve stopped watching. Kanon I’ve seen already so there is noting really new about it and like Dan said on Death Note its just like the manga so nothing new about that show either. The Wall Flower aka Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge aka Perfect Girl Evolution aka has to many dam names is still my favorite show to have come out this season. Hataraki Man is also a very good show now sub ep 4 already! What this show has done more for me is got me really excited in the manga. Which is doing really well in Japan right now. I hope all this gets entropy to scan more of it. And History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi rounds out all I’m really watching. Which is a good thing because I can caught up on my old dvds. After so much fanfare from Scott and Sal I’ve been watching Macross. I have had the bug to watch it for a while now, but I wanted the AnimEigo dvds so I have the first 2 boxes. Also specking of AnimEigo I’m also trying to finish up my Urusei Yatsura dvds only to have to go back and buy more…. I don’t think I’m ever going to finish watching this show.  

 

Now for some follow-ups on reviews we have done in the pass. In the podcast it self we don’t really do follow-ups on anything my whole logic behind that is we have already talked about it one time people don’t want to hear about it again, but I did plan on following up series on blog post like this one. Hot Gimmick which we talked about in episode 5 volume 12 came out sometime ago it had the parental sticker and was wrapped in plastic I knew shit was going to go down in this book. Now I like to retracted my statement about Hatsumi being the dumbest girl of anime/manga that tilted now goes to Shinju from Toriko ~Aigan Shoujo~ (read the manga if you want to know why). Still I found Hatsumi extremely stupid so much so that towards the end I was more into the Akane/Subaru love story then the main story line. As far as her hooking up with Ryoki (the dude I was rutting for anyways) Azusa was a jerk and Shinogu was a pussy. I rather have he go to the dude that you know…… beats her and puts her down…. But the love is there right? Or maybe Miki Aihara secretly made me hate Hatsumi so much that I wanted the worst match for her. I think I heard for the true ending I have to read the Hot Gimmick novel and read another manga, then kill the giant spider and answer thee questions 3. so looks like no true ending for me. The reason I read all the way to the end was I couldn’t stop with the shoujo smut. And oh this had a lot of that. I still found the book as a whole enjoyable but really lags a lot in the end…. Maybe not so long next time. 

 

Now if you listen to our reviews it clear that I am more of a manga fan then anime fan. So in this last part I’m going to talk a little about the titles hyped up about this December: The Drifting Classroom (3) its part lord of the fly’s part battle royal. Ever since volume one I have been hooked on this manga it doesn’t take very long for the story to settle in the only turn off to people might be the old art. Naruto (12) even though we don’t seem like it on the show I’m a big fan of Naruto I love the manga the only thing I don’t like is how slow it takes each volume to come out. Beck (6) I love music and I love mangas which is why Beck is a defendant pick up for me this month. Crying Freeman (4) we talked about this manga on show on episode 18 so of course right after that I had to buy the manga. Golgo 13 (6) I saw the movie a long time ago on Showtime (yes Showtime shows anime) but after listing about it on anime world order I’ve been really turned on to this book. Monster (6) Scott can not stop talking about it and I can’t stop reading the manga for it. With volume 6 we are really getting deep into the story now. O-Parts Hunter (1) aka 666 satan (how can you not love that fucken titled) done by the twin brother of the guy that did Naruto and I have already read some of it and I like it. Gacha Gacha (6) we talked about in episode 2 all I can say about this series is I love the fan services in this. I love Hiroyuki Tamakoshi art. That’s enough for me to keep reading this. And the Wallflower (10) yes I know I can’t stop talking about it. So I won’t. And just to make this post longer then it should be. My new obsession Eiji Ohtsuka (I’m reading and digging all his work) he has a manga called The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service. Which I’ve been trying to get for some time now Dark Horse manages aren’t easy to find in Borders. So I went to a comic book store near where I work. And all man did they have some hard to find stuff there. KCDS was there, but I also found a lot of out of print Viz books that I though I would never be able to read like: the first 2 volumes of Phoenix and the only Mitsuru Adachi work even brought over here Short Program. It’s great because both of which I though I would never read. 

 

 Questions about the podcast or blog let us know at chibitokyo@gmail.com also let us know if you like this blog thing.if it’s to long or to short or if I misspelled a lot of words. The next show should be coming out in a few days. And of course you can’t have a blog post with out the you tube video! taken from our trip to AX