Anime 3000

Jd Banks professes her love for Cat Soup, Jahmere Durham share some great news, Cody Baier calls out the entire cast, Mr. Russell finds an anime fan in the oddest of places and the entire crew looks at violent anime series.

Mr. Russell, Cody Baier, Jd Banks and Colton Solem take a look at the state of anime and manga, Sean discovers the secret origins of Moe, Cody finally reveals his opinion about the Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Dub, Colton gets Cody to share his favorite characters from Friendship is Magic and Jd shares her views on the current state of Manga.

Jd Banks gets out of character and pokes fun at a few Twitter followers, Cody Baier goes on an epic rant against JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Jahmere Durham tells us what he has in common with old Haitian men and Mr. Russell flip flops on one of his most controversial reviews to date.

Jd Banks and Cody Baier face off in an epic war of words, Colton Solem triggers Mr. Russell with talks of Hunter x Hunter, we break a world record for most anime gushing in one podcast and the crew catches Gintama fever.

Jd debates the merits of romance in popular action series, Cody gets a monster sized boner over One Punch Man and Mr. Russell actually reads more manga than Jd, all this and more on the A3K Podcast.

Joshua Valencia, Andrew Choi and Mr. Russell take you into the world of Video Games. Joshua gives you his take on Gears of War 2. Andrew discusses what’s new in Evangelion and Mr. Russell gushes over Code Geass…again. Originally released October 7, 2008.

While the rest of the panel is off doing bigger and better things this week, Mr. Russell and Andrew Choi soothe your eardrums with a podcast duet chock full of site updates and news from NYAF. Originally released October 6, 2008.

A host of anime podcasters both past and present discuss a number of topics surrounding anime, manga and gaming.

The full crew is back this week (plus one!) in our most perverted and free-form podcast to date. Mr. Russell, Andrew Choi, Matthew Callueng and Joshua Valencia mourns the loss of Toonami, speculates what’s to come and assesses how it will affect the industry. Also, this week special guest Jeridel Banks (“J.D.”) gives us the 411 of her excursion into Japan. Later on, Andrew and Mr. Russell gab about the evolution of Satoshi Kon’s style of storytelling, as Mr. Russell gives his thoughts on Millennium Actress. BONUS: Andrew delivers a signature rant about the Anime After Dark Festival in Boston, and Jd disagrees with him–is this the beginning of a new rivalry?! Originally released September 21, 2008.

Can we ever get the full crew back together? While Josh takes a siesta in Mexico, our podcast fiesta has Benu of Anime Genesis take his place, along with Mr. Russell, Andrew Choi and Matthew Callueng for part two of our series on anime podcasting. Then in news, a bill that may disenfranchise pirates is discussed, while Matthew provides “tips” on what to do in the meantime. Originally released September 14, 2008.

Mr. Russell, Andrew Choi and Joshua Valencia go free-form as the originally recorded podcast went ka-put (along with Andrew’s hard drive). Mr. Russell visits Florida SuperDay and shares his experience! Andrew expresses his outrage with the Crunchyroll community! Josh is disgusted by Kingdom Hearts fans! Matthew’s not here! PLUS: A discursion into interpreting anime, and Mr. Russell has a catharsis about fanfics. Originally released September 7, 2008.

Mr. Russell, Andrew Choi, Joshua Valencia and Matthew Callueng take you back to the days of Toonami and Pilot Candidate (wait–what was that show again?) to discuss cable’s effect on anime in America. Mr. Russell and Matthew remember the good old days of being over 9000, Andrew discusses the vicious cycle of otakus’ collective lust for one show, and Josh provides a retrospective of the One Piece dub fiasco. Later in news, love is in the air as everyone dreams about their ideal anime sequel alongside the announcement of Fullmetal Alchemist’s second season. Originally released August 31, 2008.

In the wake of Otakon and Comiket this week, Mr. Russell, Andrew Choi, Joshua Valencia and Matthew Callueng tell all in a segment solely devoted to experiences at cons. Josh explains the turn of events of David Hayter’s “MGS4-hatespeech” delivered at AX 2008, while Mr. Russell juxtaposes his northeastern and the southern con experiences. Originally released August 17, 2008.

Joshua Valencia and AX-traordinaire Matthew Callueng join Mr.Russell and Andrew Choi as they discover what exactly Haruka Nogizaka’s secret is. Mr. Russell goes gaga for Gurren Lagann, Andrew explains the correlation between Journey and the sequel to Someday’s Dreamers, and Josh revisits the Big O. Then, in the second segment, the crew gets close to needing resuscitation as they attempt to digest the entity that is anime in Hollywood. Finally, in the last segment, PS3 Advent Children and the second season of Suzimiya is tackled. BONUS! Matt delivers a signature rant about reviewing bad AMV’s and Andrew sympathizes by providing his own experience. Originally released August 10, 2008.

Mr. Russell and Andrew Choi are joined by AnimeDiet cohorts Mike, Jeremy, and Ray in a discussion about the new season of anime and Soul Calibur IV. After, AnimeDiet discusses their panel at AX and the key to maintaining a successful editorial blog. Also included: the Cowboy Bebop movie and a rant about Evangelion’s theological faux-profundity. Originally released August 3, 2008.