Osmcast! Anime, Video Games, Interviews, And More!

Black Lion A podcast that primarily deals with anime (and video games) talks about a anime? Shocking! This time, we take on Go Nagai’s _BLACK LION! _ OSMnotes Black Lion is cheap as hell online. Just check the Amazon listing. Really, unless you hate violence and gore, why aren’t you buying this right now? Next week’s episode is up in the air, as schedules are being worked out and what not. However! We have some good stuff hopefully down the pipe in the near-ish future so keep a look out! Until then: Comment. Email. OSMline. You know the drill.

The Ozone Commandos also keep things real Once again we bring the real scoop on what really goes down at anime cons. This time we went to the fifteenth Anime Weekend Atlanta. We talked to lots of people! And yet, only 24 minutes came out of it. So next time I guess we need to talk to _more _people. OSMnotes Due to technical-ish things occurring to make this post late, this post was made late. These things, they happen. Basil’s Internet could have been attacked by notorious waves of grizzsquirrles sent by the nefarious Other Kevin.Or perhaps the initial mp3 files did not mater correctly. I dunno! Maybe it was the Ozone Commandos. Or a secret cabal of moe fanboys. Who can say? Dou(gai)jin Recordings CD 001: Renegade Remix Force If the music in this podcast pleased you, perhaps you should make your way to Dou(gai)jin Recordings, where the music came from. We talk about them here from time to time, because they are awesome and people do not talk about them enough. They passed out CDs to the con goers at AWA, an

Hell, I dunno either! This latest podcast is all about the anime con that just happened. It’s called Anime Weekend Atlanta. It was pretty awesome. And so here are two nightcap sessions we recorded on Friday and Saturday night. Aside from the usual crew of OSM Central, we also have our ever-present buddies over at Akihabra Renditions. And add that extra something with just adding Basil won’t cut it, Chad Bonin of GaijINside on Friday’s section and Niko of MTAC and GMX fame on Saturday’s section. Oh! And some guy named Dusty who happened to be on the room Friday night. We get the BIG NAMES here folks! MAJOR SCREW UP: And once again, we apologize for mixing up names on the first half. When we say Rikki Simons, we actually meant Jonathan Tarbox. These two gentlemen are both awesome guys and we feel bad for mixing up names. We blame the fact that it was really late at night. Because honestlt, Tarbox is a freakishly amazing name and I have no idea how we could forget such name. I mean, Tarbox. Man. OSMnotes D

Somewhere underneath all that text? There's a dragon. From our long and toilsome journey into the VERY HEART OF GEEK MEDIA MAYHEM we bring you, dear listeners, the SEEDY UNDERBELLY of the BEAST known as DRAGON*CON. But only 20 minutes of it. OSMnotes AWA IS THIS WEEK HOLY SHIT. SO NOT READY. So anyway, the OSMcast is going BACK to Atlanta this weekend for Anime Weekend Atlanta! I’m sure we’ll running amok wherever we go, but we’ll definitely be crashing the podcast panel again, and possibly a Gundam panel (since it will be hosted by some guys we know). And I’m pretty sure we’ll be going to these panels. Because by god SOMEONE HAS TO We’ll probably will be submitting some panels ourselves for next year, but this year there just wasn’t time. BUT! In theory we’ll be wearing our brand new OSMcast T-Shirts, but that’s only if the printer found our shirts. Also our pals at Dou(gai)jin Recordings are releasing their newest CD! For free! And while we say pals, the truth is that two of the members are in fact DJ Inu

Alcolla: Worst alarm clock? Or BEST ANNOUNCER? I think we all know the answer! In a stunning return of returningness, Lee has returned! Returning with him are Sooz and Basil as we talk about a bunch of webcomics we read! _EXCITEMENT! SHOCK -AND- AWE! _ PS: Did we say a bunch? We meant millions. OSMnotes The orginal plan was that we had this great written list that we were going to use make a virtual one here, one that you could click on things. And then Basil, in his infinite majesty, lost the list. Oops! However we can tell you that the image to your right is from Reliquary, Sooz’s awesome webcomic. You should check that out! Along with Lee’s webcomic, Hazard’s Wake. It is also, most awesome. Some of us at the OSMcast have twitter accounts! Like, Basil and also Brad. If you are into the whole twitter thing, you should check that out. And finally, the OSMcast is at Dragon*Con! … Right now! (It was the first chance Basil has had to edit this post. Crazy times!)

Boom. This week we decided to change things up a bit and talk about a video game! You kids like video games, right? The game in question is Sucker Punch’s inFAMOUS on PS3. And with all the goofy capitalization that it implies! Not that the OSMcast_!_ knows anything about that… Well, about as much as we know about being punctual lately. OSMnotes You know I was going to be responsible and get some sleep so I can start classes tomorrow on time… But screw that! So, inFAMOUS. You can buy it, in stores! Right now! And now that PS3s are affordable-ish it’s a great game to pick up with that shiny new system. Or if you wait I guess you could get a matte  and slightly slimmer system. Either way, it still looks like a George Foreman Grill. This is a totally legit mock up I spent HOURS making! ... Or minutes. But really all I ever dream about now is of Next Gen aka Current Gen But We Call It Next Gen Anyway Wing Commander. I mean just look at that image to the right, and imagine that in HIGH DEF. In fact, you don’t hav

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Okay so it’s slightly late but here’s our podcast all about Mobile Suit Gundam 00.  It’s got giant robots and stuff! And space elevators. Joining us is Richard from Akihabara Renditions. OSMnotes You can watch the show on the Sci Fi Channel! Or I’m sure DVDs exist. Chances are you know what this show is if you want to see or not and probably already have. Oh well! We have a new voicemail! It’s 209-OSM-LINE. Or for those that like actual numbers, it’s (209) 676-5463. I know we said this last time, but it bears repeating! And it also bears YOU CALLING IT. You can also send us emails at osmcast@gmail.com. That would also be pretty swell. PS: I just realized that the last two shows we covered are Bandai mecha shows that aired backed back with one-another. Crazy.

Let's News Crappy! Never has the saying “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” as this episode. Four from the crew of the OSMcast combines with three of the members of Akihabara Renditions to deliver a massive recap of the news from past couple of weeks in Anime Land. What actually happens, however, is something else. Hopefully it still ends up entertaining on some level. OSMnotes We have a new voicemail! It’s 209-OSM-LINE. Or for those that like actual numbers, it’s (209) 676-5463. The contest is still going! Post in the comments! Email us! Okay I think that’s it.

This is a mecha show. No, really! We thought we’d do something special for our 50th episode*. But I doubt anyone has ever heard of the Sunrise show we decided to talk about. It’s an extremely unknown show called Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. I mean it’s not like  it wasn’t the new cock of the walk or anything as anime goes. But we talked about it anyway! Special Bonus Guest Star Buy Her Book: K. E. Ireland totally showed up for this episode. She has this book thing called Playing The Hero that you can buy and read about the universe it’s set in and more at her website known only as the Natan Fleet Show. Totally NOT the Nathan Fleet Show, nope. Spoiler Warning! Spoilers happen. We tried to keep them away in the first half, but some still slipped out anyway. You have been warned! OSMnotes We may never know what lies underneath his mask... Unless you see him besides during Halloween. *(Actually, we had no clue that this is the 50th episode until a few days after we recorded it.) So there are all sorts

Soul Eater This time on the OSMcast! we decided things were getting little too old in the mix, so we thought we’d review something a bit newer. So here’s a podcast all about the anime adaptation of Soul Eater by BONES, from the original work by Atsushi Okubo. OSMnotes Rail kept complaining that the opening wasn’t HARDCORE enough. So hopefully it sufficed. While Funimation has the rights to the Soul Eater anime and will surely be releasing the DVDs at some point, Yen Press has the manga rights and will start releasing the manga in stand alone volumes starting in October. In the meantime the Soul Eater manga is being printing in their monthly Yen Plus magazine. So, we asked in this episode about the use of our forum. Would you like for us to have our own set of forums, or would you just like us to use the forums we actually have? Let us know! There is also contest stuff but Basil is lazy and has work in the morning so you can just scroll down and see what’s up in a previous OSMnotes.

No seriously, plug her in. You'll like it. We’re back in the groove! We decided to kick things back into second gear with our take on the ADV release of My Dear Marie , the 3-part anime OAV adaptation of the manga by Sakura Takeuchi. Musical Interlude: The Phenomenauts. If you could somehow define the word awesome as a band, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better one. I mean, there are the guys that have founded the genre of ROCKET ROLL. They know nothing but cold steel and laser beams and space ships. And they can rock out with honor. _Science _and honor. OSMnotes You can still find this DVD hanging around, both packaged by itself and also as a bundle with Cosplay Complex. The bundle is oddly enough cheaper. Probably because it was released later. Whether or not it’s worth getting Cosplay Complex in addition to My Dear Marie for cheaper… Sure, I guess! One could say they are phenomenal. I have no clue is Cosplay Complex is good or not, but My Dear Marie is worth it. You can use the other for frisbee golf

Blah. Well, the original plan was to have this last week and a full lenngth podcast this week, but at least this gets us back on track. And this tracks starts off with Basil and Kevin half-heartily discuss that live action film Dragonball Evolution while all the cool kids talk about the new Transformers movie. Whatever! OSMnotes If you were hoping for something more scathing, you can go read this. You’ll find waaaaaay more hate and vitriol in it than we could ever muster about this movie. In other news hey, new contest! IT’s deisgne dto help us kick off our foray into the exciting thrill-packing world of um… books! Playing the Hero, by K.E.Ireland. Check it out at The Natan Fleet Show. We so crazy. Just send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com and tell us what books you think are pretty awesome. We’ll try our best to get a hold of them and check them out. If deemed awesome, nay, OSM enough… We’ll probably get to a podcast about it! However, no Twilight ladies. That stuff gets enough traction as it is. Also no

No other self-respecting podcast would even attempt something THIS real! Man,  just when you thought it was safe to listen to podcasts, we had go and post this. It’s our long lost MTAC episode! Okay, so it was never really lost, but I guess it is kind of long! It’s also REALLY keeping it real. How real? Well it’s a collection of interviews we took as ran around like idiots as we talked to any attendee we could talk to. And also possibly some that didn’t really want to, either. So I guess that’s pretty real. Doesn’t get much realer than that, really. Yeah, I have no real idea what I’m talking about either. But I guess I _should _mention that the audio quality is kind of crap, really.  Mad Props :  Akihabra Renditions! Mark from said Renditions ran around with me as we did this and ended up doing a lot of talking in the end. So check them out when you get the chance. They do some pretty cool stuff.  OSMnotes Sadly the poster does not look nearly as awesome as the DVD cover. But the poster could STILL be yours

No really. They're terrible at math. Here on the OSMcast, we thought what better way to celebrate Memorial Day than to remember all those wonderful, brilliant thoughts and dreams that were snuffed out so many years ago when we all thought Episode One was going to be good. That’s right, we are talking about the movie Fanboys. It’s a (totally not true) story about some dudes that were so hyped to see a rough cut of The Phantom Menace that they road tripped to the Skywalker Ranch to steal it. This story ends up being way better than the movie they wanted to steal. Promo: The Greatest Movie EVER!We’ve reviewed two live action movies and not pimped the good Mr. Chapman’s podcast. Well this has now been fixed. He talks a lot about movies. In a podcast format. It’s pretty great. You should probably listen to it. OSMnotes So you may ask yourself, “Where can I find this Fanboys movie? I’m curious to watch it now. lol!” You can most likely find it online  for either DVD or even Blu-ray, if you really want to! A glimp

Star Trekkin' across the universe... It’s taken a few movies this year to get to it, but we finally got it. A _really _good geek film. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? It’s called Star Trek , and it’s the topic of this week’s episode of the OSMcast! Promo: Black Flower Music! We met this wonderful individual at the podcast panel at MTAC this year, as he was the guy running the panel. It turns out his podcast also went to the OSM School of Fine Podcasting, in that his subject matter (like rock and roll) is not held back by gender or nationalities. Or you know, once specific genre of media. Check them out! OSMnotes It’s out in theaters so if somehow you haven’t seen it yet go do so! The podcast will still be here when you get back. But speaking of geek films, we have a contest about something that wasn’t so hot: Send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com and tell us what you thought about the new Dragonball Evolution live action film. Perhaps you liked it! Or mayhap you hated it with a passion of a thousand suns. It cou

Hell yes it's "engaging!"Oh Animerica, the world is a sadder place without you. Since out last podcast was on stuff that was really new, we decided to check out something that’s a little bit older. So in honor of Cinco de Eleven we talked about They Were Eleven*, an anime adaption of the manga by Moto Hagio. *Hey it was this or Ocean’s Eleven. Which begs the question, if they ever did a sequel using the same premise, would it have been called “They Were Twelve… No Wait, Still Eleven” followed by perhaps “They Could Have Almost Been Thirteen, But Nah! Still Eleven.” And the answer is actually no, it’s “Horizon of the East, Eternity of the West.” Color _me _disappointed. Musical Interlude: Koda Kumi – Taboo (Cynispin Remix)! Perhaps you have hear of Dou(gai)jin Recordings? That group of rag-tag brash musical reimagineers?  Well their leader, their Red Ranger if you will, is man known as DJ Cynispin. You can hear the full version of his track, and other awesome tunes in the Dou(gai)jin Recordings 2009

Sanada Yukimura and Date Masamune are about to each other's ass in Sengoku BASARA. Hint: It's great. So we heard that a whole bunch of new shows just started airing in Japan last month, so we thought we’d talk about the shows we’ve started keeping up with. Hence, the Spring Anime 2009 Preview. Or as Inubito called it,_ “Desu in Springtime.”_ Promo: Akihabra Renditions! We first met these guys at AWA in 2008 and then again at MTAC this year, and pretty quickly became podcast BFFs. They actually focus more on the classics of anime, or at least older anime. You know, stuff that’s pre-2000. Which is the exact opposite of the topic of this episode! Oddly enough, Basil and Kevin are featured in their latest episode! OSMnotes So we talked about a bunch of anime! Like for example: Asura Cryin’ Basquash! Cross Game Dragon Ball Kai Eden of the East Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Guin Saga K-ON! Natsu No Arashi Pandora Hearts Ristorante Paradiso Sengoku BASARA Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-Hen We are positive that you

Fallout 3 In this week’s episode of the OSMcast, we’re joined by the Anime World Order‘s Daryl Surat to talk about Fallout 3. It’s  Bethesda Game Studios’ take on the classic video games series Fallout by Black Isle Studios. So of course we talk about those too. All in all it’s a very Fallout-y podcast. Except when it’s not. Spoiler Alert: After the podcast Inubito and I did leave to try and see Crank: High Voltage. However, the fools that we were decided to get food first and missed the last showing. So instead we saw Fast & Furious, which was neither fast nor furious. OSMnotes You can pretty much find this game everywhere that you can find remotely new games. Hell, I think some places still have Collector’s Editions floating around at discounted prices. And who _wouldn’t _want a Pip-Boy bobble head and a Fallout 3 lunchbox. I mean really. As far as I can tell, this game is pretty awesome, and you all should totally buy it. Speaking of things you can buy… You know it's good when the cover art in some r

Sonny Strait, being awesome This week we bring you our_ super-short_ interview with voice actor and artist Sonny Strait that we got at MTAC. He’s done many roles, like Krillin from Dragon Ball Z, Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist, Lupin the 3rd from… Lupin the 3rd,  as well as the current voice of Usopp from One Piece. On top of that he’s also done directing work for FUNimation. Oh by the way, he _also _has his own webcomic called Car Bombs, and worked as a penciler for Elfquest for a couple of stories. TL,DR:  Sonny Strait is a man of many talents and he gifted us some of his time to throw some questions at him, so here they are for you to enjoy. Protip: This was done on the spot in the Artist Alley at MTAC as the man ignored his lunch to talk to us. But due to the hustle and bustle of the con this may be an episode for the home rather than for the car.

The DeJesuses... Or is that DeJesusi? Either way I'm pretty sure this image is made by Robert DeJesus. This week we decided to kick it off with our epic-ly long interview with two of the hardest working folks in anime fandom today:  Robert and Emily DeJesus of Studio Capsule. They talked about all sorts of things with us, like what it takes to make it out there as an artist and the Best Con Slogan Ever. Did we mention Emily also is the con chair for Ohayocon? Also joining us was (I believe) Richard from Akihabara Renditions. OSMnotes There are a myriad of ways you can find Robert DeJesus on the Internet. There is his main site, Studio Capsule. But if you want to go where the action is, you want his YouTube page. You can also check out his DeviantArt page as well, if are feeling a little… You know… Devious. Whenever I hear our Skippy Promo I think of this. Robert DeJesus is an inspiration to us all. You know, with all of these various Internet sites (and there are actually more if you know where to look), I