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

Middle Tennessee Anime Convention It’s the Monday after MTAC Ninja but the OSMcast must go on! Speaking of the Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, here’s a chat we had about the con with Christi Binkley, MTAC’s Director of Media Relations and Advertising.  In other words, “Press Wrangler.” We talk a bit about the con and what it takes to make one of these con things happen. Also joining us was the wonderful Marc Smazik of Akihabara Renditions. Protip: Speaking of Akihabara Renditions, we _totally _stole their set up for this. Sadly, we also had no clue how to actually _use _any of it. As a result there is a lot of noise where we held the microphones like retards and the audio reflects this. Our apologizes. This probably isn’t a very good episode to listen to in the car. OSMnotes These made us feel all important and crap. We could post the full picture, but really we have faces perfect for radio. Photo courtesy of Tarrence Grigsby. This is actually merely one of many episodes that we recorded during MTAC. We’

It's like the Eighties... but BETTER. The OSMcast goes forth once more as Basil, Kevin, and special guest commentator JP grapple the numerous and awesome 8-bit modern games that comprise one of the best DS titles to come out in years: known only as Retro Game Challenge! Protip: So okay I said that it’s the 31st when it _actually _released on the 30th. Whoops. OSMnotes WHY HAVEN’T YOU BOUGHT THIS GAME YET. There are people at XSEED who _could _be bringing us the sequel but instead are DYING because they cannot feed themselves and their families due to the rest of you NOT BUYING THIS GAME. /hyperbole (Here is a link to amazon.com so you can buy this game. Or go to a Best Buy or Gamestop or whatever you have to do!) Legend of the Galactic Heroes Incidentally guys and gals, MadWorld is also mad fun. There is nothing more visceral on the Wii than yanking on the Wii Remote and Nunchuck and watching my enemies be ripped in twain. I literally have not had so much fun on this system since Mario Galaxy. They need to

More like Street Fighter: The Legend of CRAP-Li HUR HUR HUR A coworker asked me over this past week: “So what happened to the Survivor Horror in Resident Evil 5?” I told him: “It’s now called sitting through Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.” I know this, because I have sat through this movie. This episode is pretty much just a PSA to the world that no one ever should go see Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.EVER. But you all probably knew that. We went to go make sure, because sometimes you have to stand, even when it’s hard to stand. And now our horrors have been shared and brought to you. Please do not go see this film. Do not rent this film. This isn’t a bad-good. This is just poor. Do not say that we did not warn you. Also, we have a forum now. Please go post in it!

I wonder if this is a spoiler? Deep within the underground (and also echo-y) OSMbunker, keeping the awesome alive, we decided to talk _not _about the movie adaption of  Watchmen , the amazing graphic novel by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins, but the graphic novel itself. Promo: Dead Workers Party Network! We are actually a part of this network, but we have never really talked about it. They are a collective of a bunch of awesome guys with a ton of various podcasts for your listening enjoyment. WoW, Warhammer, Team Fortress 2, other video games, and even more are topics these podcasts may cover. So check them out, or else. OSMnotes The Watchmen graphic novel is _incredibly _easy to find. Just go walk into a book store or comic book store, they’ll have a copy. Or you could just use Amazon… I guess. This is the good stuff. Cave Story is also easy to find… On the Internet, anyway. Here’s a fansite that has links to download the game and the patch to make it readable via the Eng

Full Metal Panic! We had made plans. Awesome plans. But then those plans were dashed! So we made new ones. BETTER ONES. Then those were dashed and we said NAY SIR and to prove it we did a podcast on the anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh’s Full Metal Panic! by GONZO. Protip: This may be one of the few times we actually say something good about a show that GONZO has touched. I was amazed too. Promo: Robotronic Dynamite! These gamer guys are pretty great (and also elegant). For example, they have us listed as one of their Super Friends. Secondly, they just nabbed the voice actor for Fei Long to talk about Street Fighter IV with them. Did I mention they were elegant? Also mighty.  So please check them out. OSMnotes Pluto is freaking sweet Okay so it turns out this show is more expensive than I thought. I thought it would be closer to $30, but it turns out it’s closer to $50-60. Then again this is 26 episodes we are talking about here, so I guess it’s not such a bad deal. I noticed when I was working up the update

Slayers Revolution In this episode of the OSM cast_!_ we decided to throw down with the latest adventures of Lina and the gang by talking about Slayers Revolution! OSMnotes Right now Slayers Revolution is kind of hard to get to at the moment. When the series started up a small while back, you could find fansubs of it. But with a _quickness _Funimation grabbed up the rights to both it _and _Slayers Evolution-R. Fansubs dried up  really quick (because if anyone knows where to look for places to throw some cease and desist orders, it’s Funimation.). Not that this is a bad thing! Especially since they’ve promised us streaming versions of Slayers officially subtitled soon. How soon, I have no clue. I’m sure that we’ll talk about in a future World of OSM when it happens. Baccano! It's pretty darn awesome. Speaking of streaming and Funimation, they also have Baccano! You can actually watched the first episode on their site, although it is dubbed. We talked about Baccano! in Show #10, although it is spoileriffic an

Street Fighter IV Hey kids! It’s the OSMcast_! _And tonight/today/whenever you are listening to this, we’re talking about Capcom’s latest fighting game, STREET FIGHTER IV! And other stuff, too. Like God Hand, Lost Odyssey, Shiren the Wanderer, Senko no Ronde… and Superman 64. (Sorry about that.) OSMnotes Street Fighter IV is out on Xbox 360 and PS3, and in fact is _so _brand new it hasn’t even been out a week when this podcast gets posted. Therefore you should go out into the world, walk into a store, and go buy it. Because that may just be the last time you see the sun for some time. However finding a decent stick or one of those fancy fightpads… Not so easy. Thumbnails tell you nothing, so I made a larger version clickable. So I suggest that spend your money on Senko no Ronde instead  (Please ignore the stupid cover art. Yeah, Ubisoft didn’t have a clue what to do with this thing.). That is, if the idea of Street Fighter in the context of a shoot ‘em up appeals to you. On the other hand,  the good man Inu

Gunsmith Cats Look out because the OSMcast_!_ is updating on time! For this episode we decided to tackle the manga and anime series by Kenichi Sonoda,_ Gunsmith Cats._ Protip : Ignore the fact that I think the music that we ended up playing was from Riding Bean. We can’t help the fact that we’re hustlers. Promo: Anime World Order! These guys certainly don’t need any of our help finding listeners, but they were the first podcast to play our promos.  So we thought we’d return the favor. I have yet to get a bad recommendation from them, even if it’s for all the wrong reasons. Usually however, they’re good ones. OSMnotes Sadly, the Gunsmith Cats DVD is severely out of print and plan on paying $30+ if you want the DVD. However the manga is easily found and at some pretty decent prices too. MTAC Ninja: April 3rd-5th And it looks like we’ll be returning to MTAC this year! It should be quite fun! I’ve heard there might be a podcasting panel or two, so we are going to try to crash get invited to them. Last year was

Raven is probably going, "You guys are idiots, and coming from me that's saying something." So since schedules did not align to their proper alignments this past week, we decided to show you a different side of the OSMcast. The side that shows that not all recordings are good ones. Some… can be very bad. This is one of those recordings. I apologize now, and promise a real episode next week.

Tales of Vesperia After way too long, we are now able to post our take on Namco Bandai Games’ latest game in the “Tales of” series, Tales of Vesperia! It’s our actual original recording too! We (aka DJ Inubito) were able to salvage it after all.  (Which is good because our attempt to rerecord was _not _so good…) Protip: We’re still using the travel mcrophone, so the audio isn’t at it’s best yet. One day Samson will get my orginal mics back to me! OSMnotes Tales of Vesperia is possibly the best Xbox 360 JRPG out there, depending on who you ask. But chances are you’ll like it, if not love. And it’s still crazy-easy to find. So you should go buy it. However Namco Bandai’s Dragonball: Evolution for PSP? Not looking so hot. But hey I guess it’s still better than Street Fighter: The Movie: The Video Game. Both of them.  No wait… I think I’d _still _rather play those. Sorry Dragonball! And if you haven’t lamented the fate of Winter, please do so. Giest was an alright game, and the Wii gets precious few enough actua

Yep, still gold-colored! It’s a better late than never podcast as the crew at OSM Central takes a crack at our favorite Japanese animated things for the year 2008! The EPIC CONCLUSION of the 2008 OSMawards! Yay! OSMnotes I’m kinda tapped out of things to say, so we’ll just repeat the contest again and call it a week. Next week’s OSMnotes will be more awesome, I promise! The rules for this contest are very simple! You just have to talk to us! No matter what, we’ll need an email. You can send us one at osmcast@gmail.com. Also, you could leave us a comment in the comments section below this post. Or call us up on the OSMline at (206) 202-0071. However you do it though, we’ll need an email to contact you. As for the prize, well we are having this conest till the end of February so befor ethen we’ll let you know!

Because awards have to be gold-colored! What’s an easy way to kill time on the mic when a new year arrives? You talk about the previous year! So here’s our OSMawards! for the video games of 2008. Protip: We had to rasie the gain in order to get this podcast listenable. So it might get static-y at times. OSMnotes So I guess Bob’s Game isn’t. Oh well! We talk about it and then what happens? It’s GONE. It’s enough to make a man weep! … or not! Now he just sounds like (more of an) idiot. NO MATTER. But now we are going to talk CONTEST TIME. The rules for this contest are very simple! You just have to talk to us! No matter what, we’ll need an email. You can send us one at osmcast@gmail.com. Also, you could leave us a comment in the comments section below this post. Or call us up on the OSMline at (206) 202-0071. However you do it though, we’ll need an email to contact you. As for the prize, well we are having this conest till the end of February so befor ethen we’ll let you know! PS: The tune we used was Pendulu

Everyone is CAH-RAZY over those zany robots! Because we just weren’t done talking about hot chicks blowing up robots, we decided to continue forth with our opinions on Mamoru Oshii’s movie adaptaion of the Masamune Shirow classic, Ghost in the Shell! Spoiler: We lied! The movie is _actually _about basset hounds. OSMnotes One of the pluses on reviewing a hallmark of Japanese animation, especially as one so uh, _digital _as Ghost in the Shell, is that you can find the DVD for it pretty cheap. I mean, like $12.04 and $12.14 with free shipping cheap. Or if you have a really banging 6.1, 7.1, or Whatever is the Lastest Greater than 5.1 Surround Sound System then I suppose you could pony up the extra 10-20 bucks to grab the special edition that’s floating around. Of course, chances are that if you an afford such a sound system, you can afford the extra money for the DVD. Apperently "tensai" means "genius." ... Yeah. Ol’ Robert Pelloni (aka Bob) is still hard at work living locked up in his roo

Bubblegum Crisis Tonight  we dethrone the AWO’s “Last podcast to podcast about Bubblegum Crisis” crown with our our podcast about Bubblegum Crisis! … Mostly. Okay _sometimes _we talked about Mega Man 9. But it’s usually about Bubblegum Crisis, really! OSMnotes Looking at the various places one can buy the boxed set of Bubblegum Crisis, I discovered that the best place was actually AnimEigo themselves. And if you like anime form the 1980s and/or hot chicks blowing up robots and/or cool mecha designs and/or awesome synth and rock music, you now have the links. Get on it. 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs ala chiptunes And as we said, we all here at OSM Central hope you all out there had an awesome Christmas and a future Happy New Year! Like we said you still need some holiday music, 8-Bit Jesus is still there, just waiting for you. To you know… Download it. Of course, what _better _way to give the gift of commenting than to give us some comments! We have that whole comments section just for that, too! Or s

Macross Frontier It’s all about high flying, mecha, idol sings, and guns, lots of guns in this episode of the OSM cast_!_ Of course, the topic is the latest Shōji Kawamori epic, Macross Frontier. OSMnotes Okay I think we are back on track and ready to rock. Inubito’s actual main computer should be arriving this week, which means he won’t have to try and hack at editing this podcast on his laptop. This is good news for the world. (What’s not good news for the world is that as I’ve been editing the post for this podcast my power has gone out twice. So let’s rush though this and gte this suck up before it’s too late.) Macross Frontier is, like we said, in no way licensed for the US and may never be. So our only recourse is the wide wonderful world of torrents and downloading. I’m pretty sure that the right Google search can point in you the right direction. This is how Singapore sees Bubblegum Crisis. In very small preview images. Next week we plan on talking about Bubblegun Crisis, that classic 80’s anime abo

Adolescence of Utena The OSMcast rises from it’s grave of computer woe’d-ashes to deliver unto you our take on one of the most awesome, trippy, postmodernist, animated movies ever : Adolescence of Utena AKA The Utena Movie. Protip: And while I know that this is _technically _the 15th of December, this was recorded with the intent of getting up on the 1st, so it’s still dated for that time. OSMnotes There are still a few options for you to go buy this movie, and you most definitely should. Sadly, while we have been able to finagle an actual podcast for your listening enjoyment, Inubito’s computer is still down for the count. On the plus side, Lee no longer has mono! But yes, we are back in business so there shouldn’t be any interruptions again for the near or distant future. We hope. So in the meantime we give you a glimpse into a world where bulletproof tigers run rampant and polar bears need not fear the arctic wastes: The consequences of this action could be... deadly!

This is the con we are talking about! Over two weeks past due, we bring you our Nekocon 11 con report! Short version: Totally fun. Long version: Listen to our podcast! /Basara (We also complain about Gonzo and how much Rosario + Vampire sucks.) Protip: We had to use the travel mic and it so happened the room we were in was really echo-y. You have been warned. OSMnotes So yeah, we had fun! We totally want to go again next year if we can! If  you live in the area and somehow have not gone, make plans for next year. For real. You have now seen the entire show in this one screen cap.Congratulations! But we all now know that Nekocon is awesome. Now I’d like to point something we forgot to mention in in the World of OSM. You see that screen cap on the left there? See the next one below that? The place I stole the screens from is a site complaining on now two of the three main networks that air the recent season of this crap are censoring the fanservice. This is the travesty that others have now bemoaned and wail

Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, and Jerry Jewell In a strange twist of fate, our shortest episode actually has the longest title. Go figure! At this recently past Nekocon we got the chance to chat with three awesome voice actors: Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, & Jerry Jewell. Protip: Since it was the portable microphone, you’ll need to turn up the volume to hear us. But there’s not a whole lot of background noise so it’s all good. OSMnotes: Thanks to the awesome staff at Nekokon for making this happen, as well as our guests for sitting down with us to talk, even though it was only a little while.

Azumanga Daioh In tonight’s episode of the OSM cast_!_ we talk about J.C. Staff’s adaptaion of Kiyohiko Azuma’s awesome series: Azumanga Daioh! With special guest star DJ Inubito as “The guy playing Fable II while we talking about stuff.” OSMnotes Thanks to ADV’s awesome habit of making collections of stuff they make, you can not only now own the entire anime in a Thinkpack box set, you can also buy the entire manga run in one giant omnibus edition.  This is coming out soonish! Normally we have this stuff uploaded by Sunday night so it’ll be ready for your listening enjoyment bright and early Monday morning. But we just got back from Nekocon _late _last night and could not stay conscious enough to make it happen. Hopefully Monday evening will be just as nice! And if you _must _have it in the morning, I hear Tuesday is also a good day for it! Speaking of Nekocon, it was a blast. This comes out soonish after! I’m sure we’ll be doing a con report on it at some point in the near future! Possibly even next week

The World Ends With You Expand your horizons, your world, as it were, with our latest podcast all about Square-Enix/Jupiter’s awesome game for the Nintendo DS: The World Ends With You! And also where we try not to talk about the World of Warcarft! … Too much. OSMnotes This game is in steady supply, but sadly no matter where we checked, the “Square-Enix tax” is in full effect and you are looking to be spending $40 for this game. It’s totally worth it though! We just got back from CrisisCon, and it was pretty fun! Definitely an enjoyable con, and we’ll be sure to come back next year. I’m sure we’ll talk more about it on our next podcast, but by then Inubito and Basil will have already been to Nekocon! Such is the way our recording and update shcedule works… There's a joke in this, I just know it... Street Fighter IV is looking like it’s shaping up to be pretty awesome. They’re even having a contest where if you art is rad enough, it’ll be on the inner cover of the game! But right now all we care about is the