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Akihabara Renditions: Japanese Animation of the Bubble Economy, Atlanta’s own and the “Best Podcast You’ve Never Heard Of” present the following events for your consumption –

Friday:
30th Anniversary Gundam Fan Panel, 9 – 11 PM, Galleria Room 105.
Drew and Richard of the Akihabara Renditions Podcast have some clips and witty commentary as we talk about one of the most prolific franchises in all of modern anime. We’re going to expand a little bit on our panel from last year, The Gundam Primer. If you like Gundam, come to this panel. If you ever wondered what /m/ looks like without computers, COME TO THIS PANEL. If you cannot get enough of Bright Noah with a chicken on his head, COME. TO. THIS. PANEL.

Saturday:
Classic Mecha, 2 – 3 PM, Galleria 105.
Dave Merrill and Drew Sutton dig out some old Japanese robot cartoons. Dave will mostly cover the 70s giant robot stuff and I’ll be hitting up the 80s with real robot stuff. Expect a lot of mainstays but knowing Dave, he’s got some wild gems I’ve probably never seen or heard of. If we run really short on time, expect Bright Noah with a chicken on his head.

Anime Podcasters Roundtable, 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Kennesaw Ballroom.
I will be joined by Basil from the OSMcast! and Internet Celebrity Daryl Surat Gerald &/or Clarissa from Anime World Order and how ever many of our co-hosts that can fit on the panel to talk about podcasting, why we never update (because we’re too busy with panels) and what it takes to run an anime podcast (hint: more than you think). And probably some other topics as they arise.

In addition, the whole Akihabara Renditions crew will be out in force ready to get your impressions of the convention!

Episode 24 – Japanese Cartoons, Spring 2009

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Basil from the OSMcast, our podcast superfriends, sticks around with us for another part where crotchety old men talk about the new-fangled cartoons from Spirng 2009 this year. This episode would have been much, much better had it been released near-after it was recorded as we only look at the series as the first couple of episodes were available and is more of an ‘initial thoughts’ sort of discussion. If you think we hate all new cartoons, this episode may surprise you! I know it surprised me.

Hosts: Drew Sutton, Richard Hoelsher, Marc Smazik and Basil

Download the episode here!

Episode 22 – A Half-tastic MomoCon Review

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A magnificent podcast as Marc and Drew sit down and discuss MomoCon for what they thought would be a brief discussion.

Marc sets a dangerous precedent by offering a party for listeners once a single episode’s downloads surpass the number of fingers on a normal individual’s fingers on two hands!

So, order your drinks by downloading this podcast!

Hosts: Marc Smazik and Drew Sutton

Podcast Notes:

MomoCon really deserves to be plugged. Also, Drew is prepared to take comments on numerous rounds of potential libel and slander.

Episode 21 – A Podcast Abortion

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Episode 21 is finally ready (or not) to go! In this episode, we find out how much Drew loves the 1980s as we review Megazone 23 PART 1 and Project A-ko. I don’t think his co-hosts will ever forgive him.

Drew picked a fine time to get concerned over quality. At least, what he has control over and that’s what has taken so long for this to get posted. Episodes 22, 23 and 24 are already recorded and won’t be experiencing the same delay, so please stay tuned as they will be coming out shortly and we’ll be caught up to speed yet again.

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Hosts: Drew Sutton, Marc Smazik, Jason Brown and Richard Hoelsher.

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Podcast Omake 1 – OSMCast_Renditions Tokusatsu Three Way

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This is not a normal episode by any length because we talk about a con AT A CON and are Richard and Drew are  GUESTS on OUR OWN show. Plus – to get even more trippy, this is actually the SECOND piece of bonus material recorded at the convention for Akihabara Renditions. We introduce (not really) a guest and friend of ours, Jason Sohiel Asgari of gaijINside.com in an earlier bonus track and we’ll post that later. Now for the episode you care about (not really)!

Download the episode here!

Special thanks go out to Basil and Kevin of OSMcast, first for Basil for hosting and then Kevin for filling in mid way through and to Jason Sohiel Asgari for joining us to talk about conventions and men in rubber suits.

Podcast Notes:

None of us can count conventions who use “non-sequential” numbering schemes, also known as “themes”. We spend the first part talking about the actual convention in a real-time fashion (unlike a real review, which we sit on for three weeks and then not post it for another month). Then, Basil has to leave and his compadre Kevin fills in to help Richard and Jason school Drew on the magical fairy land that is Japanese special effects hero programming, more shortly known as tokusatsu.

Middle Tennessee Anime Convention

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We’re scrambling to get ready for Middle Tennessee Anime Convention, otherwise known as MTAC!

Episode 21 is in the midst of being edited down, 22’s been recorded and now Drew’s brain is going to explode as the mixer and mics go with us to MTAC and he’ll have even more stuff to edit.

Hope to see you there!

Episode 20 – The Government Won’t Let You Have It

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This is the Lubyanka, headquarters of the former KGB. It is their archives that house this episode. Russian export laws forbid you to have it, comrade.
This is the Lubyanka, headquarters of the former KGB. It is their archives that house this episode. Russian export laws forbid you to have it, comrade.

Episode 20 is great. If only we could get it out of the gulag. We first bash a really horrible OAV (thanks, Pioneer!) called Hyper Doll. This was probably released really early on DVD and was a hold-over from their VHS releases. While not the straw the broke the camel’s back when Pioneer/Geneon USA started the domino effect of anime licensors we’ve seen over the past 18 months, this shit certainly didn’t help.

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Episode 19 – We Need Space

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Baby, sometimes we just need some time away. So, we took a month off after the Christmas Craptacular. Then about another six weeks after this episode was recorded, we took some more time, because we’re all nerds and therefore, lazy.

However, to make up for the time apart, we’re back with a big two part episode! In part 1 (or, according to MLS – Megazone Language Style, PART 1) we review Voltron: Defender of the Universe and crap on our childhoods and then kick it up a notch with a review of the Space Adventure Cobra film from 1982.

Episode features: Drew Sutton, Marc Smazik, Richard Hoelsher and Jason Brown.

Also – there’s a possibility that you might be offended (though, you shouldn’t be) if you’re any of the following:

  • Black
  • Woman
  • Swiss
  • Indian
  • Republican
  • Eskimo

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Podcast Episode 18 – Christmas Craptacular II

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Episode 18 features three reviews of series that you’ll have to download the episode to find out what! Our gift to you at the Christmas holiday season and for ringing in the new year is the second instalment of our Christmas Craptacular series!

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Hosts: Drew Sutton, Richard Hoelsher and Marc Smazik

Podcast notes:

In this episode we review – I’m still not telling you, download the episode! Like our first installment of Christmas Craptacular, there are dissenting opinions over exactly how crappy these shows are, which makes for some excellent podcasting.

If you’ve got a dissenting opinion or just general comments, please post in the comments section or shoot us an e-mail: akibaren (at) gmail (dot) com!