Podcast Episode 5: Jason Wants to Hit Me With Cookies

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Episode 5 is re-released here! This is another episode that Drew is proud of, probably for the exact opposite reasons he’s proud of the previous episode.

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

Notes:

Following the mixture of hot shit and hot, steaming pile of crap that was our previous episode, Drew feels he has a sure-fire win with 1983’s Crusher Joe. It backfires as he is the only member of the cast who truly enjoys the film. We also discuss a current state of broadcast anime and how it’s changed since we became fans and whether it’s better or not. Finally, with three of us being mecha fans, it was hard for us to avoid something that was Mobile Suit Gundam related, so we decided to pop in Mobile Suit Gundam F-91.

Podcast Episode 4: Hard Work, Guts, and Sunglasses

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Episode 4 is finally re-released! This is an episode that Drew is particularly proud of because we deal with two very distinct reactions to what we review.

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

Notes:

We sit down for two more reviews in this episode after returning from our drunken NERD RAGE over Anime Weekend Atlanta in the previous episode. What we think will end up with two more pleasant reviews to calm us down, Marc ends up requesting us to review something he remembered fondly from high school, Boku no Chikyuu ‘o mamotte, also known as Please Save My Earth (1993-’94). Marc’s memory of this series is better than the actual series but Jason, Richard and Drew end up tearing into it. We then switch to our roundtable section where we discuss the impact of sub-only DVD releases and their potential impact on the North American Anime Industry. Finally, needing something to lighten the mood we review GAINAX’s 1988 OAV Top ‘o nerae GunBuster.

Podcast Episode 3: AWA Re-Cap

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Episode 3 is now re-released!

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

Notes:

After another year at Anime Weekend Atlanta (Editor’s Note: This was AWA XIII from 22 – 24 September 2007), we sit down and review the convention as seen through the eyes of fans and attendees. We of course harp on the biggest change that a lot of other folks jumped on about the weekend, which was the hotel enforcing a more restrictive alcohol policy, due mostly to events which transpired the previous year. This all ends up going back to how fandom used to be and how it’s changed as anime has become much more mainstream. WARNING: Segments of this podcast can easily be followed up with “Get off my lawn!”

Links of interest:

Anime Weekend Atlanta

Podcast Episode 2: Electric Boogaloo

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We’re back for another exciting episode! Also joining us as another full time panelist is our good friend Richard Hoelsher!

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

Notes:

We introduce Richard and briefly discuss his adventure through anime fandom and his years staffing Anime Weekend Atlanta. We then get to the meat of the program as we review the oft-overlooked Miyazaki Hayao classic, 1979’s Castle of Cagliostro, a Lupin III film and the easiest entry into the space opera metaseries Space Pirate Captain Harlock by taking a look at 1982’s  My Youth In Arcadia. We also sit down to discuss the dying fate of anime clubs which were at one time about the only way people could get their anime.

Podcast Episode 1: The Perils of Podcasting

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Here is the re-release of episode 1 of the Akihabara Renditions podcast!

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Hosts: Drew Sutton, Marc Smazik and Jason Brown.

Notes:

Jason, Marc and myself introduce ourselves and what the Akihabara Renditions podcast is about and pony up with our fandom CVs to give some air of legitimacy as to why we should be doing a podcast, aside from “we just downloaded Audacity and decided we could do one, too!” We also lay out our first two reviews, 1992’s Otaku no Video and 1989’s Riding Bean. In between, we have our first roundtable discussion about modern fansubbing and how it’s changed over time.

A Brief Note About Podcast Episode Re-releases

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So, as we’ve moved to the new platform and new hosting for the podcast episodes, there’s the issue with getting all of our previous episodes in an orderly fashion back online and ready for download. Rather than flood the front pages with post after post of old episodes, I’ve decided that we’ll be making group posts where applicable with spacing for each episode’s notes further down into the post. This method won’t affect either of the two un-released episodes that have just had their editing completed nor will it affect the postings for any of our future episodes.

/Drew Sutton, Akihabara Renditions

Hello world!

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Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

… Or, “how not to let your DNS and hsoting subscription expire.”

If you’re seeing this now, then that means you’ve noticed about when we first moved to WordPress. If you’re seeing this and this is the very last post you come to, going through all of our other podcast episodes before this, then you’ve probably been on the Internet too long. Get off and go outside!

Please bare with us while we (I) fumble through WordPress and, much more importantly, get our previous episodes listed here and continue to get the word out about the show.

More content to follow!

/Drew Sutton, Akihabara Renditions