OSMcrap: “The REALLY real real Ohayocon 10 Experience”

The realliest!

Since we are about to go to a whole other new con in a matter of weeks, it’s high-time we finish what we started with Ohayocon and bring to you The REALLY real real Ohayocon 10 Experience! That’s right, REAL podcasters talking to REAL con-goers. It’s so real, you’ll probably not want to listen to it the car, for fear of wrecking due to the high amounts of Real involved.

And not because since it was stuff recorded on the show floor its kinda hard to make it out sometimes NOPE.

OSMnotes

OH GOD MTAC IS SO SOON ALSO SO NOT READY

20th Century King: A look at Naoki Urasawa: the OSMcast! will be looking at one of the most awesome manga and anime creators of our time, Naoki Urasawa. Perhaps you may have heard of him! We’ll be looking stuff from as early as Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (Maybe even Beta!!!), through Master Keaton and Monster, and even his latest stuff like 20th Century Boys, PLUTO, and Billy Bat. We’ll also be coving the various forms his works have taken, like the Monster anime (that has been running on SciF- I mean, SyFy, and the 20th Century Boys live action films.

Tsundere: Why do we love the ones that hate us most?: The panel we ran at Ohayocon returns, bigger, badder, slightly less out of our asses! Ah, tsunderes. You know they lov- hate you! But I love you! But I hate you! But possibly type is best exemplified by say, Akane from Ranma 1/2. This is a panel dedicated to those wonderful ladies (and guys in some cases) that can go from raging demon to moe moe in under six seconds. We, the intrepid risk takers and go getters here at the OSMcast! will be talking about this most classic of anime tropes. The history, the whys, the hows, and we’ll probably even get pissed off at you, before secretly showing that we actually like you.

The Works of Rumiko Takahashi: This is a panel borne from the hot fiery shounen brolliance that is the OSMrenditions (OSMcast! + Akihabara Renditions) this is a panel where we talk about Rumiko Takahashi. And probably argue about her stuff a lot. It should be pretty entertaining!

OSMcast: Mass Effect 2 4-5-2010

Mordin: This is the new why you play Mass Effect.

It’s a new month! To celebrate the OSMcast! decided to talk about a game from the even more not-too distant past than the last time. So here’s a podcast where we talk about BioWare’s scifi RPG/shooter hybrid sequel Mass Effect 2!

OSMnotes

The OSMcast! is once again going to MTAC! And, craziness of craziness, we are running panels. Several, in fact!

  • 20th Century King: A look at Naoki Urasawa: the OSMcast! will be looking at one of the most awesome manga and anime creators of our time, Naoki Urasawa. Perhaps you may have heard of him! We’ll be looking stuff from as early as Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (Maybe even Beta!!!), through Master Keaton and Monster, and even his latest stuff like 20th Century Boys, PLUTO, and Billy Bat. We’ll also be coving the various forms his works have taken, like the Monster anime (that has been running on SciF- I mean, SyFy, and the 20th Century Boys live action films.
  • Tsundere: Why do we love the ones that hate us most?: The panel we ran at Ohayocon returns, bigger, badder, slightly less out of our asses! Ah, tsunderes. You know the “I hate you! But I love you! But I hate you! But I-” types best exemplified by say, Akane from Ranma 1/2. This is a panel dedicated to those wonderful ladies (and guys in some cases) that can go from raging demon to moe moe in under six seconds. We, the intrepid risk takers and go getters here at the OSMcast! will be talking about this most classic of anime tropes. The history, the whys, the hows, and we’ll probably even get pissed off at you, before secretly showing that we actually like you.
  • The Works of Rumiko Takahashi: This is a panel borne from the hot fiery shounen bro-lliance that is the OSMrenditions (OSMcast! + Akihabara Renditions) this is a panel where we talk about Rumiko Takahashi. And probably argue about her stuff a lot. It should be pretty entertaining!

OSMcast: The Top 10 Anime of the 2000s OSMawards!

The gold color scheme means it’s special.

That’s right! AWO isn’t the only podcast doing a “decade in review” podcast months after everyone else did one! We’ve got one too! Although ours is a little different. Basil, Eric, Kevin, and Rail worked up our each individual Top 10s and then we talk about them in a monolithic almost two hours iron-caged deathmatch of DEATH.

While wearing audio-tuxedos.

Because we’re classy.

OSMnotes

Hopefully you have found something you liked! If not, that only means you are already us relistening to ourselves talk. So cut it out, will ya?!

As always, comment, email, voice mail! If anyone wants a full listing, I know that I (Basil) have my list that I can post, and I’m pretty sure so does Kevin, and probably Eric and Rail, too. Or I guess we could listen and jot everything down manually… Nah…

Next time, something from the wacky fun-filled world of OHAYOCON!

OSMtable: A Roundtable About Webcomics

See it’s from a webcomic and it has a round table! That’s COMEDY!

In this episode we try something new and exciting! In this episode Eric, Sooz, Lee, and Mysterious Racer X talk about webcomics. The Whats, Hows, Whys, all that jazz!

AND MORE!

Or perhaps not. The only way to find out, however, is to listen!

I stole Lee’s image Promo Link: HAZARD’S WAKE! It is a comic. That Lee does. It makes RPG jokes. Usually they are pretty good ones. You should read it. And laugh.

I stole Sooz’s image last time Promo Link: Reliquary! This is also a comic. That Sooz does. It tends to not make RPG jokes. You should read this too.

OSMnotes

So in lieu of these exciting experimental times, you should also break tradition and tell us what you think! Comment! Email! Call!

Although as we said in the opening bit, the first 14 minutes will be somewhat choppy, but totally listen-able. SO LISTEN.

OSMinterview: Jerry Jewell @ Ohayocon 10

This photo of Jerry Jewell is evidence that all photos taken in Texas must look like they come from old Westerns. It’s true!

Trudging back forth from the cold, cold North to the slightly less cold, cold South, the OSMcast brings you this interview from the always awesome voice actor Jerry Jewell! He has done some greats roles such as Barry The Chopper from Fullmetal Alchemist, Claire Stanfield from Baccano!, and all sorts of stuff.

Super Cool Music Link: The Peach Truck Republic! This is the fact the jamband that Jerry speaks of! The one that he plays bass in and also vocals! Turns out, Jerry plays a pretty mean bass. And the songs, they are rockin’. We played some of their music in the breaks to give you all a taste, but clicking that link can lead you on to even more amazing things like CDs filled to the brim of music, that you can actually buy.

OSMnotes

Okay so it’s been a month between updates… again. We’d try and say we promise to not be more like AWO in this instance… But now that they’ve started splitting up their episodes to have a different chuck each week instead of one huge update a month, we can’t even say that! But this really should not be a problem in the foreseeable future. We hope.

The Peach Truck Republic, serving out pipin’ hot tunes since 1993

Also, welcome everyone from Ohayocon that might be visiting us right now! We are glad you came! You should check out the Index of OSM and see what other podcast goodies we may have lying in wait for you. Or hell, just subscribe to the RSS feed with you podcatcher of choice! You know you want to. We recorded a few different segments at the con, which we’ll be rolling out to you all as time marches forward. In the meantime, you can also email us, comment, or even call the OSMline (which may or may not also be Aaron Dismuke’s phone number)!

But here’s a fun fact! I don’t know if we mentioned it or not in this version of the interview, but Jerry has gotten the most google search hits out of anything ever for this podcast. The only term that’s asked for more is “OSMcast” itself. So we know you like Jerry, folks. We know!

OSMcast @ Ohayocon!

We’re at Ohayocon! THIS WEEKEND!

We even have panels! Crazyness.

Friday at 4PM in Panels 6 (Grant/Harding) we’ll be running the panel Tsundere: Why We Love the Ones That Hate Us Most. This will be a look at the popular character archetype, where did it come from, and why it works. This one will most likely have pictures and PowerPoint and snazzy stuff like that. In other words, we have to work at actually making this panel happen, with research and stuff! This is very scary!

On Saturday at 1PM in Panels 3 (Union D-3) we’ll be hosting the Podcast Jamboree! It will be a panel about podcasting. We’re pretty sure you what that is.

And sorry for the lack of episode. -_- Different people have different files and somehow we failed to get them all in the one place so Inubito can edit it.

OSMcast: Mass Effect 1-04-2010

Wrex from Mass Effect
Wrex: This is why you play Mass Effect. (He also has way more porn drawn of him than any other character. Think about that.)

It’s a new year! To celebrate the OSMcast! decided to talk about a game from the not-too distant past. So here’s a podcast where we talk about BioWare’s scifi RPG/shooter hybrid Mass Effect!

Protip: Also the sequel is coming out super-soon so you have to get prepared! Therefore, if you have already played Mass Effect consider this podcast a primer as for why the series is awesome. (Like you need reminding, right?)

OSMnotes

Folks, this game is everywhere you want to buy it. You can even just download the game straight to your Xbox 360. Or straight to your PC via Steam. NO EXCUSES PEOPLE.

I guess since Zero is actively USING his geass, we don’t HAVE to watch. Yeah.

So it’s a new year and you may have noticed we are now officially Bi-weekly! In the “New podcast every two weeks” sort of way, and not “Two new podcasts every week” sort of way. While we would love to blab at you that much, between school, work, and everything else under the sun, it’s just not feasible. BUT things are also on track where we will should be hitting that wondrous and wooshy-sounding deadline for the vast foreseeable future. That’s good, right?

Right?

Ahem.

As always! You can email us, call us, comment at us, what have you!

The next OSMcast! will be a strange new kind of episode! So different, so strange, so bizarre, even I, Basil, Lord Prophet of OSM and also, sometimes commas, do not know it’s contents.

But in a couple of weeks, we ALL will know.

ALL. That listen, anyway.

OSMcast: Akira (the movie) 12-28-2009

Akira
Yes only the latest and greatest anime here on the OSMcast!

Now you may ask yourself: “I just possibly celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and/or got some awesome swag from Santa! What could be even better?!”

The answer: A podcast from the OSMcast! all about the anime movie Akira! Listen now in the comfort of your own home! Take it for on the car ride back home from those obnoxious aliens relatives! Or use it to ring in the new year.

Akira again
The manga is pretty good stuff, too!

This podcast about the movie adaptation of the manga both written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo is both multi-faceted and enjoyable no matter what the circumstances might be!

It’s not like this movie hasn’t been talked to death or anything!

OSMnotes

So after recording this podcast and looking where one might want to pick this movie up, we discovered that while the Blu-ray edition is plentiful and can be bought most anywhere, Bandai (via their Honneamise label) never bothered to release an equivalent DVD version. That means the last DVD version of Akira made on DVD was the Geneon Signature Series one released in 2004.

Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. RIP
Hey remember these guys?

Yeah, that’s right. Geneon. On the plus side Right Stuf has it for cheap!

Or you could also start buying the manga, as Kodansha has resumed publishing rights the manga series and has put out the first volume, with the rest being released in 2010.

Till next week (hopefully)!

OSMcast: Skip Beat! 12-7-2009

Love This
Love This

Direct from the Echo Chamber, deep as Heino’s voice, the OSMcast returns! In this thrill-packed episode of thrills, chills, and excitement we talk about butts, ninjas, and movies. And also a manga and anime series called Skip Beat! by Yoshiki Nakamura.

OSMnotes

Skip Beat can be obtained in one of two ways! You could A.) Buy the manga being released by Viz or B.) Watch the anime based on the manga via Crunchyroll. Of course there is only so much anime and so much more of the manga, one’s mileage may vary. That is, as long as you are man enough for it! And as long as you made it to the end of the podcast, you should be! Go you!

Edit: Oh hey! I guess I should edit this further, huh?

OKAY HERE WE GO.

CHECK THIS OUT IT’S GOING TO BE AWESOME.

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Live the Creed
Live the Creed

It appears to be that I have completely forgotten what I was going to type about. These things happen when you work retail during the holidays. So instead you should go see two movies: Ninja Assassin, which I talked about on the podcast you should totally go see. But also Disney’s Princess and the Frog. It’s very good, easily one of my favorites.

And now…  a Lee’s List!

Lee’s List: How cool it is when the OSMcast updates on time. BURN DAMN RIGHT IT’S COOL JUST LIKE THIS ONE WHICH COMPLETELY UPDATED ON A MONDAY OH WAIT WE KINDA UPDATED A WEEK LATE AND THEN THIS UPDATE WASN’T FINISHED TILL LATE ON TUESDAY CRAP.

Hm.

Arent they so WACKY?!
Aren’t they so WACKY?!

Let’s ignore that one.

Lee’s List: The Best Gift to Give to an Immortal who’s marrying your Best Friend’s evil twin? The entire series of Seinfeld. It’s something they’ll either appreciate, or hate you forever for. Either way, the evil twin will think you’re cool.

And as always, email us! Send us some love on the OSMline! Comment!

Next week we’ll be amazed that a film that is hailed as one of anime’s greatest works in movie form wasn’t half bad!