Sorry for the lack of updates, folks! The holiday season has turned violent upon us. And by us I mean me. And by me I mean Basil. Of course I’m the only one that writes on the site so there you go.
You see a week or so ago (on joyous Black Friday) I screwed up the rotator cuff on my right shoulder. These things are not normally screwed up-able, or at least it’s not easy. The fact of the matter that being a Prophet of the Awesome Word of OSM is a very Dangerous profession and one fraught with peril and grizz-squirrels and moe fans and Gonzo fans. It’s a battle of attrition where eventually one side had to give away, and it ended up being my shoulder. BUT FEAR NOT. While battle was won, the war is far from over. I have seen doctors. I have undergone treatments. I will emerge from this stronger and more powerful than they could possibly imagine.
I have also been confirmed to have sleep apnea which means I am also a cyborg when I sleep.
This means they’ll never catch me off guard.
Soon they’ll learn to fear.
I’m coming.
TLDR: The OSMcast! will be back as soon as we can.
For this TWO HOUR BEHEMOTH of an OSMcast!, we are once again joined by Daryl Surat of Anime World Order and Otaku USA to talk about STUFF. We talk about anime, video games, the State of The Mecha Genre, but really we mostly talk about Shin Mazinger Z, the awesome new re-imagining of the classic Go Nagai series, as the director Yasuhiro Imagawa only knows how: By making it really, really awesome.
Protip: Due to magical and mystical nature of audio processing Daryl sounds a touch softer than Kevin and Basil. It makes us feel more important than we actually are. Also we trip over each over a little bit, as while Daryl is used to talking via the Internets, Basil and Kevin are not. You have been warned!
Promo: THIS IS NOT AN ANIME PODCAST! Those liars! They talk about anime ALL THE TIME. We met these guys at AWA and thought they are pretty cool. These dues talk about anime and video games and other neat nerd stuff that means they tend to cover similar stuff as us. Which again, means they are pretty cool. Â They will be even cooler when they get an RSS feed! (Just sayin’.)
Durarara!!, It’s like BACCANO! only in modern day and less caps lock, but extra punctuation.
OSMnotes
First off, technically we are releasing late on Monday but it’s still Monday so it counts! The file initially exported to mp3 wrong so we had to reprocess it. after DJ Inubito got home from work. Crazy, I know.
Sadly right now the only way to get this show is via fansubs. This would probably be a good place to start. And if we ever get a retail release you can be sure that we will be preaching it from the mountain tops.
Before this episode went up I (Basil) asked for suggestions to fill the text space up. After a few posts of nothing (well Cleavland has an idea) Lee then bombarded me with 15 bazillion ones. I suppose he must have been really bored at work today. I was going to delete post once I had a good topic but since he gave me SO MANY topics the post will stay up so I’ll have a list of options whenever I need to fill up space. I’ll call it Lee’s List. Like so~
Dragon Age: Orgins AKA Baldur’s Gate III. This is a Good Thing. Also Ogres turn out to be wusses in this game. FYI.
Lee’s List: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People – I don’t know I only play good games. I kid, I kid! I haven’t played it. Too many other games I want to play before I get to before I lose myself into the land of Telltale Games.
Well. That was too short. Okay how about…
Lee’s List: How Annoying it is when one of your coworkers CLIPS THEIR TOENAILS in the cubical next to yours. Geez, guy. NO MAN FUCK YOU. I GOT TO CLIP THIS SHIT BEFORE IT GETS OUT OF HAND! THESE TOENAILS. OH GOD. THESE TOENAILS. THEY ARE GROWING LIKE A CANCER THAT GROWS LIKE A TOENAIL OUT OF TOE FUCK!
PS: While Pad is still the worst name ever in the history of ever, you can’t actually change names in Nostalgia so just accept it and find better things to complain about. Like Gonzo! But that’s pretty much beating a dead horse. Hmm…
Chances are, if you are looking up from the ground at this man... You're already toast.
After talking about Black Lion and Brutal Legend we felt, “Why stop here?” So we decided to watched what on it’s DVD box cover proclaims as “The most violent, action packed animated film of all time!”
And that is the 1986 anime film adaptation of Fist of the North Star by Tetsuo Hara and Buronson.
OSMnotes
Savvy shoppers can find this DVD pretty easily for around $20-25. If you want to watch the TV show, you can stream it. All 152 episodes. And from what we hear, it is very entertaining.
As long as people exploding in amazing fashion along with equally amazing 80’s fashion is your thing (How can that NOT?!}.
You may also consider on picking upNostalgia, if the idea of a classic turn-based J-RPG on the go sounds appealing to you. Which you should find compelling, because it’s awesome.
How did this happen?
And awesome is kind of what we do around here.
(We also talk into a microphone.)
However you do not need a microphone to talk to us! Just a phone that’s capable of dialing 1-209-OSM-LINE. Or perhaps (209) 676-5463. If you would rather type to us, you can always just comment down below, or send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com. I suppose there is also our forum link on the sidebar, too! While you do have to sign up for it, there is a world of message boarding goodness inside!
It's as fun as it looks. (We mean that in a good way!)
BUT BEFORE I FORGET! The illustrious renegade remixers at Dou(gai)jin Recordings have finally released their latest album, Renegade Remix Force, up for download! They guys over at This is Not an Anime Podcast! seemed to dig it in their review, so perhaps you shall as well. You can go straight to their Releases page and download the album, or you can be EXTRA lazy and download from our mirror. (The one plus from our mirror is that Basil went through and re-tagged everything to work properly with his Zune. So if something like that matters, go ahead and suck our bandwidth dry! At the moment we have plenty.)
Until next week! … Or maybe the week after! We aren’t what’s getting recorded yet or not.
You want to talk Brutal? I had to edit this in Paint. Makes it all jaggy and shit.
While a day late and a dollar short, the OSMcast! returns with some slightly less than hot off the presses podcasting action! Since the latest season of anime hitting Japan pretty much blows, we’ve discovered that we’ve ended up playing a lot more video games than usual! So we took the whole Moment of OSM/Whatcha Been Playing segment into the entire podcast. ISN’T THIS EXCITING!?!
In the end we talk the most about Brutal Legend, but we cover the bases from Uncharted 2 to Phantasy Star IV and a whole bunch inbetween. Old, new, we don’t care!
OSMnotes
This was supposed to have shown up on the 19th, sure. But Basil’s flash drive died. So we had to find another way to transfer the files (Which ended up being a new flash drive). Â Then Basil installed Windows 7! Which means all his programs went bye bye and he didn’t realize quite what all that meant until he had to upload and format the podcast for publication and stuff.
So you can forward all complaints to osmcast@gmail.com. Or any other comments you may have! It’s all good.
A podcast that primarily deals with anime (and video games) talks about an 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.
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, and should be uploading their latest said CD online sometime soon.
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 honestly, Tarbox is a freakishly amazing name and I have no idea how we could forget such name. I mean, Tarbox. Man.
OSMnotes
Do you?
AWA was amazingly awesome! Most excellent panel shout outs go out to Drew, Richard, and Dave Merrill for the great Classic Mecha panel. Clarissa’s Blackjack panel was also kickass, and major thanks for joining us for the Podcaster’s Roundtable. Gerald’s History of Hentai and AIC (Darius was awesome too!) panels were wondrous. And, of course, I do in fact Believe in Daryl Surat. Helen McCarthy’s Unknown Tezuka Panel was illuminating. Carl Horn’s and Jonathan “Completely not Rikki Simons “Tarbox’s State of the Manga Industry was excitingly candid.
And any other panels I’m not thinking of, were also probably amazing.
I’d like to say Rail took the picture at this angle. So I will.
… Like Vertical’s which has helped me start working on my Xmas list. See, there was just too much stuff to remember it all.
Speaking of the Podcaster’s Round table, I know one or two new podcast start-ups were there talking to us after the panel was over. EMAIL US. Basil commands this! It is osmcast@gmail.com. Anyone else, they can do this too! But especially the ones I’m talking about you know who you are.
Also, everyone can always call us on the OSMline: (209)-OSM-LINE aka (209) 676-5463.
And before I forget! Basil was a guest on the Channel Z podcast from Dragon*Con, and this one is video. Where we read Naruto fanfiction. Terrible Naruto fanfiction. You have BEEN WARNED.
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 Inubito and Basil.* Â Our intrepid beatsmith provided a wonderfully oonst-a-riffic rendition of a Blaster Master theme while Basil banged his head at a computer until a cover design came out. So keep an eye out for that!
And although AWA will most likely be our last convention stop this year, that doesn’t mean there aren’t cons that YOU should miss out on!
The question should be not What is GMX? It should be, Why not GMX?
For those that like Nashville and the whole Tennessee shebang, there’s GMX. It should be exciting, new, shiny, and all around fun! We want to go, they want us to go, but previously planned things like college and weddings and whatnot get in the way. So instead, YOY SHOULD GO. And for the Georgia side, there’s Nerdacon! We had a chance to meet them at Dragon*Con, and they seem like they know how to have a good time. So if you can swing that, it’d be swell.
Giant robots and signs with the letter N just go well together.
And speaking of people we met at Dragon*Con, Basil had the chance to be on a future video podcast episode by Channel Z. They read Naruto fanfiction until they could read no more. (As it turns out, it’s about an hour’s worth.) As soon as they get that out, we’ll let you know.
And of course, email us! Call us! Comment!
Or see us AWA! That would be cool, too!
(Now I’m just adding in lines so the formatting is correct.)
*And Dou(gai)jin’s fearless leader, DJ Cynispin, was the secret live audience for our Gundam 00 podcast. Â So this CD is really just crammed with delicious OSM.
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 original 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!)
Do you?
