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OSMcast: Nekocon 11 11-24-2008

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.

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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 wailed and the gnashing of teeth and crap. Bats are not fanboys best friends! — This is the travesty that others have now bemoaned and wailed and the gnashing of teeth and crap. Bats are not fanboys’ best friends!

Apparently the one factor that people are drawn to the show (more panty shots per capita than a season run of Ramna episodes starring Happosai) has gotten so outrageous the networks that agreed to let this show get advertising money that they are throwing cute bats everywhere to cover up the said 50+ panty shots per episode. Go figure.

Legend of Galactic Heroes 2 or Irresponciple Captain Kamina? — Legend of Galactic Heroes 2 or Irresponsible Captain Kamina? Only the Future knows!

Now, I will make no judgments upon the person for instead of using the phrase “panty shot” instead they use the phrase, “pantsu.” Whatever. The point is that even they are confused as to why the networks are even bothering. And to that sentiment I agree with them. However I have a different solution for you Osaka TV and Aichi TV. It’s really easy: Stop showing the show and show Nodame or Tytania or something I dunno… Good. Sure, it’s a wild idea that has no place in things like contacts or anything resembling logic and how these things actually work. I’d just rather see good shows being shown more than bad shows.

Well that was an unexpected rant! As always, you can contact us in an innumerable amount of ways. Commenting in our Comments Section always works. Email (osmcast@gmail.com) also works! Voice mails (206-202-0071) do too!

… Okay so there’s three ways! But they are all excellent ways of doing it. Ergo, so you should be doing it

OSMinterview: Troy Baker, Aaron Dismuke, & Jerry Jewell @ Nekocon 11

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.

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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.

OSMcast: Azumanga Daioh 11-10-2008

In tonight’s episode of the OSMcast! we talk about J.C. Staff’s adaptation of Kiyohiko Azuma’s awesome series: Azumanga Daioh!

With special guest star DJ Inubito as “The guy playing Fable II while we are talking about stuff.”

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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.

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.

I’m sure we’ll be doing a con report on it at some point in the near future! Possibly even next week.

If you have any questions about the con, or about Azumanga Daioh, or you know, anything… Just leave us some feedback in one of our many myriad ways. Like for example, the comments section! Or an email! You could also (dare I say it…!) even leave us a voice mail!

OSMcast delayed until evening!

We have one! It’s done! I just have to go to work now and it will be another 45 minutes before everything finishes transferring! So It will be up around 10-11 PM Central Time!

-Basil

OSMcast: The World Ends With You 11-03-2008

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.

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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 schedule works…

Theres a joke in this, I just know it... — 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 awesome magazine ads we were talking about. Until then, we’ll just play more Third Strike and I’ll weep that Makoto isn’t in SFIV yet. 🙁

Oddly enough the most repeated question at the Crisis Con panel was “Do you get enough feedback?” And the answer is a resounding “NO, WE DO NOT AND IT MAKES OUR SOULS UNHAPPY. D:” So, if you would please be so kind as to comment down below, shot us email, or even voice mail, you’ll be our favorites. Unlike those other listeners…

Oh and for the record the Burning Crusade expansion of World of Warcraft came out January 16, 2007… so almost two years between expansions… almost. Just sayin’.

OSMcast: Hellsing Ultimate (1 thru 3) 10-27-2008

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me blah blah blah

To conclude our October extravaganza of Octoberness, we’re finishing out with another set of three with a podcast all about the latest take on Kouta Hirano’s epic tale of vampires, Nazis, and blood, lots of blood.

So yeah, Hellsing Ultimate.

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As it turns out this time Buy.com has the best deal on Hellsing Ultimate, with all the discs running you around $16.63 a disc.

Astroboy so did love the world so much that he... er... saved it. With machine gun butt attacks.

We only covered Hellsing Ultimate Volumes 1 thru 3, but you should go on ahead and buy all four. the fourth volume actually has our favorite villain yet, Rip van Winkle!

Protip: If the image to your left does not melt your heart, then there is no hope for you, as your heart is now cold, bitter stone. And you should feel bad. I mean just look at him.

And don’t forget to check out Chris Kohler’s write-up on “The Famous Takahashi.” It’s a really interesting look at a marketing guy you can’t help but to love. That’s really, really hard to do.

The Man, the Myth, the Pictures courtesy of Chris Kohler/Wired.com

Though I guess it helps when you can mash on a video game controller sixteen times in one second.

Also, we know when our podcasting panel will be at CrisisCon! It’s on Sunday November 2nd, from 11:30-12:30 in the Main Events room. It’s called Podcasting 101. We will be joined by our fellow Huntsvegas-ian podcasters Dead Workers Party Network! I suppose we will be talking ahout the basics of getting into podcasting and whatnot, which should be enjoyable. If nothing us you’ll get to listen to us ramble on for an hour of your day. Only this time it’s live and in person! I believe the DWPN guys are playing to pull off either a stream or a live recording of the panel, so I’d imagine we’ll be linking to that when we can.

And then we’ll be heading up north for Nekocon the weekend after! Not that we have any panels or anything planned, but we’ll be there all the same.

As always, please fell free to comment in the comments section, or send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com! Or even call us up on the OSMline! The number is 206-202-0071.

We’ll see you next week!

OSMcast: The Evil Dead Movies 10-20-2008

Shop smart... shop S-Mart! — Shop smart… shop S-Mart!

Kicking reason to the curb once more we take on a terribly terrific trilogy of movie-ocity with Sam Raimi’s and Bruce Campbell’s epic cults classics, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II, and Army of Darkness.

Oh, and the musical. You can blame Eric for that one though!

OSMnotes

Right now Best Buy has all three movies on sale for $6.99 a pop!

So you shouldn’t keep yourself away from these films any longer. Unless you’re scared. Of awesome. Best Buy also has the musical for $14.99, but you can also get it at the same price from Amazon.

Speaking of good ol’ Amazon.com, you could also pre-order the KORG DS-10 Synthesizer! If you ever wanted to make beats on the go, I don’t think you can go very wrong here guys. I mean if it’s good enough for Yasunori Mitsuda, it’s good enough for all of us.

I wish I could also tell you all the reserve the Ghostbusters game but who knows when the game will even be out. Though man, Bill Murray is looking kinda old. But that still doesn’t stop him from asking the relevant questions.

Though sadly he may have received his relevant answer…

Also, don’t forget that in a few weeks (Halloween weekend in fact) we’ll be at CrisisCon in Huntsville, Alabama! When the panel will be… I’m not sure. Hopefully they’ll get back to us soon enough so we can post about it and talk about in our next episode.

Also we’ll be kicking back the very next weekend (November 7th – 9th) at Nekocon, in glorious Hampton, Virginia! We don’t have any panels or anything planned there, but we’ll be sure to crash something.

And as always, you are more than welcome to let us know you, dear listeners, exist!

There are many ways you can let us know this! You could…

Leave us a comment in this very post!

Call us at the OSMline (206) 202-0071, and if you ask us a question, we’ll answer it for you in the following OSMcast!

Or just send us an email at osmcast@gmail.com!

It really is that easy!

OSMcast: Silent Hill (1 thru 4) 10-13-2008

To further our Halloween tendencies, we decided to rock out with a crazy-long podcast all about Konami’s uber-creepy video games series Silent Hill. Lee takes us on a course of wonder and horror as he details the first four games, while we chime in like the silly fools we are!

This is also the podcast that Refused to Upload, but that’s a story for another time.

OSMnotes

October 31st - Nov 2nd — October 31st - November 2nd

Okay so we lied last time.

Well not a lie really, we just temporarily forgot one.

You know how we said we had one more con to hit this year? Well, we are actually going to two!

Not only shall we be attending CrisisCon Halloween weekend in Huntsville, Alabama… But we’ll also be going out to Hampton, Virginia for Nekocon the week after!

Which means a 13 hour+ drive for us. But that means a whole new world of people that will get to exprenice the power, majesty, glory that is us, the OSMcast! … Right?

OSMinterview: Gina Biggs @ AWA 14

Here’s our first ever OSMinterview with one of the most awesome women in webcomics, Gina Biggs! She’s the creator of the romantic drama Red String (now being published by Dark Horse Comics) as well as the Grand High Poobah of Strawberry Comics.

Protip: We ended up recording right outside the dealer’s room, so the audio quality isn’t that great. You’ll probably have to turn up the volume a good bit so I wouldn’t recommend listening to in the car or anything.

OSMnotes

Once again thank you Gina for taking the time to talk to us! And if you still have no idea who Dr. Horrible and Cpatain Hammer is, please go educate yourself . You’ll be glad you did.

OSMcast: Persona 3 10-6-2008

We’re kicking off October in style with a three man tag team take on Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. Start updating your podcasting Social Links now!

OSMnotes

You should own this game.

See here even GameStop has it new online RIGHT NOW. And Wal-Mart. And Target. Best Buy. Amazon.

Lets see Inspector Zenigata catch this! — Let's see Zenigata try to catch this!

They all have it and they are waiting for you.

Unless you already own it. Then you’re fine. You’re cool.

The rest will have to see me after class.

In other news of awesome we have the Gina Biggs interview ready and will be releasing it on Wednesday, so if romantic webcomics are your thing then be sure to check it out!

: Future of Anime, or our special Pipe Dream? We’ll just have to see.

Also we will be attending Huntsville’s latest Sci-fi/Anime/Comics/Games/Whathaveyou convnetion CrisisCon (Oct 31-Nov 2), and should be hosting a podcast roundtable there. If you have a podcast and would be interested in attending, please let us know! I mean we can’t be the only local podcast in the Huntsville area, right?

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Oh and for the record the Burning Crusade expansion of World of Warcraft came out January 16, 2007… so almost two years between expansions… almost. Just sayin’.

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We are already hoping these guys will show up!