OSMcast! Show #165: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

In our last episode we talked about how great it was to go off into a new world, like an uninhabited island of people yet filled with cute animal pals. In this episode, we instead talking about using the powers of our imagination to transport us into other worlds. With the power of animation. Specifically, Japanese animation. Really getting to the brass tacks we are talking about Masaaki Yuasa’s and Science Saru’s adaptation of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, based of the manga by Sumito ?wara. 

OSMnotes

Go! Vote! IWillVote.com and Vote.org are both great websites for know where your polling place is, finding out if you are registered or can do early voting, and other important voting related matters. Also yeah, Dark Horse Comics is publishing the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! manga. They even did in fact tweet about it!… Back in March.  But the manga starts coming out next month! But what’s coming up now? The fact that the soundtrack composer Oorutaichi has a bandcamp and it kicks ass in a wonderful folksy way? Yes! And Time Cues. Those are a thing!

  • We start the OSMcast!ing – 0:00
  • General Gabbing – 0:32
  • Moments of OSM – 03:13
  • Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
    • Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Sans Spoilers – 19:15
    • Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, Full of Spoilers – 51:52
    • Questions from Listeners Like You about Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! – 55:03
    • Final Thoughts – 72:08
    • OSMs out of OSM – 76:15

OSMcast! Show #164: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

In March of 2020, something terrible happened. That is pretty well covered. We don’t really have to get into that. But something truly special and wonderful also happened. Nintendo released the latest Animal Crossing game, subtitled New Horizons for the Nintendo Switch. Granted, this is also pretty well covered. But since it something totally awesome and rad, it is actually is covered under our purview. Therefore, please enjoy this podcast about Animal Crossing: New Horizons! Preferably on a remote island, away from all other humanity. Maybe with some cute animals as your only friends? Man, wouldn’t that be the life!

OSMnotes

Since we recorded the episode, the October stuff has begun! You can get all sorts of spooky things, grow some pumpkins, pretty good stuff. And if you want some more good stuff, check out these Time Cues:

The Carbuncle Chronicle Issue 8: Housing in Final Fantasy XIV

Hello Adventurers! With a new set of wards being added to all the Residential Districts at the launch of Patch 5.3 on October 13th, now was a great time to talk about Housing! What is Housing? What do you mean by wards and Residential Districts? We go into it, tell you all your options. Because there are more than just houses when you really look at it. We also go into how we happened into our housing options, and what we like about housing in Final Fantasy XIV… And what we don’t! Plus, some of our favorite items we have used to decorate our place. To cap it off, we go into some Tips & Tricks to try and help you land that plot once the new patch hits. Good luck Warriors of Land Ownership Darkness!

Carbonuses!

Here are some screen caps of some of our places! We are on the Leviathan server, in the Primal data center!

  • Our FC [Odin’s Spear]’s House, Valhalla: It’s in the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17
  • Anna’s House: It’s in the Mist, Plot 11, Ward 17
  • Dylan’s House: It’s in the Lavender Beds, Plot 34, Ward 3
  • Basil’s House: It’s in the Mist, Plot 7, Ward 8
  • Anna’s Apartment: It’s n the Lavender Beds, Lilly Hills Wing 1, Apt. #1, Ward 9
Here's our Free Company House! Our FC is called Odin's Spear so we call the house Valhalla. It's in the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17!
Bahamut is getting spooky! In the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17!
Anna did a great job getting the FC House spooky! In the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17!
More Spookiness. In the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17.
Even more Spookiness. In the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17.
Yet even more Spookiness. In the Mist, Plot 2, Ward 17.
Basil has FC Room #1! It's fancy with a theme!
Anna's FC Room #3. You can see lots of neat instruments.
Dylan has got it going on in FC Room #19.
This is Anna's house! In the Mist, Plot 11, Ward 17.
Anna is real good at the housing stuff. In the Mist, Plot 11, Ward 17.
Dylan's got a very foresty home! In the Lavender Beds, Plot 34, Ward 3.
Inside it's pretty regal! In the Lavender Beds, Plot 34, Ward 3.
Basils house has well... a similar theme to what he likes... In the Mist, Plot 7, Ward 8!
Have you figured it out yet? In the Mist, Plot 7, Ward 8!
Anna has also done up her Apartment! In the Lavender Beds, Lilly Hills Wing 1, Apt. #1, Ward 9.
It's a cute plushie cafe! In the Lavender Beds, Lilly Hills Wing 1, Apt. #1, Ward 9.
Just look at 'em! In the Lavender Beds, Lilly Hills Wing 1, Apt. #1, Ward 9.

OSMcast! Show #163: Stars Align

Sometimes, an anime is about a sport. Sometimes, it’s about other things entirely. Sometimes, it’s about other things entirely but also absolutely needs the sport in question to get to the things the anime wants to talk about. This time, that sport is Soft Tennis and this anime is called Stars Align. And it is about Soft Tennis, but not entirely. It is also a show written and directed by Kazuki Akane along with the studio Eight Bit. It is also pretty great! But you may have figured that out when we released a podcast all about it.

OSMnotes!

Anime News Network also had an excellent pair of interviews with the writer and director of Stars Align Kazuki Akane, that we talked about during the podcast. You can find Part One here, and Part Two here. To mix up some sports metaphors, Kim Morrissy absolutely knocked these interviews out of the park! They really showed some wonderful insights into this show.

And while we may be podcasting about a show full of kids, we are definitely some old men! You can tell this by our Moments of OSMs, that are all inadvertently synced up about us yearning for our childhoods. Huh. The things you notice as you actually put together the show descriptions and Time Cues: 

OSMquest! Be Prepared: A Weekend at Camp Oostanaula, Finale

It’s been a one hell of a weekend over at Camp Oostanaula! Salt lines have been broken, things have been unleashed. Our poor generic nondescript scouts are being hounded by a Terror, but for some reason no one seems to believe them! Out of escape routes, out of options. Except one: It’s time to take it to the Terror itself. Come join us as we kick some tires and light some fires as we play this final installment of Be Prepared, by Grant Howitt. 

OSMquest! Be Prepared: A Weekend at Camp Oostanaula, Part Three

Hey… hey Baxter! You know what would be funny? Going through this creepy old farm house from who knows when! Only… our scouts did that. Lines were crossed. And redrawn. And then probably crossed again. Look, it was 1994, you know? They didn’t know any better. And if they don’t play their cards right, they never will. Things take a few turns for our brave and noble scouts as we once again play some of Be Prepared, by Grant Howitt.

The Carbuncle Chronicle Issue 7: Patch 5.3 Impressions, The Rising 2020, and Yo-kai Watch Returns!

Hello Adventurers! The time has finally come, the long wait is over, Patch 5.3 has arrived! And with it, we have received an absolute embarrassment of riches. So for this issue of the Carbuncle Chronicle, we dive right on in!

We start with some updates about the upcoming Ishgardian Restoration, as well as new housing plots are being added!? Then we get into some of those juicy yet not very spoilery impressions of Patch 5.3. How we felt the story wrapped up, convincing Dylan that it’s okay to do the Nier raids, flying in ARR, how awesome dwarves are, all sorts of things. We also talk about The Rising 2020 event happening right now, until September 17th. And we wrap up with remembering and chatting about some good, good yo-kai grinding.

And if you are in need of some help figuring out what to do and where to go for the Yo-kai Watch event, this is a really helpful visual guide made by KaiyokoStar:

OSMquest! Be Prepared: A Weekend at Camp Oostanaula, Part Two

When we last left our adventuring trademark non-descript scouts at Camp Oostanaula, they were goofing off in a cave, and found a door that they shouldn’t have. Where will they go, and what terrors will they unlock, and how will they deal with them? Come back in time with us as well play Be Prepared, by Grant Howitt. One thing is for sure, you will never predict the twists and turns that happen in this episode of the OSMquest!

OSMquest! Be Prepared: A Weekend at Camp Oostanaula, Part One

It’s 2020, but camping is still a thing… Right? Maybe? Well if you can pretend with us back to the year 1994, you very much can! In this first part of a new OSMquest series, we are playing Be Prepared, by Grant Howitt. The idea is that some scouts have taken a camping trip back in 1994. Hijinks ensue! But unknown to the campers, there is something else afoot. Something… contained. And as idiot teenagers so often do dumb things as they do, that something may not stat contained for long.

The Carbuncle Chronicle Issue 6: Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LIX

Hello Adventurers! Hope you are all bunkered down and looking forward to the very fast upcoming Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.3, because we sure are! To help get some of that excitement out of our systems*, we recorded an episode of the Carbuncle Chronicle about the latest Live Letter that happened two weeks previous. From ponderings on what secrets the trailer holds, to the inevitability of once again grinding for more Yo-kai Watch weapons, and the grind for powering up those Resistance Weapons in the Bozjan southern front, we cover it all! Or at least try to, anyway.

And if you want to go through the information in a more text-able format, they have also just recently released the text digest version. But really, if you need extra links to click on we recommend that sweet new album they announced, Pulse: FINAL FANTASY XIV Remix Album. It’s hitting September 30th, so even next week we’re stuff waiting for more FFXIV goodness. It’s an embarrassment of riches to be sure.

*It did not work. We are still very excited.