The Podcast That Loves Anime
For our final 2002 themed episode, Aaron Long joins us to talk the Lupin III special from that year, Episode 0 -First Contact and a play quick game of “Lupin? Or No Man!?”
I’d write more, but I am in the middle of editing the Xmas episode that drops in two weeks. You’ll hear then why it needed editing…
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We get back in the DITB time tunnel and set the co-ordinates for 2002. Only this time Anthony has left Brian on his own as he’s too busy playing videogames to talk about this adaptation of Kiyohiko Azuma’s manga. Or a least that’s his excuse, possibly he thought AZUMANGA DAIOH was too “girly” for his tastes.
Never fear, for we have the inimitable GRACE CHAN as our co-pilot on this week’s exciting trip back to the anime of the recent past. Plus: Boy bands! Mountains! Twitter suggested topics! All this and more on Episode 70 of Dynamite In The Brain.
NOTES:
Here’s the comparison image we discuss on the episode:
And here’s the “In The Midnight Hour She Cried Moe, Moe, Moe” post that is mentioned.
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It’s 2002 time again, and Bradley C Meek from Those Damn Cartoons joins us to talk about Haibane Renmei, Yoshitoshi ABe’s tale of winged beings in a mysterious walled city.
Plus: a bumper WATCHUWATCH, a game of ANGEL OR NO ANGEL and ALTERNATE REALITY PLUGS!
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Greg Driver and Lewis Smith from Structured Randomness join us to talk about 2002’s Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex. It’s cyborg procedural drama in the way only Masamune Shirow and Production IG can deliver. In earlier episodes Brian and Anthony both admitted to having found it boring back in the day – how will they find it in 2012?
PLUS: Lewis and Brian both saw the first Tiger & Bunny movie in London. Find out what they thought about it in this week’s WATCHUWATCH.
Links to things mentioned on the show:
Greg’s “crappy” Ghost In The Shell AMV
An AMV Anthony collaborated on.
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After the bumper blow out of episode 57, Brian and Anthony come crashing down to earth with a short episode about Makoto Shinkai’s 2002 tale of poor mobile phone coverage. Does it hold up ten years on? Or have the years not been kind to it? Find out in the latest instalment of Dynamite In The Brain!
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We travel back to 2002 once again, this time to visit Poke-Venice and the fifth Pokemon movie, Pokemon Heroes. Joining us is Ebbie from the BizarreJelly5 video blog and The Aniverse Podcast. Pokemon blood types, creepy human/pokemon relationships, breakthroughs in Pokemon taxonomy and more are discussed in the latest episode of Dynamite In The Brain!
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As we are looking back to 2002 each month, there could be only one choice for our fourth ninja related show – Naruto.
Gary Hedges joins us to talk about the first five episodes of the show that kicked off a decade of orange jumpsuited ninja-ry. We talk about our history with the franchise, whether we think it still holds up in 2012 and Anthony uses a hugely inappropriate adjective to describe a combat scene.
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In case you hadn’t realised, it’s 2012. And that means our monthly look at anime from a decade ago has moved up to 2002. ARITHMETIC!
We kick things off with the Studio Ghibli movie, The Cat Returns, and to help us discuss it we are joined by Grace Chan. It’s a topsy turvy episode as we journey into Anthony’s youth with a tale of a trip to a pantomime, we recast the film as a Hollywood blockbuster, Brian sings the theme tune to a cartoon only he appears to remember, stop motion mice are impersonated and much, much more.
(there was an interview section with Grace I had to cut out due a temperamental phone line making the final recording sound more like a Derek Acorah seance than interview, next time she’s on we’ll talk more about her animation background and fun times at UK conventions)
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