AGP#045 – The McDonald's Teriyaki Burger, Pride of Japan

It’s been three months, but we’re back! This time Evan and David
talk about anime that’s just old enough that you no longer care
enough to be angry about it and video games so old you don’t even
remember them anymore. Topics include Super Sonico, Nidhogg,
Mother (the original, not the good one or the other good one),
Cardcaptor Sakura, Inside Mari, being a tourist in Japan, being a
BAD tourist in Japan, Japanese food, and oddly-specific
otaku stores.


We’re not putting timecodes in the show notes anymore starting
with this episode because it takes too long and you guys probably
don’t even care about it anyway. If you’re angry about this
development, click that “Continue Reading” link to read the new
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(Runtime: 1 hour, 18 minutes)




Opening/Ending Song: “Kill Me” by Lame
Drivers


Super Sonico is an anime about Nitroplus’s
mascot character. A few days after Evan said nobody would
license it and David said Sentai would… Sentai actually
licensed it. (Watch it on Crunchyroll)


Nidhogg is a 1-v-1 fencing football game or
something like that. (Get it on Steam or the official site)


Mother is an weird old NES JRPG. The sequel
is Mother 2, better known in English as Earthbound. (You
can’t get Mother legally in English, but you can get
Earthbound on the Wii U Virtual Console)


Cardcaptor Sakura is a famous magical girl
manga series by superstar manga artists CLAMP. (Buy it on
Amazon or RightStuf)


Inside Mari is a creepy bodyswap manga by
Flowers of Evil author Shuzo Oshimi (Read it on Crunchyroll)


Japan is a country with some pretty cool
stuff in it. We both visited it and talked way too much about
it. The otaku meccas we discussed were
Akihabara (just south of Ueno) and
Nakano Broadway (just west of Shinjuku).

The pirate-themed shop in Nakano Broadway that we talk
about is called Bambool (here’s the official
listing on the Nakano Broadway site). It turns out they’re not
strictly pirate-themed, so I guess Evan was mistaken.

The indie manga shop is Taco Che. Here’s
the official site (in Japanese) and Nakano Broadway’s listing
for it.

For more info on otaku stuff to do in Japan Evan highly
recommends Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide
to Neo Tokyo, by Patrick Macias (Otaku USA and
Crunchyroll News Editor-in-Chief)


Otaku USA
Magazine: Evan and Ink wrote
stuff for the new issue (cover is Attack on Titan). Evan did
a review of .hack//Quantum (anime) and Wolfsmund
(manga), and Ink did features on Beyond the Boundary,
Kamisama Kiss, and (his favorite) Chihayafuru, as well as a
review of the ongoing series Samurai Flamenco.

Read more stuff from Ink at Fandom Post. He just did a
pretty great Paranoia Agent writeup recently.


Twitter: Ani-Gamers, Evan, David

We didn’t mention it in the show, but we’re
going to Genericon in Troy, NY again this
year! Evan, Ink, and David will be there
alongside Ed Chavez and possibly a couple other online anime
folks. Evan’s not staff anymore, but he’s running two panels:
“The Beautiful Backgrounds of Anime” (about anime background
art) and “‘Trigger’ Warning: Birth of an Anime Studio” (about
Studio Trigger, Kill la Kill, Inferno Cop, etc.)